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Ladies and gents, as you ponder over a) the consequences of having to pay extra for national health care and b) whether the ministry has told you everything you need to know to make up your mind about its intentions and c) whether you will survive long enough on your present salary vs. today's cost of living to get sick and require health care. Here is something that you might be interested to read. Enjoy. Although I doubt it. Hee hee hee...
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 17 ---- Kuala Lumpur rose another twelve spots in the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) ranking of the world's most expensive cities, reaching 74th in February from 86th in June last year. This comes as mounting concerns over stubbornly high inflation and stagnant wages pose a potential challenge for the Najib administration which has to call for general elections before March next year.
Data made available by the EIU to The Malaysian Insider show that KL's cost of living index rose from 67th in June, 2009, which was just after Datuk Seri Najib Razak took over as prime minister, to 83rd this month, a jump of 16 points or 23 per cent.
This means KL is now 83 per cent as expensive as New York although its salaries are nowhere near as high as those in the global financial capital.
The EIU takes into account more than 160 items, from food, toiletries and clothing to domestic help, transport and utility bills, in 140 cities worldwide to formulate its index, which uses New York City as a benchmark.
Analysts have said that the cost of living will be one of the biggest issues in the next election.
In the run-up to the 2008 polls, a spike in fuel prices and toll rates had contributed to a backlash against the Abdullah administration and helped earn the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition the informal moniker of "Barang Naik" (Malay for "Price Increase").
The cost of living was also a key election in last year's Singapore general election in which the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won in the narrowest vote-margin since the island republic's independence.
While the Consumer Price Index, which is taken to be the official rate of inflation, was 3.2 per cent last year, many urbanites feel that the figures do not reflect the real rise in cost of living and that wages have not kept pace.
Price increases, especially for property and food, also tend to be higher in urban areas where BN tends to be weakest.
The Najijb administration faces a difficult dilemma as it has pledged financial reforms such as subsidy cuts to help reduce the budget deficit and eliminate market distortions, but aggressive reductions in subsidy could further increase the cost of living. It introduced a one-off cash grant for low income households in this year's budget but such schemes are not seen to be sustainable.
Zurich was ranked as the world's most expensive city, about 70 per cent more expensive than New York, followed by Tokyo and Oslo.
The online version of the EIU report is available HERE.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co will recall 292,879 Chevrolet Cruze cars in the United States due to a defect that can cause loss of the brake assist function in models with the 1.4-liter turbocharged engine and six-speed automatic transmission.
The largest U.S. automaker said on Friday that the problem occurred in model year 2011 and 2012 Cruze cars. GM said it was aware of 27 low-speed crashes, but no injuries, tied to the problem.
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In the early morning of Dec. 26, 2010, Langford stood on the shore of Lake Starr near Lake Wales and watched as a Polk County Sheriff's dive team pulled his 22-year-old brother from the water.
LAKELAND | It was a Christmas holiday Chad Langford will remember forever.
In the early morning of Dec. 26, 2010, Langford stood on the shore of Lake Starr near Lake Wales and watched as a Polk County Sheriff's dive team pulled his 22-year-old brother from the water.
It's an image he said he'll never forget.
"I saw his shoes and then they pulled him up and I saw him," Langford said.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Cody Hayes' official cause of death was from an accidental drowning, but a toxicology report showed he had methamphetamine in his system when he died.
For years, Florida boasted the unwelcome title of the Pill Mill Capital, but recent legislation and new regulations aiming to combat the state's prescription drug problem have worked, sort of, said David Gross, special agent supervisor with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Recently released data by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission show drug-related deaths across the state are the lowest they've been in more than five years.
Hayes was one of 9,001 people in Florida who died in 2010 with drugs present in their systems.
That statewide number of drug-related deaths climbed even higher in 2011, before dropping to 8,330 deaths in 2012.
And although that number has gone down, Polk County Medical Examiner Stephen Nelson said the county still has a major drug problem – especially when it comes to prescription drugs.
Although not directly, Langford said Hayes' addiction is what took his life. And more than anything, Langford said he wishes he could show his brother there was a different way to live.
"I just wish he could be here so I could show him a different route," Langford said. "I wish more than anything he was here."
The Medical Examiner's report shows that occurrences of several of the most commonly abused prescriptions drugs, such as Xanax and Oxycodone, have lowered in deaths across the state. And Gross said the availability of prescription drugs has decreased greatly in the past two years.
But drug users are still finding ways to get their next high – by mixing the pills with anything they can get their hands on.
According to the Medical Examiner's report, accidental deaths in Polk County where prescription drugs were present in the person's system at the time of death were down from 191 in 2011 to 98 in 2012. And accidental deaths where prescription drugs were ruled as the cause were down from 65 in 2011 to 61.
The report includes deaths where drugs were merely present at the time of death and where drugs were ruled as the cause.
A drug is ruled as the cause when the medical examiner determines the drug triggered the death.
Drugs are listed as present in deaths where the drug may not have played a role in causing a death, but were found in the person's system at the time of death.
Nelson said the small decreases are great steps, but don't mean much because prescription drugs are still more commonly found in a person's system than any illicit drug.
Last year, 4,944 people died statewide with one or more prescription drug in their system. And the majority of those deaths involved multiple drugs, according to the report.
"They're taking a whole pharmacy of stuff," Nelson said.
Since Hayes' death, Langford has worked hard to overcome his own drug addiction.
Now 30 years old, Langford said he's been clean for almost a year and half. And every day, he uses Hayes as motivation to keep pushing forward.
But there was a time when Langford said he was one of the multidrug addicts. He started with methamphetamine and then added prescription pills.
"I was to where I wouldn't even do meth unless I had pain pills," he said.
He was just searching for the next high, however he could find it, he said.
Nelson said it's the mixing of drugs that ultimately forms a lethal concoction. Just Xanax or Valium taken by itself, in the correct dose, doesn't pose too much of a threat, he said, but when users mix multiple drugs together with alcohol, the body slows until it eventually stops.
The frequent combination Nelson said he sees in Polk County is alprazolam (Xanax) mixed with hydrocodone or oxycodone.
According to the report, no one in Polk County died last year with only methadone, hydrocodone, oxycodone, diazepam (Valium), or alprazolam in their system. All of the deaths where a prescription drug was found involved a mixture of pills.
Statewide, alprazolam was present in 1,417 deaths last year, but only 36 of those did not involve any other drugs. And alprazolam was ruled the cause of death in only seven of those 36 cases.
With a crackdown on prescription drug use and the newly implemented prescription drug database, Florida has lost its unwelcome title of Pill Mill Capital, but the problem hasn't completely gone away.
"We were the oxy express," Gross said, "But that express has left. But we are, unfortunately, a nation of utilizing prescriptions to alter the way we feel."
Ciji Palacios, 29, of Lakeland has been immersed in the drug world since she was 17 years old.
She says although statistics show the drug problem might be improving, for those who are involved, nothing is changing.
"Just because people aren't dying, doesn't mean they're not dead," she said. "It (drugs) tears you apart. It takes your spirit. It takes your soul."
And no one is exempt from it, she said, because if it isn't one drug someone is using, they've found a different one.
Gross said the latest trends in drug use show a slight increase in methamphetamines and heroin – two drugs that carry multiple unknown dangers.
According to the Medical Examiner's report, deaths caused by heroin increased across the state by 89.5 percent from 57 in 2011 to 108 last year – the highest it's been in five years.
Statewide deaths caused by methamphetamine were up by 19 cases compared to 2011, but Polk County was down seven deaths last year. And Nelson said methamphetamine deaths are nowhere near the levels he saw a few years ago.
Gross said a lot of what FDLE and local law enforcement agencies are seeing is an increase in "one-pot" or "shake and bake" methamphetamine labs, which yield only enough drug for the user.
He said law enforcement has now moved its focus on drugs to include heroin and methamphetamine, in addition to the prescription medications that dominate the Medical Examiner's report.
And he is going to continue to count even a slight decrease in the amount of drug-related deaths as a success.
"These numbers represent bodies, so even a slight decrease is a good thing," he said. "Even one person is a good decrease."
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A sister vehicle to the Kia Rio, the Hyundai Accent is a subcompact available as either a sedan or a hatchback. Well-equipped in standard form, the Accent has an impressive 92.2 total cubic feet of passenger room, defying the myth of small cars' cramped cabins. Fuel economy is also impressive, averaging 28 mpg in the city and 37 mpg on the highway, thanks in part to special low rolling resistance tires.
2013 Hyundai Accent: Slightly revised for 2013, the Hyundai Accent is a subcompact car available in sedan and hatchback trim levels. The Accent is powered by a 1.6-liter 4-cylinder engine that produces 138 hp and 123 lb-ft of torque. Transmission options consist of a 6-speed manual and an optional 6-speed automatic. Equipped with FWD the Accent achieves an EPA estimated 28 mpg city and 37 mpg highway. Changes include standard heated side mirrors, air conditioning, and remote keyless entry. Features include 16-inch wheels, steering-wheel mounted controls, hands-free phone capabilities, iPod/USB jack, 6-speaker sound system, and CD/MP3 player. Safety is comprised of vehicle stability management, electronic stability control (ESC), traction control system (TCS), anti-lock braking (ABS), electronic brake distribution (EBD), brake assist (BA), front-impact airbags, side curtain airbags, and tire pressure monitoring. The Accent is backed by a 5-year/60,000-mile warranty.


text: First Saturday: A Devotion to the Immaculate Heart The Catholic devotion of First Saturdays was given to the Church by Our Lady of Fatima and the Child Jesus through the children of Fatima. It is a devotion that atones for the sorrows of Our Lady. On July 13, 1917, Mary appeared to the children and showed them a vision of hell. Afterward, she told the children, "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace... I shall come to ask for... the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays..." Eight years later, when one of the children, Sr. Lucia, was a postulant, Our Lord appeared to her with Our Lady and showed Sr. Lucia the Immaculate heart, pierced by a sword. Our Lady said, "Look, my daughter, at my heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me." How to Practice the Devotion The devotion takes place over a period of five consecutive months and each Saturday atones for a different offense against Our Lady. The five Saturdays atone for: -attacks against Our Lady's Immaculate Conception. -attacks against her perpetual virginity. -attacks against her place as the Mother God and mother of all humanity. -those who try to implant indifference and hatred of Our Lady within the hearts of children. -those who insult her sacred image. On each of these Saturdays you must: -receive communion in the state of grace within 24hrs of Saturday. (This usually will involve going to confession beforehand). -say a five decade rosary -meditate on the mysteries for at least fifteen minutes. This could be done all at once or you can spend three minutes on each mystery as you say the rosary. Why Practice the Devotion? You should first approach the practice of this devotion with love for Our Lady and Our Lord. When practiced worthily Our Lady promises to assist you at the hour of your death with all the graces necessary for salvation. Through this devotion many souls can be saved, including your own. As with any devotion, the promise is not a free ticket heaven. Rather, it is a promise of Divine assistance for those who have lived Christian lives and frequented the sacraments. Sources http://www.theworkofgod.org/Devotns/1stsatrd.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Saturday_Devotions More Resources about the Immaculate Heart of Mary: History of Devotion to the Immaculate Heart Prayer to the Immaculate Heart Prayer by St. John Eudes to the Immaculate Heart


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The five most prominent unsigned free agents -- Nelson Cruz, Ubaldo Jimenez, Ervin Santana, Kendrys Morales, and Stephen Drew -- are being weighed down by more than the draft-pick compensation to which they are tied.
Drew and Morales have each suffered horrific leg injuries in recent seasons, and the medical fallout is detailed in the reports all teams can access. Santana has had elbow trouble, and given all that we know about predicting injuries (read Russell Carlton's work on the topic here), some teams undoubtedly are wary of the possibility of a breakdown for a 31-year-old pitcher.
Cruz was suspended for his connection to Biogenesis in 2013, and given his age of 33 and the fact that he was a late bloomer -- he never had more than 350 at-bats in a season until he was 28 -- has led some executives to wonder, quite naturally, what role the performance-enhancers may have had in his success and what kind of player he is without them.
And Jimenez is seemingly a clone of A.J. Burnett: Spectacular in those periods he is at his best, a bullpen-killer the rest of the time. None of these five is close to a sure thing, and this plays a role in why it's early January and they are all looking for work.
But, as written here recently, the cost of a draft pick for a Jimenez, Santana, et al, is a deal-breaker for a lot of teams.


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New laptop setup, SSD questions
I ordered a new laptop that should be delivered tomorrow, and I was hoping someone could answer a few questions for me. This is the laptop I ordered: Buy.com - Toshiba Satellite U845W 14.4" Core i5 6GB Widescreen Ultrabook
Toshiba Satellite U845W-S410 14.4" Widescreen Ultrabook, Intel Core i5-3317U, 6GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, 32GB SSD, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit) - PSU5RU-00Q003
My other question is... I believe Toshiba installs a lot of crapware on their machines. Is it possible to download a clean copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and use the activation key that comes with my notebook to replace the operating system? Or should I just uninstall as much of it as possible?
When I received my current desktop computer, I didn't realize how helpful it would have been to create a partition for just the OS and programs, keeping my data separate. It would have made the backup process much simpler for me. I am hoping to do a better job setting this one up. Any advice or recommendations are appreciated! :)
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I have been searching for more information about SSD/HDD, and came across the advice quoted below to
1. Move the Windows paging file to the HDD
3. Move the Windows restore points off the SSD.
Would either of these be useful and perhaps give me a little extra space for at least a few main programs? I am thinking my email program will be way too big, and Firefox itself might fit, but if I stream a movie or something would it automatically be temporarily saving all that data to the SSD also?
Programs and files on SSD vs HDD for max performance... - config-customize - windows-7
First thing you always want to do if you have your boot disk as SSD and second internal HDD get the Windows paging file off of the SSD. Reasons are that SSDs are expensive, the page file takes up some space but that is neglegeable, the paging file is constantly changing and parts are over written which is bad for an SSD because SSD has shorter life time of rewrites then HDD so the page file is needlessly eating away at parts of your precious SSD.
To do this click start>right click computer>properties>on left side tab click "advanced system settings" you need administrative rights>Performance>go to advanced tab>under virtual memory select "change">uncheck "Automatically manage" at top>now all your partitions should be listed, in this order select a partition on your HDD. Easiest to select system managed because if you don't know what your doing you can degrade windows performance>Now select you SSD partition and pick none.
Remember you did this because later if you want to format and repartition that drive it won't let you until you go back in and re/move page file to a new partition. Forgetting and having to figure out errors causes headaches and I speak from personal experience.
It opens page file up to fragmentation. I just make partition only for page file and if fragmentation is a problem, ill just reformat the partition. No harm done to anything else. If you choose to make partition for page file make it atleast the size of your ram, 1.5 x ram is better go no bigger than 2 x ram or your wasting space, especially if you have a lot of ram and windows doesn't do much paging...
Third is to check for Windows restore points because they can take up lots of space, move them off of your SSD or delete them/disable new ones from being made if you don't need them. I only keep until a little after a windows update or installing new drivers until I am pretty sure everything is running fine, and I typically only keep one. My preference though! I make my own drive images and backup. Google for a tutorial dealing with those restore points, there are tons.
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My other question is... I believe Toshiba installs a lot of crapware on their machines. Is it possible to download a clean copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and use the activation key that comes with my notebook to replace the operating system?
Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7
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32gb will be cutting it pretty close. Remember that you'll want some "free space" also, say 10%? Since it will be coming with the ssd installed already , most of the little things should be taken care of for you. I'd check and see if your hibernation is turned off if I were you. Also, I'd consider just canceling your page file for C. If you're a "regular" user you shouldn't need it with the amount of RAM installed. (always room for more though!)
And yes , you are entirely correct about the amount of crap/bloatware that will come with your Toshiba. I owned one...... I know ...... you'll love your machine after you get all that stuff cleaned up though, I'm sure. Just follow LittleJay's link and all will be revealed to you.
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Thank you for the link to the clean install tutorial, LittleJay. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I plan to study it. I've never installed an OS before.
Thank you for your reply Indianacarnie. I am assuming that SSD have the same size discrepancy that HDDs have, so that an advertised 32 GB SSD will only give me 29.822 GB of storage space. Ninety percent of that is only 26.840 GB. Microsoft says you need 20 GB for Windows 7. So that gives me very little extra space.
I wonder if Toshiba installed their crapware on the HDD or the SDD?
I am also wondering if I can/should install only 64-Bit programs to the SSD? Does it matter? On my current computer the 32-bit programs are automatically installed in the (x86) folder. I wonder if all the folders will be already set up on both drives?
Should I install MSE on the SSD? Any issue there?
Sorry if any of these are stupid questions. I am still pretty confused about having to separate drives and how it all works together.
Thanks again for the help!
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I wonder if the 32gb SSD isn't intended for a cache file to speed up HD. Those we've seen have all been 32 gb.
We have helped users install Win7 to them, though, so after checking if Win7 is already installed on it, if you want to do so you may need to delete and format it first with our help which is how this has worked before. This causes the booted installer to see the SSD so you can install there.
You may also need to turn off a RAID setting in BIOS (most often by changing SATA controller to AHCI before reinstall) and onboard Intel Rapid Storage technology in some cases. We can get into this more if these come into play.
So it's a challenge to install the OS to the small SSD intended for use as a cache drive but we can help you as we have with about a dozen of these already.
Step 14 in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 also shows how to link the data easiest from the HDD.
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Thank you Gregrocker. I looked at your awesome Clean Install tutorial a little while ago. It is very well done.
You may also have to turn off a RAID setting in BIOS and Intel Rapid Storage technology in some cases.
I am getting a little nervous and starting to wonder whether I should just follow your easier: Clean Up Factory Bloatware instead of doing a clean install.
I am curious to see how the computer is set up, and whether Toshiba installed the OS on the 32 gb SSD. I believe that was how it was described in a video review I watched a few days ago, but I'm not certain.
Darn, I wish the SSD that is just a little bit larger. A quick boot time will be nice, but I'm not sure how much of a speed increase I will get if most of my programs are on the HDD.
I don't play any games so that's not an issue. I thought it would be nice to have my browser and media player on the SSD. If I could have Thunderbird on the SSD too, that would be nice, but I would have to have all of the data stored on the HDD. Same with Firefox.
How would I go about making sure that the programs I install on the SSD don't store any big data files on the SSD? Does it depend on whether or not I can tweak each program? Change the destination path for the programs folders? A more global Windows setting I can change? Am I making any sense?
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When you get the new computer, why don't you post a screen shot of your disk management and we can take a look at it, if you like and advise you further.
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Then 32GB would be plenty for the OS and all programs (no big games though) if done correctly. I have 6 systems with 6 SSDs and they all run around 25GB for the OS, All my programs and the pagefile of 2GBs.
Moving the pagefile is not a good idea. With 6GB of RAM, it will probably hardly be used. I always reduce the pagefile to 2GB. And I also delete the hiberfile completely.
ad3) You cannot move the restore points to another device or partition. That is only possible with the Windows server editions. You can, however, reduce the shadowstorage to nil (which is 300MB).
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That's a good idea because it is not clear whether the OS is really installed on the SSD or whether the SSD is only used as a buffer. A 6GB RAM system with full size pagefile and full size hiberfile would barely fit on 32GBs. But when 'tuned', it will fit easily.
Then 32GB would be plenty for the OS and all programs (no big games though) if done correctly. I have 6 systems with 6 SSDs and they all run around 25GB for the OS, All my programs and the pagefile of 2GBs.
Moving the pagefile is not a good idea. With 6GB of RAM, it will probably hardly be used. I always reduce the pagefile to 2GB. And I also delete the hiberfile completely.
ad3) You cannot move the restore points to another device or partition. That is only possible with the Windows server editions. You can, however, reduce the shadowstorage to nil (which is 300MB).
Thank you for your help! :)
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The problem of a nonuniform distribution of muscovite-poor rocks (e.g., pure marble) would only exacerbate the mismatch between t * and z *. This may not be a problem for the samples from small basins, but the samples discussed here with large basins that include substantial proportions of the LHS may be not well sampled by the coarse muscovites used in most detrital studies. As discussed here, the technical necessity of restricting single-crystal analysis to coarse-grained muscovites (which are less common in the LHS in our observation) will bias the population toward the GHS and away from the LHS.
Although the statistical analysis of Table 3 suggests that only a few of the basins discussed here come close to a rigorous definition of a good fit between the distribution of elevation and muscovite ages, an inspection of Figure 6 shows that some fits are clearly better than others. Figure 6 offers a bootstrap confidence assessment by qualitatively checking how well the t * overlaps with the cloud produced by the 300 random samplings of the topography. The samples with the best statistics in Table 3 have a relatively good fit using this measure (samples Nar, Nyadi, S5, S12, and S37). The basins corresponding to these samples have areas that range from 180 to 1627 km 2 . One might expect this relationship to get worse with increasing basin area, but this is not the case, particularly for the six new samples reported here. The two samples from very small catchments (MO-50 and MO-81) fail the bootstrap measure of overlap over most of the range of t * and z *, but the two largest basins (corresponding to NAG-12 and MO-217) have t * that overlaps with the z * cloud about ¾ of the distribution for the CDF but do not overlap nearly as well for the PDP ( Figs. 6A, 6B ). The two medium-sized basins (Guy-2 and MO-139) have the worst correspondence ( Figs. 6C, 6D ). Rather than suggesting that the assumptions of Ruhl and Hodges (2005) are met better for big basins than for small, the better fit of z * and t * for the largest basins suggests an averaging over space (in particular over a range of elevations) and time not possible in small basins (see Gabet et al., 2008 ).
The overall poor correspondence between t * based on muscovite ages and z * in central Nepal suggests that the cooling from ∼400 °C to surface temperatures requires so much time (even at Himalayan erosion rates) that post–muscovite closure deformation of the region (even relatively small regions) will be a much stronger factor in the geographic distribution of muscovite ages than a simple age-elevation relationship. However, t * distributions based on other thermochronometers with lower closure temperatures such as zircon or apatite dated by either the fission track (FT) or (U-Th)/He method may give better and more-common correspondence to z *. In such cases, valuable and nuanced tectonic interpretations may be forthcoming. We do not mean to suggest that dating of modern detrital muscovites is without utility; far from it (see following). However, due to the high T c of Ar in muscovite, the instances in which one can do things such as calculate basin-wide erosion rates from the range of ages and the range of elevations seem to be the exception rather than the rule (see Braun, 2005 ).
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…and then gone on to actually love those characters and use them in stories.
Anyway, I had Matt give me keywords for two characters, so I could draw some illustrations for the activity in the book.
Here are the prompts Matt gave me:
…And I came up with a roller girl and a 7-legged Martian.
The second part of the assignment is to put the characters together into a scenario, and build a story structure. So I gamely put Trish Trash, my rollergirl, on Mars, and invented a wacky caper plot involving a stolen suitcase, and then drew another illustration to suggest that storyline. It was just an example for our textbook. I wasn't trying to come up with anything deep.
But days later, I still felt myself drawn to the idea. On Christmas day, 2006, I jotted down a few notes:
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My suspicions: Trojan Horse or Virus of some sort from a pirated torrent of Office I downloaded to my Mac
Trojan or Virus from BackTrack5 - downloaded to my Mac and Avast Scan gave me a warning on this file, as well as another file "boot.root loader" that was in my "Resources" folder.
Any one of my online accounts is compromised in some way: twitter email accounts, maybe even my apple ID ( passwords were all changed after my visit to the Apple store)
FlashBack Trojan from Adobe, I recently downloaded Adobe Acrobat Pro Trial recently on my Mac before this started to happen and Apple has dedicated a section to Adobe on their security page https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2472
user seems to know just what he did wrong at least, first rule of torrents, don't trust the content : second rule of torrent, don't trust the content. can see this is a little old now, and OP hasn't bothered or been able to get back, would imagine he has figured out that deleting suspect torrent, and running full scale security sweep on system in safe mode will have helped, probably system restore too. Also noticed he said WPA key has been changed, so it is a fairly safe bet he is on his way to cleaning it up, but again, the question NOW is how do we engage with a member to make then WANT to come back and let us know it is all now OK, because, I, for one, am now getting to the point that help is no longer so easily given, as I really DO like the happy endings, and with no further input we will never truly know
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We have both been on this forum for more years than we care to remember?
You very rarely get feedback I am afraid, I would say about 10% other than from contributing members.
Best I had was many years ago............... the guy was in Cape Town and had a USB glitch............... he replied:
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Trial software normally has ads on it, it will take a little bit of your bandwidth sending ads to every viewers, now as you mention that you are using pirated stuff it could also be that one, to those people who make free stuff usually took advantage of what they offer and you never know. There are lots of bandwidth monitor software that will help you monitor your broadband usage, one of those is Surplus Meter. Hope it helps. Cheers!
and then again, for us veterans at least, posts like the above really make me want to a) bang my head against a brick wall repeatedly or b) tear the information to shreds reducing it to nothing but twaddle as it really provides no useful details... once upon a time I remember wanting to help such a person understand the technology better.
... just quickly; bandwidth monitor will give you no advantage or usable info unless it is installed between the gateways and networked computers (IE, proxy or gateway server). ANYway...
I have always made a point to come back to a forum and reply and actually conclude a thread.
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Hi there CT1,
I will lay 100:1 on that the poster is a bot of somesort, but that is not against the rules as far as I am aware, so I can't take action until there is some sort of serious infringement.
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January 23, 2013 – A possible Dell buyout this week wouldn't mark a new era of private equity takeovers, says one expert, but could strain the relationships of potential suitor Microsoft.
Dell is close to clinching a leveraged buyout by Silver Lake Management LLC, and Microsoft is discussing providing part of the funding, people with knowledge of the matter said yesterday. Microsoft may contribute about $2 billion for the deal, which could be announced this week, one person said.
Dell Inc.'s move toward a leveraged buyout doesn't signal the return of multi-billion dollar private equity deals, Blackstone Group LP Chief Executive Officer Stephen Schwarzman said.
"This isn't your run-of-the-mill situation," Schwarzman, 65, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today. "This is a pretty unique set of circumstances with a fundamentally unleveraged company with an owner and founder that can put up a lot of the equity to make the deal happen."
Blackstone didn't look at buying Dell because the PC business "is a tough road," Schwarzman said.
"The financial elements of the deal are very clever," he said. "The issue is going to be how the business actually performs."
The firm invested about $4 billion out of its $16 billion leveraged-buyout fund last year, Schwarzman said.
An investment would shore up a partner and help Microsoft gain influence in business computing as it loses ground with consumers gravitating toward competing tablets and smartphones. PC makers also may fret that the arrangement will give Dell an advantage, such as through an early look at new software, deeper insight into strategy or preference in product marketing and promotion. Microsoftbecame a competitor to hardware manufacturers with the release of the Surface tablet last year.
"If you're a vendor that wasn't happy with Surface, the idea of Microsoft owning part of Dell is not going to cheer you up," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at market-research firm Gartner Inc. "But if you're Microsoft and you feel you need to do more devices, and that hardware and software need to be more integrated, the ability to have major influence on a big PC vendor opens some interesting opportunities."
Frank Shaw, a spokesman for Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, and David Frink, a spokesman for Round Rock, Texas- basedDell, declined to comment.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, tested ties to the PC industry last year when it unexpectedly announced plans to start selling the Surface. The tablet has gotten off to a disappointing start, and it's not yet clear how formidable a competitor Microsoft will be. Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS AG, halved his estimate for Surface sales, to 1 million units in the fiscal second quarter, which ended in December, citing "gloomy sentiment" after the holiday shopping season.
Still, it makes sense for cash-rich Microsoft to prop up a seller of PCs and tablets that feature its software. Both companies are struggling to mount a credible response to Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in the market for mobile computers.
Microsoft had $66.6 billion in cash and short-term investments at the end of September.
Dell, the third-largest PC maker, is just one of a handful of vendors selling a tablet with Windows RT, a version of Microsoft's Windows for chips based on ARM Holdings Plc technology. Dell will also begin shipping a separate tablet using the flagship operating system, Windows 8, this month.
Computer makers and Microsoft are facing a prolonged slump as PC shipments are forecast to drop for the second year in a row in 2013. They fell 4 percent in 2012 and will slide another 1.5 percent this year, according to estimates by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Tablet sales rose 72 percent last year and will surge 54 percent this year, JPMorgan forecast.
"The entire PC ecosystem is in a world of hurt right now, and it's uncertain whether the PC market returns to a growth market," said Israel Hernandez, a San Francisco-based managing director at MKM Partners LLC who has a neutral rating on Microsoft. "They both have a vested interest in making sure the PC market can once again survive."
By becoming a private company, Dell could shift focus to its services business and away from PCs, said Wes Miller, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Washington-based research firm. Microsoft may have decided it needs the investment to keep Dellfirmly in the PC market, he said.
The strategy nevertheless may not sit well with other partners, particularly HP, the top PC maker, he said. Michael Thacker, a spokesman for Palo Alto, California- based Hewlett-Packard, declined to comment, as did Jeff Shafer, a spokesman for Lenovo Group Ltd., the No. 2 PC maker.
Microsoft's possible Dell investment draws parallels with Google's acquisition last year of handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. The deal was met with speculation that Google, backer of the Android operating system, would somehow favor hardware made by Motorola -- becoming a competitor to other Android users, Miller said.
"People said a lot of anticipatorily bad things when Google acquired Motorola, and none of the bad things people predicted have come to pass," he said.
Microsoft went down a similar path in 2011, when it announced a strategic agreement with handset manufacturer and Windows Phone licensee Nokia Oyj. Still, Microsoft maintains a close relationship with other Windows Phone sellers, including HTC Corp.
Microsoft would add to a lengthening list of large strategic investments in technology companies. The software maker has a stake in Facebook Inc. and invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble Inc. subsidiary to focus on e-readers. It also invested $5 billion in 1999 into what was then AT&T Corp.
This also isn't the first time Microsoft has considered bolstering a potential Silver Lake deal. In 2011, the software maker offered to help fund an offer by Silver Lake and other firms to acquire a minority stake in Yahoo! Inc., people familiar with the matter said at the time. The deal never materialized.
Microsoft invested $150 million in then-foundering Apple in 1997. The investment contributed to the very survival of Apple and helped put the company on the long path toward becoming the world's most valuable company.
An investment in Dell would be distinct in many ways, Miller said.
Apple was "a pity infusion in a near-bankrupt company," he said.
Microsoft doesn't own part of Nokia, and Google's Android is free. That means Google owes less consideration to partners that use the software, whereas PC makers pay Microsoft to use Windows, Gartenberg said.
While PC makers might have a reason to feel aggrieved if Microsoft winds up owning part of Dell, they don't have very many means of redress, he said. Apple doesn't license its software to outside vendors. Google also competes with partners and its software isn't popular on desktop computers.
Microsoft meanwhile needs to focus most on how to restore growth to its Windows business, which has fallen short of analysts' estimates in six of the last eight quarters.
"Ultimately Microsoft is responsible to its shareholders, not for how well its partners do," Gartenberg said. "Partners need an operating system, and the operating system of choice on personal computers is Windows. They may have to live with it."
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Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. finds it "shocking" that a 2006 Pew poll indicated 81 percent of British Muslims viewed themselves as Muslims first and British citizens second ("Multiculturalism is the enemy of democracy," June 2).
Presumably, Mr. Ehrlich would be equally alarmed at the millions of people in this country — many of them from his own political party — who would profess to be Christians first and Americans second. If not, it would be interesting to hear Mr. Ehrlich explain the distinction.
On the other hand, Christians could indeed be a potential threat. After all, in his own day, Jesus was considered a dangerous subversive, with all his talk about forgiveness, the seduction of wealth, turning the other cheek and caring for the poor and strangers.
Those words challenge our obsessions with consumption, property, power, celebrity and violence. Perhaps fortunately for the American way of life, few people take his ideas seriously enough to act on them.
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Dirty Dish Detector
By Tara Stratton
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. My family usually runs a turkey trot together, makes and eats great food, and spends the evening playing board games. The one down side of Thanksgiving is all of those dirty dishes! Sometimes I think it takes more time to clean up than we even spend eating turkey dinner. The result? The family falls asleep on the floor (thanks tryptophan!) before all of the dishes are cleaned up, leaving a mess in the kitchen sink.
Lucky for us all, London Hackspace member Tom created the Dirty Dish Detector to help keep the hackspace sink clean. The system alerts users when a dish has been left in the sink for too long, ensuring you'll get all of those dishes cleaned up before napping ensues. The Dirty Dish Detector uses a webcam above the sink, hooked to a BeagleBone open-source computer, based on TI's Sitara AM335x processor. The computer runs the HoughCircles function in OpenCV to detect circle-shaped items like plates, classes and bowls. BeagleBone then sends a signal to an Arduino, which deploys different alerts (based on how long the sink has been full) to remind people to clean up their dishes.
Tom has a few upgrades planned that may help us catch more criminals by next year's Thanksgiving! Right now, cutlery can escape the gaze of OpenCV since it isn't circular. Next year's offenders will be caught red-handed for cutlery misdeeds. Tom plans to add a camera to catch mugshots of these dish delinquents as well.
Want to make your own Dirty Dish Detector? Visit Tom's GitHub site to find the code!


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An Egyptian-born preacher has pleaded not guilty in New York to charges that he conspired with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in Manhattan federal court.
Earlier Tuesday, two men brought from England to face terrorism charges made their first appearance before another Manhattan judge. Their trial was set for October 2013.
Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary are charged with participating in the bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. They were indicted in a case that also charged Osama bin Laden. Both pleaded not guilty on Saturday. The judge on Tuesday set their trial date for October 2013.
Another Manhattan judge will conduct a hearing for Egyptian-born preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri.
Al-Masri, indicted under the name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa with al-Masri listed as an alias, became well known in the 1990s as his Finsbury Park Mosque in London became a training ground for extremist Islamists including Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid. He had been jailed since 2004 in Britain on separate charges.
Al-Masri has unusual needs in prison after losing part of each of his arms in what he says was a fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
He also is missing an eye. His lawyers in England said he suffers from depression, chronic sleep deprivation, diabetes and other ailments.
His court-appointed lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said Saturday that he needed the use of his arms and wanted his prosthetics back. "Otherwise, he will not be able to function in a civilized manner." She did not return a request for comment Monday.
Traci Billingsley, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman, said she cannot provide specific information about individual inmates.
"In general, if an inmate arrives at any of our facilities with a prosthetic that we believe could pose a danger, it would not be permitted inside," she said, adding that the inmate would be medically evaluated to determine if other accommodations or devices would be appropriate.
John N. Billock, head of the Orthotics & Prosthetics Rehabilitation Engineering Centre in Warren, Ohio, and a pioneer in the field, said a hook for a hand would "definitely be considered a weapon."
"You could brutalize somebody with it," he said. "You can put somebody's eyes out or knock out their teeth."
He said hooks are typically made of stainless steel or aluminum. The price of prosthetics in place of hands can range from $15,000 to $100,000, he said.
Al-Masri is being held prior to trial in the same federal lockup where a prison guard lost an eye and was left brain damaged when he was stabbed with a sharpened comb in 2000 by a terrorism defendant awaiting trial in the embassy bombings plot.
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in the stabbing.


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PHOENIX - The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced Surprise, Ariz. will serve as the location for the 2013 NCAA Division II Mens and Womens Tennis Championships. The event will take place May 8-11, 2013 at the Surprise Tennis Complex. The Phoenix Regional Sports Commission, in partnership with the Surprise Tennis Complex and Grand Canyon University, will serve as tournament hosts.
The NCAA Men's and Women's Tennis Committee is looking forward to working with Grand Canyon University and the Phoenix Regional Sports Commission for the 2013 Division II Tennis Championships," said NCAA Committee Chair Robin Langley. Our goal is to create a true championship experience and exciting atmosphere for the student-athletes during their time in Surprise, Arizona. We hope the community will come out and support the student-athletes because I promise they will see some amazing tennis and fierce competition in an exciting venue during the week of the championships."
The team championships consist of 48 teams. The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the Surprise Tennis Complex hosting the final 16-team bracket to determine the national champion.
The City of Surprise is honored to be selected to host the NCAA Division II Mens and Womens Tennis Championships in 2013," said City of Surprise Community & Recreation Services Director Mark Coronado. Surprise is committed to making sports tourism a priority, and the award of this tournament emphasizes our commitment to elevating tennis in Arizona to a national level."
We are proud to bring another great NCAA championship to the Valley of the Sun," said Phoenix Regional Sports Commission President Jon Schmieder. Along with our partners at Grand Canyon University and the Surprise Tennis Complex, we will put on a great event for the student-athletes and their fans."
Grand Canyon University Director of Athletics Keith Baker said the university is eager to serve as the host institution for the tournament. We are excited about the opportunity to bring the NCAA Division II Tennis Championships to Arizona. Our desire is to help provide the very best competitive environment and championship experience for the student-athletes who come here to represent their schools."
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With my phone I have always had to worry about the memory that I am using. It only has 500mb, stupid Infuse. Everyday I have to use a memory manager to kill things that I don't want running, just so my phone doesn't freeze. With my new Nexus I worry about the same thing. It isn't as bad since I have twice the memory. I still worry that if I download too many games they will keep services running in the back ground and slow me down.
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United Way of Texas - https://www.uwtexas.org/hurricane-harvey
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Dispensaries approved, but details remain elusive
By NIGEL DUARA
Of the Associated Press
PORTLAND — The Oregon Legislature just put the state medical marijuana program in the plant-inspection business.
But that's not all. Under a broad set of authorities granted by the passage of a bill approving medical marijuana dispensaries, the state program will soon also run background checks, conduct on-site safety inspections and perform financial audits.
It's all part of a legislative effort aimed at legitimizing the hundreds of Oregon dispensaries already operating in a legal gray area. As part of the bargain, the dispensaries will now submit to the same kind of scrutiny — and paperwork — as other types of businesses.
"There are many (dispensaries) right now that are paying taxes, paying worker's comp, taking care of employees," said Oregonians for Medical Rights lobbyist Geoff Sugarman, who drafted the bill. "The responsible thing to do for patients is to regulate these facilities."
Gov. John Kitzhaber is expected to sign the bill, which was passed by the Oregon House on July 6.
Under the new system, a patient gives a grower or caregiver permission to take excess marijuana to a dispensary, which will reimburse the grower for the expense of cultivating the plant and distributing the pot.
The dispensary then charges the patient, though those costs aren't necessarily the same number.
In a new twist on the current system, growers will also be able to charge for their labor. Specifically, "transferring, handling, securing, insuring, testing, packaging and processing usable marijuana and immature marijuana plants and the cost of supplies, utilities and rent or mortgage."
That has opponents to the dispensary system alarmed. State Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, said he agrees marijuana has a medical use, but said the bill approving dispensaries will lead to widespread abuse.
"HB 3460 allows operators to set their own prices!" Olson said in a letter urging Kitzhaber to veto the bill. "Even currently it is being sold at a profit."
Much about the Oregon dispensary system remains uncertain, because the Legislature gave the state marijuana program broad latitude for writing the dispensaries' rules and a March deadline for doing it.
For one, the process by which the dispensaries will be audited is unclear. The bill directs the dispensaries to maintain records of transactions — what they spent, what they spent it on and who their customers are.
But the state marijuana program will have to determine how often it checks those costs, and who does the checking.
Another unclear element is labor costs, which will be determined by the grower, who can charge whatever he or she wants for the time spent cultivating.
But growers who seek to charge exorbitant labor rates may find that patients and dispensaries won't pay up, said Jim Klahr, a patients' advocate and advisory board member to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program.
The rates of labor and overall reimbursement "are going to be set by the market," Klahr said. "That, I think, is fair."
The system is primed to enable growers to act as marijuana wholesalers and dispensaries as retailers. Advocates for the dispensary law say it creates a safe access point for patients who seek marijuana, and gives growers a greater financial incentive to keep the drug in the medical system and off the more lucrative black market.
The bill gives the state marijuana program four new employees — two for inspections and two to handle the paperwork — and $800,000 for two years.
With those new resources, the program plans to contract with laboratories to test marijuana for mold or pesticides, make sure the person responsible for the facility hasn't had certain drug convictions and keeps its registration up to date, among other requirements written into the law.
Oregon passed a 1998 law legalizing medical marijuana that allows patients to possess 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 24 plants, only six of which are permitted to be producing marijuana. Dispensaries will themselves become another kind of card holder, but none of the limits on weight or number of plants will apply.
Given the vagaries of working with sometimes-finicky plants, which can fail or can produce a bumper crop, other states have sometimes found the dispensary model an upgrade, but insufficient to meet patients' demands. In New Jersey, the Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair announced in June that it would close for two weeks, citing "inferior" crop yields and a lack of supply.
In California, supply hasn't been a problem but the size of operations — and their profits — has sometimes drawn federal attention. More than two dozen California landlords face forfeiture proceedings because they allowed pot shops to rent space in their buildings.
In Oregon in 2010, the state's interim U.S. attorney joined his counterparts in other medical marijuana states by sending warning letters to operations he felt were the most egregious offenders of the state's medical marijuana law, threatening them — or their landlords — with civil asset forfeiture if they didn't close shop.
With the pot shops up and running, they'll be expected to follow the same rules of employment law as other businesses. That means stores whose primary purpose is the distribution of a federally-prohibited substance will pay federal taxes. IRS spokesman Richard Panick said pot shops wouldn't be treated differently.
"It is, as with any employer, an application of employment tax law," Panick said.
With advocates winning legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado, the dispensary system in Oregon also establishes a framework for a distribution system should voters approve it. A previous effort in 2010 fell flat at the ballot box — political observers say the measure was ill-worded and overly broad.
"The goal is satisfaction of the patient, not how much you can grow or how many plants you have," Klahr said. "It's going to create a place people can finally go."
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SALEM, Va. - King College opens the men's wrestling season Sunday with the third-annual Hokie Open in Salem, Va.
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Quantum vegetarianismFriday, April 16th, 2010
First, a brief note: people forget that quantum does not denote something in physics or science fiction. A quantum is a small, discrete, indivisible unit of something. Just because the word has a science-fiction connotation does not mean it's justified.
Most (if not all) dietary restrictions are binary. That is, you are either vegetarian or you're not, you're vegan or you're not, you keep kosher or you don't. I'm not sure why this is, but it probably has to do with ease of use. It would be cool if you could succinctly express something like "I derive 20-40% of my calories from meat, excluding delicious, delicious bacon." Ignoring complications of language, it would be difficult even to ensure you're sticking to your own weird dietary guide — another example is how difficult dieting is. Now I'm thinking how cool it would be to have an augmented reality system that would pop up red X's over food you shouldn't eat, and like, smiley faces with nutritional information over the stuff you should eat, while it keeps a tally of how you're doing over time. But, I digress.
I think there should be more effort made into breaking down the continuum between pure vegetarianism and pure carnivorousness into more sizable chunks. Notice here I'm assuming that we define vegetarian as "someone who doesn't eat meat", so take that into account. Of all the different ways to break it down, we need metrics for thinking about partial vegetarianism that are easy to compute, easy to track, and easy to observe. Let's dive right in, shall we?
For me, the easiest unit of aggregation is to not eat meat on certain days. The Catholics got to this one first. It used to be no one ate meat on Fridays, and now during lent some still don't eat meat on Fridays. The next step I see is restricting meat consumption by meal, by either only eating meat during a certain number of meals over a period of time, or not eating meat during certain meals. Going by meals doesn't scale well, since there's only 3 meals in a day but 21 meals (avg) per week, so every week you would need to tally how many meals you ate meat. Then again, even when you avoid meat at the day level, you still need to remember how many days you didn't eat meat. Unless you make some proclamation that you won't eat meat on certain days, which is inflexible, quantum vegetarianism will probably need external systems to track meat consumption over time.
Yet again I find myself wishing for the time when we will all have chips implanted in our brains, in this case to track meat consumption over time. I may yet be the cause of the singularity.


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Horoscopes for week of December 2, 2004
Where do you want to go in the coming week, Aries? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Your soul is the best friend you keep forgetting you have. It's closer than your breath and older than death. It dreams like a mountain, laughs like a river, and communicates with you in the exuberantly mysterious style of animals and gods. You are alive because of your soul! It loves you with nonstop unconditional ingenuity. Isn't it right, then, to devote at least one special day each year to honoring it and giving thanks for its blessings? From an astrological perspective, this is a perfect time to do just that. Schedule Soul Celebration Day for sometime this week.
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It's an excellent time for you to fuel your urge to compete. But wait! Before you start working yourself into a frenzy about your rivals and adversaries, before you erupt with a surge of jealous fantasies, read this quote from ballet superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov: "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." That's the special kind of competitive zeal I advise you to stoke in the coming weeks, Gemini.
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"Centuries of travel lore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun." So says Phil Cousineau in his book, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred. I hope that's a perfect description of your current state, Cancerian. It may not be obvious yet, but losing your direction is the best gift you could have possibly been given. Being unsure of your next move is a crucial development in your life story, and a virtual guarantee that you will be in the right place at the right time for a divine intervention a few weeks from now.
Need a few more whacks applied to your mental blocks in the coming week, Cancerian? A few more caresses administered to your growing edge? Cruise on over to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
One good way to celebrate your astrological Season of Rapture would be to acquire the book Sexual Energy Ecstasy: A Practical Guide to Lovemaking Secrets of the East and West, by David and Ellen Ramsdale. Carry out any of the exercises between pages 333 and 339, including these: 1. Imagine that your house is burning down around you while you're making love; you're too blissfully engrossed to flee, and die in each other's arms. 2. As you make love, imagine you're dreaming, and will soon wake up. 3. Imagine that your lover's face keeps changing, becoming the faces that he or she had in past incarnations. 4. Make love with paper bags over your heads. Cut out holes for your eyes and mouths. 5. Imagine that you're making love to Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, Buddha, Tara, Kwan Yin, Krishna, Parvati, or some other enlightened one.
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Don't fight the inevitable. Don't resist it and bitch about it and curse it. On the other hand, don't just lie down and let it roll on over you, relinquishing your will and losing your spunk. Instead, Virgo, have fun with the inevitable. Tease it and question it. Influence it through the ingenuity of your playfulness. Develop a relationship with it that allows you to be true to yourself even as you learn to love it.
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My house isn't big enough to hold all my stuff, so I keep some of it at a local storage facility. My room there is number 417. It's in the middle of a long hall lined with rooms that other people have rented for their junk. The sequence of numbered doors is odd; it goes 415 to 416 to 417 to 752 to 418 to 419 to 420. How did 752 get in there? It's a mystery--sort of like your life in the coming week, Libra. I predict that you'll soon experience a comparable interruption in the orderly flow of things. But that shouldn't be a problem for you as long as you don't worry about it. I suggest that you just glide through the seemingly out-of-place event, having faith that the regularly scheduled flow will return after a relatively brief blip.
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Libra? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional "war on poverty." It was an enlightened use of martial force--an unprecedented attempt to channel the macho might of the federal government into an onslaught of benevolence. Now I call on you to pull off a comparable trick. In the coming weeks, convince your inner warrior to turn away from all temptations to express rage and destruction. Reprogram him or her to fight wildly in behalf of beauty, truth, justice, and love.
How much do you want to know about your destiny in the coming week, Scorpio? How far do you dare to go? For more insight into your shimmering, undulating fate, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Be here now. That's usually pretty good advice. It means reeling your mind in from its distracted daydreaming about the past and future so that you can be fully attentive to the present moment. To really be here now, you have to stop fantasizing about what might happen or what could have been, and instead focus on what's actually unfolding right in front of you. Having said all that, however, I'm going to give you astrological permission to spend an inordinate amount of time in the coming week following a different mandate. For a limited time only, Sagittarius, you can and should be there then: Vividly imagine yourself in a desirable future scenario as if it were already happening. Feel the feelings you'll have when it materializes.
No one knows you better than you do, Sagittarius. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
In his book, The Secrets and Mysteries of Hawaii, Pila Chiles recounts the advice given him by an Indian holy man: "If you have lost the business, your house, and wife, after you have been pronounced terminally ill and life has dealt you the worst blows, there is only one duty left. That is to crawl over to the nearest mirror, hoist yourself up, look deeply into it with your last breath, and say aloud seven times: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!'" No matter how low you might feel, Capricorn, you have to admit that your problems aren't even one percent as serious as that. You should find it relatively easy, then, to go to a mirror right now and crow "cock-a-doodle-doo!" seven times. Please do.
Hungry for more inspiration, Capricorn? Curious about the unfolding mysteries? For more juicy details about your destiny in the coming week, check out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Dr. Ivan Goldberg (http://psychcentral.com/maniaquiz.htm) has created a questionnaire to help excitable people stay alert for when they may be about to go over the edge. For instance, he advises them to be wary if they're thinking things like, "My mind has never been sharper," "I need less sleep than usual," "I have more new ideas than I can handle," "I have been feeling particularly playful," or "I have been feeling like 'the life of the party.'" The weird thing is, Aquarius, that you're expressing many of the symptoms he names, only in you it's a sign of extraordinary vitality. Now please tap into the generosity and joy you've got in such abundance right now, and make the following affirmation, which is number 15 on Goldberg's list: *I have special plans for the world.*
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Aquarius. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
For far too long, Pisces, you have been overly tolerant of sober, solemn approaches. You have allowed business-like people with a lack of emotional riches to define important questions. You have acted as if the absurdly literal mindset that views everything in black and white is strong and authoritative. What better time than now, therefore, to launch a strike in the name of irreverence, hilarity, and wildly poetic justice?
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Pisces? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
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