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But there's one thing about halloween that makes it extra fun.
On Halloween, you get to dress up however you want.
In the past, I've been a devil, a marathon runner, and even a sexy witch!
Halloween is a time where you get to revel in your creativity, and you witness the creativity of others in their choices of costumes.
Looking at it this way, you can look at Halloween as a spiritual practice, or maybe an annual spiritual ritual.
You have an infinite number of choices for what you want to look like for Halloween. Do you want to be a ghost? A vampire? Or follow the lead of the cute toddler who dressed up as El Niño? Maybe this year you don't want to dress up. The only thing that can limit you is your own imagination and your saying yes to the creative spark within you.
You see, Halloween may be only once a year, but it gives you a lesson to apply every day for the rest of the year. Every day, you get to choose who you want to be.
Do you want to be more loving and grateful to the people around you, or do you want to yell at other cars on the road? Do you want to do work that fulfills you, or do you want to stay in a job that drains your energy but pays you well? Do you want to be open to greater possibilities for your finances, or do you want to push away trying anything new because you don't think it would work?
The spiritual lesson in all of this is that you are always at choice. There's a lot of energy that goes into what you want to be for Halloween. What if you can use some of that energy and channel it into what kind of life you want to live, and what kind of world you want to create?
And here's the key to having a great Halloween and a spiritually fulfilling life. Do you want to know what it is? Lean in because this is the secret of the Universe right here...
Yes, have fun! Having fun, living in joy and from a place of fulfillment are all part of a daily spiritual practice I encourage you to embrace.
For your coaching assignment for this week, the task is simple. Have fun!
And if you do decide to dress up for Halloween, be a little audacious and try on something outrageous that you may have never considered wearing before. Halloween is special in that it's a day where you have permission to step out of the box, and people love you all the more when you express your boldness.
I'd love to hear if you're planning anything special for this Halloween or if you have a costume already in mind. Leave a comment below and let me know what you think about this post. Happy Halloween!


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05 November 2012
Lush Visit: My First Impression
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My favorites:
-the Body Polish bars (esp in the winter)
-the Massage bars
-the Shaving Cream
-the Henna Bars (this is my favorite by far-people always ask me how my hair is so healthy after I use it)
-my boyfriend swears by the R&B hair moisturizer, although I find it to oily for my fine hair
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"Familiar Stories. Unorthodox Methods. Perpetually Curious."
Sideshow Theatre Company, an Illinois non-profit, was founded in 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Our first production, Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird)was originally mentioned jokingly as the strangest imaginable subject matter for a one-person show. But when the laughter died down, an intense curiosity remained, as well as one defining question: "What if?" From that question a show, a company, and a mission were born.
It is the mission of Sideshow Theatre Company to mine the collective unconscious of the world we live in with limitless curiosity, drawing inspiration from the familiar stories, memories and images we all share to spark new conversation and bring our audience together as adventurers in a communal experience of exploration.


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Off the record in AmsterdamEach year more and more bands participate in Record Store Day, causing fans to queue up and grab limited edition independent album releases, or, as has become more common in recent years, to collect one-off reissues of heritage rock acts (Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, etc). But the success of the event stretches way beyond simple retail alone, as a host of Dutch and international acts stage free sessions and concerts in (and outside) record shops around the city.
The complete event programme will be confirmed on the Record Store Day website. In 2017, just some of the participating shops in Amsterdam included Concerto, Fame, Distortion, Rush Hour Records and Velvet Music.


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Molly Hite has written two novels and two critical studies of post-1945 experimental fiction. Her scholarly projects deal with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. She has taught classes on modernism, postmodern, experimental novels by women and Cornell writers.
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- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS)
- 20th and 21st century experimental fiction
- British literature from 1880-1945
- U.S. experimental fiction after 1945
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Phase One XF 100MP, 240mm lens, 25 seconds @ f14, ISO 50, Nisi 10X ND Filter
Why is photography of the past relevant to our current generation?
You can read this question two ways, depending on your interpretation of 'current generation'. Is the current generation everyone who is alive today (an expanded definition), or does it mean the younger generation (an erroneous supposition in my opinion)?
No longer falling into the latter definition, I tend to think that the question (asked by a student) could be better worded as follows: Why is photography of the past relevant?
Historically, I don't know of any successful or famous artists who didn't have some understanding of the past, or at least trained with a successful artist of their times. The main reason to understand the past is so you can progress further - rather than re-inventing the wheel or copying what someone else has already done, learn the lessons of the past so you can go somewhere new with your creativity.
For instance, it's easy for me to dismiss Ansel Adams as an average photographer when I compare his work to that of later American photographers, but we have all learnt so much from Mr Adams that he deserves our respect. Without seeing his photographs, the way he cropped images, the way he interpreted them, we would not be nearly as advanced as we are today. If indeed we are!
On the other hand, as Susan Sontag says, all photography is derivative.
I sometimes read this as 'never being original' because someone, somewhere will already have taken something very similar if not identical to your work. So, by being ignorant of the past - and everyone else's work - at least you can be original within yourself. However, it doesn't change the big picture that other people will continue to judge you based on their knowledge and background of the past.
Perhaps the question was related to technology and access. So ubiquitous has photography become that for most people it is a matter of craft, not art. This isn't to demean good craft in anyway, rather to distinguish between someone using an Instagram filter and a photographer interpreting a raw file. There isn't always a difference when you look at the results, of course, but I think it's the intent that is important.
So, why is photography of the past relevant to our current generation? Because most of the 'new' filter effects being offered by one-button image editing apps are based on the techniques and craft of the past - and it makes me feel superior to know this. But now I'm starting to sound like my parents!
What do you think?
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Carrie Underwood is quietly thrilled the upcoming ice hockey season has been stalled - because she gets to spend more time with her husband.
The National Hockey League season has been put on hold as team owners and players battle over new contracts - and the Jesus Take the Wheel singer isn't exactly glum.
She tells The Tennessean newspaper, "Is it wrong for me to be a little happy...? It's great for me."
But she insists husband Mike Fisher is still hard at work getting in tip-top shape for when the season gets underway.
"He's (Fisher) such a disciplined guy that he has to train and make sure he's ready regardless of what's going on. He's got so much to do on his end, and I certainly don't want to be the cause of him not being able to give it his all."


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Thursday, May 12, 2005
Morning Sighting!
8:50 a.m. I opened the curtains and saw a fox kind of turning around near an azalea bush and it went running off in the other direction. It may have seen me open the curtains suddenly and got scared. I'm not sure which fox it was. It was either the mother or the skinny fox. I wonder if it was stalking a frog because it was about 10 feet away from a large frog sitting on the ladder in the pond.
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At first there were sparks. Now, conservatives' ire over the health care ruling and over Chief Justice John Roberts's deciding vote has exploded into a firestorm of criticism that he acted in a "political" way.
Addressing this fury, analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Barry Friedman suggest in Slate that "all the sturm and drang about what Roberts did—or did not do—is patently ridiculous," and "the current effort to delegitimize him for weighing all the evidence and making a considered opinion is the best single argument around for maintaining life tenure for Article III judges."
The court's 5-4 ruling upheld the highly controversial health care law's central provision, requiring almost all Americans to obtain health insurance or face a penalty.
The conservatives' reaction grew more fiery amid speculation and an unconfirmed news account that Justice Roberts had switched his vote (see Gavel Grab) to uphold the health care reform's central provision. Here are some examples:
- "The fact that this decision was apparently political, rather than legal, completely undermines its legitimacy as a precedent," Randy Barnett, a Georgetown Law Center professor, told the Washington Post. Barnett had a central role in shaping the legal strategy to challenge the Affordable Care Act.
- "If Roberts did indeed succumb to pressure, he should resign," John Eastman, a Chapman University law professor and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, told the Los Angeles Times.
- A Wall Street Journal editorial on Monday, more outraged than a similar one days earlier, said the court ruling "is far more dangerous, and far more political, even than it first appeared last week."
Legal analyst Lithwick and NYU law professor Friedman offered an alternative framework for looking at the court ruling, the chief justice's role, and the reaction from conservatives.
When a decision in a hotly debated, high profile case could go either way as a matter of law, the authors say, then something other than precedents alone must decide a case. They admit they're guessing when it comes to Justice Roberts's thinking, but they outline this scenario:
"[S]uppose after considering the matter at length—isn't that what he's supposed to do on a question of this moment?—the chief justice decided it was best for court and country to vote to uphold the health-reform law. And suppose he did so because at bottom he believed an issue that could go either way legally should be fought out in the political arena; that there was at least a plausible constitutional basis for so concluding; and that the risk to the court's legitimacy was too high to vote to strike the mandate."
"The point is only that on a nation's high court, in which legal precedents rarely decide cases, what one calls law and what goes in the vernacular by politics often come together. That's why all the sturm and drang about what Roberts did—or did not do—is patently ridiculous. He did what justices, and especially chief justices, do."
The authors don't stop there. They are troubled that sources for this week's news account, stating that Justice Roberts had switched his vote, might come from within the court, and also that other conservative justices may have turned their backs on the chief justice:
"[A] high-level leak on a decision of this magnitude this soon is unprecedented. And, frankly it is rather nauseating to anyone who worries about preserving the integrity of the court.
"On the high court, there's politics and then there's politicization. There's a difference between law and politics coming together on the court, and the possibility that someone is working from within the institution itself to further political ends. Or personal pique. … The court has always been in politics and has always been politicized, but has remained pretty leak proof precisely because the justices understand the devastating effect this kind of politics will have on the institution. That's mistake No. 1 by whoever spoke to (CBS Reporter Jan] Crawford.
"Mistake No. 2 is if anyone thinks there is profit in the conservatives turning their back on the court's fifth conservative vote."
Related media commentary included Michael Gerson, "Roberts' Alternate Universe," in The Washington Post; Eric Golub, "The 'Legitimacy' of the Supreme Court," in The Washington Times; William McGurn, "Roberts Taxes Credibility," in The Wall Street Journal; Andrew Rosenthal, "John Roberts Conspiracy Theories," in The New York Times; and Thomas Friedman, "Taking One for the Country," in The New York Times.
Related news articles included Politico, "Roberts' health care switch: Gasoline on the fire;" and "After Ruling, Roberts Makes a Getaway From the Scorn," New York Times.


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Background for Teachers
What is in the stream macroinvertebrate community? What do stream macroinvertebrates eat and how do they survive? Do culverts affect macroinvertebrate communities? In order to develop more specific questions, and hypotheses, about that question your students will need to know about stream macroinvertebrates. This activity is an introduction to stream macroinvertebrates.
In this activity your students:
- Become resident experts on one or two particular types of stream invertebrate
- Present their information to the class and
- Create a class stream foodweb
After becoming the resident expert on one or two types of organisms your students need to recognize that different macroinvertebrates have different environmental needs and that there are different feeding strategies from organism to organism.
See Unit 1, Activity 1: An Introduction to Stream Ecology for an overview of macroinvertebrates.
How your students present the information about their macroinvertebrates is up to you and them, we have provided a template for a two-slide presentation, you may want to use the information requested on the template as guidance for what your students will add to their final product.
Students will understand the basics of stream foodwebs and know some of the organisms in an aquatic foodweb
- Students research one or two aquatic organisms
- Students can identify the four major functional feeding groups of aquatic macroinvertebrates
- Students, in pairs, will research and report on one or two aquatic organisms
- Working together students will create a model aquatic foodweb
- Students will develop questions about aquatic invertebrates or foodwebs
Where does this lesson happen in the Project?
- This is the first activity in Unit 2- Stream Invertebrates Culverts, and the Stream Environment.
Getting Ready
Some students may already be familiar with aquatic organisms. Solicit information that students already have. If students have experiences with collecting particular macroinvertebrates ask them to describe where they found the macroinvertebrates (small stream or large, water warm or cold? green stuff growing on the rocks? organism right on top, or did they have to flip over rocks to find it? murky bottom? rocky bottom?).
Remind students that macroinvertebrates do not have backbones, and that not having a backbone allows these organisms to arrange their bodies sometimes very differently than land organisms.
- Student Resident Expert worksheet
- Questions worksheet
- Presentation template
- Computer with Internet access for:
- Overhead projector for sharing presentations (optional)
- Space and/or paper to create a classroom aquatic foodweb
- Macroinvertebrate Guides (paper copies)
Student Resident Expert worksheet
Questions worksheet
Presentation template
Student Prerequisites
Students should:
- Already have an understanding of a basic foodweb
- Know the difference between a foodweb and a food chain
- Understand that all the energy comes from the sun, but that material animals need for survival, growth and reproduction comes from eating other organisms (dead or alive; plant, animal, a combination or other)
Time needed
- Two class periods
Doing the Activity
Hand Resident Expert worksheet out to students and have them select the organisms they would like to research.
After pairing the students get them started on their research. The research should take approximately 45 minutes. Encourage students to use the paper Macroinvertebrate Guides as this may save time spent on potentially fruitless Internet searches.
Have the students present their invertebrate information to the class.
If you are using the Presentation Template there are two slides for every organism. (Presentations should be very brief—no more than 5 minutes per organism).
Using a picture (from the Resident Experts) for each organism create a stream foodweb to add to the stream system diagram from Unit 1.
If possible leave time at the end of this activity for students to record questions they have.
Ask a question; design a way to answer the question.
Using the Question Worksheet, ask students, individually, or in groups, to write down as many questions as they have about macroinvertebrates (individual species, interactions, competition, food preferences, habitat preference, etc.). From the list of questions have the students choose one or two. Ask the students to design a method to answer the question. If there is time- present some of the questions and designs and discuss the merit of the research design.
Ask your students to present their Resident Expert information to their families or another class.
Lesson Extensions and Supplements
Watch Macroinvertebrate Lunch: http://www.watersheds.org/stream_movie.htm
With teacher's guide (http://www.watersheds.org/artstream/macro_teachers.pdf). Middle school students in Missouri made this movie in 2003. It's a great movie, however, the focus is on using macroinvertebrates as pollution indicators- and as this it not the focus of our research this resource is better as a supplement.
There is a pollution-related game -- The Macroinvertebrate Game -- which involves a lot of running around!
Lesson Resources
Student Resident Expert Worksheet
Presentation template
Question Worksheet
Family-Level Identification Guide for Riffle-Dwelling Macroinvertebrates of Connecticut (Note: although this is a guide for Connecticut it is still a good introduction to macroinvertebrates and has information your students will need to become Resident Experts on their macroinvertebrate)
General background information on macroinvertebrates
application/pdf iconResident Expert Worksheet
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint iconPresentation template
application/pgp-keys iconPresentation template
application/pdf iconQuestion Worksheet
application/pdf iconMacroinvertebrate Guide
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A fine, dry weekend will follow Thursday's showery outbreaks dampening much of the United Kingdom.
In England, showers Thursday will tend to be scattered and brief. In Greater London, for instance, the afternoon will be essentially dry with sunny breaks.
Farther north and west, cool, damp southwesterly winds rounding a depression off Scotland will give more frequent showers in the typically rainy areas of western Scotland to northwestern England and even Wales.
Friday, dry weather will overspread the United Kingdom as the showery depression leaves by way of Scandinavia. In its stead, high pressure will set up shop over the United Kingdom and Western Europe, not only through the end of this week, but for at least the start of next week as well.
Friday right through Sunday, near-normal temperatures will hold sway daily under sunny spells. At night, a typical early autumn chill will settle over the land.


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Today's weekly manicure post is no way near as festive as I had wanted it to be to celebrate the arrival of December, however I thought I'd maybe save the Christmasy designs for the next few weeks.
Instead I chose something really simple, but by no means boring because it once again involves glitter (sorry). I applied two coats of black polish, this one is Barry M's rather aptly named Black, then generously slapped on a coat of Model's Own's Dancing Queen - this polish just contains a load of chunky glitter with green, gold and some blues. It feels really 'retro space' to me, like some kind of futuristic 80s throwback design with the geometric patterns of the glitter.
P.S. The lack of top coat is driving me mad - apologies! My Seche Vite has become a gloopy mess in the last week. Any cheaper alternative suggestions would be hugely appreciated.


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Discussion in 'CycloDS' started by DMPugh, Jan 1, 2009.
Looking for the best price on a black CycloDS Evolution.
I don't know if it's the BEST price out there for the CycloDS but I got my CycloDS (my brother and a friend did too) from gamersection.ca and we had zero problems and the shipping was good (took only 2-3 days from some place in Quebec to London, Ont)
I Got Mine From Here http://www.modchipcentral.com The Cheapest You Can Find In CANADA! They Operate Out of Winnipeg. :-D
I got mine from dealwoot, but it ended up being quite expensive, because of the exchange rate. Also it took like 3 friggin weeks to ship...
I second gamersection.ca I have ordered 4 Cyclods's, a jigkick battery and a couple 3 in 1s. Great customer service and fast shipping ordered my first cyclods and it came a day later.


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Electronic mail (e-mail) is a means of communicating with other Internet users via letter-like messages, written and delivered electronically over the Internet. While e-mail messages look a lot like traditional letters, e-mail itself is a lot different from the so-called snail mail delivered by the United States Postal Service.
When you send an electronic mail message to another Internet user, that message travels from your PC to your recipient's PC (via the Internet) almost instantly. Your message travels at the speed of electrons over a number of phone lines and Internet connections, automatically routed to the right place just about as fast as you can click the Send button. That's a lot different from using the U.S. Postal Service, which can take days to deliver a similar message.


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Chapel Heights Preschool for 3's
Chapel Heights Christian Preschool meets two mornings a week for children who turn 3 years old by September 1. Sessions are offered Monday / Wednesday or Tuesday / Thursday from 9:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Your 3 year old will have many opportunities to interact with other children their age in an engaging atmosphere where learning takes place with teachers degreed in Early Childhood Educastion
Cost is $85.00 per month. A $55.00 supply fee (non-refundable) is due at the time of registration
Chapel Heights EC4T – 4K
Chapel Heights UMC partnered with the Eau Claire Area School District to serve community children who turn 4 years old on or before September 1st. The school year typically starts the 2nd week of September and runs through May. The morning session runs from 8:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. The afternoon session runs from 12:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Both sessions meet Monday thru Thursday.
Preschool Opportunities
Chapel Heights Preschoolers have many opportunities throughout the year! The opportunities include Fall Parent Orientation; Field Trips; Special Visitors; Parent / Child Activities; Party Days and much more!


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MADURA, INDONESIA - OCTOBER 19: Workers push salt crystals into mounds as they harvest the solar salt from ponds filled with sea water on October 19, 2013 in Madura, Indonesia. Salt harvesters have seen an increase in production as a result of the 10 month drought.
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My last few nights in San Juanillo, I hung out with friends that I had made during my short stay there. And I had so much fun. I really felt like a teenager again. One night, we started out at the bar in San Juanillo, dancing to salsa (we were the only ones there) and eventually made our way to Marbella (another tiny town known for its great surf) and a "dance club/bar" where, again, we were the only ones dancing to the hip hop music.
Another night, we drove down to San Juanillo's Black Sand Beach to drink a few beers and watch the sunset. And a stunning rainbow appeared. It was pure magic. Totally worth the motorcycle burn I got just a few minutes before.
From there, we drove to the local bar but the "abuela's" (older folks) were working that night so there was no smoking in the bar and everyone was hanging out at the bus stop. A constant stream of guys on their motos pulled up and chatted, smoked a cigarette or a joint and then headed off to wherever they were going.
A fun dinner was then enjoyed at the local restaurant that had just re-opened and my friend's puppies were entertaining as they ran around the table, begging for the crust from our pizzas.
Such simplicity there in San Juanillo. Such a different way of life. I hope to find a way to embody some of that into this new chapter I've begun here in Manuel Antonio. Of course, I'd prefer to do it without the hangovers that followed those nights. I am definitely not a teenager anymore!
Pura vida…Chrissy


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Interesting piece here from Msn.com about the fad (and potential dangers) of cleanses. The idea is, you "detox" your body by eating a certain food, or variety of nutrients in juices/shakes, for a certain period of time.
Then you go back to your regular ways. The danger, of course, is doing this in the extreme.
It's been a fad in L.A. circles, for the obvious reason that (mostly) women feel they need to be a size 00 in order to get roles. But more than LA'ers are catching on.
What are your thoughts, Internet? Ever done one of these?


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This unique green semiprecious gemstone material is known as Kabamba Jasper. It is green orbicular jasper from the South Africa Rift on the west side of the island of Madagascar.
This stone is sold under the names Kambaba, Kambamba, and Crocodile Rock.
Kabamba Jasper is a sedimentary fossil, a Stromatolite algae.
Stromatolites are the oldest living organisms on the planet, and are believed to be the first living organisms on Earth. They date back more than 3 billion years. Basically Stromatolites are prokaryotes (sort of an ancient cousin to algae) that thrived in warm aquatic environments and built reefs much the same way as coral does today. They grew through sediment and sand, binding the sedimentary particles together, resulting in successive layers which, over a long period of time, hardened to form rock.
For at least three-quarters of the earth's history Stromatolites were the main reef building organisms. More importantly, scientist believe that ancient Stromatolites produced oxygen that enabled other animal life to develop on earth. There are still living Stromatolites today.
Metaphysical Properties of Kabamba Jasper: Kabamba Jasper cabochon stones are said to be deeply soothing to the mind and the nervous system.


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Senate recess update: Thanking climate champs in Colorado
Senate recess update: Thanking climate champs in Colorado
By Luis Hestres
By 1Sky organizer Micah Parkin. -- Luis
More than 90 people have signed up through 1Sky and our partners 350.org and Energy Action Coalition to be involved with shadowing Colorado's senators during the August/September recess. And thanks to the primary elections in Colorado on August 10th, opportunities for shadowing around our beautiful mountain state over the last week have been numerous, and we've turned out supporters for at least five events.
Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet have proven they care about the climate crisis and understand the benefits of transitioning to clean energy. Both voted to protect Clean Air Act authority to regulate carbon emissions (i.e., opposed Sen. Murkowski's 'Dirty Air Act' resolution) and both expressed their disappointment in written statements for the Senate's failure to pass a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. Sen. Udall was also pushing hard for inclusion of a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES) through an online petition that garnered over 2,500 signatures. So we're giving them our thanks for these actions and encouraging them to be even stronger leaders on these issues when they're back in Washington.
Volunteers (including my daughters pictured below) showed up for a kick-off rally for Sen. Bennet's 24-hour Colorado tour with signs thanking him for being a climate and clean energy champion and urging him to keep fighting for a real climate bill. As Sen. Bennet emerged from his tour bus, he made a bee line straight for my little ones, gave them hugs, read our signs (we were the only ones there with signs other than the standard campaign signs), and then nodded his acknowledgment.
Sunday night there was a house party for Senator Bennet at the home of one of our local Boulder City Council members (a serious climate champion who just led our Council to vote against renewing another 20-year franchise agreement with our local energy provider, and instead to forge our own clean energy future). Several other locals working on climate and clean energy issues joined me and the crowd as we congregated in the back yard with a magnificent view of our city nestled against the mountains.
I was noticing that Sen. Udall was also there when I heard someone say "Hi Micah, thank you for coming!" (we had on name tags) and I turned to see Sen. Bennet reaching out to shake my hand. We launched into a conversation about the need for a real climate and clean energy bill, and I thanked him for his votes on the Murkowski "Dirty Air Act" and his statement of disappointment following the Senate's failure on a climate vote and asked for his prognosis on passage of a climate and clean energy bill. He talked about the need for filibuster reform, the potential for green jobs development, and how that needs to be talked about more.
Then the party hosts urged everyone down to the lower part of the garden so we could listen to our senators address us. During Q&A, I took the opportunity to publicly thank four of our leaders present -- two city council members who had voted that week to pursue a clean energy future for Boulder and of course our senators -- for their recent actions, and I encouraged them to fight hard for a real climate bill when they return to D.C.
Both senators responded. Sen. Bennet reiterated his points to me earlier and pointed out the wind turbine in the distance saying he had done a campaign commercial in front of it. He spoke with facts and figures about how Americans developed solar photovoltaic technology, but last year China surpassed us in manufacturing them and sales. In short, we're missing this economic opportunity and our share of the growing market. Sen. Udall talked about climate impacts we're seeing in Colorado -- pine beetles devastating our forests, drought, wildfires -- and about how Colorado's RES has created thousands of jobs and how we could see this across the nation with a greater emphasis and investments in clean energy. I approached him afterward to thank him additionally for his work for a national RES. He said that the connection must be made abundantly clear that those who oppose climate and clean energy legislation are keeping our nation dependent on foreign oil -- a fact that not many would condone, despite their political persuasions.
Lastly, Sen. Bennet's key energy and environment staff members invited representatives of Colorado's conservation community for an informal discussion at a local brewery Thursday night. It was really nice having a chance to discuss the issues we all care so much about in a relaxed setting, and the invitation was another confirmation of Sen. Bennet's and his staff's commitment to environmental protection.
The take home message is that we are doing the right things: building the grassroots' and community leaders' vocal and visible support for climate action. All of our leaders need to hear from us loud and clear that we find ourselves in the middle of a real crisis of whether or not our planet will continue to sustain life as we know it. The impacts of the decisions made by our leaders now are enormous. On the flip side, if we pass policies to encourage renewable energy technologies and deployment, our economy will benefit, good jobs will be created, and our nation will be more secure. A real, visible climate movement, demonstrated by shadowing activities thanking the best and spanking the worst with "oily hands", emboldens the best of our leaders to advocate with greater strength to their colleagues for action, shames and puts the fear of political consequences into the worst, and ultimately builds votes for real climate and clean energy legislation.
So this month, let's all be on the lookout for opportunities in our communities to attend events with our senators and representatives. If you hear of an event, please spread the word to other "Shadow Squad" members in your area. Here are some good tips for finding events in your area (.pdf). You can often make a comment and ask a question during Q&A sessions or simply approach the senator(s) directly before or after the event to shake hands and express your thoughts. For some public events, holding signs or wearing t-shirts with climate and clean energy themes are also appropriate and good ways to visibly get our message out. Thanks to everyone out there who's continuing to fight for climate solutions and a clean energy future -- it's only through our persistence in building this movement that we'll succeed!
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ManageEngine in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools
Chennai, India, June 18, 2014: ManageEngine, a real-time IT management company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools.
"We believe our entry in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools confirms ManageEngine's commitment to provide best-in-class enterprise client management software," said Mathivanan Venkatachalam, director of product management, ManageEngine. "Desktop Central's ease of use and array of feature offerings have proved to be a good fit for our enterprise customers, and we feel our recognition in the Magic Quadrant reiterates it."
Jason Beckett of Prime Healthcare Services, who has been using the Manage Engine Desktop Central for over five years, said, "Desktop Central has certainly simplified every desktop management task for over 10,000 systems present in our network, and it's either a 9 or 10 (out of 10) on features and usability."
Gartner analysts Kevin Knox and Terrance Cosgrove said, "New client management tool capabilities have emerged to support evolving enterprise initiatives. These capabilities are increasingly important to end-user computing and support managers in their tool selection process."
As part of ManageEngine's evolving client management solution, Desktop Central has grown to help IT teams manage servers, laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets from a central point. With its range of features such as patch management, software deployment, inventory management and more, enterprises of all sizes can leverage Desktop Central benefits and manage their entire desktop management routines.


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(Panther Meadows – Mt Shasta CA USA)
"The nature of a Flame is to rise. Therefore, it is essential to have some UNASCENDED person offer to draw the particular Virtue and Flame from the higher realms, into the lower atmosphere of Earth, and sustain it there by constancy of application. Without the presence of sincere students, who so offer to magnetize, sustain and radiate the virtues of the Godhead, into the lower atmosphere of Earth, the divine plan for the Earth could not manifest."
From: ASCENDED MASTERS AND THEIR RETREATS Bridge to Freedom page: 441
"Nothing will ever pay you such interest on your investment as the time and attention spent in acknowledging, accepting, adoring, blessing, and calling into DYNAMIC ACTION, the LIMITLESS LIGHT of your own "Beloved Mighty I AM Presence," to produce Perfection for you (and the world) NOW AND FOREVER!" Beloved Mrs. G W Ballard – "Voice of the I AM" – April 1936
FROM BELOVED MIGHTY COSMOS ON JULY 22nd 1938:
Excerpts from Ascended Master Love and Truth Volume II page 474
"I have sent Two of the Secret Rays, making nine in all, in the FULL POWER OF THE UNFED FLAME. This means the Victory of the Cosmic Light on Earth. The Light of God That Never Fails. During this hour (9.00 to 10.00 AM) is the ONLY time it can be done in an entire 1,000 year period. Otherwise, I would have had to wait another 500 years for another opportunity. It is the greatest action that has come to the Earth in 2.5 million years!"
JULY 23rd 1938 – BELOVED ASCENDED MASTER ERIEL
"Last night the whole atmosphere of the Earth changed. Some of the…….. "Light as of a Thousand Suns came forth!"
Excerpt from Ascended Master Light "I AM"Discourses
"Never before has the Cosmic Light come to the assistance of mankind. It bears repeating, because I am sure many do not understand what is meant by the Cosmic Light. It is the consciously projected Activity from the Heart of the Great Intelligence who governs this System of Worlds, which the Messengers have brought to you as the Great Central Sun – that is the Power from whence comes the Cosmic Light to the Earth. It is consciously projected by those Great Beings there.
Therefore, you see it is not something atmospheric. While It does act within the atmosphere, yet It is directed by a Mighty Intelligence; and that is what I am sure many have not been aware of, and it is why all the pleading of humanity, Beloved Ones, makes no difference with that great Light.
Perhaps it would be well for Me to remind you how mankind has ignored such opportunities in the past, when great Blessings have been offered them. Take for instance, for your instruction tonight, in the civilization of the buried cities of the Amazon recorded in Unveiled Mysteries, they were warned five years before the cataclysm came. After one year had passed, then two years had passed and nothing occurred, the human qualities began to stir within them and they said, "It is all a mistake." They became more and more brazen. When the five years were up and everything became still, the Hearts of those people who had denied the Wisdom which gave them warning, felt that fear clutch them, and before dawn the great destructive powers had done their work.
Today mankind is facing far worse conditions. When We give you encouragement for your accomplishment, please take it as encouragement. Make more earnest, dynamic efforts in your Call! That is why We give you encouragement – not so you can relax your Call, Power, or Energy for that which is required! If you do, then God help mankind!
The Power, the Intelligence, the Assurance is yours today; is here for your use, oh, People of America (and the world)! You can have It if you will! We cannot force It upon you! So Dear People, if there are those of your acquaintances who cannot accept this Understanding which Saint Germain has brought forth, at least plead with them for the need of Protection to America, their Country. That is the great need today."
(NOTE: It needs to be understood that America (anagram = I Am Race) is the 'Cup of Light' for the world. It is the only place on earth, due to the history of the world, that this Light could come forth to bless the world)
Chicago, Illinois
April 10, 1950
"Beloved of the Light, in the Radiance which We are bringing tonight, I wish to remind you of your tremendous privilege in the use of the
Cosmic Light; and I wish to thank you for everything—every Call you have ever made that helps Us to accomplish that which must be done in preventing mankind from going into any further destruction. You hardly have realized, Beloved Ones, what the Cosmic Light means to you all, and how It is released under your direction at your Call.
Not in any cycle of time in the past has the Cosmic Law permitted the Release of that Cosmic Light Substance from Our Octave of Life, because in drawing It into the lower atmosphere of Earth, It energizes everything in the entire atmosphere of Earth. Mankind in the past, because of their frightful destructive accumulation, were not permitted to draw the Cosmic Energy into outer use such as you are doing today by your Calls for the Cosmic Light. And My Sister, the Goddess of Liberty, is one who was responsible-with Myself—for determining to go to the Great Central Sun and ask for the Release of this Power, at least to those who came under the Mighty Saint Germain's Direction.
What the outer world calls the Cosmic Rays is not the Power that We direct which you know of as the Cosmic Light. The Cosmic Light Substance which comes forth at your Call, My Dear Ones, is the Direct Radiation of Light Substance from the Ascended Masters in the Great Central Sun, and that is not the same as the Great Universal Light Substance which mankind know of as the universal energy that fills all space. The Cosmic Light Substance which comes forth at your Call,
under Our Direction, is that which is drawn forth and qualified with the Consciousness and Perfection of the Great Cosmic Beings in the Central Sun who give that of Their own volition. It is the actual Radiation from Their own Life."
GREAT COSMIC LIGHT, Come forth and do your Perfect Work now! x3
The Forces of Light move into Action with Full Power, and are Victorious now! x3
Mighty Arcturus! Come forth in that Light as of a 1000 Suns, and consume all human selfishness, fear and discord from the planet forever! x3
THE LIMITLESS LEGIONS of LIGHT now sweep across the face of the Earth and ALL human darkness disappears FOREVER! x3
"I AM" the MASS AWAKENING of all mankind to the Ways of Light right now! (x3)
"I AM" THE VICTORY OF SAINT GERMAIN'S CAUSE OF FREEDOM (x3)
"I AM" THE VICTORY OF THE PLAN OF THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD (x3)
Mighty "I AM" Presence, I thank You that these Decrees are self-sustained, maintained and expanding in Action as of 1000 Suns each instant of each hour, till our Earth is free and into The Light of God that Never Fails!
Beloved Maha Chohan
Private Bulletin Bk. 2 page 25 – June 9 1957
"At various times you have been given instructions on the possibilities to be found within the Light and of the Power to transmute ALL appearances into Its Great Radiance. Light is the emanation or forcefield of energy. It is an effect but not a cause. It is a product but not the producer. It is a solvent but not the solver. It is Omega (Am) but not Alpha (I).
Understanding this, you will realize that the Light you draw to change conditions, to become supply, to bring Peace, etc. must be generated by some self-conscious individualization. All self-conscious life, from the Godhead to the individual, may through action, generate and expand Light.
The Cosmic and perfected Beings, in addition to their Cosmic service, are a continual outpouring of Light which enters the Cosmic storehouse for this system, and may be drawn by lesser individuals to hasten their liberation from shadow.
Thus you, beloved ones, who have learned what Light can do, must not use Light as though it were a natural product, for it is rather a gift, released through the energy of other parts of God. This Mighty storehouse of Light anchored around the physical Sun is what you refer to as the Cosmic Light, meaning Universal, and when you wish specific assistance, if you reach into this Cosmic Light, you receive a greater outpouring that if you tuned into the Light of your own heart, or just of one Master.
When you realize that every Perfected Being is a fountain and outpouring of Light, and you consciously draw that Light through your own lifestream, it loosens the Action of the Threefold Flame of your heart and your begin to emit more Light!"
Beloved Mrs. G W Ballard – "Voice of the I AM" – April 1936
"Let there be LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT! was, is, and always will be the First Supreme Command from the One Great Source, the "Beloved Mighty "I AM" Presence," announcing throughout Infinity Its own Mighty Being and Glory. This All-enfolding "Presence" speaking forth from out of the Great Central Sun, decrees Its Preordained, Self-expanding Perfection for all manifest beings, sustaining Its Activity until all consciousness and substance record the Fulfillment of Its Irrevocable Command.
Wherever those Words register within consciousness – whether it be in thought, feeling, word or deed – it is always the "Mighty I AM Presence" releasing the Perfection of Itself into substance and controlling the vibratory action, until all fulfills the Eternal Plan of Perfection everywhere.
Light – Life – Love – is the Threefold Activity of the "Mighty I AM Presence." Light – the Christ, the Flame – is the Threefold Activity of the "Mighty I AM Presence." Light – Substance, Energy – is the Threefold Activity of the "Mighty I AM Presence."
These Activities seem to be separate, yet they are One and their Source is One – the "Mighty I AM Presence." The Light, spiritually, mentally, and physically, illumines and controls harmoniously all It contacts.
The ability to think is an attribute of the Light. THEREFORE, BELOVED STUDENTS, MEDITATE ON THE LIGHT AND LET YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS BE SO FILLED WITH ITS RECOGNITION, GLORY, PERFECTION, THAT NOTHING CAN EVER AGAIN HOLD YOUR ATTENTION BUT ITS BLAZING PRESENCE!
Nothing will ever pay you such interest on your investment as the time and attention spent in acknowledging, accepting, adoring, blessing, and calling into DYNAMIC ACTION, the LIMITLESS LIGHT of your own "Beloved Mighty I AM Presence," to produce Perfection for you NOW AND FOREVER!
The Light Illumines all by the Supreme Power within Itself.
The Christ Perfects all by the Supreme Power within itself.
The Flame Consumes all unlike Perfection by the Supreme Power within Itself – and these three are One! All else has beginning and end. Only the "Mighty I AM Presence," the Christ, the Flame, the Light – Love – is eternally changeless, ever-expanding Perfection of all!
Light is Self-illumining, Eternally-sustained Consciousness!
Light is Self-expanding, Eternally-sustained Substance!
Light is Self-generating, Eternally-sustained Energy!
Light knows all Perfection.
Light contains all Perfection
Light reveals all Perfection.
Light is Wisdom.
Light is Power.
Light is Love – the one and only Activity which cannot be used by those who do not serve the Light – and that Presence, Power and Light is "I AM".
The plant instinctively turns to the Light, and for that turning receives the Blessings of the Light – which are Expansion, Perfection and Ascension. The same Great Cosmic Law will act in exactly the same manner to bless the individual who will also turn to the Light and receive Its Blessings instantly showered upon him.
To the individual who will let the Light from his own "Beloved Mighty I AM Presence" flow into his mind, body, and world without the interruption of discord or lack of attention, the Treasure Chest of the Universe will pour out the Limitless Gifts of the Ascended Masters to bless him forever!
May the "Mighty I AM Presence" charge every individual on Earth with the Ascended Master Consciousness in such an Irresistible Onrush, that naught else can stand before the Mighty Power of Its Perfection – illuminating, clothing and raising all into Its Eternal, Transcendent, Limitless Light – Light – Light – forever!
"Law of Life"– ADK Luk Book 1 page 12 – 13
The Cosmic Light is a release from the Central Sun. Cosmic Light is substance definitely qualified by Cosmic Beings, drawn and projected in rays to do a specific thing. This Cosmic Light released, which is the activity of the substance of Light, is not just a universal activity.
This Cosmic Light is not the universal cosmic light, but projected consciously from the Great Central Sun by Cosmic Beings. It is consciously projected self-luminous, intelligent substance. It is projected by Great Beings from the Central Sun to this system of worlds.
The cosmic light of science is not the Cosmic Light we refer to. It is concentrated light from the Great Central Sun. What science knows is accumulated cosmic light in the atmosphere. Cosmic Light is self-luminous substance; the light science knows is static or still light. Eventually this Cosmic Light will become the atmosphere of earth.
The Earth, the wayward child, must come back, if necessary, by force. This force is the Power of the Cosmic Light, which takes command of the feeling world and moves each one forward.
The release of the Cosmic Light to Earth has not only permitted assistance to be given Earth in transmuting the accumulation of the ages, but it is the authority over the human, and in its increasing action it has made more and more achievements possible.
The Cosmic Light says once again mankind must be set free from the sweat of the brow for its livelihood.
RELEASE OF COSMIC LIGHT MEANS THAT WE MUST HOLD FIRMER CONTROL OF OURSELVES! Perhaps we may feel only a great calm stillness – the rapidity of vibration being so that we may not even feel it. That will happen many times upon release of Cosmic Light in the future.
Page 223 – Saint Germain
"The Great Cosmic Law does not discriminate any more than does the multiplication table if one makes a mistake in its application, or electricity, when one is ignorant of the Law governing its use tries to direct its force without knowledge of the way to control it.
The Great Immutable Decrees which forever keep order in the Infinite Realm of manifested Life are all based upon the One Great Principle of Creation – LOVE. That is the Heart, the Source of ALL, and the very Hub upon which existence in form takes place.
Love is Harmony, and without it in the beginning of a form, that form could not come into existence at all. Love is the cohesive Power of the Universe, and without it a Universe cold not be."
The Will of God – page 13 – 14
Beloved El Morya
Many of the Great Ones have given you some every exquisite instructions on the possibilities to be found within the Light and of the power to transmute all appearances into Its Great Radiance.
(Again repeated by the Beloved Maha Chohan above) Light is the emanation or forcefield of energy. It is an effect but not a cause. It is a product but not the producer. It is a solvent but not the solver. It is Omega (Am) but not Alpha (I).
Understanding this, you must realize that the Light you draw to heal conditions, to become Supply, to bring Peace, must be generated by some self-conscious Individualization.
All self-conscious Life, from the Godhead to the individual, may, through action, generate and expand Light. The Cosmic and Perfected Beings, in addition to Their Cosmic Service, are a continual outpouring of Light which enters the Cosmic Storehouse for this system and may be drawn upon by lesser individuals to hasten their liberation from shadow.
Therefore, you who have learned what Light can do, must not use Light as though it were a natural product, for it is rather a Gift released through the energy of other parts of God. This Mighty Storehouse of Light anchored around the Sun is what you refer to as the Cosmic Light – meaning Universal – and when you desire specific assistance, as you reach into the Cosmic Light, you receive a greater outpouring than if you tuned into the Light of your own heart or of just one Master.
DECREE: (x3)
"I AM" enfolded in the Light of God RIGHT NOW and for all Eternity
"I AM" the LOVE of God
"I AM" the WISDOM of God
"I AM" the POWER of God
"I AM" the OPULENCE of God
"I AM" the PEACE of God
According to the information from "The Bridge to Freedom" publications
Those of us who are 'awake' and conscious of realms other than the physical have a very important 'HOLY MISSION', and it is only through us, that this planet and the life on her, can be freed from the discord, disease, strife, poverty, death, greed and selfishness that is prevalent across the face of our beloved planet Earth.
Freewill exists on this planet, and the Ascended Masters, Angelic Beings and others in the Ascended realm cannot assist us without invitation, this is Cosmic Law – if they were allowed to, we would not be in the mess we are in! We have to consciously call (invoke) them and ASK ('ask and ye shall receive') for their help.
When we do this, we can start, in conscious cooperation with these Mighty Beings of Light, who abide in the 'Ascended Realms' and whose organization is called, "The Great White Brotherhood" to re-create the perfection that once existed on this planet. If we delve 'deep' into the recesses of our ancient memory we may have a notion of such a place and existence, where there was only harmony, peace, love, and the desire to 'expand the Kingdom of God' in a lower vibratory plain – a planet.
This perfection exists on the rest of the planets in our particular universe (there are 49 planets in all, including Earth). They add to the exquisite 'music of the spheres' and emit a beautiful Light. It is ONLY our beloved Earth that is 'wanting' and not emitting Light – the music is a 'groan of agony'. Earth is not emitting the Light quota required to take its rightful place in the cosmic in-breath, that is currently happening. Why? Because of the way mankind behaves.
We are to build this 'Bridge of Light', that will take all mankind to the freedom of the Ascended Realms, but we need to walk the steep and narrow path that is required to work with the 'Great White Brotherhood'
The path IS narrow and steep, and we have to watch ourselves every step of the way, as the route is treacherous and we can easily be distracted and enticed into the 'world of senses' – that appears so real, and, to the majority of the slumbering masses, which is all they know, IS very real!
If we loose our way along the narrow path, we won't be able to build this 'Bridge of Light', that is so urgently and desperately needed by our beloved home, Earth.The Brotherhood has told us, they will "not consider their purpose finished, until the last member of mankind has crossed the Bridge from the physical realm to the freedom of the ascended realm".
As our beloved Lord Maitreya, Lord Buddha says, "the heart of love, my humble self, and all the Brotherhood are dependent on your bodies, your feelings, your consciousness, and your desires to reach mankind. We stand in the heart of freedom, we stand in the realms of truth, and our hands are stretched out to mankind, but mankind does not even know we exist. They do not know we have being – BUT YOU DO!"
Beloved Maha Chohan
THOMAS PRINTZ' PRIVATE BULLETIN – March 17th, 1957
"As you have seen the fireflies glow in the dusk, and have enjoyed the beauty of their radiance, you can grasp a picture of how the mankind of Earth looks to the inner eye of the Brotherhood, except that the uniformity of Light is nowhere near as exact as that of the small Light in the insect.
However, in one glance, the Master can look at the entire ten billion members of the race, incarnate and disincarnate, and from his Cosmic consciousness, hold them all within a span similar to about an eighteen-inch board held before the physical eye.
The amount of Light within the life-stream distinguishes one from another, and it is by the size of the periphery of that Light that the Master makes his judgment as to what particular service and cooperation can be fitted between the Hierarchy and the human being who represents those that are to be helped to freedom.
Thus, the students who work with the Masters are not chosen for their personality, but for their LIGHT. A certain intensity of Light, a certain wideness of the sphere of influence covered by their radiation, is required by the Cosmic Law before more than ordinary personal assistance can be given.
Therefore, it is evident that individuals who are blessed by the association with the Masters have already a tremendous expansion of their Light, and the association made is to use their sphere of influence as conductors for the Master's Consciousness, Plans, Presence and Powers."
Wherever "I AM", the Father is Present,
Wherever "I AM", is infinite Peace,
Wherever "I AM", is God's Protection,
Wherever "I AM", man's troubles cease,
Wherever "I AM", nature is kindly,
Before me her lavish board is spread.
Her elements form a mantle around me.
In paths of security, "I AM" led.
Wherever "I AM", the Light of His Presence,
Healing and Raising, ever abides.
His sweet benediction constantly flowing,
His Will Victorious, whatever betides.
Wherever "I AM", the Wings of the Almighty
Over my brothers, in love, are spread.
No evil thing shall ever befall them.
Into His Presence, they are gently led.


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Prepare yourself Aucklanders! Armageddon is nearing with #Auckgeddon preparing with Guests, Exhibits, Panels, Games and Cosplay!
First up is the Lenovo Legion and yes I have totally given them preference due to both @v8Matty and (myself) @charisMcAwesome who will be gracing this exhibits presence with our truly awful gaming skills.
Lenovo Legion is also having the Star Wars AR experience were you can get hands on (before Australia's Pax) with the highly anticipated game.
A Horror Maze will also debut at the event (cost is $10) where you will have 2 lives to make it through to the end.
Impact Pro Wrestling will also be exhibiting live action shows every day on the Main stage at 4pm.
At 4pm on Sunday is the Great Geek Quiz where you can test your geeky knowledge to prove you are the know it all everyone says you are.
The E-sports Arena by Logitech returns with a Free play tournament for all on Friday for Pub G with league of legends appearing on the Saturday.
Highly anticipated game Far Cry 5 arrives with a hands on experience thanks to the amazing crew at Playstation.
Xbox are bringing in Assassins Creed "Origins" for devoted fans at this years Armageddon.
While Call of Duty returns to its roots bringing in Call of Duty WWII allowing you to play campaign, multiplayer or co-operative.
Michelle Gomez better known for her role as Missy in the long running cult show 'Doctor Who" is doing a panel at 12pm (noon) on Monday albeit through Skype.
However John Barrowman also from Doctor Who and the spinoff series 'Torchwood' will be in attendance to a meet and greet with whovians from Saturday through to Monday.
Scifi master Nathan Fillon from Firefly, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Castle will also be there. Fillon also voiced games Destiny, Halo 5 Guardians, Monsters University, Guardians of the Galaxy,
He was also most recently in both an actor and executive producer role, Fillion portrays Jack Moore, alongside actor, director and creator, Alan Tudyk in "Con Man" which is in it's 2nd season. Other film credits include Adrienne Shelly's "Waitress," opposite Keri Russell; James Mottern's "Trucker," opposite Michelle Monaghan; James Gunn's "Slither," co-starring Elizabeth Banks; Patrick Lussier's "White Noise 2" and "Dracula 2000"; Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan"; and Hugh Wilson's "Blast from the Past".
Television credits include roles on "Modern Family," "Santa Clarita Diet," "Big Bang Theory," "Drunk History," and "Kroll Show". He's had a recurring role on "Community," "Desperate Housewives," "Two Guys and a Girl," "Drive," "Pasadena" and "Miss Match." Fillion earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the daytime drama "One Life to Live."
To say he's done a lot is an understatement.
Living Legend Walter Koenig best known for his role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek and Babylon 5 will also be gracing Aucklands shores at #Auckgeddon treating all the trek fans with his presence.
Stargate universe star David Blue will also be there, who by the way was also on Ugly Betty, Saw II/SawIII and Saw IV.
The 100 stars Ricky Whittle (side note: YUM), and Erica Cerra (who also appeared on Eureka and the new Power Rangers movie) are also in attendance.
Guardians of the Galaxy Mantis played by Pom Klementieff is also at Armageddon for meet and greets as is Lydia Martin from the hit teen drama series Teen Wolf and Osric Chau from Supernatural and the hit netflix show Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
One of my personal favourite shows Grimm is also there with tough as nails Grimm Truble played by Jacqueline Toboni who also appears in netflix show Easy.
Voices of Pam Poovey from Archer, the voice of Cortana in Halo, voice of the Powerpuff girls, My little Pony and Halo are just some of the voice actors you can meet and see at one of the panel shows.
And Ashylynne Dae the world renowned Cosplayer will also be available for Meet and Greets as well as doing a Panel on the Cosplay stage.
The Cosplay Star was originally a seamstress for 10+years before becoming a professional cosplayer which sees her travelling the world to meet fans becoming one of the world's most sought after cosplayers.
And thats just naming a few of the great stars that are gracing the halls of #Auckgeddon at this years Armageddon in Auckland.


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Come for the Chicken - Stay for the BINGO fun!
Join us for a Chicken Dinner complete with potatoes and coleslaw. Dinner will be served at 5:30. Lemonade and water will be provided. Bingo will begin around 6:00.
Registration is mandatory to participate for this event, so we can have plenty of chicken! Guest fees apply & can be added in online registration.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations will be honored 48 hours after registration. After 48 hours, cancellations will not be accepted. This event requires planning and purchasing in advance.
Address: 30580 Evergreen (just south of 13 mile)
Phone: 248.642.5424


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The hardest part of blogging for me, has been the issue of taking pictures. I take all of my own pictures, unless I'm back home visiting my parents then I have one of them take my pictures for me. But living in NY walking around with my camera and stopping in the middle of a random street that I like, so that I can take a picture still makes me really uncomfortable. That's why I tend to take some many of my pictures on my roof, cause there's no one watching me. Lately I've decided to step out of my comfort zone and take pictures in places that I really like. Sorry for my mini rant, just wanted to share some feelings with everyone.
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Skirt: Anthropologie
Top: Old Navy
Cardigan: Uniqlo
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Green Acres: How We Downsized, Unplugged, and Stay Inspired
Posted by Kirsten Dickerson on 29th Jun 2015
My husband and I have never been known to go with the flow. We like to push the boundaries and are attracted to challenge and adventure. This has led us to traveling around the world, moving 10 times in 18 years of marriage, collaborating on multiple film projects, founding Raven + Lily, adopting a daughter from China, and living in the heart of Hollywood on the Walk of Fame with our two kids.
So maybe its not a surprise that 2 years ago we sold our modern home in the heart of trendy Austin and bought 25 acres of pastures and woods just 30 minutes east of Austin. We felt the call of the wild and had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We had a vision to build our long-term homestead as well as a boutique retreat for artists, families and sojourners. We wanted animals. We wanted to farm. We wanted to connect with nature and unplug from technology. And we wanted to share this experience with others.
Our beautiful plot of land is called Green Acres ...cause who were we kidding!? We were city folk that often resembled the old TV show; but, it was also literally "green acres", and we were wanting to learn to live a "green" lifestyle by being intentional in our all choices. We have also built our little boutique retreat using vintage items, reclaimed goods, and fair trade goods as much as possible (including Raven + Lily textiles and mid-century furniture for our decor).
It was raw land and we had a lot of work to do to clean it up. The first time either of us mowed grass was when we hopped on a tractor to mow the huge fields on our property. It was work for sure, but it was a dream. The romance and beauty of the land created an endless palette of possibility. Our vision to create an inspiring space to share with others continued to grow and guide us.
Then this past November we took the plunge and moved to our land the week of Thanksgiving. We sold 80% of our belongings in order to downsize and embrace living in a 1955 Spartan Mansion trailer. That's right. We live in less than 400 square feet, so in a sense we joined the tiny house movement, and its been liberating! It also is a great fit with our family's desire to slow down, buy less, be more thoughtful, enjoy slow food, and create slow fashion.
We also have a Lotus Belle yurt for guests inspired by my favorite places: Morocco and the African Savannah.
As well as the addition of a 1967 Airstream our 14 year sons uses as him "bedroom" filled with vintage games and cameras.
We have a lovely old barn they say belonged to LBJ, lots of nature trails in the surrounding woods, gorgeous sunsets, gobs of wildlife, and 2 mini donkeys named Donkey and Yoti (as in "Don Quixote"). We most recently added two alpacas named Laverne and Shirley (cause they are funny and one is a red head and the other a brunette).
A few weeks ago we officially launched Green Acres and invited all our Austin friends to join us. It was a grand celebration and huge mile marker for our family. Since then we have constant guests staying in our yurt and we plan to add additional yurts. We love hearing that our guests and visitors feel inspired when they visit. That makes my heart sing.
We really don't know what's next and that's ok. We're figuring things out one day at a time while also pursuing our passions with film and ethical fashion. Our kids are thriving and we look forward to having another family (dear friends in Austin) soon join us on the land with their kids. I guess that means we're starting our own commune. Just kidding. Well, maybe not. I warned you that we weren't conventional.
If you'd like to follow our journey of learning to live an intentional lifestyle, you can read the stories written by my husband on his heartfelt and humorous blog called "Stories About My Ass" (aka our mini donkeys).
And we have a website for Green Acres as well as a new instagram: @GreenAcresATX.
You are invited to come stay with us. Unplug. Retreat and rest. It will be good for your soul. It's been good for ours.
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Sadhana for the month of October is "AtmaNivedanam- Offering oneself to the Lord in complete self-surrender"": .
10/09 - 10/15 This week we will practice Bhagawan's teaching below:
"The easiest path to self-realisation is the surrender of the ego. Arjuna surrendered and so, the war in which he was engaged was transformed into a spiritual exercise! Do not pit your tiny ego against the Almighty; leave it to His Will and you will have lasting peace. When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far distant region; that is why He is not manifesting Himself. Realise that He is in you, with you, behind you, before you and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere." - BABA
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Topic: "AtmaNivedanam- Offering oneself to the Lord in complete self-surrender"
Presenter: Dr. Mohan
"What is love? Oneness of feeling is love. If you foster the feeling that the same Atma resides in all, you will be able to love all. That is why the Upanishads say, "Sarva Jiva Namaskaram Keshavam Prathi Gachathi" (your salutations to living beings reach keshava). If you salute the living beings, you are saluting the Lord Himself as the Lord is the resident of all beings. While saluting a person you must feel that you are saluting the Lord in the temple of heart, for the body is a moving temple. Instead of worshipping the Lord in a physical temple made of brick and stone, worship the Lord in the living temple of the human body." - BABA - Summer Showers 1993, Ch 8.
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In the Geetha Lord Krishna says, "Arjuna! People give up revering and seeking Me, their very own Self. How foolish of them! They are not anxious to reach Me; but pursue lesser attainments that are untrue and transitory. The reason for this strange behaviour is the desire for quick results. People seek only that which is available here and now; that which is in a concrete form and is capable of being grasped by their senses; they are carried away by the attraction of flimsy pleasures. People also do not generally have the needed patience. They attach greater importance to the gross body, (sthula sarira). The achievement of Jnana (wisdom) is the true inner victory; it is won after long and arduous struggle. The few who are spiritually minded yearn for the Divine. Such wise people are indeed blessed. Look upon every act as but the execution of His order and as leading to His grace." - BABA


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Betty White Wins The Icon Award At 2015 People's Choice Awards
Betty White, 92, was awarded the Icon Awards at the 2015 People's Choice Awards, Jan. 7, and her speech was so cute!
Betty White won the highly coveted People's Choice Icon Award and it was so sweet! The comedian was presented the award by Ellen DeGeneres who had just won the award for favorite TV show host. Everyone hoped that Betty would win and you could tell that she was truly honored.
Betty White Wins The Icon Award At 2015 People's Choice
Ellen gave her the award and she was immediately handed a large bouquet of red roses.
But leave it to Betty, she immediately started cracking jokes. We thought that her speech was so cute and we just wish she had spoken longer!
Betty is actually the Guinness World Record holder for the longest TV career for a woman in history — cool, right!?
Betty's Big 2014 Year
Although her hit TV Land show, Hot In Cleveland has just been cancelled we have to say that Betty has had quite the year. Not only was she in the sixth season of her show, she managed to stay in the headlines. Who will ever forget her Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" spoof?
She sat on a wrecking ball in all white, unlike Miley who was nude. She then asked for a sledge hammer and made out with it!
We are so happy that Betty won this award because she absolutely deserves it!
HollywoodLifers, do you think Betty was the right choice for the Icon Award?
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In todays news.
The house owned by Derek Robert Thomas has been brutally broken into on Friday. Only his son Charlie managed escape the wraith of the lone robber. Ms. Darla Thomas and their daughter Tamara were not so fortunate. Funeral arrangements are set for this weekend at Dewey, Cheatem and Howe Funeral home.
Investigators have reviewed the in-home security footage and have identified one suspect "Earl Michael Case" and charged him with 2 counts of premeditated murder, burglary, 9 counts of dog slaughter and 8 counts of cat killing and vandalizing one window.
A source close to the investigations said, "that Earl's DNA evidence was splashed all over the place. Leaving no doubt that Mr. Case was responsible for this brutal massacre."
Earl Michael Case was released on bond today and wouldn't respond to media's questions. His lawyer stated that his client is innocent and that these allegations are without merit, "Earl is looking forward to clearing his name and hopes that people will not judge him in the media. This is a serious blow to Mr. Case's livelihood as a professional house sitter"
A neighbor who claims to have witnessed the crime said he saw Mr. Earl Case walking up to the house stating,
"This fool came in with a bunch of ladders, Scooby snacks, explosives and guns. Few minutes later it was like the fourth of July". He went on to say "Then Earl ran out of the house with like $77,545 dollars yelling ... I'M RICH BITCH!!"
We have excusive footage of the floor plan before the assault took place.
If you would like to help this family in this tragic event, they ask that you plant a tree in your back yard in dedication of Darla, Tamara and the dogs and the cats. Basically just plant a whole forest on your property.
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Your allowed 3 steps into my house. Any more than that and your mine.
Bravo, sir. That was one of the cleverest variations on a Leap of Faith trap that I've ever seen. Well done.
I can now reveal that I was the one that always annoyingly got past your best trap using only a brick and a water:
I only post because I care <3
Thank you. The fake leap of faith could be easily bypassed with one brick to the door. This cycled the clock making it in-line with the users so the grid would be passable. I had some thoughts on how to toughen it up a bit but that brick really messed up the clock.
Regardless of its flaws, that one trap was so enjoyable to watch people stumble into I didn't bother to make any more. It got to the point that most players would just explore other parts of the house without attempting the fake leap of faith. Only a few (maybe two) players were able to learn its weakness. Kudos to you sir for making it.
Your allowed 3 steps into my house. Any more than that and your mine.
Yeah, it was clear that the leap was the central trap of the house.
Still, the rest of the entrance is just as brilliant. I honestly died several times in a row, literally just from waltzing in tool-less, because I was too busy scouting so many other houses that I totally underestimated yours. It took me over a week of playing to realize: oh... that house isn't going away. huh! time to seriously scout it. And even then, my first scout went north, because my first instinct was that the Leap of Faith was too obvious to be anything but a decoy.
Really devious!
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Banning Advertising, Sponsorship and Promotion
WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan
Tobacco kills nearly six million of its users each year. This means that, in order to maintain or increase sales and profits, the tobacco industry must attract new customers to replace those who die or manage to quit. To achieve this goal, tobacco companies spend tens of billions of US dollars each year on advertising, promotion and sponsorship to sell their products. In particular, the industry targets young people, and worldwide 78% of students aged 13 to 15 years report being exposed regularly to some form of tobacco advertising, promotion or sponsorship (TAPS). Tobacco companies also heavily target women and girls through TAPS.
Studies show that both direct (advertising) and indirect (promotion and sponsorship) approaches increase the likelihood of people beginning or continuing tobacco use. Such approaches also mislead the public by depicting tobacco as no different from any other legal consumer product, thereby increasing its social acceptability. Moreover, the massive expenditure by the tobacco industry strengthens its influence over the media and sporting and entertainment businesses.
Comprehensive bans required under WHO FCTC
Under the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), all Parties to the treaty must institute a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship within five years of the Convention's entry into force for that country. Article 13 of the WHO FCTC outlines this obligation, and guidelines have been created to assist countries with implementation.
Evidence shows that comprehensive advertising bans lead to reductions in the numbers of people that start and continue to smoke. Statistics also illustrate that banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce tobacco demand and can be considered a tobacco control "best buy".
Despite effectiveness, most countries lack full bans
By the end of 2014, only 29 countries with 832 million people (12% of the world's population) had passed a comprehensive ban. While this represents an increase from 9% of the world's people covered by TAPS bans in 2012, it is still a relatively low figure, particularly considering the proven effectiveness of TAPS bans.
The WHO European Region, out of all WHO regions of the world, has the largest percentage of countries (77%) with a ban on national TV, radio and print media, as well as on some but not all other forms of direct and/or indirect advertising. However, the European Region lags behind most other WHO regions in terms of bans for point of sale and international media advertising, and very few countries have banned the majority of all forms of direct and indirect advertising. To date, only 13 countries in the Region (representing about 15% of the WHO European countries) have implemented a ban on all national forms of direct tobacco advertising and promotion. Only three WHO European countries have banned all forms of indirect advertising. None of the WHO European countries has banned all international forms of tobacco advertising promotion and sponsorship.
To be effective, bans must completely cover all types of TAPS activities, both direct advertising in all types of media and indirect advertising. But as more and more countries move to fully meet their obligations under the WHO FCTC, the tobacco industry has become ever more aggressive in its efforts to defeat bans on TAPS. To circumvent bans, tobacco companies often rely on below-the-line promotion of tobacco, particularly with respect to advertising through point of sale, brand stretching, brand sharing, product placement on television and in films, and the advertising of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. The tobacco industry has also repeatedly challenged bans in court, through usually without success.


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Do people affect you remotely?
It happens to me daily. Sometimes I just need to think of my mom and the phone will ring and it's her. It also happens to anyone that has crossed my path, including homeless people I meet on the street. I have come to a deep knowing that the person is on my mind because he need my help. I always send the person loving kindness by keeping a moment of quiet stillness for that person, seeing him/her engolfed in a loving bright light and sending love and peace. If the thought persists, I will reach out and contact that person and I find that they needed my help in one way or another. My ego gets in the way by telling me, "it's just a thought in your head, let it pass and think of someone else". I have learned to always follow my intuition , not impulsively, but by discernment. Sometimes the thought gets so "loud" in my head that it stops me in my tracks and I reach out. When that happens, I know it is Spirit and I act.


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Converting different types of investment into the same form of compound-interest problem makes comparisons easy.
Financial calculations all revolve around the same set of parameters: present value, future value, interest or return rate, number of periods, and payment. With any four of these parameters, you can solve for the fifth, which means that with a few qualifications you can turn any type of investment into an apple and then compare all the apples to see which one is the best for your situation. To make the most meaningful comparisons with investments, the number of periods and the payment must be the same for each alternative.
Whether you calculate financial measures by hand or use a
spreadsheet, the parameters are the same. If you use Excel for
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Release Date: June 6, 2017
Genre: Young Adult
First, let me say how fantastic this cover is! It's very eye catching for one (and if I didn't enjoy the authors work I would have picked it up solely because of this beautiful cover). HOWEVER, I do love the author work and I found the plot to be just as cool as this cover!
Tara Altebrando has the unique ability to bring together a unique story line with concepts that are not normally used (for instance, telekinesis is the main plot point of this story- something we don't normally see). This was the same for her debut novel, The Leaving (which I LOVED). So I personally believe that Tara is going to be setting the way for some uniqueness in the storytelling world. YAY!!!!
Overall, I found this book to be extremely interesting and I loved the entire concept. I also enjoyed the characters as a whole which is a good thing because sometimes the plot stands out more then they do which brings down the enjoyment of the whole story. In some instances I did have a hard time relating to the heroine as she is in high school and dealing with some weird stuff, but she makes sense for the story overall.
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