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I haven't read all of Toni Morrison's books, but I have read several, and this was, by far, the best. She honed the prose to a razor sharp edge that cut you to the core. You felt the characters' breath on your face as they lifted out of the book and into your mind and heart.
I first read this book about 20 years ago, but it only gets richer with every reading. This fable-like story takes place in Meridian, Ohio (a fictional town which may be a play on the fact that the first meridian on the 1819 plat maps was in Ohio). The place where the blacks settled in Meridian is called "the bottom" even though it resides in the hills. It is a place of hard scrabble land an no industry from which the inhabitants might find jobs, nor are they allowed to work even decent paying manual labor. Those jobs are always filled by lower class whites, even when they have to be imported from outside the state. All the well fleshed out characters in this book are women, and are comprised of several generations in two families. With the exception of Sula, none are more than minimally educated. Although Sula is the named character, Morrison does not make her the focus until more than half way through and, to me, she was no more interesting than two of the other characters. Sula is very independent, but she's twisted the idea of independence to suit herself and justly suffers by it. Her grandmother, Eva, and her mother, Hannah, both have independence, too, but they employ it in such different fashions, without injuring others.
This book is so rich and the characters are so unusual and fascinating that I fear spoiling the plot for others. All I dare add is that it is book which should be read with reverence for the incredible craft and power of it.
Excellent, surreal and moving. Morrison's prose is elegant and crushing at once, like little bits of glass hidden in your dinner. A moving story about scorn,love and the way the world drifts around us.
High school and collage are students should give this book a chance.
Sula is the story of two women, Nel and Sula who meet as young girls in the Bottom, a poor African American hillside community above the town of Medallion, Ohio. Growing up together they quickly become friends, sharing good times, laughs and secrets. Although they are best friends, they approach life very differently. Nel grows up in a traditional household and lives her life closely following society's rules and expectations. She marries right after high school and quickly settles into life as a wife and mother. Sula, who is raised by her one legged grandmother (who somehow gains a fortune at the price of her leg) and loose mother, leaves the Bottom right after Nel's wedding to go to college. She lives away from the Bottom, never settling down, but having many relationships with various men, including white men. Eventually, she returns to the Bottom and her friendship continues with Nel. However, things happen that strain their relationship and eventually end their friendship.
The story is beautifully narrated by the author. Listening to it definitely makes it feel like a fable or one of those stories passed down generation to generation. There are many parts that looking back on them, don't quite make sense or seem disconnected, but the narration flows beautifully and it feels like a story that should be told aloud. Interesting themes in this book relating to good vs evil, or how society associates conventional with good and unconventional as evil.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0452263492, Paperback)Book Description Publication Date: 1982 | Series: Plume Amazon.com Review: In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s. As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself." Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg
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Traces the lives of two African American women from their youth in small-town Georgia, through divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
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"The sicker you are the more likely you are to have a longer length of stay. If half of your patients aren't local, it's hard to get patients home," he said.
According to Truwit, faster release times at local hospitals don't always reflect infections or complications. Truwit says UVA is making strides to improve and patients can expect to notice that in a number of areas.
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House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp's tax reform plan released this week makes for good political theater but offers such a radical shift of today's tax code, few Washington insiders believe it can make headway in its current form this year.
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We need to move to a consumption tax and trash the entire tax code as it exists. Provide a credit to pay no tax at all on spending up to the poverty line and tax all consumption of goods & services after that. No income taxes personal or corporate, no capital gains taxes, no entities to create to play the tax games, no K-1's, no payroll tax, no deductions or credits, and when you die no estate taxes - get rid of it all. It would be a high rate of tax on what you buy, but think about how simple it would be compared to what we have now, and you only pay tax when you can afford to spend. Huge incentive to save or invest in things that create jobs rather than just spend until you're broke. There would be a lot of attorneys with nothing to do, but everyone would be able to plan their future knowing exactly what they will pay tax on and when. Politicians wouldn't like it as they will have no "goodies" like tax credits, write-off's, etc to reward their supporters with, so it would be a tough sell in Congress, but it's the "fairest" tax plan possible in my opinion.
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It's been few weeks since Kunai and Keroro had been living with the Hinata Family. Fuyuki and Natsumi were at school and Aki was at her job while the two aliens; Kunai and Keroro were doing house chores. However, the sparrow alien keeps his distance from the green Keronian in the past few weeks and kept an eye on Keroro to make sure the frog alien won't try anything funny. Kunai just finish dusted the house and was in Fuyuki's room, trying to contract his comrades.
"Kunai Platoon! Can you read me? Come in, Kunai Platoon!" Kunai depressingly exclaimed at his transmitter, but he gets no receive from any of his friends.
He sighed when he turned off the transmitter. "...It's been weeks now and I still haven't heard from any of my comrades... I'm hope they're okay." Kunai pray for his friends' safety, walks out of the room and heads downstairs to check on Keroro.
Kunai heard a familair laugh...
"Gero-gero-gero-gero... Curse those Pekopon people... I will now show them my true strength de arimasu."
Kunai stops at the doorway from the living room and takes a peek to see what Keroro is doing.
"I am the one they call number one in the universe..."
Kunai then see something green on a long and blue thing leap from near the couches in the air and lands on the floor. The small green figure did a salute on the blue thing... "Sergeant Keroro de arimasu!"
Kunai just look away and quietly sighs at Keroro with annoyances, "There he goes again... Acting all powerful and brave when he's only using the vacuum."
Which it was kinda true. Keroro sometimes quietly schemes on the vacuum about using something to invade, but always afterward 'Just kidding!' and all. Kunai soon began to doubt that Keroro is truly dangerous, but keeps his guard up for his and the Hinata Family safety.
He then hears Keroro exclaiming, "Gero! The newest weapon of the Pekopons! If you let me use the low-energy ecological vacuum cleaner then no one else in the universe can compare de arimasu! Not even that bird, Major Kunai Sparrow!" Kunai then hears the sound of the vacuum cleaner.
Kunai opens the door to see what Keroro is doing and spot him riding and controlling on the vacuum cleaner. Kunai admits one thing, Keroro is a very good cleaner.
"What are you doing now?" Kunai asked, raising right eyebrow at Keroro.
"Just preparing to use the most powerful weapon of Pekopon de arimasu!" Keroro answered with pride, still on the vacuum.
Kunai sighs at Keroro's behavior and went to the kitchen to make himself some tea. Tea always calm Kunai's nerves now and then. Just when the sparrow alien was about to jump on the counter, he hears the living room door opening and very soon hears a loud screaming of shock of a girl.
Kunai looks at the doorway to see a funny sight; Keroro using the vacuum hose with Natsumi's uniform skirt nearly getting suck in with the girl blushing with embarrassment and anger at Keroro.
/...Well, this is new.../ Kunai thought with humor.
Keroro innocently say, "Lady Natsumi, welcome home de arimasu!"
"The switch! Turn off the switch!" Natsumi cried as she tries to pull her skirt back from the vacuum.
Keroro looked confuse and thinks a bit, "Huh? The switch, is it? But..."
"Hurry up, you stupid frog!" Natsumi angrily shouted.
Keroro gasps, feeling insulted, "Stupid frog is too harsh de arimasu!"
Natsumi then exclaims, "Fine, I'll just turn it off myself!" She see a power button and tries to hit it with her foot, but the vacuum somehow dodge her kick.
"The cleaning is not finished yet de arimasu!" Keroro shouted as the vacuum moves in the air with him on it.
Natsumi tries again, but instead pushes the vacuum, missing the off button. Natsumi keeps kicking to reach the off switch as the vacuum keeps on moving and Keroro hang on to it.
/I never would have thought the vacuum cleaner had so much fighting capability./ Keroro thought.
Kunai suddenly leaps in to help Natsumi and grabs the vacuum hose, trying to pull it away from Natsumi's skirt. "Okay, okay! Would you please calm down?" Kunai shouted at Natsumi as he dodge her feet when Natsumi still keep kicking at the vacuum.
"How can I calm down with this stupid frog attacking me with the vacuum?" Nastumi angrily cried, still kicking at vacuum, nearly kicking at Kunai.
"Watch the legs!" Kunai shouted when he was almost got kick by Natsumi.
Suddenly, the front door burst open and soon the living room door quickly flies open to reveal Fuyuki, holding the Kero Ball.
"Teleportation!" Fuyuki shouted then quickly pushes one of the buttons of the Kero Ball. However, instead doing teleport, the Kero Ball shoot out electricity at the two aliens, electrifying them full blast of 10,000 volts!
Both Keroro and Kunai screams and cries out in great pain as they fully shock as Fuyuki quickly realize he pushed the wrong button on Kero Ball, looking very sorry and kinda saying 'Oops'.
Keroro crashes on the floor front first as Kunai collapse on the floor on his back, both crisp and burnt.
((A/N: That must've hurt a lot...))
"S-Sorry, I got it wrong again." Fuyuki spoke, feeling awful for pushing the wrong button. Fuyuki is still trying to figure out how the Kero Ball work, but still working on it. "Teleportation is this one, and electrocution is this one... No, wait..."
Natsumi was busying poking at Keroro and Kunai, checking to see if they're alive or something.
Kunai quietly thought in his head, /Living here with them will be the death to me.../ He then groans with agony.
Keroro suddenly lifts his upper a bit, staring at Fuyuki, "Master Fuyuki, I would appreciate it if you were more careful de arimasu. That Kero Ball possesses the power to destroy all of Pekopon." He warned and reminded Fuyuki.
Fuyuki stares at the weapon he holds with awed and caution after Keroro told him.
Keroro shook off the burnt and crisp off of himself and hops on the couch that is close to Fuyuki. "So, now that you understand, hurry and return it to me de arimasu." He said to the boy, holding his right hand out for the Kero Ball.
Kunai quickly shook the burnt and crisp his feathers and grabs Keroro by the head, holding the frog alien up to his height and slightly glaring at the green Keronian, "Not gonna happen, you so call invader. I already gave permission for the Hinatas to hold on so you can't use it."
Natsumi stood up, saying to Keroro, "The bird is right. We'll take care of it for you, just like we've been doing in the pass few weeks."
Keroro gasps and exclaims a bit with a dread look on his face as Kunai sets Keroro back the couch.
"More importantly, you two still have to clean the bath, right?" Natsumi reminded the aliens. "If you guys slack off, you guys won't get any dinner."
Keroro gasps a bit, "Gero! What is for dinner?" as he blush with excitement. Keroro grew to like Natsumi's cooking.
Natsumi smiles a bit, "It's beef stew."
Keroro cheers as he spins around with glee, "Alright! Lady Natsumi's beef stew is the best de arimasu!" he shake his behind a bit and salutes to Natsumi, "Me and Master Bird will put all our efforts into it, and make everything sparkling clean de arimasu!"
Kunai just looks at Keroro with interest of the frog alien's child-like behavior. He still kinda disbelief and shock to see that Keroro is sergeant and the leader of the platoon. However, he still keeps his guard up for the Hinata family's safety.
Kunai leaps off the couch, "Okay, let's this cleaning over with..." He spoke as he leaves the living room and heads to the bathroom.
Keroro follows after Kunai in pursuit, "Yes sir, Birdy!"
"And don't call me 'Birdy'!" Kunai shouted with annoyance from the hallways.
"Gero! I'm sorry, Master Bird!" Keroro cried with fright.
The Hinata siblings could hear Kunai groan of frustration.
Natsumi sighs a bit then got ready to make dinner as Fuyuki chuckles a bit at Kunai reaction when Keroro call the bird alien 'Birdy'.


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AbstractPlenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable Economic advancement of the Indian sub-continent, with Self- sufficiency in Agriculture, leaving a surplus for export and strides in Industry, Atomic Research, and Space Exploration in India. The author feels that these unique thoughts and approaches of the late Prime Minister could serve as an eye-opener to all the Third World Nations to Accelerate their pace of Social and Economic development. ================================================================ Between 1972 and 1981, the author was a Social worker in India, and a Honorary Consultant for the effective implementation and monitoring of the 20 Point Socio-Economic Development programs designed by Shrimathi Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India. Centre page article by DR.VSRS in the Barbados Advocate, the largest circulated Daily in Barbados, West Indies, and the English speaking Caribbean Countries. Page 4 - Tuesday - January 8, 1985. During 1982 - 1986, the author was a "Consultant Adviser - Computer Services", to the Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, West Indies ( World Bank / UNDP Setup ), under nomination from his assignment as the "Data Processing Expert" to the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co- operation, London, UK.
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UGI Utilities Inc., through The Foundation of the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce, recently awarded a $15,000 grant to the Bloomsburg University Foundation in support of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Magnet Program for local high school students. The funding amount was a result of Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) contributions.
UGI and The Foundation of the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce joined PPL, U.S. Gypsum, Merck, Kawneer-Alcoa and the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation as partners with BU in providing credit-bearing college coursework in the STEM disciplines for high-achieving high school juniors and seniors. Starting with the 2014-2015 academic year, the program will have two areas of focus: engineering and the health sciences. It also will give students interested in math or other sciences the tools needed to be successful in college.
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***** Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy. By Tom Patterson and Scott Gleeson Blue; published by Addison-Wesley Professional and Symantec Press, www.awprofessional.com (Web); 432 pages; $34.99.
In today's business environment, meeting customer expectations is critical to staying competitive. And as companies increasingly place operations such as IT design and customer service offshore in the interest of cutting costs, new security concerns arise. In Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy, authors Tom Patterson and Scott Gleeson Blue offer a holistic view of what today's chief security officers must consider when protecting corporate interests during partnerships with foreign companies. As the title promises, Patterson and Blue draw a map toward these goals, via a three-pronged method: a risk-management approach to global security practices; a practical method for sizing country risk and developing a risk profile; and an inventory of best practices for managing legal, technological and cultural issues as they apply to security.
According to Patterson and Blue, security professionals must become more proactive planners by literally mapping security within core business operations. Patterson and Blue stress the importance of the CSO taking both a geographical and industry perspective when considering countries' security standards, laws, and regulations.
Mapping Security continues by discussing security's integration into operations, resulting in enhanced processes, improved efficiencies, and risk reduction to employees and assets. Leveraging technology not only improves security, Patterson and Blue explain, but it also ultimately improves operational effectiveness in supply chain management, human resources, finance, and customer relationship management. In fact, the authors consider technology as an opportunity to create virtual relationships among core processes and functional areas while applying appropriate controls.
One quibble involves the authors' endorsement of developing a "dashboard" to monitor how your global security program is being managed. The components of the dashboard are almost exclusively technology based, giving short shrift to manual processes.
A unique feature of Mapping Security is the use of a Mapping Security Index (MSI), a formula that boils down various risk elements into a numerical risk score for each of the 31 countries analyzed in the book. The MSI score is practical and helpful, but readers should augment it with other global risk-management intelligence. Although these geographic profiles are limited, the authors offer enlightening "on the ground" tips and describe key regulations.
This book is a must-have reference guide for CSOs conducting business outside of U.S. borders. The authors articulate a realistic framework for assessing and baselining current operations, technology, regulation, and cultural considerations for offshore operational integration.
Patterson's and Blue's emphasis throughout the book is placed on understanding the host country's hard (standards) and soft (cultural) requirements well before landing your foreign organization on their soil. Finally, the book offers a rich appendix of local security resources by country that can be added to the security toolbox, providing solid information sources for any security professional to use in their own company.
Reviewer: Steven Adler is the business risk manager with Uniprise, a healthcare insurance firm in Hartford, Connecticut. He holds a master's in business management from the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer. He is a member of ASIS International's Business Practices Council.
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While we're on the brink of Gamescom and the Fall gaming season, someone's decided it's a good idea to launch a new ARG. Citizen Skywatch is an ARG based at citizenskywatch.com, a domain registered by Take-Two Interactive. The phsyical dominion for the domain is the same as found when searching for Rockstar's website. I'll go ahead and spoil it by letting you know that it's (probably) centered around 2K's reboot of XCOM.
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It has been a rough two weeks for Tim Kennedy. The opportunity to fight Lyoto Machida slipped through his fingers and ever since, he has been poking fun and prodding basically every UFC Middleweight in hopes to get someone to step up. Earlier today his wish was granted. The UFC confirmed that Rafael Natal has agreed to step into the main event at UFC Fight Night 31: Fight for The Troops 3 in a 5-round fight on November 6th.
Natal is coming off an electrifying performance over Sweden's Tor Troeng, in which fans were treated to arguably the best jiu-jitsu display of the year. 'Sapo' was slated to fight Ed Herman at UFC 167, but was more than eager to jump into the main event slot.
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This situation began when Michael Bisping was forced out of his UFC Fight Night 30 main event alongside Mark Munoz due to an eye injury that required surgery. The UFC decided to pull Lyoto Machida from his scheduled bout with Kennedy to fight Munoz. Kennedy, left without an opponent, began a twitter crusade by calling out as many fighters as he could, including Natal. Natal has answered the bell and the fight will go down on November 6th.
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It's long been a tacit secret that Margaret Mitchell used the 12 signs of the zodiac to define and imbue her characters in Gone With The Wind.
UK astrologer Neil Spencer describes Mitchell as having based her epic "on the zodiac, leaving a blatant trail of clues which were only picked up in 1978 when US astrologer Darrell Martinie was shown photocopies of notes from Mitchell's library."
You can do the celestial math. Scarlett O'Hara, is an impetuous, selfish but ultimately heroic Aries. Rhett Butler, a passionate and proud but principled (when need be) Leo. Sister-in-law Melanie Hamilton, a self-sacrificing Virgo. I've often wondered what sign Prissy ("I don't know nothing about birthin' babies") might have been based upon. Maybe a hysterical Pisces or Sagittarius?
Where only speculation surrounded Mitchell's masterpiece, we now have a Man Booker Prize winner — Eleanor Catton and her second novel The Luminaries (what a stellar title!) — pushing its way into the world of popular literature. Catton has talked openly about the astrological motif (and its influence) that enlivens her prize-winning fictional work. In an interview with PBS' Jeffrey Brown she notes:
"In my research for the book, I discovered, to my interest and astonishment, that astrology really is an incredibly mathematical system and one that has a lot in common with music. In music, we have got the 12 semitones and then the seven natural notes in the scale.
And in astrology, you have got the 12 signs and the seven planets. A lot of the kind of interrelations that happen and the harmonies that happen in the sky are quite similar to the harmonies that can happen or the chords that can happen in music."
Good for her! No mention of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Rather than spend time sharing my impressions of the theme and the charming author you can watch the interview here.
And order a copy from Amazon. (I just placed my order tonight, and can't wait!)
My friend David Roell runs a real brick and mortar bookshop in Maryland. It is one of the best annexes around for all things astrological. He just notified me that his bookstore's shipment of Jim Maynard's Celestial Guide calendars have arrived and that it's time for you to order yours now.
Please consider purchasing your calendar from an astrologer and an astrology bookshop as it goes a long way in keeping a business like David's Astrology Center of America available to all of us. David has an incredibly comprehensive collection of books and we want to keep him and his business around for a long time.
About the calendars, David offered this fascinating observation:
"Give one to a child who wants to learn the craft. Have him/her learn to use the voids as a guide to daily activities. Train him to sense the Moon's transit through the various signs, give him practical advice from Mercury retrograde, etc.
From what I've worked out, astrology shows the Earth's daily temperature, in other words the Earth's unique ever-changing vibration as it continuously relates to the Sun, Moon and other planets. Astrology does not rain from an empty sky. It radiates from the earth itself . You should no more ignore the daily ephemeris than you should go out of doors without regard to the weather. Astrology describes the raw energies of this planet, our home, nothing more and nothing less. That's what Maynard has given us, on a daily basis and set in our own proper time for easy reference."
Astro Web Destinations
Two of my favorite astrology websites that I want to note for you this month are both published by women and they both offer unique insights into the ongoing dialogue between you and me and the solar system. I prefer sites like this where you develop a distinct sense of the author's character and proclivities; a kind of approachability that tempers astrology's intimidating complexities. This brings astrology down to earth and makes it accessible without involving Sun sign banter or romance advice (not that I've anything against that sort of astrology).
A good example of what I'm talking about is Wonder Bright's Stars of Wonder.
Wonder's prose is akin to sitting down with a friend over a cup of coffee and moving through a myriad of topics both celestial and terrestrial. Her first-person retellings generate an inviting aperture on the astrological matrix.
I particularly enjoyed her recent rumination on the Twilight series of movies, the story's heroine Bella, and how our culture has become so distanced from a healthy connection to the feminine we've had to devise a way back to her essence through the supernatural realm. Highly recommended.
My friend and art colleague Kate Petty publishes Ambient Astrology, a beautiful respite and reminder that astrology websites don't have to resemble a carnival attraction to hold your attention.
Kate's fierce interest in some of astrology's more esoteric and complex modalities, namely the school of Symmetrical Astrology (the bug of which bit me hard when I met up with one of its kingpins, Gary Christen, at the recent NORWAC astrology convention in Seattle) and employing antiscia when studying the various markers of the horoscope, underlie many of her articles.
Kate's most recent post, Reclaiming the Apocalypse, will give you pause when you consider the intense, unprecedented array of exact planetary aspects we'll experience through the remainder of November. Spend time with this piece and you'll come away with a new way of considering what living through a cycle's final throes implies. It's both thrilling and unnerving, but we wouldn't be here to usher in this new phase if we weren't gifted with the substance of soul to persevere.
Have a site you think I should know about? Please share your comments below. I'm all ears (and eyes).
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to … miss.
It feels that way with half of the solar system residing in the water element through November. The Sun, Mercury and Saturn are moving through Scorpio, while Neptune floats and goes uber diaphanous in Pisces. And Jupiter just stationed several days ago to make a long retrograde through Cancer, until early 2014. The perfect time to contemplate exactly what the water element translates to in astrological terms, in human terms in other words.
Well, you can start by watching this video*. Pay attention to the silkiness of the creature's movements. The glide, the way everything seems still on one hand, but then in constant motion on the other. We take water for granted, thinking we know it, remember it, from our childhood days of swimming and playing in it — or standing in awe as we watched the deluge of a storm or cowered at the news of an impending tsunami (well, at least I did while living in Hawai'i.)
Like the other three elements in astrology (fire, earth and air) the magnitude for creative or destructive power is equal. And when you think about it, the way the Greeks and Indians did when they declared the four elements to be the very foundation, the components that composed our reality, both visible and invisible, the totality of our lives move through, within and without, the four elements. Meaning we reside in a world composed of the elements as we ourselves are composed of the very same essential parts.
Astrologers will talk a lot about emotions and feelings when it comes to the water signs, and that is true, in a vague sort of way; but I've found, more specifically that the water element — when highlighted in a birth chart or predominate by transits — presses upon our consciousness the unseen realm of images and symbols, and the ability to work with metaphor, poetry, song, or any creative medium that requires stillness and movement simultaneously.
Dreams and dreaming become more emphatic, the unconscious more crucial in honing the inchoate, the unformed. Creative solutions abound in myriad forms, shapes and expressions. The rewards are plenty, though the test, (the condition of being a kind of medium for transmission), involves a vulnerability that can be difficult to allow. This is the gift and the riddle of the water element — the capacity to create is dependent upon a condition of openness that is both delicate and fierce; working that riddle requires the wisdom of a poet and skill of an artist.
From my perspective, this is more what the water element alludes to.
Drift in that notion awhile and then share your ideas with me below, please. I'd like to hear your experiences and impressions.
*(Apologies re the treacly song that accompanies the video. I recommend turning the volume down when you watch. At least that's what I do)
Ray Grasse, the author of one of my favorite books on symbolism, The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives, posted this on Facebook awhile back. He noted:
"Hard to describe the impact this piece had on me as a 19-year old, listening to it on a small tape recorder during a camping trip in Wisconsin under an impossibly starry night sky. Especially good for late-night listening. For those who don't already know, Holst boned up on the astrological meaning of each planet when composing each of his pieces for The Planets suite."
Zombie survival guides. Alien interventions. Super bugs. Reality show raptures. Economic cliffs. Anti-Christ-Palooza. Terrorists and Tiaras. Bit coin. Gold coins. Gluten. NSA. GMOs. Homo-trimony. The new Arcade Fire album.
Signs, symbols and Zeitgeist stingers. Time traveling omens from Armageddon are the stock and trade of our modern day narrative. The stories and anxieties we lay down and fret about until the Ambien kicks in. But why such a narrow bandwidth? Where's the bigger, wider picture? The range of other frequencies?
Scenarios of doom monopolize our inner landscape because speeding up to the end means a new beginning is just around the corner. That's one theory. The catch of course is the way we resist other narratives. It's critical now to think beyond the parameters of being a garden-variety human being. This is the nut of the 'message' from the ongoing, exact as of today, again, for the fourth (out of seven swipes) Uranus Pluto square.
When food, money, energy and optimism are scarce we become attached to whatever sort of hoard (be it our meager amount in savings or the way Plutocrats hog all the wealth and investments in their seemingly exempt world) we've come to associate with as a means to see us through to the new phase. The catch? You can't cross the river in a boat and then take that boat with you as you explore the new world. It's too cumbersome and defeats the purpose of surrender.
So we're looping right now. Sort of like animals do before being eaten by a predator. You've probably seen shots like this on those nature shows you watched as a kid. The prey runs around and around in a circle, hysterical, before the killing bite is administered by the predator. Right?
Our inner animal is a bit freaked. So, like your pet, you need to assure it all will be well. You'll take care of things and keep the wolves away from the door. Do that for your inner critter, you'll gain a lot of traction in the process.
The weirdness happens when we observe ourselves observing others and the world we coexist in. If we're not dwelling on our own crisis of faith, then we want to read about it in the news or watch it in a sci-fi or horror film; a tacit way of confirming that everyone's sort of fucked up at the same time.
Fact or fiction doesn't matter — just that we're seeing clearly that everything is caving in — that's the essential 'meaning' behind the obsessive imagery we circulate and share and post and tweet about it — over and over and over. It's the Hologram of the Season. The reality bite that keeps on biting.
As I've already mentioned, I associate this End of Days meme with the fourth swipe between Uranus and Pluto. The number four makes things sharply concrete; there's less of a feeling for a creative outlet with four, like there is with the number three. Four is two plus two which feels like two sides against two other sides — the nature of two being opposition and discord. A doubling up of angst.
My field notes show that Uranus is associated with time warping. A hybrid process of time speeding up, which means our subjective experience of time is altered and tweaked out — it kind of forces us to feel and peer into the future, despite our best efforts to avoid perception. This quickening happens via Aries. So the sense of urgency, to remove constraints, shackles, anything that limits freedom, imparts that time bomb feeling. Tick tock. Uranus becomes the hair shirt we're wearing. It's exciting to think about it except for one small impediment:
Pluto is akin to a black hole generator. When our awareness is touched by Pluto, nuclear fission occurs; meaning, we phase between one reality and another reality in such a way that forces us to leave the former reality and pop into the later reality which, to our animal nature — our survival drive — is associated with annihilation of the former, and so, well, we balk and freeze and hover. And yet the worm hole beckons.


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A rebound season netted Kazmir the deal that is reportedly worth $22 million.
Injuries and mechanical issues derailed his career. After making just one start in the majors in 2011 and pitching the 2012 season in the independent Atlantic League, Kazmir made 29 starts for the Cleveland Indians last season. He finished with a 10-9 record and a 4.04 earned run average.
Kazmir was drafted by the New York Mets in the first round of the 2002 draft. Traded to Tampa Bay two years later, the left-hander earned two All-Star nods and won 55 games in five-plus seasons with the Rays before being dealt to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in August 2009.
The Angels released him on June 15, 2011.
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Here at HBI we're happy to announce that we are making steps to go green-er! We already do our very best to use recycled papers and soy-based inks, but we're going to take it a few steps further over the next few months and I am so excited about these changes. We realize being part of the paper world means that at some point in the life of our business we'll be using up trees, but we want to use as few trees as possible.
Here are a few of the green-er things HBI is implementing:
-soy based inks
-using tree-free or at least recycled paper
-partnering with more companies that are Green-e Certified (they use renewable energy)
-designing more green (two tones have never looked so good!)
-incentive to use recycled and tree-free papers: we will plant a tree every time a client is willing to use tree free paper or recycled paper!
Need inspiration to go green-er? Didn't think so ….But here's our fav go-green speech anyway…
Until next time folks!
That's awesome! I love the tree planting initiative!
Awesome! I love that you are making an effort to be eco-friendly!
wooooo hooooo! you go girl! can't wait to meet you!!
That video is so motivating! Thank you for sharing!!!1
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While there are still factions in certain, nameless, urban cities that like to brag about how much they spend on fashion accessories, the majority prefer to brag about savvy steals. Lately, more and more of these are being found online with deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial.com; sites that rely on bragging to incite the viral word-of-mouth that up the number of people coming through your doors.
In the hair and beauty world, many people still remain on the fence on whether this is a positive or negative when it comes to the health of the brand (let alone cash flow). Some of this stems from certain positions on discounting in general, while others have just heard too many horror stories to want to jump onboard. The fact of the matter is: it has worked for some and even been attributed to the reason they've been able to expand in tough times, not retract. So, we decided to bring the stories of two salon owners who have been successful with these services and hopefully glean some advice from one salon owner to the next.
Focus on the Purpose
To Keith Chandler, owner of Florida salon Box Office Hair, it is a 'necessary evil', fuelled by a population that is growing ever more commercially promiscuous.
"Groupon is a necessary evil as the population is growing commercially promiscuous. While this phenomenon shouldn't be relied on for your only source of new clients, salons can't ignore it," urges Keith. "We've used this service like all the other businesses out there - to attract new clients – but this service can be dangerous if you don't realize what it really is. It's a sampling program, and you are auditioning for them to choose you for the main part in their hair care program."
Careful management of the whole process has brought new clients to Box Office, with a retention rate of 30 per cent (and don't forget the number of subscribers who saw the offer but didn't take it up). Compare that to the industry average retention rate of 28 per cent and suddenly collective buying appears less like a knockdown sale and more like a highly successful sampling exercise.
Be Clear on What it Does (and Doesn't) Include
There was a slight learning curve. Keith is clear and explicit in the small print these days after a bridal party called in to schedule their whole group for a Saturday of pampering. "That would have blocked the whole salon out on one of our busiest days," said Keith. "They were understanding on why we couldn't accommodate them, but now we are very explicit about what we can and cannot do and we make sure those conditions are stated from the beginning to manage expectations."


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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - State officials expect the state's unemployment insurance trust fund to run out of money by next week, and the state's unemployment rate is worse than it's been in years.
Everyone who receives unemployment should still get their benefits. However, those who already received up to 59 weeks of unemployment and now have a 13 week extension will see a delay. "The recession has caused a lot of lay-offs. Lay-offs cause unemployment benefits to be paid out because people are out of work. When there's a payout the fund starts declining," said State Representative Delwin Jones.
To continue to pay unemployment benefits to about 82,000 Texans, the state will borrow almost $650 million from the federal government to cover claims. State officials estimate this money will last through October. After that, Jones says the state will issue bonds, "They have authority to issue bonds for two purposes: to repay the $650 million and to continue payments to the unemployed people."
Those bonds, and the federal loan, must be paid back somehow. Jones says the burden will fall on the shoulders of employers like Tim Gafford, who owns Gafford Pest Control and employs about 20 local residents.
Gafford sympathizes with those who lose their job, but says small business owners like himself can't afford to take on the burden. "Taxes are getting to the point where it's getting very difficult to do business," said Gafford.
Jones says employers will see a higher unemployment tax rate, "I think they'll be significantly increased. They'll have to pay the bonds." Since Jones first took office more than 40 years ago this has happened before but not to this magnitude, and its employers who ultimately have to pay.
Critics of Governor Rick Perry say he should have accepted the $556 million in federal stimulus funds to avoid this situation. Jones says he thinks Perry should have accepted the stimulus money, but he says it would have only postponed the unemployment fund running dry, not prevented it. State Representative Carl Isset says he agrees with Perry in not taking the stimulus funds.
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thats a lovely line-drawing. looking forward to seeing the end-result
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Well you are a hell of a rival Sap.
Can I get a ruling from the "LAVA RIVER POLICE" ?? Can one crater have two lava river flowing out ??:P Looks great so far very interesting Feel to it !
Thank you very much! Your entry looks great, too.
Basic colours added.
Envy thy name is D. How can you have the patience to all this by hand (or close enough to hand). Looking good.
Knowing Sapiento, it didn't take him as long as one would think! :D
Just a bit of humor not a serious gripe !:blush: I am awaiting the final coloring love your color schemes and the moods you set !!
Looking really good Sap, this is gearing up to be another great competition.
Sap, for as long as I've been seeing your stuff on Deviantart now, you continue to impress with your detail and style.


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About 2.5 miles into this morning's NYYR New York Mini 10K, Edna Kiplagat took attendance. Who's in this lead pack? Who isn't? Then she conducted a quick survey. Who's looking good? Who isn't?
Apparently satisfied with her findings, the 2010 ING New York City Marathon winner and 2011 IAAF World Marathon Champion readied herself. Just past the 5K mark, Kiplagat stepped out of the pack, veered over to a water table, grabbed a cup, stepped back into the pack, took the lead, and never gave it up.
At the 4-mile mark, near Engineers' Gate, Kenya's Kiplagat broke away from Ethiopian rivals Firehiwot Dado and Aheza Kiros, and soon after blasted down a hill toward the Central Park Boathouse—the same spot at which she surged to claim the Marathon victory in 2010.
Kiplagat, 32, would go on to win the 40th anniversary of the race in 32:08, 10 seconds ahead of runner-up Kiros. Hilda Kibet of the Netherlands finished third (32:34). Stephanie Rothstein, of Flagstaff, Ariz., finished as the top American and sixth overall, in 33:04, while her compatriot Desiree Davila was 11th in 33:38. There were 6,122 finishers, the most since 1997.
For her victory, Kiplagat earned $10,000.
"It was my plan to secure all of my energy for the downhills, the same thing I did in the marathon," said Kiplagat. "The memories are still fresh, so I knew that if I had energy enough to push that maybe there was a good chance for me to break away from the group."
American Lindsey Scherf took the lead from the starting horn in Columbus Circle, leading a large pack through the first mile in 5:16. Just past that first mile marker, a loud cry of "Go Lindsey!" pierced the air for the 25-year-old who grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. Scherf pushed the pace on the downhill just before the two-mile mark, through which she took the pack in 10:29.
It appeared that Dado was the one in control of the race, shadowing Scherf the same way she did Kim Smith for almost 13 miles of the NYC Half this spring before pouncing in the final meters for the win.
By 5K (16:19), the pack was down to Scherf, Kiplagat, Dado, Kibet, Kiros, and Diane Nukuri-Johnson of Burundi, with Rothstein about to join them. "I was feeling pretty good," said Rothstein, who will try to make the U.S. Olympic Team at 10,000 meters at the trials later this month. "Then they started to throw down at four-and-a-half, five miles and I just held my place."
As Scherf began to fall back, the leaders hit four miles in 21:10. Kiplagat began her breakaway, with Kiros and, briefly, Dado in pursuit. By the downhill, known as Cat Hill, Kiros was two steps behind, but she would never get closer as Kiplagat threw in a 4:49 mile to seal the deal.
"This race was an important race for me," said Kiplagat. "I'm pleased because training for the marathon, I can see I still have good speed. This [winning] time is a good time for a marathoner."
Kiplagat is training for the London Olympic Marathon, as is Davila.
"We tend to avoid racing [while in marathon training] because you can read too much into results," said Davila of the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project philosophy. "Any miles out there that were 5:20 or quicker were a bonus, and I had a few of those. It cost me a little bit at the end, so I also know what I need to work on."
Finishing in 58:42 was Kathrine Switzer, a co-founder of the Mini in 1972 and the third-place finisher in that inaugural year. Now 65, she ran wearing her original Crazylegs Mini Marathon T-shirt from that event, the first women-only road race in the world.
"It's not often in life you get the opportunity to participate in a revolution you helped create," she said afterward. "It really is a gift. It's just been wonderful how this sport has changed women's lives."


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Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (born September 30, 1917) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director, founder of the internationally-renowned[1] Taganka Theatre. He is one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.[2]
After service in the Soviet Army during the World War II, Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1953, he received the USSR State Prize. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka Theatre the following year. Under Lyubimov, the theatre became the most popular in Moscow, with Vladimir Vysotsky and Alla Demidova as the leading actors.
After Vysotsky's death in 1980, all of Lyubimov's productions were banned by the Communist authorities. In 1984, he was stripped of Soviet citizenship. Thereupon Lyubimov worked abroad before returning to the Taganka Theatre in 1989. While in the West he maintained a busy directing career. In the US he directed Crime and Punishment at Arena Stage and Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1983 he directed Crime and Punishment in London, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Director.
His staging of Eugene Onegin premiered in the Taganka on his 85th birthday to much critical acclaim.
In June, 2011 Lyubimov left the Taganka theatre.
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Senator Carl Levin says it is important to get a college degree. Senator Levin spoke at Grand Rapids Community College Thursday afternoon and discussed many topics.
"By 2018, 75% of job applicants will need at least an associate's degree," Senator Levin stated.
The Senator's experience on armed services committee, banking committee, intelligence committee were also discussed.
His stance on wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and troop withdrawals.
Also he talked aboout the Vietnam conflict, the treatment of soldiers and U.S. citizens open bitterness. The Senator says, today people who disagree with war still appreciate troops.
Senator Levin discussed the relation between political parties and how they're very cooperative on the armed services committee, unlike the gridlock in other areas of Congress. Guantanamo Bay was another topic discussed.


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KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- The Kalamazoo School board met for the first time this year and got reorganized.
They reelected Patti Scholler-Barber to serve as board president for another year, and elevated Trustee Carol McGlinn to vice-president. Sholler-Barber says she was flattered to be picked again.
The board also swore-in McGlinn who was just reelected and Craig Hershleb, a Packaging Technician at Pfizer, who replaces Marcy Peake, who chose not to run for reelection.