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The Difference Between a Psychic, a Medium and a Trance Medium
Until I hired a mediumship mentor, I was confused about the differences between psychics, mediums, channelers and trance mediums. Are you born with the abilities or can anyone learn them? What makes one different from the other? How do you know which one you are? This article will shed some light on those questions and explain the different skill sets involved.
Think of psychic/mediumship abilities as degrees from a college. You start with some talent (like pro athletes, some people are just born superstars) and then you hone that talent. Or you start with no talent and you learn a particular skill. Psychics are like the Associates Degree in the psychic world. This is where you start the groundwork.
Psychics have premonitions and can see the past, present and future. They have strong intuition (inner "knowing" – they just "know" things but don't know HOW they know it). They use tools like tarot cards, crystal balls, runes and other tools to help them with a reading. Psychics may or may not be mediums. Some signs that you are psychic include: Knowing who's calling before you answer the phone, "gut feelings" that turn out to be true, "knowing" something that turns out to be true without know WHY you know it, prophetic dreams that come true, etc.
Supposedly, psychics are born with abilities but I personally believe anyone can learn to be psychic. Your intuition comes from your higher self, which we all have. It's a matter of learning how to tap into it and practicing that on a regular basis. So, in my opinion, we're all psychic.
Mediums are like the Bachelor's Degree in psychic abilities. We have an extra skill set that psychics do not have: spirit communication.
Follow me here: All mediums are psychic but not all psychics are mediums. Mediums are psychics which can communicate with those in the spirit world. They may hear, see, smell or sense them in some other way. They can develop the skill to receive clear messages from loved ones. They can communicate with spirit guides and angels, which are on a higher vibrational realm than loved ones who have crossed over.
Opinions vary on whether mediums are born or if anyone can develop the skill to communicate with spirits. My personal opinion is that your loved ones in spirit are already communicating with you (whether you're a medium or not). They do it through synchronicity (which you may call coincidence), signs, dream visits and other ways. I can take people on journeys to meet their spirit guides and angels, which are in the spirit world. People hear and see them clearly during these journeys, so does that make them a medium? If they can do it through a guided meditation, why can't they do it on their own?
Spirit Channels
I'd consider Spirit Channels as the Masters degree. They take mediumship up a notch by directly channeling information from the highest realms. All channelers are mediums and psychics. Not all mediums are channelers.
What is the difference between mediums just relaying information and channelers "channeling" information? It'd compare it to the difference between driving a car and riding in a self-driving Uber. The medium is actively in control of the car. The channeler is present IN the car but something else is operating it. The channeler is receiving a steady flow of information and relaying it verbally or through automatic writing. When I channel, I'm not consciously thinking about the words I'm writing. It just flows. If I were doing mediumship and not channeling, I would be consciously interpreting the symbolism and words. It would not be flowing automatically without my own thoughts interjected. It would be an active three-way conversation between me, the other side and the client.
Channels can tap into the highest realms of beings like angels, archangels, spirit guides and ascended masters. I can channel loved ones in spirit too, but mostly talk to the higher realms. Loved ones will come through when I'm doing a shamanic healing. There have been times I meditated to channel one person's loved ones but someone else's had a message to deliver. General consensus (and I believe) channels are born with their abilities. I believe since mediums are already channeling one level of spirits, it would be a natural shift to channel higher realms as well.
You may be a channeler if you find yourself writing words that aren't your own during automatic writing sessions. I can "feel" when I connect to that realm and things start flowing. I can't really describe it but you will know it when you feel it the first time. There is no thought process, only words. Like water flowing from a faucet.
Trance Mediums
Trance mediums are what I'd call the Ph.D's of the psychic world. The most advanced medium. Trance mediums are born trance mediums. The soul and it's spirit guides decide before it is born whether or not trance mediumship is part of it's "spiritual toolbox". All trance mediums are channelers, mediums and psychics. Not all channelers are trance mediums. I am a trance medium. At this time, I prefer channeling to trance mediumship, even though my guides tell me I'm "greedy" with my mediumship LOL I may get more comfortable with the prospect of trance mediumship later, but for now, I'll stick with channeling.
If channelers are riding in the Uber car, trance mediums ARE the Uber car. Trance mediums allow their consciousness (ethereal presence/soul) to LEAVE their body so that another ethereal being can use their body (car) to speak through them. This is achieved through an elevated state of consciousness. There are a couple of ways of doing this.
One way is to leave your body completely and be unaware of what is taking place while you're somewhere else. I can not begin to tell you how extremely important it is to be DISTINCTLY intentional about the entity you chose to trance channel. ONLY deal with the highest entities – angels, ascended masters, spirit guides. You do not want to just lay out an open invitation. ALWAYS involve your spiritual army in this process. Not following these precautions is how spirit possession occurs. If you allow a lower level entity to take over your body, it may not leave! This is why you need a sitter.
You will always have a "sitter" with you to record what's been said or what's happened (because you will not be consciously aware). The sitter will also make sure you return to your body in a timely manner. Time is irrelevant in the spirit world. If you're out vacationing while another entity is in your body, you will have no concept of how much time has passed. The sitter keeps track of time in the physical realm and will "wake" you up after a pre-determined specified amount of time.
The second method of trance mediumship is a hybrid. This is what I do. I do NOT leave my body. I "blend" my energy with one specific ascended master which I have built a relationship with. This is the ONLY entity I do trance work with. I can tell exactly who I am working with because of the way her energy feels and we have a secret sign we use that no other entity knows. If I don't get that sign, then I know this is an imposter. If the energy doesn't feel the same, I know it's an imposter. Again, be intentional about who you are willing to work with.
While I CAN do trance mediumship, I rarely do. Call me crazy but I have a problem with just giving a carte blanche library card to an outside force. They might check the book out but never bring it back LOL
During trance mediumship, mediums may demonstrate voice characteristics of the one being channeled, such as accent and cultural dialects. Sometimes it is the medium's own voice. Either way, the words are definitely not their own. The physical mannerisms of the medium may change as well, including facial features and hand gestures. It takes an enormous amount of energy for an entity to move a physical body's hands, arms etc. It takes less energy to produce sound using the voice box, lips and facial muscles.
The only way to know if you are a trance medium is to mentor with another trance medium or to accidentally get "jumped". Getting "jumped" is when a spirit jumps in your body and starts talking through you – with or without your permission. A friend's daughter had this happen to her. "Angie" had no idea she was a trance medium. One day, she is at a friends house and the friend's dead boyfriend takes over Angie's body! She was aware of the words being spoken but she did not give this guy permission to use her body. Angie didn't even KNOW she had the ability! Needless to say, she wanted to know immediately how to never allow that to happen again.
Regardless of whether you are a medium, a channel or a trance medium, you have to meditate regularly and get proficient at reaching that higher state of consciousness. You also have to "build your power". No mediumship occurs without power. Power can not be built without meditation. None of this should be done without proper spiritual protections in place. In the near future, I will write a guide on how to properly protect yourself and build your power. Until then, I hope this article has shed some light on the differences between psychics, mediums and trance mediums. I do offer a mentorship program and local meetups for those wanting to develop or strengthen their abilities. Contact me for details.


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Today's post isn't by yours truly, instead I've enlisted a few members of my writer's group to help out over the next few weeks. The first victim, um, I mean, willing participant is Cyndi Pauwels. She hosts her own blog over at CPatLarge and her posts are usually more reflective than mine. Cyndi has an almost poetic rhythm to her blogs.
Thanks, Lori, for asking me to guest post. The experience we shared with Tami last week filming videos for her ECOT students was nerve-wracking, but fun. I hope the students learn as much from our presentations as I did by participating.
Here's a summary of my questions and answers. I was assigned setting and description, with a follow-up on why our writers group is so valuable:
In your novels, how did you make decisions about setting?
Following the old adage "write what you know," I initially set my novels in and around Toledo, Ohio, where I grew up. I have two complete manuscripts and one partial for that area. The setting for my work in progress has moved to Dayton and Yellow Springs, our new home. A fantastic author who spoke at the 2008 Antioch Writers' Workshop, Zakes Mda, told us to write what we don't know in order to learn new things, but because I'm such a detail oriented person, I'm not sure I could write about a place I don't know well. I do have a story set on the Appalachian Trail that I started as an exercise during my master's program. It may end up a short story, or a novel, or nothing more than practice.
Of course, if you're writing sci-fi or fantasy, you get to create your own world. Just make it believable, and consistent. Don't change the rules you lay down in the early chapters because your heroine finds herself in trouble in chapter ten.
How does a writer avoid, long, boring descriptions?
The days of John Steinbeck spending multiple pages describing the dust on the prairie in The Grapes of Wrath are long over, at least when it comes to writing modern fiction. I try to intersperse description of places, and people, with dialogue, narrative that includes action, that sort of thing. It's better to feed the reader details in small bites spread out through the book rather than in huge information dumps.
Since you're writing about a place you used to live, how do you keep your information current?
We still have family and friends in Toledo, so we're back there often, and the Internet is a big help. I can pull up Google Maps, check to see if a restaurant is on the corner where I thought it was or find out which park is closest to my main character's house, stuff like that. I had my daughter save last year's phone book for me to use for name choices and other reference. That helps a lot.
What about the other scenes in your novels, such as the courtroom and the police stations? How do you know about those?
Back to "write what you know." I worked as a police and fire dispatcher for nearly eight years at two different departments, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Northwood, Ohio, and I was a deputy clerk for federal court in Toledo for six years. Lots of great experiences for story fodder! I'm fortunate, too, that former co-workers are still available for reference. For the book I'm shopping now, I contacted a police sergeant I worked with to make sure I had the inner department details correct for Toledo Police, since I never actually worked in their offices. I also have an assistant U.S. Attorney from federal court on tap to answer questions about the charges my bad guys will face.
When is too much description, well, too much? How do you know how much to give the reader?
It's a balancing act. You want to make a setting real, but you don't want to drown the reader in minutia. Matthew Goodman, an author who spoke at this year at Antioch, writes narrative history, and he said something like dozens of pages of research notes may come down to only one or two sentences in a story, just enough to give readers a flavor of the times. I try to help the reader see the scene in broad strokes, then let them fill in the blanks with their own imagination. That way they're active participants in the story.
My characters aren't described in exact detail, either. No "5'9", 175 pounds, shoulder-length brown hair with grey streaks, brown eyes." But something like, "taller than most, towering over the crowd, easy to spot across the crowded room," that kind of thing. Hair color, maybe, if it fits the story. Size, again not specific pounds, but "scrawny build," or "button-popping belly," "hands the size of a catcher's mitt." And not for every character, and not all the time.
Can you say something about being in a writing group and how it helps?
Because we spend so much time alone writing, or at least we do if we're serious about our work, one thing every writer needs is a support group. I meet with a fantastic bunch of writers every Tuesday, four to eight people depending on our schedules, for sharing, peer critique, and plain old conversation. Who else but other writers understand what you mean when you talk about characters' voices in your head? Or can relate to your search for ways to kill someone and not get caught without calling the police?
We read our work aloud, take gentle criticism home to improve the writing, and learn from each other. It's amazing what you overlook in a story until you read it out loud. And too often, things a writer takes for granted the reader will understand are missed entirely. A good writers group can point those out. We also share tips on the submission process, blogs and articles that offer good advice, and celebrate each other's publication successes. Those are always nice.
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- Students work one-on-one at their own pace and in group sessions.
- One-on-one classes are in one-hour increments, and are held weekly at a minimum.
- Group sessions are two-hour monthly sessions.
- The program entitled A Three-Step Approach to Life Direction will be downloaded on the laptop of each student with each student having his own individual copy. His answers and responses are private, and are only shared with his teacher unless he chooses to share them with others.
- Group sessions allow students to share and discuss feelings, life choices and day-to-day decisions without judgment.
- Students actively participate in group discussions if and when they feel comfortably doing so.
- Individual classes cost $25 per 60 minutes.
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- The first hour is devoted to the basic value class and the following 30 minutes to professional skill development on the student's respective instrument.
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Teachers will undergo training on A Three-Step Approach to Life Discovery much in the same way as students. The length of the program is six weeks, but it's completion is more or less determined by the pace each individual chooses to advance.
Procedure for Teachers:
- Purchase of the program for $7.99 and download on computer.
- Each one-hour weekly lesson costs $25.
- Lessons may be taught via phone or Skype.
- All questionnaires and exercises will be completed.
- At the end of the course, determination will be made by the evaluation process whether the person is ready to teach the class to someone else.
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- Each student will purchase and download the program on a home or school computer.
- Students with home computers may elect to receive instruction via phone or Skype.
- Value classes are in one hour increments and cost $25.
- Skill-set classes are 30-minutes in duration and will be taught at PAPA.


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Pasteurisation is the first step in the ice cream making process here at Fredericks. All the basic ingredients, plus some secret ones are placed inside the pasteuriser and mixed together using the agitator fitted inside. The ingredients are then heated up using steam, which is created between the outer vat skin and the inner vat lining. The milk, as we call it, is heated up at 79.5 degrees Celcuis for more than 15 seconds, and this pasteurises it. All ice cream sold for us to eat must be pasteurised.
The milk from the Pasteuriser passes on to the Homogeniser, still at the final pasteurisation temperature. The homogeniser breaks down all the ingredients of the milk, compressing them together to form smaller globules. This makes all the ingredients combine, which helps to create a smoother, richer and tastier ice cream. Homogenisation also stops our ice cream melting too quickly.
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After being pasteurised and leaving the Homogeniser, the milk must be cooled to a temperature below 7.2 degrees Celcius within 90 minutes. To do this we use a Cooling Plate. The cooling plate is controlled by a water cooled compressor and as the milk is pumped from the homogeniser on to the cooling plate the temperature drops very quickly. It is very important that we cool the milk as quickly as possible to ensure it passes through the temperature zone 5 - 63 degrees Celcius, as this is when most bacteria are able to grow.
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Once cooled, the milk is put into an Ageing Vat. Here it is kept cool, below a temperature of 7.2 degrees Celcius (preferably 0 - 4 degrees Celcius). The ageing vat is fitted with a stirrer to enable the milk to be gently agitated. There is also a recording device to monitor temperature. The milk is then left to age for a length of time, this enables the milk to become smoother and richer when frozen.
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When the time is right, the milk is pumped from the Ageing Vat into the Continuous Freezer. As this machine has a small cylinder and bore it ensures that the flow of milk and air is continuous throughout the freezing chamber, and that it freezers very quickly. This rapid freezing produces ice cream, which is rich in flavour and smooth in taste.
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Once frozen the ice cream is put into containers and is stored in our Cold Stores at temperatures between -20 and -25 degrees Celcius, ready to be delivered to you in one our vans.


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Chris began playing trumpet in Park Forest Illinois School System in 1966. He holds a degree from Drury College in Springfield Illinois. Chris has toured extensivly across the US playing with various artists a various instruments including the French Horn, Flute and Bass. He has recently retired from a career as an Orchestra teacher with the Fort Worth ISD. He has performed locally with Johnny Case, Jubilee Theater, Arts, Fifth Avenue, The Joe Rogers Trio and many local jazz clubs.
Julie discovered yoga after 9/11/2001 when she took a trip to Costa Rica ans was hooked. Since then, she has practiced yoga on and off over the years until becoming fully devoted after having her babies. She began practicing at Arts 5th Avenue about 5 yrs ago and have hardly missed a night since! She now has her 200 hour certification from the Urban Yoga Deep Study and teaching apprenticeship including the study of pranayama, asana, meditation, and the chakra system. She teaches at both Arts 5th Avenue and Urban Yoga.
Julie lives in Southside and loves supporting our local arts. Her classes are for all people, all levels, everybody! You will learn to slow down and Be Present while moving along with your breath and connecting mind, body, spirit!
Yoga is a way of life, a way to breathe, a way to connect!
Glenna is a Fort Worth native and received her Bachlor of FIne Arts from TCU. While living in Mexico, Glenna also studied at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, the Institute Allende and the Institutio Nacional de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allnde. She also apprenticed for at the Enruiqe Mirlada Sculpture Studio and the Manola Ruiz Ceramics Studio in Mexico City. Glenna's work has been shown in galleries in Mexico City, Sante Fe, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth. In addition to her work in sculpture, painting and ceramics, Glenna also has a strong dance background. She studied with Mia Slavenska and while living in San Miguel de Allende, Glenna taught ballet at the Nacional de Belle Artes. Glenna moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1981 and while there she again taught ballet and choreographed several musicals while teaching ceramics and sculpture at the community college.
Abi Abel is a Fort Worth native and a life long tapper. This actress/singer/dancer/choreographer began her dance training at age 3 with Frances Lea and at 8 she began studying under her tap mentor Larry Howard. She has studied with many tap greats including Ted Levy, Ryan Kasprzak, Miller & Ben, Andrew Nemr, Sarah Reich, and Max Pollak. Abi began her professional theatre career at Casa Manana when she was 7 as a featured tap-dancing orphan in Annie. At Casa Manana, she worked with and studied with many great actors, directors, and choreographers. some of her favorite shows regionally include include Anything Goes , Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof, Moon Over Buffalo, 42nd Street and she has appeared as a feature dancer in Sonic commercials, a PB Max candy bar promotional film, and a Dr Pepper industrial production. A graduate of Texas A&M, Abi studied Journalism and Philosophy and chose to gain her entertainment education in the world of professional theatre and dance. Abi is a tap educator, performer and choreographer around DFW. Her theatre choreography credits include Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, Addams Family, Drowsy Chaperone, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Seussical, Jr , Carrie the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sound of Music, Wild Party, Cinderella, Man of La Mancha, Young Frankenstein, Peter Pan, RENT, Catch Me if You Can, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, and American Idiot.
A consummate tap artist, April holds a BS in Eucation from the University of Texas. She worked in the public and private school system for many years. April has taught Tap at Arts Fifth Avenue for four years and is a member of the Legacy Tap Project and LaFeet Tap Ensemble. She continues her tap education with master classes sponsored by the Rhythm Junkies, Legacy Tap Project, and the Tapestry Dance Company.
A dynamic singer, actress and musical director, Peggy has her BFA in Music from the University of Tulsa. She is a founding member/performer of Hip Pocket Theatre. She is recognized locally for conducting workshops for Imagination Celebration, the Fort Worth Independent School District and the "I Have A Dream" Foundation. Peggy has been activein the Hip Pocket Theatre's outreach programs at Cook Children's and John Peter Smith Hospital and is currently working to establish and implement AFA's outreach program in assisted living and senior facilities in our neighborhood.
Donna has had an exciting career teaching children and adults in fine arts, creative writing, literature, history and more in both public and private schools. She believes everyone should be able to realize and expand their own creativity. Donna has a B.A. from TCU and a M..Ed. from SMU.
Jennifer has been working in different aspects of the arts community for over 30 years. Originally from Oklahoma, she began her dance training at the age of three, having trained in various forms of dance from jazz, tap and ballet to modern, African, Flamenco and more. She began teaching when she was sixteen years old and has instructed students not only in the U.S.but in Mexico and China as well. Jennifer has worked and performed for Six Flags America, Texas Ballet Theater, Double JJ & Golf Resort, Artisan Center Theater as well as for Arts Fifth Avenue. Jennifer is also a choreographer in the D/FW Metroplex having choreographed such productions as Camelot, Phantom the Musical, Scrooged, Sound of Music, Shrek the Musical, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Aladdin Jr., High School Musical, Seussical and many more. She is proud to be a dance teacher in the D/FW Metroplex working with up and coming performers, including right here at Arts Fifth Avenue.
Brandi Pace
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Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Brandi Pace is a singer, pianist, and songwriter. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in jazz studies from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she concentrated in voice and took classical and jazz piano. At Howard, she was a member of the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble Afro Blue, where she had the opportunity to share the stage with jazz greats Geri Allen, Carmen Lundy, Andy Bey, Jimmy Cobb, Nneena Freelon, and Bobby McFerrin. Mrs. Pace began teaching children's jazz choir at Arts Fifth Avenue's summer playhouses in 2009, and also teaches private jazz voice and piano. She has performed at Arts Fifth Avenue, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, and Bass Hall. Mrs. Pace also teaches elementary music in Fort Worth ISD.
A native of Fort Worth, Eddie began playing professionally at the age of 10 and has over 30 years of experience in drum set, hand drums and percussion. He's performed with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mose Alison, Master Cylinder, French Tap Dancer Sarah Petronio and West African dancer Titus Fotso. He has hosted workshops through the Van Cliburn Foundation with the Brazilian percussion group Uakti and internationally renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie. You may have heard him over the past 20 years working on musicals with local theaters such as Jubilee Theater, Circle Theater and Hip Pocket Theater. Eddie is also founder and artistic director of Mondo Drummers.
Bruce began his musical career while in high school by playing and writing music as the founding member of the band "Eastborne". He majored in music at Southwest Community College and completed his degree at North Texas State University. As part of the popular trio, "Williams, Scott, and Whitfield" and other bands, he performed at clubs and venues in Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas, including Shaw's, Blossoms, the HOP in Fort Worth and The Filling Station in Dallas. At the Caravan of Dreams he opened for many national touring acts including Loudon Wainwright III, Michael McMurtry, John Martyn, John Cale, Sara Hickman, John Ims, and Graham Parker. At the Sound Warehouse stage in the Dallas Starplex he opened for Larry Carlton, Bella Fleck, Dwight Yoakum, and Luther Vandross. He collaborates with Kerri Kreiman and Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, has a one man show about the Life of Woodie Guthrie and was the Program/Technical Director for Imagination Celebration from 1992 until 2011. He has been teaching since 1975 and currently teaches Beginning Guitar I & II for Adults and Beginning Guitar I & II for Youth for extended education classes at TCU.. Bruce has been teaching piano and guitar at Arts Fifth Avenue since 2012.
Dale's background is primarily in ballet and he has over fifteen years of study and performance experience with Margo Dean and is a lifetime member of Ballet Concerto. TAP came into Dale's life by accident. While taking class from Gracey, she needed to take a leave of absence and she asked Dale to teach her classes; the rest is history. Dale has studied with Tex Clyde, Gracey Tune and French Tap Master, Sarah Petronio. Dale enjoys all styles of music and believes "Dance Keeps You Young."
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presented her with the Elston Brooks Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. She is a frequent guest artist at major events in the world of tap. She provided choreography for the productions of "Steppin' Out" and "My One and Only" on Broadway; performed with and produced shows for tap legends Cholly Atkins, Savion Glover, Sarah Petronio, Ron Young and her internationally recognized brother, Tommy Tune; and continues to teach and perform at Arts Fifth Avenue.


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Raphicerus campestris
Shoulder height 0.5m
Average weight 8-11kg
Gestation period 5,5months,usually one lamb.
Potential lifespan is 7-8 years
They live in open plains with cover close by. Predominantly browsers, mostly forbs.They also eat new green grass and dig for tubers, bulbs and melons for water.
Faeces and urine are mixed with soil though often not totally covered.
Active day and night
They are often solitary but on Okonjima they seem to live in pairs.
Predators are leopard,caracal,wild dog,cheetah,hyena,python and the martial eagle.


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THE EDITOR, Sir:
Permit me to point out an observation I made at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) recently. Let me start by saying that the service received by my relative was good, albeit expensive.
What irked me somewhat was the food given to her. In this period when our farmers are crying out because there is a glut of vegetables, none could be seen in the food given to her.
I have grown up hearing about the importance of vegetables, and in Jamaica, even if a family does not eat any vegetables during the week, it's usually a must on a Sunday. Yet on Sunday, March 20, my relative received only rice and peas and chicken, without even a little shredded cabbage. Come on, UHWI.
I am also a bit concerned about the use of Styrofoam cups and boxes by the UHWI and other hospitals, in this day and age when we are talking about going green. Shouldn't our health-care organisations be leading the way?
Again, let me congratulate the UHWI for its good service but I am concerned about those issues I raised.
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Here is a short list of the leaders in the plant based food movement
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, MD
T. Colin Campbell
Rip Esselstyn
Gene Stone
All of these are great resources. You may have the look(Amazon)
and decide if you are looking more for the research
and science end of it, lay person education, or cookbooks. There are all of the above available.
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Here is a short list of the leaders in the plant based food movement
a quick google search of "awesome vegan blogs" and "awesome vegan books" will yield a TON OF HITS! there are sooooo many books on plant-based diets.
another place to consider is your local library - you can check out a bunch of books and see which ones have recipes you enjoy... then either copy those recipes or purchase the books that you particularly enjoy.
i've been vegetarian for years - with bouts of veganism - and now vegan now for almost two years. but, i'm not a totally anal vegan - i avoid dairy ... but i worry less about a bit of egg here and there. also, i don't worry about honey...
have you read the china study? that's also a fantastic resource. the message in that book that i particularly appreciate is that the plant-based diet is best... but if less than 5% of your calories do come from animal products, don't sweat that less than 5%. so, if i end up eating a bit of egg here and there... i don't sweat it. or, if i'm out for a work function and i don't know what broth a soup was made with... i don't sweat it. so, i guess i'm just a sort of chillax style of vegan. does that make sense? takes a bunch of the stress out.
i hope this helps...
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Dr. Lehmann received his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Minnesota and performed his residency at the University of Washington.
He has practiced for the last 30 years in Sitka, with outreach and consultation to the Bethel Family Clinic, Camai Community Health Center in Naknek, Seward Community Health Center, and Sports Medicine Fairbanks.
Dr. Lehmann's medical interests include Sports Medicine, Primary Care Orthopedics, and acting as the Medical Director for Alaska High School State Tournaments — Wrestling, Football, Baseball, Roller Derby and Dance.
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Here's some news about to what I've been up to lately.
Richard Cowdry (see Love the Line in the links bar at the bottom of this page) and in have been working on a weekly comic strip. It's called 'Somersault' and the kind people at Forbidden Planet International have seen fit to publish it on their blog every Tuesday.
Here's the link: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/07/turning-somersaults/
For the past few weeks my work has been serialized over at Blurred Books (www.blurredbooks.com) by the charming Kevin Mutch (you can see his own nice comics on the same site, as well as a couple of bits by the fabulous Mr O'Connell) I'm really excited about being part of this project, they've had some great work there in the past and it's cool to make my own humble contribution.
This one's a little late in the reporting, but here it is none the less; I have this illustration in the current edition of Electric Sheep Magazine (www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk).
I highly recommend this publication to those of you who love films. The thing is lavishly illustrated and full to the brim with intelligent articles.
And finally I had a couple of books for sale at the Tokyo Zine's Mate last month. I couldn't go but having seen the photo's since I really wish I'd just sold a kidney or something to afford the air fair. It looks as though it was really nicely staged and full of interesting work.
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Triptych: 11.23006 (left), 11.23007 (center), 11.23008 (right) MFA impressions: 11.14405 (left sheet only), 11.23006-8, 21.7703-5 The MFA impressions have no publisher's mark, but the Chicago impression has an unidentified publisher's mark.
Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet) 歌麿筆
Censor's seal: kiwame (on each sheet) 改印: 極
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911) NOTES: [1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
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Japanese, Edo period, 1805 (Bunka 2), 12th month
- Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I, Japanese, (?)–1806
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Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #549.1-3; Ukiyo-e shûka 6 (AIC 3, 1978), pls. 119-21
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- Calories 200
- Caloriesfromfat 22%
- Fat 4.9g
- Satfat 1g
- Monofat 2.7g
- Polyfat 0.6g
- Protein 6.2g
- Carbohydrate 33.5g
- Fiber 4.5g
- Cholesterol 2mg
- Iron 1.9mg
- Sodium 394mg
- Calcium 105mg
Cumin-Scented Samosas with Mint Raita
Samosas, traditional Indian pastries filled with vegetables, meat, or both, are typically made with homemade dough, then fried. Our samosas remain light and crisp because we enclose the filling in phyllo dough and then bake them. When processing the filling, pulse just until the ingredients are chopped so it retains its texture.
How to Make It
To prepare samosas, cook potato and carrot in boiling water 8 minutes or until tender; drain.
Heat oil in a wok or large skillet over medium heat. Add onion to pan; cook 10 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring frequently. Add ginger, garlic, and red pepper; cook 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in cumin and next 5 ingredients (through turmeric); cook 15 seconds, stirring constantly. Add potato mixture, peas, cilantro, and juice, stirring well to combine; cool slightly. Place half of filling in a food processor; pulse until coarsely chopped. Spoon chopped filling into a bowl. Repeat procedure with remaining filling.
Preheat oven to 350°.
Place 1 phyllo sheet on a large cutting board or work surface (cover remaining dough to prevent drying); lightly coat with cooking spray. Fold phyllo sheet in half lengthwise to form an 18 x 7–inch rectangle. Spoon about 3 tablespoons filling onto bottom end of rectangle, leaving a 1-inch border. Fold left bottom corner over mixture, forming a triangle; keep folding back and forth into a triangle to end of phyllo strip. Tuck edges under triangle; lightly coat seam with cooking spray. Place triangles, seam side down, 2 inches apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Repeat procedure with remaining phyllo, cooking spray, and filling to form 16 samosas.
Bake at 350° for 13 minutes with 1 baking sheet on bottom rack and 1 baking sheet on second rack from the top. Rotate baking sheets; bake an additional 12 minutes or until samosas are lightly browned.
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CBR's First Look at the "Spider-Man 3" Video Game
|The "Spider-Man 3" event was pronounced loudly with the logo projected on a near by building, while inside a tarantula wranger played with spiders.
For hard core console gamers who like their super heroes, the Spider-Man video games from Activision, based on the popular film franchise, have been a source of hours of fun. The first "Spider-Man" game was a big success, but it was "Spider-Man 2" game that really set the bar high, with greater web swinging action and a larger Manhattan base than ever seen before in a Spider-Man game.
As witnessed last week at a special event held in San Francisco, CA, the "Spider-Man 3" game is set to continue that successful tradition. Set to coincide with the launch of the film this May, the "Spider-Man 3" game is a huge step beyond what's come before, just as "Spider-Man 2" was a huge step over the first game. Of course, some of this is a natural extension of the fact that "Spider-Man 3" is the first Spider-Man game available for the next generation of consoles, but a large part of it is due to the efforts of its developer, Treyarch, who went the extra mile to create a full immersive Spidey experience.
The event was held at the sexy Bambuddha Lounge, one of those clubs/bars with an acute attention to detail and design. Prior to the demonstration the press assembled around the large circular bar in the back of the club, and on the far wall a tarantula wrangler, well, he wrangled himself some tarantulas. Still and video cameras were a regular sight around the tarantula habitat as the wrangler would occasionally coax a tarantula out into the open to the excitement of those watching.
After an hour of drinks and networking, Chris Archer, the executive producer of the "Spider-Man 3" video game for Treyarch, gave a 20 minute demonstration of the game.
Archer began by noting this is a huge game for a huge movie, with a massively coordinated world wide launch in May of 2007. The game has a host of new features, including the most expansive Manhattan ever created for a Spider-Man game with more than 20 miles of subways and sewer systems, an all new combat system including m�l�e attacks, aerial attacks, web combos and charge attacks and has an extensive "cineractive" section of the game, which allows players to recreate moments from the films and actually play them.
As the demonstration began, the familiar voice of Tobey Maguire assured us this was based on the movie. The demo began by looking at the city map, which is much expanded upon from previous Spider-Man games. "The city map gives unprecedented control for players to select any mission in any order they choose, which is totally different from previous Spider-Man games," said Archer. The map highlighted a variety red territories, which were areas of the city taken over by gangs. Archer noted gangs featured in the film will be seen in the game, along with three non-movie gangs you'll have to fight.
Next up was a short demo of the "Order of the Dragon Tail" mission, which began with Spider-Man meeting with Mr. Chan, a statue collector. Spider-Man asks him how he knew the Order would try to steal some valuable statues and just as Mr. Chan is about to tell Spider-Man how he knew, suddenly the duo were caught up in an explosion from missile launched by a group of Ninjas. Mr. Chan scurries off for some cover, as Spider-Man takes on the clan.
This was the first time we saw Spidey's Spider-Sense activated, done in a completely new way. The screen goes from color to black and white with highlights of enemies, interactive objects and hints within his spider-sense range, up to 1000 feet away.
Spider-Man handled those Ninjas easily, battling them on the ground and in the air by webbing an opponent, bringing them in closer and bringing in the final hit to subdue his opponent. As you'd expect, the game includes a whole host of web subdues and web rodeos, but as Archer pointed out, there are a whole host of new web attacks and combos not seen in a Spider-Man game before. With that demo finished, we moved on into another part of the game, taken directly from the upcoming movie.
"After Harry's father's death, he's created the new Goblin," explained Archer. "This is a really unique experience in that Harry attacks Peter in the open, so you actually get to play as Peter Parker in a sort of weird experience for the player and the fan."
What came next was a battle on top of the new flyer, with the new Goblin battling Peter Parker. As fans of the movies already know, Harry convinced Peter killed his father.
"Harry, please, I didn't kill your Dad," Parker pleads with Harry. But Harry will hear none of it, "Shut up, I don't want to hear your lies!"
"You're my best friend Harry, I don't want to fight you," pleaded Parker once again, at which point Harry responds, "Yeah? Then hurry up and die!"
The cineractives were some of the most impressive moments of "Spider-Man 3." As noted earlier, these cineractives allow players to participate in scenes inspired by the film's cinematography. That familiar scene from the film's trailer which finds Spider-Man pushing the Sandman's face into a moving subway train was just one of those scenes demonstrated. There's a very high production cinematic quality to these cineractives and they'll be included with every mission and boss fight.
We next moved on to a battle with the Scorpion. "Scorpion's one of the classic Spider-Man villains and, in this case, Spider-Man's attempting to get the Scorpion out of bondage." This elicited more than a few chuckles from the crowd, at which point Archer asked, "We all like bondage, don't we?"
After freeing the Scorpion, he was none to happy with his helper and, as you might expect, another fight ensued. The fight moved from interior to exterior scenes seamlessly, which Archer said is one of the unique features of the "Spider-Man 3" game. Once the fight got outside, Spider-Man was tasked with chasing the Scorpion around the city in a race, but before moving on to the next battle, Archer stopped the demo and said, "Let's show you some black suit."
As has already been revealed in the film's advance trailers, Spider-Man wears a black suit for much of the film, a plot point taken directly from the comics. The suit made its first appearance in the classic "Secret Wars" limited series and readers learned later on that the suit was more than just some new threads, but in fact an alien symbiote with additional powers and agenda all its own. Those great new powers come with a great new set of responsibilities for game players. "The Black Suit will have a whole new set of moves, m�l�e attacks, web attacks, missions and more," revealed Archer. "The really cool thing about this is the rage system ? when you actually get Spidey into rage, it opens up a whole new set of moves where you can take guys out with one hit, knock guys down the street and take whole sets of enemies out with one attack. You'll see a lot of dead bodies lying around."
Players can get into rage in one of three ways ? through combos, by taking hits from attacks and players can actually throttle the R1 button to force yourself into rage. As the demonstration continued, we got a sense of just how powerful and different playing the black suited Spidey is. Faster, more powerful and those new moves bring a whole new dimension of game play to a Spider-Man game.
This final demonstration began with a cinematic showing the symbiote take over Peter. At the height of his rage, Peter thinks he sees the man who killed his uncle and the mission begins with devastating and punishing attacks. Clearly the black suit brings a whole new level of game play to Spider-Man games.
"Punishing moves, epic cinematic moments totally under the player's control, amazing feel and verticality ? this is just one of many incredible boss battles in 'Spider-Man 3,'" said Archer. "And, of course, we can't show you how that ends as it would reveal a huge spoiler!"
With "Spider-Man 3" featuring new combat, enhanced swinging, complete freedom with mission selection and the ability to control not only the red suit, but the raw power and rage of the black suit, "Spider-Man 3" is sure to be another huge success for Activision's Spider-Man video game franchise. Look for more on this game in the coming months here on CBR.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for plays that toy with the accepted parameters of theatre. Whether they turn a known piece upside down and inside out or simply show the audience what things look like from an actor's point of view, I love plays that give theatergoers a look at what really happens onstage.
Several years ago I caught a play at the Bay One Acts Festival directed by Alex Curtis that utterly charmed me. Tim Bauer's rollicking, breathless romp through Romeo and Juliet kept the audience and actors gasping for breath. Three Little Words was based on a simple premise. Four actors are tasked with performing the entirety of Shakespeare's classic tragedy with a new set of rules:
- The four actors must impersonate all of the characters in Shakespeare's play.
- Each actor can only speak in sentences that use three words.
- Each actor can only speak one sentence before another actor must pick up the story.
Jasen Talise, Dave Dyson, Megan Briggs, and Nick Dickson
in Tim Bauer's Three Little Words.
"My main rule in writing a short play is to convey the essential information, the setup, as quickly as possible. If I only have ten minutes, I don't want the audience to spend the first three minutes wondering who the characters are and where they're supposed to be," explained Bauer. "I suppose that comes from my improv days, when you'd walk onstage and say 'Great day for fishing' so that the audience and your fellow improvisers immediately knew why the hell you were miming holding a fishing pole."
Bauer's play certainly kept his cast of four (and the audience) on their toes. Although the breathless moments may have caused some contractions to seem like one word instead of two (and there were some instances where four words actually slipped into one sentence), for the most part the cast did a masterful job of sticking to the rules. This was also the kind of situation where, the more familiarity one had with Shakespeare's script, the more fun was to be found in Bauer's abbreviated text.
In addition to playing the lovestruck Romeo, the training Nick Dickson had received attending the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center came in handy for pratfalls and other moments of broad physical comedy. Young Jasen Talise (an exciting Asian-American actor) scored strongly as the nurse and in other supporting roles. Megan Briggs was a quick-tongued Juliet while Dave Dyson took on Friar Lawrence and a host of other roles. Needless to say, a good time was had by all!
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What are the actors thinking when they're required to break through the fourth wall? Ken Slattery has furnished some delightful insights with Death to the Audience, produced by Precarious Theatre as part of the 2012 Bay One Acts Festival.
In Slattery's farce, Mars, the God of War (Andrew Calabrese), is a big brutish character who plans to attack the audience by breaking through the fourth wall. However, weary from spending too much time downstage left, two of his spear carriers are quick to fill him in one who's who and what's what in live theatre.
Poster art for Death to the Audience
Having originally created Death To The Audience for San Francisco Playground (when the assigned topic was "Son of Juno"), Slattery confesses that:
"Gods are larger-than-life characters, a little childish, definitely not adults, and that seems to suit me generally when it comes to writing comic characters and situations. I wrote it in March 2004, so I can't remember exactly how I came to have the idea, but I'm sure I researched who Juno was, discovered Mars was her son, read that Mars was the God of War, and somehow progressed to writing a play where Roman characters onstage decide to declare war on the audience. PlayGround topics often work like that; they usually require a little research that inevitably opens up all sorts of ideas you wouldn't have thought of having."
With Juno (Erin Carter), Minerva (Hannah Knapp), Spear Carrier #1 (Vince Rodriguez), and Spear Carrier #2 (Sarah Meyerhoff) nervously keeping an eye on Mars to make sure his actions don't result in total disaster, Death to the Audience is filled with lots of sly in-jokes for theatre lovers. M. Graham Smith's stage direction rams each point home with care, comedy, and absolutely no compassion.
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Down in the South Bay, San Jose Rep delighted audiences with Theresa Rebeck's backstage comedy, The Understudy. Although many an actor has earned good money working as an understudy, precious few have become famous in their own right.
The understudy in Rebeck's play has little to no chance of becoming an overnight sensation like Shirley MacLaine or Salvatore Licitra. In fact, Harry (Gabriel Marin) is a bit of a shlub, a down-and-out actor whose cynicism and disgust with the film industry's casting choices are confessed directly to the audience. The actor Harry is understudying, Jake (Craig Marker), was recently transformed into an action hero in a small role where he got to utter such brilliant lines as "Get in the truck!" for a salary of $2 million.
Craig Marker and Gabriel Marin in The Understudy (Photo by: Kevin Berne)
As it turns out, Jake is understudying Ben, a Hollywood superstar with a multi-million dollar price tag who is trying to gain some legitimate theatre credits by acting in a supposedly "undiscovered masterpiece" written by Franz Kafka. What should be a simple, low-voltage understudy rehearsal is transformed by some unexpected developments:
- The stage manager for the production, Roxanne (Jessica Wortham), is a former actor and control freak who was once engaged to Harry. Unfortunately, Harry disappeared two weeks before they were to be married. It would be a severe understatement to say that Roxanne "has issues."
- While Jake may be getting a decent quote for minor roles in Hollywood -- and is eagerly waiting to hear from his agent about a potential new contract -- he's increasingly aware that he lacks Harry's talent and craft.
- The pothead working the control booth keeps screwing up the lighting, sound, and turntable cues for the rehearsal.
- The theatre's loudspeaker system is still on, which means that even when Roxanne, Harry, and Jake think they are only speaking to the person in front of them, their words are being broadcast to the dressing rooms and backstage toilets.
Gabriel Marin and Jessica Wortham in a tense moment
from The Understudy (Photo by: Kevin Berne)
Rebeck, who is a well-established writer for stage, film, and television, obviously knows all kinds of back-stabbing dirt commonly heard in the theatre and doesn't hesitate to spice up the evening with everything from misplaced cues to a sly dig at Jeremy Piven's infamous case of mercury poisoning in 2008. Annie Smart's rotating unit set becomes an unexpected and uncontrollable character as it moves back and forth with a life of its own.
As directed by Amy Glazer, The Understudy is a theatergoer's delight, filled with lots of inside jokes about actors, and plenty of digs at the injustices of the acting profession. It also contains extremely juicy roles for Bay area regulars Gabriel Marin and Craig Marker, who handle the testosterone-driven side of the equation with great comic skill. Julia Wortham's seething portrayal of Roxanne becomes increasingly manic and hysterically funny in a performance that blazes with managerial anger and jilted frustration.
Jessica Wortham, Craig Marker and Gabriel Marin
in The Understudy (Photo by: Kevin Berne)
The final moments of the show have a Kafka-esque beauty that could only happen in a live performance. If you can't make it down to San Jose for this production, you might enjoy renting 1980's The Stunt Man, a sorely neglected film starring Peter O'Toole as a mercurial, and often unnerving, film director.
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