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I was surprised by how much email and comments I received about Rob Lowe leaving "Brothers & Sisters."
I guess I wasn't that surprised to hear about his departure since it does seem like the show doesn't quite know what to do with him these days. Especially because the series is suddenly much more interested in Kitty's political career. They've already almost broken up Kitty and Robert and had them reconcile, so they really can't do that again. He's survived a heart attack and countless Walker family dinners. It seems time for him to move on.
Perhaps I'm biased since I've liked Rob Lowe ever since he played Sodapop on "The Outsiders" (Best. Movie. Ever. Especially if you're in the sixth grade. I watched it over and over again on VHS.) But I think I would prefer to see him on a show where he gets more screen time.
On a scale of one to David Caruso leaving "NYPD Blue," I think his departure is about a one career-wise and on a scale of one to William Petersen leaving "CSI," I think his departure is about a two show-wise. I don't think it will hurt the show necessarily and I would be excited to see Lowe headline his own show (right, as long as it's not Dr. Vegas.)
How are you feeling about Rob Lowe leaving "Brothers & Sisters?" Talk about it below.
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It's gotten to the point on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (Monday, ABC Family, 8 p.m.) where I'm actually not just embarrassed but I'm actually mortified for the actors. I can't believe they have to say the lines they say or participate in such ludicrous story lines. Tonight, Grace forms a "Just Say Me" club at school (I don't even want to know) and Mayim Bialik is back as the school guidance counselor (did you get her character introduction at all? Are we supposed to find it funny that she dated a student?). Olympian Shawn Johnson also guest stars.
If I remember correctly, many of you were not fans for Lana on "Smallville." So how are you feeling about Kristin Kreuk beginning a guest star stint on "Chuck" (Monday, NBC, 8 p.m.). She'll play Hannah, a woman Chuck meets on his way to Paris. I'm finding that the Buy More shenanigans are becoming more and more tiresome. For instance, I could have done without the entire Fight Club story line last week. How about you?
"Greek" returns with new episodes Monday at 10 p.m. on ABC Family. That's right–10 p.m. For the first time, ABC has a three-hour block of original programming. Remember when we last left the ZBZ sisters, they feared they had burned down Gamma Psi house. You'll find out the answer to that question tonight. The show really shines in dealing with all the relationships. Casey is keeping the fire a secret from Cappie, which leads to some tension between the pair. Calvin reaches a breaking point with Grant. Cappie is depressed because of the three brothers who were expelled. Rusty is trying to assert himself within the fraternity. And most surprising of all, I'm totally enjoying the Rebecca/Evan slightly dysfunctional quasi-courtship. As I've always said, the show is fun but not frivolous, smart but not condescending and has the most fun pop-culture references since the "Gilmore Girls." This season keep an eye out for guest stars Sam Page as a political aide to Rebecca's dad and Lea Thompson as Cappie's mom.
I ran into TV Gal reader Debbie yesterday and she told me that she's already all set with the Dana story line on "24" (Monday, FOX, 9 p.m.). I tend to agree with her. "24" always falters when they travel too deeply into a characters' personal life. It just doesn't suit the format of the show and always seems wedged in awkwardly. Plus it makes Dana looks so stupid. Really, you're going to let a seemingly dangerous ex-boyfriend from your past stay in your home? It's the kind of trivial story line "24" simply doesn't need. I am kind of loving an off-the-rails Renee though. Are you? As I said in my review, since the show has been around so long, we are well prepared for many of the surprises it throws at us. But I was taken aback when Renee cut that guy's hand off. Who knows what she'll do tonight? What did you think of the four-hour season premiere of "24?" Talk about it below.
If you're like me, you're already totally stressed that the final season of "Lost" begins next Tuesday. I'm full of mixed emotions. I'm so excited for the season to begin but I also don't want it to begin because that really is the beginning of the end and I'll have to leave my nice comfy world of denial. I felt the same way as "Buffy" headed to its season finale. I was excited to see it but also dreaded every episode a little bit. If you want to catch up on where "Lost" left off, ABC is repeating the two-hour fifth season finale Tuesday at 9 p.m.
Okay, do you think we can totally trust Peter on "White Collar" (Tuesday, USA, 10 p.m.)? I think the show played it just right in last week's return. I still want to believe that Peter is a good guy and out to help Neal but the episode left a small little bit of doubt in my mind – just enough to keep me guessing. How about you?
It's still not my favorite part of the series, but I'm very excited to see Neil Patrick Harris as a guest judge on "American Idol" this Wednesday at 8 p.m. on FOX. Also can we pause for a moment and talk about how rude some of the contestants have been this season? I don't get it. Do they really think an attitude is going to get them anywhere on the show? The contestants definitely seem to have become more rude as the seasons have progressed and what's odd to me is that being discourteous has never worked for any contestant. Let's be honest if Simon likes your personality, your chances of getting through to Hollywood are greatly increased.
"Psych" is back with new episodes Wednesday at 10 p.m. on USA. WWE's John Cena guest stars as Juliet's (Maggie Lawson) brother Ewan. It's a fun episode.
What did you think of "The Deep End" (Thursday, ABC, 8 p.m.)? It just doesn't quite work as a series, does it? But here are two reasons to tune in — Tom Amandes is back as Beth's father and you'll see a lot more of Mehcad Brooks' Malcolm this week.
I wasn't that thrilled with most of the show's last Thursday night. The "Bones" episode that had them investigating the death of John F. Kennedy was seriously lacking. Even with Jason Dohring, I couldn't get that interested in the case on "CSI" and I was highly annoyed that the first "The Office" episode of the new year was basically a clip show. Let's hope this Thursday night fares better. Brenda Fehr returns as Booth's brother on "Bones" (Thursday, FOX, 8 p.m.). By the way, enjoy these new episodes of "Bones" and "Fringe" while you can. Both shows have their "winter finale" next week.
It's the series finale of "Dollhouse" this Friday at 8 p.m. on FOX. Although the episode is called "Epitaph Two: Return," the network will not be airing "Epitaph One" the episode that is on the season one DVD and the first part of the series finale. I agree, it's annoying. I'm excited to see this week's episode but I do feel like we got some closure with the last episode that aired. The show so drastically changed directions in its short run that it does kind of support the theory that many of you had that the original concept of the series was not sustainable. And I'm not quite sure if we lined up all the episodes, it would lead to Boyd being the secret head of Rossum Corporation. But I do agree with all of you who said these last few episodes have really allowed Enver Gjokaj to shine. Let's hope we hear about him being cast in a pilot very soon.
Julie Benz begins her guest star stint on "Desperate Housewives" this Sunday at 9 p.m. on ABC.
That's all for today. I'm back on Friday with this week's familiar faces and quotes of the week. Also we'll talk about what we want to see when "Lost" returns. Have a question? Seen a familiar face? Want to nominate a quote of the week or a topic for discussion? Write me at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow me on Twitter. Have a great week. Talk to you on Monday.
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I haven't written much on this blog for some time. There are two reasons for this hiatus. Firstly, firstly much of what I want to write about doesn't fit in short, easily digestible chunks that for which a blog is suited.
However I have been writing and some of writing will appear in my short e-book (or e-booklet) 'The Crysanthemum and the Stick' in mid Septenber.


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Some commodity trading basics: The markets are the markets. You can't make them move, you can't make them rise or fall, you can't do anything but follow their flow. The sooner you learn this, the better off you'll be, and the more money you'll save yourself. Most investors, traders, and other market participants are simply guessing. They have their indicators, they have their moving averages, they have their commitment of traders reports, they have their Palmer Drought Index stats, they have their in-depth analysis, etc. but at the end of the day it's still pretty much a 50/50 shot. You'll find out quickly whether you were right or whether you were wrong, and that's all there is to it. If you get in, and the position moves against you to the point where it's damaging your account…hey, buddy, you were wrong. Swallow your pride, fold your hand, and move on. Live to trade another day. But those who think they can argue with the market, those who try to "make" the market do what they want it to do, those who hope & wish that their losing position will turn around, etc., they're in for a rude awakening, and most of the time it doesn't hit until their whole account is blown out and they're strapped with margin calls. The market doesn't care if you're long or short. The market doesn't care if you trade corn, wheat, orange juice or the Eurodollar. The market doesn't care if you trade one lot or one hundred thousand lots. The market doesn't care if you make millions or lose millions. The market is truly not a respecter of persons.
I just keep thinking about the analogy of the commodity markets being like the ocean. The ocean is what it is. If you are a surfer who can brave the waves and ride them well, then more power to you. But if you are an unskilled surfer, hey, you might get your butt killed out there when the waves swallow you up. It isn't the ocean's fault; that's just the nature of the beast. It took me a long, long, LOOONG time to finally come to terms with that where the market was concerned. I spent many a day trying to "make" the market move. I spent many a day hoping & wishing that my jacked-up position would somehow radically turn around. I spent many a trade just knowing that I was "right this time", and that the market "has to do" this or that. Then I finally realized: At the end of the day, beyond all the fundamental analysis, beyond all the technical analysis, beyond all the supply and demand talk, beyond all the rate hike talk, beyond what the Fed is doing or what the ECB is doing, the bottom line is, once you enter your position, you're either going to be right or you're going to be wrong. And NOTHING is going to determine that but the market itself. So the best thing you can do is become adaptable to how the market treats your position. This is translated (in more familiar terms) into "cut your losses and let your winners ride", which I have found to be one of the most difficult disciplines I have ever engaged in my whole life. Once you learn how to humble yourself, don't fight the flow but go with the flow, and let the market determine what you're going to do (instead of the other way around), you'll become a much better trader (and person) for it. If there's one thing I could say about my experience in trading commodities thus far, it is that trading is truly a process of self-discovery. Every weakness, every stupid compulsion, every emotional idiosyncrasy you have is exposed and dealt with through the trading process. Your very foundational ideas about money and your connection with money are dealt with through trading. Your attitude towards money (and the place that money holds in your life) will be revealed through trading. You'll find out whether money is your servant or your master. You'll find out why you make the dumb decisions that we all sometimes make. You'll find out why you hate being wrong, and why that's the one thing that will hold you back the most. You'll find out just how much emotionalism can distort your common sense and good judgment. And it all comes through an avenue that I personally least expected it to come through, and that was futures trading. So if it's possible to thank an entity, I thank the markets for teaching me the hard lessons about trading commodities. I also thank God that I didn't get completely wiped out (and subsequently become homeless) from the extremely stupid mistakes I made early in my trading career. You want a true commodity trading education? Get in the game and let the markets teach you about yourself. You'll be surprised at how much you can learn.
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NASA to announce new manned moon missions? | Crave - CNET
It has been almost 40 years since the Apollo 17 mission last landed a man on the moon. It may not take anywhere near that long before we send astronauts back to the moon's neighborhood.
Space.com reports that NASA is seriously looking at sending out a new manned moon mission with the purpose of creating a manned outpost beyond the far side of moon and eventually visiting an asteroid in 2025. This may not physically land a human on the moon, but it would establish a deep space outpost as a base for research and missions.
NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon | Space.com
Artist's concept of astronauts in an Orion capsule helping direct robotic teleoperations on the moon's farside. CREDIT: Lockheed Martin
"NASA has been evolving its thinking, and its latest charts have inserted a new element of cislunar/lunar gateway/Earth-moon L2 sort of stuff into the plan," Logsdon told SPACE.com. (The Earth-moon L2 is a so-called libration point where the two bodies' gravitational pulls roughly balance out, allowing spacecraft to essentially park there.) [Gallery: Visions of Deep-Space Station Missions]
NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon
The Lagrange points for the Earth-moon system. NASA is evaluating an early mission with the Orion capsule placed at Earth-moon L2. Astronauts parked there could teleoperate robots on the lunar farside.
CREDIT: David A. Kring, LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration
CREDIT: David A. Kring, LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration
Source: NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon | Earth-Moon Lagrange Points & Lunar Farside | NASA & Human Spaceflight | Space.com
Could moon outpost propel space travel? Fmr. Astronaut Leroy Chiao weighs in – Early Start with John Berman & Zoraida Sambolin - CNN.com Blogs
What if astronauts were to return to the moon? Decades after man first landed on the moon, Space.com is reporting that it's possible.A space policy expert told the website that plans are in the works by NASA to travel back to the vicinity of the moon and create a manned outpost there in order to learn more about future deep-space travel. The manned outpost could eventually be used as a staging area for future missions to the moon. This morning on "Early Start," fmr. Astronaut and International Space Station Commander Leroy Chiao explains.
Source: Could moon outpost propel space travel? Fmr. Astronaut Leroy Chiao weighs in – Early Start with John Berman & Zoraida Sambolin - CNN.com Blogs
NASA to deploy water-seeking robot on Moon in 2017, manned lunar base could be next | The Verge
50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy told the United States that man would go to the moon. Soon, another American president may announce that the same celestial body will serve as a waypoint for manned space exploration. The Verge has learned that NASA intends to deploy a robotic lunar rover on the Moon in 2017 to search for water and other resources necessary for space travel, and that NASA may have secured support from the White House for an actual manned outpost — a space station — floating above the far side of the moon. Rumors of such a deep-space outpost surfaced as early as February of this year, when a leaked memo from a NASA administrator detailed an idea to build a "human-tended waypoint" at Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2 (EML-2): a point in space where balanced gravitational forces allow an object to remain in stationary orbit relative to both the Earth and the Moon. From there, NASA could launch missions deeper into space — say, to Mars, or a near-Earth asteroid — using the base as a stepping stone.
Source: NASA to deploy water-seeking robot on Moon in 2017, manned lunar base could be next | The Verge


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There are plenty of reasons, even in today's business climate, to seek out web design firms that specialize in designing unique sites for a variety of clients.
Though there is a growing list of freelance Web designers scattered throughout cyberspace offering "template" designs that are supposedly customizable, these are not yet at the level of sophistication for corporate clients.
If you are a company in the Ohio area, you are in luck because there are many great web design firms in the Columbus area that can efficiently meet your Website design needs.
With the growing sophistication of the Web, coupled with the fact that more and more people do a majority of their business exclusively through the Internet, it is becoming imperative for businesses to establish thorough and integrated online presences. To accomplish this, a company needs to have an engaging Website as an anchor for every other Web based initiative.
Below are the four things that you should evaluate when speaking with a Web designer to design a custom Website.
Social Media Integration
With the rise in popularity of social networking and media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, it is vital that any corporate Website feature these aspects in its online campaign. This means having interfaces for each of these sites incorporated into the design of the master Website in a seamless and fluid manner.
Easy Usability
Nothing will damange an online presence more quickly than a Website that is hard to navigate. If a person cannot find what they are looking for from your Website in five clicks or less, you have lost that person, as they will look somewhere else for whatever it is they are trying to find. Time moves much faster in the web world, so make sure you take every precaution to avoid wasting the time of your potential customers.
Streamlined Trumps Cluttered Every Time
Kind of tangential to the previous point, you need to ensure that you insist that your Columbus Website design firm simplifies the design, and avoids unnecessary clutter for the final website design. The more buttons and Flash animations that you have on your front page, the harder it will be for people to tell what it is your Website is designed to do.
Make Contact Information Prominent
And, the most important thing to stress to your Website design firm, is to make your contact information prominent and easy to get to.


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Even beauty products are getting in on the buzz, adding tea in a variety of ways. Tea is added to facial products like Ole Henriksen's African Red Tea Facial Mist; Way of the Bath - Matcha Tea body soak and body lotion from Origins;
Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden has been around since 1999 and is fairly popular, as it is intended to smell like green tea - a blend of peppermint, musk, amber and other notes - but the product doesn't actually list green tea, or any tea for that matter, as an ingredient. Bvlgari's Eau Parfumee Green Tea does list green tea leaves as one of the ingredients, but as with other prestigious beauty products, there's a higher price tag to match. Hey, if you want to treat yourself, be my guest. But for others - like me! - on a beauty budget, there must be some less expensive products using our favorite ingredient: tea.
One of my favorite brands, Demeter, does offer a variety of tea-infused flavors, er, fragrances including Chai Tea, Earl Grey Tea, Green Tea and Chamomile Tea at more wallet-friendly prices. Try a frag out for $10 or splurge on a 4 oz version for $39.50. Plus Demeter sells matching body lotion and shower gels so you can layer accordingly.
Check out the ingredient list and you'll see black tea listed. Perfect!
Perfume is one thing but what about every day beauty products - for women and men? Like soap? And lotion?
I did a little research online and found some surprising results.
Kiehl's, a prestigious beauty company, sells a Yerba Mate Tea Toner, which is comprised of several natural ingredients including yerba mate extract. I couldn't find it on the regular Kiehl's site but you can get it on Amazon...for about $70. Yikes, I know!
Fresh sells a Black Tea Age-Delay Eye Cream for about $65. I've tried some Fresh products and I've been impressed, especially with how long their products last. (A sample of this I had lasted about a month, applying daily.) Sephora sells a great set of all the Fresh Black Tea Eye creams too.
A more budget-friendly solution is Korres, which happens to be one of my favorite beauty lines as well. Korres uses all natural ingredients and offers some vegan-friendly beauty options too. Korres sells a White Tea Facial Fluid Gel Cleanser for just over $20.
Check out this tea haven called Tracy Stern SalonTea. She sells tea, tea accessories, and an entire line of tea-infused beauty and bath products, all at salon - but reasonable - prices. Check out her travel kit to get a sampling of what wonders she works with tea. Tracy also offers a brick-and-mortar locale in NYC, and hosts afternoon teas and tea parties. Add that to your NYC To Visit List pronto!
There's another "scentsational" shop online for tea-infused beauty products including Strawberry Honey Tea Lip Balm and even Chai Tea soap: SCENTSational Soaps. This eco-friendly company offers vegan alternatives too.
You can also make your own tea-inspired beauty products. There's a wealth of ideas, recipes, tips and suggestions on making your own beauty products at home. Click here for more info, including a chance to submit your own recipes.
Got any other tea-infused and/or tea-inspired beauty products? Drop me a line or leave a comment below and I'll add 'em.


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Coat of arms
The first example of the coat of arms is on the majestic seal of the king Przemysł II, dated 1295.
In the result of Krewa union (1385) between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have been introduced the new coat of arms of the united countries. The sheild was quartered, having in the 1st and the 3rd the arms of Poland (Orzeł Biały – the White Eagle), and in the 2nd and 4th the arms of Lithuania (Vitis – the Pursuit).
From 1573 to these arms were added inescitheons with the personal arms of the Polish Kings. Paralel to the arms of the Polish-Lithuanian were in use arms of the Kingdom of Poland, ie. the white crowned eagle in the red field. Only his artistic shape was changing according to the changes in the art. Below you can see some examples.
When after 123 years of partitions between Russia, Austria and Prussia Poland as an independent state was resurrected, on 1 August 1919 the historic White Eagle was restored as the national coat of arms. His shape was similar to those used at the end of the XVIII century.
In December of 1927 the new form of the coat of arms was enacted. The author, architect Zygmunt Kamiński was not acquainted with the heraldic rules and made some grave errors. He has made crown solid, without clearance between the fleurons and made eagle's legs white instead of yellow (gold).
In 1956 the Polish Government in Exile (London) has placed the closed crown on the eagle's head, but has not changed the shape of the eagle.
From 1944 to 1989 the communist government retained the former shape of the eagle, but has remowed the crown. The arms of 1927 were reintroduced (with minimal changes) in 1990.
National colors
Polish national colours, white abr red stem from the coat of arms. They were enacted on 7 February 1831 as colours of the arms of Kingdom of Poland (white eagle on red field) and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (white knight and his horse on red field).
The colors of white and red have been on 1 August 1919 recognized as Polish national colors, and formed the first Polish national flag in proportions of 5:8. From 1919 to 1927 the red of the flag was quite dark, from 1928 to 1980 it was cinabar red, and since 1980 is a bit darker red.
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My Boss brought this HUGE Camellia to work today. She does not know the variety but said it has been blooming for four whole months. I guess you could say it's been a good year for Camellias!
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The Dunia Engine was built specifically for Far Cry 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montreal development team. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and so much more.
Crossfire continues to give us very good gains. The performance increase we get is huge and is the difference between playing at 2560 x 1600 and not. We again see at the highest resolution the GTX 295 and HD 4870 Crossfire setup performing very similar with ATI ultimately pulling out the win.
Optimum Setup- 2560 x 1600 runs like an absolute dream. We've got plenty of FPS to play with in the minimum department, so adding 2x AA will give us a drop in performance but keep us above that important 30 FPS we not only want, but need.
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Layer Previous is a handy tool that lets you undo the last actions occurring in the Layer Property Manager or drop-down list — without undoing any of the valuable work you've been doing. In this video tip from Cadalyst and Lynn Allen, you'll learn how you can use this powerful tool to increase your productivity!
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Jermaine Jones will reportedly get kicked off tonight's (March 14) episode of "American Idol" before even singing a note, thanks to several warrants out for his arrest and violent crimes he allegedly hid from producers by giving a fake name to police.
Zap2it spoke with him yesterday (March 13) before an alleged on-camera confrontation about his covered-up crimes, and he sounded optimistic about his performance.
"I feel pretty good after last week. I'm thrilled with my song choice this week," he tells us of the tune he picked, which falls in line with this week's theme of 'songs from the year you were born.' "I think it really suits my voice better than any song I've sung thus far, so I'm feeling pretty good.
He even joked about the fact that many of his competitors were born in the mid-'90s, while he had to choose from songs released in 1986. "They're talking about the '90s and I'm like 'What? '86! 25 years old! You guys are 16 and 17!' Yes, it did make me feel old."
While he had a better selections of songs to choose from, Jones says he did find it difficult to pick something because he wasn't too familiar with many '80s songs growing up. "I was never really into platform shoes or bell bottoms so I didn't really know too many songs from my year either," he says. Wrong decade, but we'll allow it. "When I was growing up it was really gospel in my house for the most part, and when my parents did listen to music it was oldies and Motown and things like that. Gladys Knight and stuff like that. And that's way before '86!"
Jones also says he enjoyed working with this week's mentor, Will.i.am. "I loved working with Will. He's very encouraging. He's spot-on with all his advice and things like that. He's very down to earth; he's very helpful. His aura just gives off just very, very pleasant vibes. So he's a really, really good guy and I enjoyed working with him."
Jones gave no indication that he knew he'd be leaving the show, and seemed happy to perform on the Top 12 show. After the TMZ story broke, Jones tweeted on his official "Idol"-sanctioned Twitter account, "Awww I will no longer b on the show." The tweet was quickly deleted — along with the entire account, giving credence to the story, although FOX has not commented on the matter.


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Lighting: Martin Faltermeier
Additional Cameras: Lukas Gellert, Markus Bauer
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Zen is to transcendent life and death, all dualism, to truly realize that the entire universe is the "True Human Body" through the discipline of "mind and body in oneness. Besides this actual realization there is nothing else.
However without the accompanying physical experience Zen becomes nothing but an empty discussion. In this spirit countless ways seek to reach the high moon but practice by Sword is the shortest way to reach, because practice by Sword is serious, we meet life or death directly in a moment. Having made this experience we manifest this vital energy and immovable mind of the Buddha Nature in our daily lives.
During the Zen and Kendo Sesshin in Munich (Tannenhof), the last, Sasaki Genso Roshi Master of the very rare and old Jikishinkage-Ryu Sword School will allow for the very first time to film the practice. Sasaki Genso Roshi will together with his foremost pupil Harry Guhl, show one of the most ancient Sword techniques which has been transmitted from Master to Master, since over 500 years.
Rinzai Roshi Sasaki Genso (born 1947) is the dharma successor of Omori Sogen Roshi (1904-1994), a successor in the Tenryū-ji line of Rinzai Zen and former scholar of last Jikishinkage-Ryū Kendo headmaster Yamada Jirokichi (1863-1930).
The Jikishinkage-Ryū lineage can be traced back to its founder Matsumoto Bizen-no-Kami (1467–1524) and the Rinzai Zen lineage to Shakyamuni Buddha and beyond. Since then the essence of practice never changed and has been transmitted from master to master.
The Zen Master will consider in addition to complement the martial exercise with a Tessho (Buddhist speech) to give a deeply insight view of the truth of live and death.
Jikishinkage-Ryu Kendo
The fundamental of the Jikishinkage-Ryū Kendo is the "Hojo no Kata" which was once created as an entity, reflecting the truths of creation and destruction in relation to man and nature. Divided into 4 principle parts which are related to the 4 seasons we practice like sun and shadow with the characteristic of the Nio deities, the protectors of the Dharma. Putting the whole being into the practice we eventually unfold great vigour and generosity, ultimately without the sword.
Links: http://www.ryu-un-zen.org


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Sauteed Prawns with Rosemary
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- 1 pound freshwater prawns in their shells
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoons dried rosemary, crumbled
- Combine cleaned prawns with lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic and rosemary in a glass or other non-reactive bowl. Cover and marinate for about 1 hour in the refrigerator, stirring periodically.
- Preheat a large nonstick over high heat. Transfer the contents of the bowl to the hot pan. Cook the prawns for about 2 minutes on each side, until the shells turn bright pink and the meat is opaque.
- Remove to a serving bowl and set another alongside for shells.
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|The Global Financial Crisis - the whirlwind of astounding real estate foreclosures, stock market crashes, business bankruptcies and disappearing credit has now hit every single country around the planet
"Ground Zero"-"The Sub Prime Crisis"
|Whatever any commentator might say about the dramatic and threatening events we now face, it is universally agreed that the point of origin appears to be the "Sub Prime Mortgage loan crisis" and simply the "Sub Prime Crisis".
|The words "sub prime" refer to what business and economic commentators in the United States (and later the rest of world) coined to describe those home loans given to American consumers never likely to maintain sustainable debt repayments.
|This does not mean that these millions of individuals and families were incapable of repaying loans--just that these people were largely seduced into over-borrowing --taking on more debt than they could possibly manage.
|At a time when interest rates in the United States were reaching record lows from 2001/2002, the United States Federal Reserve and the United States Government under George W. Bush permitted a complete winding down of prudent financial and accounting practices so that by 2003, the United States and much of the industrialized world was awash with "easy credit".
|Individuals in places as diverse as the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States who previously only had one credit card, suddenly had two or three. Lending companies promoted "no-deposit, low interest" loans, pushing up rapidly the value of homes and ballooning the size of mortgages ordinary people were prepared to take.
|By 2007, hundreds of millions of people in the wealthiest countries on Earth were suddenly swimming in a sea of debt -- just as Interest rates started to rise --fueled by a rapid increase in the cost of food and energy. The twin pressures of rising living costs and the cost of repaying debt simply became too much for millions of struggling families --loans were defaulted and homes started to be repossessed in record numbers.
|This started to cause yet another problem -- the rapid deflation of home value prices in major markets such as the United States, the UK and Europe. Suddenly, those that could still afford to hang on and struggle with debt were seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars being wiped off the value of their homes within months.
|At this stage, this crisis was still called the "Sub prime Crisis" and all eyes were on George W. Bush and the privately owned Federal Reserve to see what they would do. Incredibly, not only did they do nothing, but they actually, almost seemingly deliberately made things much worse.
|What then does either the Catholic Church and/or the Jesuits have to do with any of this? At this stage, the events discussed so far all point to the hallmarks of good old "greed" and "incompetence" on behalf of people like President Bush and his financial cronies. So how is the Catholic Church and the Jesuits involved with this? and what proof is there? To answer, we need to ask as simple question - how wealthy is the Roman Catholic Church?
How wealthy is the Roman Catholic Church?
|Just how wealthy is the Roman Catholic Church and its various orders and subsidiaries? It may not immediate appear directly relevant to the discussions to date, but in fact the real answer goes to the heart of what has happened, is happening and will happen in the near future.
|For instance, we know roughly the wealth of the top 1000+ companies around the world, we also know the wealth of most of the 191 nation state members of the United Nations--so what about the Catholic Church?
|If you were to look at any of the lists published in the past 50 years of the top 100 to 500 largest economic entities in the world (entities being any type of body corporate ie company, religion, state etc) then you would not find the Catholic Church listed even once.
|To be fair, in recent years the Vatican has published a set of accounts of sorts. These infrequent financial statements have revealed some asset values attached to the specific real estate in Rome as well as direct public cash income and expenses. However these financial statements do not include any of its subsidiary organs and subsidiaries.
|For example, the Catholic ArchDiocese of Boston as well as New York both publish annual financial statements. On even a quick look at their figures, just these two divisions of the Catholic Church hold assets and income worth several billion dollars.
|In response, the Vatican and Catholic Officials quote two important arguments: the first being that the Catholic Church considers its subsidiaries as "independent" entities when it comes to financial disclosure --a contradiction against both Church law and practice which states all organs and subsidiaries are sworn to obedience to the central power of the Holy See in Rome.
|The second argument when all else fails is to state that the Vatican is politically an independent sovereign state and so may choose to accept or reject calls for open global transparency of its financial accounts. To date, this claimed "true Church" has steadfastly refused to cooperate with any kind of global accounting of its wealth.
|Regardless of continuing refusal by the Catholic Church to declare its global wealth for its Catholic faithful and all the world to see, the stark anomaly of how a multi-billion dollar entity can manage to stay off every published list of wealthy entities remains a mystery.
|The indisputable historic evidence
|Prior to the appearance of mainstream "entertainment" based news and media, if you were to ask an educated person 100 years ago what single entity was the largest and wealthiest in the world, they would have told you without question the Roman Catholic Church.
|The clear, unmistakable and uncontestable truth concerning the Roman Catholic Church is that for 1,000 years it has been the most dominant organization on the planet, during which time it virtually owned directly or indirectly the whole or the majority of wealth of Europe.
|For the four hundred years up until the last century, it was well recognized that the Roman Catholic Church also owned and controlled vast wealth and people of the Americas including large parts of South-East Asia and Africa.
|Again, let us be absolutely clear on this. The Catholic Church for the past 1,000 years was the indisputable largest economic entity of humanity history. No other nation, corporation or group of families came anywhere close. For centuries, the Church and the Popes had unfettered access to the plunder of Islamic countries, of the ancient Celts and Saxons, of ancient Greek, of ancient Egypt, of the entire fortunes of gold of the Americas, of the mines and civilizations of Africa.
|As the largest economic entity of history for over 1,000 years, the Roman Catholic Church dominated ever single class of assets, not just gold and minerals. Its property holdings were by fare the largest of any economic entity in Europe, let alone conquered lands. Its holdings of art and precious artifacts was and is unheralded.
|The Roman Catholic Church was a founder in virtually every historic major enterprise created out of states under its influence. It had holdings in new corporations from trading companies to banks and then major industries were unmatched.
|So wealthy was the Roman Catholic Church for over 1,000 years that even if it hired every single person on the planet in 1800 as an employee and paid them in gold coins, it had enough gold reserves to keep everyone gainfully employed for centuries.
|This total domination of the Roman Catholic Church as the single largest economic entity on planet Earth for over 1,000 years can't simply be dismissed. Prior to modern revisions of history, it was acknowledged as absolute fact- the Catholic Church was the biggest economic entity on the planet, no question.
|How then did something so dominant suddenly appear to drop in asset value to a corporation of only a few billion dollars, that it would not even rate in the top 1,000 economic entities of the world today? Simply through creative history and creative accounting.
|Creative history
|Firstly in regards to creative history, from the early 20th Century, the influence of the Catholic Church began to be downplayed.
|The reasons given for the" magical disappearance" of the wealth of the Roman Catholic are numerous, but all concerning the common theme-- economic and political incompetence with bad fortune. The loss of England was blown up to represent a major disaster to the finances of the Catholic Church from which it never recovered.
|The wars of the 16th to 18th Century were also blamed for depleting the assets of the Catholic Church until finally the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte at the beginning of the 19th Century was used as a final blow to indicate the once great and financially powerful Catholic Church was officially broke.
|This of course is technically true. By the time Napoleon entered Rome, the Jesuits had captured most of the gold of the Pope.
|Of course, in this revised history the holdings of South and North America, let alone Africa are largely left out, let alone the influence of the Jesuits and Napoleon including the treaty at the early part of the 19th Century after Napoleon was defeated.
|Just to make sure, the loss of the Papal States at the end of the 19th Century is also used as the basis of revisionist history to claim the Vatican was broke.
|So in the space of 80 years and successive revisionist accepted histories, the world's largest and dominant entity has been successfully transformed into a dwindling fortune that was lost, stolen and mismanaged over centuries of incompetence to the small remainder we have today.
|Remember, this slant on history is relatively recent. To say to an educated person in 1900 that the Catholic Church is not the dominant and largest economic entity in the world at the time, they'd have simply laughed in your face and told you were deluded.
|Everyone knew they were the most powerful and wealthiest organization, bar none one hundred years ago. Now, most people accept they are not even in the top 1,000 economic entities of the world.
|Of course, such creative and fraudulent history only works and has credibility if you can successfully hide the once dominant assets of the Catholic Church.
|Creative accounting
|To hide the massive assets of the Catholic Church, a decentralized system with safeguards and controls were invented. Whereas it would have been unthinkable even 200 years ago to place such wealth in the hands of bishops. However thanks to modern communication, modern finance and accounting, the task was much easier.
|The major investments of property, fixed assets were transferred under the control of the dioceses around the world. In turn, all non-visible church property was hidden via complex shelf companies and trusts.
|Major classes of assets such as shares, gold bullion, diamonds and other precious resources were transferred for direct control under the banks owned and controlled by the Vatican.
|Using the cloaks of secrecy in such states as Switzerland and even the Vatican itself, the true ownership and identity of these massive treasures could be hidden.
|The Vatican depends upon these laws of secrecy to maintain the lie of its true wealth. Without the secret banking laws and lack of uniform, proper and transparent disclosure laws around the world, the great fraud that the Catholic Church is no longer No 1. could not be maintained.
|Thus in the end, the single largest economic entity the world has ever seen disappeared from the radar of people's minds and returned as a poor and impoverished church in desperate need of funds.
|What is the true picture of wealth of the church?
|The single largest asset class owned by the Vatican is also the easiest to see, as it cannot be hidden.
|The Vatican is the largest holder of land titles for any organization or government in the world with visible title to around US $316 Billion of property (churches, schools, hospitals etc) and around US $2,623 Billion of investment property hidden in extremely complex networks of hundreds of thousands of trusts and front companies.
|The current market property value of Vatican City, in the heart of Rome alone is worth between US $1 Billion and $3 Billion. This excludes the value of the priceless artworks and valuables stored within its walls.
|The most valuable property holdings of the Catholic Church by nation is the United States with around $50 Billion in visible property holdings and around $507 Billion in hidden property holdings through a massively complex network of front companies and trusts.
|The next most valuable property holdings are Germany (US $297 Billion of which only $29 Billion is visible property), France (US $282 Billion of which only $28 Billion is visible), Italy (US $230 Billion of which around $23 Billion is visible), Brazil (US $194 Billion of which around $26 Billion is visible) and Spain (US $158 Billion of which around $15 Billion is visible).
|What are the major property portfolio holdings by key nations? How then did the Catholic Church accumulate such a historic and massive property portfolio? How is the Catholic Church still able to hide such massive property investments while still successfully claiming to be "poor"? How reliable are these numbers to the truth?
|The Major property holdings estimated to be owned by the Catholic Church are listed in the following table. They are researched from years of private research. If you are unsure, you can test the validity of these numbers yourself by researching published reports by various Catholic subsidiaries and do a property valuation on stated land holdings then extend this globally. The property investments are divided into visible property holdings and hidden property holdings.
|Visible property holdings are those property holdings clearly visible as being owned by the Catholic Church, while hidden property holdings represents between 85% and 90% of the total property holdings of the church.
|As outlined, there are principally two types of property holdings of the Catholic Church determined largely by the degree to which their ownership and value can be hidden.
|Visible property holdings- schools, churches, hospitals etc Hidden property holdings- golf courses, office high rise, industrial parks, residential apartments etc.
|While the total global value of visible property holdings of the Catholic Church are around US $316 Billion, the Vatican has developed an ingenious strategy over the past forty years to change the public mind set on the extent of its wealth.
|History of property ownership of the Catholic Church
|The Catholic Church has deliberately degraded its most emotional and valuable front lines assets for the most disadvantaged to support its false claim of having no money. In fact, the Catholic Church has gone to the outrageous step of actually closing front line services for homeless and disadvantaged people often in response to attacks and claims of being a wealthy organization.
|This innovative and unique behaviour of sacrificing assets to protect the impression of being poor is best described as the "service hostage method".
|The service hostage method invented by the Vatican is a brilliant and very successful strategy of deliberately sacrificing key services for the most disadvantaged and poor of western communities in order to emphasize the false claim of having no money.
|In effect, the church uses the asset as a "hostage" against politicians and social leaders calling upon greater accountability or response to the behaviour of the church.
|Rather than the church being on the defensive, the wealthiest nation of the Catholic Church, with total property interests of over $557 Billion simply has deliberately run many of its front line services into the ground, causing great pain anguish and in some cases deaths of individuals.
|Any claim then that the church has hidden "millions" is simply responded with the line "so you really think a church dedicated to Christian charity would be so heartless or evil to deliberate close important services if it had the money?"
|The gold ownership of the Catholic Church
|The second largest asset class owned by the Vatican is precious metals, or more specifically Gold.
|Apart from property, no other type of Asset has so obsessed the Catholic Church, nor been religiously accumulated by the Vatican than Gold. It is the currency of the Church and has been for over 1,000 years.
|So how much Gold does the Catholic Church actually control? Some say very little, citing previous wars and mismanagement. Others claim that the Vatican controls a few "Billion" dollars in gold, with much of it stolen by Catholic Fascist regimes during World War II.
|Before this fact is answered, it is important to clearly establish just how much gold has been mined since the beginning of time, for without a very brief but clear history of gold production, it is difficult to understand the true wealth of the Vatican.
|General demand and use of Gold
|Average total global gold production over the last ten years currently stands around 2,300 to 2,500 metric tonnes per annum. Currently, the three largest gold producers in the world are South Africa (24%), Australia (16%) and Canada (8%).
|In terms of average total global demand, global demand had been running around 3,800 to 4,000 metric tonnes per annum of which 81% is used for jewelry, 10% for industrial and 9% as bullion (retail investment).
|This higher consumption of gold compared to production has led some analysts to believe that the price of gold is set to continue to rise even further in coming years.
|How much Gold has ever been produced (mined)?
|It may or may not surprise you to know that there is no unanimous agreement as to exactly how much gold has been produced, nor is still in existence and "owned" across planet Earth.
|We know that official (public) gold reserves account for some 30,000 metric tonnes of Gold, the single largest gold deposit facility being the Federal Reserve of New York with around 5,000 in official (public) gold reserves.
|Then there are private gold reserves, not declared and included in total estimates. The internationally recognized Barclays Bank estimate around 24,000 to 26,000 metric tonnes are stored in secure private facilities and that around 80% of all the gold ever mined is in bullion (ingot) form. They therefore estimate the total Gold mined to be only 70,000 tonnes.
|However the internationally recognized US Geological Survey Department as well as historical mining publications put total global gold production from 1900 to 2006 at 128,075 metric tonnes which is over 58,000 higher from the last century alone than the total claimed by Barclays as being all the gold ever mined!
|Contrary to the banking sector which seems to substantially low ball estimates, the mining industry claims the total gold produced is closer to around 140,000 to 150,000 metric tonnes.
|However, if we take into account both accurate production measures and historical data, then from 1600 to the present day, over 150,000 tonnes of gold have been produced, which means even the seemingly "high" figure of 150,000 tonnes is still too conservative.
|For example, over 3,000 tonnes of Gold was stripped from the American civilizations by the Spanish between 1492 and 1600, estimated to be around 40% of total global production during the period. Between 1600 and 1800, the Jesuit controlled massive slave mines of Colombia and Brazil is estimated to have produced three times the Gold stolen during the American civilization genocides.
|The most accurate estimate, taking into account all records, all historical references and the history of mining techniques and mining areas is that around 200,143 metric tonnes is closer to the figure of all gold every mined/produced.
|Why the discrepancy?
|It is hard to reconcile why such massive and obvious discrepancies exist to deliberately down play the total size of the total amount of gold from 200,000+ tonnes to less than 70,000 tonnes.
|One obvious reason is the maintenance of high gold prices. So long as production is less than demand and so long as the markets maintain a perception of limited reserves, traders and owners of gold can demand phenomenal prices.
|A second and more difficult reason to prove is that there exists very large owners of gold, who are in such a strong financial position that they are willing to hold onto massive private gold reserves away from any accounting for strategic, political and financial advantage.
|The Russians, for example are believe to hold many tonnes of gold in private reserves that are impossible to verify. However, when we look at official estimates, we are talking about a potential discrepancy in gold estimates of over 50,000 metric tonnes (almost $1,000 Billion) simply missing and unaccounted.
|¼ of the world's total gold doesn't just simply disappear. Private collectors may hide a portion out of circulation, but eventually it returns in some way and can be tracked. Nor do individual dictators have the power or apparatus to perform such feats.
|The gold reserves held by the Vatican
|The largest single holder of ingot/bullion gold of any organization for the past 1,000 years is and has always been the Roman Cult controlling the Catholic Church.
|The Roman Catholic Church controls approximately 60,350 metric tonnes of gold, twice the size of the total official gold reserves around the world or approximately 30.2% of all the gold every mined/produced. At current prices, it puts the asset value of the greatest treasure in human history at over US $1,245 Billion.
|At present, the Roman Catholic Church is back down to total gold domination numbers not seen since the fall of the Holy Roman Empire (around 1100) when it controlled less than 30% of total world gold.
|For most of the past 1,000 years, the Catholic Church has been in a dominant position to control the world market of gold with over 50% of all gold and a high point from around the 14th Century to around 17th Century of controlling over 60% of the total gold ever mined.
|The treasure has been split between various declared reserves as well as undisclosed reserves. Only 20% of total gold reserves are stored through third parties in official reserves, the largest declared reserve being the Federal Reserve Bank, followed by the reserves in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France.
|The largest private (non disclosed) reserves are unknown, but likely to also be in Western countries and corresponding to the major private reserves of the oldest private banks and financial firms of Europe. They may also be reserves that are directly managed by the Vatican, however this is highly unlikely.
|The Vatican and Jesuits- The Global Financial System
|The third largest asset class owned by the Vatican is founding and key controlling stock in banks, more specifically the global financial system.
|As the largest and dominant holder of capital assets (precious metals, land through Papal Bulls and slaves/serfs) for over 1,600 years the history of the Roman Catholic Church in allowing its capital reserves to be utilized in financing economic growth is in itself the history of banking and global finance.
|The reason this obvious relationship is not well understood, nor commonly discussed is twofold: the traditional "love-hate" relationship of the Vatican towards banks and money lenders and secondly the deliberate hiding of the enormous capital wealth of the Catholic Church via the banking system itself over the past two hundred years.
|The understanding of this relationship has both historic financial and political ramifications as it explains to a significant extent, the complicity of banks in periods of great political instability and their active work against laws of transparency and equity.
|The historic love-hate relationship between the Vatican and banks
|The Roman Catholic Church has always been in a position to dominate global trade and finance.
|However, the relationship between the Vatican and banking was never historically the same as other asset classes until the age of Jesuit financial control since the 1790's. In many respects, the policy of the Catholic Church was to deliberately curb the growth of banking.
|One historical and erroneous explanation has always been the claim that the Catholic Church considered the charging of interest and usury as a terrible sin. Given the consistent unbroken line of high immorality and downright evil of the Popes and church officials, such this false explanation is unsubstantiated.
|When Popes did allow limited banking, the result was almost instant phenomenal economic growth across Europe and the world such as the 13th and 14th Centuries. Indication of the churches loathing of banking is indicated by its systematic dismantling of the Templar system 1100-1300 of exchanging local currency for a demand note which could be "cashed" at any of their castles. It was not until the Jesuit and English slave and drugs traders of the 17th Century that this system returned.
|Given the guaranteed potential for the Vatican to substantially increase its overall wealth by allowing its vast capital resources to be utilized in economic growth, it is clear that unlike gold and money, the church did not see economic growth per se a positive political objective.
|Secondly, the Jewish connection often blamed for the fictitious concern of usury is more likely to relate to the ancient Sadducee families that helped form Christianity in the first place being ancient bankers as referenced obliquely in the episode of Jesus in the Temple and the money lenders.
|It is no surprise then that the families that helped establish the global banking network from the 17th century that eventually took control of the UK banks and world finance were Jewish. In many respects the "usury" lie was just a cover to protect a rather difficult relationship to otherwise explain.
|The Jesuits and the global finance system
|Because today, the true dominant global wealth of the Roman Catholic Church is so well hidden behind hundreds of thousands of trusts, companies, cross ownerships and secretive laws, any discussion regarding the complete control of the Catholic Church and the global financial system is difficult to fathom with any credibility.
|Automatically, the natural reaction is to classify such discussions as conspiracy. In truth, the global financial system that we know today and the world economy would not have occurred, if not for the events that saw firstly the Jesuits disbanded, a war resulting in the assassination of two Popes before finally the Jesuits achieving a lasting treaty from 1814 onwards and the restatement of the most powerful order in church history.
|Unlike the greedy Popes, the Jesuits saw the vast wealth of the church as a strategic asset that could be used more precisely to ferment revolution, finance war, change governments and defeat their long time non-Catholic enemies.
|Again, unlike the insular Popes, the Jesuits had seen the power and success of using business and finance to build influence through its phenomenally successful relationships in Japan, other parts of Asia, Russia and the Americas.
|The Jesuits had the first hand experience of the pioneers of the modern finance system, the English Protestants in the 17th Century as a case history in the power of finance to power the rapid expansion of an Empire.
|Banks and in particular Private Banks were also a powerful tool for achieving strategic objectives and also provided an effective means of hiding the wealth of the Vatican, both from the Pope (from whom it was initially stolen) and from other forces.
|In banks and the establishment of the global finance network, the Jesuits discovered for the first time a means by which they could literally play two or more sides against one another, without anyone being the wiser, excluding the bankers of course, and at the same time make money from funding the conflict.
|In the past, Jesuits had focused primarily on assassination and court influence, both fraught with great personal peril. But in building the global financial network, allied with loyal families, themselves aligned to the ancient Jewish noble families that help found Christianity, the Jesuits could effectively start huge wars and never risk direct implication.
|The important pattern to note is the general groupings of dates of bank formation and their significance. The first is the formation of banks by English Protestants during the end of the 17th Century. This marks a watershed moment in the economic architecture of the first phase of the British Empire.
|The second pattern is the grouping of banks formed in the Netherlands and Switzerland just prior to the suppression of the Jesuits around 1767 by Portugal, Italy, France and Spain.
|The third pattern is the grouping of banks formed during the active suppression of the Jesuits and their war with the Vatican and Popes from 1773 to 1818 in the United States, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom.
|This group of banks created during the Vatican-Jesuit War is probably the most historically influential, secretive, political of any group of banks in human history. Almost all of them have been implicated in an assortment of allegations from funding of wars, crimes against humanity, treason and money laundering.
|The Darier Hentsch & Cie Bank (1796, Switzerland) was the bank that happened to fund Napoleon his European Wars that saw the Papal States and influence of the Vatican crippled.
|The Rothschilds (1800, Germany) are famous for suddenly acquiring massive wealth almost overnight and then proceeding to fund numerous European Wars, Asian Wars including World War I.
|Barings Bank (1802, UK) is famous for organizing the purchase of Lousiana by the United States from Napoleon during his war with Britain.
|City Bank of New York (now CitiBank) (1812) is famous for helping finance the North side of the Civil War, US involvement in World War II, US business in Nazi Germany and US involvement in World War II.
|J. Henry Shroeder Bank (1818, Germany) is famous for being the almost exclusive bank for the Nazis.
|Of the top 20 banks of the world today, over half originate from the period 1760 to 1860 which saw the Jesuits disperse the massive wealth of the Catholic Church to all parts of the globe, especially great influxes into the United States.
|In terms of Private Banks, in 1986, the total asset value held was said to be US$4,300 Billion. In 1997, the figure has more than doubled to $10,000 Billion. In year 2000 alone, the figure hit $13,600 Billion trillion, and is currently still growing at a rate of 30 percent per year. The current estimate of total asset value of deposits held by private banks is around $17,000 Billion.
|The Federal Reserve Bank and the Catholic Church
|Indirectly, the most valuable banking investment of the Roman Catholic Church is its investment control of the Federal Reserve Banks of the United States.
|Through a highly complex arrangement of small holdings across sometimes thousands of banks and cross-ownership holdings hiding foreign ownership, the Catholic Church has effectively controlled the Federal Reserve Bank and therefore the destiny of the United States economy since the turn of the 20th Century.
|The Catholic Church has only ordered the complete pulling of the plug of the United States economy once in 1929 to the early 1930's effectively grinding the economy to a halt during the Great Depression along with Europe.
|While an extremely high risk strategy that could have caused another Civil War in the United States, the action was necessary to generate suitable conditions of poverty in Europe for the rise of Catholic appointed dictators in Germany, Spain, Italy as well as South America. Without the deliberate action of the Catholic controlled banks, the Great Depression would not had happened and by default World War II would not have taken place.
|Since its formation, only one President of the United States --a Catholic himself --has attempted to override the power of the Federal Reserve and the Roman Catholic Church by ordering the US Treasury to print its own money. The money was destroyed the day after he ceased to be President. His name was John F. Kennedy.
|Putting it all together
|Putting all this together, you can see that there is a lot more to who actually controls the wealth of the world and the actions they dictate from time to time that affect whether we will have a job, a home and food to eat.
|At the very least we can blame the US Federal Reserve in part --also realizing that this organization remains essentially a set of private trusts holding the US public and the world to ransom with its decisions. Indeed, it is an institution heavily influenced by its Catholic masters.
|Yes, collectively we all borrowed too much money. But in reality all we did was ask for a little of the massive wealth stolen and held by others such as the Vatican and the Jesuits to flow through their banks and into our pockets. We weren't really borrowing, just finding a way to get back some of what is rightfully ours in the first place.
|The sub prime crisis should never have happened. The Federal reserve could of easily contained the problem and stopped it in 2008. Instead, against all logic they let it get substantially worse.
|The answer to the fundamental question of why? why throw the world back into a depression again after 70 years requires a fresh article--an article that explains the structure of the global banking system controlled by the Vatican and Jesuits and how they started to "turn off the credit taps" by Christmas time 2008.
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Kevin Richardson produces this South African wildlife docu-drama. When Letsatsi, a rare white lion cub, is born into a pride in a remote African valley, he faces many hazards from both the natural world and human predators. But he finds solace and protection in two unlikely friendships: one with older lion Ngulu, and the other with a small Shangaan boy named Gisani (Thabo Malema).


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I wonder how you go about making a fallback for this in browsers that don't support SVG, like converting it into a bar chart or something. Awesome nonetheless.
Actually looks like there is already a fallback option mentioned here: http://www.chartjs.org/docs/
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Is it possible to have more than 1 chart on the page?
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{Front Porch Makeover ~ Part III: New Ceiling}
We plan to use beadboard in the interior of the house and decided we would add the feature to the ceiling of our porch. To save time we opted to use beadboard paneling~ rather than the individual tongue and groove slats. Home Depot happened to carry a larger size than Lowes did which cut even more time from this project.
Hoping to save additional time we primed each panel prior to installing. Brian used a couple of 2x4's (also called a dead man) to help hold the ceiling in place while he nailed it in.
Once the ceiling was installed, Brian added a quarter round for a finishing touch. Then filled in the nail holes with putty.
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How to Create a Powerful Morning Ritual
by Christine Kane
It is said that your habits create your destiny.
I'd add that your habits also create your confidence, courage and even your creativity!
In other words, your daily choices, routines, and seemingly insignificant moments make all the difference in your results.
One of the best ways to generate great results is to create a morning ritual. A powerful morning ritual sets the tone for your entire day – and your entire year!
A ritual is personal. A ritual is creative. (Not reactive!) A ritual is what gets YOU on track to create your best day. (And subsequently, your best life!) It can be as simple as a 15-minute routine, or as intense as long-distance running. The important thing is that it becomes a HABIT.
My morning ritual combines a mixture of physical, mental and heart-centered activities to engage each of these human power centers!
Here are some ideas to help you create your own powerful morning ritual.
Hydrate First
Many Eastern health practitioners recommend chugging down at least a half-liter of filtered room-temperature water first thing. (Yes, before your coffee!)
Upon waking, your body has spent hours without hydration. Drinking pure water at this time triggers a series of physiological functions that keep your body super healthy. Some report that this one practice can actually heal many diseases. (I'm not a scientist – but I can attest to the amazing results!)
Get Moving
Exercise is called "The Number One Form of Preventive Medicine."
It is also a prescription for happiness and a cure for depression! Getting exercise first thing sets your day off right. You can do a simple stretching routine, yoga or an all-out heart-pounding hour at the gym. Pick something do-able and do it.
Many people don't meditate because they find it intimidating. I say, start with just 5 minutes. Meditation connects you to your center, and to the deep silence that surpasses any drama that might be happening in the world of your personality. Don't worry about doing it right. Just allow yourself the time to BE.
Set Intention
"Intention rules the earth," says Oprah Winfrey.
It's true! Your intention is a powerful force to engage.
Remembering your intention puts you back on track. You become focused again.
Reflect for a moment on your Word of the Year. Read a goal you've written down for yourself. Remind yourself of a financial dream. (If you're one of my new students in Uplevel Your Business, read the intention you wrote down on the first day of the program!)
You don't have to know the HOW. You just need to set the intention so your inner GPS can stay on target!
Be Grateful
Before I get out of bed, I silently create a morning gratitude list. When I begin my day remembering my "gratitudes," (instead of my "anxieties") my heart fills with extreme joy and deep awareness. I then bring that energy into everything I do – and to everyone with whom I connect.
Use a Netty Pot
(This one's a little weird!)
For years, my acupuncturist told my husband and I to use a Netty Pot. We laughed at him. Then, in the face of acute sinus problems, my husband tried it and became a convert. He converted me.
A Netty Pot uses warm water and a special salt to cleanse your sinuses and clear your breathing. Google it, and let the idea sit with you for a while. (You might be a convert too!)
Eat Creative
Your choice of breakfast foods can set up your success with other meals as well. Start your day off in the healthiest way possible for you – and make it a ritual, not a chore.
Be Prepared: Create a Not-to-Do List
Everyone needs a "Not To Do" morning list.
Suggestions here include anything that brings up a "reactive" state: Turning on the local news. Checking email. Answering texts. Answering the phone.
Let these things wait until AFTER your ritual has been completed!
Your Assignment:
After reading this article, don't just think, "Wow. Those are some good ideas. I should try one or two."
Instead, deliberately create your morning ritual now. Take about 20 minutes to think about and write down what your ritual will be each morning. Start simple at first. Choose one or two items from this menu. Or come up with your own. Write out your Ritual in detail.
Begin first thing tomorrow morning, and let your habits create YOUR destiny starting now!
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Benelli Tornado Superbike n°6 driven by Peter Goddard Skin For Ride 2. This One replaces The Bimota UK R1 Class livery.
How to install:
Important: Make a backup of your files before installation!!!!
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#3977 - Monday, August 9, 2010 - Editor: Gloria Lee
The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whateer you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fulness;
[...] and to KNOW
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.
From Paracelsus by Robert Browning
Maren Springsteen
chose lines from Browning's poem for the
introduction to her own book of poetry. And rightly so, for
indeed her poems are shining with light. Maren speaks from a
knowing heart, one informed by her own encounter with those dark
nights of the soul. What emerges is a voice you can trust,
singing in surrender to the truth of a deep love found at
the heart of all that is. ~Gloria More of her poems may be read on her
website, and she plans to make an ebook available there soon.
Websites: http://marenspringsteen.com
http://mareninthesky.com blog
"In the end, the
kingdom certain is finished and at hand and spirit
untouched by time and space, all came together again as one
divine fabric that had gracefully never been subject to change in
the first place and as in Heaven, so on Earth was felt and seen
to not be an empty promise despite all human pictures often
pointing to the contrary." ~Maren
Postscript Being is Seeing
The need is for one to be aware that he IS the SELF or
perfect Being, and that there is nothing in or of him that
can be anything else.
--Lillian de Waters, Mystic
"I love this
quote, as it is such a lucid pointer to our Reality as
Undimensional, Infinite Essence, as well as a pointer to a valid
practice for those times when one doesnt intimately feel and
know Truth and illusion feels more prevalent and real...."
A house
divided in itself cannot stand.
I felt
the Truth, yet spoke of illusion,
back into dream,
I could be suggested to of 'otherness,'
when all
Gold's Immanence
never challenges itself,
so why
would I?
listening to the serpent,
I veiled
myself in Ignorance,
traded in
my Identity for nothingness
could never become Substance.
STOP to
these foolish games played by no-one!
Spun Gold
it was all along,
all of
it, this body, mistaken as an obstacle to Peace,
politics, countries, people, weather, food,
oh, how
many times did the serpent's whisper appear as
innocent images
yearn to be truly recognized again,
to serve only THAT
they, too, can't but BE.
memories of being the Master weaver reappear.
loyal, strong and fearless do I stand Alone-Once.
tenderly allowing All to be Itself again.
shining sea of Spun Gold collapses
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More Webloggery
11 April 2000
Today is my birthday. My mother addressed her card to "My Darling Son Michael Stillwell"; she signed the card "With much love, Elaine" under which she has helpfully written, "mum."
My father sent me McSweeney's #4 for said birthday, which was very nice of him. Speaking of McSweeney's, what do y'all make of the latest goings on? Why is Dave Eggers so bitter? Is it all a joke no-one got?
The other day, in my house, I caught a mouse.
Is there a story behind the choice of *69 as the number that calls the number that just called you? 69 is one hell of a mnemonic for anything to do with—giggle—reciprocation, but I'm guessing that there must have been some pretty entertaining board meetings over this. ("Peters, are you aware that children use the telephone? Children, Peters.")
There's both more and less photos of me at ALL IS VANITY. Check out my grandmother! (She: "You want me to stand against that wall??")


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We are Fans of the original 1980's hit Saturday morning tv show, that starred the likes of (Neil Buchanan) (Sandi Toksvig) (Kim Goody) (Andrea Arnold)
(R.I.P Frank Sidebottom) also (Nadia De lemeny) (Jules and 'His pet rat') (Hamilton Dent) (Tessa) (David) and (Rob The Builder) too.
The original show was based around a busy house that would feature famous stars and musicians, not forgetting 'The Sandwich Quiz'.
The show ran for 8 series between 1982-1988. Look-in magazine featured comic strips and fact files, The famous red door originally had no big yellow balloon numbers just some small ones, towards the end of the series the gang moved into a saloon park where the show was Re-titled to 7T3.
As a fan (Ian Harding) I really enjoyed the Show as a child and wanted to bring back No. 73 in a tribute way, Writing scripts, Set Building, Directing, Filming. We all met through work, family and friends. The recordings had several locations, Theatre, street, home environment. Rehearsing was fun! full of laughter a great experience!!
The Work for the Tributes started on the 3rd January 2010, all the way through to September 2011.
'Anytime Anywhere' Part 1 (1,625) Views
'Anytime Anywhere' Part 2 (674) Views
'3 Min Snippet of Tribute to Frank Sidebottom (1,362) Views
'The Roller Skates' Part 1 (1,308) Views
'The Roller Skates' Part 2 (744) Views
'Slideshow/Gallery of Films' (645) Views
'The Move' (1,053) Views
'No. 73' The Cartoon (510) Views
'No. 73' Best of the Tributes (308) Views
Newspapers and a magazine regarding our No.73 work (437) Views
No. of Countries Watched (093)
Latest News...
July 1st 2013 UPDATE: KL Magazine article on No. 73 Tributes, http://www.klmagazine.co.uk/
May 9th 2013 UPDATE: 'Best of' clips video of the 3 Tribute films! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5-qhHriX8
May 5th 2013 Update!, Thank you all for making the first No. 73 Episode 'Anytime Anywhere' PART 1 :
reach 1,131 views!!
Episode #1 'Anytime Anywhere' /January 2010 to June 2010/ A Tribute to No. 73.
Episode #2 'The Roller Skates' /September 2010 to January 2011/ A Tribute to the comedian Frank Sidebottom, No. 73.
Episode #3 'The Move'/ April 2011 to September 2011/ A Third Tribute to No. 73.
Watch the Video's on YouTube
Links below...
'Anytime Anywhere' Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBIe3I6VDQE
'Anytime Anywhere' Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H32k-7I13MU
'The Roller Skates' Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0k8pobKFk
'The Roller Skates' Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VnKdu1XMsE
'The Roller Skates' 3 Minute Snippet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgIoqH9brk
'No. 73 Slideshow/gallery of the tribute films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haWVw76MeWo
'The Move' in full the last tribute film of No. 73! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X6Z6eUf6I0
'No. 73 Cartoon' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXdza6dZQHo
'Mash-up' Best Bits Of No. 73' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5-qhHriX8
The Cast
(Neil) Ian Harding/Episode #1+2+3
(Nadia) Christy Chan/Episode #1+2
(Harry) Dougie Ferguson/Episode #1+2
(Kim) Frances Harding/Episode #1+2+3
(Dawn) Ruth McGeown/Episode #1+2
(The Postman) Daniel McCabe/Episode #1
(The Fur Snatcher) Ian Harding/Episode #1
(Frank Sidebottom) Ian Harding/Episode #2
(Martin Edwards) next door neighbour. Jonathan Smith/Episode #3
(Tweep The Puppet Bird) as himself/Episode #3
December 8th 2012 Update! All No. 73 video's have been watched in 78 countries now on Youtube,
including non related No. 73 video's a total of 97 different countries!!
October 6th 2012 'Anytime Anywhere Part 1' has now reached 1,002 views on YouTube!! Thank you everyone for watching!
September 13th 2012 A few more photo's from 'The Move'!
February 5th 2012 YouTube Hits and 54 different countries tuned in!
January 2012 Celebrates the 30th anniversary of No. 73!! Whoo
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has viewed the
tribute films, with large amounts of fantastic feedback from old fans, forums,
original cast members and many from all over the world! Interviews and public screening's:
BBC Radio Norfolk, Future Radio Norwich, BBC Film Festival, Puppet Theatre!
A wide audience of 48 different countries which of 45 that had not heard of No. 73.
Also the media Newspapers for following the stories. A big thank you to everyone
involved in making No. 73 fun again!
24th October 2011 'The Move' in another Newspaper article Link:
7th October 2011 'The Move' in the NEWS great article written!! link: http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-and-leisure-news/film_maker_ian_wraps_up_trilogy_1_3126463
1st October 2011
'The Move' Gallery below!
1st October 2011 NEW Episode 3 No. 73 'The Move' on Youtube in full link below:
24th September 2011 Rehearsel/Photos and some filming started for 'The Move'!
30th August 2011 New Image of old Telephone in Hallway.29th August 2011 'Achoo' will no longer be Episode 3. A new Episode called
'The Move' will be in it's replace!!
16th August 2011 Introducing.......................'Tweep' The Puppet Bird!!
5th Aug 2011 'Slideshow' of photographs:
5th Aug 2011 Biography's of the Cast complete.
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day 17 - a picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently
this is just a few peeps from our church/small group but its a good representation of who they are and what they do. this pic was taken during the help portrait last year. our church is all about helping people connect with God ... and they are pretty darn good at it :)
... and of course, my little man.
my mom always told me that my sister having a baby is the best thing next to having my own, and she was right.
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collapse of masonry domes: the Lamé-Clapeyron's Mémoire and the case of St. Isaac in Saint Petersburg
1Massimo Corradi
1Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura, Scuola Politecnica - Genova, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Mechanics of arches, vaults and domes is a topic of Structural Mechanics that starts his history from XVIII century starting from de La Hire, Couplet, Bélidor to Bouguer, Bossut, Coulomb and Mascheroni (Benvenuto, 1991). Only at the beginning of XIX century the contributions of Persy, Audoy, Navier, Mery and the Coulomb's theory (Coulomb, 1773; Heyman, J.,1972) have permitted to establish a general theory for collapse of masonry arch with, friction and cohesion, formed by a system of voussoirs with unilateral constraints (Heyman, 1969; Sinopoli, Corradi & Foce, 1997).
In this complex and tortuous path, after the great debates on the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and on the dome of S. Peter in Rome, we remark the important contribution to develop a general theory for domes published by Lamé and Clapeyron in regards the dome of S. Isaac in Saint Petersburg (Lamé & Clapeyron, 1823).
Fig. 1 - From Lamé, G. and B.P.E. Clapeyron, 1823.
The question around this subject is to establish what is the most agreeable method to determine the line of thrust before that dome collapses. The argument proposed by Lamé and Clapeyron – at this time working at Science Academy of Saint Petersburg - is very interesting and it opened a three new paths of research. The first is to define the line thrust for masonry arch, the second is to define the collapse of masonry domes according to Poleni's theory (Poleni, 1748) and the third is to define a method to increase structural strength and the more appropriate method to strengthen St. Isaac masonry dome.
The aim is to show as Lamé and Clapeyron's theory is today still present and the strengthening methods (traditional building techniques and methods, and also static reinforcement systems) proposed in the XIX and XX centuries are more compatible with old materials and structures with respect to new material, concrete and steel.
In fact, over the past few years, the restoration work done on monumental architecture has brought out a disagreement between the rationale for static and the reasoning behind conservation. This disagreement has highlighted how the "need" for strengthening often moves away from the search for mechanical models that more closely approach the extensive and masterly rules of "good building". These rules have always been set down by relying on skillful mastery that has matured over centuries of careful empiricism, to follow the safe and unfailing path laid down by the theory of elasticity that was first set forth during the past century, and has now been consolidated through the use of precisely elaborated instruments and methods of calculation. In this sense, we will attempt to clarify the reasoning underlying the question posed by the title. In other words, when we analyze the structural behaviour of monumental architecture, is it better to proceed using the tools of elastic calculation or is it best to rely on the new models proposed by limit design principles, retracing the steps that were already taken by the scientific culture of the nineteenth century, particularly for calculating masonry arches, vaults and domes?
- 1748 Poleni, G. Memorie istoriche della gran cupola, del Tempio Vaticano, e dé danni di essa, e dé ristoramenti loro. Padova: nella stamperia del Seminario [Giovanni Manfrè].
- 1773 Coulomb, C.A. "Essai sur une application des Règles de Maximis & Minimis à quelques Problèmes de Statique, relatifs à l'Architecture", Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, par divers Savans, Année 1773, 7 (1773), pp. 343-382, Paris, impr. Royale 1776.
- 1823 Lamé, G. and B.P.E. Clapeyron, "Mémoire sur la stabilité des voûtes". Annales des Mines, vol. 8, pp. 789-818.
- 1969 Heyman, J. "The safety of masonry arches", Int. J. Mech. Sci, Vol. 11, pp. 363-385.
- 1972 Heyman, J. (1972). Coulomb's memoir on statics. An essay on the history of civil engineering, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- 1988 Heyman, J. "Poleni's problem", Proc. Instn. Civ. Engrs, London, Part I, Vol. 84, pp. 737-759.
- 1991 Benvenuto, E. An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1991.
- 1997 Sinopoli, A., Corradi, M. & F. Foce. "A Modern Formulation for Pre-Elastic Theories on Masonry Arches". Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 123, n. 3 (march 1997), pp. 204-213.