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Seeking A Better World: A Buddhist's View.
It is not too late to seek a newer world
Seeking a Better World Through Buddhism:
By Bob Young
"It is not too late to seek a newer world." These words, from Alfred Lord Tennyson offer hope to a disenchanted seeker of knowledge, frustrated in the search for complicated answers to simple questions.
Tennyson's words are echoed by Epicurus who wrote, "Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young, nor too weary in the search for it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the benefits of wisdom." Life should not be a still-life of angst. There are answers to life's questions somewhere. A true seeker just needs to find the right path to get there.
Many people desperately look to religion for those answers. In most religions, faith means trust in an outside force or person. We're told to look outward and to show blind obedience in something separate from ourselves. We hope this external force will deliver our salvation if we appease it.
When one discovers Buddhism, the refreshing thing about it is that it advocates having faith in one's self. Everything you need to improve and reach enlightenment is already inside you. No need to beg for what you already have. Western religions once realized that but forgot it. In the lost scrolls, Jesus once said "If heaven were in the sky, the birds would be closer to it than we are." That sounds very Buddhist.
Buddha said "Do not accept anything I say just because I said it." We're told to think instead of blindly follow. This concept is very new to those brought up on Western religions. Buddhism means "To be awake". A seeker wants to be awakened to the truth.
Buddhism, unlike other systems of worship, offers a way to eliminate suffering during life, not after it's over. You can find happiness in living, not in dying. This comes as very good new to many of us.
Thoreau said "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." The majority of people today feel resigned to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. We accept and we toil on, hoping for a miracle which will bring us the happily-ever-after that fairy tales promise us. We wait for answers. We wait to feel good. We wait to wait. But the waiting doesn't help. We learn only by doing.
Back in the Fifth Century BC, a wise youth saw the suffering of humankind but refused to be resigned to it. He didn't surrender to fate. He acted! He became enlightened. And ever since, others have built upon and expanded upon the work of Shakyamuni Buddha, one of the great teachers. He provides us with a guide to navigate past our inner demons and hopefully achieve inner peace. "Oh, to hold life henceforth in the palm of new joy." The new world beckons. "Seek and ye shall find," even if your looking for yourself. We need to listen and learn. We need to be still and subdue our own mind.
Confucius said "Whoever knows essentially his own mind can also know that of other men and can collaborate in the transformation and progress of Heaven and Earth." A seeker needs to be mindful to truly experience life. Thoreau said to "Live deliberately and suck the marrow out of life. To put to route all that is not life."
Socrates told us "the unexamined life is not worth living." We are a curious race and we spend time studying every particle of our physical world. We've walked on the moon and send probes into space. Human history is a timeline of great discoveries. And yet, we avoid studying the greatest enigma of all…ourselves!
Why don't we know ourselves as well as we know our computers? Why are we less curious about ourselves than we are about celebrities? Why aren't we compelled to know our inner working? We should be. We have to and need to and must. We don't have to be sitting under the Bodhi Tree to have an epiphany about ourselves. Buddhism is the path we have chosen to begin this exploration. Buddhists are pioneers of the greatest frontier. "Oh brave new world that has such beings in it."
Seneca said "How can the soul which misunderstands itself understand others?" The truth is that it can't. This is the truth that Shakyamuni knew centuries ago. We modern seekers are still trying to catch up with him.
The Aborigine have a custom called "the Walk-About", where they travel the world to learn about themselves. Buddhists take the opposite approach. We search within ourselves to change the world. And whether or not we succeed is less important than the fact that we keep trying. We may never reach enlightenment but the continuing search for it fulfills us in ways that nothing else could. A true seeker can only promise his or herself to keep seeking. "This above all, to thine own self be true." Simple words but so important. We owe it to ourselves to listen.
"It is not too late to seek a newer world."
I too am interested in some aspects of Buddhism.
Thank you for this hub Robwrite. I've enjoyed Buddhism through visits to scores of temples in Japan where I felt a strong sense of inner peace. One of my most moving early mornings was to great the rising sun atop Mount Fuji and chat with monks stationed at the highest jinja in Japan.
I am very interested in Buddhism and read all I can about it. This was very intersting and well-written - thank you.
Love and peace
A great hub and very interesting. It definitely is a good point of view. I never knew anything about Buddisism Thank you very much.


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By Bob Katzen
With today's edition, the Sentinel & Enterprise begins coverage of the 2017-2018 Massachusetts legislative session with our weekly Beacon Hill Roll Call report. This feature is a clear and concise compilation of the voting records of local state representatives and senators.
THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Last week was full of activity on Beacon Hill. The Legislature approved and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker dozens of bills passed on voice votes, without roll calls, before the end of the 2015-2016 session on Tuesday, Jan. 3.
The Legislature convened the 2017-2018 session on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Most of Wednesday's activity was ceremonial, with the exception of the election of a speaker of the House and Senate president.
HOUSE RE-ELECTS SPEAKER DELEO: The House, 120-35, re-elected Rep. Robert DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, as speaker of the House. DeLeo received the votes of 120 Democrats. Three Democratic representatives were absent, and two opted not to cast a vote for speaker.
Rep. Bradley Jones, a North Reading Republican, received the votes of all 35 Republicans and was re-elected GOP minority leader.
Local representatives voting for DeLeo were: Jennifer Benson, Stephan Hay, Harold Naughton, Natalie Higgins, and Jonathan Zlotnik.
Local representatives voting for Jones were: Kimberly Ferguson and Sheila Harrington.
SENATE RE-ELECTS SENATE PRESIDENT STAN ROSENBERG: The Senate, 34-6, re-elected Sen.
Sen. Bruce Tarr. a Gloucester Republican received the votes of all six Republicans and was re-elected GOP minority leader
Local senators voting for Rosenberg were: James Eldridge, Jennifer Flanagan and Anne Gobi.
On the final day of the 2015-2016 Legislature, the House and Senate worked until midnight and approved several bills that they sent to Gov. Baker's for his signature.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES (H 4781): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker legislation that regulates and encourages the use of zero-emission vehicles. The measure prohibits owners of public electric-vehicle charging stations from requiring a person to pay for a membership to use the stations, but allows the stations to charge different prices for members and nonmembers. It also allows municipalities to designate parking spaces for use only by zero-emission vehicles, and to fine and tow vehicles that violate that rule.
Other provisions require the state to establish regulations for electric-vehicle charging for residential and commercial buildings; issue a feasibility study on the electrification of state-owned vehicles; and conduct a study examining the advisability and feasibility of assessing taxes, surcharges, levies or other assessments to offset projected gas-tax revenue loss from the increasing purchase or operation of zero-emission vehicles.
Supporters said it is past time to regulate these vehicles and offer incentives for drivers to use them. They said this can help reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil, increase energy security and help save the environment.
LICENSE AND REGULATE NATUROPATHIC DOCTORS (H 4787): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a bill that would create a state board to license and regulate naturopathic doctors. The measure requires that these doctors have extensive training in a naturopathic program at an approved naturopathic medical college.
The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians defines naturopathic doctors as "primary care and specialty doctors who address the underlying cause of disease through effective, individualized natural therapies that integrate the healing powers of body, mind and spirit."
Supporters said the bill would ensure high-quality naturopathic care in the Bay State and protect consumers from unqualified practitioners who claim to be naturopathic doctors.
Opponents said naturopathy is not a branch of medicine but rather a mix of nutritional advice, home remedies and discredited treatments. They argued that licensing these imposters will legitimize them and present a danger to unwitting patients.
WARNING SYSTEM AT BEACHES-CALEIGH'S LAW (S 1956): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a bill creating a program that uses different colored flags to advise beachgoers of the safety conditions at their beach. This uniform warning system would be required at all public beaches maintained by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Cities and towns would have the option of using the flags for their local beaches.
The bill was filed at the urging of Anthony Harrison, the father of Caleigh Harrison, the 2-year-old girl who went missing while at the beach in 2012 and is believed to have been swept out to sea.
Supporters said the flag system might have saved Caleigh's life and should become law in order to save the lives of others.
EYE DROPS (H 4195): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a bill that would require insurance plans to cover refills of prescription eye drops under the same guidelines used by Medicare Part D. Plans in the Bay State currently restrict patients from refilling eye drops and other medications earlier than the 30-day or 90-day refill date. The bill would allow patients to get a refill if they run out of drops a few days before the allowed refill date.
Supporters explained that unlike pills, eye drops are difficult to administer, and patients often use more than one drop at a time because the first drop misses. They said this leads to patients either taking a twice-daily eye drop only once a day or discontinuing their use of drops until the next allowable refill under their health plan. They argued that this can cause their condition, like glaucoma, to worsen and presents serious health and vision risks.
The Senate also added language that would allow some optometrists to treat anaphylactic reactions by injecting epinephrine or adrenaline. Under current law, only ophthalmologists are allowed to do so.
PROTECT BICYCLISTS (S 2534): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a bill prohibiting drivers from parking in bike lanes and from placing their vehicle in a manner that would interfere with the safety and passage of bicyclists. Violators would be fined up to $50.
Supporters said currently cities and towns pass local ordinances addressing this issue, and the result is a patchwork of inconsistent rules and enforcement. They noted that when drivers park in these lanes, they endanger bicyclists who are forced to merge into traffic.
REQUIRE DEFIBRILLATORS IN SCHOOLS (H 4719): The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a measure requiring automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, in all public schools. The measure also mandates that each school have on duty a person who has completed a course on CPR and the use of an AED. It allows a school to get a hardship waiver if it cannot comply with this new law but requires they file a timetable for accomplishing the task.
Another provision protects the operator of the AED from liability other than gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct when using it on a patient.
Supporters said this common-sense requirement will save lives and argued this type of legislation should have become law years ago.
HOW LONG WAS LAST WEEK'S SESSION? During the week of Jan. 2-6, the House met for a total of 16 hours and 47 minutes while the Senate met for a total of 15 hours and 45 minutes.
Beacon Hill Roll Call is written and provided by Bob Katzen, a former Boston radio talk-show host at WRKO, WITS and WMRE. He has been providing this feature to hundreds of newspapers across the Bay State for 42 years since 1975. Beacon Hill Roll Call is edited by Brandon L. Stanway.
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Obama Braces for Immigration Battle With Republicans
As recently reported by The Washington Post, President Obama is preparing for a tough political and legal battle against the Republications brought on by the executive actions he is taking on immigration. However, it could be a bad time for the president to seek support due to lingering bad feelings and frustration from Latinos, leading to yet more pressure to protect illegal immigrants.
Having taken a tight stance on deportations for six years, Obama made the decision to shield as many as four million undocumented immigrants from deportation, mainly as a way to repair some of the damage already done to his relationship with a key constituency. During those six years, Latinos have become disillusioned with the President, and support has been gradually plummeting.
In fact, getting the Latinos back on his side will be crucial for Obama in the coming months, as GOP efforts to block his deferred-action program could mean a lack of federal funding for his executive action, or for it to be overturned via legislation. Looking beyond the immigration issue, the president will also be looking towards Latinos to help support Obamacare.
The administration's strategy is to enroll as many supporters as humanly possible, making it extremely difficult for the Republicans to get their way – politically speaking. For the immigration issue in particular, rallying support will help to put more pressure on Congress in order to find a more long-term legislative solution during the final two years of Obama's administration.
Tough Questions
As Obama tries to shift more of the strain back on the GOP, he is finding there are still plenty of tough questions to answer – particularly from Hispanic activists – to do with why he had not taken action before now. Why has he not done more to protect immigrants, and why is the protection only coming now? Many advocates are also concerned about those who remained unprotected under the latest presidential executive action.
Many are looking to Obama for an explanation, and his response could be crucial to his track record as president – something Obama had hoped would be more of a legacy issue. This was highlighted in Nashville recently, when the president happened to be talking to local communities about the many benefits of immigration, and found himself confronted by Jorge Ramos, an influential Spanish-language TV host.
Ramos accused Obama of destr oying many families, and claimed he could have stopped the deportations sooner if he had really wanted to. He also brought up a supposed nickname for Obama, "deporter-in-chief".
Obama replied: "No, no, no. That is not true," before going on to criticize Ramos for demanding quick, simple answers to very complicated and deep-rooted issues to do with the very real problem of illegal immigration.
The president continued: "It does a disservice because it makes the assumption that the political process is one that can easily be moved around, depending on the will of one person, and that's not how things work."
Support for Obama
It is impossible to deny the amount of enthusiasm and support for Obama's recent executive actions among many immigrant communities, and the president has had a good amount of praise thrown his way for going it on his own in terms of limiting deportations. Looking at it alongside the similar program for younger immigrants Obama introduced back in 2012, almost half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could benefit from deportation relief – and even gain the right to legally work there.
Obama's actions have also had plenty of interest, with thousands recently lining up in LA last weekend to learn whether or not they qualified, as part of a free information session.
However, there is still pressure on the president from various advocacy groups, including the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, to protect more undocumented immigrants from deportation.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — An overcrowded bus carrying young people home from a church service caught fire on Sunday in the northern city of Fundación, and at least 32 children were killed, the authorities said.
The regional police chief, Col. Adan León, said the toll could rise but that 18 people, including some adults, had survived.
Colonel León said that most of the estimated 50 people on the bus were younger than 14. "That adds to the tragedy," he said.
Local officials said that the bus was intended to carry only 38 passengers and that an investigation was underway. Mayor Luz Estella Duran told RCN television news that investigators had not determined the fire's cause.


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Release date: Oct 1, 2009
From across the misty hills of San Francisco, we welcome kid Shlohmo with his long-awaited Shlo-Fi EP for release at Error Broadcast. His instant-classic Shlomoshun EP made faces fall earlier this year but this one will boost the cat to a whole new level.
19-years old Shlohmo delivers the soundtrack for the LA aftershow party. His tracks swarm from dirty textures, strange sounds and obscured samples. It's not Hip Hop what you hear, but the echoes are clearly there: under the blanket the beats are alive and kicking, the compression is awful (as we love it) and from the way Shlohmo arranges his tracks, it is clear what this kid listens to at night.
Track Listing
- 1. Couch
- 2. For You, Pt. 1
- 3. For You, Pt. 2
- 4. Crust
- 5. Socks
- 6. My Drum Loop Is Stuck in Molasses
- 7. Ghosts, Pt. 2
- 8. Blankets
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Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC - Amsat #31468 *International Space Station Status Report #04-28* *9:30 a.m. CDT, Thursday, May 27, 2004* *Expedition 9 Crew* An unmanned Russian resupply ship smoothly linked up to the International Space Station this morning, delivering two and a half tons of food, water, fuel, spare parts and supplies to the two residents on board. With Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke looking on, the ISS Progress 14 docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 8:55 a.m. CDT (1355 GMT) as the two craft flew 230 statute miles above Central Asia. Padalka and Fincke were in Zvezda, prepared to take over manual control of the operation if it had been necessary, but the Progress craft automatically docked to the module through pre-programmed computer command with no problem. The Progress was launched Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and chased the Station for two days, using its engine to conduct rendezvous maneuvers in fine-tuning its course for today's docking. The Progress was the first ship to arrive at the ISS since Padalka and Fincke took over Station operations last month. The next Progress is scheduled to launch to the Station in late July. After leak checks are completed to insure a tight seal between Progress and Zvezda, Padalka will open up the ship's hatch later today so he and Fincke can begin unloading its cargo Friday. Next week, Padalka and Fincke will turn their attention to preparations for a spacewalk no earlier than June 16, Moscow time, in Russian Orlan spacesuits out of the Pirs Docking Compartment to replace a power controller on the Station's truss that failed April 21, resulting in the temporary loss of one of the four Control Moment Gyros (CMGs) that govern the orientation of the complex. On Wednesday, Fincke and Padalka took turns maneuvering the Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to a position along the S0 Truss for camera views of the spacewalk worksite and downlink television of the spacewalk tasks as they are conducted during the planned 4-˝ hour excursion. The two crewmembers will begin checking out their Orlan spacesuits next Thursday and are expected to climb into the suits June 11 in a dress rehearsal of the suit up and a thorough checkout of the suit systems that will clear the way for the spacewalk. The spacewalk will be under the control of both U.S. and Russian mission personnel. Russian flight controllers will be directing Padalka and Fincke as they exit the Pirs and climb onto the telescoping Russian Strela cargo crane to be transported some 50 feet to the intersection of the U.S. and Russian segments of the Station. Once they dismount from the Strela, Padalka and Fincke will be under the direction of U.S. flight controllers as they move to the S0 Truss via handrails and tethers to swap out the failed Remote Power Control Module (RPCM) that rendered CMG 2 inoperable. After power is restored to the CMG, the spacewalkers will make their way back to the Strela crane and, under the direction of Russian flight controllers once again, will swing back to the Pirs to reenter the Russian airlock and end the spacewalk. Padalka and Fincke also conducted biomedical experiments and routine housekeeping tasks this week as they set their sights on the start of spacewalk preparations. Information on the crew's activities aboard the Space Station, future launch dates, as well as Station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the Internet at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ Details on Station science operations can be found on an Internet site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/ The next ISS status report will be issued on Friday, June 4, or earlier, if events warrant. ### ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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When Santa's reindeer fall foul of the common cold, it's down to Blitzen to take a rag tag bunch of Llamas and whip them into shape to save Christmas for all the boys and girls of the world. The Day The Llamas Saved Christmas is a seasonal tale following the unexpected occurrence of an outbreak of the common cold in the North Pole and the resulting lack of reindeer to pull Santa's sleigh one Christmas. Beginning with an Elf, barging into Santa's office- most perturbed and informing Santa...
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That page also says that the term comes from a name for moonstone: "adularia." Apparently a synonym is "shiller."
The page also introduced me to the words "rutile" and "serefinites" (both types of stones), "labradorescence" (the kind of iridescence foundin Labradorite), "drusy" (an adjective meaning "covered with tiny crystals"), and "aventurescence" (the "spangly glow" of (for example) bits of mica embedded in other minerals).


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Luke 21:19. In your patience possess ye your souls.
Oh Friends, it's Thursday, the day before the big day, Friday, when we'll be finally blessed with a couple days off from our labour! So let's enjoy and celebrate this wonderful day with a shout of thanks and praise to our heavenly Father.
And all God's people rose up with joy and delightedly proclaimed: 'This is the day the Lord our great God has made. We SHALL rejoice and be glad in it! Amen!' And so let it be my people.
Ah mih breddren, our God is something else yes. And this small testimony I'm about to offer here, just proves that His Word doesn't lie.
James tells us: 'If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not (without reproach); and it shall be given to him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering (not doubting). For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.' (James 1:5-6)
Well Friends, I got up this morning and there are currently a few negative things happening in my life that I can't understand why they are happening, for in the natural, everything should be hunky dory.
Well since I got up I've been talking to the Lord about them, asking for some wisdom and understanding. And lo and behold, just now, when I read yesterday's Bit, as I usually do before writing today's, I got the answer in a news flash.
Ah Friends, I couldn't help but laugh as the answer just hit me from the words of the Bit. And I'm still laughing as I write this. And they say the Lord isn't real, isn't alive and kicking and moving in mysterious ways? Chuh!
Well I'm here to testify that they are oh so wrong. Because our God is indeed alive and kicking, and kicking real hard too, and He does answer prayer in all forms and fashions, as He sees fit!
And as I keep saying living for Jesus is not easy, but it certainly is interesting and exciting. I finally discovered that what's happening is a test of my spiritual maturity. Yuh see, I have to be careful of what I write and/or say, because the Lord oftimes turns right back and tests me on those things.
So a word of warning Friends; be very careful in what you say, or ask for, or testify to, for it will no doubt boomerang right back on you. Ah Lord eh! I'm still laughing…
But let's move on to our Bit, the challenging and encouraging words of Christ our Saviour: 'In your patience possess ye your souls.'
Oh Friends, I know I said that yesterday was the last day for this Bit, but unfortunately, or rather fortunately (smile) there was so much stuff to say that I couldn't get in all the scripture I wanted to. And remember, I don't want to overburden us with too much stuff to ponder on at once. (smile)
And these are also important passages of scripture, so I just didn't want to waste them, not bring them to your attention. So without further ado, let's delve deeply and meditatively into them.
The first one comes from James, talking about patience in affliction. 'Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman (farmer) waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Be ye also patient; stablish (establish) your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh (has come near). Grudge (grumble) not one against the other, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Take thy brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Behold, we count them happy (blessed) which endure. Ye have heard of the patience (perseverance) of Job, and have seen the end of (intended by) the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful (compassionate), and of tender mercy.' (James 5:7-11)
Yes my people, our God is indeed compassionate and full of tender mercy to those who wait patiently and endure whatever comes against them in His name!
Now here's a word from the scholars: 5:7-8. The coming of the Lord: Few doctrines concerning Jesus Christ are taught in James. His vicarious (deputed, substitutionary) death and resurrection are omitted, yet Christ's return is cited to encourage patient endurance. Early and latter rain: Farmers in Palestine absolutely depended on two rainy seasons, late fall and mid-spring, for their crops.'
And we'll end with another awesome passage of scripture on patience, this time from Peter, as he talks about the example of Christ's suffering. Listen up carefully and closely now my fellow believers.
'For this is thankworthy (commendable), if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongly. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted (beaten) for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with (commendable before) God.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile (deceit) found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again (in return); when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes (wounds) ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop (Overseer) of souls.' (1 Pet.2:18-25)
Ah my fellow believers, if that doesn't put a dart of sorrow, repentance and wanting to do better in our hearts, then I don't know what will. Jesus suffered so much for us, that we ought to be willing to suffer a little to bring His Words, His story to the heathen, ungodly world in which we currently live.
Please, as true followers of the risen Christ, let's attempt today to improve our walk of faith, of LOVE, enduring any suffering, affliction, trials and tribulations that might come our way, with the same stoic, God-granted assurance and confidence that He displayed. For that is the wisdom of the ages! Much LOVE!
…of all the necessary attributes for living a truly Christian life…patience might just be the most important and all encompassing…


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Guillermo del Toro is keeping a tight lid on the giant-monster side of his robots-versus-monsters epic Pacific Rim. While we've seen a few images of the 'bots, known as Jaegers, we haven't seen the monsters they've been fighting. Sure, we got a look last week at the aftermath of the enormous Kaiju, but that's it. And it seems like it will be it for the time being.
That's not the end of the Pacific Rim hype, though. As the film nears its July release date, del Toro, Legendary and Warner Bros. will be dropping all kinds of trailers, images and posters like this one featuring Japan's resident robot Coyote Tango. Each country has its own Jaeger piloted by two humans, so it's a safe guess we'll be getting similar posters for the rest of the crew.
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When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes — a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) — who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
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|Re: [virgo-dev] Milestone 5
Thanks for confirming. Milestone 6 is done and fixes the problem but I have yet to update the web site to point at it and we have network problems at work. Glyn On 7 Oct 2010, at 15:58, Tim Goeke wrote: Just to confirm, following the steps provided by Glyn worked for me. Thanks! On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: The fix is to revert an earlier commit. The reverting commit is in the kernel: 11b0c2901154c9904eb9278aab2e3f842ab41a7c Regards, Glyn On 7 Oct 2010, at 07:26, Iliev, Hristo wrote: Hi Glyn, Can you provide details on the fix? It will happen on Virgo side from what I see in your mail, but I'm more interested if it will include a refactoring of the file structure? Regards, Hristo Iliev -----Original Message----- From: virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>> [mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Glyn Normington Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:59 AM To: Virgo Project Subject: Re: [virgo-dev] Milestone 5 Hi Tim Thanks for reporting the problem which was over-zealous reorganisation of the kernel directory layout on my part with insufficient regard to the tooling. Apologies for the inconvenience. I've logged bug 32719 [1] which will be fixed in Virgo 2.1.0.M06-incubation. See the bug report for how to reconfigure the tooling as a temporary workaround. Here are the instructions for ease of reference: 1. Open the "Servers" window in the tooling. 2. Determine the Virgo server to be reconfigured. 3. Double click the Virgo server to open up the server window. 4. Navigate to the "Overview" pane. 5. Click the "Open launch configuration" link. 6. Navigate to the "Classpath" pane. 7. Select "User Entries". 8. Add each of the 5 JARs in the launcher directory to the classpath in turn (the order does not matter), by clicking "Add External JARs...", navigating to $SERVER_HOME/lib/launcher, and adding the JARs as necessary. 9. Back on the "Classpath" pane, once all 5 JARs have been added, click "Apply" then "Ok". It should now be possible to launch Virgo as usual. Regards, Glyn [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327169 On 5 Oct 2010, at 16:01, Tim Goeke wrote: That's great news! Thanks to everyone on the Virgo team, I'm looking forward to trying it out. From the command line (on Mac) everything seems to be fine, but under STS 2.5 M3 updated to the latest snapshot, I am getting the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/virgo/osgi/launcher/Launcher Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.virgo.osgi.launcher.Launcher at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) I have not done much testing nor have I tried under STS on Windows. I can confirm that M4 still starts normally under the snapshot STS. Hopefully this is an easy fix! Thanks, Tim Goeke On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx><mailto:gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote: Virgo 2.1.0.M05-incubation is available from the download page. See the release notes for details. We are planning to release 2.1.0 by the end of October following a graduation/release review starting on 20 October. Rgards, Glyn _______________________________________________ virgo-dev mailing list virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/virgo-dev <ATT00001..txt> _______________________________________________ virgo-dev mailing list virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/virgo-dev _______________________________________________ virgo-dev mailing list virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/virgo-dev _______________________________________________ virgo-dev mailing list virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:virgo-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/virgo-dev <ATT00001..txt>


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Irrational Games and 2K have released a new BioShock Infinite video that checks in at almost two minutes in length. Have a seat, friends, it's a good one.
This brand new trailer for BioShock Infinite focuses on Elizabeth, the damsel in distress at the start of the game, and Booker, the hero gamers will play.
It's not all tall towers, knights and guardian dragons for Elizabeth, as this trailer purports. Elizabeth is scary; she's got some sort of dimension bending power, she's hidden away in quarantine and even Booker suggests he fears her more than God.
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The 'Galley' method of division was probably the most widely used method of division prior to the 1600s. It is called 'Galley' because, when completed, a division looks a bit like a galley (boat).
The Galley method is thought to be Hindu in origin and an early version of this method was known to be used in the ninth century by a Persian called Al-Khowarizmi. It is still taught in parts of North Africa and the Middle East today.
This is how you could work out $65284$ divided by $594$ using the Galley method:
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The calculation tells me that $ 625284 \div 594 = 109$ remainder $538$.
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|Total Fat
|22 g
|Saturated Fat
|6 g
|867 mg
|Total Carbohydrate
|31 g
|Dietary Fiber
|8 g
|18 g
Ingredients and Preparation
|Plum tomatoes, chopped
|White onion, chopped
|Garlic clove, chopped
|1 + 2 tablespoons
|Canola oil
|1 + 2 teaspoons
|¼ + 1/8 teaspoon
|Corn tortillas
|Freshly ground pepper to taste
|Refried beans, warmed on the stove
|½ cup
|Reduced-fat sour cream
|2 tablespoons
|Avocado, diced
|Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
|¼ cup
- Directions
- In a blender or food processor, combine the tomatoes, onion, 1 tablespoon cilantro, and garlic until almost smooth.
- Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add tomato sauce and cook until thickened, about 3-4 minutes. Stir in ¼ teaspoon salt and set aside.
- Heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat in another large skillet and cook tortillas about 5-10 seconds on each side, until softened. Set on paper towels to drain.
- Break the eggs into the same skillet over medium heat and cook to desired degrees of doneness (cover the skillet if you like the yolk firm). Season with 1/8 teaspoon salt and pepper.
- Dip each tortilla in the tomato sauce and place in the middle of a plate. Spread half of the beans over each tortilla, top with fried eggs, the spoon over the remaining sauce.
- Garnish with sour cream and avocado, sprinkle with cheese and 2 tablespoons cilantro, and serve.
2 medium fat meats; 1.5 fats; 1 starch; 1 high fat meat substitute
Side Suggestions: Orange Juice
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The Georgia legislature is rapidly advancing SB 469, a bill that aims to destroy fundamental constitutional protections for anyone engaged in first amendment protected protests.
SB 469 would criminalize forms of public pickets, effectively de-fund Georgia's unions, and further penalize political non-violent civil disobedience. SB 469, simply put, seeks to squash dissent.
Read the entire bill here: http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/sum/sb469.htm
As many of you know, the day before a scheduled execution in Georgia, GFADP members protest outside Correct Health, which is owned and operated by Dr. Carlo Musso, whose company Rainbow Medical Associates is contracted with the state to carry out executions. If SB 469 passes, it would make it illegal to picket or protest outside of any non-government building. Those that choose to participate in a nonviolent protest could be fined $1,000 per day, and organizations that supported such actions could be fined $10,000 per day. To make matters worse anyone who is involved with planning civil disobedience actions that result in a criminal trespass charge (this is usually what the charge is for nonviolent sit-ins) would be charged with a high and aggravated misdemeanor punishable up to one year in prison.
It is critical that we join in the statewide opposition to this bill. Please join the mass demonstration that is planned for Saturday, March 17, 11:00am at the Capitol.
SB 469 passed out of the Senate and is currently in the House. Please contact your Representative and tell them to vote NO on SB 469 if it comes to a floor vote.
To identify the member of the Georgia House of Representatives that represents you, please visit: VoteSmart.org and plug in your 9-digit zip code. To look up your 9-digit zip code, please visit: USPS.com ZIP Code Lookup.
Spread the word about this event far and wide and we'll see you on Saturday!
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The official residence address of the Prime Minister of India — 7, Race Course Road, or 7RCR — has changed after three decades. The address, which has been home to nine PMs, will now be known as 7, Lok Kalyan Marg. The renaming happened on September 21. Rajiv Gandhi was the first PM to have 7RCR as official residence. V P Singh, Chandra Shekhar, P V Narasimha Rao, H D Deve Gowda, I K Gujral, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi have occupied the premises in subsequent years. Beside the residence of the PM, this address also serves as a workplace and hub of many high-level meetings including that of the Union Cabinet quite regularly. Apart from the PM's residence, Race Course Road houses the Airforce Station, which too will need to undergo an address change. Delhi Gymkhana, a club for prominent people in the city, is there too, but its approach is from Safdarjung Road and its address is 2 Safdarjung Road. The road was named after the Delhi Ra
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At this point, "mixtape" pretty much means the same thing as "album," with the crucial caveat that it's available for free online and there's a good chance that some DJ will be screaming over the track intros. With this column, I've considered anything that you can download without paying, including plenty of releases that venture far outside the bounds of rap music. It wasn't always this way. Mixtapes have been through many different iterations in their history. For a while, they were actual cassette tapes of DJ sets, often made without the DJ's knowledge. Then, the DJs took control, and they became compilations of whatever songs were hot at the moment, often with exclusive tracks or freestyles thrown in. Before they became straight-up albums, even single-artist mixtapes were collections of freestyles — widely circulated of-the-moment beats, with rappers attempting to build or maintain their names by going in over tracks that we already knew. The mixtape's evolution into "straight-up original album" is a relatively recent development; it's only been that way for about five years. Just before that, Lil Wayne was cementing his legend in a demented three-year run, wherein he'd swipe beats from everyone who mattered and improve their songs vastly. Nobody really does that anymore. There are lots of reasons for that — changing tastes, dubious lawsuits, that one RIAA raid on DJ Drama's compound. And the change is probably a good thing; we're now in an era where rappers can have long and fulfilling careers without ever releasing traditional albums. But when someone suddenly reverts back to that old freestyles-over-everything form, it can be a thrilling and unexpected nostalgia-blast, a reminder of how good it can feel to hear someone just rap. On his new Gunna Season tape, the Philly veteran Young Chris just raps. And it's great because he's great at it.
Young Chris is a product of one of rap's weirdest, greatest moments: The time Jay Z decided to sign every halfway promising rapper in the greater Philadelphia area and to throw them all into one big supercrew. That group, State Property, was one of the era's greatest sources of intense, guttural street-rap, and the 2002 State Property compilation might sound better now than on the day it was released. Chris, at the time, was half of the Young Gunz duo, who scored one major hit and a couple of minor ones before Neef, Chris's partner, more or less disappeared. And even if Chris wasn't a marquee name like Beanie Sigel or Freeway, it's long been rumored that Jay stole his whispery, insinuating Blueprint-era flow from Chris wholesale. (Chris denies all that flow-theft talk, but it seems likely, listening back to all that stuff, that Jay at least picked up a couple of tricks from spending studio time with Chris.) Since Jay's Roc-A-Fella empire crumbled, the State Property guys mostly slid back into the local Philadelphia rap underground, putting out new music consistently but not getting much attention for it. But all of them can still rap harder, with more purpose, than we have any right to expect from artists of their vintage. Gunna Season is an hour or so of Chris rapping like hell is chasing him, and whether or not you have any lingering affection for this guy, it sounds great.
There aren't that many freestyles on Gunna Season, but beat-jack moves like that are so rare now that it feels like a rare thrill when Chris swipes YG and Drake's "Who Do You Love" or Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar's "Nosetalgia," bringing a burning intensity that stacks up nicely when compared to the originals. And even when the songs are original, Chris still treats them like freestyles, barely paying attention to the hooks and just rapping instead. Memorable hook-lines and vivid imagery aren't really what Chris does; it's the sheer sound of his rapping that sets him apart. He's thinking about the percussive sound of his consonants, the uncanny pleasure that comes from hearing syllables stacked up just so: "Carter like Nino / Tall glass of Pinot / Filipinos / VVS cuts: I'm that clean, though." And there's a raw determination, an urgency, in his voice that sets Chris apart. He still has things to prove, and he's not willing to take a single verse off.
It helps that Gunna Season is an all-Philadelphia affair, and that practically every rapper in the city shares that intensity. A lot of the old State Property rappers are all over Gunna Season, and I'm not sure I can explain how good it feels to hear Chris, Freeway, and Peedi Crack attack a buzzing chaotic beat on "Reputation." Philly's big rap star of the moment, Meek Mill, clearly came up listening to Chris, and he shows up here a couple of times, showing that same chemistry with Chris that they had on "House Party," Meek's first real solo hit. There are guys I've never heard of here, too — Billy Blue, Kur, Santos — and all of them have that same fury. Philly, after all, has had one of the best rap scenes in the country for a long, long time. And even if there's no Jay Z figure out there signing every rapper in town these days, the talent is still there. And it's encouraging to hear all these guys brandishing their still-sharp weapons here. Philly is nowhere near anyone's idea of the rap mainstream now, and you could probably ignore these guys without fear of missing the next insurgent rap movement. But why would you? These guys can rap.
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GREEN TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - Green Township trustees voted on a resolution Monday to not sell the land on Westwood Northern Boulevard to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA).
They added to that resolution to recommend the scattered sites approach, with 32 the maximum number of units in Green Township. The trustees also hope this project can be spread out over two to three years.
The vote is one step closer to a clearer picture of what Green Township's residents can expect. Cheers and applause rang out in the administration building on Monday evening as the Board of Trustees announced the result of the vote.
"I want to thank you for your courage in dealing with this in this way and a very difficult situation," said resident Dave Lopez.
"We're not against public housing, but we are against putting it all in one place," agreed resident Bernie Hess. "And I am so happy to hear that you have listened and we really, really appreciate it. I want to thank all of you for that."
While residents were relieved by the resolution, many, including the trustees, see there are still many unknowns ahead.
"I think we should say to them, roll that up real tight and shove it," said Cheryl Volk, who opposes the required public housing. "That we don't want those funds because I believe we can fund our own needs here."
Green Township not selling the Westwood Northern Boulevard land takes only one option off the table for CMHA. Otherwise, the trustees have little to no say in CMHA's future plans.
"We don't have to keep doing it the way it's always been done," Volk added. "We've got to think of other solutions because this is not working for me."
Just because the trustees denied the housing authority access to that land, it does not prevent another 32 unit facility from being built elsewhere. A representative from CMHA said it is too early in the planning phase to say if that would happen.
The trustees promised Green Township residents that they would be as involved in the plans as CMHA would allow.
"You've got our support," Hess assured the trustees. "Absolutely."
A spokesperson for CMHA also said that there are no plans to use eminent domain to require Green Township turn over the land.
CMHA has a meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. that the public is invited to attend, with a deadline of March 31st to have a final plan on how it will add the 32 units.
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Rosenstone and Hansen: Mobilization, participation, and American democracy
From WikiSummary, the Free Social Science Summary Database
- The Calculus of Voting: Is it Rational?
- Who Votes
- Trends in Turnout
- Mobilization and Social Networks
- Berelson et al.
- Fowler
- Gerber and Green
- Guth et al.
- Leighley
- Rosenstone and Hansen
- Habit Formation
- Prospect Theory
Rosenstone and Hansen. 1993. Mobilization, participation, and American democracy.
Main Points
The book addresses two main questions: Why people turn out, and why turnout has declined over time.
Why Turn Out
Citizens participate based on their personal costs and benefits of doing so, but that's only half the story: they also participate when politicians mobilize them. And politicians are strategic in deciding whom to mobilize. Thus, why we turn out:
- What about you affects the costs/benefits of voting?
- Costs of voting: Income, education, age, race, efficacy, institutional factors (e.g. registration laws)
- Benefits of voting: strength of partisanship, feeling thermometers for candidates
- Are you being mobilized?
- What social networks do you belong to: church membership, homeowner, years in community, current employment, etc.
- Contacted by party?
- Is the election close? Open/unopposed (for House)?
Why Turnout Has Declined
The authors attempt to explain the decline in turnout between the 1960s and 1980s:
- Mobilization is the major cause: Less effort at mobilization: explains 54% of decline.
- Voting age drops to 18: explains 17% of the decline in turnout
- Weakened social involvement: explains 9% of decline
- Declining feelings of political efficacy: explains 9% of decline
- Weakened attachment to parties/candidates: explains 11% of decline
So why is mobilization falling? Party organizations gave way to candidate-centered campaigns. Politics became more impersonal; local party clubs waned. (This trend has begun to reverse.)
Personal-Level Variables: Two Paradoxes
Voting is costly; income, education, and other resources enable some people to overcome these costs. Voting also has benefits; material preferences, group identifications, and preferences/beliefs make these benefits more worthwhile to some people.
Still, the benefits will never exceed the costs for most people. Thus, two paradoxes: rational nonparticipation and rational ignorance. Moreover, a model based only on personal-level variables can't explain why participation peaked in the 1960s, dipped in the 1970s, then rose again in the 1980s--even while education, income, and so on rose steadily; thus, they don't explain participation.
Social-Level Variables
Social networks help us overcome rational ignorance (because talking with family, friends, and neighbors is a low-cost way of learning about what's going on), but they don't do enough. To understand trends in participation, we need to look at mobilization.
Politicians are strategic in who they mobilize (targeted mobilization). They mobilize groups that will provide the most benefit. They mobilize people they already know; people who are centrally positioned in social networks; people whose actions will make the most differences (the powerful); and people who are likely to respond (i.e. people with resources). Politicians apply these strategies when they attempt to mobilize unions (existing networks), business leaders, and the wealthy and educated.
Politicians are also strategic in when they mobilize. They mobilize people when salient issues top the agenda; when other concerns aren't on their minds (e.g. don't mobilize students during midterms); when important decisions are pending (e.g. during presidential election years more than during midterm years); and when outcomes will be closely decided.
Implications of Lopsided Participation
The conclusion shows that, no matter what type of participation you look at, white/wealthy/educated people participate far more than their share. As more people participate, however, participation becomes less biased. This has two applications. First, more popular modes of participation have a less biased sample (e.g. voting is more popular than letter writing; the voting population looks more like the whole population than the letter-writing population does). Second, when participation as a whole is up, it is less biased (e.g. if more people are voting, writing letters, and everything else, then it will be less biased).
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1-Up Mushroom
|1-Up Mushroom
|Debut Appearance:
|Super Mario Bros.
|Latest Appearance:
|New Super Mario Bros. 2
|Gives player an extra life
The 1-UP Mushroom is a green-topped mushroom that when picked up, grants the player an instant 1-UP, which is worth one Extra Life. It is one of the rarest mushrooms to find in every Mario game. They are usually in hidden or hard to reach places, though in Super Mario Galaxy 2, it can be brought to Mario or Luigi from a distance by the second player in co-op mode. They are usually found in hidden blocks also.
[edit] Games
[edit] Super Mario Series
[edit] Super Mario Bros.
They would first appear in Super Mario Bros. were they moved like normal Mushrooms but take on a green and brown look. They are normally found in hidden blocks or in risky places that Mario will risk a life to gain a life. They can gain extra lives by gaining coins or getting the 2 hidden 1-Up Mushrooms in the level, more than any other world of the game.
[edit] Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
They would appear alongside the Super Mushroom in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. They would get a small graphic change by having eyes.
[edit] Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2 would see 1-Up Mushrooms looking different from the green-capped mushroom. They are found by pulling a plant and have a solid red cap that says "1 UP" on their side.
[edit] Super Mario Bros. 3
They would appear once again in hidden blocks or risky spots in Super Mario Bros. 3. They would include white spots on their green cap.
[edit] Super Mario World
They would behave similar to they did in Super Mario Bros. 3 in Super Mario World. They appear more often in the game. Fishin' Lakitus often carry them as bait for Mario and will chase after him, throwing Spinys once Mario has taken the bait. They can also appear out of eggs when Mario is riding Yoshi and hits a ? Block that contains an egg.
There is also the 3-Up Moon that will give Mario three extra lives but is extremely rare to find. Usually behind the Giant Gate in some levels.
[edit] Super Mario 64
The 1-Up Mushrooms are the only type of Mushrooms that appear in Super Mario 64. They are found in various places like a ring of coins or collecting a ring of coins. They can be found in hidden areas or on top of poles. They will try to move away from Mario though some will follow Mario until he collects the life. Mario can also get an extra life by collecting fifty coins in level and then complete the level.
They would be the most common Mushroom in Super Mario 64 DS as Super Mushrooms would also appear in the game. There is three 1-Up Mushrooms on the top of Peach's Castle when the player uses the cannon to reach there.
The 1-Up Mushrooms are green with light green spots.
[edit] Super Mario Sunshine
They would appear the same as they did in Super Mario 64 in Super Mario Sunshine. They would give Mario an extra life while filling his Health Meter and F.L.U.D.D's water tank to full.
[edit] New Super Mario Bros.
1-Up Mushrooms could be collected the same as they were in Super Mario Bros. in New Super Mario Bros.. They can also be obtained after Mario or Luigi have used the Mega Mushroom. Destroying a certain amount objects will cause the player to gain extra lives. They will fall from the sky and the easiest way to gain lives is to knock over the flagpole at the end of the level to fill it completely.
There are Toad Houses scattered around the game and some will contain 1-Up houses. Mario and Luigi will need to hit the blocks with 1-Up Cards. There is a Bowser Card in the mix of these cards and if it is hit, then the game ends but the player will acquire the blocks.
[edit] Super Mario Galaxy
1-Up Mushrooms could be found in several places in Super Mario Galaxy. They could be found at the bottom of planets or close to Black Holes. When a player touches all Rainbow Notes that is activated by a ? Coin, then a 1-Up Mushroom will often appear. The player can also give the Luma Shop enough Star Bits so that it can transform into a 1-Up Mushroom. There is a total of five 1-Up Mushrooms on the Comet Observatory.
[edit] New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Similar to their appearance in the first New Super Mario Bros., the ones in New Super Mario Bros. Wii can be collected in the same manner. There is a mini-game in the 1-Up Toad Houses called 1-Up Blast. Players will need to hop into cannons and aim at the balloons with numbers on them that range from one to four.
When Mario gets to ninety-nine lives, Mario will take off his hat and only will get it back when he loses a life.
[edit] Super Mario Galaxy 2
1-Up Mushrooms would have the same effect in Super Mario Galaxy 2. They can be found after collecting all Rainbow Notes, Mario can often get a 1-Up Mushroom to appear and sometimes in three. Mario can also make 1-Up Mushrooms appear after collecting all of the coins that appear from the ? Coin. He can also get 1-Up Mushrooms from the Luna Shop on Starship Mario or from Chance Cubes.
[edit] Super Mario 3D Land
In Super Mario 3D Land, 1-Up Mushrooms work like they do in any other Mario game. When a player reaches 1,000 lives, a crown will be shown, if they reach 1100, then two crowns will show and if they reach the max of 1,110 lives, then there will be 3 crowns shown and Super Mario will not wear his hat. When he loses a life, he will wear the hat once more similar to New Super Mario Bros. Wii
[edit] New Super Mario Bros. 2
The 1-Up Mushroom will be appearing in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game, New Super Mario Bros. 2.
[edit] Mario & Luigi Series
1-Up Mushrooms would appear in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. They are used to revive Mario or Luigi when they lose all of their HP in a battle. They are given half of their health back when they're revived.
The Mario & Luigi series would also have a stronger version called 1-Up Super that is seen in all three games. It will revive all of the HP of the Mario Bro(and BP in Superstar Saga). It would be renamed to the 1-Up Deluxe in Bowser's Inside Story and not restore SP in the game. They are expensive to buy.
[edit] Mario Kart Series
They would make a couple appearances in the Mario Kart Series. It would first appear in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as an emblem for the front of Toadette's Kart. It is a recolor of Toad Kart that is blue with a regular Mushroom. It would be removed in later games.
It would only appear in the track Coconut Mall in Mario Kart Wii in a shop found on the hidden shortcut that sells the 1-Up Mushroom with other classic Mario items.
[edit] Mario Baseball Series
They would appear in Mario Superstar Baseball that is obtained on the Toy Field. When used, it will allow the player to bat again, regardless if the fielder has caught the ball or not.
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- Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
- Super Mario Bros. 2
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Super Mario World
- Super Mario 64
- Super Mario 64 DS
- Super Mario Sunshine
- New Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario Galaxy
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
- Mario Kart Series
- Mario Kart Double Dash!
- Mario Kart Wii
- Mario Superstar Baseball
- Super Mario 3D Land
- New Super Mario Bros. 2


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Virginia has amazing hiking and biking opportunities, but there are also some pretty huge explorations for true outdoor adventurers this year.
Big Water
Great Falls National Park is just 15 miles from the nation's capital, but feels a world away. The most elite whitewater athletes have these class V+ runs on their bucket list. If you're one of these top-notch aquatic navigators, put in and make work. Spectators have three excellent vantage points to witness the thrills as the Potomac River pours through the Mather Gorge.
Nothing Dismal Here
The Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge is an abundant, important habitat for more than 560 species, including several endangered and threatened species. At the center of its 112,000 acres is the 3,142-acre Lake Drummond with water so shallow in places (max depth is only 6′) that amazing cypress trees emerge from the dark waters. It's the largest natural lake in Virginia and we suggest you give your kayak oars a work out on it. If you'd rather hike or bike, there are a number of trails available. Download the Map
Dream to Reality
Virginia's first permanent long distance backcountry trail is now a reality. The Virginia Mountain Biking Trail's 480 miles of continuous off-road spans Virginia's Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains from Strasburg to Damascus. Eight major trails are linked into this one climbing 65,000 total feet.
Birds' Eye View
Hang gliding affords an incredible adrenaline rush and unbeatable views (if you can keep your eyes open). Give it a go from the Eastern Shore Hang Gliding Center or in Amherst at High Peak Hang Gliding. Instruction is available at both centers.
Adventure on the Rocks
Southwest Virginia's Grayson Highlands State Park offers some of the best bouldering in the state and even rents the gear. Be sure to watch out for the park's resident wild ponies, which roam free throughout Mount Rogers Recreation Area. In the Shenandoah Valley, Old Rag is easily one of most well-known hikes in Virginia, but it also contains some of the best rock climbing routes in the state, featuring the only granite routes between the Adirondacks and Stone Mountain in North Carolina, according to SummitPost.org.
Beach Sleep
Yes, there is an undeveloped beach in Virginia that welcomes primitive camping on the Atlantic coast. False Cape State Park is accessible by foot, bicycle, beach transporter, tram or boat. The wildlife viewing is incredible, as is the sun rise over the Atlantic and the sunset over Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. Keep an eye out for loggerhead sea turtles, peregrine falcons and bald eagles.
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