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The increased tax liability investment income generates is a serious consideration, regardless of your tax bracket, and not all investment income is taxed equally. A firm understanding of the difference between the taxation of long- and short-term capital gains is crucial to ensuring the benefits of your investment portfolio outweigh the costs.
Short-Term vs. Long-Term Capital Gains
The difference between long- and short-term capital gains lies in the length of time the investment is held. Simply put, long-term capital gains are those derived from investments held for more than one year. If you purchase 100 shares of stock for $20 per share and sell them six months later for $25 per share, the $500 in profit is considered short-term capital gains by the IRS.
This distinction is of the utmost importance because short- and long-term capital gains are taxed very differently. In fact, depending on your tax bracket, if you held the 100 shares in the above example for a year or more, you could end up making more money if the stock price continues to increase but still pay less come tax time. In addition, only your net investment income is taxable, meaning if you gain $500 from one investment but lose $500 on another in the same tax year, your net gain is zero and you are not required to pay any additional taxes. If you net a loss, you may be able to list it as a tax deduction.
Short-Term Capital Gains Tax Rate
Short-term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income. This means any income you receive from investments held for less than a year must be included in your taxable income for the year. If you have $60,000 in taxable income from salary and $5,000 from short-term investments, your total taxable income is $65,000. Based on 2017 tax tables, if you filed as an individual, you would be in the 25% tax bracket and would owe $11,988.75 in income tax. Of course this amount may be reduced if you qualify for certain tax deductions or credits.
Long-Term Capital Gains Tax Rates
The IRS taxes long-term capital gains at a substantially reduced rate to encourage individuals and businesses to keep their investments. The difference between the long-term capital gains rate, generally referred to as simply the capital gains rate, and the ordinary income tax rate, which applies to short-term gains, can be almost as much as 20%.
In 2017, the capital gains rate for those in the 10% and 15% income tax brackets is 0%, meaning those who earn the least are not required to pay any income tax on profits from investments held longer than one year. For those in the 25% to 35% tax brackets, the capital gains tax is 15%. For the wealthiest citizens who fall into the 39.6% income tax bracket, the capital gains rate is still only 20%. (For related reading, see: Capital Gains Tax 101.)
Assume in the example above, your $5,000 in investment income is from long-term investments held longer than a year. In this case, your tax bracket as an individual would still be 25% for the $60,000, on which you would owe $10,738.75. You would only pay 15% on your capital gains, for an additional $750. Instead of a total tax liability of $11,988.75, you would only owe $11,488.75 for the same amount of income. The greater your investment income, the more important this distinction becomes.
A Look at the Math: The Average Joe
Assume you invest $1,000 in the stock market. In two month's time, you could sell those shares for $2,000. However, if you keep them for a whole year, the value jumps to $3,000. Of course, the temptation of doubling your money so quickly is strong, but once you consider the tax implications of both options, the choice may not be so clear.
If you are in the 15% tax bracket, you are required to pay 15% of your $1,000 profit if you sell your shares early, for a total tax liability of $150 in addition to your normal income taxes. If you wait for another 10 months, the $2,000 in profit you earn is yours tax-free.
Assume several years down the road you are making more money and have landed in the 28% tax bracket. You are presented with an identical investment scenario, so you do some quick calculations and determine taking the short-term profit would cost you $280, while waiting for the long-term rate to take effect creates a tax liability of 15% x $2,000, or $300. Though the total tax is higher for the long-term gain, so is the profit. In the short-term scenario, your tax rate reduces your net gain to $720. In the long-term scenario, even with the slightly higher tax burden, your net profit is still $1,700. (For related reading, see: 4 Benefits of Holding Stocks for the Long Term.)
A Look at the Math: A Wealthy Investor
You are a superstar at work and have risen through the ranks. You earned so much in 2017, Uncle Sam taxed you at the highest possible rate, 39.6%. With all that capital to work with, you were able to invest $10,000 instead of $1,000. In two months, your investment increased in value to $15,000, but after a full year, it tripled to $30,000. The tax implications of this kind of investment income can be a serious drain on your resources, so it is even more important to look at the math.
If you took the quick money, you owed $1,980 in taxes, in addition to your normal income taxes, reducing your net investment income to $3,020. However, if you held out for a year, your long-term capital gains tax rate of 20% kicked in and your tax liability was reduced to $4,000, or 20% of your $20,000 profit. Again, your total tax was higher, but not by very much. In addition, your net investment gain was only reduced to $16,000, which is still a very healthy profit.
Taxation of Dividends
Dividend income is generated by stocks in your portfolio that pay dividends to shareholders as a means of redistributing company profits and thanking investors for their continued support. Like capital gains, which are generated by an increase in the value of an investment, dividend income is taxed based on the length of time the underlying investment is held.
In general, dividend income is taxed at your ordinary income tax rate. However, if your investment meets certain requirements, your dividends may be considered qualified and are subject to the long-term capital gains rate instead.
The primary requirements for qualified dividends are they be issued by U.S. or qualified foreign corporations and meet a holding period requirement. For a dividend payment to be considered qualified, you must have owned the underlying stock for a minimum of 60 days within the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the ex-dividend date. The ex-dividend date is the date on or after which any new shareholders become ineligible to receive the next dividend. This date is announced by the issuing company when it declares a dividend.
Though it sounds complicated, this regulation is in place to discourage investors who attempt to benefit from dividend payments without maintaining an investment in the issuing company by buying stock right before payment and selling immediately after. Investors can still employ this strategy, but they are required to pay ordinary income tax rates on any dividend income not meeting the holding period requirement. (For related reading, see: How are capital gains and dividends taxed differently?)
The Bottom Line
It pays to consider the tax implications of any income generated by your investments so you can take advantage of lower rates. Consult with a financial or tax advisor if you have questions about the most advantageous course of action for your individual situation. (For related reading, see: Can the government tax your capital gains from other countries?)


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This week, it seems like there is nothing to even discuss besides this company's new IPO. Of course there is, however, Alex Dumortier of The Motley Fool UK, feels just a bit more discussion, along with a brief look back, is a good way to avoid making the same mistakes of the past, or some brand new ones.
Twitter (TWTR) has priced its shares at $26 each, more than the $23-$25 range initially announced, due to high demand, making it the biggest market debut for a technology firm since Facebook (FB).
If you want any evidence that Facebook's botched May 2012 initial public offering was a traumatic event, just look at the following headlines regarding the most anticipated IPO since the Facebook fiasco, which I culled from Yahoo! Finance's homepage:
- Challenges abound for Twitter heading into the IPO (Associated
- Success of Twitter's Business Model Questioned Ahead of IPO
(Breakout/Yahoo! Finance)
- As Twitter IPO prices, poll says it's not worth hype
- Good News for Twitter IPO: Small Investors Are Skipping It (The
Exchange/Yahoo! Finance)
But who, exactly, was traumatized? Investors or financial journalists? One headline tells a different story from those I just cited-one of enthusiasm, rather than skepticism:
- Twitter boosts IPO range amid strong investor demand
Although they maintained the size of the offering at 70 million shares, Twitter and its underwriters first raised the previous $17 to $20 pricing range for the stock to $20 to $25, before Thursday's $26 news. If the underwriters exercise the overallotment option for an additional ten million shares, Twitter will end up raising more than $2 billion at the top end of that range.
The truth is that this is a fantastic time for Twitter to go public: the stock market has had a great run this year, and growth-stock IPOs have been making eye-popping debuts (in the US, witness the shares of sandwich chain Potbelly (PBPB), which more than doubled on their first day of trading, and we all know the score with Royal Mail (LSS:RMG) by now). Finally, the most highly visible social networking stocks—Twitter's peer group—have outpaced the market, as the following performance graph of Facebook and LinkedIn (LNKD) illustrates:
With those precedents in mind, should investors ignore the skeptical articles regarding Twitter and plow into the stock? My answer: no.
Where Facebook and LinkedIn are solidly profitable, Twitter isn't. In that regard, it's closer to local-business review site Yelp (YELP), which has yet to turn a quarterly profit (although that hasn't stopped the stock from gaining 241% this year.) Twitter is a fascinating platform, and it has already made a massive impact on business and popular culture, but as a business model, it's still finding its feet. Several ad buyers at major advertising firms recently told the Financial Times that the funds they allocate to Twitter come out of their experimental budgets.
I think the odds are excellent that Twitter's stock will post muscular gains once the shares begin trading, but whether it will prove an excellent long-term investment looks much more uncertain. Investors who are interested in buying the shares should first ask themselves what they expect to achieve, over what timeframe...and how much they are prepared to lose in an adverse scenario.
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What's in a name?
by Bill Burger
When the founding ladies of the VIA tried to find "ceia" in their Spanish/English dictionary, the closest word
they found was "cielo" - meaning sky, or heavens. And so "Terra Ceia" became "heavenly land". The actual story behind the name is
rather more interesting.
In 1783, Frigate Ensign Jose de Evia set sail from Havana on the Comendador de Marsella, a two-masted lugger,
with the commision to explore and chart the Florida Gulf coast. On the Tampa Bay map he produced, Evia noted the locations of
occupied fishing settlements, called ranchos; two of these are shown along the southeastern shoreline. One of these was described
as the "Rancho of Rosie" (See Map #1). Note that this is pronounced "Row-ZEE-ah". This location is also seen on a Spanish map from 1809
(See Map#2) - indicating Rosie's operations apparently continued for some time, perhaps by his family. Research in the archives in
Havana would likely reveal much more of the story, including the date when Rosie first came to Tampa Bay. The fish caught at all of
the ranchos were sent to Cuba and taxes paid. The Spanish were extremly bureaucratic in their record keeping.
When Joseph Atzeroth applied for title to 160 acres on the island on June 18, 1843, he described it as: Said Piece of Land
is Situated on the West Shore of Teo Rocia Bay..." Note his spelling. After the severe 1846 hurricane destroyed the Azeroth's log cabin, one
account says they stayed with a neighbor. Who? The only other known settlers then in the area were the Peterson brothers, who had homesteaded
south across the bay at Peterson's Bayou (adjacent to Palmetto Point). Miguel Guerrero (of Miguel Bay) didn't come to the island until 1848.
Might the "neighbor" have been the Rosie family or their workers?
A military map from 1857 (See Map #3) indicates "Terresilla Island". This spelling reflects the "nyuh" sound of the Spanish
double "L".
So, through word replacement, mispronunciation, misspelling, and misunderstanding of accents, the rancho of Rosie became the land (terra)
of Rosie, with Terra Rocia contracting into Terra Ceia. (As for "Palma Ceia" in Tampa, I think a land developer over there just like the sound of our name
and took it!)
If my research is correct, I don't think that it changes the fact that we do indeed live on an island that is a heavenly land!.
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HOUSTON, Texas (WPVI) --A newborn baby is safe after being abandoned on a sidewalk at an apartment complex near Spring, Texas.
Harris County Sheriff's Office says the child was less than an hour old when she was located covered in ants and with her umbilical cord still attached Thursday morning, KTRK-TV reports.
Deputies credit a man living at the apartment for finding the newborn, before he went off to work.
"I looked down. I said, 'Oh, man, there is a baby right here,'" recalled Albert Peterson, who found the girl. "The baby was brand new."
The muffled cries of the child caught Peterson's attention.
"I picked the baby up, and the baby had mucus and blood and all kinds of stuff all over her body," Peterson said. "When I seen her, I seen ants and stuff all over. So I picked her up."
Peterson took the girl to his apartment, cleaned her and placed her in a blanket while his wife called 911.
Peterson says it was not hard for detectives to find the mother.
"She walked all the way around that corner bleeding," Peterson said as he pointed. "You see her footprints on the ground."
Detectives say the 21-year-old mother is now in custody and undergoing psychological and medical evaluations. A man from her apartment was also taken into custody.
Detectives say the baby had been carried to term and is healthy. They admit, though, that things could have been much worse if it wasn't for Peterson.
"Without this neighbor, we could be looking at probably a whole different scene," said HCSO Deputy Thomas Gilliland. "It would be more of a homicide."
The child is at the hospital for observation. She will be turned over to CPS.
The agency will try to place the child with a relative. If the baby cannot be reunited with her mother or no family can be found, she will eventually be put up for adoption.
No word on what charges the detained couple will face.
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You sephardisheh Moderns need to understand that a wife is not to be paraded around the shuk like a camel.
The self proclaimed Beit Din of the Orthodox Community of Israel has released a statement warning righteous God fearing Jews against uhm… walking in public with their wives. What was once thought to be an innocuous and harmless activity turns out to be a severe prohibition – anyone that continues in this nefarious activity risks harming himself, his family and all the Jews wherever they live. They cite a new understanding of the Torah as the source for this new insight. But for some reason they don't cite, you know, chapter and verse. Apparently, when one sees a husband and a wife together one can't help but imagine them getting jiggy. Especially if the man is bearded and clad in black and the wife is dressed modestly and wearing one of those torpedo shaped hats. Mmmmm… hot! I am being severely sarcastic by the way.
Honestly, I try to be somewhat tolerant of my Haredi brothers (and sisters?) but, you can't just make up ridiculous stuff like this. Oh wait. You can.
(As in this Beit Din which claims to trace it's rabbinic smichah pedigree to anshei knesset ha g'dola most definitely pulled this "chumrah" out of their asses. The question that remains unanswered is, if the husband and wife are separated and the husband, because he's a dick, refuses to give his wife a get and this genius Beit Din can't help the agunah because while the Torah supposedly has very firm rules in place regarding modesty but nothing about helping a sister out when her husband's being a dick… in such a case, since they're not having sex, could a man walk in public with his agunah wife in order to collect cash that he swindled from her and her family in order to maybe grant said divorce?)
h/t Jewish Worker
You sephardisheh Moderns need to understand that a wife is not to be paraded around the shuk like a camel.
I suggest you focus on the wonderfully organized moral code of secular culture before sticking your nose into societies you have no understanding of whatsoever.
So the wife gets to go out alone but she is not permitted to go out with her husband. That makes lots of sense. She's better off by herself, isn't she?


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Aside from time studying in the virtual world, a number of AU students spend their time exploring the real world. Whether it's travelling for work, as a treat between course loads, or to reward themselves for graduating, AU students are racking up the hours — and frequent flyer points — jet-setting the country and the world over. Oh the places they've gone We asked some of our … [Read more...]
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Stanislaw Karchinski
The self styled "Russian Bear" a very powerful heavyweight, said to fear no-one, though his record suggested maybe he should have been a bit more cautious!
Great Karloff
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Stan Karoly
Hungarian middleweight Stan Karoly was a familiar figure in Southern England in the late 1960s. We were told at the time that like many other young Hungarians he left his home country in 1956 and settled in Austria where he continued to pursue his interest in amateur wrestling, but now with an eye on turning professional. Whether or not that is true we cannot confirm because he was also said to be the son of Stanislaus Karloyi who had left Hungary long before 1956. Maybe a reader, or Stan himself, can shed some light on his background. Following a short career with the independent promoters was eventually signed up by Dale Martin Promotions..
Stanislaus Karolyi
One of the great Hungarian wrestlers in the business pre war until the late 1950s. He was a pre-war European light heavyweight champion who lost his title to Mike Demitre at L'Elysee-Montmartre in Paris in 1938. Acknowledged for his physique and superb physical condition he was a visitor to the USA in those days when transatlantic travel was unusual. A skilful technical wrestler he won many bouts with his favourite move the Scorpion Death Lock.
Joe Katich
Yugoslavian born and domiciled in Australia. As part of a world tour begun in September 1968 he made a short visit to Britain, for Dale Martin Promotions, in the spring of 1969, with opponents Kalman Gaston, Ray Fury, Bob Kirkwood and Charlie Fisher.
Johnny Katsulos
Johnny Katsulos was another of those "Golden Greeks" to be found in British rings. Born Jacob Katsulos in Toronto on 28th October, 1915 of Greek descent he was a Canadian citizen who worked as a waiter before coming to England in 1937 where he gained employment as a printer. He lived in Brixton Road, London, a road familiar to all wrestling fans.
Johnny Katsulos worked in British rings for much of 1937, 1938 and 1939.
With war in Europe approaching he crossed the Atlantic on 27th May, 1939 and could be found wrestling in Canada. Post war we have found Johnny in the USA, working in Ohio between 1947 and 1951. In 1951 Johnny returned to the United States, still wrestling and weighing around twelve stones. Johnny Katsulos died in 1970 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
The Katt
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Klaus Kauroff
It came to light with Togo Tani's inclusion on these listings in 2011 that, as Umeyuki Kiyomigawa, he had been responsible in Spain for the training of this German super-heavyweight.
His first UK tour was in November 1967 - and he lost every match by a knockout.
Kauroff made his way back to the UK in Januray 1975 and stayed about six weeks. Although he again wasn't very successful in his bouts against mainly mid-carders, he stepped into the ring with some top-notch opponents such as Steve Viedor, Georges Gordienko, Tibor Szakacs and Mike Marino. He did however chalk up a victory over Prince Kumali, and perhaps his highlight was defeating the masked Exorcist in Liverpool.
At the Royal Albert Hall he lost to Steve Viedor. On television he beat Roy St. Clair but lost matches to him around the halls.
In Germany, the affectionately held Hanoverian won the World Cup tournament twice and later became one of the most hated men when he worked as the heel manager for the US stars, in the now defunct Catch Wrestling Association when he brought theri villains to Germany and Austria.
In June 2011 the now retired legend returned for one night only as manager at Westside Xtreme Wrestling's charity event "wXw with you, Japan".


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Jeremy Denk has established himself as one of America's most thought-provoking, multi-faceted, and compelling artists. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and London. He regularly gives recitals in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, and throughout the United States. This season includes a return to Carnegie Hall in recital, as part of thirteen-city tour of the US, as well as a performance of Bach's complete set of six keyboard concertos in a single evening with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Upcoming engagements include tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Field.
Denk is known for his original and insightful writing on music, praised by Alex Ross for its "arresting sensitivity and wit" . His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and his website 'think denk,' recounting his experiences of touring, performing, and practicing was recently selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress Web Archives. He looks forward to performing and curating as artistic director of the 2014 Ojai Music Festival, for which he is also composing the libretto to a semi-satirical opera.
In 2012, Mr. Denk made his debut as a Nonesuch Records artist with a pairing of masterpieces old and new: Beethoven's final Piano Sonata and György Ligeti's Etudes. The disc was named one of the best discs of 2012 by the The New Yorker, NPR, and the Washington Post. Later this year, he will release a disc of the Goldberg Variations. Mr. Denk has a long-standing attachment to the music of American visionary Charles Ives, and his recording of Ives's two Piano Sonatas was selected for many "best of the year" lists. Last season, he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to appear as a soloist in the San Francisco Symphony's "American Mavericks" festival, and he recorded Henry Cowell's Piano Concerto with the orchestra. Denk has cultivated relationships with many living composers, and has several commissioning projects currently in progress.
Denk has toured frequently with violinist Joshua Bell, and their album French Impressions was recently released on the Sony Classical label, winning the 2012 Echo-Klassik award. He also regularly collaborates with cellist Steven Isserlis. He has appeared at numerous festivals, including the Italian and American Spoleto Festivals, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music, Verbier, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Aspen, and "Mostly Mozart" Festivals. He lives in New York City, and his web site and blog are at jeremydenk.net.


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If He Had Called Ten Thousand Angels Max Dawson Jesus' Death By The Numbers Kris Emerson Three Days and Three Nights Max Dawson
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Two-Minute Warning! Max Dawson
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A Great Church (Benjamin Lee) N/A
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WHAT ABOUT THE THIEF ON THE CROSS? Curtis Carr
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What About The Thief On The Cross? (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson
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The Pursuit of Mental Holiness (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson
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Do You Have The Gift? Benjamin Lee The Big Picture Max Dawson The Promise Max Dawson
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"In His Time..." Max Dawson Alone With God (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee Devoting My Time To Jesus David Banning Plenty of Time (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson The Perfect Prayer Plan Kris Emerson The Third Question (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson
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By God's Grace (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee
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The Incident In The Grain Field David Banning
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Why Will You Leave Jesus? David Banning
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Seven Questions About the Return of Jesus Max Dawson
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Why Will You Leave Jesus? David Banning
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Blest Be The Tie (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson Segregated Sundays (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee (more...)
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Some Things We've Learned Over The Last 60 Years David Banning Unity of the Early Christians (Max Dawson) Max Dawson Unity:How To Keep It Benjamin Lee We Are One Max Dawson
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The Unjust Steward Max Dawson
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The Pursuit of Mental Holiness (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson We Are The Champions...Overcoming The World! Max Dawson
- Victory in Christ
Spiritual Identify Theft (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee
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Laborers In The Vineyard (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson
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Finding The Joy In Giving David Banning Who Is Wise And Understanding Among You? Max Dawson Wisdom From Job: Facing Life's Challenges Max Dawson
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An Overlooked Danger: Sorcery (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee
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Blessed Be Your Discernment (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson
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Lessons to Learn from the Book of Ezra Benjamin Lee On Jordan's Stormy Banks (Kris Emerson) Kris Emerson Resisting The Spirit (Benjamin Lee) Benjamin Lee
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Great literature and a good buzz go hand in hand, so here are five books that will enhance and entrance.
For many users marijuana can be a tool for staying very focused on a single subject or task. And since most people who love reading appreciate that kind of focus and dedication, the two go hand in hand. So pick up a bowl and these books to read while high!
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
A dark secret from the past is lurking in a rural Amish community, and when a troubled teenager gets ahold of a Slayer cassette, the evil is unleashed and the Kornwolf (werewolf) wreaks havoc on a once quiet community that had hoped it could forget its past.
Although the premise of the book is absurd, its portrayal of the cracks where the new world meets the old world is touchingly crafted. It has humor and heart and the poetic beauty characteristic of the authors three novels, written before committing suicide at the age of 33.
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At once, it was clear Ephraim and Jonathan had made a mistake. And terribly, irreversibly so-there was no way to angle the buggy around with a full lane of steadily oncoming traffic. Their own lane, devoid of an adequate shoulder, was backed up for three hundred yards from the Sprawl Mart-a ten-acre superstore complex-ahead.
An oncoming tour bus gradually slowed to a crawl on approaching Jonathan's buggy. Ephraim looked up to see walleyed Redcoats staring down on them. One of them slammed his head to the tinted window in mute incapacitation. The driver's voice came over the intercom: "Don't worry folks, these people are guaranteed nonviolent. Just try to remember: The camera steals their souls. So, if you must, try and shoot on the sly."
Flashbulbs exploded. Ephraim winced. He singled out one of the cameras and pointed. The Redcoat blinked, apparently startled. Ephraim threw him a middle finger and whirled on Jonathan, agitated, motioning: "Where's the stereo?" Jonathan glanced over one of his shoulders, into the boot. Ephraim followed his gesture and, presently, pulled up the battery-powered player. Then he inserted Reign in Blood.
Jonathan reached for the stereo, desperately trying to silence the roar.
But Ephraim, inwhite-knuckled rapture, blocked his attempt with a sweep of one leg and then went on, much to the shock of surrounding motorists (if equally geared to the protesters' cheering) to tighten the reigns, angle the buggy out into the oncoming lane, and charge.
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The rest of the title, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, pretty much says it all. Brought back from the dead and into the modern world where he is locked in a hotel room with heavens dumbest daytime television addicted angel, Biff is conscripted to write another chapter for the bible containing all of his best friend Jesus missing years.
Travelling around the world looking for enlightenment, answers and adventure, the two friends find out who they are and what their fate is – while inventing sarcasm and the tradition of eating Chinese food on His birthday. This humorous portrayal of the time of Jesus life not recorded in the bible manages to be gut-achingly hilarious without being overtly offensive or irreverent. Christopher Moore, as he almost always does, paints characters with depth and complexity while being one of the greatest humorists of our time.
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You think you know how this story is going to end, but you dont. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
The boy took the lizard from his mouth and handed it to his younger brother, who sat beside him in the sand. The younger boy played with the lizard for a while, teasing it until it reared its little head as if to bite, then he picked up a rock and mashed the creatures head. Bewildered, he pushed the dead lizard around in the sand, and once assured that it wasnt going anywhere on its own, he picked it up and handed it back to his older brother.
Into his mouth went the lizard, and before I could accuse, out it came again, squirming and alive and ready to bite once again. He handed it back to his younger brother, who smote it mightily with the rock, starting or ending the whole process again.
I watched the lizard die three more times before I said, "I want to do that too."
The Savior removed the lizard from his mouth and said, "Which part?"
By the way, his name was Joshua. Jesus is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Yeshua,which is Joshua. Christ is not a last name. It's the Greek for messiah, a Hebrew word meaning anointed. I have no idea what the "H" in Jesus H. Christ stood for. It's one of the things I should have asked him. Me? I am Levi who is called Biff. No middle initial. Joshua was my best friend.
Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff
Every book by Matt Ruff is so unique they could have all been written by separate authors. So it is only natural that he wrote the greatest fictional look at multiple personality (disassociative identity) disorder ever.
To escape a severely troubled childhood, the main character has fractured their own identity into several major and minor players. In order to manage them so that the more dangerous ones do not cause any harm, a mental house is constructed with everyone and everything in their place. And this strategy manages to work for a time, until becoming entwined with another multiple personality sufferer who hasn't yet learned how to manage their own illness. Together they spiral out of control, ultimately leading to tragedy, reconciliation and growth. A fascinating fiction based look into the human mind and the human condition.
Excerpt from Chapter 1:
I met Penny Driver two months after my twenty-eighth birthday — or two months after my second birthday, depending on how you want to count it.
Jake was up first that morning, as he is most mornings, barreling out of his room around sunrise, thundering down the stairs to the common room, the clamor of his progress setting off a chain reaction of wakings among the other souls in the house. Jake is five years old, and has been since 1973, when he was born from the wreckage of a dead soul named Jacob; he is a mature five, but still basically a little kid, and not very good about respecting other people's need for quiet.
Jake's stomping roused Aunt Sam, who started up cursing; and Aunt Sam's cursing woke Adam, who has the room next to hers; and Adam, who is old enough to respect other people's need for quiet, but often chooses not to, let out a series of war whoops until my father banged on the wall and told him to knock it off. By then, everyone was awake.
I might have tried to ignore it. Unlike the others, I don't sleep in the house, I sleep in the body, and when you're in the body, even the loudest house-noises are just echoes in Andy Gage's head that can be tuned out at will — unless they come from the pulpit. But Adam knows this, of course, and whenever I do try to oversleep, he's out on the pulpit in no time, crowing like a rooster until I take the hint. Some days I make him crow himself hoarse, just to remind him who's boss; but on this particular morning, my eyes were open as soon as Jake hit the stairs.
The room where I slept — where the body slept — was in a renovated Victorian in Autumn Creek, Washington, twenty-five miles east of Seattle. The Victorian belonged to Mrs. Alice Winslow, who had first taken my father on as a boarder back in 1992, before I even existed.
We rented part of the first floor. The space was large but cluttered, clutter being an inevitable side effect of multiplicity, even if you make an effort to keep real-world possessions to a minimum. Just lying there in bed, and without even turning my head, I could see: Aunt Sam's easel, brushes, and paints, and two blank canvases; Adam's skateboard; Jake's stuffed panda; Seferis's kendo sword; my books; my father's books; Jake's little shelf of books; Adam's Playboy collection; Aunt Sam's stack of art prints; a color television with remote that used to be my father's but now belonged to me; a VCR that was three-fifths mine, three-tenths Adam's, and one-tenth Jake's (long story); a CD player that was one-half mine, one-quarter my father's, one-eighth Aunt Sam's, and one-sixteenth apiece Adam's and Jake's (longer story); a rack of CDs and videotapes of various ownerships; and a wheeled hamper of dirty clothes that no one wanted to lay claim to, but was mostly mine.
That's what I could see without even looking around; and besides the bedroom, there was a sitting room, a big walk-in closet, a full bathroom that was full in more ways than one, and the kitchen that we shared with Mrs. Winslow. The kitchen wasn't so cluttered, though; Mrs. Winslow cooked most of our meals for us, and strictly limited our personal food storage to one shelf in the refrigerator and two shelves in the pantry.
I got us out of bed and into the bathroom to start the morning ritual. Teeth came first. Jake really enjoys brushing for some reason, so I let him do it, stepping back into the pulpit and giving him the body. I stayed alert. Jake, as I've mentioned, is a child; but Andy Gage's body is adult and five-foot-seven, and hangs on Jake's soul like a suit of clothes many sizes too big. He moves clumsily in it, and often misjudges the distance between his extremities and the rest of the world; and as we've only got the one skull between us, if he bends over to get a dropped toothpaste cap and bashes his head on the corner of the sink, it is a group tragedy. So I kept a close eye on him.
This morning there were no accidents. He did his usual thorough job of brushing: side to side, up and down, getting every tooth, even the tricky ones in back. I wish he could handle the flossing as well, but that's a little too dexterous for him.
I took the body back and had a quick squat on the toilet. This is my job most mornings, though my father occasionally asks to do it — the pleasure of a good shit, he says, being one of the few things he misses from outside. Adam also volunteers sometimes, usually just after the latest Playboy has arrived; but I generally don't indulge him more than once or twice a month, as it upsets the others.
After the toilet came exercise. I stretched out on the bath mat beside the tub and let Seferis run through his routine: two hundred sit-ups followed by two hundred push-ups, the last hundred evenly divided between the right and left arms. I came back from the pulpit to muscle burn and a lather of sweat, but I didn't complain. The body's stomach is as flat as a washboard, and I can lift heavy things.
Next I gave Adam and Aunt Sam two minutes each under the shower, starting with Aunt Sam. They used to alternate who went first, but Aunt Sam likes the water a lot warmer than Adam does, and Adam was always "forgetting" to adjust the temperature control …
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
For those of you who would prefer to read non-fiction and for everyone who wants to have their minds completely blown, one of the 20th centuries greatest thinkers and writers takes us on a deep journey into the nature of humanity and reality to try to understand who and what we are, and how to use that to our advantage.
Based around the the Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness and the idea of 'reality tunnels' of Timothy Leary, Wilson uses zen, old movies, quantum physics, linguistics, the magical traditions of Aleister Crowley and many other seemingly unconnected lenses to peek into the deepest mysteries of existence and the self. Much of the brilliance comes out in the form of great questions, rather than preachy answers and absolutes. Reality is what you can get away with.
(available online here for free in .pdf)
Excerpt from Chapter 1:
William James, father of American psychology, tells of meeting
an old lady who told him the Earth rested on the back of a huge
"But, my dear lady," Professor James asked, as politely as
possible, "what holds up the turtle?"
"Ah," she said, "that's easy. He is standing on the back of
another turtle."
"Oh, I see," said Professor James, still being polite. "But
would you be so good as to tell me what holds up the second
"It's no use, Professor," said the old lady, realizing he was
trying to lead her into a logical trap. "It's turtles-turtles-turtles,
all the way!"
Don't be too quick to laugh at this little old lady. All human
minds work on fundamentally similar principles. Her universe
was a little bit weirder than most but it was built up on the same
mental principles as every other universe people have believed
As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if
it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.
The Thinker can think about virtually anything. History
shows that it can think the earth is suspended on the backs of
infinite turtles or that the Earth is hollow, or that the Earth is
floating in space; comparative religion and philosophy show
that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both
mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as nonexistent
(Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian
universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or
a Nazi universe—among many possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much
to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think
itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one
law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible
horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews
are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the
poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money
somewhere. Similarly, Feminists are able to believe that all men,
including the starving wretches who live and sleep on the streets,
are exploiting all women, including the Queen of England.
If the Thinker thinks that the sun moves around the earth, the
Prover will obligingly organize all perceptions to fit that thought;
if the Thinker changes its mind and decides the earth moves
around the sun, the Prover will reorganize the evidence.
If the Thinker thinks "holy water" from Lourdes will cure its
lumbago, the Prover will skillfully orchestrate all signals from
the glands, muscles, organs etc. until they have organized themselves
into good health again
Of course, it is fairly easy to see that other people's minds
operate this way; it is comparatively much harder to become
aware that one's own mind is working that way also.
The Principia Discordia by Greg Hill & Kerry Thornley
We have touched on fiction, nonfiction, religion, humor and high strangeness – but this book is all of them combined. The Principia Discordia is the sacred text of a rare religious group called the Discordians (yes, I am one). Discordianism is centered around the Greek Goddess of Chaos – Eris, as well as ideas about anarchism, minimalism and absurdism. It is zen surrealism, but don't be fooled – underneath all of the humor and seemingly irreverent nonsense lies a powerful philosophy that can be best summed up in the classic children's tale of the old lady who swallowed a fly.
If the cast of Monty Python created a religion with clever historical references and deep allegorical underpinnings, it would be the Principia Discordia, whose co-creator Kerry Thornley also happened to write a book about Lee Harvey Oswalt years before JFK's assassination. Coincidence or chaos? Only Eris knows. Please consult your pineal gland and beware of the fnords.
(available free online in it's entirety right here)
Excerpt from Chapter 39:
The Discordian Society has no definition.
I sometimes think of it as a disorganization of Eris Freaks. It has been called a guerrilla mind theatre. Episkopos Randomfactor, Director of Purges of Our People's Underworld Movement sect in Larchmont, prefers "The World's Greatest Association of What-ever-it-is-that-we-are." Lady Mal thinks of it as a RENAISSANCE THINK TANK. Fang the Unwashed, WKC, won't say. You can think of it any way you like.
AN EPISKOPOS OF THE DISCORDIAN SOCIETY is one who prefers total autonomy, and creates his own Discordian sect as The Goddess directs him. He speaks for himself and for those that say that they like what he says.
THE LEGION OF DYNAMIC DISCORD: A Discordian Society Legionnaire is one who prefers not to create his own sect.
If you want in on the Discordian Society
then declare yourself what you wish
do what you like
and tell us about it
or if you prefer
There are no rules anywhere.
The Goddess Prevails.
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Many people are wary when it comes to including cloud backup as part of a business plan, but Vanessa Parks, a freelance systems analyst and cloud storage consultant, wrote on Sys-Con Media that including the cloud in a business continuity plan may have many benefits. One feature that organizations often look for is stability.
"Because your entire system is hosted on a remote server with much more muscle (hardware), you can count on its stability compared to an in-house IT," she wrote. "The reason why most systems crash or fail is because their in-house IT doesn't have the hardware to churn the processes of several users. As your business gets larger, it'll be hard to keep things on track unless you buy/increase your hardware."
Other positives include:
- Faster customer service
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- The ability to have a global workforce who can access the data
TechTarget said more companies are trying cloud backup, but every business has to do proper diligence when evaluating cloud backup. Solid controls and processes are necessary to ensure that data recovery systems will function properly.


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In Search of Ghosts Aboard the Haunted 'Queen Mary'
By Adam Mock
Would you spend a night on a haunted ship?
The prospect of spending a night aboard the Queen Mary, the most haunted ship in America, is either a dream come true or a nightmare, depending who you ask. When my wife and I had the opportunity to explore the eerie corridors and historic decks of a ship bigger than the Titanic, we jumped at the chance.
The Queen Mary has been in operation in one form or another since the 1930s, and her crooked hallways, elegant staterooms and magnificent engine room are bound to have their fair share of haunts, especially when you consider her rich history.
Photo by Ullstein Bild via Getty Images.
On May 27, 1936, the Queen Mary embarked on her maiden journey. For three years she was the grandest ocean liner in the world and the talk of Tinseltown. Elites of all kinds, from Bob Hope to Clark Gable, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and even Winston Churchill, partook of the elegance and grandeur that only the Queen Mary could offer.
By September of 1939 the Queen Mary had docked in New York and would leave her moniker behind as she transformed from elegant ocean liner to World War II troop ship capable of transporting up to 16,000 soldiers. Stripped of her luxurious amenities and painted a camouflage gray, the ship received a new name. Grey Ghost reflected her new look and stealth. It was a menacing name for a dark time but perhaps an apropos foreshadowing of her current legacy.
The Grey Ghost. Photo by Gordon Rynders / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.
At the end of World War II, the Queen Mary would undergo a 10-month retrofitting process to be restored to her original glory. In 1947 she was Queen again and would spend the next two decades of regular passenger service sailing across the Atlantic.
But those glory days weren't meant to last. Due to the increasing popularity of air travel, the Queen Mary would begin her final voyage on Halloween in 1967, arriving that December in Long Beach, California, where she has remained docked and operated as a hotel and attraction ever since. It was the end of an era but the beginning of a legend.
Today stories of ghostly encounters aboard the Queen Mary are as numerous as her guests: reportedly dark shadows appear, ghostly apparitions visit at night, the scent of cigar smoke floods an empty room, invisible children laugh in vacant halls, and the spirit of a little girl plays in the nonoperational first-class swimming pool. These accounts are parts of a bigger picture that bring the rich history and lore of the Queen Mary front and center to ghost lovers everywhere.
My wife and I hoped to stay in the most haunted room possible. But ask an employee which room is the most haunted, and you'll be met with the same response: "The entire ship is haunted." Regardless which room you're in, you have an equal chance to wake at night to a spectral stranger standing at the foot of your bed.
During the check-in process, I found myself looking around hoping to catch a glimpse of something out of the ordinary. No such luck, but while my wife and I waited, an employee at the counter did a double take and said he saw a shadowy figure walk in front of him. He paused and looked around before saying, "That is the first time I've actually seen something."
We didn't notice any shadow people, and whether he really saw something, I don't know. However, he seemed genuinely surprised, and the moment created anticipation as we got our key and headed to our room.
It's generally agreed that the most haunted level to stay on is the B deck. Fortunately, the front desk made sure our room was on this floor. We thought maybe we'd be lucky enough to hear the footsteps of spectral children or catch a glimpse of passengers from times gone by. If ghosts did take a stroll, they did so in the comfort of slippers. Unfortunately, the only activity we found was a large number of people allowed onto the ship for free after 3:00 p.m.
The halls of the Queen Mary.
It's hard to comprehend the scale of the Queen Mary without walking the corridors. It's a massive floating city that boasts 12 decks and a length of 1019.5 feet (310.74 meters). The halls seem to extend for miles and, when alone in one of them, you get the sense you're in the unnerving hallways of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Thankfully, my wife and I didn't see any creepy twin girls asking, "Come play with us . . . forever and ever and ever."
Come play with us . . .
The haunted B deck.
More of the haunted B deck.
The observation bar and art deco lounge.
The wheelhouse.
We spent the late afternoon walking the beautiful corridors and exploring the various decks, restaurants and sights. As evening approached, we grabbed our cameras and prepared for the Paranormal Ship Walk, a two-hour evening tour through the most haunted areas of the Queen Mary, including the infamous room B340, the first-class swimming pool and the massive engine room.
Looking out into the night from B340.
The Stories
Room B340 is no longer in service. According to our tour guide, poltergeist activity scared away anyone who cared to spend the night in there. Reports of lights turning on and off, sheets being pulled off sleeping guests and sometimes even an angry voice commanding guests to "Get out!" are all part of the folklore.
So many stories surround B340 that it's difficult to discern exactly what's going on in there. The most popular tale is that someone was violently murdered in the room and is still in it. Another is that an entire family was murdered there. Others say a wicked person died there and refuses to leave.
According to our guide, the number of stories may be due in part to Disney operating the Queen Mary for a handful of years and fabricating some of the haunted tales to create a sense of intrigue for their attraction.
In spite of the haunted stories, for a short time a former HR employee for the Queen Mary reportedly had her office in room B340. Because of the lore surrounding it, she would always knock and ask permission before entering. For a while, nothing out of the ordinary happened. But one day she forgot to knock and walked right in. Having been in a hurry, she placed her cup of coffee on her desk and got to work. Soon her desk began to shake violently, startling the poor woman. She wasted no time gathering her things and leaving and never stepped foot in that room again.
The portholes.
The Experience
The door marker for room B340 has been taken down, so if you don't know where to look, you might not find it.
The door to room B340.
Going on the tour is the only way to gain access to the room. After 8:00 p.m., it was pitch black. The only illumination came from camera phone flashes from among our group. As our camera added to the paparazzi light show, we viewed a room that had seen better days. On display: an uncovered floor, stained walls and a shower in desperate need of a bath.
An empty B340.
Employees must wash hands before returning to work.
No one is getting clean in here.
We spent a bit of time there, trying to avoid bumping into each other in the flashing darkness. The temperature never dropped. No angry voices shouted derogatory comments at us. I wasn't even touched inappropriately by a ghost or my wife. The only above-normal thing of note in room B340 that evening was a menacing door that seemed to be a fan of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
The Scream.
Which may be the reason so many guests have requested a new room.
The first-class swimming pool in operation. Photo by Fox Photos via Getty Images.
The Stories
The first-class swimming pool is one of the most famous sections of the Queen Mary. No longer in service, it's an eerie place riddled with stories of long-dead little girls who love to giggle, sing and taunt visitors.
Many people attribute the sightings and experiences to a specific five-year-old girl named Jackie, who's believed to have drowned in the second-class swimming pool. But since that pool no longer exists, she comes to this one to play and make herself known.
Sometimes guests have heard water splashing, even though the pool remains dry. Other times, people have seen dark apparitions or the full appearance of a woman dressed in 1930s swimwear. Some have even reported wet footprints around the pool.
For a while, the pool stories and sightings were so numerous that a live video feed streamed online so internet visitors could catch the activity from the comfort of home.
The Experience
With the amount of buzz surrounding the pool, we were excited to dive right in and see what we could find. Strangely, the tour route to the pool doesn't go through the beautiful front entrance that welcomed swimmers in the ship's heyday.
The former main entrance.
Instead, our guide walked us through a side hallway. The walls were a dirty tan and dismal green, seemingly a leftover paint choice from the Ghosts and Legends tour, a haunted attraction experience formerly offered by the Queen Mary.
The hallway in.
Admittedly the ambiance surrounding the pool is spooky. The lights are very dim, the massive space acts as a stage for something ghostly to take the spotlight and echoing sounds have a tinlike quality, making the area feel somewhat claustrophobic.
Forward of the first-class swimming pool.
Aft of the first class swimming pool.
A view from above.
The top balcony.
Our group's cameras rolled as we glanced from one end of the room to the other, hoping to glimpse a ghostly little girl wanting our attention or maybe even a foreboding spirit ushering us out.
Finally it happened.
From the stillness of the room near the front entrance came a hollow crash. Startled, I looked toward a nearby red velvet curtain to my right. Something was behind it and had made itself known.
My curiosity piqued, I walked slowly toward the curtain and was met with a male head staring back at me, emotionless. I stood there numb. All I could do was stare back. His mustached face was round and dark and looked about my age.
It also belonged to the maintenance man who'd accidentally knocked over his plastic garbage can.
He didn't stay long. His head disappeared behind the curtain, and I never saw him again.
The engine room.
The Stories
They say as you get deeper into the Queen Mary, the paranormal activity and sightings increase. So we were thrilled to learn we'd now be entering the engine room, the lowest level of the ship.
A cold and dark place, the engine room is like a steel labyrinth of cogs, pipes and valves. It's a far cry from the comfort of our king stateroom, and the many nooks and crannies offer perfect hiding spots for spirits of all kinds.
Further into the engine room.
A labyrinth of steel.
More controls.
Deep in the bowels of the engine room in an area known as Shaft Alley is door #13, one of the watertight doors used to seal off the ship in case of emergency, which would allow the Queen Mary to stay afloat should these areas be breached and take on water.
As the story goes, an 18-year-old young man named John Pedder was near door #13 as it was closing. Accounts differ: Was he playing an old sailing game of "chicken" with the door to show off to his friends? Did he follow a direct order to close the door due to inclement weather? Or was he attempting to reach for his wrench on the other side of the closing door? However he found himself there, the end result was the same: John was crushed by the massive steel seal and lost his life.
Door #13.
Gone but not forgotten, John reportedly still patrols this alley and disappears around door #13.
The Experience
The entire engine room is a sight to behold. It's an underground jungle of steel and shadows with sounds that bounce and carry into strange corners. It's easy to walk through door #13 and never know you passed it, unless you turn around and spy the unlucky number indicating the place of old tragedy.
My wife and I had taken a trip to the engine room earlier that day. On that first outing, we'd encountered a young lady stationed at door #13, dowsing rods held steadily over the railing as she asked questions aloud.
"Did you die here?"
"Would you like to communicate?"
"Are you here now?"
As she questioned the dead, we questioned her. Had she received any responses?
She enthusiastically told us how the rods would move when she asked certain questions. She felt that for a short time, someone or something was present and trying to communicate.
During our second trip, now with our tour group, the area was empty. As with the rest of the tour, we remained silent and listened for voices as we scanned the area. In the stillness, I remembered the young lady with her dowsing rods and wished John would make himself known to us, closing out the tour with a story we could tell our grandkids one day.
My wife was the last one to leave the area that evening, and although John chose to stay on his side of the veil, she felt a strong sense of unease. Perhaps it's simply because the engine room can be an intimidating place, particularly when you're the only one there, or maybe the residue of a horrible tragedy remains at door #13.
Left alone by door #13.
We wrapped up the tour a little after 10:00 p.m., and my wife and I headed back to our room. Although we didn't experience anything remarkable on the tour, we decided to take one last walk around the ship close to midnight. At this time when things are silent and most guests are in bed, the true quiet beauty of the Queen Mary shines through. We enjoyed a final stroll through the hallways and kept our minds open for anything that might happen.
Still nothing out of the ordinary occurred.
That night we slept without incident, and the next morning we packed up our things and said good-bye to the Queen.
In the end there wasn't anything paranormal to report. No disembodied voices, no shadow people, no strange smells and no one standing at the foot of our bed.
Although we're not ghost-hunting experts and didn't arrive with the latest paranormal equipment, we did come with open minds and enjoyed our time aboard the Queen Mary.
It's beautiful, regal and has timeless appeal. I encourage you to visit and experience it for yourself. If there are haunts aboard the Queen Mary, they chose to remain in hiding for us.
Skeptics will say there's nothing to the ghostly stories.
Believers will say the paranormal encounters throughout the ship are proof of the afterlife.
I say no matter what you believe, a night aboard the Queen Mary will stay with you forever.
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This is the second day of our profile of the finalists. We've also polled them for their picks for the winners. We will reveal those results Thursday, along with the thoughts of this year's group of Lions.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Apple Juice
I picked up a quick sandwich at the cafeteria at work the other day, and noticed that the little apple-shaped bottles of Martinelli apple juice are now plastic. Oh no! I have a special place in my heart for those bottles.
When I first graduated from school, I did a four year stint at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in systems integration. The summer I started dating Swing Daddy, my team was working crazy hours, 80-100 hours a week. The project manager would go to Costco to stock the team snack cabinet, since food would keep us at our desks longer.
Everyone had a favorite snack. The DBA loved Rice Krispy treats; the architects consumed buckets of Red Vines; animal crackers disappeared by the pound. My item on the shopping list was Martinelli's apple juice in little glass apple-shaped bottles.
One afternoon, Ms. Manager arrived with my case of apple juice in regular bottles. "This will not do!" I wailed. "They have to be apple-shaped bottles!"
I can't believe I actually said that to my boss. And even more, I can't believe that she spluttered and apologized and promised that she'd "do better next time."
We were soooo tired and sleep deprived that management was afraid we'd all quit.
1 comment:
- Malindabunner said...
The best way to improve your health is eating more vegetables and fruits. However it seem to be difficult to make your child eating vegetables and fruits. That why I have to use a juice extractor to make juice because drinking is always easier than eating.
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