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Peter Kageyama is a self-proclaimed "city guy."
"I think CG should be a new acronym," said Boise Mayor Dave Bieter. "Whether the term "CG" sweeps around remains to be seen, but I kind of like it."
Bieter introduced Kageyama the morning of April 30 to a packed ballroom at the Boise Centre, as hundreds of early-risers came to hear the Downtown Boise Association's annual State of Downtown address.
"I've been hearing good things about your city for awhile," Kageyama told the gathering, which included all of the community's elected officials from the City of Boise, Greater Boise Auditorium District and Ada County Commission. "There's something going on with what we call 'New West' cities and you guys don't disappoint."
Kageyama's core message was about love.
"Do you love your city?" the author of For the Love of Cities asked repeatedly. "People are universally consistent with what they hate; traffic, parking, potholes, bad weather. But love matters."
And when the elected officials are in what Kageyama called "god-awful meetings" he challenged the public officials to ask "Where's the fun in this?"
"Change the dynamic when you're considering problems," he said.
Kageyama pointed to a series of fun solutions that cities, big and small, have attempted in their love for their downtowns: Millenium Park in Chicago, closing New York City's Times Square to traffic, Raleigh, North Carolina's Walk Your City initiative and even Boise's Freak Alley.
"Take Brattleboro, Vermont. It's a small city, not much money. They asked themselves, 'What do we have?' Well, their answer was, 'Cows. A lot of cows," said Kageyama. 'So they have their own version of the Running of the Bulls. They call their event the Strolling of the Heifers."
Kageyama's recurring theme was for public officials to encourage citizens to come up with untested ideas.
"I know how you work. You ask if an idea has been tested. You ask about the imperical data. You should be engaging with more residents," he told more than a dozen elected officials.
But twenty minutes prior to Kegayama's caution, all three Ada County Commissioners stood up and walked out of the meeting, presumably heading to a prior commitment.
"Why do I preach to the choir? Because sometimes they sing back," Kegayama said in his conclusion.
At that moment, a woman stood up and sang in a beautiful voice. It was Michele Detwiler from Opera Idaho. She began singing a sultry passage from Bizet's Carmen, stopping for a moment to serenade the Mayor.Meanwhile, on the other side of the ballroom, her husband Jason Detwiler stood to join her in a duet. The musical stunt was met with generous applause.
The Ada County Commissioners would need to hear about it later.
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There's well-known and famous, and then there's notorious.
The same woman who wants your empathy this holiday season (because she is now resigned to a fate of living out her remaining years with 17 cats) doesn't deserve any after her attempts to fertilize herself without a man's consent failed. This neat little trick is called "sperm-jacking" where a woman reaches into the garbage and extracts the sperm from a discarded condom which an otherwise responsibly-behaved man used to protect himself, her, and the life of an unwanted child.
… or maybe she didn't want to swallow, so she politely excused herself to the bathroom, spit in her own hand and then fingered his load into herself while he was still under the haze of orgasm – unable to even IMAGINE that she could be in the next room pulling this unimaginable stunt. Yes. We know. Just the thought is utterly vile. So glad you agree.
Now she thinks she is "doing men a favor" by warning you there are virtually no limits to a woman's selfish strategies. Yet she failed to warn the man she pretended to "love", because you mean more to her than he ever did.
Try and conceptualize that one. It's OK. We'll wait.
She asks you to "spare a thought" for her this holiday season, and the millions of women like her. Here's a thought. After you thank whatever God you believe in that your mind doesn't even reach into that kind of evil, imagine if you were conceived this way. Imagine if your existence came about because she didn't want you to slide down the crack of her ass and end up as a brown stain on the mattress, so she "saved" you from the garbage can.
Nice. Thanks Mom. Happy Mothers Day. Have some flowers. And P.S. where's Dad?
The fact that it didn't work – more than once – is proof that nature repeatedly selected her for extinction. And rightly so. Once wasn't enough. She still didn't get the message. Not only did no man want to breed with her, but her own attempt at perpetuating more young against the will of father nature made certain she goes the way of the Dodo bird.
Gentlemen, guard your sperm like Fort Knox. Since it will cost you $250K to raise one child to 18, remind yourself: no orgasm is worth 216 monthly payments. You don't have to flush it and ruin your plumbing when you can put tabasco sauce in the condom to kill the sperm…. in case any one of millions of women like her ever tries this stunt, she will burn herself instead of you.
How satisfying would it be to hear own self-inflicted screams coming from the bathroom.


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As we find ourselves at the beginning of a New Year, suddenly everything is a year older; including our products, even something manufactured and labelled in December 2012 is suddenly one year old at a glance.
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I realise that some lines may not be your regular choice but you may be pleasantly surprised when you try something new!
I personally have checked the quality of anything aged beyond two years.
Remember, I would not send you these if I would not be willing to take them myself, as with most things, some age better than others and bad, rapid aging shows up in the appearance quite clearly. These are therefore excluded!
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I must admit to a kneejerk reaction to this op-ed in today's New York Times. The writer, Jaccques Leslie, accused Nevada's utility regulators of trying to scuttle the burgeoning solar industry in that sun-drenched state.
In late December, the state's Public Utilities Commission, which regulates Nevada's energy market, announced a rate change drastic enough to kill Nevada's booming rooftop solar market and drive providers out of the state. Effective Jan. 1, the new tariffs will gradually increase until they triple monthly fees that solar users pay to use the electric grid and cut by three-quarters users' reimbursements for feeding electricity into it.
Does that make you angry? What about the further accusation that nefarious politics was behind the deed? Blood boiling?
Well, what's really going on? As it happens, Nevada Energy, the huge investor-owned distribution utility, sought to increase its basic service charge to recover fixed costs imposed on all users of its electric grid. The state's PUC approved the increases. The changes will impact residential solar customers more than those who have not installed panels, since the fixed charges represent a larger portion of the retail bill than the variable energy component. While the increasing service charge will deter some customers who would have otherwise installed solar panels, I doubt that the increases will destroy Nevada's solar industry.
We customers of the Snohomish County PUD do not (yet) pay a service charge. The entire bill is based on multiplying two factors: a unit rate and total units (kilowatt-hours) consumed. Those who use more electricity contribute more to paying the fixed costs of the utility (e.g., salaries and equipment). Those who use less, including customers who have installed solar panels on their roofs, pay less toward those fixed costs.
Almost since I've been on the PUD Board of Commissioners I have advocated unbundling rates. I have long believed that fixed costs should be recovered through fixed fees (e.g., a basic service charge) and that the energy portion of our bills vary according to our consumption of electricity. The bill, then, would be divided, with both a fixed and variable component.
Let's make a hypothetical case. Suppose that a PUD customer consumes 1,000 kilowatt-hours in a month. Suppose further that the energy rate is 10 cents/kWh. Under the current structure the customer pays $100. That takes care of the electricity and the fixed distribution charges (all non-energy costs). As it happens, the fixed costs for the residential sector are about half of the total. The variable energy portion making up the other half.
Now we'll imagine the PUD's establishing a basic service charge to recover those fixed costs. The PUD would then lower the variable energy component to reflect the new basic charge.
The total bill would not change for this customer, should rates be unbundled.
But suppose that you are a solar customer. You've installed panels on your roof, for which you have received a rebate from the PUD to pay for some of the costs. Today, under bundled rates, your bill drops after the installation, because you are now generating some of your own electricity and you don't need to buy as many electrons from the utility. Again, you are not being charged a fixed fee for the non-energy costs you are really incurring. Yet, the PUD still needs to read your meter, pay for the trucks it uses, and the paychecks of its employees.
Now suppose that more and more customers decide to install solar panels. Those fixed costs do not go away. But the PUD is recovering fewer dollars, since electricity purchased from the grid declines, replaced with solar energy.
The PUD still has to pay its bills. It has two choices: raise everyone's bundled rate; or establish a fixed charge to recover some or all of the fixed costs.
In Nevada's case, where the sun shines more often than not, the aggregate reduction in electricity consumption was impacting the utilities' bottom line. Nevada Energy elected to raise its basic service charge, while, at the same time, lowering its variable energy charge. The regulatory commission approved the request. (You can see for yourself here.)
I, for one, do not want the PUD to get in the way of customers' desire to generate their own power. Indeed, the PUD encourages the installation of solar panels through its rebate program. Over time, however, as more customers switch to solar, the PUD will have to adjust. Again, I support unbundling the rate, instituting a fixed charge and a lower energy rate. In so doing, the utility recovers its costs and becomes economically indifferent to solar customers.
Also, the same logic applies to conservation. Those customers who take advantage of the PUD's programs or do so on their own, lower their energy bills. But those fixed utility costs remain. A basic service charge, combined with a lower energy rate, would more accurately reflect the utility's cost structure.


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Brad Fittler Names 20-Man Squad For Origin II
Brad Fittler has named an extended 20-man squad for the second State of Origin encounter.
Fittler named three new faces to the squad that got the job done in the opening Origin fixture, with Luke Keary, Matt Prior and Ryan James coming into the squad.
Prop Reagan Campbell-Gillard has been ruled out with a broken jaw.
Nick Cotric who was 19th man for Game I has been left out by Fittler.
NSW Blues Squad For Game II:
- Josh Addo-Carr (Melbourne Storm)
- Nathan Cleary (Penrith Panthers)
- Damien Cook (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
- Boyd Cordner (c) (Sydney Roosters)
- Angus Crichton (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
- Jack de Belin (St George Illawarra Dragons)
- Tyson Frizell (St George Illawarra Dragons)
- Ryan James (Gold Coast Titans)
- Luke Keary (Sydney Roosters)
- David Klemmer (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
- James Maloney (Penrith Panthers)
- Latrell Mitchell (Sydney Roosters)
- Tyrone Peachey (Penrith Panthers)
- Matt Prior (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
- James Roberts (Brisbane Broncos)
- Tariq Sims (St George Illawarra Dragons)
- James Tedesco (Sydney Roosters)
- Jake Trbojevic (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
- Tom Trbojevic (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
- Paul Vaughan (St George Illawarra Dragons)


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Arizona Coyotes: 2014—/
In 2014, the team changed its name from Phoenix to Arizona Coyotes. With that came a revised shoulder patch and the retirement of the black third jersey.
On March 5, 2015, the Coyotes wore their inaugural season uniform, last seen in 2003, for Throwback Night. It's been rumored the jersey may be used again in future seasons.


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Wicklow Archaeology
Mesolithic (Early 9,000 - 7,500 years ago; Later 7,500 - 5,000 years ago)
This is the period we know least about in this country. In Wicklow the first evidence of this period comes from numerous lithic scatters that were found in many ploughed fields and on beach sites. In Brittas bay evidence of lithics dating from the later Mesolithic were found, and over looking the bay on Wicklow head a Mesolithic burial in a cave site was uncovered. There have been some lithic scatters found in ploughed fields close to the coastline, but poor preservation has destroyed much of the potential for learning anything new about this period. Archaeologists traditionally think of this period as the time of the Hunter-gatherer. In the later Mesolithic in particular, the evidence suggests a life dominated by coastline living and the use of rivers. Most sites are ephemeral and suggest a mobile society. This period proves to be the most elusive for prehistoric archaeologists.
Neolithic & Bronze Age (5,200 years ago - 3,200 Years Ago)
The Neolithic is the period of time which archaeologists relate the beginning of civilisations in the Near East and the spread of farming, religion, and people from there throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa. Although there is evidence of cattle bone in Kerry, and in Dublin as early as 5th millennia BC, there is little evidence for actual farming practices. The 4th millennia BC is mysterious and most archaeologists believe farming practices were taking place in the earlier part of this millennia. The first conclusive evidence dates to about 3,200 BC, with the now famous monuments in the Boyne valley, such as Newgrange and Knowth being built. The landscape in the Neolithic became like an artists paradise, and the landscape has been monumentalised. The use of stone in tombs such as portal tombs, court tomb, passage tombs and linkardstown cists, not to mention the various standing stones and decorated rock. In the Neolithic people seem to be obsessed with sun worship. There are alignments with the four sections of the year. The winter and summer solstice, both sunrise and sunset, and also the equinox.
Wicklow was an important source of stone in these monuments. The grey wacky stones were taken from the Mountains and transported north to be used as a construction material in Newgrange. The mountains are full of cairns and standing stones, with rock art on some places close to Redcross. The Wicklow mountians were also a source of quartz that was used for decorative and ritual purposes.
Archaeologists like to divide and categorise by period, referring to technological or monument changes that are perhaps not really useful in understanding the peoples of the past. The appearance of metals like copper, gold and soon after, bronze were used by ancients peoples who began also create new monuments, but also to evolved their existing monuments. The stone circles began to appear, but also circles around existing monuments. The stone circle is prevalent in the landscape in Co. Wicklow. Wedge tombs are the most common monument throughout the country and often have a alignment with the setting sun on the winter solstice.
Recent excavations in Wicklow have found many grave sites and it seems that Ireland in the Later Bronze Age particularly had large populations. This is a trend found throughout the country.
The Iron Age
The Iron Age in Ireland is a bit of a mystery. In Ireland we have the Celtic language, Celtic traditions, but not much evidence archaeologically to support this reality. There is no hard evidnce of Celtic migrations into Ireland during the Iron Age. In fact in the Early Iron Age there is not much evidence for anything happening. Between the 6th and 3rd Centuries BC the archaeological evidence is scarce. There is some evidence in trackway dates from midland bogs, but nothing to suggest migrations of significant numbers of Celtic peoples into the country.
The Irish during this period changed their cultural and social organisation significantly and for some unknown reason they stop using pottery and favour making their utensils from wood. In wetland excavations wooden bowls have been found.
According to Irish myth recorded in a middle Irish text known as "The conquests of Ireland" The sons of Mile (Milesians), supposed ancestors of the modern Irish, came to Ireland and found it unpopulated. The previous occupants of the country, called the Tuatha De Danaan (Children of Danaan), had gone 'underground', leaving the land to Mile and his sons. Perhaps there is some truth to this story.
Ogham Stones
Ogham stones are found mainly in the east and south of the country, but are believed to have been manafactured in the south-west, in modern day County Kerry. The origin of the Ogham language is unclear, but in myth and legend there are many references to this written language. According to myth the written language was given to man by the God Ogminios. The God of eloquence. The letters in the alphabet are named after trees and plants of Ireland.


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Tuesday, 25 February 2014
It's getting hot in here; Salsa ♥♥
22 comments
I love salsa! I took a class about a year ago and it was fun but still awkward cuz had to dance with random people in the class. lol. I tried zumba but the classes are too crowded. I'd like to do salsa again tho!ReplyDelete
- Andrea
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Lol yea the random people bit is awkward but it definitely is a great class.Delete
Thanks for the award, I'll definitely check it out xx
I dont dance, i cant even dance lol but i love watching salsa!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Loool you should try it at least before you totally give up on it :)Delete
- Anonymous28 February 2014 at 08:23
nice post dear ! xxReplyDelete
I'm definitely a disgrace to my own race lol, I cannot dance to save my life. Plus on top of that I got no booty. Why god, why haha.ReplyDeleteReplies
Loooool don't worry, your time is coming xxDelete
Aw, I've always wanted to take a salsa class. How fun!! :)ReplyDelete
xo TJ
Yea you should deffo go xxDelete
i find salsa kinda sexy. i dunno why. it looks lots of fun! ;)ReplyDelete
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My mum used to go to salsa all the time and sometimes id join in! Its great fun but i'd deffo agree it can be awkward sometimes!!ReplyDelete
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The charms of Dubai property :: Money Week
No exit strategy, no evacuation plan. Financially and physically
UPDATE: nzm recommends Dubai Property News.
I wouldn't put a penny of my money into Dubai, says Stuart Law of investment property firm Assetz in The Independent. "It's a city based on consumerism. I'm not sure that guarantees its role as a long-term holiday home location. I wouldn't buy there."
. . .
According to a spokesperson for Standard Chartered Bank, also in The Independent, "development of the Palms, Dubai Marina, Business Bay and Arabian Ranches, to name just a few [schemes], is going to boost supply in the coming five years in dramatic fashion. To us, this suggests that a decline in property prices is just a matter of time."
Kevin Fleury, a mortgage broker specialising in overseas loans at Conti Financial Services, agrees. He tells The Times that when investing in property abroad, an exit strategy is needed. With Dubai, though, there isn't one. "There is a severe danger that there will be an oversupply because so much is being built. This will suppress rents and capital growth, and I think many people will find it difficult to sell."
Even when it comes to selling a home, the vendor will face additional problems. Dubai may well have just granted the right to own freehold properties to expatriates, but "there is no conveyancing system for property purchases", says Gill Kerby in The Sunday Times. "The developers and agents offer to undertake all contract exchanges on your behalf (not a good idea)."
. . .
"Palm Jumeirah is a peninsula, with one way in and out," says William Kistler, European President of the Urban Land Institute. He tells The Daily Telegraph that "the question of how the road provision is going to connect into the transit infrastructure is something that we have got a not very satisfactory answer to".
. . .
The only road from the resort (down the palm's trunk) leads directly to Dubai's main highway, the Sheikh Zayed Road, where traffic "moves as slowly as water down a blocked drain", says Kistler. People were wondering whether the infrastructure was sustainable even before they built the Palm Jumeirah. Although two new road projects are planned for the area, so too are 100 residential towers, accommodating up to 40,000 people.
The reason for the extra towers seems to be that Nakheel, the property development company owned by the Dubai government, grossly underestimated the number of properties that would be built on the palm-shaped idyll, says The Daily Telegraph. The result makes scary reading. According to a former construction worker for the company, the current plan has 150,000 people living there, "but there are no medical facilities and no evacuation plan in place".
UPDATE: nzm recommends Dubai Property News.


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Tabatha's 4 Biggest Business Mistakes
The Bravoleb breaks it down.
Tabatha Coffey's been taking over everything in sight on Season 4 of Tabatha Takes Over, and she's beginning to see a pattern. Tabatha talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her the biggest mistakes a business owner can make.
So what's the most obvious sign that a place is in trouble? Uh, dirt. She said, "It's the first thing that's in your face [...] I think that says a lot about the pride that people take in the business."
Tabatha also thinks lack of leadership is major (but not in a fun, Rachel Zoe-ish kind of way), observing, "Sometimes, they check out because everything gets so overwhelming. They don't know how to deal with it, so they kind of check out of their business and they're not really present in it – either physically or mentally – and then they're not running it."
Tabs added, "You need to have a good product. I don't care what business it is, you have to have a good product."
Finally, Tabatha thinks you have such a pretty face, would it kill you to smile every once in a while? She explains, "It's a customer service industry, you have to be nice to people. And it's free. It's easy to smile at someone, it's easy to acknowledge them, it's easy to ask how their day is. And that's for any business."
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Chapter 4
vedyaḿ vāstavam atra vastu śivadaḿ tāpa-trayonmūlanam
śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte kiḿ vā parair īśvaraḥ
sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate 'tra kṛtibhiḥ śuśrūṣubhis tat-kṣaṇāt
[Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhagavata Purana propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyasadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.](SB 1.1.2)
[O expert and thoughtful men, relish Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Therefore this fruit has become even more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated souls.] (SB 1.1.3)
[Maharajji sings]
purnendu mukha aravinda netra
krsnat param kimapi tatwam aham na janeh
Sri Kṛṣṇa sharanam samasta jagatam
Krsnam vina ka jatih
Krsneha pratihanyate kalimalam Krsnaya karyam ..
Krsnat trasyati kala bhima bhujago
Krsnasya sarvam vashe
Krsne bhaktir akhanditah bavatume
Bho Kṛṣṇa tvam eva ashraya (3)
Ananta kandarpa kala vilasam
Kishore chandram rasikendu shekharam
Syamam maha sundarata vidhanam
Sri Kṛṣṇa chandram sharanam gatosmi (3)
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is pure history
[We also fall in the same state.] That we have crossed over all the oceans. We have travelled to so many foreign countries. Since last so many years, we are earning here, nice life is here and even then we feel something is short. [Ordinary public do not understand why they are in sorrow, even after possessing so many things. Why we need to suffer from diseases? Why do we have to face problems? This we cannot understand at all. And to counteract this, with mental concoction, we have invented many ways. One of those ways is that of a psychiatrist. We have mental doctors. They are also doctors and fix the mind. And the psychiatrist themselves dont have a stable mind. They are also mental. Those who are on the platform of mann, that is called in English as "mental". In Hindi what do we call "mental"…"pagal", "manasik", "related to mind." That mind (which focuses in Krsna's lotus feet) that is the simple way. Savai manah Kṛṣṇa padarvindayo. This is a simple path. This mind has no other job. This should not have any other thoughts, but for Krsna's pastimes. And those who understand this (concept), they also have lot of doubts. Our mind does not get convinced, that now we have this grave problem, how will taking the name of Kṛṣṇa solve the issue. So, we refrain from that (chanting), thinking … "It is given in sastras that if good happens then I'll take it, however, now I am in trouble, so I'll look for some other solution." We are stuck with this kind of ignorance.] We have just entangled ourselves more and more into the obnoxious material atmosphere. [This is the material atmosphere… like falling into a mud pool. In our Israel, there are mud pools. And one who takes bath there, he becomes healthy. So, many people visit there and fall into the mud pool. It is such that, the more you try, the more you get stuck. It is same in material manifestation. However hard you try to get out, the more you will sink. Because, one there is psychiatrist, another time welfare offices, many government have also come up with many solutions. And there are other institutions also that have come up with many solutions. Somebody tells to worship the gods, some tell to worship the goddesses, every one has some suggestion. We agree to do (as they say)… because we get mad "Why we are pursued by these troubles even though we have so many solutions"]
What was Narada Muni's solution to Vyasadeva dissatisfaction?
[Vyasa Bhagavan had similar condition at the beginning. He used to sit and think that, "I have written so much, even then why there is discontent in my heart?"]
[Vyasadeva thought] "Why am I dissatisfied?"
[Then his guru maharaj, Narada Muni, came to him and he explained, "Look, you wrote a lot however, so far you have not glorified Bhagavan. That is the cause of your discontent."
[Vyasadeva has written srnvatam. You please listen to sva-kathah, because Kṛṣṇa is sitting in everyone's heart. sarvaysa chaham sanyee vishto, this he experienced that as a supersoul, He is existing everywhere, is there in everyone's heart. If He is glorified then sva-katha, He listens to His own story, and gives us bliss. Is it not blissful? If someone sings your story then we are so much blissful. Similarly, is the case with Bhagavan. As soon as He listens, He gets blissful, and when the supersoul is blissful, then the soul is also blissful. And when he bliss emanates from there, then the body discomfort reduces. This arrangement to remain blissful is there in us, this we don't know this.]
Pleasing Kṛṣṇa pleases everyone
[This is being explaining to Vyasadeva, that, "Please somehow, please sing the glories of the Bhagavan, so that everyone becomes peaceful." yasmin tuste sarvan evam tustam bhavati. If he is peaceful, then everyone will be peaceful.]
So, Duryodhana observed that "He is a very good angry type of person. If I serve him very nicely and please him, then my purpose, of destroying Pandavas, will be accomplished."
So he served him very nicely.
So Durvasa was very pleased, he said: "Son, you have served me very nicely. Please ask something from me".
He (Duryodhana) wanted just that. He was in a lookout of what to ask from him such that Pandavas will be destroyed, such that I need not have to fight with them. If the Pandavas are destroyed, then the kingdom would be mine. Then there won't be anyone to disturb him.
So he said: "Maharaj, by your mercy I have everything. I don't require anything. However, please have mercy on my elder brother Yudhisthira, who lives in the jungle, and he greatly desires that to Brahmins visit him. So, you please make sure to visit him, however, make sure that, our Draupadi bhabhi is not in trouble. Visit them only when bhabhi (sister-in-law, Draupadi) has finished taking prasad."
So Durvasa wondered: "He is a very good person. He even does not want to trouble his bhabhi at all."
However, Duryodhana wanted exactly opposite. However, the people who get angry are very foolish. They don't understand. All they have is anger. So this Durvasa had less intelligence.
He thought: "He is very good man. How you are worrying about Yudhisthira and Draupadi. I will do just as you say. I'll go after she takes the prasad".
So, what Duryodhana thought that if Draupadi will take prasad, then she will not be able to feed Durvasa. Then Durvasa will get angry and curse Pandavas.
One day Durvasa visited them, after everyone had taken prasad.
So Yudhisthira was very welcoming. Said: "Maharaj, please come, it is very auspicious day that you have come here. Please tell how to serve you?"
"We are going to take bath in the Ganges with my 10,000 disciples. When we'll return then make sure you have prasad (for all of us)".
Yudhisthira came to Daupadi, "He has come with 10,000 disciples, and there is nothing in kitchen?"
She said: "What have you done? He has 10,000 shishya and there is nothing in kitchen. What have you done? I have just taken prasad and so there can be no further Prasad coming from akshay patram, what to do?"
"This is your problem. I have called them. You do what you have to do.", said Yudhishthira.
Poor lady started praying to the Bhagavan. Whoever has pure mind and character, Bhagavan agrees to their request. If even after taking His name, whatever trouble we get is because of our deficiencies. He does not give us trouble. Regarding karma, Bhagavan does not interfere. That is why, if we need Lord's mercy and blessings, then our daily activities should be very pure. There should not be any bad thoughts in the mind, because first we think in our minds and after that we act. So please remember this.
So Bhagavan listened to Draupadi's prayers. Bhagavan while taking prasad at Rumini's palace, stood up.
So Rukmini asked "What is the matter?"
He told: "My devotee is in trouble, have to go"
She told: "Bhatka always have difficulty. Please sit and go after taking your prasad."
"No I will have to go urgently", and immediately left.
"Will see devotee's problems later"
It was not the case with Krsna. He takes such good care of the devotees there is no doubt about this. All we have to do is to do bhakti, that's all.
So He [Kṛṣṇa] came down and told to Draupadi: "I am hungry. If there is some prasad for me, please give."
Draupadi told: "We have called you for that? There is nothing here, from where can I feed you? What are you talking about? Durvasa has come, has now gone for a bath (our good luck) with his 10,000 disciples, so they will take some time to take bath. When they return, the prasad must be ready. However, I have already taken prasad. I have washed and kept the akshaya patram. Now there is nothing in it"
So Bhagavan insisted a lot that: "Bring the akshay patram"
She brought the akshay patra, said: "There is nothing in there"
There was one bhaji leaf stuck on the side. Bhagavan took out the same and ate. "Oh oh oh very good!" He was satisfied.
asmin tushte. When Bhagavan is satisfied, then there 10,000 disciples while bathing in the Ganges started burping right there.
The Durvasa was amazed. "What is this? What are you doing?"
"Now our stomach is full"
"What are you talking about? We have to visit Yudhisthira's place to take prasad."]
[Please, we have to experience ups and downs in our lives, however, whether you can do anything or not, (atleast) chant Bhagavan's names. One-two mala (rounds) of Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahamantra. And if possible, there are two chapters in Bhagavad-gītā – 12th and 15th. Today you heard 15th chapter on Puruṣottama-yoga. And 12th is related to Bhakti-yoga. If you speak these two chapters then you will get mercy of the Lord, and problems will go away, just like it did, in case of the Pandavas. And always keep strong sraddha in this. We do these discussions in order to develop strong sraddha. Because many times we are under the influence of (material) nature, our faith starts dwindling on daily basis. We have much increased our artificial necessities of life. However much we decrease our desires, that much we will be peaceful and satisfied. Our youths, the young persons must please understand the Vedic instruction.]
Please don't increase your artificial necessities. In no way they are going to help you. If you increase your artificial necessities, then you will have to earn more money to cope with your artificial necessities. [If you are very simple, then that much money spending will decrease. And as much your spending will decrease, that much your anxieties and worries will decrease.]
How to reduce our difficulties and become completely satisfied?
Please, please you have to take this torch in your hand. We may be here for sometime here and there. Our time is over, we have to pack off. And you have to carry on this torch otherwise our Vedic culture will be completely destroyed. And this was the burning desire in Prabupada's heart and somehow or the other he caught hold of all young persons. He never talked to the middle aged. He thought that if I can catch the younger generation, they will carry on my Vedic culture further and is happening now. There are so many difficulties already, always when we go on the right path there is always difficulties. But don't worry about the difficulties. You people are young. You can tolerate any difficulties. Please try to come to this. Don't leave Bhagavad-gītā in the beginning. You must go through Bhagavad-gītā intensely. And as soon as you getting somehwere in Bhagavad-gītā; from Bhagavad-gītā you can go to Bhagvatam, Srimad Bhagvatam. There are so many verses quoted by Prabhupāda in his purports. Please try to go then to Bhagvatam and this is the way we can reduce our difficulties and be completely satisfied.
When Ashwasthama killed Draupadi's five sons, they were sleeping in the tent, and he wanted to kill the Pandavas. Duryodhna was helplessly lying because he was hit by Bheema on the battlefield. And he was nearly dying. So Ashwasthama loved Duryodhana very much. So he thought "I should perform some act by which Duryodhana will be satisfied." Immediately he went to the tent and he thought that 5 pandavas were sleeping and in the sleep he murdered the whole lot. From the beginning of the history, millions of years ago, these acts of terrorism, is going on. It's not only now. Now we are very advanced, we are using planes. But the thing is by these acts we must improve our own quality of the existence.
Today somebody rang from America and he said that one priest there he very nicely found out the reason why these activities are happening and he quoted two things -homosexuality and the abortions. Yesterday we talked about it. And because of these sinful activities, we have to face these things. So the whole mob was very angry with him. They went to beat him. Eventually he had to apologize that please I am wrong and you are correct, we must retaliate. This is our culture we are completely degraded. Whenever there is some act which we don't approve then we try to retaliate and the retaliation is very bad. And even now somehow or the other there is no retaliation. Now they are trying very hard, but this is not the way. The priest was very correct. He was the only one in America who told them correct thing and he was hounded out. This is the general tendency. [We do not understand at all that we have to improve our actions, then other things will stop.] We want to stop by force [and that is impossible.] This is what we want to learn from the pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Somehow or the other we should come to this point;
[That is puran. And that's why it is not malla , full of malla, its not dirty.] Our history is dirty because they are fighting for their own cause. That's the difficulty. And because of this it was very difficult to improve the quality of human existence by reading the ordinary history. It's very difficult. That's why everywhere it is recommended that we must find out time and go through these transcendental literatures. As soon as we think about it, then we find out so many things out of these scriptures, and everyday if you go on again and again and again to these literatures you take out the gems out of it. Otherwise your life becomes sinful. And this is how Vyasa Bhagavan corrected himself and tried to glorify the Lord through all the pages of the Bhāgavatam. And then he was completely satisfied. Our life also is full of so many miseries and so many problems. Everyday there are new problems. That is the way of the material existence. So we have to reduce the problems. By any other method you try to reduce, they will increase. They won't reduce at all. Only one method is there, that if you come to God-Krsna, and [you] try to glorify Him through your heart, then only we will be reducing our problems. This is the high road.
tarko 'pratisthah srutayo vibhinna
nasav rsir yasya matam na bhinnam
dharmasya tattvam nihitam guhayam
[Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, "'Dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated, self-realized person. Consequently, as the sastras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahajanas advocate.'"]( CC Madhya 17.186)
mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. All great sages-saints they have travelled on this path and they have showed again and again. There is no need of carrying the research. I'ts already decided.
etan nirvidyamananam icchatam akuto-bhayam
yoginam nrpa nirnitam harer namanukirtanam
[O King, constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord after the ways of the great authorities is the doubtless and fearless way of success for all, including those who are free from all material desires, those who are desirous of all material enjoyment, and also those who are self-satisfied by dint of transcendental knowledge.](SB 2.1.11)
It's nirnayatam - it is decided truth.
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Very excited to announce that Jennifer Maas' documentary Wheedle's Groove, which documents Seattle's soul and funk scene in the late 1960s to early 1970s and the story of its rediscovery, is now available everywhere in the UK! Sit tight North America and the rest of the World…you'll be seeing copies in shops in your areas in the next two weeks. For now, check out what Mojo Magazine had to say out the film in the March 2011 issue (Cliff's notes verion: it got 4 stars!) and be sure to check back tomorrow for more Wheedle's Groove goodies!
Wheedle's Groove Official Trailer from Jennifer Maas on Vimeo.


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I'm a University of Edinburgh alumni. I read History there and remember those four years fondly. Edinburgh is a fantastic place to study, especially if you love history, as the city is one big open air museum.
Highlights for me were Teviot Row Union - it looks like something straight out of Harry Potter. The quiet calm of the Old College quad and the statue of John Knox that stood watch over goings on in the New College quad. There were also the leafy gardens on George Square where I loafed around when the weather was nice. As a book nerd I adored the university library and used to love immersing myself in the never ending rows of books.
Not so much fun were the 10 flights of stairs I had to climb up David Hume tower to get to my Scottish History tutorials. I was afraid of the tiny wee lift that was always crammed full of students.
I feel hugely proud and privileged to have studied at such a first class university in such a wonderful city - which incidentally is my beautiful hometown!


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Archive for June, 2011
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision30 June 2011
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. – Henry Miller
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride Do you30 June 2011
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. – Moliere
The customer doesnt expect everything will go right al30 June 2011
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. – Sir Colin Marshall
A gift be it a present a kind word or a job done wit30 June 2011
A gift – be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love – explains itself!… and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. – Alice Childress
A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alo29 June 2011
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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As an appropriate prelude to Restaurant Week here in Portland, semifinalists for Outstanding Restaurant and Chef Awards from the James Beard Foundation have been announced, and Portland is proudly represented. Fore Street has been nominated for "Outstanding Restaurant" and their chef, Sam Hayward for "Outstanding Chef." Demos Regas from Emilitsa is in the running for "Best Chef – Northeast" as is Krista Kern Desjarlais from Bresca.
Once again, Portland has positioned itself among the best of the best of the foodie world thanks to these great restaurants and chefs. GOOD LUCK to the semifinalists and enjoy the amazing offerings during restaurant week – and all year long!
Judges from across the country will present a final list of nominees on March 21.


text: Life is an endless journey. A journey that we begin once we come into our own. Once we realise our essence and our individuality. Once we truly accept who we are and look at the possibilities of what we can become. We then start setting goals for ourselves. From little things like getting a prefect's badge to bigger things like getting into an institute you have been dreaming about, the goals get bigger and bigger. Once each attempt has been deemed a success or a failure, we move on to the next one. It is the adrenaline of looking forward to something, which keeps us going. We need a meaning, a purpose and a cause to strive for. The rush that you feel when something goes right is like no other. And the immense pain when it doesn't makes you learn to try harder till you get it right. At every stage, each person is faced with a crossroad. He must choose where he wants to go. The intricate web of each path is interwoven with our own individual destinies. At every instance in life, our destinies cross with those of other people's. Every contact leaves us with something that is indelible. A gesture, a quirk, a characteristic and emotions related to each of these gives rise to memories.


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Korean pop sensation Girls' Generation will hold their first-ever showcase in Japan next week, according to their agency SM Entertainment on Thursday.
SM announced in a press release that the girls will be performing in front of their local fans at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan on August 25.
The showcase was originally scheduled to take place on one date but has been extended by two more performances, expecting to gather a total 20,000 fans to their first official event in the country.
Attendees for the showcase will be purchasers of the group's DVD titled "'少女時代到 ~日記念盤~New Beginning of Girls' Generation," which was released in the country on August 11, to celebrate their debut into the Japanese music industry.
The DVD placed at No. 3 on the prestigious Oricon's weekly DVD chart and fourth place on the overall chart, making them the first Korean girl group to have their first DVD to rank in the top 5 slots.
Meanwhile, the girls will release "Genie" as their first Japanese single, which will be produced in both Japanese and Korean, on September 8 while the teaser video will be unveiled on the official Universal Music Japan YouTube channel tomorrow.
Girls' Generation, who began their music career in 2007, have numerous No. 1 hit songs under their belts including, "Girls' Generation," "Gee," "Genie" and "Run Devil Run."
Last year, they performed in several countries in Asia such as China, Shanghai and Thailand for their "1st ASIA TOUR CONCERT – Into the New World."
The girls are also preparing for the "SMTOWN LIVE '10 WORLD TOUR" which will kick off in Seoul on August 21 with other SM artists.
credit: Asiae.co.kr