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Anyone going? Me and my friends are, even though we'll have to sit in a coach for like 5 hours
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They have Jay Sean! And he's got ultra hot since he shaved his head Those spikes never did it for meSome 30 years ago a group of political activists got together with a group of musicians to form Rock Against Racism. It was a movement formed in reaction to rising xenophobia and racism fuelled by Nazi organisations like the National Front...Our music is living testimony to the fact that cultures can and do mix. It unites us and gives us strength, and offers a vibrant celebration of our multicultural and multiracial society. Racism seeks only to divide and weaken us.
We want to create a national movement against racism and fascism through music, so it's vital everyone gets involved however they can.

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Head towards one of New Zealand's favourite tourist destinations – Bay Of Islands, which is situated towards the Northern tip of the North Island
Enjoy spectacular rural and coastal scenery en route to visit Pahia City (Bay Of Islands). First stop at Parry Kauri Park to view the two gigantic Kauri trees. Visit the Museum or take one of the board walks through the native bush.
Parry Kauri Park
Whangarei Falls
Explore Pahia city
Haruru Falls
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Hole in the Rock Cruise (View of Dolphins guaranteed).
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Whanagarei Falls
Stretch your legs when we make a brief stop at Whangarei Falls, which is a beautiful 26m waterfall near the maritime town of Whangarei. It can appear as several parallel columns of water or a large rectangular column depending on whether it has been raining heavily or not.
A loop walk allows you to experience the falls from both its top and bottom. There is a picnic table at the bottom, which is a nice spot to check out some of the ducks swimming across the plunge pool before the falls.
Explore Pahia which is famous for its white sand beaches and beautiful coastline, with a vast variety of marine wildlife. Enjoy the shops of a bygone era.
We then move on to Haruru Falls, which are a miniature version of the famed Niagra Falls, that offer amazing sceneries.
You can also choose to experience Pahia's top attraction 'Hole in the Rock and Cape Brett' cruise.
Enjoy the views as you cruise past the Cape Brett Lighthouse, before arriving at the majestic Hole in the Rock – hold your breath as the skipper navigates through the narrow space and admire the rock walls which soar above you. Take in the Grand Cathedral Cave before heading back into the sheltered waters of the Bay. Keep a look out for common and bottlenose dolphins, whales and other marine life as we get you up close to the action from the comfort of Dolphin Seeker.
Head back to Auckland and be dropped off at your desired location in Auckland City with a small memento from us.
(Visit http://www.legendtours.co.nz/travel/bay-of-island-day-tours/ )


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What is The Gaze?The Gaze is an ability of Magician to steadily observe (stare) any point in space.It is also a premilinary ability for claivoyance, reality manipulation, shewstone scrying and literally any ability that needs eyes to work. As opposed to the "evil eye", The Gaze is not intuition-based and has to be practiced to be gained. On the other hand The Gaze gives you complete control over the effects and also all of the benefits of Evil Eye.The Gaze can be also used psychologically, staring inside the skull of your opponent during conversation will definitely freak out most people you will meet. First Exercise: The PointFirst of all we have to learn how to shift the staring point. Choose some picture or painting and place your thumb between the painting and your eyes. Now start switching your focus between the painting. Practice this for a week.After you are done for the first part, here comes the fun. Start the exercise as before but after focusing on the thumb, put the thumb down and keep staring at the space where the thumb was. Keep doing that till you can hold the focus on a blank space for about 15 seconds. This exercise will also strengthen your eyes muscles and endurance.Now you need to learn how to switch the focus without your thumb as a mediator, you should already know how the switch feels like, so just reproduce it. Later you can add more points and switch between them in seamless manner. Second Exercise: The EnduranceYou have to adapt your eyes to become stronger and able to be steady and opened for a longer period of time.You should have already developed an awareness of muscles controlling your eyes, now you just need to strengthen them. You can do so by practicing trataka or literally any kind of focal meditation. Remember, keep your eyes opened as long as you can. If your eyes start watering, pause the exercise, blink a couple of times and then close them for a couple of seconds, then you can continue in the exercise.Third Exercise: The Waking LifeLearn to hold the blank space focus in every day life during walks, breaks, lunch, conversation, etc. Don't do so if you need to use your eyes for safety purposes (crossing the road, driving the car, etc).Soon you will notice that the blank space is not really blank and your clairvoyance will start developing.
Elemental accumulations are forms of creative visualizations, done to create an association with an "elemental force" or concept. If you concentrate the fire element into you index fingers tip. Hold it there and it begins to feel like it's on fire. Have you really held that element there? Or have you just told your body that your finger is burning?
Straining the eye muscles will temporarily allow you to develop your connection to the fire element, but not in a good way.
... What?
http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/mao-shing-ni-lac-dom-phd/3-natural-ways-improve-visionTake note of the exercise with the pen. I do my focal meditation on a black colored ping pong ball with my glasses off. I keep this "egg" slightly out of focus range. It's helped me over the past few years. Consider that metaphysical training should not just be functional in magick but everything. I still consider that a well rounded magician is better than a fanatic who can't see past their practices. Life is magick, treat it as such.


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Whenever the JW's come knocking on my door I tell them that the Mormons were here about an hour earlier and converted me then close the door. (& vice versa when it's the Morons knocking)
Another tactic I've had fun with is to ask the Mormons for a copy of Watchtower... or to ask the JW's about their magical underwear. Whatever, just mix them up and act serious about it and get them babbling on, then casually close the door on them.
Other times I answer the door, listen to their introduction, laugh hysterically and close the door.
It all depends on what type of mood Im in.
If at all possible, I'd love to get the JW's & the Morons to show up at my door minutes apart, invite them in and see if I could get them fighting over my imaginary soul. One of these days.... ;)
Yesterday, I went to lunch at a local restaurant and a JW woman came in and handed a copy of The Watchtower to the waitress and said "Here's some complimentary reading material for your break room". As soon as the woman turned around, in the garbage it went.
I wonder what JW's do when Mormons show up at their door and vice-versa. Do they try to convert one another for hours or do they slam the door?
Personally, I no longer talk to Jehova's Witnesses. I did bible studies with them about 8-9 years ago simply to get to know their argumentation and because I did not want to jump to conclusions about a religious sect I basically knew nothing about. The lady I saw for a few months was very nice in the beginning but as soon as I agreed to visit one of their Sunday gatherings she and the people she brought with her got increasingly aggressive and pushy so I was forced to tell them that I am an atheist and nothing they can ever say will ever convince me of the existence of a supernatural being. It took some time for them to stop calling, showing up at my apartment uninvited or ganging up on me when they saw me in the city.
After this experience I decided to learn more about people who have escaped this particular kind of brainwashing and let me tell you the JW's are as bad and in some areas worse than some of the other God fanatics out there.
One of my colleagues told me about her mother's run in with JW's in Munich where she worked as a primary school teacher. In one of her classes there was a young boy whose parents were JW's. This boy had a serious accident on the way home from school but not so serious that he could not have been saved with surgery and a blood transfusion. His parents refused and delayed the medical treatment to the point that their young son died.
There staunch refusal to consider blood transfusions for their children is just one of the reasons why I consider the doctrine of Jehova's Witnesses to be inherently evil.
The last time the JW's knocked on my door, I let them finish their introduction and then told them that I respect their right to believe in whatever nonsense they want to as they are adults. I then went on to tell them that I consider them abominations for the fact that they rather let their children die than give them the medical treatment (blood transfusions) that could save their lives, I also told them that I had studied with them and compared their bible version to several others I had in my possession at that time and that they as everybody else change the bible to suit their perverted beliefs and conveniently overlook everything in their holy book that does not suit them. After that I made it very clear that in their own interest they should never darken my doorstep again, which they have not since.
My advice to you, Greg. Should they ever show up again, let them know in no uncertain terms that they are not welcome, because if you give them even an inch you'll be hard pressed to get rid of them any time soon.
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This is a mixed group day with room for Road Skills participants and Advanced HPDE participants. We will have three run groups, A, B, and C.
Emphasis of the day is on skills exercises for safe road driving learned in a controlled environment with qualified instructors.
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Why personal finance must be set upon a strong foundation
The more the economy continues to bump along, without much evidence of rebounding, the more anxious people become about the future. We don't like uncertainty, especially financial uncertainty. Have you noticed how many people are ready for economic change? Nearly all of us! And regardless of how we've weathered this recessionary storm, we all have a need for a solid financial foundation.
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Thank you Greenelf I appreciate it ^^
emails? might be able to send the one i have.
just in case, you can also look at toy share group where it has got bits of colourway of giant robot done by carlos.
What's your email david and i'll send you my collection... ^__^
IM so sorry this is late T-T
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I really appreciate this! If this is so late that you pass it up, no worries. I just got the internet fixed. -___-" haha
just in case, I have already sent 3 of giant robot to you.
Please check your email. thx.
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I have 1 giant robot. Can i have some more as well?
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The deployvista.com site is finally put to rest...
You find new content on the Deployment Research site, a site filled with articles and video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. If you are missing something on the new site, please let me know. You can find me on twitter on my @jarwidmark alias.
You can also search the old deployvista.com article archive below.
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Over the years I have been answering quite a number of posts from people trying to run batch files in MDT. And as fun as the old batch files ever are, you simply get way more features when converting them into vbscript...
Here is the deal, MDT does support batch files, but batch files has quite many limitations compared with vbscript. The most common issues relates to the working directory and UNC paths, using pushd and "%~dp0" for temporary mappings. Others relate to calling cmd /c before the actual command etc, not to mention the lack of "real" objects...
By converting the batch file into a vbscript we can take advantage of all the object properties in MDT, get a better error handling and logging. Shorthand - it will just work. On top of that we can have a common standard on how we deploy applications.
Here is a sample batchfile from one of the forum posts that installed quicktime 7, the post was about the batch file not working correctly with MDT.
REM Install Application Support first:
AppleApplicationSupport.msi /quiet /passive /norestart
REM Install Quicktime
QuickTime.msi /quiet /passive /norestart ASUWISINSTALLED=0 APPLEAPPLICATIONSUPPORTISINSTALLED=1 DESKTOP_SHORTCUTs=NO QT_TRAY_ICON=NO SCHEDULE_ASUW=NO
REM Delete the AutoRun key
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "QuickTime Task" /f
Rather than even spending a minute on debugging the batchfile I converted into a vbscript that you can download: QuickTime 7 installation script for MDT
When deploying the app you get additional logging the in the C:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS from the script itself as well as the individual msi installs.
For testing purposes it's very useful to create a custom task sequence that only installs the QT application, and execute that sequence from the running OS (so that you don't have to do a full deployment every time you need to test an app).
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The signal that the photodetector gets is a binary signal: ones and zeroes. So either the photodetector gets the message or it doesn't. There's no 'signal to noise ratio' (well there is, but either it's right or it isn't), the signal is discrete: either it gets a one or it gets a zero. If there isn't, the cd-drive will try to repair the signal with error-correction. It's like saying that you replaced your light switch button, resulting in a lamp that shines brighter...
CD: Jitter, Errors & Magic
Recently, however, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in all manner of CD tweaks, opening a digital Pandora's box. An avalanche of CD tweak products (and the audiophile's embrace of them) has suddenly appeared in the past few months, Monster Cable's, AudioQuest's, and Euphonic Technology's CD Soundrings notwithstanding. Most of these tweaks would appear to border on voodoo, with no basis in scientific fact. Green marking pens, an automobile interior protectant, and an "optical impedance matching" fluid are just some of the products touted as producing musical nirvana. The popular media has even picked up on this phenomenon, sparked by Sam Tellig's Audio Anarchist column in Vol.13 No.2 describing the sonic benefits of applying Armor All, the automobile treatment, to a CD's surface. Print articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Ice Magazine, and on television stations MTV, VH-1, and CNN, all reporting, with varying degrees of incredulity, the CD tweaking phenomenon.
The intensity of my interest in the subject was heightened by a product called "CD Stoplight," marketed by AudioPrism. CD Stoplight is a green paint applied to the outside edge of a CD (not the disc surface, but the 1.2mm disc thickness) that reportedly improves sound quality. I could not in my wildest imagination see how green paint on the disc edge could change, for better or worse, a CD's sound. However, trusting my ears as the definitive test, I compared treated to untreated discs and was flabbergasted. Soundstage depth increased, mids and highs were smoother with less grain, and the presentation became more musically involving.
Other listeners, to a person, have had similar impressions. Since I am somewhat familiar with the mechanisms by which data are retrieved from a CD (I worked in CD mastering for three years before joining Stereophile), this was perplexing: I could think of no plausible explanation for a difference in sonic quality. As we shall see, the light reflected from a CD striking the photo-detector contains all the information encoded on the disc (footnote 1). Even if CD Stoplight could somehow affect the light striking the photo-detector, how could this change make the soundstage deeper? I was simultaneously disturbed and encouraged by this experience. Disturbed because it illustrates our fundamental lack of understanding of digital audio's mysteries, and encouraged by the promise that identification of previously unexplored phenomena could improve digital audio to the point where today's digital audio era will be regarded as the stone age.
These events prompted me to conduct a scientific examination of several CD "sonic cure-all" devices and treatments. I wanted to find an objective, measurable phenomenon that explains the undeniable musical differences heard by many listeners where, at least according to established digital audio theory, no differences should exist. For this inquiry, I measured several digital-domain performance criteria on untreated CDs, and then on the same CDs treated with various CD tweaks. The parameters measured include data error rates, ability to correct (rather than conceal) data errors, and jitter.
The six CD treatments and devices chosen for this experiment include three that allegedly affect optical phenomena and three that ostensibly affect the CD player's mechanical performance. The three optical treatments tested are CD Stoplight (the green paint), Finyl (a liquid applied to a disc surface, that, according to its promoters, provides "optical impedance matching"), and Armor All. The mechanical devices include CD Soundrings, The Mod Squad's CD Damper disc, and the Arcici LaserBase, a vibration-absorbing CD-player platform. I also measured playback signal jitter in a mid-priced CD player and the $4000 Esoteric P2 transport (regarded as having superb sonics). However, this is not intended as a survey of the musical benefits of these devices and treatments. In addition, I looked at the variation in quality of discs made at various CD manufacturing facilities around the world.
Another purpose of the article is to dispel some common misconceptions about CD error correction and its effect on sonic quality. If one believes the promoters of some of these CD treatments, errors are the single biggest source of sonic degradation in digital audio. In reality, errors are the least of CD's problems. However, this has not prevented marketeers from exploiting the audiophile's errorphobia in an attempt to sell products.
For example, Digital Systems and Solutions, Inc., manufacturer of Finyl, claim in their white paper that error concealment "results in a serious degrading of playback fidelity." They also state that errors can get through undetected, leading to a litany of sonic horrors including: "poor articulation of bass and mid-bass notes, attenuation of dynamics and smearing of transients, increased noise with loss of inner detail and intertransient silence, reduced midrange presence that diminishes clarity and transparency, loss of image specificity and focus, reduction of the apparent width and depth of soundstage—virtually eliminating the possibility of holophonic [sic] imagery, decreased resolution of the low level detail that is so necessary to the recovery of hall ambience, altered instrumental and vocal timbres that lack coherence or cohesiveness, obscuring of vocal textures and expression, instrumental lines and musical themes are more difficult to sort out, complex rhythms and tempos are less easily followed, the music will not be as emotionally involving and satisfying an experience as might have otherwise been possible, subtle breath effects on brass or wind instruments are more difficult to discern as are nuances of fingering and bowing on string instruments." This list, they concede, "is not claimed to be complete."
Technical background
Encoding and data retrieval: Before getting into the measurement results, let's arm ourselves with a little technical background on how the CD works.
A CD's surface is covered by a single spiral track of alternating "pit" and "land" formations. These structures, which encode binary data, are created during the laser mastering process. The CD master disc is a glass substrate coated with a very thin layer of photosensitive material. The glass master is rotated on a turntable while exposed to a laser beam that is modulated (turned on and off) by the digital data we wish to record on the disc. This creates a spiral of exposed and unexposed areas of the disc. When the master is later put under a chemical developing solution, areas of the photosensitive material exposed to the recording laser beam are etched away, creating a pit. Unexposed areas are unaffected by the developing solution and are called lands. These formations, which are among the smallest manufactured structures, are transferred through the manufacturing process to mass-produced discs. Fig.1 is a scanning electron microscope of a CD surface. Note that a human hair is about the width of 50 tracks.
Fig.1 Scanning electron microscope of a CD surface.
The playback laser beam in the CD player is focused on these tiny pits and held on track by a servo system as the disc rotates. This beam is reflected from the disc to a photo-detector, a device that converts light into voltage. To distinguish between pit and land areas, the pit depth is one-quarter the wavelength of the playback laser beam. When laser light strikes a pit, a portion of the beam is reflected from the surrounding land, while some light is reflected from the pit bottom. Since the portion of light reflected from the pit bottom must travel a longer distance (1/4 wavelength down plus 1/4 wavelength back up), this portion of the beam is delayed by half a wavelength in relation to the beam reflected by the land. When these two beams combine, phase cancellation occurs, resulting in decreased output from the photo-detector. This variable-intensity beam thus contains all the information encoded on the disc.
Footnote 1: According to an article by Martin Colloms in the April 1990 issue of Hi-Fi News, the green paint selectively absorbs the infra-red laser light that is reflecting around the disc interior, the result being a better S/N ratio in the HF signal recovered by the photo detector. You might expect this to be apparent in the "eye" pattern displayed by the HF signal when displayed on an oscilloscope screen, but it actually appears to be very hard to judge this by eye alone.—John Atkinson
I was just at my friend, T's house tonight and was ready to prove that this was "Complete and utter bull S*&T", so I had him play 2 identical cds simultaneously, One with the "green paint" and one without. I had my eyes closed so I could not know which one he had selected (both were played on identical cd decks so that would not be a factor). He would do an "A-B" switch. I did not know which one he started on, and expected there would be no difference at all. I was flabbergasted when he threw the switch, and as clear as day was light, I heard was what I can only describe as a "more clear and open sound". Now mind you, I had no idea which one was the clearer sound (the paint or no paint), but there WAS a definite difference. He even reversed which disk was in each cd player (both very high end players)(as a matter of fact the entire system was VERY HIGH END including Infinity Reference Standard 5 Speakers) and I consistently chose the "painted" cd as the one with the more "open and clear" sound.
Now another friend of mine Roy (not his real name (trying to keep him somewhat anonymous)) (who has a VERY critical ear (he used to be an audio engineer at a Major US record label)) was there and he said he heard no difference. Now to be fair, he was in a different part of the room than I was, so that may have been a factor.
It was VERY hard for me to describe the difference (all I was able to come up with was more "open and clear") until I read this article (I was looking for some "ammo" to use since "Roy" and I "discussed" this all the way back from T's house till I dropped him off at his house (about 45 minutes away)). The author of this article's description of "Soundstage depth increased, mids and highs were smoother with less grain, and the presentation became more musically involving" describes EXACTALLY what I heard!!! Now my "ear" may be more "critical" in this nuance of audio only because of my orchestral and choral conducting background, and I know there are times when "Roy" would hear things in other audio tests unrelated to this one that I did not (I want to make it clear that I'm NOT trying to say that he was lying when he said there was no difference) so maybe our ears are more "critical" in different nuances.
Anyway, the difference was SO CLEAR to me that "Roy" suggested he come up with a "double blind" test because I am THAT convinced that there IS a difference. Now, I would like to see if someone has ever had access to an original digital master tape, and compare that to both the plain CD and the "painted one" and see if there is a difference between the plain cd and the master tape or the "painted" cd and the tape.
My friend "Roy" was also convinced that an audio cd was just a bunch of "ones and zeros" and that the same "ones and zeros" were on both the plain and "painted" cds. I will perform a test and "rip" both plain and "painted" cds to my computer. If I get a different crc on the two files, then there is proof that "Something" is happening with the "painted" cd. I will report back here what my findings were back on this site.
Mark (my real name)
I always can tell a CD that I've had for over 20 years, because they all are marked with green paint from the CD Stoplight pen.
I was an adherent.
But I never really heard a major difference.
Finally I realized that I was imagining something minute as to be non-existent, because I wanted to believe.
Today, I went to play Handel's Messiah (Harmonia Mundi) and I was reminded of those days and since I haven't read anything on it in quite sometime, I was wondering what was being said about this "Tweak" now.


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Well aware of Sachin Tendulkar's penchant for proving his detractors "wrong", Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today advised everyone to stop speculating about the senior batsman's future in international cricket.
"When it comes to Sachin I feel the best thing to do is not to speculate. He has proved everybody wrong throughout his career. But I am not Sachin Tendulkar, may be when he comes for pc (press conference) you will have to ask him," Dhoni said.
The skipper was addressing the media a day ahead of the fourth and final Test against England.
Dhoni was of the opinion that Tendulkar's mere presence in a crisis situation like this is important from the team's point of view.
"He's the best man to have in the side in a game like this. The kind of experience he has and the kind of performances he has come up with over the years... he is someone we all look up to," Dhoni said.
Tendulkar has averaged 25 in 2012 and his innings of 76 at Calcutta against England was his first Test half century since Jan 3


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A fourth-place finish at the state 4-H livestock judging contest in August was something to be proud of for several Marion County 4-H club members. However, with only the top three teams slated for national competition they thought that was the end of this year's judging season.
A recent development changed that, and Nick Meyer, Lauren Geis, Bryce Roberts, and Karl Riffel found themselves frying and flipping pancakes Saturday morning to raise money to help pay their expenses to judge in the national 4-H livestock-judging contest in January in Fort Worth, Texas.
"We found out the third-place team couldn't go, so now we can," Riffel said. "We don't know yet how much it will cost us, but we are just trying to raise anything we can to help with expenses."
The four youths, representing Marion, Hillsboro, and Tampa 4-H clubs, cooked and served several hundred pancakes, along with sausages and breakfast drinks at the Durham Community Center in Durham as part of that community's annual pancake feed.
"We are just so happy to help these youth along," community organizer Lila Unruh said. "They have done such a good job and we are very proud of their efforts. There has just been a steady stream of customers in here all morning, so far."
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"We actually made just under $750," Durham community committee member Joyce Medley said. "But we made sure to give the kids $375 for their project."
The judging team members plan to attempt a few more fundraisers before traveling to the Fort Worth Stock Show in January.
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Chapter X
Billy could never get over the shock, during that period, of Saxon's appearance. Morning after morning, and evening after evening when he came home from work, he would enter the room where she lay and fight a royal battle to hide his feelings and make a show of cheerfulness and geniality. She looked so small lying there so small and shrunken and weary, and yet so child-like in her smallness. Tenderly, as he sat beside her, he would take up her pale hand and stroke the slim, transparent arm, marveling at the smallness and delicacy of the bones.
One of her first questions, puzzling alike to Billy and Mary, was:
"Did they save little Emil Olsen?"
And when she told them how he had attacked, singlehanded, the whole twenty-four fighting men, Billy's face glowed with appreciation.
"The little cuss!" he said. "That's the kind of a kid to be proud of."
He halted awkwardly, and his very evident fear that he had hurt her touched Saxon. She put her hand out to his.
"Billy," she began; then waited till Mary left the room.
"I never asked before--not that it matters ... now. But I waited for you to tell me. Was it ... ?"
He shook his head.
"No; it was a girl. A perfect little girl. Only ... it was too soon."
She pressed his hand, and almost it was she that sympathized with him in his affliction.
"I never told you, Billy--you were so set on a boy; but I planned, just the same, if it was a girl, to call her Daisy. You remember, that was my mother's name."
He nodded his approbation.
"Say, Saxon, you know I did want a boy like the very dickens ... well, I don't care now. I think I'm set just as hard on a girl, an', well, here's hopin' the next will be called ... you wouldn't mind, would you?"
"If we called it the same name, Daisy?"
"Oh, Billy! I was thinking the very same thing."
Then his face grew stern as he went on.
"Only there ain't goin' to be a next. I didn't know what havin' children was like before. You can't run any more risks like that."
"Hear the big, strong, afraid-man talk!" she jeered, with a wan smile. "You don't know anything about it. How can a man? I am a healthy, natural woman. Everything would have been all right this time if ... if all that fighting hadn't happened. Where did they bury Bert?"
"You knew?"
"All the time. And where is Mercedes? She hasn't been in for two days."
"Old Barry's sick. She's with him."
He did not tell her that the old night watchman was dying, two thin walls and half a dozen feet away.
Saxon's lips were trembling, and she began to cry weakly, clinging to Billy's hand with both of hers.
"I--I can't help it," she sobbed. "I'll be all right in a minute
... Our little girl, Billy. Think of it! And I never saw her!"
She was still lying on her bed, when, one evening, Mary saw fit to break out in bitter thanksgiving that she had escaped, and was destined to escape, what Saxon had gone through.
"Aw, what are you talkin' about?" Billy demanded. "You'll get married some time again as sure as beans is beans."
"Not to the best man living," she proclaimed. "And there ain't no call for it. There's too many people in the world now, else why are there two or three men for every job? And, besides, havin' children is too terrible."
Saxon, with a look of patient wisdom in her face that became glorified as she spoke, made answer:
"I ought to know what it means. I've been through it, and I'm still in the thick of it, and I want to say to you right now, out of all the pain and the ache and the sorrow, that it is the most beautiful, wonderful thing in the world."
As Saxon's strength came back to her (and when Doctor Hentley had privily assured Billy that she was sound as a dollar), she herself took up the matter of the industrial tragedy that had taken place before her door. The militia had been called out immediately, Billy informed her, and was encamped then at the foot of Pine street on the waste ground next to the railroad yards. As for the strikers, fifteen of them were in jail. A house to house search had been made in the neighborhood by the police, and in this way nearly the whole fifteen, all wounded, had been captured. It would go hard with them, Billy foreboded gloomily. The newspapers were demanding blood for blood, and all the ministers in Oakland had preached fierce sermons against the strikers. The railroad had filled every place, and it was well known that the striking shopmen not only would never get their old jobs back but were blacklisted in every railroad in the United States. Already they were beginning to scatter. A number had gone to Panama, and four were talking of going to Ecuador to work in the shops of the railroad that ran over the Andes to Quito.
With anxiety keenly concealed, she tried to feel out Billy's opinion on what had happened.
"That shows what Bert's violent methods come to," she said.
He shook his head slowly and gravely.
"They'll hang Chester Johnson, anyway," be answered indirectly. "You know him. You told me you used to dance with him. He was caught red-handed, lyin' on the body of a scab he beat to death. Old Jelly Belly's got three bullet holes in him, but he ain't goin' to die, and he's got Chester's number. They'll hang'm on Jelly Belly's evidence. It was all in the papers. Jelly Belly shot him, too, a-hangin' by the neck on our pickets."
Saxon shuddered. Jelly Belly must be the man with the bald spot and the tobacco-stained whiskers.
"Yes," she said. "I saw it all. It seemed he must have hung there for hours."
"It was all over, from first to last, in five minutes."
"It seemed ages and ages."
"I guess that's the way it seemed to Jelly Belly, stuck on the pickets," Billy smiled grimly. "But he's a hard one to kill. He's been shot an' cut up a dozen different times. But they say now he'll be crippled for life--have to go around on crutches, or in a wheel-chair. That'll stop him from doin' any more dirty work for the railroad. He was one of their top gun-fighters--always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm."
"Where does he live?" Saxon inquired.
"Up on Adeline, near Tenth--fine neighborhood an' fine two-storied house. He must pay thirty dollars a month rent. I guess the railroad paid him pretty well."
"Then he must be married?"
"Yep. I never seen his wife, but he's got one son, Jack, a passenger engineer. I used to know him. He was a nifty boxer, though he never went into the ring. An' he's got another son that's teacher in the high school. His name's Paul. We're about the same age. He was great at baseball. I knew him when we was kids. He pitched me out three times hand-runnin' once, when the Durant played the Cole School."
Saxon sat back in the Morris chair, resting and thinking. The problem was growing more complicated than ever. This elderly, round-bellied, and bald-headed gunfighter, too, had a wife and family. And there was Frank Davis, married barely a year and with a baby boy. Perhaps the scab he shot in the stomach had a wife and children. All seemed to be acquainted, members of a very large family, and yet, because of their particular families, they battered and killed each other. She had seen Chester Johnson kill a scab, and now they were going to hang Chester Johnson, who had married Kittie Brady out of the cannery, and she and Kittie Brady had worked together years before in the paper box factory.
Vainly Saxon waked for Billy to say something that would show he did not countenance the killing of the scabs.
"It was wrong," she ventured finally.
"They killed Bert," he countered. "An' a lot of others. An' Frank Davis. Did you know he was dead? Had his whole lower jaw shot away--died in the ambulance before they could get him to the receiving hospital. There was never so much killin' at one time in Oakland before."
"But it was their fault," she contended. "They began it. It was murder."
Billy did not reply, but she heard him mutter hoarsely. She knew he said "God damn them"; but when she asked, "What?" he made no answer. His eyes were deep with troubled clouds, while the mouth had hardened, and all his face was bleak.
To her it was a heart-stab. Was he, too, like the rest? Would he kill other men who had families, like Bert, and Frank Davis, and Chester Johnson had killed? Was he, too, a wild beast, a dog that would snarl over a bone?
She sighed. Life was a strange puzzle. Perhaps Mercedes Higgins was right in her cruel statement of the terms of existence.
"What of it," Billy laughed harshly, as if in answer to her unuttered questions. "It's dog eat dog, I guess, and it's always ben that way. Take that scrap outside there. They killed each other just like the North an' South did in the Civil War."
"But workingmen can't win that way, Billy. You say yourself that it spoiled their chance of winning."
"I suppose not," he admitted reluctantly. "But what other chance they've got to win I don't see. Look at 'us. We'll be up against it next."
"Not the teamsters?" she cried.
He nodded gloomily.
"The bosses are cuttin' loose all along the line for a high old time. Say they're goin' to beat us to our knees till we come crawlin' back a-beggin' for our jobs. They've bucked up real high an' mighty what of all that killin' the other day. Havin' the troops out is half the fight, along with havin' the preachers an' the papers an' the public behind 'em. They're shootin' off their mouths already about what they're goin' to do. They're sure gunning for trouble. First, they're goin' to hang Chester Johnson an' as many more of the fifteen as they can. They say that flat. The Tribune, an' the Enquirer an' the Times keep sayin' it over an over every day. They're all union-hustin' to beat the band. No more closed shop. To hell with organized labor. Why, the dirty little Intelligencer come out this morning an' said that every union official in Oakland ought to be run outa town or stretched up. Fine, Eh? You bet it's fine.
"Look at us. It ain't a case any more of sympathetic strike for the mill-workers. We got our own troubles. They've fired our four best men--the ones that was always on the conference committees. Did it without cause. They're lookin' for trouble, as I told you, an' they'll get it, too, if they don't watch out. We got our tip from the Frisco Water Front Confederation. With them backin' us we'll go some."
"You mean you'll ... strike?" Saxon asked.
He bent his head.
"But isn't that what they want you to do?--from the way they're acting?"
"What "s the difference?" Billy shrugged his shoulders, then continued. "It's better to strike than to get fired. We beat 'em to it, that's all, an' we catch 'em before they're ready. Don't we know what they're doin'? They're collectin' gradin'-camp drivers an' mule-skinners all up an' down the state. They got forty of 'em, feedin' 'em in a hotel in Stockton right now, an' ready to rush 'em in on us an' hundreds more like 'em. So this Saturday's the last wages I'll likely bring home for some time."
Saxon closed her eyes and thought quietly for five minutes. It was not her way to take things excitedly. The coolness of poise that Billy so admired never deserted her in time of emergency. She realized that she herself was no more than a mote caught up in this tangled, nonunderstandable conflict of many motes.
"We'll have to draw from our savings to pay for this month's rent," she said brightly.
Billy's face fell.
"We ain't got as much in the bank as you think," he confessed. "Bert had to be buried, you know, an I coughed up what the others couldn't raise."
"How much was it?"
"Forty dollars. I was goin' to stand off the butcher an' the rest for a while. They knew I was good pay. But they put it to me straight. They'd been carryin' the shopmen right along an was up against it themselves. An' now with that strike smashed they're pretty much smashed themselves. So I took it all out of the bank. I knew you wouldn't mind. You don't, do you?"
She smiled bravely, and bravely overcame the sinking feeling at her heart.
"It was the only right thing to do, Billy. I would have done it if you were lying sick, and Bert would have done it for you an' me if it had been the other way around."
His face was glowing.
"Gee, Saxon, a fellow can always count on you. You're like my right hand. That's why I say no more babies. If I lose you I'm crippled for life."
"We've got to economize," she mused, nodding her appreciation. "How much is in bank?"
"Just about thirty dollars. You see, I had to pay Martha Skelton an' for the ... a few other little things. An' the union took time by the neck and levied a four dollar emergency assessment on every member just to be ready if the strike was pulled off. But Doc Hentley can wait. He said as much. He's the goods, if anybody should ask you. How'd you like'm?"
"I liked him. But I don't know about doctors. He's the first I ever had--except when I was vaccinated once, and then the city did that."
"Looks like the street car men are goin' out, too. Dan Fallon's come to town. Came all the way from New York. Tried to sneak in on the quiet, but the fellows knew when he left New York, an' kept track of him all the way acrost. They have to. He's Johnny-on-the-Spot whenever street car men are licked into shape. He's won lots of street car strikes for tha bosses. Keeps an army of strike breakers an' ships them all over the country on special trains wherever they're needed. Oakland's never seen labor troubles like she's got and is goin' to get. All hell's goin' to break loose from the looks of it."
"Watch out for yourself, then, Billy. I don't want to lose you either."
"Aw, that's all right. I can take care of myself. An' besides, it ain't as though we was licked. We got a good chance."
"But you'll lose if there is any killing."
"Yep; we gotta keep an eye out against that."
"No violence."
"No gun-fighting or dynamite," he assented. "But a heap of scabs'll get their heads broke. That has to be."
"But you won't do any of that, Billy."
"Not so as any slob can testify before a court to havin' seen me." Then, with a quick shift, he changed the subject. "Old Barry Higgins is dead. I didn't want to tell you till you was outa bed. Buried'm a week ago. An' the old woman's movin' to Frisco. She told me she'd be in to say good-bye. She stuck by you pretty well them first couple of days, an' she showed Martha Shelton a few that made her hair curl. She got Martha's goat from the jump."Next


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Bamboo Bungalow
Up to 6 Guests
- 2 Bedroom/s
- 1 Bathroom/s
- Pets Not Allowed
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We are looking for an estimate of the size of your Caravan, Motorhome, Camper Trailer, Tent etc. once it has been set up or fully extended (outside to outside)... excluding your vehicle.
Caravans, Motorhomes, Camper Vans, Camper Trailers
Please include your tow/draw bar in the estimate.
Widths are generally around 4 – 5 metres (13.12 – 16.4 feet).
Note: Include annexes of pullouts in width.
|Average Lengths:
|4 – 12 metres (13.12 – 39.37 feet)
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|5 – 7 metres (16.40 – 22.97 feet)
|Fifth wheelers
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|Camper Trailers
|5 – 8 metres (16.40 – 26.25 feet)
Note: Do not include the size of the tent pegs
|1 person
|1 × 2.5 metres (3.28 × 8.20 feet)
|2 person
|1.5 × 2.5 metres (4.92 × 8.20 feet)
|3 person
|3 × 2.5 metres (9.84 × 8.20 feet)
|4 person
|4.5 × 2.5 metres (14.76 × 8.20 feet)
|5 person
|6 × 3 metres (19.69 × 9.84 feet)
|6+ person
|7 × 4.5 metres (22.97 × 14.76 feet)
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Our brand new bamboo bungalows are a two-bedroom cabin with a queen bed in the main bedroom and two sets of bunk beds in the second bedroom. They sleep up to six guests and all linen is included. The bungalows have a bathroom, full kitchen, lounge, television, DVD player, dining table, air-conditioning and furnished deck with car parking alongside.
Cabin sleeps up to 6
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- Lounge
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- Bunk Beds
- Queen Bed
- Hair Dryer
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- Cooking Utensils
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- Welcome Tea, Coffee and Sugar
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FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- For most Americans, attending the theater is just one more form of entertainment. But for Katie Sweeney and her family, a recent trip to Broadway was true cause for celebration.
"It was absolute redemption," said Sweeney, recalling the afternoon in October when she, her husband Michael, 16-year-old son Dylan, and 14-year-old son Dusty -- who has autism -- caught a unique performance of "The Lion King."
"It was a special, special moment," she said, because the performance was the first-ever staging of a Broadway musical specially adapted for an audience of people with autism.
Watching Dusty take in the show in an environment that understood his needs was "among the highlights of my life," said Sweeney.
According to organizers, the performance in the 1,600-seat theater had quickly sold out (with another 1,000 families on a waiting list for tickets), pointing to a real need for accessible theater for the autism-spectrum community.
That's because more typical performances aren't suited to people with autism, explained Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer of the advocacy group Autism Speaks.
First of all, she said, people with autism often struggle with a host of acute "sensory sensitivities," turning large crowds, bright lights and loud sounds into big stressors. "Unfortunately, this often limits the kinds of experiences that they can share with their families," she said. The added stimuli of the theater can also exacerbate "stimming" behaviors -- repetitive fidgeting or calling out that can interfere with the experience of other theatergoers.
"My son Dusty is lower-function autistic," said Sweeney. "He can spell and he can read, he can point to things and label them, he can express very basic needs. But when communicating he's pretty much nonverbal."
Dusty also engages in stimming, she said, "which can be very verbal. He will self-talk. Repetitively speak. And when we're in public, people who don't understand the situation will think he's just misbehaving."
All of this means that Sweeney, like most parents of children with autism, had learned to avoid the traditional theater. She recalled an incident that occurred at another Broadway production she brought Dusty to five years ago, which ended in mother and son being asked by staff to leave the venue. Dusty was visibly upset, said Sweeney, who called the moment "one of the lowest points in my life."
So, "just like we have built wheelchair ramps to accommodate people with physical disabilities, we need to provide accommodations for people with autism so they can be part of our community and share in the activities that other people enjoy," Dawson reasoned.
October's autism-friendly performance of "The Lion King" was the brainchild of the Theatre Development Fund (TDF), the nation's largest nonprofit art services organization, and it marked the launch of its "Autism Theatre Initiative."
"We have many different programs that focus on reaching out and making theater available to audiences with a range of physical disabilities," noted Lisa Carling, director of TDF's Accessibility Programs. "Special Ed teachers we've worked with in the past -- to provide accessible performances for students who are deaf or have vision issues -- asked us what we could do for students on the autism spectrum," Carling explained.
"There wasn't really a way that we could see to integrate a typical Broadway house [audience] with this kind of audience," Carling stressed. "It wouldn't have served the purpose of creating an accepting environment where everyone could just be themselves without being judged. So we decided that the best thing to do was simply buy out the entire house [for an autism-spectrum audience]."
And so they did, partnering up with Disney, which invited a panel of four autism experts to check out "The Lion King" to identify elements of the production where light and sound effects might require changes.
"Now I want to emphasize, this was the same 'Lion King,'" stressed Carling. "We did not want to present a watered-down version of the show. But Disney has been a natural partner with us in the past in helping to make their shows accessible, and they were totally willing to make some adjustments, like bringing down the sound of a steam blast, lowering the music at points, and eliminating strobe lights."
Many of the biggest accommodations were made off-stage, as dozens of hired "autism educators" -- outfitted in bright yellow shirts -- roamed the theater before, during and after the show, offering up relaxation techniques and a hand to hold. An array of squeeze-balls and toys were also on hand to help the mostly 7- to 12-year-old audience stay relaxed and engaged, while audience members in need of a more complete sensory break could move to a colorful part of the lobby designated as a "quiet zone."
"We found that 81 percent of our audience said this was the first Broadway show they had ever attended as a family," noted Carling. "So clearly this is a tremendously underserved community."
Sweeney agreed. "I have to say that the whole thing was just electric," she said. "Of course it was very noisy, and kids were jumping out of their seats. And stimming. And screaming. But it was never confusing. It was unbelievably well-organized. And the cast didn't miss a beat."
"Honestly, we didn't actually know what to expect," admitted "Lion King" cast member Ben Jeffrey, who plays the supporting lead role of Pumbaa, the warthog. "There was a pretty constant amount of noise -- sort of a sensory overload for everyone. But you really got feedback during the performance. You could see that the music, in particular, seemed to have a very strong effect. You could actually hear the hush coming over the house when it started to play," he said.
"And then afterwards, on a backstage tour, I met a family," Jeffrey added. "And they were just overwhelmed. Overwhelmed and overjoyed. Because this was an experience they would otherwise never have had as a family unit."
TDF already has plans to mount a second autism-friendly show within the coming year.
"I just can't wait," said Sweeney. "Because the whole time we were there my husband and I had tears streaming down our faces. We were looking at Dusty, and he was so engaged in the moment, instead of living in his own world as he usually is. He was clapping at the right moments, singing at the right moments. It was just amazing."
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9.2 ▶ Questioner: Is it possible for you to tell us anything about our past experiences, our past incarnations before this incarnation?
Ra: I am Ra. It is possible. However, such information as this is carefully guarded by your mind/body/spirit being totality so that your present space/time experiences will be undiluted.
Let us scan for harmless material for your beingness. I am, in the distortion of desire for your freedom from preconception, able to speak only generally. There have been several times when this group worked and dwelt together. The relationships varied. There is balanced karma, as you call it; each thus teacher of each. The work has involved healing, understanding the uses of the earth energy, and work in aid of civilizations which called just as your sphere has done and we have come. This ends the material which we consider harmless.
12.32 ▶ Questioner: Is it possible for you to tell us if any of the three of us are Wanderers?
Ra: I am Ra. In scanning each of the mind/body/spirit complexes present, we find an already complete sureness of this occurrence and, therefore, find no harm in recapitulating this occurrence. Each of those present are Wanderers pursuing a mission, if you will.
15.25 ▶ Questioner: Is it possible, since we are Wanderers, for you to tell us anything about which our last density was, which density we came from?
Ra: I scan each and find it acceptable to share this information. The Wanderers in this working are of two densities, one the density of five; that is, of light; one the density of love/light, or unity. To express the identity of which came from which density, we observe this to be an infringement upon the free will of each. Therefore, we state simply the two densities, both of which are harmoniously oriented towards work together.
I am Ra. I leave you in the love and the light of the Infinite Creator. Go forth, then, rejoicing in the power and the peace of the One Infinite Creator. Adonai.
16.47 ▶ Questioner: Can you tell me of the silver flecks that we have found sometimes on our faces or elsewhere?
Ra: I am Ra. These of which you speak are a materialization of a subjectively oriented signpost indicating to one mind/body/spirit complex, and no other, a meaning of subjective nature.
16.48 ▶ Questioner: Who creates these silver flecks?
Ra: I am Ra. Picture, if you will, the increasing potential for learn/teaching. At some point a sign will be given indicating the appropriateness or importance of that learn/teaching. The entity itself, in cooperation with the inner planes, creates whatever signpost is most understandable or noticeable to it.
16.49 ▶ Questioner: I understand then that we ourselves create this?
Ra: I am Ra. Entities consciously do not create these. The roots of mind complex, having touched in understanding, intelligent infinity, create them.
18.4 ▶ Questioner: Are there any foods that are helpful or harmful that the instrument might eat?
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has body complex distortion towards ill health in the distortion direction corrected best by ingestion of the foodstuffs of your grains and your vegetables as you call them. However, this is extremely unimportant when regarded as an aid with equality to other aids such as attitude which this instrument has in abundance. It, however, aids the vital energies of this instrument, with less distortion towards ill health, to ingest foodstuffs in the above manner with the occasional ingestion of what you call your meats, due to the instrument's need to lessen the distortion towards low vital energy.
22.1 ▶ Questioner: The instrument would like to ask a couple of questions of you. The instrument would like to know why she smells the incense at various times during the day at various places?
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has spent a lifetime in dedication to service. This has brought this instrument to this nexus in space/time with the conscious and unconscious distortion towards service, with the further conscious distortion towards service by communication. Each time, as you would put it, that we perform this working our social memory complex vibrational distortion meshes more firmly with this instrument's unconscious distortions towards service. Thus we are becoming a part of this instrument's vibratory complex and it a part of ours. This occurs upon the unconscious level, the level whereby the mind has gone down through to the roots of consciousness which you may call cosmic.
This instrument is not consciously aware of this slow changing of the meshing vibratory complex. However, as the dedication on both levels continues, and the workings continue, there are signals sent from the unconscious in a symbolic manner. Because this instrument is extremely keen in its sense of smell this association takes place unconsciously, and the thought-form of this odor is witnessed by the entity.
22.2 ▶ Questioner: Secondly, she would like to know why she feels more healthy now that she has begun these sessions and feels more healthy as time goes on?
Ra: I am Ra. This is a function of the free will of the entity. This entity has, for many of your years, prayed a certain set of sound vibration complexes before opening to communication. Before the trance state was achieved this prayer remained within the conscious portion of the mind complex and, though helpful, was not as effective as the consequence of this prayer, as you would call this vibrational sound complex, which then goes directly into the unconscious level, thus more critically affecting the communication from the spiritual complex.
Also, this entity has begun, due to this working, to accept certain limitations which it placed upon itself in order to set the stage for services such as it now performs. This also is an aid to re-aligning the distortions of the physical complex with regard to pain.
25.2 ▶ Questioner: The second question that the instrument requested is: How may I best revitalize my self not only now but in the future?
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument is aware of the basic needs of its constitution, those being meditation, acceptance of limitations, experiences of joy through association with others, and with the beauty as of the singing, and the exercising with great contact, whenever possible, with the life forces of second density, especially those of trees; this entity also needing to be aware of the moderate but steady intake of foodstuffs, exercise being suggested at a fairly early portion of the day and at a later portion of the day before the resting.
29.33 ▶ Questioner: The instrument had a question if we have time for a short question. I will read it. The instrument does not desire to do physical healing work. She already does spiritual balancing by hands. Can she read the private healing material without doing physical healing? I am assuming that she means can she read it without creating problems in her life pattern? She does not wish to incur lessening of positive polarity. Can she read the material under these conditions?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall speak shortly due to the fact that we are attempting to conserve this instrument's vital energies during the three month period of which we have spoken.
This entity has an experiential history of healing on levels other than the so-called physical. Thus it is acceptable that this material be read. However, the exercise of fire shall never be practiced by this instrument as it is used in the stronger form for physical healing.
Is there any short query further before we close?
30.17 ▶ Questioner: The instrument would like to know if you could tell her whether or not this item which is called Sam Millar's polarizer would help her physical well-being. Could you do that?
Ra: I am Ra. As we scan the instrument we find anomalies of the magnetic field which are distorted towards our abilities to find narrow band channel into this instrument's mind/body/spirit complex. The polarizer of which you speak, as it is, would not be helpful. A careful reading of this instrument's aura by those gifted in this area, and subsequent alterations of the magnetizing forces of this polarizer, would assist the entity, Sam, in creating such a polarizer that would be of some aid to the instrument. However, we would suggest that no electrical or magnetic equipment not necessary for the recording of our words be brought into these sessions, for we wish no distortions that are not necessary.
34.1 ▶ Questioner: The instrument would like to know if two short exercise periods per day would be better for her than one long one?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The proper configuration of the physical complex exercising during the three month period wherein the instrument is vulnerable to physical complex distortion intensification, needs the strengthening of the physical complex. This may appropriately be seen to be one major period of the exercising followed late in your diurnal cycle before the evening meditation by an exercise period approximately one-half the length of the first. This will be seen to be wearing upon the instrument. However, it will have the effect of strengthening the physical complex and lessening the vulnerability which might be taken advantage of.
34.3 ▶ Questioner: Is it possible for you to tell me what I experienced, around 1964 I believe it was, when in meditation I became aware of what I considered a different density and different planet, and seemed to experience moving onto that planet? Is it possible for you to tell me what experience that was?
Ra: I am Ra. We see some harm in full disclosure due to infringement. We content ourselves with suggesting that this entity, which is not readily able to subject itself to the process of hypnotic regression instigated by others, nevertheless, has had its opportunities for understanding of its being-ness.
42.14 ▶ Questioner: As a youth I was trained in the engineering sciences which include the necessity for three dimensional visualization for the processes of design. Would this be helpful as a foundation for the type of visualization which you are speaking of, or would it be of no value?
Ra: I am Ra. To you, the questioner, this experience was valuable. To a less sensitized entity it would not gain the proper increase of concentrative energy.
44.12 ▶ Questioner: In meditation a number of years ago my arm started to glow and to move rapidly involuntarily. What was that?
Ra: I am Ra. The phenomenon was an analogy made available to you from your Higher Self. The analogy was that the being that you were was living in a way not understood by, shall we say, physicists, scientists, or doctors.
44.13 ▶ Questioner: What I am trying to get at in this session is if there are any practices that we might be able to do to best revitalize the instrument, for it is going to be necessary to do all we can in order to maintain our contact. Can you tell us what we can do to increase the instrument's vitality for these contacts?
Ra: I am Ra. Your experience was a function of your ability to contact intelligent infinity. Therefore, it does not have a direct bearing upon this instrument's vital energy.
We have spoken before of those things which aid this instrument in the vital energy: the sensitivity to beauty, to the singing of sacred music, to the meditation and worship, to the sharing of self with self in freely given love either in social or sexual intercourse. These things work quite directly upon the vitality. This instrument has a distortion towards appreciation of variety of experiences. This, in a less direct way, aids vitality.
45.5 ▶ Questioner: Can you say if any of the three of us are of Ra or any of the other groups?
Ra: I am Ra. Yes.
45.6 ▶ Questioner: Can you say which of us are of which group?
Ra: I am Ra. No.
45.7 ▶ Questioner: Are all of us of one of the groups that you mentioned?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall go to the limits of our attempts to refrain from infringement. Two are a sixth-density origin, one a fifth-density harvestable to sixth but choosing to return as a Wanderer due to a loving association between teacher and student. Thus you three form a greatly cohesive group.
48.2 ▶ Questioner: I have a question from the instrument that I will read. "You have suggested several times that sexual energy transfers aid the instrument's vital energy and this contact. It seems that this is not true for all people; that the sexual circuitry and the spiritual circuitry are not the same. Is this instrument an anomaly, or is the positive effect of sexual activity on spiritual energy normal for all third-density beings?"
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument, though not anomalous, is somewhat less distorted towards the separation of mind, body, and spirit than many of your third-density entities. The energies of sexual transfer would, if run through the undeveloped spiritual electrical or magnetic complex which you call circuitry, effectually blow out that particular circuit. Contrarily, the full spiritual energies run through bodily complex circuitry will also adversely effect the undeveloped circuit of the bodily complex. Some there are, such as this instrument, who have not in the particular incarnation chosen at any time to express sexual energy through the bodily circuitry. Thus from the beginning of such an entity's experience the body and spirit express together in any sexual action. Therefore, to transfer sexual energy for this instrument is to transfer spiritually as well as physically. This instrument's magnetic field, if scrutinized by one sensitive, will show these unusual configurations. This is not unique to one entity but is common to a reasonable number of entities who, having lost the desire for orange and yellow-ray sexual experiences, have strengthened the combined circuitry of spirit, mind, and body to express the totality of beingness in each action. It is for this reason also that the social intercourse and companionship is very beneficial to this instrument, it being sensitive to the more subtle energy transfers.
49.2 ▶ Questioner: I have a question here from Jim first. He says: "For the past nine years I have had what I call frontal lobes experiences in the pre-conscious state of sleep when I wake up in the morning. They are a combination of pleasure and pressure which begins in the frontal lobes and spreads in pulses through the whole brain and feels like an orgasm in the brain. I have had over 200 of these experiences and often they are accompanied by voices and visions which seldom make much sense to me. What is the source of these frontal lobes experiences?"
Ra: I am Ra. We scan the questioner and find some pertinent information already available which regards the physiological disposition of this particular part of the brain. The experiences described and experienced are those distillations which may be experienced after a concentration of effort upon the opening of the gateway or indigo mind complex so that experience of a sacramental or violet ray may occur. These experiences are the beginnings of that which, as the body, the mind, and the spirit become integrated at the gateway or indigo level, may then yield not only the experience of joy but the comprehension of intelligent infinity which accompanies it. Thus the body complex orgasm and mind complex orgasm becoming integrated may then set forth the proper gateway for the spiritual complex integration and its use as a shuttle for the sacrament of the fully experienced presence of the One Infinite Creator. Thus there is much to which the questioner may look forward.
51.9 ▶ Questioner: Right now I feel a feeling at the indigo center. If this center were totally activated and not blocked at all, would I then feel nothing there?
Ra: I am Ra. This query, if answered, would infringe upon the Law of Confusion.
53.23 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. Can you comment on my and the instrument's, if she approves, so-called ball of lightening experiences as a child?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last query of this working.
You were being visited by your people to be wished well.
Is there any other query of a brief nature we may answer?
54.2 ▶ Questioner: I have a question from Jim about an experience which he had when he first moved to his land in which he was told, "The key to your survival comes indirect, through nervousness." The entity was Angelica. Could you give him information with respect to this?
Ra: I am Ra. Yes.
54.3 ▶ Questioner: Would you please do that?
Ra: I am Ra. As we have noted, each mind/body/spirit complex has several guides available to it. The persona of two of these guides is the polarity of male and female. The third is androgynous and represents a more unified conceptualization faculty.
The guide speaking as sound vibration complex, Angelica, was the female polarized persona. The message may not be fully explicated due to the Law of Confusion. We may suggest that in order to progress, a state of some dissatisfaction will be present, thus giving the entity the stimulus for further seeking. This dissatisfaction, nervousness, or angst, if you will, is not of itself useful. Thus its use is indirect.
59.3 ▶ Questioner: I have a question from Jim and it states: "I think that I have penetrated my lifelong mystery of my anger at making mistakes. I think that I have always been aware subconsciously of my ability to master new learning, but my desire to successfully complete my work on Earth has been energized by the Orion group into irrational and destructive anger when I fail. Could you comment on this observation?
Ra: I am Ra. We would suggest that as this entity is aware of its position as a Wanderer, it may also consider what pre-incarnative decisions it undertook to make regarding the personal or self-oriented portion of the choosing to be here at this particular time/space. This entity is aware, as stated, that it has great potential, but potential for what? This is the pre-incarnative question. The work of sixth density is to unify wisdom and compassion. This entity abounds in wisdom. The compassion it is desirous of balancing has, as its antithesis, lack of compassion. In the more conscious being this expresses or manifests itself as lack of compassion for self. We feel this is the sum of suggested concepts for thought which we may offer at this time without infringement.
60.2 ▶ Questioner: It is my opinion that the best way for the instrument to improve her condition is through periods of meditation followed by periods of contemplation with respect to the condition and its improvement. Could you tell me if I am correct and expand on this?
Ra: I am Ra. Meditation and contemplation are never untoward activities. However, this activity will in all probability, in our opinion, not significantly alter the predispositions of this instrument which cause the fundamental distortions which we, as well as you, have found disconcerting.
60.3 ▶ Questioner: Can you tell me the best approach for altering, to a more acceptable condition, the distortions that the instrument is experiencing?
Ra: I am Ra. There is some small amount of work which the instrument may do concerning its pre-incarnative decisions regarding service to the Infinite Creator in this experience. However, the decision to open without reservation to the offering of self when service is perceived is such a fundamental choice that it is not open to significant alteration, nor would we wish to interfere with the balancing process which is taking place with this particular entity. The wisdom and compassion being so balanced by this recapitulation of fourth density is helpful to this particular mind/body/spirit complex. It is not an entity much given to quibbling with the purity with which it carries out that which it feels it is best to do. We may say this due to the instrument's knowledge of its self which is clear upon this point. However, this very discussion may give rise to a slightly less fully unstopped dedication to service in any one working so that the service may be continued over a greater period of your space/time.
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Designer Interviews: Edgar Blazona of TrueModern
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Today we have the pleasure of introducing Mr. Edgar Blazona of TrueModern, and learning about his new playhouse design, which may just nudge your toddler into becoming a budding Modernist.
We know you've had a background in prefab architecture. Tell us a bit about how your experience with prefabs lead to the creation of the playhouse.
When I started building modern prefab architecture, I was trying to create a space that I could fill with my furniture designs. I felt that I needed a place that was truly modern from the moment you walked in the door. Modern architecture is sometimes unapproachable in cost. Living in the Bay Area, there really isn't a way to be able to build a modern home. I started in the backyard, thinking I could create a small building that could house my modernist books, mid-century furniture and my own designs. Basically, the playhouse is the same sort of situation. I wanted to create an environment for kids so that they too could grow up in a modernist setting. I have noticed that kids enjoy a little simplicity when they are taken away from the primary colors of plastic play structures.
What influenced the playhouse design?
As you can see in my buildings, there is typically a glass corner or the appearance of one. You can see that within this playhouse as well…
It's really easy to see the similarities between my prefab work and my playhouse. Frankly, the playhouse is a no-brainer given my extensive exploration into kids' furniture, which we've been doing for years now.
How often have you played in your playhouse?
That's funny you should ask. I recently had a tea party with a neighbor's kid. We got inside it, I squeezed through the little door and sat down with her. Funny thing was, we didn't have any furniture. It kind of make me think we should do some furniture to go with these. What's a modern playhouse without modern furnishings? Truth be told, we just sat for a bit, giggled and played, and ended up having a really great time.
If you could find the playhouse in the home of any one person who might it be?
Brad Pitt, no doubt. A long time ago, Brad Pitt's assistant gave me a call. I'll never forget the day. I was working for Pottery Barn at the time ( yep- the modernist used to work for Pottery Barn! ) and this women called very interested in my Modular Dwellings structures. After I questioned her for a bit, she finally fessed up that she was Brad's assistant. I was shocked that Brad Pitt was interested in my work. I certainly could imagine him with a whole group of these structures for all of the kids that he seems to have nowadays.
I love the Danish modern aesthetic of the 11 Ply collection. Tell us how you came about the design on these pieces.
With 11 Ply, I was trying to create a new kids' furniture collection that could not only sit with our existing kids collection, but still look fresh and new. The name 11 Ply actually refers to the 11 layers of veneer, making up the thickness of the plywood. We started with selecting a material and then worked backwards. I chose birch plywood to be used as the main material to create a better quality item (it's stronger and actually made up of these layers of birch veneer, creating basically a solid birch panel). I then chose a manufacturing technique that would accentuate this type of material. We're actually using the material as it was intended. We are not putting a veneered edge; we are exposing the natural edge with sanding and clear-finishing. All of the parts and panels are cut on a CNC machine. If you notice, most of the shapes have a rounded top or the drawers have a shape that overhangs the top. The fact that we are not veneering the edges allows us to do this type of design. We even use a simple cutout to work as the drawers' handle, allowing the user to easily grab on and open the drawer.
We noticed that TrueModern is expanding out of kids bedrooms and into the rest of the home. Tell us more about your "grown up" pieces.
We launched our first sofas a few years ago. We started with two – Luna & Lift. Although Lift hasn't been a great success, Luna has done really well. People have really responded to the Danish looking, somewhat Haywood Wakefield-inspired legs. Just recently, we launched a few new sofa collections called Dane, which is even more Danish-inspired. The legs are solid walnut and tapered with some interesting stitching technique across the back of the pillows. These pieces in particular are a little more comfy and let you get a little cozy. Marfa is more of a lounge-type sofa, inspired by my favorite artist and modernist, Donald Judd. This block-style sofa is very low and great to kick back, while still looking super cool. Each of these collections are available in several different configurations. It's been quite a struggle getting all these configuration options perfect and available for purchase. It's been a long road, but we've finally got it and we're super excited to show these to our customers.
And lastly, what is this Modernism For Life t-shirt brand you have launched?
Yeah- I'm really excited about these new shirts. We are having so much fun making fun of ourselves yet exposing so many to a new way of life. The idea here is that we are modernists, we are proud of our ways, and we want to wear it on our sleeves. Literally. In a way, we are somewhat poking fun at our need for clean lines, simplicity, and good design to fills our lives. Frankly I am using this humor to push back on the status quo. I guess I am bored with the big box stores, Pottery Barn and brands alike. Who decided that the design standard in the US needs to be a "freshened up" version of an antique? And what about clutter? We don't need clutter. As modernists we are sick of clutter in fact. Frankly clutter makes me have anxiety you just can't imagine. I think it all starts in the home; being comfortable at home does not need to come in the form of "stuff." Quite the opposite in fact. Being comfortable in life is so important and I believe modernism can help us all get there. You know, it really cracks me up when you go to someone's home and it's a huge mess, yet they go to yoga four times a week to keep their sanity and life in check. Hello? Try getting rid of that clutter and start seeing the light. Modernism For Life- Live it!, as I say.
Thanks so much to Edgar for sitting down with us today!
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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