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Last night, Vice President Joe Biden managed, on Afghanistan at least, to sound like a peacenik. Not so, Ryan.
Listen to Biden:
[W]e are leaving. We are leaving in 2014. Period. And in the process, we're going to be saving over the next 10 years another $800 billion. We've been in this war for over a decade. The primary objective is almost completed. Now, all we're doing is putting the Kabul government in a position to be able to maintain their own security. It's their responsibility, not America's.
Not bad. Of course, neither Biden nor Ryan dealt with the complexity of the war, with the likelihood that the insurgency will continue past 2014, with Pakistan's infernal meddling, or with the vast, unfathomable corruption of the government of President Karzai. But give Biden credit for stating unequivocally that in 2014, we're gone.
Ryan, on the other hand, was all over the place. He said he'll listen to the generals and give them what they want, he said he's "skeptical" about talking with the Taliban (Romney, of course, is flatly against negotiations with the Taliban), and he seemed to support the idea of making the withdrawal of US and NATO forces contingent on "conditions" on the ground. He said:
What we don't want to do is lose the gains we've gotten. Now, we've disagreed from time to time on a few issues. We would have more likely taken into accounts the recommendations from our commanders, General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen, on troop levels throughout this year's fighting season. We've been skeptical about negotiations with the Taliban, especially while they're shooting at us.
But we want to see the 2014 transition be successful, and that means we want to make sure our commanders have what they need to make sure that it is successful so that this does not once again become a launching pad for terrorists.
As Biden countered:
My friend and the governor say it's based on conditions, which means it depends. It does not depend for us. It is the responsibility of the Afghans to take care of their own security. We have trained over 315,000, mostly without incident. There have been more than two dozen cases of green-on-blue where Americans have been killed. If we do not—if the measures the military has taken do not take hold, we will not go on joint patrols. We will not train in the field. We'll only train in the—in the Army bases that exist there.


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KDE 4.3 RC 3 has been released.
Users of our latest development release, Karmic, can upgrade to the latest packages.
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Court hearings were continued yet again for a woman accused of embezzling more than $500,000 from the Santa Barbara Police Department over a five-year period.
Karen Flores allegedly began stealing from the city in 2006, according to the criminal complaint, and is charged with grand theft by embezzlement, destroying parking citations, filing false income tax returns from 2007 to 2010, and the felony of public officer crime, which applies to people responsible for safekeeping public money.
Flores' attorney, Dan Murphy, has been requesting continuances so his own expert can review the audit and prepare a report.
The expert apparently is leaving for three weeks of vacation, so the next court hearing was scheduled for March 29, Senior Deputy District Attorney Brian Cota said.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Clifford Anderson was reluctant to agree to the continuance, and said it would be the last one, Cota said.
Flores worked in the Police Department's business office for 22 years, and assumed responsibility for parking-citation collection — where the money was taken from — after her supervisor's position was eliminated in 2004 to save money.
The City Council approved bringing back the business manager position last year.
The city Finance Department discovered financial discrepancies and launched an investigation into Flores, who was arrested and charged in August 2011. She has pleaded not guilty.
The resulting forensic audit discovered that Flores had embezzled more than $500,000, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Santa Barbara has insurance to cover all employees who handle cash, and it appears the insurance would cover the amount allegedly embezzled by Flores.
The forensic audit was authorized by the insurance company so it would have an independent record of what the city was claiming, Cota said.
It's unclear if the insurance company has paid the city, or if the payment would be dependent on the criminal case.
Officials with the city did not return requests for comment Friday, since City Hall was closed for a furlough day.


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Options > allow custom addon content.
This member has provided no bio about themself...
Options > allow custom addon content.
Yes, just pasted the .ogf file where it should be and no change at all.
There does not appear to be such a folder. I have run the game before installing the mod. It's all patched and ready to go from Steam. But this is what I get in the error message that pops up if it's of any help, still.
[error]Expression : I
[error]Function : CInifile::Load
[error]File : E:\priquel\sources\engine\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 221
[error]Description : Can't find include file:
[error]Arguments : w_protecta.ltx
Hmm... as soon as I launch the game it shows me that bug report message...
Anyone else have this problem? I did correct game_data to "true" in the .ltx file...
Great launcher! I've used it every time I've installed Bad Company 2. But now the download mirror is bugged - all my browsers can't find the content when trying to download.
That worked :), but now I've got another problem. I don't have any cyrilic letters in the game and everything shows as a square. what should I do?
I've got a problem. The installation goes fine, I install it in the game folder, but at the end, 99% installation, it freezes. It shows that it's still running but it doesn't finish.
Hmm, no media, no news, no links.
HELP! The mod changes the game to Spanish language! How can I change it back to English?
It is probably because they will be porting it to consoles.
And we all know those things don't support mods.
But still... IMO it wouldn't have been much trouble to add a page or two of coding so the game can support modification.
I thought GTA IV already had multiplayer.
me. IM so angry about this now. I downloaded this mod because I thought it would fix all that oversteering and flipping, but no, it ADDS oversteering. now I cant race because the car just loses traction even from a tap of the button (A or D).
You should really fix that problem.
Does this mod make the game more optimized? Because I'm only getting 20 FPS no matter what graphic settings i use.
wow, man!!
mad respect for all the hours spent developing.
Sorry but I still don't understand. What gamedata map? What do I have to copy/pasta and from where to where
Sorry for offtopic but did you HAVE to write the info in engrish? Now i can't read anything because i understand russian and english :D
anyway great mod
Excuse me, sir, but did I read this right?
300+ weapons?
You, sir, are full of WIN
Hmm... it says Page Not Found when I try and download it.
When I tried to install the mod it said there was some error.
I can't seem to find the download for the mod itsself. just a video.
I get a media file too. I can't find the english version of that program you said you created the mod with. Can you please explain with detail how to install the 1.1 version?
Thanks in advance.
edit: i thought i had to unpack it somehow before putting in the game folder. sorry.


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Seat covers installed very well. Looks good except the headrest covers. I think they could be made to look better. Lots of scrap material and thread that to be cut off. Would not have purchased but already had them for the back seats.


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Benjamin S. Cramer; James D. Wright; Dennis V. Kent; Marie-Pierre Aubry
- Title:
- Orbital climate forcing of δ^13 excursions in the late Paleocene-early Eocene (chrons C24n-C25n)
- Author(s):
- Cramer, Benjamin S.
Wright, James D.
Kent, Dennis V.
Aubry, Marie-Pierre
- Date:
- 2003
- Type:
- Articles
- Department(s):
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Volume:
- 18
- Persistent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.7916/D82Z1FZM
- Book/Journal Title:
- Paleoceanography
- Abstract:
- High-resolution stable carbon isotope records for upper Paleocene-lower Eocene sections at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051 and 690 and Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 550 and 577 show numerous rapid (40-60 kyr duration) negative excursions of up to 1‰. We demonstrate that these transient decreases are the expected result of nonlinear insolation forcing of the carbon cycle in the context of a long carbon residence time. The transients occur at maxima in Earth's orbital eccentricity, which result in high-amplitude variations in insolation due to forcing by climatic precession. The construction of accurate orbital chronologies for geologic sections older than ~35 Ma relies on identifying a high-fidelity recorder of variations in Earth's orbital eccentricity. We use the carbon isotope records as such a recorder, establishing a robust orbitally tuned chronology for latest Paleocene-earliest Eocene events. Moreover, the transient decreases provide a means of precise correlation among the four sites that is independent of magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data at the <10^5-year scale. While the eccentricity-controlled transient decreases bear some resemblance to the much larger-amplitude carbon isotope excursion (CIE) that marks the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, the latter event is found to occur near a minimum in the ~400-kyr eccentricity cycle. Thus the CIE occurred during a time of minimal variability in insolation, the dominant mechanism for forcing climate change on 10^4-year scales. We argue that this is inconsistent with mechanisms that rely on a threshold climate event to trigger the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum since any threshold would more likely be crossed during a period of high-amplitude climate variations.
- Subject(s):
- Oceanography
- Publisher DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2003PA000909
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- Benjamin S. Cramer, James D. Wright, Dennis V. Kent, Marie-Pierre Aubry, 2003, Orbital climate forcing of δ^13 excursions in the late Paleocene-early Eocene (chrons C24n-C25n), Columbia University Academic Commons, https://doi.org/10.7916/D82Z1FZM.


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27 Feb What would my life look like if….
In a timely message for me, pastor Pete Wilson whom I have followed for 3 years on twitter was gust pastor for Rick Warren today at Saddleback Church, his message hit me right where I am at, but more on his message in another post. Pete ask two questions one at the start "What would your life look like if you had absolute confidence that God was with you?" the other at the end "What would you do in your situation if you know for a fact God is with you?". I will answer the first in this post the second in a later post as it is so timely for me see yesterdays post.
What would my life look like if I had absolute confidence, knew that God was with me?
* I would live a life like George Muller, be a man of great faith, of prayer, a preacher of the gospel to the nations, have 50,000 answered prayers by my last day of life, rescue the poor and needy.
* I would have a life like Jaeson Ma, would travel the world preaching the gospel, and plant churches here and in other countries.
* I would be a prayer warrior because I would Know that my prayers would be answered.
* Wake up every morning knowing I was loved and excepted, and had a purpose.
* Preach the gospel daily with power, go into other countries and preach it.
* The world would be my mission field.
* I would fed the hungry in impoverished nations, every where I could.
* I would fed 5,000 hungry people at one time like Jesus did at one time.
* Live out Matt 25:31-46, do unto Jesus by, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, setting free the captive.
* Lead a soul a day mim to the Lord ( for as many days as I have been alive would be 20,254 so far).
* Rescue woman and children out of human trafficking.
* Do, live out every phase of the great commission, Jesus' commandments, as a way of life, daily:
Matt 28:19-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
all that I have commanded you.
Matt 10:7-8
And proclaim as you go, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers,cast out demons.
* Live out Jesus' own mission, as a way of life: Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because He has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at set free those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
Acts 1:8
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
* Live out Jesus' promise that we will do these and greater things. Jn 14:12 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;,,,,,"
That is how I would live, if I could live the life I want, dream of having and had absolute confidence that God was with me.


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24/7: The Game - Lite 1.0
24/7: The Game is a light strategy game where players place numbered tiles on a grid and score points for adjacent tiles that create runs, sets and sums of 24 or 7.
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An interesting study by J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom, in the psychology department at Yale, showed that infants as young as 6 or 10 months tended to want to play with *good guys* rather than *bad guys*. It is hard to believe that such behavior would be taught by parents at such a young age.
In the Hamlin et al. experiments, triangles, squares and circles (with eyes) were manipulated by researchers so that one of the shapes helped a second shape up the hill, only to be pushed down the hill by the third shape. Infants given a choice of which shape to play with after this skit inherently shied away from playing with the "bad shape" that had done the pushing and almost universally wanted to play with the "good shape" that had helped another get up the hill.
This research is consistent with a belief that we've long asserted that we have been bred for evolutionary reasons to be able to assess trustworthiness, because people in earlier societies who were not good at judging trustworthiness were more likely to die (e.g., knifed in the back; abandoned by a partner) and thus less likely to be able to pass on their genes. Thus over time, we've become especially good at judging trustworthiness. And experiments show that if you assess what percentage of residents in a community believe that others can be trusted, it turns out to be significantly predictive of what percent of wallets dropped in these communities by researchers will be returned to the address listed in the wallet with the money still in the wallet. This suggests that our assessments of trustworthiness (at the community level, with some noise for individual optimism or paranoia) are fairly accurate.
The study appears in the November 22 issue of Nature in "Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants". Abstract here.


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On Tuesday, a man was sentenced to 50 years instead of 15. One woman says she made all the difference.
Johnnie Lee Jones, convicted last month of killing Christine Gregory with a stolen delivery truck, was declared a habitual criminal and sentenced to 50 years in prison by Broward Circuit Judge Stanton Kaplan.
This is the same Johnnie Lee Jones who on Sept. 12 rejected a plea bargain that would have put him in jail for no more than 15 years, according to Neil Dupree, the Broward assistant state attorney who prosecuted the case.
Two things happened Sept. 12. Jones rejected the plea and elected to stand trial. And an indignant Lorry Gregory, the mother of Jones` victim, decided to take action.
Gregory said if he had taken the plea, ``He would`ve been free in three. And he didn`t want to take the plea because he thought he could be found innocent at a trial. That`s what got me insane.``
But Gregory, 55, didn`t go mad; she got even.
She wrote every politician she could think of. She formed a club composed of only two members -- herself and her surviving daughter, Lorrae Flanders -- called ``CHRIS: Crimes Hinder Rights, Individuals Suffer.``
``We hounded him,`` a tearful but exuberant Gregory said after Jones` sentencing. ``I was told I created so much of a furor they didn`t dare take a plea.``
On Oct. 16, a jury found Jones, a 23-year-old, three-time convicted felon, guilty of manslaughter, third-degree murder (causing a death while committing a felony), grand theft and leaving the scene of an accident.


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'Supernatural' Season 12 Premiere Pics Are Here!
Things look a tad intense in these newly-released Supernatural photos!
In the season 12 premiere, titled "Keep Calm and Carry On," Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) learn more about their resurrected mother's history.
"The story's always been, 'Once Mary married John and settled down, she stopped hunting,'" showrunner Andrew Dabb recently told TVLine.com. "But we're going to find out maybe that's not the whole story."
Mark your calendars – Supernatural returns on Thursday, October 13 @ 9/8c on The CW.
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Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
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Animals In Print
The On-Line Newsletter
From 24 June 2003 Issue
Hearing to Suspend License Completed
(Alleged Animals Abuse)
JUDGE REGARDING VETERINARIANanimals need you to urge the judge for the strongest penalty -- the revocation of Rooks' license so that his dangerous practices will be stopped. Judge Meth is now taking the matter into consideration. He will announce his decision in July. THE TIME TO CONTACT HIM IS NOW.
The hearing to suspend Robert L. Rooks' license is completed. Now the
SAN DIEGO -- The hearing instigated by the California attorney general's office to revoke the license of Robert L. Rooks, DVM, and to revoke the premises permit of his hospital, All-Care Animal Referral Center, has ended.
Please let your voice be heard. Judge Alan S. Meth was either unable or unwilling to receive correspondence during the trial. Now that it's over, he is due to render his decision in July and we must make our voices heard. Please take a moment now to contact him and urge him to enforce the strictest penalty -- revoke Robert L. Rooks' license to practice veterinary medicine. Rooks has been the subject of numerous lawsuits and complaints -- and so far he has avoided all accountability by the California Veterinary Medical Board whose job it is to protect people's pets.
This is an important case that has repercussions beyond California. All-Care receives referrals from veterinarians all over the country. Referral fees are routinely given to vets for doing so. Do you want your pet or anyone else's being referred to a doctor who has dozens of complaints filed against him for the injury and death of people's pets, avoided accountability by the board for 10 years, was prosecuted by the attorney general in a month-long trial for serious allegations, and is now employing every means possible to keep himself in business at the expense of animal health and well-being?
Of course nothing can bring back a beloved companion animal. But we can make sure this veterinarian is stopped and that innocent lives are saved. For details of the numerous lawsuits and media coverage on this vet, go to
What You Can Do
Judge Alan S. Meth, 619-525-4426. Leave a polite message on his voicemail asking that he protect the lives of companion animals everywhere and enforce the strictest penalty by revoking Rooks' license.
Sue Geranen, Executive Director, California Veterinary Medical Board,
916-263-2610. Press 03 for operator and ask for her.
Judge Alan S. Meth, 619-525-4419
Sue Geranen, Executive Director, California Veterinary Medical Board,
Please fax or mail letters to both. Sample letter below. Feel free to use, modify, or write your own. Keep it short and respectful -- but make it known that Rooks' pattern of practice is no longer acceptable:
The Honorable Judge Alan S. Meth
Office of Administrative Hearings
1350 Front Street, Suite 6022
San Diego, CA 92101
Sue Geranen
Executive Director
California Veterinary Medical Board
1420 Howe Avenue, Suite 6
Sacramento, CA 95825-3228
Sample Letter:
On behalf of the companion animals in California and elsewhere, I am writing to request that you enforce the maximum penalty possible against Robert L. Rooks, DVM, and All-Care Animal Referral Center.
No professional licensee of the state entrusted with the health and well-being of a beloved companion animal is above the law. And yet a veterinarian can regularly get away with violating the statutes of his own profession through a network of professional protection -- his colleagues, his staff, and even the licensing board supposedly designed to protect the public. By enforcing the laws of this profession, you will be sending a much-needed message to the veterinary community -- some of whom, thankfully, are already speaking out against their abusive colleagues -- that this type of practice will not be tolerated. The public is no longer ignorant about such matters. Licensing boards all over the country who routinely looked the other way are now thinking twice about such blatant apathy -- they know the
public is watching.
The years of complaints against Robert L. Rooks, and his continued ability to evade the law should speak for itself. The animals can't.
Please give every consideration to the ACTIVE (not "stayed") REVOCATION of Robert L. Rooks' license, and to the revocation of his premises permit for All-Care Animal Referral Center, along with the imposition of the maximum
Thank you.
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I was able to have a single cheeseburger on a hash brown. The burger was huge and honestly the best burger I've e we had in my life.
This was the best burger I've ever had in my entire life, including back when I could eat gluten. Our server knew his stuff and made sure my food was safe to eat. We got there 10 minutes before they opened and there was already a long line, but it was definitely worth the wait.
Amazing burger on hash brown 'bun' with delicious bacon and egg. Great, knowledgable staff.
Great burgers and great service.
Best burger place in the city! And it's great that I can enjoy it too-- burger comes on a hash brown "bun" (patty). Fries are made in a dedicated fryer. Servers are conscious and ask if anyone in your party has any dietary restrictions. The only bad part of this place is the super long wait (they don't take resv.).
everything here is cooked in pork fat. I had lemonade. that was fun.
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the burger came on a hash brown! I had never seen that before bit was delicious. the waitress was very knowledgeable and helped me navigate the menu. French fries are pretty good and gluten free as well. I will definitely be going back.
Awesome burger on gluten free "hash brown bun." Dedicated fryer for French fries too! Best burger in chicago.
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Thursday night, Daughter Dearest and I were coming home from running errands. I turned into the driveway, and…
"Looks like one of our cats got out!" I said, hitting the brakes. "How did that happen?"
Suddenly… Mrs. Fetched wrinkled her nose. "He sprayed something!" We put the visitor in the garage and started hunting. We only smelled it in the living room; Daughter Dearest was the one to hit on the idea of bringing Pip in from the porch to see if he could find it. He was soon sniffing the tree apron and (after confirming) we chucked the apron in the washer. The smell went away soon after.
Despite his banishment, he seems to have adopted us. Mrs. Fetched thinks he was someone's pampered kitten who was disenfranchised after he started spraying his original home, and those "lost cat" signs may never materialize. So I named him Stinkbomb, and Daughter Dearest named him Prince because he's so spoiled. So we put our heads together, and came up with his full name: His Royal Highness, Prince Stinky McSpraygun.
Anyway. If you live on Planet Georgia, and have lost a cat who looks like this one, let me know.
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Aww that's so nice that you gave him a home. That's how I got my big boy cat, he was a stray, so thin and pathetic he yowed all the time. I use to feed him outside, then eventually up on the deck until we could entice him in. He's lived with us as a pet now for the last six years and has gone from thin to fat - sometimes we call him jabba the cat!ReplyDelete
Loved your story - Happy New Year to you and yours!
Helen, this guy didn't need any enticement. He was more than ready to give all the cuddles it would take for a place to stay.ReplyDelete
Jabba the Catt? Sprite is like that, I call him the alien kitty from Planet Lardassia.
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We were given our cat, Mr. Pumpkin, who is an "abnormally large black cat." He's double-pawed, back and front, with two full sets of claws on both of his front paws (very rare), and we believe he has some Maine coon cat, which accounts for his larger-than-normal size. I wish he was cuddly, but he's not. We still love him, though, and he's (finally) figured out that no one is happy (including him) when he hooks one of us with those double claws :).
Hi Wendy! Yeah, I'm glad that Stinky is a cuddly cat. We probably wouldn't have had him inside otherwise, though… so maybe that wasn't so good?ReplyDelete
Double-pawed? I've never heard of that. Do you have pictures? Yeah, Maine Coons tend to run large… I can't imagine why you'd have a Maine Coon mix in Maine though. :-D
We once had a cat the kids named Cloud, because he was black (they didn't realize he had a white coat, so he really did have a silver lining). His claws were HUGE and he didn't really understand that he could hurt someone with them.
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The Legend of Diamond Lil
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Release Date: 5/7/2013
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The sequel to the national bestseller The Trouble with Chickens
After his last run-in with Vince the Funnel and the mystery of the missing chicks, J.J. the search-and-rescue dog is ready for some much-needed R & R. But just when he thinks he has everything under control, there's a new problem to worry about: Diamond Lil, a new show dog who's taken up residence next door. Suddenly Moosh and her chicks are spending an awful lot of time with their fancy friend, talking about weird things like feathers and good posture. And Lil's not the only new kid cramping J.J.'s style. There's a possum loose, and it's up to J.J. to keep everyone safe. But the questions are piling up. Is Lil all that she seems? And how does the possum keep finding her way to the chicken coop?
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The Legend of Diamond Lil, second book in the illustrated J.J. Tully mystery series, is perfect for elementary-school kids who love adventure and animals. New York Times bestselling author Doreen Cronin brings the same wonderful humor to the JJ. Tully whodunits that she did to her beloved picture book bestsellers like Diary of a Worm.
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DR: I want to go deeper into this question of computer-generated, or electronically-generated rhythms in music. If there was a computer-generated rhythm that was in a relaxed part of the spectrum, 60 or less beats per minute, is there still something adverse physiologically about that?
SH: Let me say this. It's like the difference between organic and pesticide-laden vegetables. Most people don't get sick when they eat vegetables bought at a Safeway or a regular store. I do. It's the same with rhythms. The effects are subtle. Most of the drum machines and the extreme precision of computer-based rhythms are not what the organic beat of the heart resonates to. Our heartbeats are fairly steady, but there are slight speedings-up and slowings-down that give it that organic, full-of-life feeling. That's what makes music feel warm. To many people, most computer music sounds cold and sterile.
DR: How much pop music drumming on the radio is human, and how much is electronic?
SH: I don't know for certain about pop, but in disco and Euro-rock it's virtually 100 percent computer or drum machine. In fact, the rise of disco led to the demise of many drummers, because it was much easier to take a little box on stage with you, hit a button and have the rhythm you want, and not have to deal with the drummer, his personality, his ego, and a big drum set. There have been some studies on the effect of disco rhythm on heartbeat and psychology, and it doesn't produce very positive results. But there is not a great deal of research on the subject, in part because there is very little money available to do such research.
I'm not saying that all drum machines are bad. In fact, the most recent generation of them is building in algorithms to create more of a human feel. There are some that are labeled "human-feel computers." As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather go out and get a real human if I want to feel human. That's my orientation. I also understand that there may be a generational aspect to this, as well as an urban versus suburban aspect. In other words, if you grew up in an urban environment and you're under 25 years of age, you've been exposed to a great deal more harsh rhythms, machine rhythms, and your nervous system may be attuned to a different aesthetic. Tim Leary suggested that this is the reason why many youngsters can seem to do okay with that kind of music. Of course, when you're young you can put most anything into your body and survive. You can listen to loud music and not have it ruin your hearing as quickly as those of us who are over 45. If we go to a rock concert, our ears typically will be ringing for days. The apparatus in the ear is no longer as flexible. Most people don't realize that rock concerts back in the 1960s, or the even louder concerts going on now, can cause cumulative, irreversible hearing loss. It is occurring in, shall we say, unheard of proportions.
DR: How has your music been used in healing arts settings?
SH: In many different ways, starting during my graduate research with the first placement of my music in hospitals, in preoperative and postoperative recovery wards, in surgery rooms while people were undergoing operations, and in health clinics. Some of my first research was done in waiting rooms, where I would just set up my tape recorder and play some of the music I had been recording. Within a few minutes, babies stopped crying, mothers stopped yelling at children, people stopped fighting because the doctor was running late. I did this at the clinic of Dr. Irving Oyle, one of the pioneer figures in holistic health. He came out of his room and said, "What it going on here? I've never seen anything like this." He looked at me and said, "Who are you? Come over here, we need to talk." We became good friends, and he became my faculty adviser and mentor, and we were off and running with that. He had never seen such an effect from any kind of music. But the kind of music I was playing, which was basically Spectrum Suite, had never been done before.


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The South African rand, the British pound and the euro aren't the best of bedfellows these days, but you can still have a good time when visiting London, just look out for the free things to do.
Life in the park
With eight Royal parks in central London and multiple smaller and more hidden parks, spending a day out in the sun or having a run in beautiful green open space is rather easy. The famous parks, such as Regent's, Green Park and Hyde Park, are always attractive. Some other, lesser-known, green delights are Battersea Park on the Thames, as well as Southwark Park, not too far from Borough Market and the new Shard (with restaurants and views across the city).
Hit the museums
With an array of free museums in the city, access to all things past and future isn't difficult. Try the Victoria and Albert Museum in Knightsbridge with some of the world's greatest decorative arts; the British Museum in Bloomsbury with its mummies and the Rosetta stone; the Science Museum on Gloucester Road, which includes a flight simulator; or the Natural History Museum in Knightsbridge with its fossils and rock specimens dating back many centuries.
Visit the city farms
London has a series of farms in the greater part of the city. The Spitalfields City Farm has family-friendly animals to pet and hang out so it's ideal for kids of all ages. Its annual Oxford-Cambridge Goat Race (on the same date as the famous "boat race") draws the crowds for that day.
Listen to the music
A city that has hosted every major musician in the world and was once home to bands such as the Beatles has music in its veins. Therefore, free music is aplenty everywhere. The Royal Opera has free Monday lunchtime recitals, Notting Hill Arts Club has live music almost every night of the week and doesn't charge entrance fees, the Southbank Centre features different bands in good weather and St Martin-in-the-Fields has free classical music over lunchtime.
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Here in the identity division at Microsoft, we don't like passwords any more than you do! So we've been hard at work creating a modern way to sign in that doesn't require upper and lowercase letters, numbers, a special character, and your favorite emoji. And after a soft launch last month, we're excited to announce the GA our newest sign-in feature: phone sign-in for Microsoft accounts!
With phone sign-in, we're shifting the security burden from your memory to your device. Just add your account to the Android or iOS Microsoft Authenticator app, then enter your username as usual when signing in somewhere new. Instead of entering your password, you'll get a notification on your phone. Unlock your phone, tap "Approve", and you're in.
This process is easier than standard two-step verification and significantly more secure than only a password, which can be forgotten, phished, or compromised. Using your phone to sign in with PIN or fingerprint is a seamless way to incorporate two account "proofs" in a way that feels natural and familiar.
Here's how you set it up:
- If you already use the Microsoft Authenticator for your personal account, select the dropdown button on your account tile, and choose Enable phone sign-in.
- If you are adding a new account on an Android phone, we'll automatically prompt you to set it up.
- If you are adding a new account on an iPhone, and we'll automatically set it up for you by default.
Then just try it out! The next time you sign in, we'll send a notification to your phone. That's it!
Note: A link at the bottom of the confirmation page lets you choose to use a password instead if your phone isn't handy, or you can switch back from your password to the Microsoft Authenticator. Either way, we'll remember your preferences next time you sign in.
Using a device to sign in is new to you, and it's new to us, too. We want to make sure we get it right, so we want to hear from you. Use the Microsoft Authenticator forum to offer suggestions, ask questions, and engage with our support team and other fans of account security. And as always, keep an eye on this blog for news about improvements and new features.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
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[Update 4/18/17 3:08pm Pacific: A few people have asked if this works with Windows Phone version Microsoft Authenticator. This app is designed for iOS and Android. We work directly with the Windows on native integration of rich authentication experiences within Windows and Windows roadmap is communicated separately.]
[Update 4/10/2017 1:24pm Pacific: We've received quite a few questions about whether or not this approach qualifies as "two factor authentication". We believe it definitely is two factor, but there are quite a few different interpretations of what actually constitutes two factor authentication. We think of it like this: The mobile device is the first factor (something you have). The pin or fingerprint you create on the device is a second factor (something you know or are). Each sign-in session requires both of these. Thus we see this as two factor authentication.]


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Bryson discusses the place of English in the world, including both successful and unsuccessful use of the language by non-native speakers. English words and phrases have entered the vocabularies of many other languages around the world, reflecting the power that English has in the modern world. English is often the neutral language chosen for international businesses that have workers and management that speak different native languages. English language learning, therefore, is a large industry throughout the world.
Bryson compares and contrasts English to other world languages and discusses the relative merits of the different ways that language is constructed. On one hand, English has a vocabulary that is significantly larger than other languages, allowing speakers to express ideas that are more precise. Similarly, English grammar has some complexities that allow speakers to make distinctions not...
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The exposure of these false statistics threatens to undermine the "War on Drugs", which undoubtedly would have the effect of encouraging the legalization of drugs, reduce if not evaporate the vast profits accrued through the sale of illegal drugs, and thereby diminish if not completely destroy the wealth and power of the major drug cartels, including of the CIA, widely regarded as the largest drug dealing organization the world has ever known, which appears to me to have led to the harassment and even death of physicians across America whose only offense has been to assist their patients in coping with pain, where, if treated as a medical rather than a criminal problem, could be dealt with relatively easily and cheaply and improve the lives of millions worldwide. But it also would dramatically reduce the profits that are derived from the "War on Drugs", which, alas, appears to be as phony as the "War on Terror". Kevin Byers and Siobhan Reynolds, who died in a plane crash this past weekend, were members of the Board of Physicians Against Cruelty to Humans with Imperfect Brains. Byers was also the organization's legal counsel.
The Contrived Statistics
From recent correspondence between me and Dr. Salerian, whose credentials are impeccable, it is obvious that he, too, has become a target of DEA's dirty war on doctors. On 3 March 2011, his home in Bethesda, Maryland, where I have stayed during visits with Alen and his wife, Judy, was raided by a heavily armed force of DEA agents wearing bullet-proof vests and brandishing automatic weapons, who intimidated his wife and daughter, Chloe, ransacking his home and taking his computers on the fabricated ground that his bank account reflected a $100,000 transaction, which was for medical equipment but which the agents claimed was for dealing drugs, which is quite a stretch for a man who was the Chief Psychiatrist for the FBI.
The real reasons, however, appear to be much different, where Dr. Salerian has been doing everything he can to expose the fact that, over the past 10 years, 2,000 doctors lost their licenses and were forced to exile or jail. Sadly, DEA's dirty campaign is based upon false CDC statistics. And, in collaboration with other dedicated physicians, he has been promoting awareness of more effective ways to cope with pain, which would have the consequence of promoting the legalization of drugs, once the treatment of pain using drugs is properly viewed as a medical problem rather than a criminal offense. Here are some of the most important points he makes about the fabrication of evidence:
* The CDC wrongly and unscientifically claims that the U.S. has a major problem with a drug epidemic that is killing all of us. The numbers, however, suggest just the opposite. We do not have an epidemic of prescribed narcotic-associated overdoses, deaths and epidemics. Because of CDC's misleading statistics, even the New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other major media outlets have been broadcasting governmental misrepresentations of this phantom epidemic.
* Not a week passes when a group of pain doctors are arrested with their photos broadcast around the world as they are being chained and sent to prison with ridiculous allegations of drug trafficking. On 20 November 2011, for example, Dr. Michael Stanley Johnston and some 18 other doctors and pharmacists in Georgia were arrested and offices raided.
* Statistics reveal that in 2008, which is the last year CDC reviewed the numbers, the number of deaths from prescribed narcotics was 7,500, which represents 0.2% of total deaths and one-third less than motorcycle deaths and about the same or less than accidental drowning and suffocation-related deaths.
A pie chart reveals the relative infrequency of deaths from prescribed narcotics as opposed to deaths from other causes:
Are they Accidental?
Are these CDC errors accidental? Unfortunately, the CDC has consistently disseminated wrongful information. The message from CDC, our guardian of public health with vibrant drawings, charts and numbers, have been alarming. "My God, I can't believe doctors would be so irresponsible," Chloe, my daughter, uttered in response to the November 2011 issue of CDC's "Policy Impact Alert" about prescription painkiller overdoses. The headlines of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control were probing on their face: "What do we know of painkiller deaths?" and "What does CDC recommend?" Two unmistakable CDC messages were therein conveyed:
A. A deadly epidemic of pain medications, ODs and deaths evidenced by the tripling death rates in the last 10 years.
B. The culprits were mostly bad doctors prescribing too much and too often pain medications.
This CDC publication appears to be consistent with the message of the New England Journal of Medicine, 18 November 2010, authored by Susan Okie, "A Flood of Opioids, a Rising Tide of Deaths," and similar stories that have appeared in The Washington Post April and November 2011 and in The New York Times April 2011. The truth and CDC message clash. The following is the reality:
* Prescription pain medications are not associated with 99.9% of U.S. deaths totaling 2.4 million in 2007, which is consistent with the total number of 12,000 deaths attributable to painkillers. Prescription pain medications, moreover, are not associated with 94% of 194,000 manmade sudden deaths or human behavior associated deaths, where these numbers are actually drawn from CDC's own statistics, which means that the CDC's own data, properly understood, refutes the CDC's conclusions.
* CDC publications, moreover, refer to methadone as addictive and dangerous. Neither is true. Methadone by nature and with its well-documented long half-life is not associated with euphoric influence and, in general, is not subject to abuse. However, its beneficial effects help people with withdrawal symptoms and assist millions who are struggling with addictions to morphine-like substances.
What is going on?
Collectively, the CDC errors are consistent with a major misinterpretation of statistics with a profoundly erroneous and negative impact on Americans who suffer from various painful mental and physical conditions. And this is actually the important point because the same month that CDC publishes and DEA reinforces the November 2011 message of an epidemic devastating United States, a branch of NIH, the Institute of Medicine, has an alert: 116 million Americans have been untreated partly due to an artificially caused shortage of pain doctors.
DEA's war has been based upon CDC's statistics disseminated to the New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times and Washington Post. It is easy to manipulate statistics and to declare phantom wars. Or phantom victories as it happened in London in 1854 during the dreadful cholera epidemic. The determination of the epidemic was wrongly attributed to the removal of a pump on Broad Street in London. Later a more careful analysis would reveal that the ending of the epidemic had nothing to do with the removal of the pump because the decline of deaths had preceded September 8, 1854 when the pump was removed.
There are a lot of lessons to learn from London and CDC errors and a lot of innocent victims to save such as the doctors recently arrested in Atlanta, Georgia some 18 of them or another group of doctors and pharmacists arrested in Florida, some 25 of them earlier. Both groups were accused of narcotic trafficking and contributing to this deadly epidemic. If we study the numbers carefully, it is not the doctors, but CDC chiefs and DEA bosses who properly should be targets of public inquiry and Justice Department investigation. It should be borne in mind that, in the last analysis, this is not about blame or investigations. This is about medical science, practice in accord with the Hippocratic oath and what is good for people to create a better world. Public integrity is of essence of our survival.
The Pain/Brain Festival
The actions that were taken to sabotage this event were extraordinary: 10,000 butterflies that had been ordered for this occasion did not arrive; busloads of citizens who came from distant locations to participate were intercepted and not allowed to enter the city; the tires of the car that was leading a procession to the Lincoln Memorial were slashed. All of this was truly unexpected for a five minute and one second event to acknowledge the important of the reduction of pain. But the DEA has also assaulted and harassed Vanessa Mullins, M.D., who along with Alen Salerian was responsible for organizing this event, where DEA agents broke down the door to her home and arrested her for having prescription narcotics prescribed by Dr. Salerian in her possession, which led her incarceration overnight as (what I take to have been) an obvious act of intimidation intended to discourage her from participating in any program of this kind. More severe consequences, I fear, may have been meted out to others who have not "gotten the message".
The Columbus Plan Crash
Kevin Byers, 54, his mother, Eudora Beyers, 78, and Siobhan Reynolds, 50. Kevin was piloting the plane, which crashed near the Vinton County Airport. "According to Kevin Byers' Columbus law firm's website, he defended physicians, dentists, pharmacists and nurses against state licensing boards, federal agencies and private practice overseers. He also represented pain patients who were having difficulty receiving appropriate treatment. Reynolds was an advocate for chronic pain patients and formed the advocacy group Pain Relief Network." When I contacted Jeff Barron of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette, who wrote this story, he advised me that he had no additional information about the details of the crash, but suggested that I contact the Jackson, OH, office of the Ohio State Patrol. I spoke with the outpost commander, who stated it had been turned over the FAA.
Kevin Byers and Siobhan Reynolds were founding member of Doctors for Equal Rights for Brain Pain, which Alen Salerian founded to promote equal rights for people with mental and physical pain, of which I am also an honorary founding member. Byers and Reynolds were Dr. Salerian's lawyers. Another article from KAKE News in Kansas, mentioned that the plane was approaching the runway but ended up along a road parallel to the airport, while focusing on Siobhan Reynolds. According to KAKE News,
For the last decade, Reynolds had worked as an advocate for patients suffering chronic pain and the doctors who attempted to treat them with high-dose prescription pain medications. She began her crusade after her husband, a chronic pain patient, died while moving across country seeking a doctor to threat his condition. Reynolds founded the Pain Relief Network to help support others who she believed were victim's of undertreatment of pain.
When Dr. Schneider and his wife Linda were charged with over-prescribing pain pills, Reynolds moved to Kansas to publicize the case. Reynolds' actions prompted federal investigators to open a criminal investigation into her and the Pain Relief Network.
Reynolds lost the case and was forced to release her personal communication with doctors, patients and attorneys. The ruling eventually led her to dissolve the Pain Relief Network.
Their report provides a text-book illustration of the "War on Physicians" that Dr. Salerian has been attempting to publicize. The most telling article about here death, however, comes from American Thinker, which included a passage from an article in Reason Magazine:
She began her advocacy following the death of her husband. She believed that his death was hastened by the inexplicable rules and regulations governing the dispensing of pain medication. She defended doctors who defied the government to prescribe opiates to dying patients in order to relieve their agony. This got her in trouble with a vindictive prosector, Tanya Treadway, who carried out a grand jury investigation of her organization, the Pain Relief Network.
What was it that so offended Treadway? Reynolds organized protests in response to Treadway's prosecution of Kansas doctor Stephen Schneider. She talked to his patients and urged them to tell their stories. Her group sponsored a billboard in Wichita that proclaimed "Dr. Schneider never killed anyone." It produced a documentary that dramatized the conflict between drug control and pain control. In short, Reynolds vigorously exercised her First Amendment rights, and she did so in a way that discomfited people in power, highlighting the human impact of their decisions. Treadway's effort to intimidate Reynolds is a tribute to her courage, persistence, and effectiveness.
No one is saying that these issues are not complicated and that dealing honestly and forthrightly with them isn't fraught with the possibility of unintended consequences. But the relief of pain, if viewed as a medical problem and not a criminal problem, is relatively easy, cheap, and would improve the quality of life of millions around the world.
Based upon my own investigation of the plane crash that took the life of Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and gave control of the Senate to the GOP, which enabled George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to pursue their "War on Terror" by invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, the use of a plane crash to take out your political opponents is virtually fail-safe. Unless the crash site is declared to be a crime scene, it cannot be investigated as the scene of a crime. In the case of the Wellstone crash, the Attorney General, who was then John Ashcroft, simply declined to declare it a crime scene, where the NTSB only investigated non-criminal hypotheses about the cause of the crash, namely: the weather, the plane, and the pilots.
As I have explained, although the NTSB never considered the alternatives, such as the use of a small bomb, a gas canister, or a high-tech weapon, the evidence substantiates that this was a deliberate take-down, where in that case a high-tech weapon was involved. The stakes revolving around the "War on Drugs" are no less serious than those revolving around the "War on Terror". We have been conned before and this looks to me like another instance in which the CIA bears ultimate responsibility and is using the CDC and the DEA as its instruments of harassment and intimidation—and may now have brought about three more deaths.
Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota where he taught on its Duluth campus.


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Each year the executive council of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum provides a theme for study in the year beginning at Easter tide. The following is a translation from the German of this year's article by Sergei O. Prokofieff.
Every person who begins the study of anthroposophy soon notices that at its heart stands the Mystery of the Human I. This central question of anthroposophical Christology is likewise among the most important questions of all anthroposophy.
I Organization
In his book The Threshold of the Spiritual World Rudolf Steiner gives a most concise yet strikingly differentiated description of what in later lectures he calls the "I Organisation" of the human being. The book's chapters are divided into three parts, each followed by a "summary of the preceding." Thus a clear three-stage structure is presented and at each stage one aspect of the human I organization is mentioned:
"the human being as independent entity (I)";
"the human being's 'other self' which is brought to expression through repeated lives on earth"—which according to this definition corresponds to the higher I;1
and "the 'true I'," which forms the real core of the human spirit.
The present time is distinguished spiritually by the great event of the appearance of the Christ in etheric form on the astral plane. From this, and from the existential relationship of the Christ to the human I, there arises the question of His relationship with the three-part I organization of the human being. Through the Mystery of Golgotha a crucial alteration is accomplished for the earthly I. Since that event, human beings have had the ability to bring I consciousness with them into the spiritual world, and so to engage this spiritual world in full awareness.2 But to be able to accomplish this, humanity had to await the full development of the consciousness soul and the elaboration and justification of the science of mind-and-spirit* which addresses the earthly I. In this earthly I, human intellectuality also takes root. Today, following the modern path of development, this intellectuality, in the form of pure thought, can be raised up together with the I consciousness into the spiritual world, where the meeting takes place with the etheric Christ.
This process goes hand in hand with the spiritualization of the earthly I. Rudolf Steiner describes it this way: "Progress is accomplished only when the human being develops heightened intellectuality not just for its own sake, but also bears it up into the astral world. The etherically visible Christ can and will come to meet human beings who have advanced in this sense, through just such an intellectual clairvoyance. He will do so more often and more distinctly in the course of the next three thousand years."3 The raising-up of the spiritualized intellect into the astral world, in order there to meet the etheric Christ wakefully, by means of the clairvoyance in thought—this is the most important deed which the earthly I can accomplish in our time.
Two currents of ether
Rudolf Steiner described an important aspect of this process in his lecture on the etherization of the blood. There he speaks of two etheric streams that rise from the heart to the head, in order to connect the human being with the surrounding spiritual world.
The first stream consists of etherized human blood. In it the "intellectual element" rises from below upwards.
The second stream consists of the etherized blood of the Christ that flows, since the Mystery of Golgotha, in every human heart.
At first these two streams flow parallel to each other. But their coming together is the crucial precondition for behonding the etheric Christ. And how do they come together? Rudolf Steiner gives a surprising answer: the coming together happens when human beings are willing to take the new understanding of Christ up into the soul, and to bring it to life in themselves. In other words, it takes place through the study of the science of the mind-and-spirit,* a study which activates not only the head, but above all the heart, as a new organ for attaining knowledge (see the previous theme of the year).
The future
The etheric revelation of the Christ will unfold over some three thousand years, starting from the 20th century. It is, however, part of a still greater context. This includes two future and still higher revelations of the Christ:
His appearance in the astral body in lower Devachan,
and still later a great revelation of His I being in the higher spiritual world.4
Consider that, according to the above-mentioned book, the environment of the "other self" (higher I) is the spiritual world, and the environment of the true I is the higher spiritual world; elsewhere Rudolf Steiner spoke of them as lower and higher Devachan.5 From this we can see a direct relationship between the two future revelations of the Christ and the higher I and true I of the human being, just as the Christ's present appearance is connected with the spiritualization of the earthly I.
From the foregoing it is clear how the evolution of the human I—as the purpose of the Earth—and the ever-higher revelations of the Christ are inextricably linked. To take this into our I consciousness and to further cultivate it in our soul—this is already the beginning of the path which can lead the human being of today to the Christ. | Sergei O. Prokofiev
Translation by John Beck.
* = Translator's note:
The word Geisteswissenschaft is usually translated "spiritual science" or "science of the spirit" in anthroposophy, or as "the humanities" in general usage. In this particular context where both intellectuality and spiritual being are in question, it seemed desirable to us the expanded phrase "science of the mind-and-spirit" in order to suggest its fuller significance in the German language.
1. Rudolf Steiner spoke at length about the relationship of the earthly I to the higher I in his Bologna lecture (see recommended reading).
2. Rudolf Steiner: The Gospel of Matthew (GA 123), lecture of 9 September 1910.
3. Ibid.: Esoteric Christianity and the Spiritual Guidance of Humanity (GA 130), lecture of 18 November 1911.
4. Ibid.
5. See the final chapter in Rudolf Steiner: The Threshold of the Spiritual World (GA 17): "Remarks on the relationship of what is said in this document to the presentation in my Theosophy and Occult Science."
Recommended reading:
In English:
Rudolf Steiner, The Threshold of the Spiritual World (GA 17) in A Way of Self-Knowledge and The Threshold of the Spiritual World. Great Barrington: SteinerBooks, 2006.
Rudolf Steiner, The Etherization of the Blood (lecture of October 1, 1911) in The Reappearance of the Christ in the Etheric. Great Barrington: Anthroposophic Press, 1983.
In German:
Rudolf Steiner, Das gespiegelte Ich. Der Bologna-Vortrag—Die philosophischen Grundlagen der Anthroposophie. [The mirrored I. The Bologna lecture—The philosophical foundations of anthroposophy]. Dornach: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2007. Also in Philosophie und Anthroposophie. Gesammelte Aufsätze 1904–1923 [Philosophy and anthroposophy. Collected essays 1904–1923] (GA 35).
Wolf-Ulrich Klünker, Anthroposophie als Ich-Berührung [Anthroposophy as contact with the I]. Dornach, 2010.
Sergei O. Prokofieff, Das Rätsel des menschlichen Ich. [The riddle of the human I]. Dornach, 2010.
With the theme for 2009-2010 we shared in Evolving News for Members and Friends a report from the North Carolina branch of insights that had arisen in their study and conversations. Groups, branches, and individuals who are working with this year's theme are invited to share suggestions on resources for further study as well as insights and experiences gained which you are willing to share. Please email them to the US society's editor, John Beck, or mail them to our office in Ann Arbor.


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NYSEG and RG&E Energize Lighting Options in Small Business Energy Efficiency Program
"This program just got even better," said Mark S. Lynch, president of NYSEG and RG&E. "Additional options for light-emitting diode (LED) lamps, lighting fixtures and outdoor lighting now make it even more attractive for small businesses, office buildings and other facilities to upgrade to more efficient lighting with little out-of-pocket expense."
Small businesses that have already taken advantage of the program will be eligible to use the expanded program offerings to increase their energy savings.
Under the first phase of the program, launched in May 2010, more than 10,000 participating small- business owners have saved 86 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and an average of 10% on their electricity bills as a result of lighting upgrades.
The Small Business Energy Efficiency Program is open to small commercial and other nonresidential customers with electric demand of less than an average of 100 kilowatts during the past 12 months.
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• Following the energy assessment, customers will receive a written proposal showing the savings, cost and payback period for recommended lighting upgrades.
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A Chicago man has been charged with placing a small video recording device in a woman's fitting room at a Skokie clothing store, police said today.
Sergio Corona Jr., 21, of the 3700 block of N. Bernard Street in Chicago, has been charged with one count of unauthorized video recording after a camera was found in a fitting room at the "Zara" clothing store in the Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Mall, police said. His next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 19 at the Skokie courthouse.


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Are you getting the best rate of return on investment? Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine annually discusses ways to boost your investment yield in their latest issue. I have to say that I am always pretty disappointed in their recommendations.
I love the magazine, but I didn't really care for a list of mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). But, I wanted concrete ideas on how to earn a 10% annual rate of return on my investments.
US Treasuries are earning less than 1% and money market funds are not fairing much better. Certificates of deposit are barely scraping by at 2% or so even for the longest maturities.
But, are these levels going to last? The stock market has returned an after of 8% annually over the past century. But, where can an investor find 10% when the market retraces or moves sideways?
10 Ways to Earn a 10% Rate of Return on Investment
Here are 10 ways to earn a 10% ROI on your investments or maybe even more. Additionally, there are a few extra bonus ideas to help you earn a great rate of return on investments.
Peer-To-Peer Lending Has a Great Rate of Return on Investments
Peer-To-Peer Lending through companies like Lending Club are my favorite way to earn a rate of return on investment over 10% annually. Lending Club's most conservatively A rated loan earns over 6% for the investor. It does not take long or much more risk to earn over 10% returns. And, Lending Club's most risky investments earn a rate of return on investment of over 20% annually.
I'm a huge fan of Lending Club and have recommended investors adding Lending Club loans to their investment portfolio for years here on Money Q&A.
Investing In Real Estate
Real estate is a great way to earn over 10% rate of return on investments. I'm a big fan of becoming a landlord which I've talked about several times here on Money Q&A. While you need to run your numbers and do your research, you can earn a 10% rate of return on investments with your rents.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) are another great option if you do not want to own real estate directly. REITs are required by law to distribute a majority of their earnings to their shareholders in the form of dividends. These payouts and real estate's impending comeback make REITs an attractive alternative to help investors reach the 10% threshold.
Investors can browse many different types of real estate investments. And, qualified investors can start with as little as $5,000. There's a wide variety of property types, returns, and locations to invest in for investors.
RealtyShares offers a diverse range of financing solutions for commercial and residential real estate projects including both debt and equity. The result is higher leverage, a lower average cost of capital, and a single source for all capital needs. Investors can invest in minutes through our simple and secure online process. And, you can get 24/7 access to your investments and earnings through your secure investor dashboard.
RealtyShares lists investment opportunities involving a variety of real estate property types, including multi-family residential, office, industrial, self-storage, retail, and hospitality facilities. Single-family residences being used for investment purposes (not owner-occupied) are also the subject of many investment opportunities.
Earn a $100 bonus when you make your first investment at RealtyShares using promo code Partner100.
PeerStreet is another great marketplace for investing in real estate backed loans. PeerStreet's platform provides investments in high-yield, short-term loans focused 100% on real estate debt. PeerStreet is backed by American venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz.
Building a real estate portfolio with PeerStreet is simple. You can create your own portfolio of real estate loan investments, or you can allow PeerStreet to do the research and investing for you with automated investing capability. You just select a few custom parameters, and PeerStreet will place you into real estate loans automatically.
PeerStreet's team of finance and real estate experts underwrites each loan using advanced algorithms, big data analytics, and manual processes to ensure PeerStreet surfaces high-quality investments. They vet originators and allow only experienced private lenders with great industry track records onto the platform. Those originators run their own due diligence process to hand-select the borrowers to whom they're willing to lend. This creates higher quality loans in greater quantity. So, you can invest with confidence.
Short-Term Stock Trading
Granted, short-term stock trading is not for everyone and should not be done with a large portion of your entire investment portfolio. Trying to time the stock market is a rough way to earn a 10% rate of return on investments, but it could be well worth your time and efforts with a small portion of your investment portfolio.
I've been having a blast trading stocks on a short-term basis. And, even better, I'm up 15% over the course of the past 12 weeks. That's a lot better than 10% annualized of course.
Many swing trading services teach investors how to, not day trade, but invest in small cap stocks which are held only a few days or weeks. You can follow along as the service trades their own portfolios, mirror their trades, and learn the ropes of short-term technical analysis trading. I was skeptical at first, but I have actually really enjoyed getting back into stock trading. It also doesn't hurt that I'm up, of course!
Starting Your Own Business
I am a huge fan of starting your own business. I wish everyone would have the entrepreneurial spirit. It was one of the best ways to earn a 10% rate of return on investment. Whether it is opening a neighborhood restaurant or as simple as starting a blog, a business venture is a great way to boost your investments' returns.
Master Limited Partnerships (MLP)
Master Limited Partnerships are partnerships that trade like a stock. They are risky and not for every investor, but they can often offer a larger rate of return than other investments. Many MLPs invest in the energy sector, minerals, and other raw material type ventures. They often have a high yield because they do not pay income taxes themselves and pass on that responsibility to their shareholders.
Art And Other Collectables Can Diversify Your Investments
Good art, great collectibles, or even quality antiques as a whole are safe investments that tend to grow in value at as good as or better rate than almost any other investment. Plus they–unlike stocks or bonds–have the added bonus of your being able to enjoy them in your home on a daily basis.
Create A Product To Boost Your Rate Of Return On Investments
Robert Pagliariri wrote one of my favorite books, "The Other 8 Hours", where he talked about becoming a creator. It is not enough to simply work a 9 to 5 job and hope to become rich. It unfortunately just does not work that way.
Those who are more successful than most are creators. They create businesses. Products create products. They make things people want to buy. That's how you can earn a 10% rate of return on investments.
Junk Bonds Are An Interesting Choice
Junk bonds get a bad rap simply because of their name. But, don't be fool by the lingo. There are basically two categories of bonds: investment grade and junk bonds.
Junk bonds are simply high yield, higher risk bonds from companies who have seen their credit ratings suffer from the rating agencies like Moody's and Standard and Poor's. Junk bonds typically have a rating of BB or Ba or less depending on whose scale you use.
The Barclays US Investment Grade Credit Index, which tracks high-grade bonds, returned 1.63% through April of this year. The safest grade junk bond is earning 5% interest annually with less safe options earning a rate of return more than that. While 10% may be the riskiest of all junk bonds, it is still possible with some to earn that much.
Paying Off Your Debt Is Like An Investment
Paying off a debt with a high-interest rate is the same as having earned that exact same rate of return on investments would have given you. It is all about opportunity costs. In fact, that's also what I recommend people do with a pay raise as well. It is all about the best opportunity for you to put your money to work for you.
For example, if you have a credit card with a balance that is charging you a 16% interest rate, paying off that debt would be the same as having invested and earning that 16% on the investment. Paying off high-interest debt is a great way to earn a stellar rate of return.
Stocks For The Long-Term
Make investing in stocks for the long-term automatic. It's easy to up automatic investments either with your bank, a discount broker, or even a smartphone app like Robin Hood. Put money away every month, when time are good and times are bad. Avoiding investing mistakes will make you more money in the long run than trying to pick the hottest sector/stock/fund/investment over the years.
With the help of a Financial Planner, you can pick a well-diversified investment portfolio appropriate to your financial situation and the amount of risk that you are willing to accept. Granted, you may need to take on more risk if you want that 10% rate of return.
Most of us are a victim of recency bias. An entire generation of investors has only known the stock market of 2003 to 2013. Our most recent past is not a precursor to what our long-term investing future will be. A 10% annual rate of return on investments over the long term is very much achievable.
Honorable Mention Investing Ideas
Extra Idea #1 – Investing In Silver and Other Precious Metals
Precious metals can be a great alternative investment for your portfolio to help you earn a great rate of return on investments. Like most investments on this list, you should consider investing in gold, silver, and other precious metals with a small percentage of your total investment portfolio.
I personally love to invest in silver. It is more volatile than gold, and the potential for upside is greater to help you earn that 10% rate of return on investments. You can even invest in precious metals in a gold or silver IRA through an investment company. Year to date (YTD), silver is up over 36% from $13.81 to $18.83 per ounce.
Extra Idea #2 – Invest in Poker Players
Individual investors can buy action from professional and amateur poker players. And, staking poker players can earn investors a great rate of return. Investors put up a part of the buy-in in exchange for a one-time part of the winnings. There are a couple of ways that individual investors can get involved and invest in poker players.
If you're an average or intermediate individual investor with a love for poker and want to invest in poker players, there are a couple of online forums or bulletin boards that can help you find players looking for investors. Check out a couple of the other options that let you easily invest in poker players.
Extra Idea #3 – Invest in a Movie
I think it's such a cool idea to invest money in a movie. And, now it's a reality for investors! The United States Motion Picture Company, an independent film company, is doing something that has never been done in the U.S. until now – equity crowdfunding for a full-length narrative feature film with profit sharing for investors. Not just any feature film — the world's first Christmas movie to raise funds through equity crowdfunding.
If you're interested in passive income and movies, well, the United States Motion Picture Company has just merged the two together. Equity crowdfunding is like Kickstarter but instead of getting a t-shirt for your money, you own a piece of the movie and earn an income from its profits! To learn more, please click the link below to go to the United States Motion Picture Company's campaign at the SEC-registered funding portal.
Extra Idea #4 – Invest in Bitcoin
The price of the digital currency Bitcoin reached over $4,000 recently. This is the first time since its inception 9 years ago that the cryptocurrency has reached this level. In fact, Bitcoin saw a 25% rise in the month of August 2017 alone. Looking at alternate investments like Bitcoin is a great way to get the best return on investment if you're tired of investing in simple stocks and bonds.
Bitcoin is a type of digital currency that uses encryption to regulate the creation of new currency. The encryption also verifies the transfer of funds between parties. The buying, selling, and creating of Bitcoins happens independently of a central bank. You can find brokers where you can buy and sell Bitcoin for as little as a $10 minimum investment.
What do you think? Did I miss any good ways to earn a 10% rate of return on investment? How do you get the best return on investment? Let me know in the comment section below.
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Souderton, PA 18964
Office: 215-723-5430
Fax: 215-799-0739
The Food Pantry serves over 200 qualified households of Souderton Area School District as a monthly food resource.
Current Food Pantry Needs
Our food pantry is supported by donations from local churches, service groups, families and individuals. All of our food is to benefit those in our community in need. Below is a list of community connections that support our food pantry.
Community Connections
Our Food Pantry is a member of these groups:
Community Action Development Commission (CADCOM) of Montgomery County
State Food Purchase Program
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) (Federal)
Nutrition Coalition
BCOC – Bucks County Opportunity Council
"Fresh for All"
We also suggest going to "Fresh for All" sponsored by Philabundance. It is open to the public and is held every Tuesday from 1 to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of Grace Bible Church located at 423 N Main St in Souderton, diagonal from the WAWA. You can receive 25 to 30 lbs. of FREE fresh produce and there are no qualifications. http://www.philabundance.org/programs-2/fresh-for-all/
Food Pantry Coordinator: Cindy Dembrosky
Food Pantry Assistant: Arlin Delp
Phone: 215-723-5430 ext. 101
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IPo Allotment status for ICRA is out .
You can click the lik below to check status of your application
ICRA Allotment Status
Stay tuned to read the listing strategy for ICRA on this blog. The same will be published one day before listing date.
Read IPO Update on ICRA by Investment Guru.
IPO Allotment Status : ICRA Limited
Posted by Rajesh Soni Thursday, April 05, 2007 Labels: IPO Updates 2 comments
2 comments:
- Anonymous said...
hello rajesh
I didn't get any allotment :(
is it okay to buy it on listing day ...what is the ideal price to enter ?
- April 07, 2007
- Anonymous said...
what is the expected listing day price ?
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On 07.01.2009 12:42, lucian orasanu wrote: > Hy Klaus, > > So with this version we wont need h264 patch?
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