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With Washington absent and Berlin indifferent to the Mediterranean crisis, it has fallen to Paris to defuse the situation.
The August explosions in Beirut were the latest in a series of man-made disasters that have led some experts to say Lebanon is becoming a failed state.
Climate Change
Fires in California and Oregon have been more devastating than ever before, but climate change means the worst is yet to come. Here's how officials can prepare.
Although negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government are historic, they are unlikely to result in a quick breakthrough.
The Center for Preventive Action has compiled an accessible overview of the Afghan peace negotiations, including the U.S.-Taliban agreement, the U.S.-Afghan government joint declaration, and the ongoing intra-Afghan process.
The Taliban insurgency remains resilient nearly two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled its regime in what led to the United States' longest war.
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Diplomacy and International Institutions
Council of Councils global perspectives roundups gather opinions from experts on major international developments. In this edition, members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it looks toward its next seventy-five years.
The United Nations is turning 75 but there is little to celebrate as the organization has fallen well short of its goals.
John Campbell discusses Nigeria, its history, colonial legacy, and strategic importance to the United States. Ambassador Campbell argues that Nigeria is the African country of greatest strategic importance to the United States, but it remains poorly understood. Unlike a conventional nation-state, Nigeria is run by a small cartel of self-serving elites who cooperate just enough to divvy up state oil revenue among themselves and their clients, but otherwise do little to improve the lot of the vast majority of Nigerians. How did it get this way? The answer lies in British indirect rule, a half-baked independence movement, a deadly civil war, and a generation of rapacious military rule that coincided with the oil boom. The CFR Master Class Series is a weekly 45-minute session hosted by Vice President and Deputy Director for Studies Shannon O'Neil in which a CFR fellow will take a step back from the news and discuss the fundamentals essential to understanding a given country, region of the world, or issue pertaining to U.S. foreign policy or international relations.
Russia interfered with the U.S. presidential election in 2016, and in 2018, internet trolls again spread disinformation during the midterms. Intelligence officials warn that interference in this year's presidential election may already be underway.
The effects of climate change, from higher temperatures, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms, have harmed communities across the globe, and will continue to cause significant damage if we fail to prepare for the consequences. In this meeting, panelists discuss climate change adaptation and the solutions being deployed to mitigate its effects.
Panelists discuss the Iranian hostage crisis and the implications of the failed rescue attempt for U.S.-Iran relations for the next forty years. From two-time Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple, Desert One tells the story of America's secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Expert Spotlight
Steven A. Cook
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
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An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and nonexpert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders.
The United States should respond to the COVID-19 reordering moment and stop deterioration in the balance of power with China, bolster relations with India and Europe, and reform the way it deals with allies and partners.
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Is America's alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted?


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N° 15–2003: European astronomers observe first evaporating planet
12 March 2003
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating into space. Much of this planet may eventually disappear, leaving only a dense core. It is a type of extrasolar planet known as a 'hot Jupiter'. These giant gaseous planets orbit their stars very closely, drawn to them like moths to a flame.
The scorched planet called HD 209458b orbits 'only' 7 million kilometres from its yellow Sun-like star. By comparison, Jupiter, the closest gas giant in our Solar System, orbits 780 million kilometres from our Sun. NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope observations reveal a hot and puffed-up evaporating hydrogen atmosphere surrounding the planet. This huge envelope of hydrogen resembles a comet with a tail trailing behind the planet. The planet circles the parent star in a tight 3.5-day orbit. Earth also has an extended atmosphere of escaping hydrogen gas, but the loss rate is much lower.
A mainly European team led by Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) reports this discovery in the 13 March edition of Nature. "We were astonished to see that the hydrogen atmosphere of this planet extends over 200 000 kilometres," says Vidal-Madjar.
Studying extrasolar planets, especially if they are very close to their parent stars, is not easy because the starlight is usually too blinding. The planet was also too close to the star for Hubble to photograph directly in this case. However, astronomers were able to observe the planet indirectly since it blocks light from a small part of the star during transits across the disc of the star, thereby dimming it slightly. Light passing through the atmosphere around the planet is scattered and acquires a signature from the atmosphere. In a similar way, the Sun's light is reddened as it passes obliquely through the Earth's atmosphere at sunset. Astronomers used Hubble's space telescope imaging spectrograph (STIS) to measure how much of the planet's atmosphere filters light from the star. They saw a startling drop in the star's hydrogen emission. A huge, puffed-up atmosphere can best explain this result.
What is causing the atmosphere to escape? The planet's outer atmosphere is extended and heated so much by the nearby star that it starts to escape the planet's gravity. Hydrogen boils off in the planet's upper atmosphere under the searing heat from the star. "The atmosphere is heated, the hydrogen escapes the planet's gravitational pull and is pushed away by the starlight, fanning out in a large tail behind the planet - like that of a comet," says Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. Astronomers estimate the amount of hydrogen gas escaping from HD 209458b to be at least 10 000 tonnes per second, but possibly much more. The planet may therefore already have lost quite a lot of its mass.
HD 209458b belongs to a type of extrasolar planet known as 'hot Jupiters'. These planets orbit precariously close to their stars. They are giant gaseous planets that must have formed in the cold outer reaches of the star system and then spiralled into their close orbits. This new discovery might help explain why 'hot Jupiters' so often orbit a few million kilometres from their parent stars. They are not usually found much closer than 7 million kilometres, the distance in the case of HD 209458b. Currently, the closest is 5.7 million kilometres. Hot Jupiters have orbits as brief as 3 days, but no less. Perhaps the evaporation of the atmosphere plays a role in setting an inner boundary for orbits of hot Jupiters.
Notes for editors
HD 209458b has a diameter 1.3 times that of Jupiter, and two-thirds the mass. Its orbit is one-eighth the size of Mercury's orbit around the Sun. The parent star is similar to our Sun and lies 150 light-years from Earth. It is visible with binoculars as a seventh magnitude star in the constellation of Pegasus. In 1999, this star suddenly entered the astronomical Hall of Fame when the extrasolar planet HD 209458b passed in front of it and partly eclipsed it. This was the first confirmed transiting extrasolar planet ever discovered. In 2001, Hubble detected the element sodium in the lower part of HD 209458b's atmosphere, the first signature of an atmosphere on any extrasolar planet.
The team is composed of A. Vidal-Madjar, lead author of the discovery (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) A. Lecavelier des Etangs and J.-M. Désert (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France), G. Ballester (University of Arizona, United States), R. Ferlet and G. Hébrard (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France), and M. Mayor (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland). With Hubble they observed three transits of the planet in front of the star. The observations of the atomic hydrogen envelope were made in ultraviolet (Lyman-alpha) light, using Hubble's STIS spectrograph. Hubble's position above the atmosphere makes it the only telescope currently able to perform this type of ultraviolet study.
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Searching for and studying extrasolar planets is the aim of several of ESA's scientific missions. Eddington, for instance, due for launch in 2007, will discover large numbers of transiting planets of all types, including many transiting 'hot Jupiters' similar to HD 209458b. These will be ideal targets for the same type of detailed follow-up studies with large space- and ground-based telescopes.
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The voting has now begun over at Kitchen Koala, to determine whose cupcake will go into the "finals" throwdown!
My blueberry lime yoghurt cupcakes were soooo yummy:
(even two days later, when this photo was taken - note the Muffin stuffing her face with one in the background) - BUT, the competition is awesome too.
So I hereby invite you to take a moment to admire all the cupcakey goodness over at Kitchen Koala. And then, if you just happen to fancy voting for me, well that would be lovely too...
The polls close June 25th - so be quick if you want your vote to count!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Cupcake Hero Blueberry - Vote Now!
The voting has now begun over at Kitchen Koala, to determine whose cupcake will go into the "finals" throwdown!
Posted by Sugary Flower at 11:15 PM 1 comments
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Cupcake Hero June: Blueberry!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, Cupcake Hero is back! This month it has a guest host - and Dorothy over at Kitchen Koala has chosen blueberries as this month's theme.
Now I know as a general rule, fresh is best etc etc - but I have to say, I am in love with dried blueberries - see them here, posing shyly beside the diva-like limes (look at that lime on the right, the minx, trying to shove the other one out of the photo! Tsk!)
And now for the innards shot:
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Olympic gold-winning distance runner Mo Farah believes he has a strong chance of winning the London Marathon when he takes part in the full race for the first time.
The 31-year-old athlete has told Runner's World magazine that if he makes it to the start line without injury, "I think I might win".
Somali-born Farah, who came second in the New York marathon last month collapsing a short time after finishing, also told how he will put running out of his life entirely when he retires from competition.
The runner was the toast of the nation when he won London 2012 gold medals for Team GB at 5,000m and 10,000m, but he has now stepped up his distances to the 26.2 mile discipline.
Reflecting on his chances in London on April 13, he said: "I don't want to say 'I am definitely going to win', but I feel really good.
"I have a good chance.
"The race is what we call 'fully-loaded' which means all the top athletes are going to be there.
"But you know what?
"I am one of the top athletes, so I would say that if I arrive at the start having done everything Alberto (coach Alberto Salazar) wants me to, and with no niggles, then I think I might win."
He went on: "Marathons are won in the last two miles and I'm well matched to what is required.
"If you look at the finishes from London in the past 10 years almost all of them have been won by someone surging with a mile or so to go and breaking the opposition.
"It's all over by Birdcage Walk.
"But if it did come to a sprint, then I have my speed from years on a track, so I have that covered too."
He pointed out he would turn his back on running completely when he stopped racing - and he looked forward to piling on the pounds as well as kicking a ball around once again.
"One thing I'm looking forward to when I retire is playing football - getting back into Sunday League and flying down the flanks, putting a bit of weight on and enjoying life.
"One thing I won't be doing is running.
"When retirement comes, I'm done with that."
Farah told the magazine's May edition, out today, that he had a tried and trusted pre-race routine of shaving his head, then listening to rap acts to get his focus.
"I like feeling the smoothness of the scalp and splashing cold water on it once I'm done," he said.
"After that I'll listen to some music, normally choosing from Tupac, Dizzee Rascal, Jay-Z or Biggy Smalls.
"It's the same ritual every time."
The sports star, who spends much of his time based in the US to train, said he missed a few familiar treats when he was away from home: "C hocolate - US chocolate is awful.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – The number of Floridians whose unemployment claims are getting held up has dramatically increased since the state installed a new system.
Department of Economic Opportunity executive director Jesse Panuccio told state legislators Wednesday that there has been a 25 percent jump in disputed claims.
The state switched to the $63 million system in October.
Since then, there have been continued complaints about unemployed Floridians frustrated at their ability to get their unemployment checks.
The state has withheld a $3 million payment to the company that built the website. State officials say they will continue to assess daily fines against Deloitte Consulting until the system is "fully functional.''
Federal officials from the U.S. Department of Labor are heading to the state to try to help fix the troubled website.


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On Saturday morning, in Austin, TX, a couple dozen local Linux enthusiasts will gather at Union Park to receive donated computers and parts, refurbish what is usable, recycle what is not, and in the end produce 300+ working Linux systems to be given to Central Texas children who would otherwise not have access to a computer at home. Linux Against Poverty, a program started in 2009 by Lynn Bender of GeekAustin and Ken Starks of The Helios Project, collected over 200 computers at last year's event, and has even loftier goals for this year's event.
Perhaps you've recently upgraded a home system, and haven't gotten around to recycling that still usable but maybe a little older system. What better way to put it to use than to donate it to Linux Against Poverty (and get a tax deduction in the process), where it will be refurbished and put to good use for local area schoolchildren?
Computers and parts can be dropped off on Saturday, June 19, at the Union Park restaurant, 6th St. between Nueces and Rio Grande, between 11am and 6pm. Volunteers will help you unload the computer from your car, and give you a tax deductible receipt.


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|The Browser came to get ya!!!
When I saw the TV feature, I found it rather fun and could not help but to think that it was inspired by the imaginary monster called "the Backson" in a Winnie the Pooh movie.
The case is that "the Browser" is enjoying a wide acceptance and, more importantly, this "monster" has put the OLPC project on our local map. Of course, I am now waiting to see the reaction of Microsoft and its sidekicks now that children in the country will be exposed to Linux in elementary schools...
You can see the ad (in Spanish) here, followed by my rough translation of the song.
They say that it has donkey ears,
pig hooves, and its body is covered with fur,
he has a giant eye and an awful breath.
The Browser, the Browser,
Everyone, it's the Browser!
The Browser, the Browser
He is coming for us!
Child: "And how does the Browser find you? "
The Browser: "They are about to tell you"
He can find you inside of the closet,
he can find you in the dark of the night,
and even under your mother's skirt!
They say that he morphs into objects,
he fits in the freezer
and he finds you at the concert...
Everywhere he's going to find you!
The Browser, the Browser,
Everyone, it's the Browser!
The Browser, the Browser
He is coming for us!


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– Summary –
Director : Joel & Ethan Coen
Year Of Release : 2010
Principal Cast : Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Elizabeth Marvel, Dakin Matthews.
Major Award Wins : Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Jeff Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Hailee Steinfeld), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing. BAFTA Wins: Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins). SAG Award Wins: Best Actor (Bridges), Best Actress (Steinfeld).
Approx Running Time : 111 Minutes
Synopsis: In the old West, a young girls' father is murdered by a wanted outlaw, so she hires a Federal Marshall to hunt him down and bring him to justice.
What we think : Better than the original? I think so. One of the best Hollywood films in recent years, this is destined to become a genuine American classic. Superb in almost every sense.
I'm the first to admit that my disdain for Hollywood's penchant for remaking classic (and not-so-classic) films from history has become something of a joke amongst the film community – everything from classic horror, drama and even drama films are being lined up for the dreaded "modernization" (or, alternatively, "updating") for younger audiences. Typically, remakes are technically proficient yet lacking the thing that made the original truly great – that lightning in a bottle which allowed said film to transcend the dust of history to remain a true classic. Remakes have a long, sad history in Hollywood, and yet people still think it's a good idea. Personally, I'd rather filmmakers spend time developing new ideas and stories to bring us, instead of simply recycling older films with usually less-than-impressive credentials. Having said that, I find myself in the unusual position of watching a remake of a genuine Hollywood classic, and actually finding myself thinking it's the better film. How the hell did that happen?
Joel and Ethan Coen have done something I did not think possible in this modern age of cookie-cutter remake-happy cinematic laziness: they've taken a classic John Wayne film, re-cast it, retold it, and in my eyes, delivered one of the finest genre films to come along since Costner's Open Range. Well filmed, with a more true-to-the-novel approach to the narrative, 2010's True Grit has a refined, classic quality which is truly hard to ignore. The story is, at its heart, quite simple – Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) arrives in a small frontier town to collect the body of her recently murdered father; his murderer, a wanted outlaw known as Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), has fled for the Indian territories, meaning local law enforcement cannot pursue him. Mattie hires a grizzled old Federal Marshall, Ruben "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), to track down her father's killer, in order for her to kill him. Her quest for justice is also enabled by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), who also seeks to arrest Chaney for crimes over in Texas, a snafu Mattie doesn't agree to, since it would mitigate her own sense of revenge. As they travel through the prairie of the Old West, the trail to Chaney becomes colder and colder, until a bit of luck brings about a final confrontation that will not only ask the drunken Rooster Cogburn to realize his sense of purpose, but deliver the long-awaited chance of retribution into the hands of the young Mattie herself.
Most reviews and articles on this film have trod the well-worn path of comparison with the 1969 John Wayne vehicle of the same name, a film which itself was also based somewhat on the original novel by Charles Portis: I'm not going to spend any more time trying to make comparisons to what is a revered (genuinely so) film in the Wayne canon, except to say that I think this version of the story is a meaner, leaner, more succinct version, and the more accessible to watch. The Coen Brothers, famous for films such as O Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo and Best Picture Oscar winner No Country For Old Men, have turned their eclectic gaze towards a more mainstream entry into their oeuvre. Their films are renowned for weird characters and indelible characters of what can only be described as an eccentric nature, with a penchant for being a little left-of-centre, however, True Grit represents perhaps their most straightforward effort yet – even moreso than No Country For Old Men, the previous holder of that title, in my opinion. This story of retribution, a quest film of quiet nature and muted eccentricity, is both wonderfully cast and superbly acted: directorially, it's hard to find much fault in the Coen's production of this story.
The first aspect of the film worth noting is the casting – particularly the twin leads of Jeff Bridges in the John Wayne role of Rooster Cogburn, and Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross. Both actors are superb in their respective roles, with Bridges delivering a scenery-chewing portrayal of the drunken wash-out whose best years are obviously behind him, and Steinfeld the most straight-up pain-in-the-ass girl I've seen on screen in ages (she's adorable, really!). Bridges may chew the scenery, strolling through this film with the half-cocked drunken slur he can do so well, yet the Cohens never once allow him to overpower the film with his performance. Often, a single performance will overwhelm a film (won't it, Al Pacino?), obliterating all memory of anything else well after the fact, and although Bridges threatens to do just that at times, the quality of the rest of the cast and the scripting rises to the challenge: Steinfeld, making her Oscar nominated film debut (damn, this girl can act!), is up to the task of holding her own alongside Bridges' powerful portrayal. Mattie Ross isn't a sympathetic character, as Hollywood is wont to present, she's "a pill", according to the Cohens themselves, and while a character that's essentially unlikeable runs the risk of being, oh, unliked by the audience, the clever writing and spot-on performance by Steinfeld is mesmerizing to watch – Mattie might be a pain in the backside, but she's the kind of daughter I think any father would love to have.
If there is one weakness to the film, I'd have to turn the spotlight towards Matt Damon here. While he does a solid job as Ranger LaBeouf, accent and all, he just doesn't feel as real in the role as his fellow cast members. The role of LaBoeuf was originally played by country singer Glenn Campbell in the '69 version, and I think Campbells natural country style lent the perfect air of the man to the character – Damon can't muster the testosterone for the part, and at times even appears to be hiding behind that bad 70's porno mustache he's forced to wear throughout. It's not a distracting fault with True Grit, let me just add, but if there's any specific weakness to the casting on this film, that would have been it. Josh Brolin, as murderer Tom Chaney, has a small role indeed (he appears late in the film), but does the role justice as the sniveling, bully-boy killer who seems more stupid than he probably is. If I was the Coens, and I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, I'd have cast Brolin as LeBoeuf and Damon as Chaney, because I think they both could have done better in each others' roles. Just my two cents. Keen eyed observers will spot an barely recognizable Barry Pepper late in the piece too, as Lucky Ned Pepper (the role originally played by Robert Duvall in the '69 version), a horrendously violent and morally corrupt gang leader who obviously has a history with Cogburn – a history that comes to bear in the films final confrontation.
I mentioned earlier that this represents the most mainstream of all the Coen films – the style the Coens have honed over the years in their indelible style has been reined in somewhat to deliver a strong, straightforward narrative that delivers the right punches, the beats of humor and violence, and holds your attention from frame one. Scenes set up the characters superbly – Mattie's haranguing barter with local financier Colonel Stonhill (Dakin Matthews) is a delight to watch, while the introduction to Cogburn is screamingly funny in its own way, and the Coens sense of timing and style complements this narrative superbly. They have a sense of rhythm, the Coens, to tell a good story well, without dramatic flourishes or cinematic "poetic license" to lairise the camera about. Instead, the framing and editing of this film is pure and simple, without ostentation or obviousness. I guess the word "restraint" could come into play here; even though the flashes of violence could lend themselves to an explosion of testosterone-driven pyrotechnics, the film never becomes a blood-fest or gory for the sake of it. There is blood within the story of this film, of course; a film about redemption such as this would be pretty neutered without it. The focus isn't on the gore or the bad things men do to each other, rather, it's on the characters, and I for one appreciated it. With a cast this good, watching these people is an enjoyment in and of itself.
Of the two technically oriented things I'd like to mention, the most prominent is the cinematography of Roger Deakins. Deakins, a British cinematographer whose work on films as diverse as Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, Rango, The House Of Sand And Fog, as well as almost all the Coen Brothers films since Barton Fink, has captured the dirty, crystal clear roughness of the American West perfectly, and both he and the Coens utilize the widescreen frame wonderfully, eliciting the emotion from each and every scene with relative ease. The other point to note is the wonderful score by Carter Burwell, a terrifically rousing, evocative orchestral work that complements the story superbly. God, I need to find a better adjective than "superbly". It doesn't do this film justice, and I've used the word way more than I normally would in a single review.
Simply put, True Grit is an amazing film. The story is told very, very well, with excellent performances by Jeff Bridges and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld (both worthy Oscar nominees, by my estimation) and a terrific supporting cast. The scripting is razor sharp (I expected nothing less from Joel and Ethan) and the technical side of the film is more than adequate to drag the viewer right into the world these characters inhabit. While other films come and go, True Grit (in both incarnations, I suspect) will become, and remain, a classic of both the Western genre and American cinema in general. It is essential viewing, and a film I'd not hesitate to use the word "masterpiece" in describing.
What others are saying about True Grit:
Rory Dean over at Above The Line has this to say: "If this film is a demarcation for the Coen brothers, a decisive interest in characters not so unlike us, it will prove to broaden their already significant and rightful presence among the best filmmakers of the past quarter century."
Wow, strong praise!
Dan The Man drools at the mouth with his review: "The Dude playing a sheriff. This is heaven."
Aiden over at Cut The Crap enjoyed the work of Hailee Steinfeld: "And big props to Hailee Steinfeld as Cogburn's tween employer, Mattie Ross. Doesn't hurt that Ross was the best character to begin with, but Steinfeld's got the chops of someone twice her age and she holds her own like a total boss in her silver screen debut."
Our mate Tom Clift had this to say: "As it stands, True Grit can be placed alongside Joss Whedon's Serenity as the best good time western to be made in quite a few years, and yet another solid entry into the Coen Brothers extensive and impressive filmography."
Sam over at Duke & The Movies begins his review thusly: "The Coen Brothers' haven't simply remade the 1969 classic film, True Grit they've reinvented it."
High praise.
Finally, Will at Silver Emlusion had a more ambivalent feeling about it: "…In any case, it's a good film that audiences unfamiliar with the story will likely enjoy and look to as proof that good Westerns are still possible."
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Guess what? It's my birthday! Yay! I'm so excited to celebrate by giving one of you a SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT! The Silhouette Portrait is smaller and lighter than the than Cameo. It may be smaller, but it is packed with awesome features. My favorite is the optical alignment – it perfectly cuts images from your computer (like printables!). It cuts all your fonts from your computer (PC and Mac) too! Crafter's (or in my case, party lover's) DREAM MACHINE! {learn more about it here, visit the Silhouette blog here}
Come back Friday to see what I'm making with their gold vinyl for Christmas! ooh la la! It's really cute…I can't stop making them!
To win, fill out the information below! Good luck! Winner will be announced on November 23, 2012. I'll ALSO be sharing my favorite new DIY with the Silhouette Portrait so swing back by on Friday!
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Seattle rap/R&B duo THEESatisfaction really like Anita Baker, the R&B singer responsible for the commercially and critically acclaimed '80s album Rapture. The band likes her so much, in fact, that it produced a mixtape in her honor. Made up of five songs, the mix is packed with TheeSatisfaction's characteristic digital drum beats, vocal interplay, and retro synths, all of which mimic those found on Anita Baker tracks.
This release marks the band's first since its Sub Pop debut, awE naturalE, which was released earlier this year.


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Gold Filled Script Letter Charm F, 24g
Model: GF163
Gold Filled Script Letter Charm F, 24g
- Height: 11.5mm
- Width: 9mm
- Thickness: 24g
- Top loop accommodates up to an 18g jump ring.
These Script Letters are punched out of metal sheet, just like our blanks, creating a nice and light charm. Great for a charm bracelet, necklace, or you can even cut the loop off, give it a quick filing and solder it onto a blank for a custom pendant!
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checking the prophecy
#89-90 of amightywind.com or almightywind.com vs the Scriptures
Posted on February 24, 2010. Filed under: checking the claim, checking the prophecy | Tags: almightywind exposed, amightywind exposed, christian, christianity, fake anointing, fake claim, false message, false messianic jewish, false prophecy, false prophet, god, messianic, religious, the lies, truth, yahshua, yahweh, yeshua, yhvh, yhwh |
A warning to everyone on Internet, especially to those of you who called yourselves Christians, Jewish, Messianic Jewish, also those who called themselves "following the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob".
No matter whether you acknowledge YAHUSHUA (aka YAHSHUA / YAHSHA / YESHUA ha MASHIACH, or Jesus Christ / Yesus Kristus / Iesous / Iesu Kirisuto) as Messiah or rejected YAHUSHUA, I want you all to discern carefully the teaching of the so-called Prophecy 89 and 90 of amightywind.com or almightywind.com, some of you might have even watched such videos from youtube.com, the same warning is also for you all!
Attention! This is NOT about whether RUACH ha KODESH (Holy Spirit) is a HE or a SHE. If you want to know that, you can dig the Scriptures in original language, which some claim in Hebrew, and some others claim in Aramaic. Ask those who TRULY read Hebrew or Aramaic Bible about that topic. What will be shown here is something MORE important than the topic about "gender".
Make sure you keep reading through this page. This will be a very long page, but read and discern carefully.
Quoted from the so-called Prophecy 89 titled "Secrets Of The RUACH ha KODESH (Holy Spirit)"
from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph89.htm
Elisabeth, when you rock and you pray, it is ME that rocks you. Keep striving to know who I am. I will reveal more to you. I will bring you remembrance of what it was like in Heaven when you beheld MY Face. For I sit next to your Heavenly Father. YAHUVEH is MY HUSBAND. YAHUSHUA is MY Son. There is not only one throne, there are three thrones in Heaven and WE rule in unison. How do you think your prayers reach your ABBA YAHUVEH's ears? It is I that send them to HIM for I am in the Believers, those who love MY Son, YAHUSHUA. It is I, the anointed WIND that blows them to HIM (YAHUVEH) as I blow a kiss to Heaven. I speak in symbolism so you can understand. When you lift up prayer, it's like blowing kisses to your ABBA YAHUVEH. When you pray in MY Son's Name, it takes all three of us for you to be heard and answered. This is just the beginning of the teaching.
Screen shot proof taken from http://amightywind.com/prophecy/proph89.htm, its mirror: http://almightywind.com/prophecy/proph89.htm
Quoted from the so-called Prophecy 90 titled "WHAT IS THE Name OF THE RUACH ha KODESH?" from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
Where do you think the idea came from that a Holy husband and wife were to be one? It was first done in Heaven. When you accepted YAHUSHUA as MESSIAH, you never realized at the same time you were being filled with a Heavenly Mother's love. The word 'comforter,' is what a Mother does best. I am your MOMMA RUACH ha KODESH and I am your comforter, I soothe you when you need soothing, when your emotions are raw, and you are hurting, fearful, lonely or feeling rejected or confused. I am the peace that passes all understanding. I am the RUACH ha KODESH your MOMMA SHKHINAH that gives you Holy Heavenly Motherly love.
Screen shot of the text, taken from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
And there's this claim about "anointed as Jeremiah of Old" at the same page:
Elisabeth, you have been anointed as Jeremiah (Jer 1:4-10) of Old was, when you were in your mother's womb, as OUR mouthpiece and given the voice of a Holy Prophet shouting out in the wilderness of this world. Only those whose names are found in the Lambs Book of Life will believe and receive the truths in this Ministry just as surely as they receive YAHUSHUA as MESSIAH.
Screen shot of the text, still taken from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
And even worse!
I give you the answer now, it was I your MOMMA SHKHINAH, your MOMMA WISDOM (In Greek wisdom is translated to Sophia) this is why you have never grieved again or felt the void of never knowing a mothers love. Every baby is born with a desire and a need for a Mother and a Father's love, because all humans are born as babes with a need of earthly love and protection of a Mother and a Father. It is MY LOVE that you basked in as you sat at the Banquet Table in Heaven with ME and your Heavenly ABBA YAHUVEH waiting for the others to join you. MY love and presence enveloped you, as I am your HOLY Mother; I am the only QUEEN of Heaven, there is none other.
Screen shot of the text, still taken from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
Again, it is repeated:
You know the Name of YAHUVEH; you know the Name of YAHUSHUA ha MASHIACH, now through this Ministry and this Ringmaiden, I now share MY Name as MOMMA SHKHINAH your MOMMA WISDOM. MY Name is reserved for those who desire to grow, bask and be mentored more in MY Heavenly Mother's love and a stronger HOLY SPIRIT anointing, MOMMA SHKHINAH is MY Name. I am the still small voice that speaks in the Holy Wind, and ignites you with anointed HOLY FIRE; this is why your body heats up under MY anointed touch. I am YAHUSHUA's comforter and HIS Heavenly Mother. YAHUSHUA is MY begotten Son as much as YAHUVEH's begotten Son. I am the only Queen of Heaven. Do not give that title to any other.
Screen shot of the text, still taken from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
Again, for the third time, can you believe that?
I, YAHUVEH warn you that satan is evil in all ways, even teaching the people to pray to Goddesses because he knows the RUACH ha KODESH, YOUR MOMMA SHKHINAH IS THE ONLY QUEEN OF HEAVEN. Study what the word SHKHINAH GLORY means. Study the scriptures Elisabeth and you will have peace in releasing this secret that has been stored up for such a time as this. This will heal so many wounds, just as you have had a void in you for a mother's love, now you will realize you are healed and others also will be healed for that void has been filled.
Screen shot of the text, still taken from http://www.amightywind.com/prophecy/proph90.htm
Okay, since there was such claiming about being like Jeremiah, and there's even the claim that YAHWEH (whom they wrote as YAHUVEH) was the one speaking those words, … let's go ask the Scriptures:
– who is YAHWEH's wife?
– who is the Queen of Heaven?
– why there has been such an idea to create man and woman?
Let's find in Scriptures:
1. What the real Jeremiah says about YAHWEH's Wife:
Jeremiah 3 – King James Version
[warning: check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
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Jeremiah 31 – King James Version
[warning: check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
Have you read through the whole Jeremiah verses above? Is there anything you don't understand about to whom YAHWEH has addressed as HIS wife?
2. And now, what the real Jeremiah says about "the Queen of Heaven":
Jeremiah 44 – King James Version
[warning: again, check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
Again, you do read the whole text above, right? The Queen of Heaven has been addressed as "other gods". That's what has been written inside the book of Jeremiah, I repeat, Jeremiah.
3. Now ask Genesis about why there has been such idea in YAHWEH's mind to create man and woman as husband and wife:
Genesis 2 – King James Version
[warning: again, check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
If you have truly checked what Genesis really says, is there any part you still don't understand about why YAHWEH created man and woman as husband and wife?
Now, with all those three points above, who has truly told you about the REAL GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob then? Readers, audience of youtube, those who are supporting amightywind.com or almightywind.com, including those who have translated their so-called prophecies, dreams and teaching.
I want to ask you, People, who has told us the truth now? The Scriptures, or the so-called prophet Elisabeth Elijah Nikomia of amightywind.com / almightywind.com??
And what the Scriptures said about such things in the so-called Prophecy 89 and 90 of amightywind.com / almightywind.com?
Exodus 20 – King James Version
[warning: remember to check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Deuteronomy 13 – King James Version
[warning: don't forget to check your Bible to prove the text yourself!]
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
These are what the Scriptures said to us!
So, do those people in amightywind.com / almightywind.com hear from YAHWEH? Do they lead us to the real GOD and the real RUACH ha KODESH? Do those people really keep YAHWEH's Ten Commandments?
Beware, Everyone.
If you have checked the Scriptures, you will know who has truly told us the truth.
And for everyone, this is what YAHUSHUA ha MASHIACH aka Jesus Christ Himself has said:
Warning: read all the verses yourself in your Bible, Everyone.
Matthew 12:36 – King James Version
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
And one more:
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Matthew 7:21-23 – King James Version
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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hmmmm. I think we've done everything ...
Except for Under the Sea. ????
Should we go with that?
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notlistening wrote:So what are the results? Has much changed? Is the crazy man still in charge?
Ladykat wrote:Or I may just TAKE s break on Saturday, whether I should or not.
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This week we were seriously delighted to go to Jacques Torres in Tribeca and create chocolate Halloween confections with Jacques and his amazing team. If you follow me on twitter you already know that I documented my first Wicked Hot Chocolate of the season on the first chilly day in October.
Officially cold enough out for first wicked hot chocolate of the season @jacquestorres yum! twitter.com/beccasara/stat…
— Rebecca Levey (@beccasara) October 12, 2012
I love Jacques Torres chocolates, so when he opened a store near my daughters' school it was a mixed blessing – for my dark chocolate tooth. I sort of hid how awesome it was from my daughters, because the last thing I need are girls who love lobster AND high quality chocolate. If a 50 cent Kit Kat makes them happy who am I to tell them otherwise?
But, I was super excited to bring my girls to have this incredible experience of both meeting Jacques and getting to work with his delicious chocolate to create really fabulous Halloween chocolate treats. I had no idea how awesome it was going to be, but it was one of the experiences that surpassed my expectations.
First, the girls were given chef hats and smocks and I was given a hair net (this is why there are no pictures of me!) Then they were led into the back of the store to the actual chocolate factory. Vats of chocolate were stirring, racks of finished products were stacked to the ceiling, and the tables were laid out with jars of candy, sheets of molds, containers of fruits.
They immediately dove in and started making Halloween lollipops and giant tombstones. After filling in the details with colored chocolate they used a huge pastry bag full of dark, milk or white chocolate to fill the molds to the top, and then they were whisked off to the refrigerators to set.
That would have been fabulous enough, but then wax lined baking sheets appeared with huge dollops of chocolate waiting to be decorated and candy covered.
Then, a giant Jack o'lantern (Jacques o'lantern) puzzle mold. And finally, the huge haunted house molds. Before I knew it my girls had created 40 pieces of chocolate Halloween goodness. 40!!!
On top of all that, Jacques Torres couldn't have been more wonderful with the kids. He obviously loves what he does, and loves sharing it. His team was incredibly gracious, patient and encouraging even though they were over run with sugared up kids (and parents.) They even packaged everything up professionally to take home.
And now, I think that little Jacques Torres store near my daughters' school will never be just my place ever again. Also, I'm totally ordering the chocolate turkeys for Thanksgiving!


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Upper Priest Falls
Upper Priest Falls is situated less than a mile from the Canadian border. This enchanting falls is located deep in the forest a few miles east of the Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area. The shortest route to reach Upper Priest Falls is to drive to the Continental trailhead Trail 28 and hike the 2.3-mile trail that terminates at the falls.
Trail 28 is one of the more scenic trails in the Priest Lake area. It leads through an old growth cedar stand to the river bottom. Huckleberries, thimbleberries, devils club, and ferns grow thick along the trail. Once at the river, the trail turns to an open flat area that offers an excellent camping site. The trail then crosses Malcom Creek and leads to Upper Priest Falls. The elevation change of Trail 28 is 840 feet and is rated by the USFS as "more difficult".
To reach Trail 28 trailhead, travel north from Nordman 35 1/2 miles on USFS Road 302/1013 (an extension of State Highway 57) to the end of the road. The trailhead is located on the left side of Road 1013 just prior to the gate.


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CINCINNATI, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- World No. 1 Serena Williams lost her first set since Wimbledon Wednesday but came from behind to reach the third round of the Western & Southern Open.
Williams, the winner of eight tournaments this year, got past Eugenie Bouchard 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. It was the first dropped set for Williams since she lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Sabine Lisicki.
That was the only match Williams has lost in her last 44 WTA appearances.
She will meet Mona Barthel in the third round after Barthel defeated Maria Kirilenko 6-4, 6-4.
Serena's sister Venus Williams, meanwhile, fell to Elena Vesnina for her fifth setback in six matches. Vesnina emerged a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 winner and will now meet Agnieszka Radwanska, who breezed by Varvara Lepchenko 6-4, 6-0.
Also advancing was Jelena Jankovic, who had to come from behind to defeat Ekaterina Makarova 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Jankovic will now face Sloane Stephens, who pulled off a surprising second-round victory Tuesday over third-seeded Maria Sharapova.
Other second-round winners Wednesday included Sara Errani, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber, Samantha Stosur, Roberta Vinci, Caroline Wozniacki, Magdalena Rybarikova and Li Na.


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SodaStream pops on sale rumorsJuly 24, 2014: 1:43 PM ET
SodaStream (SODA) is in the business of making things pop -- and that exactly what its stock was doing Thursday.
Shares of the Israeli-based manufacturer of home soda devices jumped 16% after a Bloomberg report claimed that the company is in talks with a group of investors to go private.
According to the report, which cites anonymous sources, the deal would value the company at $40 a share, up from its current price of around $33.
The stock has had quite a run since going public in late 2010. It debuted at $20 and skyrocketed to almost $80 in August of 2011 on strong earnings, only to fall back down to earth as revenue growth slowed.
It's not the first time SodaStream has surged on rumors. Earlier this year, it got a boost on speculation that it would join forces with Pepsi (PEP) after Coca-Cola (KO) disclosed a 10% stake in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). There has also been chatter about a Starbucks (SBUX) deal.
Related: Keurig coffee coming to Subway
SodaStream produces a series of do-it-yourself carbon dioxide machines that turn water and other flavored syrups into soda for drinking.
The company has come under attack for operating its main plant in an area of the West Bank considered by Palestinians to be occupied territory.
Its celebrity spokeswoman, Scarlett Johansson, has taken heat for her role in representing the brand, but she and its supporters claim the company does a service by paying good wages and acting as an economic model for Israelis and Palestinians working together.
Still, issues with the plant came into focus this week when according to Israeli media, 60 Palestinian workers were fired over the food being served during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
According to the reports, which CNNMoney has not independently confirmed, the Palestinians allege they were fired for complaining about not getting an acceptable pre-dawn break-fast meal. SodaStream contends they were let go because they went on strike, which caused the plant to halt the production line.


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Everyone loves the cloud. You can't go to a user convention like this week's Oracle OpenWorld without being absolutely barraged with talks, pitches, demonstrations, and handouts aimed at convincing you that the entire future of IT is floating far above the skyline. One message, of course, is that a business can save big bucks by outsourcing its infrastructure to public clouds built and hosted by the likes of Oracle and Amazon.com, not to mention Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, and many others.
What surprises me, though, is the failure of so many cloud mavens to ask a very simple question: What effect does the cloud have on server sales? I believe the answer to that question is one word: damage.
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IDC, for example, is forecasting flat server sales over the five-year period that began in 2011. Worldwide revenue will grow by just 1 percent a year as revenue goes from $56.6 billion in 2011 (and $55.6 billion in 2012) to $59.5 billion in 2016. Gartner's figures are sobering as well. Cloud revenue is expected to rise 19 percent in 2012, becoming a $109 billion industry compared to a $91 billion market last year. But server revenue will increase by less than 1 percent, from $52.8 billion to $53.3 billion, while spending in the overall IT market will increase by just 3 percent.
Simply put, the cloud is drowning the commodity hardware makers, as tablets and PCs have already begun to do to PC makers. Traditional hardware makers are in trouble as the world changes around them.
Ultrabooks tanking, too
It's not just the cloud that's keeping the CEOs of traditional hardware makers like Acer, Dell, and HP up at night. The rapid growth of increasingly powerful tablets and even smartphones is rapidly eating into sales of PCs -- and their makers have yet to find an answer to that shift.
Ultrabook sales, seen as a remedy to eroding sales of traditional PCs, are bad and getting worse, an outcome that we at InfoWorld predicted from the beginning. IHS, which follows PC shipments, just cut its forecast for Ultrabook shipments in 2012. IHS (once known as iSuppli) said it expected that 10.3 million Ultrabooks would ship worldwide this year; that is less than half the 22 million units it had forecast earlier.
"There once was a time when everyone knew the 'Dude, you're getting a Dell' slogan. Nowadays no one can remember a tag line for a new PC product, including for any single Ultrabook," says Craig Stice, a senior principal analyst for compute platforms at IHS. "So far, the PC industry has failed to create the kind of buzz and excitement among consumers that is required to propel Ultrabooks into the mainstream. This is especially a problem amid all the hype surrounding media tablets and smartphones."
Interestingly, the MacBook Air, the inspiration for the Ultrabook, continues to sell well for Apple.
As to Stice's point about tablets and smartphones, consider this: On Monday, the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism, in a report on online news consumption, said that half of American homes owned a smartphone or a tablet. "Over the last year, tablet ownership has steadily increased from 11 percent of U.S. adults in July of 2011 to 18 percent in January of 2012," according to PEJ data. Currently, 22 percent own a tablet and another 3 percent regularly use a tablet owned by someone else in the home.


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July 25, 2012
Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve has passed overwhelmingly in the House. It cleared a suspension of House ruled requiring a two-thirds vote. The final vote was 327 to 98 and all but one Republican and 89 Democrats voted yes. The bill had more than 274 cosponsors and faced strong opposition by Democrats and the Federal Reserve.
The legislation will allow auditors to conduct in-depth audits of the private bankster cartel's monetary policy operations.
"The agreement granted the Government Accountability Office broad authority to examine the operations of the Fed and to require additional disclosures from the central bank, including examinations of the Fed's discount window and its purchases and sales of government securities," the Washington Post reports this afternoon.
Prior to passage, Ron Paul said Americans "sick and tired of what happened in the bailout and where the wealthy got bailed out and the poor lost their jobs and they lost their homes."
"It's time that we stood up to the Federal Reserve that right now acts like some kind of high, exalted priesthood, unaccountable to democracy," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
It remains to be seen if the bill will become law. It needs Senate approval and a signature by Obama.
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Teachers bring picket to school board
Teachers bring picket to school board
Teachers brought last week's pre-school picket to the school board on Tuesday, with dozens of sign-waving teachers packed into the back of council chambers as parents spoke on their behalf.
Parents said they moved to Alameda for high-quality schools and that they have come to love their teachers, and they want district leaders to offer them more support in the classroom and at the bargaining table, where the union and district administrators are expected to meet Friday.
"Our teachers fight for our kids. We need you to fight for our teachers, because you make the decisions," said Samantha Hermosillo, whose two small children accompanied her to the podium as she spoke to the board.
Teachers responded to Hermosillo's comments and those of other parents who spoke for them with loud cheers, waving signs that said "Respect for teachers," "It's not just about the money," "It's the class size" and "We want a fair contract."
"I see a lot of broken hearts. And I think it has to do with education and what's going on," said Shelly Foster, a parent who said her family moved here for the schools but that she finds the politics around them "alarming."
Anne DeBardeleben, a parent and member of the Alameda Education Foundation's board, offered the lone voice of support for the district Tuesday. She said that while she agreed with parents who offered support for teachers, the anger some expressed with the district should be directed elsewhere.
"It is not our local districts that are to blame. It is our state and federal government that refuses to respect education for our students," DeBardeleben said. "We need to take all this frustration and all of this anger and take it to the right place and fight for it."
As if to underscore her point, district officials followed up with a presentation on state and federal funds tied to specific district programs – and cuts to that funding.
Chief Business Officer Robert Shemwell said the district is set to lose $1.7 million in federal funding next year, most of it from a federal jobs bill that offered short-term cash. Shemwell said the district is also preparing to shell out $966,007 in transportation costs that the state will no longer fund and $38,406 for homeless programs when that federal funding dries up.
The district is spending nearly $8.5 million to help fund special education, or 42 percent of the $20.4 million cost of Alameda Unified's special education program. Board Trustee Mike McMahon said the federal government had promised to pay 40 percent of special education costs, but its contribution makes up just 9 percent of the district's funding for the program.
Early findings from a facilities report to be completed in early May show the district's facilities need about $50 million in improvements, an amount district officials said will grow as the analysis is completed.
The most critical need, Shemwell said, is shoring up Historic Alameda High School and moving the district office elsewhere. The estimated cost of shoring the high school – a project that will include bracing the building, caging entrances and exits and erecting an eight foot high fence around the school – is $663,268, while rent for a new district office could be as high as $46,000 a month, though Shemwell said district officials hope to lease a building with a purchase option.
District officials had looked at existing space owned by the district and the city but found it inadequate, Shemwell said. Shemwell, who said the district offices won't be habitable after retrofit work is done at Historic Alameda High, said he hopes to have new space leased by May or June.
Adult school classes will be moved to Woodstock Education Center and Wood Middle School, Shemwell said. He said the new district office will house around 80 employees, and the adult school will need 14 classrooms.
Board trustees said they want a rendering to offer the community and a meeting to discuss what the high school will look like after retrofit work is done.
"This is going to present a problem to our community, that we will not want this fence around this school indefinitely," Trustee Trish Hererra Spencer said. "I think that Alamedans are proud of the historic school that we have. And to think we are going to put an eight-foot tall fence around it indefinitely – I think there will be pushback."
"It will be what it will be," Shemwell responded. "It's there for safety. And it will be there until there is another solution to repair this building."
The exchanges about the balance between preserving the buildings' beauty and maintaining public safety in the event of a major earthquake evolved into a discussion about the long-term plan for the building and all of Alameda Unified's facilities.
"You're either going to demolish the building or you're going to retrofit the building, one of the two," Shemwell said.


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Theories about Atlantis mention the extensive use of crystals by Atlanteans. Crystals varied in slight, color, and harmonic frequencies. Crystals follow harmonic frequencies and could be used with an instrument that looks like a tuning fork.
Atlantis Seed Crystal
Atlanteans allegedly harnessed the energies of the pyramids, using harmonics linked to crystals to that end. As we have the Great Pyramid at the center of the planet linked to the grid matrix that creates our reality, so, too, did the Atlanteans. Their pyramid allegedly sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean which is a metaphor about returning to the collective unconsciousness or source of creation.
Atlantean crystals received power from a variety of sources, including the Sun, the Earth's energy field grid system or from each other. Grids point are often marked by pyramids. The Atlanteans used this energy, combined with crystals, to transmit energy from one pyramid to another or, as aliens, to enter and leave the planet.
Depending on the tilt of the Earth's axis at a particular time of the year, one pyramid would function to intensify and transmit energies to other pyramids which would then act as receiving devices and would disperse energy as it was needed. The opposite would apply when that pyramid was at an unfocused point to their celestial alignment, when other pyramids would be used as transmitters. It was an intricate matrix crystal grid system.
As controversial as the land of Atlantis remains, it is still an enigma that cannot be disproved. To add more mystery to the dilemma, a baffling mystery exists, surrounding an unusual crystal sphere said to have been found in a submerged pyramid in the waters near the location where Atlantis was said to have existed.
The Astounding Discovery of Dr. Ray Brown
Known as Ray Brown's Atlantean Crystal Sphere, the discovery of the sphere occurred during a scuba diving trip to the Bari Islands in the Bahamas in 1970.While diving, Ray Brown – a naturopathic doctor – became separated from his friends and while he searched for them, he came upon a strange pyramid structure.
Though startled by the find, he investigated and was amazed that the sides of the pyramid were completely smooth and the joints between the individual blocks to be nearly imperceptible. Upon entering the pyramid, Ray was further astounded by the clean, smooth sides of the interior: no algae or coral grew on the walls.
Not only that, but he was able to see the interior clearly as the room was well lit but there was no detectable source of light. He tried to remove a a multi-faceted red gemstone attached to a metallic rod that descended from the center of the ceiling, but was unable to dislodge it. About four feet below the point of the red gemstone, stood a bronze metal sculpture of two open hands, and resting upon the palms of the hands was a crystal sphere, about four inches in diameter. He was surprised that he could lift the crystal sphere easily.
And so he seized his prize and headed toward the exit. As he did so, he felt an invisible presence come near and a voice that warned him never to return. Concerned that his prize might be taken away from him by the government as salvage treasure, Ray kept the unusual sphere – and his story – hidden until 1975.
For What Purpose Was the Crystal Sphere Created?
The Original Crystal Sphere (It is the size of a tennis ball)
Inside the sphere are the images of three pyramids, one in front of the other. Some, entering into a meditative or alpha brainwave state of consciousness, are able to clearly see a fourth pyramid, in the foreground of the other three. At another angle, some have claimed to see a faint image of a large single eye serenely gazing out at them. Thousands of tiny fracture lines also appear and may be electrical in nature, like some form of microscopic circuit ry. The use of the crystal sphere in ancient times is not clear: only speculative at this point. Some say that the crystal sphere was used in conjunction with other powerful faceted stones (perhaps the red stone Ray Brown saw in the underwater Pyramid?) to draw in and concentrate enormous energy from the earth, then generate and project the resulting tremendous power. For good or for ill purposes, no one can say.
Ray Brown's Atlantean crystal sphere has only made a few public appearances since 1975. It was at the 9-9-9 Crystal Skulls World Mysteries Conference in Arizona and the 10-10-10 Legend of the 13 Skulls Conference in New York.
Version of The Atlantean Sphere on 11/11/11 at the Mayan Crystal Skull Conference in Los Angeles – Photos by Robyn Swick
Paranormal Events
Interestingly, whenever Ray Brown's Atlantean crystal sphere has been displayed, mysterious occurrences have often been reported: phantom lights; feeling a breath of wind; hot and cold sensations; tingling of energy; hearing voices. Some have claimed to experience healing from the sphere. At times, compasses have been affected when placed next to the crystal while some metals seemed to have become temporarily magnetic.
Video: Demonstration of the power of the crystal sphere at 2.42 minutes:
When Ray Brown passed on at the age of 89, the Atlantean sphere came into the guardianship of Arthur Fanning.
Dr. Brown's crystal sphere is the source of a variety of paranormal events. People have felt that activation of the sphere is increased through high intensity sound waves in combination with ancient mantras.
A compass needle placed next to the sphere will spin counterclockwise, then begin turning in the opposite direction when moved only two inches away.
Metals are temporarily magnetized in close contact with it. There are even recorded instances where one person has been temporarily healed of an ailment by touching the crystal sphere, but then the next person to come into its range took on the symptoms of the ailment of the other person, as if the crystal could draw out and then activate human disorders at will.
Trance reading on the mysterious sphere adds that there were four identical spheres created: two were destroyed in Atlantean times as they were used for evil purposes; the third still remains hidden in a submerged temple; the fourth is in possession of Arthur Fanning. Do the positions of the three pyramid images in the crystal hold a key to finding a fourth, as yet unfound subterranean pyramid, that is the fabled Hall of Records? Maybe…
Just what the purpose of the crystal sphere was, and what role it once played in the enigmatic instrument Brown found inside the sunken Bahaman pyramid, remains a mystery, though of course there are some interesting possibilities.
One idea proposed is that the sunken pyramid once attracted, accumulated and generated cosmic forces. The suspended rod may have conducted forces accumulated in the capstone; the faceted red gem at its end concentrated and projected the energy to the crystal sphere below it, showing the evidence of an energy transfer, probably amplified the release of energies; while the crystal sphere acted as the tuner and broadcaster of the energies.
All that we know for certain is that the crystal sphere Dr. Brown retrieved from this system is by itself testimony to a most sophisticated technology, for as experts at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington noted, the technology for cutting quartz stone to the perfection exhibited in the crystal sphere was not accomplished by our civilization until after 1900.
Uses of Crystals
– Healing, childbirth, crossing over
– Meditation, awakening, increasing psychic abilities
– Increasing mental capacity and clarity of thought
– Science and technology
– Dematerialization – teleportation – telekinesis
– Magnetic force fields
– Libraries – storing records and other knowledge, much like a computer
– Botany and agriculture
– Weather Control
– Huge crystal tower power generators
– Communication – Crystals have the ability to transfer energy, to retain it, to maintain its intensity, to focus and transmit it over great distance to similar receivers as are equal or comparable to the transmitter. The larger stones, called Fire Crystals, were the central receiving and broadcasting stations, while others acted as receivers for individual cities, buildings, vehicles and homes. On a higher spiritual level, rooms made of crystals were places where the Initiates left their bodies in the Final Transcendence, often never to return.
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