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Removing Spirits from a Home with Rituals and Ceremonies
Article by Craig Hamilton-Parker. The first thing to do if someone reports that they are experiencing poltergeist activity is, of course, to ascertain whether there is a normal explanation for what has been happening. Perhaps the "poltergeist" is a noisy pipe, a draft, a prankster, and/or the result of an over-active imagination. It is worth noting that researchers have noticed that real poltergeist activity usually manifests in many different ways.
You get repetition, not exactly the same thing, but similarities between events. If the poltergeist activity always follows the same pattern and the person reporting them appears to have all the answers, I would advise you to be suspicious of the reports. However, if the person is completely perplexed by what has been happening and does not appear to be an attention seeker, the reported instance may be worthy of investigation.
Poltergeists – Noisy Ghosts
In every genuine poltergeist case I have encountered there has been a background factor of high emotional stress. I am convinced that poltergeist activity is somehow caused by this emotional stress, either in the form of projected psychological energy alone or with the influence of spirits that have connected to this mind field. Sometimes I feel a bit sorry for the spirit who has become entangled in the "victim's" mind field. No wonder they sometimes become angry, frustratingly trapped in a web of fear and intense emotional energy! Nonetheless, in either instance the priority is to remove the cause of the problem, the high stress that fuels these events.
Removing Spirits from a Home
To deal with the situation, it is important to win the confidence of the people involved by listening to them. This may reveal the anxieties causing the energy that fuel the phenomena. Naturally, it's hoped that the medium will take care of everything for them; but those afflicted need to understand that it can be done only with their co-operation. Although some spirits may be involved, the key to solving the problem is to help the witnesses into the right frame of mind to establish a degree of natural psychic protection. They must come to understand that they are part of the process of restoring harmony.
Removing A Spirit Attachment
After removing a troublesome spirit from a location, I have at times left feeling unsatisfied, because the person at the centre of the activity has not resolved his or her inner stress or been willing to address the issue. It is, therefore, possible that, like a magnet, they will attract or create new phenomena. Right from the start, it is best to tell a person, "We can sort this out together," instead of something on the order of, "I can get rid of this thing." Again, this will involve a lot of listening.
The only way to get rid of the problem is to reduce the stress. A priest doing an exorcism may achieve this end, but it may also inadvertently cause added fear and further fuel the stress. Similarly, "mediums" prone to fantasy may make all sorts of unsubstantiated claims about the spirits involved. This can only make matters worse for the already frightened witnesses. No, grandiose claims of "I can deal with it" do not get to the heart of the matter. It is up to us to empower the witnesses to know that they can deal with it themselves.
Contacting Spirits
With my own work, I like to sit and meditate in the place that is the epicentre of the trouble. I will open my mind to the spirit influences and, once contact has been made (and verified), I encourage the spirit to progress to the higher life. Usually this is not that hard to achieve, for there is already a natural pull being extended from the next life to encourage the spirit person to let go. They, too, may have a lot of fear about doing just that, and it has been exaggerated further by the mind field of the witnesses. To them, I may suggest that they think of someone they love who has gone on, so that spirit will draw near and now help them cross over.
If the witnesses are involved in this communication it can, if done properly with an easygoing attitude and in good humour, remove the influence and, most importantly, reduce the stress of the people involved. Maintaining this new attitude is, of course, a lot more difficult. If the witnesses are very superstitious, or believe that they are being attacked by black magic, voodoo, and so on, it is going to take further counselling to reduce the stress to a level where all activity stops. Nonetheless, stress reduction is, I believe, the key to solving this type of problem. To help maintain the improved state of mind, a charm amulet or simple ritual can be used to reassure and help amplify this sense of protection. We will now consider some techniques involving protection from negative spirits and from negative energy in general.
Protective Rituals and Techniques
A protective atmosphere is established by creating the right mental attitude. Some people can do this naturally or have learned to do it through mediumistic training, self-observation, NLP observances, yoga, meditation, and so on. Others use a focal point to help them attain this protective inner state, and some may benefit from ritual, ceremony, and invocation. Religion, magic, and folklore all use such techniques to bring the practitioner into transcendent states of consciousness.
Rituals have been with us since the dawn of humanity, when early man painted their dead in ochre to symbolize new blood and the promise rebirth. Some of these may seem very strange to us today. For example, in medieval times burglars believed that they would become invisible if they carried a lighted candle made from the fat of dead babies. According to Roman historians, the British Celts made giant wicker "men" in which prisoners were placed and burned alive, as sacrifices to call down the protection of the fertility gods. And, in many parts of the world today, it is customary to dance around the "May pole" to bring fertility to the women and cattle.
We see echoes of ancient rituals in our modern lives, too. Take Christmas, for example. Strange rituals persist, yet we are oblivious to their meaning. Did you know that kissing under the mistletoe is a remnant of old Druid fertility rites, or that the Christmas tree, with its angel perched on top, is a carryover from when fairylike tree spirits were worshipped? A pine tree was once sacred to the deity Attis and the Great Mother of Gods, Cybele, in a cult brought to Rome from Phrygia in 204 B.C. To celebrate, devotees hung gold and silver ornaments upon the tree, placed the image of a sacred bird in its branches, and left sacrificial gifts underneath. Evergreens were considered symbols of rebirth and used as protective charms against the machinations of evil forces. In particular, the Yuletide Tree was sacred to the Teutonic god Woden as a symbol of eternal life. Similarly, the pagans believed that holly had amazing protective powers, a large bunch was traditionally hung in doorways.
Nonetheless, if we can clear ritual of its superstition, we have something that is a useful tool. Ritual can help us to create appropriate states of mind to use mental energy to influence the world around us and to protect us from negative influences.
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On the 21st of October 1879 in a laboratory in Menlo Park near New York:
After 45 hours an electric light filament bulb dies out.
Thomas Alva Edison is conscious of the fact to have developed the first useable electric light bulb.
In 1881 at the World Exhibition of Paris, rightly judged to be an «...epochal invention...», it has changed the life and the rhythm of the people.
It is so self-evident, that we will be conscious of it, when we, in the true sense of the word, are sitting in the dark, whether, because there is a power failure or the battery does not work, or if it is only defective.
The oil lamps are homage to one of the most brilliant inventors of the last century with more than 1.000 patents, who has created also the first public electric power station of the world besides the Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison.

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The Brit Awards 2013: Simon Cowell flirts 'outrageously' with blonde at after-party
EXCLUSIVE: Simon Cowell certainly made the most of his night out at The Brit Awards as he cuddled and flirted 'outrageously' with a female companion.
The music mogul was joined by a host of stars – including One Direction, Noel Gallagher and Paloma Faith – at the Sony Belvedere after party at The Arts Club in Mayfair on Wednesday night but he only had eyes for one woman.
'Simon was sitting very close to her and they were acting like two school children giggling to each other,' a party insider revealed to Guilty Pleasures.
'They were holding hands and had their arms around each other and at one point Simon went in for a kiss but she turned her head away and just giggled.
'It was outrageous flirting but neither of them seemed to care who saw them,' the source continued.
However, a representative for Simon told us: 'She was his friend, Caroline Stanbury, who is happily married. He chatted to a number of male and female colleagues during the evening, including Harry Styles, the JLS boys, Rebecca Ferguson and Caroline Flack. Simon left on his own.'
The 53-year-old is no stranger to being surrounded by beautiful woman and was only recently linked to ex-Baywatch actress Carmen Electra, 40.
But after months of rumours that they were an item – the pair were spotted kissing in a LA restaurant last September – and despite Si describing their relationship as 'people who date,' Carmen revealed they were just friends.
Since, the Britain's Got Talent judge has been spotted on holiday with his bikini-clad ex-fiancé Mezhgan Hussainy rubbing sun cream into him.


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Mobile is growing, and fast. For example, use of mobile search has grown by 500% over the past two years, while average smartphone usage almost tripled in 2011.
Many are predicting that mobile internet use will replace the desktop, and it is predicted to overtake it in 2015.
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Superb infographic. It makes me curious to understand is surfing using a laptop classified as desktop internet or mobile web?
That's a pretty misleading infographic. From the title and the question in the last panel you could come to the conclusion that desktop internet usage will become obsolete, with mobile internet usage replacing that activity.
This is simply not true, I don't think any of the data shows that people are accessing the internet from desktops less often (other than less desktops sold; that's a pretty dubious number to use though). There has been some information out that the growth of desktop internet usage is slowing, but it's still growing - not going backwards.
Mobile internet usage seems to be incremental to desktop rather than replacement. If you're planning your online strategy you shouldn't ignore desktop to favor mobile only - this will be a costly mistake. Instead, be sure your desktop strategy is solid, well implemented and accurately measured. Once that is sorted then you can be giddy about mobile.
Great data here! I definitely agree with the prediction that mobile will overtake desktop in a few short years.
But, aside from the ease and convenience of search and mobile commerce, I think the one thing should have been mentioned that really may play the biggest role in convincing people to move away from their desktop is cloud technology. The ability to save data without on-board storage and access it anywhere will be that deciding factor that will push many users over the edge, convincing them their desktop is now obsolete.


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Differential presence: Deleuze and performance
Cull, Laura Katherine
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University of Exeter
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To allow for the publication of the thesis content in the form of a monograph.
Abstract This thesis argues that presence in the performing arts can be reconceived, via the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, as an encounter with difference or 'differential presence' which is variously defined as immanence, destratification, affect/becoming, and duration. These definitions are developed through a series of four analyses of exemplary performance practices: 1) The Living Theatre; 2) Antonin Artaud; 3) Allan Kaprow and 4) Goat Island. Chapter One recuperates the Living Theatre from a dominant narrative of 'failure', aided by the Deleuzian concepts of ontological participation, immanence, production/creation and 'the people to come'. Reframing the company as pioneers of methods such as audience participation and collective creation, the chapter argues that their theatrical ambition is irreducible to some simple pursuit of undifferentiated presence (as authenticity or communion). Chapter Two provides an exposition of three key concepts emerging in the encounter between Artaud and Deleuze: the body without organs, the theatre without organs, and the destratified voice. The chapter proposes that To have done with the judgment of god constitutes an instance of a theatre without organs that uses the destratified voice in a pursuit of differential presence – as a nonrepresentative encounter with difference that forces new thoughts upon us. Chapter Three defines differential presence in relation to Deleuze's concepts of affect and becoming-imperceptible and Kaprow's concepts of 'experienced insight', nonart, 'becoming "the whole"', and attention. The chapter argues that Kaprow and Deleuze share a concern to theorize the practice of participating in actuality beyond the subject/object distinction, in a manner that promotes an ethico-political sense of taking part in "the whole". Finally, Chapter Four focuses on the temporal aspect of differential presence, arguing that through slowness, waiting, repetition and imitation, Goat Island's performance work acknowledges and responds to 'the need to open ourselves affectively to the actuality of others' (Mullarkey 2003: 488).
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Present for all agenda items: Rick Anthes, Jack Fellows, Maura Hagan, Katy Schmoll, and Roger Wakimoto
Present for Item 1: Kimberly Kosmenko, Melissa Miller, Milenda Powers, Bob Roesch, and Shawn Winkelman
Present for Item 2: Rena Brasher-Alleva, Hanne Mauriello, Melissa Miller, Bob Roesch, Barb Schnell, and Shawn Winkelman
Present for Item 3: Rena Brasher-Alleva Present for Items 4 and 5: Rena Brasher-Alleva, Susan Friberg, Helen Moshak, and Jeff Reaves
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Present for Item 6: Susan Friberg
Present for Item 7: Bob Henson and Matt Hirschland
To view current and previous summary notes, please click on the following link: https://www.ucar.edu/inside/internal/pc.
We convened at 8:00 am in the Fleischman Building Board Room.
1. Revised Smoking Policy.
Milenda and Kimberly discussed the need to revise the UCAR smoking policy in order to meet the requirements for LEED certification. The policy will apply to all UCAR owned and managed facilities and will ban smoking within 25 feet of building openings and also in shuttles and GSA vehicles. A revised policy will be published soon.
2. FinTools.
Melissa Miller reported that the IFAS accounting system was upgraded successfully at the end of July. The upgrade provides a web-based system that is more capable, more powerful, and vastly superior to the old BiTech system in terms of usability. Shawn Winkelman presented a proposal on the expanded access to salary information for staff in UCAR with the need for this information to do their jobs (e.g., preparation of proposals). Rena summarized some recommendations on policies associated with the proposal and awards (PANDA) project. The purpose of PANDA is to automate the proposal and award process and allow staff to focus on what is most important in the proposal process rather than routine calculations. The Council approved all the recommendations made by Shawn and Rena and congratulated the FinTools Lead Team on the substantial progress that has been made.
3. Budget Updates.
We reviewed NCAR and UCP budget issues. Rena updated the Council on NCAR's budget situation. The final NSF budget for FY11 was received this week, and it was what was expected, a flat budget plus targeted increments (i.e., an increase of $2.0M for certain support activities associated with the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center and community modeling). The guidance for the FY12 budget from NSF is flat. FY13 guidance is to prepare for significant budget cuts as OMB has instructed all agencies to prepare budget requests for FY13 with at least a five percent budget reduction. Jack reported on UCP's budget situation. NOAA Cooperative Agreements for JOSS, COMET and VSP have been approved as multi-year (five-year) agreements. Congratulations to everyone working on these agreements.
4. SPEC-NCAR Advisory Council Meeting Review.
The meeting of the Scientific Programs Evaluation Committee (SPEC) and the NCAR Advisory Council earlier this week appears to have been very successful. The briefing at the end of the meeting by SPEC was quite positive. SPEC is writing a report, and we hope to have it by the end of August. Jim Anderson (Arizona State University and member of SPEC) will present the SPEC report at the October Members' meeting. There was a discussion of "lessons learned" in order to better prepare for the upcoming Management Review in October.
5. NSF Management Review of NCAR and UCAR.
Preparations are underway for the NSF Management Review of NCAR and UCAR, to be held the week of 17-21 October. The drafts of the report are due to Rick by COB Friday, 26 August. Rick will prepare a first draft of the complete report and send it to the Council and writing team before they meet on Thursday, 1 September.
6. October Meetings.
Jack led a discussion on the 3-6 October Board and Members' Meetings and related workshops, including a communication workshop for early career faculty and a community alliance workshop. We reviewed the various agendas and made suggestions. The program is shaping up well, and there is a placeholder for the new UCAR President to speak if the search is successfully completed by then. We will review again in September.
7. Preview of New UCAR/NCAR Lobby Video.
We watched a preview of the new UCAR/NCAR Lobby video. Matt reported that the video would be shown for a few months in the Mesa lobby theater to get public feedback and any changes made reflecting that feedback (based on the E&O "build it, test it, and give it away" motto). The President's Council thought the video was quite good and provided some general comments, including adding NSF as our sponsor on the UCAR slide toward the end. The Council offered thanks to everyone who has worked on this project.
8. Unstructured Discussion.
Maura, Roger and Katy will be going to the NSF meeting on recompetition to be held on 3 November.
Katy reported on a request from RAL for: (1) permission to put up an outside bench at FL in honor of Tom Warner, and (2) name a room in FL3 after Tom. The Council agreed to the bench request but would like to develop a policy to cover the naming of rooms after people rather than considering these requests on an ad hoc basis. F&A was tasked with drafting a policy for President's Council review. A suggestion was made to consider putting an "honor roll" wall or display in each building for honoring deceased staff.
Katy, Matt Hirschland, and Matt McMullen are studying the ramifications of the ballot initiative in November that could begin the process whereby the City of Boulder would ultimately own and operate the electrical utility services now owned and operated by Xcel.
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Now that the tomatoes are really ripe and basil is plentiful, bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches are again a staple at Chez Canine. A couple of pieces of toasted whole-grain bread, some sliced homegrowns, crisp bacon, fresh crunchy lettuce, a few basil leaves, plenty of mayo, a few plops of horseradish, and it's a meal! (Add a fried egg if you want, and call it breakfast.)
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OpenAM, the Book
Regular readers will know that I moved on from my role as community lead for OpenSSO some time ago, first to Huawei, then, a few months ago, to salesforce.com, blogging mostly at the Force.com blog. In that time, Forgerock have adopted OpenSSO, rechristening it OpenAM, and my ex-colleague Indira Thangasamy, Senior Quality Engineering Manager for OpenSSO, has been hard at work on his book on OpenAM.
Packt Publishing were kind enough to send me a review copy of OpenAM, and a very professional job it is. While I've not had a chance to read it in detail, what I have read so far has been excellent - Indira writes clearly, covering every aspect of OpenAM, from the basics of single sign-on to advanced topics such as integrating OpenAM with Google Apps and salesforce.com (yay!) and interacting with OpenAM via its RESTful identity web service interface.
I'll post a more thorough review once I'm done reading, suffice to say for now, if you're working with or evaluating OpenSSO/OpenAM, this should definitely be on your bookshelf! Click here to go to Packt's page for OpenAM.
OpenSSO Brukergruppemøte
I had a note from the OpenSSO Meetup group the other day announcing an 'OpenSSO Brukergruppemøte' (OpenSSO user group meeting, according to Google Translate) in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday April 22, 2010. Norway has long been a hub of OpenSSO activity; it's great to see this continuing into OpenSSO's post-Sun existence. Go along and say "Hei!" to Jonathan and the rest of the ForgeRock guys from me!
The ForgeRock OpenSSO Roadshow comes to North America!
My friends at ForgeRock are bringing their series of OpenSSO user group meetings to the USA and Canada in late March/early April 2010. If you're interested in where they're taking open source identity, you should definitely take this opportunity to participate in one of the meetings - choose from New York (3/29), Toronto (3/30), Chicago (3/31) or San Francisco (4/1). I'll likely take the drive up 280 to the SF event on April 1st - see you there!
OpenSSO User Group Meetings in Northern Europe – Nov/Dec 2009
Although I'm no longer as active in the OpenSSO community as I once was, some things still catch my eye - for example, news of a series of user group meetings across Northern Europe in late November and early December. OpenSSO experts Allan Foster, Jonathan Scudder, Steve Ferris and Victor Ake (not a blogger amongst them!?!?) will be presenting on OpenSSO-related topics ranging from monitoring to the Fedlet, via entitlements and OAuth, in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, London and Brussels. Seems like SupportRock might be a name to watch in the world of OpenSSO...
Easier Microsoft Active Directory Connectivity in OpenSSO Express 8
It's nice to see your RFE's implemented, and that's exactly what happened with OpenSSO issue # 4053: Active Directory configuration should use AD domain name rather than LDAP host/port. I saw Kohsuke's blog entry on More Active Directory integration in Java a little while ago and realized that we could take exactly the same approach in OpenSSO - prompt the admin for the Active Directory domain name rather than a host name and port number.
As Kohsuke mentions, this has a number of advantages - every AD admin knows the domain name, while many would likely have to go look up an individual host name, not to mention the LDAP port number. Since we use the domain name to look up an individual AD controller via DNS, it also means that the admin doesn't need to update OpenSSO's configuration as AD controllers come and go - OpenSSO will always get a valid host name from DNS.
So, when configuring OpenSSO Express 8, you can now just specify the AD domain name. As improvements go, this one is pretty small, but, as I think everyone agrees, the cumulative effect of all these little improvements in OpenSSO over the past two or three years has been HUGE...
OpenSSO Tab Sweep – Sep 11 2009
Wow - it's been months since the last OpenSSO tab sweep. Anyway - here's a collection of the latest news from the world of OpenSSO:
- Sun Developer Network continues to publish excellent articles on OpenSSO. Last month, Rick Palkovic of SDN and Francois Lascelles of Layer 7 Techologies collaborated on Delegating XML Gateway Runtime Authorization to OpenSSO, showing how Layer 7's SecureSpan XML Networking Gateway integrates with OpenSSO to provide edge security for SOA, Web 2.0 and cloud-based web services.
- This month, Rick's written another article, this time with Qingwen Cheng and Mrudul Uchil of Sun's OpenSSO engineering team. Enabling IP/Resource/Environment Based Authentication With OpenSSO is a three-part series explaining how this functionality, new in OpenSSO Express Build 8, replaces the pre-existing Gateway servlet to provide a flexible mechanism for including contextual information in the authentication process.
- My colleague, Hubert Le Van Gong has been blogging profusely over the past few weeks on the topic of OpenID 2.0 and OpenSSO. As Hubert mentions, we recently rewrote the OpenSSO OpenID extension to support OpenID 2.0. Hubert's blog entries cover a number of topics specific to the rewrite, including deployment (with an important follow up) and realm/relying party validation. C'est la Vie is definitely a blog worth watching if you're interested in the OpenID/OpenSSO intersection.
- There have been a number of OpenSSO policy agent releases over the past few weeks, including agents for Apache 2.2 and IIS 7. The OpenSSO Policy Agents 3.0 Roadmap is the place to stay up to date.
- The replay of Daniel's OpenSSO webinar from last month, which, by the way, set an internal record for registrations, has been posted online. Click here to catch up.
- Outside Sun, 'Pairg' has released a WordPress plugin for OpenSSO authentication (thanks, Ramoonus, for the tip!). It looks to have much more functionality than the proof of concept code I released a little while ago, so, if you're into WordPress, I recommend you go take a look.
Now I can close a few Firefox tabs and relax. Have a good weekend, everyone!
OpenSSO Express Build 8 Released
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the impending release of OpenSSO Express Build 8; well, the OpenSSO engineers have been hard at work since then, and Express 8 was officially released yesterday.
Among the new features:
- One time password-based strong authentication
- Fedlet for .Net
- MySQL user data store
- First cut of the Entitlement Service
- Task flow for federation with SalesForce.com
- First look at the new IceFaces-based administration console
Much more detail in the OpenSSO Express 8 release notes. If you're wondering just what an 'Express Build' of OpenSSO is, the FAQ reveals all.
OpenSSO, Jack Adams and me
At OSCON a few weeks ago, I spent a little time with OpenSolaris enthusiast Jack Adams (who doesn't seem to have his own page, but is often in the company of Bruno Souza and Deirdré Straughan), chatting about the basics of OpenSSO, single sign-on and federation. Luckily, it was all caught on video...
Free Webinar: OpenSSO Express for Improved SSO
Short notice, but if you have a spare hour tomorrow (Wednesday August 19th 2009) morning, Daniel Raskin, Sun's Chief Identity Strategist, and I will be presenting a webinar titled OpenSSO Express for Improved SSO. Join us at 10am PDT/1pm EDT/7pm CET for an update on the very latest features in OpenSSO Express 8 and beyond, such as mobile one-time passwords, the Fedlet for .Net, SalesForce.com integration and OAuth.
Securing REST Web Services With OAuth
It's been a while since the last OpenSSO article at Sun Developer Network (the excellent, three-part, Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons), but Malla and Rick have come up trumps with Securing REST Web Services With OAuth.
The article recasts the tried and true 'stock quote sample' as a RESTful web service with access protected by OAuth via OpenSSO and Jersey (Sun's open source implementation of JAX-RS, aka JSR 311). This is technology that has hitherto only been demonstrated in a demo at JavaOne 2009, so it's great to see it being successfully applied here.
Go read the article and discover how OpenSSO, Jersey and OAuth combine to secure RESTful web services!


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Delores Medved's Cheese Blintzes
13WHAM's Alexis Arnold visited with Debbie Maruke, executive chef at The Summit at Brighton, and resident Delores Medved to make Delores' cheese blintzes.
Delores Medved's Cheese Blintz
• 4 Eggs well beaten
• 1 Cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 Cup milk
• 1 ½ Pound cottage cheese
• 2 Egg yolks beaten
• 1 Tablespoon melted butter
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
1. Press cottage cheese through colander to drain off extra moister
2. Add egg yolks, melted butter and sugar and put into the refrigerator to set
3. For the batter mix all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl
4. Heat a greased skillet and pour a thin amount of batter into it
5. Move pan side to side to cover the bottom of the pan
6. Flip crepe over until each side is lightly brown
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Its Hour with itself
The Spirit never shows.
What Terror would enthrall the Street
Could Countenance disclose
The Subterranean Freight
The Cellars of the Soul --
Thank God the loudest Place he made
Is license to be still.
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1225.
Its Hour with itself
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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Zynga hits EA in court over employee hiring deal
Zynga Inc (ZNGA.O) fired back against rival gaming company Electronic Arts Inc (EA.O), saying an EA lawsuit breached a deal between the two that restricted how Zynga can try to hire the other company's employees.
Zynga's allegations on Friday came as a counterclaim to a lawsuit filed by EA last month in a San Francisco federal court. EA had accused Zynga of copying key elements of its popular "The Sims Social" game for Zynga's own title, "The Ville".
In its lawsuit last month, EA accused Zynga of obtaining "private" information about the Sims game after hiring three of EA's top employees shortly before its launch. Zynga is the dominant publisher of games on Facebook (FB.O).
Silicon Valley companies often compete hard to attract talented employees. Sometimes, though, companies have agreed to refrain from poaching each other's workers in controversial agreements. In 2010, several companies promised U.S. antitrust authorities that they would no longer enter into such deals.
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Zynga had intended for that information to be blacked out from public view, but for the judge to be able to consider it as part of Zynga's legal argument. However, Zynga inadvertently made those details public in its Friday court filing.
By initiating its lawsuit last month, EA breached the promises it made in the 2011 deal, Zynga said in the filing. Zynga declined to comment on the material that was intended to be redacted.
EA spokesman John Reseberg on Friday called Zynga's claims "a predictable subterfuge," aimed at diverting attention from its copying of other artists.
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Zynga acknowledged signing a non-monetary settlement agreement with EA in September 2011 in an effort to head off litigation, Zynga's filing said.
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In the filing, Zynga said EA "undertook an anti-competitive and unlawful scheme to stop Zynga from hiring its employees." Its general counsel, Reggie Davis, also said in a statement that EA's copying claims have no merit.
The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Electronic Arts Inc. vs. Zynga Inc., 12-4099.


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Box some time offers really sweet deals. Last year they offered 50GB of free cloud storage space to the iOS users and now this year they are offering the similar deal to the Android users! What Android users have to do to get this 50GB space is to install the updated Box app from the Market and log-in to the application. This deal is valid until March 23, 2012. So if you want to avail this deal hurry-up! 50 GB of storage space that is provided this way to the users is accessible from everywhere – not only Android. Also Read More >
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It is with grave concern that I view the latest bill proposed in the U.S. Senate to reform the Affordable Care Act. The Cassidy-Graham Bill, while happily maintaining the current Hyde amendment restrictions on the funding of abortion, shares with earlier bills—offered this past summer—major deficiencies. These deficiencies, criticized by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Health Association, and so many other organizations, regard maintaining health care for the poorest and youngest among us.
Access to affordable healthcare for all Americans, especially for those in need among us, is one of the most important issues of our time, because it directly touches each human life. This is all the more true in West Virginia, where Medicaid expansion, a principal feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), offered access to healthcare for so many of our fellow West Virginians who previously could not afford to see a doctor.
The Cassidy-Graham legislation will completely eliminate the Medicaid expansion, which covers nearly 180,000 West Virginians. It will get rid of tax credits that enable more than 34,000 of our fellow citizens to afford coverage. Indeed, by 2027 the bill will have eliminated $2 billion of health coverage of all West Virginians. The bill will seriously weaken our ability to address the opioid crisis and will devastate West Virginia's rural communities and hospitals.
Our legislators should not pursue a repeal of the Affordable Care Act with a replacement plan that nationally will harm millions of poor and vulnerable people. Our senators should fix problems with the Affordable Care Act in a bipartisan way: by extending full Hyde Amendment protections to the ACA, enacting laws that protect the conscience rights of all stakeholders in health care, protecting religious freedom, and passing legislation that begins to remove current and impending barriers to access and affordability, particularly for those most in need.
In fact, such bipartisan efforts for reform are happening in the Senate. The Senate should allow time for these negotiations, aimed at the good of all, bear fruit rather than rushing through the bill on offer.
One need not be a follower of Christ, He who healed the sick and blessed the poor, to seek a health care bill which truly upholds the common good of all. One simply needs to have concern for the health of all our citizens. Let us urge our senators to engage in a deliberate process to achieve a bill which brings health care reform protecting even the weakest among us.
Entrusting you to the care of Our Lady, Help of the Sick,
I remain,
Most Rev. Michael J. Bransfield
Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston


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Jews around the world sat down to their Passover seders this past weekend, commemorating their ancestors' exodus from slavery to freedom. Yet right now the person who is doing more than anyone else to free the Jews is a devout Baptist, Jimmy Carter. The former president is meeting with leaders throughout the Middle East -- including, most controversially, the top political leadership of the Hamas party. This has predictably angered the U.S. and Israeli governments and the U.S. mainstream press.
But they, like so many Jews, are still in slavery. The "Egypt" that enslaves them is a set of self-defeating beliefs in their own minds. They are enslaved to the notion that Hamas must be treated as pariah "terrorists," and one must never talk with "terrorists." That convenient tale prevents the Israeli government from entering peace negotiations. It keeps Israeli Jews trapped in the continuing risks and tensions of a state-of-siege mentality that prevents the exodus they need so badly now: moving from insecurity to genuine peace and security.
In a larger sense, the view of Hamas as a party so evil that no one may even talk with it keeps many Jews in a state of spiritual slavery. It reinforces their long-standing habit of defining Jewish identity primarily in terms of radical vulnerability, as if the only meaningful way to be Jewish were to stand firm against an enemy and always be ready to shoot at that enemy.
This slavery is especially tragic because it is self-imposed. It arises not from objective perception of facts imposed from outside, but from choices that Jews themselves make, choices that Jimmy Carter calls them to reconsider. So this Baptist leader, more than anyone else, can now claim the title of a modern-day Moses, willing to lead the Jews from slavery to freedom. Carter stands as a fine example of what the ancient rabbis called "a righteous gentile."
A growing number of Jews, in Israel and the U.S., publicly agree with Carter that Israel must reach a peace agreement with a Palestinian government representing all Palestinian people. That government must include a significant element from Hamas, the party that the Palestinians democratically elected to lead them, if Israel is every to have real peace and security. The sooner Israel negotiates with Hamas, the more lives can be saved.
As a recent editorial in the prestigious Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz said, Israel's continuing attacks in Gaza are "only out of revenge." They lead to "retaliation with numerous casualties, which leads to another attack, and so on and so forth, as if it were an endless gang war. ... The only way to ensure the safety of the people living near the Gaza border is through a political effort to reach a cease-fire agreement."
The editorial concluded with the crucial point: A negotiated truce "may create a different atmosphere in which Hamas, too, would have something to lose. Israel has not done everything it can to reach such an agreement." That's quite an understatement. In fact, Israel has done everything it can to rebuff or ignore Hamas' leaders repeated calls for a long-term truce that would open the way to peace talks.
The Israeli resistance to Carter and negotiations has to be understood on several levels. Deepest of all is the level of symbolism. Too many Jews have staked their sense of cultural identity primarily on resisting "the anti-semites." They would be hard pressed to know what it means to be a Jews if there were no enemy to fight. Fortunately their numbers are shrinking, especially here in the U.S. But the process of change is agonizingly slow.
That deep issue of identity leads to a complicated sets of maneuvers on the practical political level. Many nations and factions see their own interests served by excluding Hamas.
Because so many Jews feel the need to have an enemy, political leaders in Israel must at least appear to be standing fast against some enemy if they want to get elected. Therefore, they have to treat negotiations with Palestinians as a battle against an enemy, and they must come out with something that looks like victory. Whatever Palestinian state they agree to has to be demonstrably weaker than Israel and militarily, at least, under Israeli control. The Israelis hold out a serious hope that Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party, who control the West Bank, might agree to such a one-side peace.
Any negotiation with Hamas would complicate matters for Israel. It would signal that Hamas is a legitimate political party and a significant political player deserving a place at the table. But Hamas would insist on more stringent and equal terms for a final-status agreement than Fatah. So the Israeli government is determined to exclude Hamas from any negotiations. The best way to do that is to deny Hamas any hint of political legitimacy by labeling them a mere "terrorist" group.
Fatah is more than happy to play along with Israel in hopes of destroying its rival Hamas, which would leave Fatah in total control of Palestinian political life. Egypt supports Fatah, fearing that a democratically elected Islamist government right next door would give a major boost to the powerful Islamist parties in Egypt, which the government there has been suppressing violently for years.
The Bush administration is just as afraid of legitimizing any Islamist government. So it casts Hamas as part of the world-wide enemy, "Islamic extremism," signaling that the U.S. will mobilize its immense power even against democratically elected Islamist governments. And the U.S. leads a global campaign of economic isolation that is bringing starvation and misery to over a million innocent victims in Gaza.
Bush and all the candidates bidding to succeed him agree in principle on this inhumane policy. Even Obama, who claims to be the candidate of "change," criticized Carter and recited yet again the mandatory mantra of mainstream U.S. politics: "We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction."
In fact, there are surely behind-the-scenes negotiations with Hamas going on now (just as the Israelis secretly negotiated with Yassir Arafat's officially tabooed PLO at Oslo in the early 1990s). Carter recently said that he knows some Israeli government officials are quite willing to meet with Hamas leaders. Israel's Deputy Prime Minister, Eli Yishai, openly sent word through Carter that he wants to meet with Hamas leaders.
According to Ha'aretz, Yishai's Shas party would like to see a cease-fire (just what Hamas leaders have offered for years now) in order to "lessen pressure to reach a final-status agreement, which could lead to a coalition crisis with Shas."
However Yishai could also aid a larger Israeli agenda of working out a secretly-arranged truce deal. Without it, Israel's has only two options: either continue attacks in Gaza, which are disastrous politically and diplomatically while achieving no real military gain, or cease those attacks and appear "weak," which would be disastrous politically for an Israeli government always under attack from the political right.
The Bush administration knows that the Israelis have to reach some truce agreement with Hamas, and the sooner the better. Again, the pressing need is to do it secretly, so that Hamas can be denied legitimacy. Perhaps that's why, according to Carter, no U.S. officials objected to his plans until they became public knowledge. It's OK as long as it remains secret.
In public, governments in Washington and Jerusalem are committed to keeping their people, and themselves, enslaved to an ideology of "fighting the evildoers." With every other consideration -- even peace and security -- subordinated to that mythic vision of heroic battle, there is no exodus from the endless round of killing and counter-killing.
Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar suggested a way out this week in a Washington Post op-ed. "A 'peace process' with Palestinians cannot take even its first tiny step until Israel first withdraws to the borders of 1967; dismantles all settlements; removes all soldiers from Gaza and the West Bank; repudiates its illegal annexation of Jerusalem; releases all prisoners; and ends its blockade of our international borders, our coastline and our airspace permanently."
The Post printed these words so that it could run an adjacent editorial denouncing their author as a "terrorist" who is clearly not interested in peace. To make their case, the Post's editors treated al-Zahar's words as preconditions for negotiation. Anyone really interested in peace would recognize that they are just a diplomat's opening gambit and a suggested blueprint for a final-status agreement -- the endgame of the negotiations, not the starting point.
Since al-Zahar's words say nothing about Palestinians taking control inside Israel's 1967 border, they are yet another in a long line of indirect signals from Hamas that, while it may never officially endorse Israel's "right" to exist, it is quite ready to accept the fact that Israel does exist. In fact, his words generally match the final-status arrangement that most unbiased observers see as reasonable and inevitable.
This Passover, Carter's meeting with the Hamas leaders offers a way for Israel to start down the path from the slavery of its own self-defeating ideology to the freedom of truly meaningful peace talks with Hamas as well as Fatah. As the Passover story tells us, the Israelites of old spent forty years wandering in the wilderness before they reached the promised land. Modern day Israel has already spent 41 years in the moral wilderness, as the military occupiers of another people's land. Thousands have died, most of them Palestinians but far too many Israelis as well. Jimmy Carter is right. It's time to end the wandering and begin to cross over to the promised land.
Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. firstname.lastname@example.com


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Over 100 guests, including consumers, staff and partner organisations attended the Neami WorkWell graduation celebrations on 29th March in Sydney.
Based on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, WorkWell is an evidence-based supported employment program that supports people living with a mental illness to seek and obtain competitive employment. The program supports participants with:
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The graduation ceremony recognised the achievements of Work Well participants from five Neami services who have gained employment, volunteer work or enrolled in study and training courses. Jobs gained varied from Landscape Gardener, to Teacher, to Packer.
Jenny Hall, Neami Chief Operating Officer, and Peter Gianfrancesco, Neami NSW State Manager spoke about the national support for the growth of Neami's employment services and the expansion of WorkWell services across Neami NSW.


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In any role-playing game, as the main character, you are bound to get a load of items. Some items you keep as they are useful, but the vast majority of the items are useless crap which you sell to any shop around you. In Recettear: An Item Shop Tale, you are the shop owner!
In this twist of a game, you are Recette. An optimistic, slightly clueless girl (yeah, this game is from Japan), Recette woke up one day to find a fairy, Tear, in her house. Tear then proceed to tell Recette that her missing adventurer father took a massive loan payments from a bank and Tear is there to repossess the house. However there is still some time before the payment is due so Tear recommend that Recette's house be turned in an item shop as a way for her to raises the necessary funds to repay the loan.
Now I love games that twist convention like this, but a friend thought the game sounded dull. I mean don't most shop owners just sit and wait for customers to come in? Not so in Recettear.
In Recettear, each day is broken up into four periods, and you need to decide how best to spend each period of time. Opening the shop brings in customers, exiting the shop opens up access to other shops in town that'll sell weapons, armor, and upgrades that can potentially help you turn a profit. However each action takes up one period of the day.
You will also meet up with various adventurers and become friends with them, though these meetings also mostly takes up one period of the day. Meeting them is important as you need them to go on dungeon crawls. As Recette and Tear can't directly attack, adventurers you meet throughout the game will clear the dungeon and Recette and Tear can pick up the treasure that enemies drop . The problem is that each dungeon crawl takes up two period of the day so you need to balance the time need for the dungeon crawl with the needs of keeping your shop open for business.
In short, Recettear: An Item Shop Tale isn't just a game about buying low and selling high; it is also a time management game with combat thrown in for good measure. And it is anything but easy.
Outside all the things you need to learn (news bulletins, trendy items, merchant bonus, levels of Recette and her adventurers friends, special orders, haggling with customers), there's also a high degree of difficulty in repaying the weekly loan. Initially it's a small sum, but by the later weeks of the month, you need to cough out 200,000 and 500,000! Should you fail, the game will restart at the first week, though with your characters keeping their levels. How anyone can beat the game in the first play-through is beyond me! I know; I tried.
The game may be hard but it also deceptively simple. I think this is mainly due to the cutesy anime look and the great sense of humor of the game. Recette is the likeable dolt kept in line by the responsible Tear and the interaction between this odd couple is funny as hell. The story may be pretty simple but the conversations between the duo and the supporting cast are top notch.
Also once you complete the game, Recettear: An Item Shop Tale unlock many game modes like a survival mode, and an endless mode where you can continue on selling and adventuring without the debt repayment structure.
Of course the game is not perfect. Although there's a good variety of adventurers for you to choose from, it's hard to choose anyone but Louie the Swordsman. The first adventurer you get, he's really the only one you really need. Although the rest of the adventurers has some good abilities, when you first get them their levels would be way below Louie, so there's no incentive to use them.
Also the dungeons and the combat can become repetitive in the later stages and many times I would rushed through them just to get to the boss. I mean there's only so many times you can kill a bouncing jelly before you get tired of it. A greater variety of monsters would have served the game better.


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Which witch? Homonyms and Homophones
Lesson 5 of 9
Objective: SWBAT identify homophones and homonyms within a story and be able to write their own sentences that use them.
Big Idea: Homonyms and homophones can be very fun when students realize what happens when you use the wrong word or when one word can be a verb and noun. This lesson explores these words and has some fun with learning them.
Define and Read Aloud
To start I write the words homophone and homonym onto the white board. I then ask if anyone can remember what the words mean. My class gives me some pretty good guesses. I go ahead and define the word for them and write the definition onto the board. I give a few examples of both. I use "ran" for the homophone, and witch and which for the homonym.
The class got excited because these types of words sound fun. It's always a good feeling when they show some excitement and interest into a language lesson.
I am going to read to them a book and I ask them just to listen and try to pick out the words that are homophones or homonyms. The books by Fred Gwynne are perfect because they are about a little girl who mixes homonyms up. I start by reading his book, A Chocolate Mousse for Dinner. After I read a page I ask the class to tell me the homonym or homophone that was on that page. This is good practice and confidence building for doing it on their own.
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Now that they have the idea of what we are listening and looking for I am going to read another Fred Gwynn book, The King Who Rained. This time I will read each page twice and then give them a few seconds to write the homonym onto their white board. Instead of calling on students right away to share, I am just going to read and they are going to collect the homonyms.
When we come to the end of the book, I will now go back through it and have them share what they wrote. As we share I want to help them understand why a particular word is a homonym or homophone. One way to do this, is to have them use the word correctly in a sentence to show it's true use.
Pair Practice
Now it is time for them to practice using homonyms. I found a list of homonyms on the internet and posted it onto the Promethean Board. We then read some of them on the list to show how the list was structured. I then put students into pair groups and assigned a set of homonyms to them.
The task the pairs will complete is creating successful sentences that demonstrate the correct use of the words. The pair will split the words between them and each of them will create a sentence on their white board. They need to share it with each other to check for correct usage and any grammar mistakes.
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Quick Check
As the groups finish their work I ask the groups to share their sentences. As a class, we check their work with a thumbs up. If the class agrees that the sentence is correct, they give a thumbs up. I have walked around and helped pairs that need more guided practice. I am now just listening and checking their understanding as they share.


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