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Who benefits from the European bazooka?
"If you have a bazooka in your pocket and people know it, you probably won't have to take it out." Henry Paulson, US Treasury Secretary, 2006-2009
It will take some time before the smoke clears from the ECB's recently fired bazooka in the European corporate bond market. But even though it is unclear how effective the policy will be, we believe that European credit markets in general will benefit and that most of the opportunities will be in the high yield market.
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The first quarter's financial market volatility was so extreme that it forced the ECB to not only take out its 'bazooka' of further monetary policy measures but to fire it as well. Increasingly frenzied expectations with regards to this ECB announcement and the introduction of a Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP), whereby it would purchase non-financial investment grade corporate bonds, resulted in the bond markets rallying and credit spreads tightening significantly from their wides of mid-February (Figure 1). At the ECB's June meeting Mario Draghi announced the official start date of the programme as well as finalising the specific details around which bonds are eligible, and which are not.
Starting out big
At the outset we believe that the ECB will look to target around €5 billion of bond purchases every month, although this could be considerably higher based on the initial pace of purchases. To put this demand into perspective it equates to around half of the net new issuance in the European corporate bond market on an annual basis currently. This is the equivalent of setting up a top tier global bond manager like Blackrock or PIMCO from scratch – demand will be significant!
While it remains to be seen exactly how many bonds the ECB is successful in purchasing, and whether or not this non-standard monetary policy achieves its desired effect, the question remains what should investors do next? Liquidity will almost certainly be impacted in both the primary and secondary markets, but the demand from the ECB will almost certainly provide strong technical support to the market. So, while we do not expect a rally in European credit as expectations of the ECB's actions are largely priced in, nor do we expect any significant sell-off either.
Junk ramifications...
We think that while the European high yield market is smaller than its American cousin, and has a lower yield, it is still worth consideration. The main reasons for its lower yield is a combination of its composition, with significantly less energy and mining exposure but more financials, and much lower expected default rates. It will also benefit from the ECB's CSPP in two ways.
First, the ECB has stated that bonds only need to be rated investment grade by one recognised credit rating agency (CRA). Companies which have a split rating between agencies (i.e. rated high yield by one and investment grade by another) now become eligible. Unsurprisingly, BB/Ba rated credits have performed strongly over the past few months and, although unlikely to repeat this performance, still offer value (Figure 2). An expected indirect effect of the ECB's policy results from investors having sold their bonds to the ECB reinvesting the proceeds into riskier assets. The obvious next step from investment grade is high yield bonds.
Second, while the profitability of European financials faces significant headwinds from negative interest rates and non-performing loans, they do not face the same extreme challenges as US high yield energy producers. There are several reasons to be constructive on European banks not least because, from a creditor's perspective, their regulatory capital is improving, making them more robust and better suited to surviving their equivalent of a halving of oil prices, should a repeat occur. In the meantime their default rate is expected to remain low, especially as the ECB will be supporting their liquidity through a number of its other purchase programmes. If anything, a view on European banks in the high yield sector is more important than US energy names as the universe is comprised of approximately 20% financials, the vast majority of which are banks, whereas in the US only 13% of issuers are energy-related (Figure 3).
The hybrid allure
While yields are low in the investment grade space, 'hybrid' securities are an interesting investment for those investors with a higher risk appetite (Figure 4). These securities are issued by corporates and are subordinated to senior debt and have coupons which can be deferred without the issuer being deemed in default. For these reasons the CRAs give 'equity' credit to what is essentially a bond and hence the hybrid name – a cross between equity and debt.
The main advantage of these securities is that they often offer significant yield pick-up over senior bonds of the same issuer, although exhibit significantly more volatility (although less than the equity of the issuer), and will work as a yield enhancement play in a low yield environment. Tactically, these types of securities are trading more cheaply relative to their longer-term averages, and to a degree were left behind in the recent rally in credit.


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Recruiting participants for health surveys has become increasingly difficult, particularly where young people are concerned. Traditional recruitment practices involve methods such as postal, telephone and face-to-face invitations, which may not be compatible with the high usage and reliance on more modern forms of technology amongst younger people.
In recent years researchers have made use of social media as a means of recruiting young participants into health surveys, but it is not yet clear whether this is a cost-effective approach, or whether it can provide samples that demographically reflect the general population, particularly for longitudinal research.
In the current study, the researchers assessed the effectiveness of online recruitment methods in recruiting women aged 18-23 for the Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy Intention, and Decisions (CUPID) Study. A variety of methods were used, including Facebook advertisements and posts, Twitter, and online forums, as well as face-to-face events, distribution of promotional material, and media releases.
Over the one-year recruitment period, a total of 3,795 women were recruited to take part in the online survey, almost double the original target of 2,000. Women were recruited at an average cost of $11 per participant, substantially lower than that for the pilot version of the study, which, using mailed invitations, attracted only 54 participants at a cost of around $100 each. The sample was found to be broadly representative of 18-23 year old women in Australia in terms of demographics, with the exception of a higher proportion of women who had completed year 12 education.
While the use of multiple approaches makes it difficult to determine the success of individual strategies, Facebook appears to be a particularly effective means of recruitment, with a large daily increase in respondents observed following changes to the placement of advertisements from the sidebar to the central newsfeed.
The findings from the current study suggest that it is possible to recruit a demographically representative sample of young women using online methods, and that this can be done at a reasonable cost.
This paper generated significant interest, with an invited commentary commissioned by the American Journal of Epidemiology. In this commentary Dr Jenifer Allsworth from the University of Missouri – Kansa City praised the study design, suggesting that the study was well conducted and made an important contribution to the literature.
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Citation: Harris ML, Loxton D, Wigginton B, Lucke J. Recruiting online: Lessons from a longitudinal survey of contraception and pregnancy intentions of young Australian women. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2015. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwv006

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We stayed in Riad Dar Othmane on our 2nd and 3rd nights in Marrakech. We chose to walk there from our other riad as we had been provided with a very helpful map via e mail before we left England (as well as a list of excursions and food available if needed). We did get lost but that's all part of the fun of the Medina and we like to think we saw some of the 'real' Marrakech, the places where people lived and worked. It can be tricky to navigate the narrow, crowded streets, especially as we were there during the celebrations of the birth of Muhammed and was a public holiday. We arrived out of the hustle and bustle to peace and calm. Hassan greeted us warmly and made us mint tea. Our room was lovely, very clean and the shower was hot and powerful. Hassan organised an excursion to Ourika Valley in the Atlas Mountains for us, which was wonderful. We would definately go back there to stay if we went back to Marrakech and I would have no trouble recommending it to others. Thank you, Hassan!
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Ford: A Century of History
Ford: A Century of History, Part I by Mike Davis (6/2/2003)
In the early years Ford begat Cadillac, then his own car company.
Ford Timeline: 1863-1943 by Mike Davis (6/2/2003)
Ford History II: Young Henry by Mike Davis (6/2/2003)
Ford loses two generations and ends up reinventing itself.
Ford Timeline 1943-1982 by Mike Davis (6/2/2003)
Ford History III: Edsel & Bill Redux by Mike Davis (6/9/2003)
Today's Ford bears almost no -- and quite a lot of -- resemblance to its past.
Ford Timeline: 1974-2003 by Mike Davis (6/13/2003)
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Ford Sets Centennial Plans by Joseph Szczesny (3/17/2003)
A four-day festival includes children of destiny, Mustangs of history and a massive outlaying of good will as Ford faces a murky future.
New Ford Book Highlights Centennial by Joseph Szczesny (5/5/2003)
Prof. Doug Brinkley's Wheels for the World is a "history of 20th century America."
Activists Plan Ford Centennial Protest by Eric Peters (5/26/2003)
SUV gas mileage at issue.
Ford Celebrates, And Looks Ahead by TCC Team (6/13/2003)
What's that part about happy…birthday?
Ford Centennial in Pictures by TCC Team (6/13/2003)
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Sixty Years of Ford Memories, Part I by Mac Gordon (6/9/2003)
A veteran Detroit journalist remembers the company's last half-century.
Sixty Years of Ford Memories, Part II by Mac Gordon (6/13/2003)
Mac Gordon recalls the Fifties and Sixties at the big blue oval.
Model T: Icon of Style? by Phil Patton (6/13/2003)
Ford's classic shape had more influence than you may realize.
Icons In Time: Ford Mustang by Mike Davis (4/14/2003)
The pony car, from foal to foal again.
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A classic bred from mongrel bits.
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Does your school use textbooks older than your students? Do they use textbooks at all?
I got this email from a GeometryCoach.com email subscriber.
I don't know about you but I'm in a district that has no textbooks and I'm the only person teaching Geometry. As a new teacher to the district (not to teaching math 10 plus years) I am having a very hard time adjusting. There are no textbooks, everything is supposed to be done via Google Classroom, iPads, email, and the worst part is there is no other Geometry Teacher in the district to get materials from, bounce ideas off of, or even plan together with. Oh, and I didn't even mention everything we do has to be aligned to the new Common Core Standards. I couldn't imagine what this would be like for a first year teacher! Do you have any advise or suggestions as to how to make this adjustment?
My response was simple:
Hi Molly,
Sorry to hear about your frustrations. Unfortunately this is the case in a lot of schools now a days. It is even worse for those of you in small districts where there is only one Geometry Teacher. Let me ask you this one simple question and it may answer all of your questions. "How much is your free time and sanity worth to you in dollars?" If you could never have to plan a lesson again, never have to create a test or quiz again, never have to worry about staying current with the constant standard changes, and constantly had new materials and a support forum to the extent that if you wanted something created all you had to do is ask, how many hours a week would that save you? Would it be 10-20-30 hours a week in planning? How much more free time would you have? How much happier and less stressful would your life be?
My advice would be join the Geometry Teacher Community for less than $1.25 per day. It has everything and anything you could possibly need for your Geometry class and it's all common core aligned. However, more importantly than that it is a forum with other geometry teachers that have the same frustrations. You'll be able to share ideas and materials.
Here's the best part! A lot of schools are given a stipend to use for the math department. In some cases each teacher is given one to buy materials. If this isn't the case, after you ask the school to pay for your membership and they say no, you do get a tax write off as a teacher for purchasing school related materials. In most cases our teachers don't even have to pay out of pocket to join. If you don't ask or don't look into it then your struggles will continue until you do. Make the decision based on how your life will change without those stresses. If your time is worth $1.25 per day then the decision is easy. JOIN TODAY!
Moral of the story:
This teacher's options are create everything, be completely stressed out for the entire year, probably be in a bad mood which will affect those around her including friends and family; or she can spend a little money (possibly not even her own!) and get her free time and sanity back. It's really a no brainer' for those of you in situations like this. Time is our most valuable asset! Simply click the link below to join the Geometry Teacher Community. Want to see some samples first? No problem! Download the Unit 1 Sample Lessons at the bottom of the membership option page!
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The Mighty Oaks Warrior Gala on September 5, 2014 the last time I saw Sarah at an event. I feel it ended a season of my life.
We all go through different seasons of our lives. On August 29, 2008 we were introduced to a lady named Sarah, and for the past eight years, we have walked with her through the changing seasons of her life.
People come into our lives for "a season, a reason or lifetime." It's up to each of us to see where Sarah fits in our lives. At some point for me she was there for a season, but she will always be in my heart for a lifetime.
Here is the original A Reason, A Season, and a Lifetime:
Someone sent this to me along time ago; I reread it a few days ago (it is part of the book I wrote on being a caregiver) It says there are three types of people that touch our lives. Every time I read it, I can see the people that have come in and out of my life. If you have a minute read it and thank God for all of those who have passed through your life; be it for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime.
- Reason – this person is there when we need support; it could be physical, emotional or spiritual. They are there for a reason, sometimes an answer to a prayer.
- Season – while they are there, they give you an unbelievable amount of joy, but are only there for a season.
- Lifetime – a long-term relationship one that lets you build an emotional foundation, and it is through this foundation you can learn to build and make other relationships, be they for a season or a lifetime.
If you are a caregiver, look at the people around you, it doesn't matter if they are there for a reason (the Hospice worker, the doctor, the person that lives next door) or the person that is there for a season who gives you joy and teaches you about things you didn't know or the person who is there for a lifetime (family, real friends) who know that you cannot do it by yourself. Reach out to these people and they will help, as you are caring for the person who is ill. As you start the long journey called healing, reach out to these same people. They will walk it with you. I left the above who knows maybe a caregiver will read it…


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The ability of health insurers to charge smokers up to 50 percent more in premiums under the Affordable Care Act has led some nicotine users to not only give up their coverage but smoke even more, the Washington Free Beacon reports.Imagine that.
"We found that medium and high tobacco surcharges dampened the increases in the smokers' insurance coverage," according to a study published in the journal, Health Affairs. "Smokers facing the highest surcharges exhibited a 12-percentage-point reduction in coverage relative to the group with no surcharge."
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Hi SteGar,
Firstly ... yes, the debit card is a bank card that immediately debits from your bank account (as opposed to a credit card, where you pay monthly or whatever). But I don't think there's any significant difference between a debit and a credit card as far as purchasing from Amazon is concerned.
To be honest, I don't remember whether I entered the card number before or after I registered for 1-Click. I do remember that I was obliged to enter an address for 1-Click, but I think it accepted the 1-Click registration before I entered the card number (not sure about that).
You can enter any address, in any country, and you can enter as many as addresses you like, but only one of them gets assigned to 1-Click. When you try to purchase an e-book via 1-Click, at that point it checks the country and denies the purchase of the 1-Click address is non-US.
You're right that I have to purchase via the Internet (because I'm outside Whispernet range), but I disagree when you say I can avoid the 1-Click process. When buying Kindle books on the Amazon web site, 1-Click is the only option. (Is that your experience too?)
I don't think you'll have any problem with buying Kindle books when you're in the States. If you have a gift card balance, it will use that balance without asking you. As far as I can see, that works the same both on the Internet and Whispernet.
I haven't tried using my Kindle in the US, but will no doubt do so at some point. I'll report back.
One issue I've noticed is that, although I registered the Kindle via the Amazon website, the Kindle itself doesn't know it's registered to me (which is obvious really, as it has no way of communicating with the rest of the world). I'm assuming I'll be able to fix that next time I'm in the US.
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I saw a terrific thread that listed some great spots in London for a traveller who was running short of funds. But I also know that new places spring up often and new faces join the Chowhound ranks every day. SO...
We are spending a week in the London area and we are looking for cheap places to eat that aren't transplanted American fast-food chains. Not that I am patently agains fast-food or chains -- I love Pret a Manger -- but would like to stick with more London-y things. My travel parnter has never been to England (or even out of the North American continent) so I'd love to take her to some must-try things.
The budget I'd LIKE to stick to is around $5-15USD per person per meal. I realize that this is asking a LOT in London, but that's what Chowhounds do... dig up the nearly impossible!
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Our freezer stopped working yesterday. Our deep freezer. You know, the one chocked full of meats bought in bulk, extra spaghetti sauce, the casseroles I doubled for a "rainy day", a handful of Kashi and Healthy Choice frozen meals for when my Hubs is gone, giant bags of fruit for smoothies, veggies, and more. Yeah….that freezer. The one that was packed to the gills. It seems to have died, or decided to take a break from cooling for awhile in this sticky, South Carolina, summer heat.
All of the meat thawed. It was amply cool, but completely thawed.
So, after a few moments of panic over the thought of losing a few hundred dollars worth of food, we decided to make lemonade out of lemons.
We sent an email to a boatload of friends this morning, and tonight… we had an emergency feast.
And a feast it was too. I roasted pheasants, grilled pork tenderloin and chicken breasts, made fruit cobblers, and yellow rice. Our friends brought more amazing sides and desserts…Tomato Panzanella salad, fresh fruit, green salads, pasta salad, banana cream pie, and more. We probably had 30 people over…on a whim…an emergency whim. And it was fun!
And as we cleaned out the freezer, I got to thinking how this process today reminds me of life so often.
First, there's some sort of upset. An emergency, or things break, and all the goodness contained within is threatened by looming spoil. And we have a choice. Do we cry and throw it all away, or do we allow the Lord to use it to create something entirely better out of the contents? Do we take the mess and invite others in to make a feast out of what could have gone wrong? Do we engage community and opportunity to serve out of our mess? Or, do we chuck it all out and sulk about the massive waste? Do we allow lemonade to be made from the lemons? Or better yet, do we look for ways to make the lemonade?
When we were cleaning out the freezer, I'm sorry to say, that stuffed at the very back, my husband found something from 2007. Ok, ok…I'll be fair….he found a few things that were way too old to eat. Years too old. So, we threw them out once they'd been examined and we determined them useless and spoiled.
And that got me to thinking too about how often life throws us a thawed freezer, and we're forced into a call for an emergency feast. But, before we can even feast, we have to remove all the contents, and determine what's worth keeping and what isn't. What food is good to eat, and what had no business being in there still anyways. Old baggage that just got shoved behind newer stuff and needs to go. Old wounds that we'd forgotten we even had…but still need to be dealt with. Sometimes, we unearth things in the midst of one crisis that lead to an overall cleansing which wouldn't have ever happened if the freezer hadn't died.
Sometimes, the mess is the very thing that brings community. The mess is the thing that brings a feast. The mess is the thing that allows us to start fresher again. Sometimes….maybe sometimes….we need a mess to spur us into those places.
And I don't know what mess you may be dealing with in your own life, but I do know that if we allow it to spur us into deeper community, and feasting on His word, and cleaning out old baggage….it'll yield a cleaner heart, joy in the mourning, and life where spoil could have ruled.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Pe 5:6–11
I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
O LORD my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
As for me, I said in my prosperity,
"I shall never be moved."
By your favor, O LORD,
you made my mountain stand strong;
Psalm 30:1–7
I love the way the Lord showed me this illustration, as I have so needed to understand some of the mess of my life over the past few hard months after our baby died in March. I love that in our mess we can seek him and find deep blessing and cleansing.
* How about you? When was the last time the Lord thawed the freezer of your life? What did you learn? How did it go? What do you need to clean out to start fresh?


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Haryana Member of Parliament (MP) and Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), Naveen Jindal Wednesday said that the coal allocation policy India is following since 1993 is the best policy in the world.
Jindal addressing the 4th India Coal Summit organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce, said that the coal sector has lately been in news for various reasons after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) submitted its report on coal block allocations.
"I do not agree with the figures of CAG at all. It is most unfortunate that this kind of controversy has been created and it has not been in the best interest of the country," he said.
Stressing that the coal allocation policy of India is the best in the world, he said, "Which other country in the world expects you to invest billions of dollars in further value addition of coal."
"The Indian Government has allotted coal blocks to to set up cement, steel and power plants. Countries like the US, Australia, Indonesia and Canada who produce coal do not put a condition that you have to invest downstream."
"All these countries are happy if you mine, and pay royalty and pay income tax."
The MP added, "We should be grateful to Indian government that you cannot sell coal, but set up power, steel and cement plants or feed the existing plants, which means lots of investment generation and a lot more employment."
Jindal noted that the challenges facing the coal sector includes delays in obtaining statutory/governmental clearances including environmental, forest, land acquisition, Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) etc.
Slow progress of development of government dispensed captive blocks to industry, states and Power Supply Unit, (PSUs), lack of development of infrastructure facilities in new coalfields and volatility of imported coal prices and its impact on domestic market.
He suggested some strategies that can propel forward the growth of coal sector like: accelerated Coal Exploration; transparent procedure for allocating coal blocks; blocks allocated to be developed in an agreed, firm stipulated time frame with defined role of the state govts and Central Ministries; redefine environmental policies to facilitate coal production.
All stakeholders including coal companies under guidance of the state government should pursue land acquisition and policy for project affected persons.
Land on lease rather than outright sale also to be an option; resolve issues relating to procurement of coal blocks outside India and take care of Coal import bottlenecks, transport logistics/ ports connectivity and adoption of new efficient technologies for Coal Mining and use of coal.
Full text of the speech by Jindal at the 4th India Coal Summit:
"It is indeed my pleasure to be addressing such an august gathering today on a topic which is related to the energy security of the country.
Coal is the most important and abundantly available fossil fuel in India. It accounts for more than 50% of the country´s total energy needs. In fact, the country´s industrial heritage was built upon indigenous coal.
Commercial energy consumption in India has grown from a level of about 26% to 68% in the last four and a half decades. The current per capita primary energy consumption in India is about 243 kwh/year, which is well below that of developed countries.
According to the 17th Electric Power Survey report, electrical energy demand would likely reach 1,915 TWh by 2021-22 and the peak electric demand will touch 298 GW, thereby doubling from the current level of demand.
Considering the limited reserve potentiality of petroleum and natural gas, eco-conservation restriction on hydro power projects and geo-political perception of nuclear power, coal will continue to occupy centre-stage in India's energy scenario.
India´s coal dependence is borne from the fact that 54% of the total installed electricity generation capacity is coal based and is expected to double by the end of the 12th Five year Plan period (2012-17).
In order to achieve economic growth of 8-9% in terms of GDP, the country´s total coal demand, even after allowing for the slippages that have occurred in the current plan period, has been projected to increase from the present 730 million tons in 2010-11 to 1,353 million tonnes in 2021-22. Of this, about 75% of coal would go to power plants.
The present demand-supply gap is around 85 million tons and it is expected to increase gradually to nearly 140 million tons by 2017, which is being met by importing. However, the new regulations and the price prevailing in the international market are making the use of imported coal uneconomical.
Therefore, we have no alternative but to increase our domestic coal production as well as increase evacuation capacity from the pithead to the consumer plants.
With hard coal reserves around 293 billion tonnes, of which 118 billion tonnes are proved as on 01/04/12, Indian coal offers a unique eco-friendly fuel source as it has low sulphur content.
The lignite reserves stand at a level of around 26 billion tonnes, of which 90% occur in the southern State of Tamil Nadu.
Hard coal deposit spread over 28 major coalfields, are mainly confined to eastern and south central parts of the country. This involves on an average transportation of 600 km from production units to consumer points where Indian Railways play an important part.
However, since the capacity of Railways to transport the huge requirement of coal from pithead to power stations does not match, it is necessary to locate power plants at the pithead to avoid long distance transportation.
The Founder Chairman of JSPL, Shri O. P. Jindalji, envisioned much earlier that material security was imperative for the success of our steel plant at Raigarh.
It was his innovation and initiative that prompted us to utilize locally available coal resource in Raigarh, which was hitherto not considered viable for mining by others. The coal, which was used for captive use for our plant after beneficiation, was very low grade and even ungraded in lower seams.
An innovative approach adopted by JSPL was the establishment of coal washeries for washing this coal and using the washed coal for the steel plant and utilizing the middlings for the power plant with CFBC boilers.
We were the first to commission 4x250 MW mega power plant at Tamnar, Raigarh and construct a 258 km, 400 KV Double Circuit transmission line from the plant to the PGCIL sub-station at Raipur through which power can be transmitted in the Grid.
Thus, the low grade coal which was hitherto considered unviable was utilized for power generation, optimizing the cost of production.
In view of our depleting resource of coking coal in the country, the use of non-coking coal for the iron and steel industry was a revolutionary concept and a number of such plants were established later making India as one of the largest producers of sponge iron in the world.
Thus, at JSPL the policy of the company in terms of forward and backward integration of raw material and optimization of cost gave us a competitive edge over other companies.
The development of Raigarh area into a new hub of steel plants and power has been possible because of the initiative by the JSPL. While developing the area into an industrial estate, we have also not forgotten our corporate social responsibility.
The amount of compensation paid to land oustees, taking care of their alternate income generation, providing them with shelter, electricity and water as well as taking care of their health and education needs has made JSPL a household name in the region.
It has been our endeavour to involve the local people in the growth of the company, not only in Raigarh, but similar attempts have been made at Angul (Odisha) and Patratu (Jharkhand) as well.
Our coal mines at Gare sector in Raigarh were the first captive blocks which came into production inspite of all odds like remote location, negligible infrastructure facilities, difficulty in obtaining environment and other clearances etc.
I am pleased to share that the production from these mines has reached to the rated peak capacity in record time with due consideration to safety and environment. These are the first mines to utilize fly-ash generated from power houses in the mine voids and for large scale brick making.
We are setting up an innovative project of National importance for converting coal to liquid production. We are investing more than Rs 50,000 crore on this project in Odisha to produce 80,000 barrels of diesel/gasoline per day (4.0 MMTPA) using environment-friendly indirect coal liquefaction technology.
I would also like to take this opportunity to appeal to the august gathering that we must all get together and enhance our efforts in further lowering the Greenhouse gas emissions from our industry.
Giving back to the society and starting several initiatives to ensure a strong corporate initiative focusing on the welfare of the local communities will go a long way in building the nation of our dreams.
Thank you! Jai Hind! "


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Want superconscious levels of focus? The key is to be able to tap into a gamma brain wave frequency, at will.
This scene is the best explanation I've seen of what a 'gamma' brain wave state feels like.
It does indeed feel like the point between rage and serenity as the movie suggests.
What is GAMMA?
Here's an excerpt from my book, "Superconscious Leadership Secrets"
Gamma (38 – 70 hz)
The gamma state is the king of brain waves. We all emit them it's just that some people enter this state much more frequently and consciously than others.
Geniuses, elite sportspeople, advanced meditators, and people who consistently achieve brilliance in any field can access and maintain a gamma state of awareness consistently.
A gamma brainwave state gives you the ability to access extremely high levels of consciousness and a very high level of focus. It even helps increase IQ levels.
When you are in a gamma state your brain can process huge amounts of information from various sources simultaneously.
Not only that, your ability to remember information increases exponentially too. And so does your ability to process different sensory experiences (taste, smell, hearing, sight, touch) … all at the same time.
Your body's self-healing mechanisms go into overdrive and so do your happiness levels and compassion. Not only that, you also have an abundance of energy.
In 2007, a study called "Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness" was published in the Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. It measured the brain wave frequencies of Tibetan Buddhist monks who had been meditating for between fifteen and forty years and had racked up between 10,000 to 50,000 hours in meditation time.
Looking at the monks, researchers felt that it appeared that their brain wave activity was slowing down as they looked like they were about to fall asleep. The opposite, in fact, was happening. Their brain activity had sped up massively to a gamma frequency.
What does a gamma state feel like?
When I go into a gamma state I feel it as an intensity and one-pointedness where I have an acute level of focus and certainty.
My eyes widen and increase focus and I feel a slight weight on my bottom eyelids. It isn't a sleepiness but simply a weight where I can really feel my eyelids touching my skin.
I feel like I've had a huge hit of caffeine yet without the edginess. The state has a very masculine feel to it. I also feel a slight intensity in my throat chakra.
It's an unusual feeling of detachment from the external world, but also at the same time like the volume has been turned up on my senses.
I haven't included a gamma wave exercise here because it's a complex state to achieve using written instructions. I do teach it through our programs though so if you'd like to find out more just touch base with us.
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Sweltering heat and 100% humidity won't keep me out of my shop! I managed to start working on the handles for neck knife #1.
Not only is the blade a prototype shape, but I made my own micarta from some old t-shirts and dyed them orange. The color came out a little more red than expected. The resin I used didn't dry completely clear, but instead had a slightly yellow tint. Next time I will document the entire process of making the micarta or at the minimum link some videos on youtube of others doing it. Making your own micarta has all of the ingredients for fun: it's messy, it requires safety gear, and you end up with something wholly unique at the end. On with the progress…
Tonight I was able to rough in the shape of the handle. I did most of the work on the belt sander and then turned to a rasp and file to work on the curves that the belt sander cant get to.
To finish the front of the handle, I started with 100 grit sandpaper and progressed to 1200 to sheen on it. There are some pink spots where the layers of t-shirt didnt completely compress as evidenced by the photo above. I am going to try to fill these in before completing the handle. In the next update, I plan to have a handles mounted to the tang and the shape mostly roughed in.
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SMOKE from a prescribed burn-off conducted by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources at Belair is drifting across the city.
Wind is blowing smoke across the CBD and metro areas from the burn-off which started at noon today and is scheduled to finish at 8pm.
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Title : Mossbauer Spectroscopy Studies of the Passivation and Corrosion Inhibition of Metals.
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Abstract : Major findings in four areas were summarized: (1) application of Mossbauer spectroscopy to the study of corrosion; (2) the osication of iron as studied by conversion-electron Mossbauer spectroscopy; (3) Mossbauer spectroscopic studies in situ of the passive film on cobalt; and (4) non-destructive monitoring by Mossbauer spectroscopy of the rate of corrosion of coated metal at the metal-polymer interface. (Author)
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Yeast infections are commonly known as Candidiasis. This is caused due to an overgrowth of a fungus by the name Candidia albicans. It can cause a variety of ailments varying from skin, vaginal infections, mouth infections etc.
The home Remedies known for the treatment of Yeast are as follows:
Yogurt is effective in fighting yeast infections. It is useful if orally consumed or even in applied locally to the affected part. Yogurt is a natural source of lactobacillus acidophilus which is a good bacteria. Vaginal yeast infections are common because of the altered bacterial flora of the vaginal mucosa, hence yogurt helps to establish the normal balance of flora. One must consume a cup of yogurt for breakfast everyday for a week until the infection disappears. One can also add a cup of yogurt to their evening snack. Local application of yogurt to the affected area is also beneficial. For local application the yogurt should be non flavoured and should not contained any added sugar. In case, one is suffering from lactose intolerance, one can take probiotics which are available in the form of tablets, capsules and liquids.
Garlic is another well known home remedy used commonly for the treatment of yeast infections. It has good antibacterial and anti fungal properties. It can be used as a dietary supplement and can be used as a local application as well. It is known to be highly effective against Candida albicans infection. It is always good to use fresh garlic and consume a close of fresh garlic once or twice a day. If fresh garlic is not available one may use garlic capsule which are freely available in the market nowadays. Some people find it difficult to eat raw garlic owing to its strong odour and taste. In such a case one can mince a clove of garlic, eat it and drink a glass of water or some juice immediately in order to wash it down. For vaginal use, one must use a fresh garlic clove and wrap in a gauze piece, lubricate the outer surface of the gauze and insert into the vagina and leave overnight.
Avoid foods like brewer's yeast and baked food products like cakes, breads etc, until you are free of the yeast infection. Limit dairy products and foods containing high amounts of sugar in them.
Tea tree oil is also an effective home remedy for yeast infection. It is a strong antiseptic. Women could put a few drops of oil into a lukewarm sitz bath. For local vaginal infections, one could use Tea tree oil suppositories. There are few herbs known for their antifungal properties like black walnut, Chamomile, Liquorice and Golden seal. Cranberries also help in the treatment of vaginal yeast infections.
Apple Cider vinegar is also used for local application to treat local yeast infections. It must be diluted in water and dabbed on the affected area. It helps restore the pH balance and thus discourages yeast growth. It is considered to be effective in treatment of vaginal yeast infection.
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The band has had a role in premiering and/or commissioning several works. Many of these have been special arrangements by band members David Henderson, Michael West, Louis Bourgois, and conductor Ronald Holz. The band has premiered several significant brass concerti, including the American premiere of Aagard-Nielsen's Cornet Concerto (with Roger Webster at the 1998 ITG) and Burgmayer's Concerto for Tuba (with Skip Gray at the November 2002 Concertante subscription concert). The band commissioned a special work for the 1997 Midwest Clinic concert, Richard Domek's An Ellington Suite.


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The Future of HTML5 vs Java
When it comes to how to code your site, people often have very strong opinions. The debate between HTML5 and Java is no different. Many simply prefer one over the other due to personal choice and comfort. But for those of you who are unsure whether you should be working in HTML5 or Java, here are some arguments detailing both some of the advantages as well as the disadvantages of both HTML5 and Java.
HTML5 is often regarded as being more stable than Java, as you are required to update your whole system monthly when using Java. HTML 5 also eliminates the need for Adobe Flash, this is due to the fact that HTML 5 allows for you to add both links and tags to multimedia as well as audio-visual files. Both Adobe Flash and Java are known for causing crashes, but this is not the case when using HTML5 instead.
Both Java and HTML5 work on any operating system and browser. This is important as so much is browser based these days. However, HTML5 differs from Java insofar as it is superior in ensuring the reliability of cloud based accessed files, no matter what quality browser you may be using *cough Internet Explorer cough*.
When it comes to making a site that is mobile friendly –something that is so important given the sheer number of people who choose to access information online through their mobile devices –HTML5 definitely has the edge over Java! Java is known for being likely to crash, and is very resource heavy when it comes to using it. Another advantage of using HTML5 when it comes to mobile devices is that it lends itself to speedier download time of images on the site.
While many gaming based sites used to use Java for the most part, many are now switching over to HTML5. Mirror bingo is a good example of a games site that is using HTML5 due to its superiority in the gaming field. With Mirror bingo needing to avoid crashes and maintain their stellar reputation in the industry, they have made a good choice by opting for an HTML5 run site.
Another reason why gaming sites may be reluctant to use Java when HTML5 is available, is the security risk. As a company they do not want to put their –and their clients'- money at risk of being lost. HTML5 is known for having better security as it does not have the same type of open architecture that Java has. When a security threat has been identified in a Java coded site, you are able to create a patch for that problem. However, the problem with Java patches is that when you create one patch, it often seems to lead to creating a new hole that now is also in need of a patch. In this way, Java can require a lot of time, effort and man-power to monitor potential holes and patches that have been implemented.


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Sweden's Henrik Stenson set his sights on an elusive major championship after successfully defending a title for the first time in his career following a thrilling finish to the DP World Tour Championship.
Stenson carded a closing 70 at Jumeirah Golf Estates to finish 16 under par, two shots ahead of world No 1 Rory McIlroy and Ryder Cup team-mates Justin Rose and Victor Dubuisson.
Ireland's Shane Lowry finished a shot further back in fifth to move into the top 50 in the world and all-but secure a Masters debut next April.
The victory was worth more than £1.3 million to Stenson thanks to the first prize of £830,000 and a bonus of £510,000 for maintaining second place in the Race to Dubai behind McIlroy – although even that paled into insignificance compared to the £7.3m he banked last year for becoming the first man to win the FedEx Cup and Race to Dubai in the same season.
It also took him second in the world rankings but the 38-year-old said: "It would be nice to have been ranked the world's best at some point, but if I had the choice I would go for a major championship, so I am going to try and be in good shape for them next year."
Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello held a two-shot lead with seven holes to play only to bogey the 12th and run up double bogeys on the 16th and 17th after finding water on both occasions.
Stenson had also found trouble on a rollercoaster back nine, hitting his tee shot out of bounds on the 11th to gift playing partner Cabrera-Bello that two-shot advantage, but a brilliant five-iron tee shot on the par-three 17th produced a tap-in birdie to reclaim the lead.
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McIlroy and Rose had missed birdie putts on the 18th from near-identical positions, while Dubuisson had to settle for a birdie after almost holing out from a greenside bunker.
"It feels great," added Stenson, who finished in style with a birdie on the 18th. "I did not play my best and had a shocking hole on 11.
"That knocked me back but I did not give up. I just had to dig in there and wait for something to happen. I had a couple of close calls this year to get my win and it was not to be. It's been close but eventually you get something if you stick around and I surely did that."
McIlroy failed to take advantage of a lucky break on the 18th when his tee shot hit a rock in the creek which runs through the middle of the fairway and bounced to safety, but the 25-year-old was philosophical about his performance.
"I would never expect 14 under to have a remote chance of winning the tournament," McIlroy said. "It seemed like no-one took it by the scruff of the neck and I thought if I could post 16 under I might have a chance.
"I just did not play well enough to win but that's a real positive, not just for next year but the rest of my career. In seasons gone by a bad week would have been middle of the pack or battling to make the cut."
Rose was ultimately left to rue a slow start to the week – he was four over par after 10 holes of the opening round – and his failure to pick up a shot on the 17th or 18th after a brilliant escape from the trees on the 15th had set up his third birdie in a row.
"All week I was clawing my way back, right from the start on Thursday," Rose said. "Today I did everything I needed to do early in my round and made a few poor mistakes in the middle. That was where I struggled.
"But all in all, lots of positives and a good week. It's a little bit like Shanghai (the BMW Masters) where I had a good chance there as well after a poor start (four over after four holes). But at least it tells me I'm playing well and getting myself into contention. It's never easy to win every time."
Speaking about breaking into the world's top 50, Lowry said: "It was one of the goals for me playing these last four tournaments. I've been between 52 and 54 in the world for a month or so now and I felt like I have been playing the golf to have the high finish to get in there.
"I just wasn't scoring well and finishing 15th to 25th. A nice, high finish this week is going to do it for me, so I'm thrilled and I can't wait till next April."
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XI international Writers' Festival-India (An International Conference of Poets, Writers and Scholars) will be held on 14-15 October, 2016 at Udaipur (Rajasthan)-India
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Date: October 14 and 15, 2016 (Opening on October 14, 2016 at 11.00 A.M.)
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A 21-year-old student has been taken into federal custody after allegedly threatening to murder white students and staff at the University of Chicago, as well as white first responders in retaliation for the death of a man shot by police.
On Monday, Jabari R. Dean, an engineering student at the University of Illinois in Chicago according to his LinkedIn page, was federally charged with making a credible threat to injure another person.
Dean admitted to making comments asserting his desire to "execute approximately 16 white male students and or staff" and "any number of white policemen that I can in the process" on the worldstarhiphop.com website Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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This is my only warning. At 10a.m. On Monday mourning (sic) I am goin gto the campus quad of the University of Chicago. I will be armed with a M-4 Carbine and 2 Desert Eagles all fully loaded. I will execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) Mcdonald (sic) was killed.
I then will die killing any number of white policemen that I can in the process. This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils. I expect you to do the same….
Dean admitted he deleted the comment after he was shown a screenshot of the threat, an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint.
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer took the threats seriously and canceled all classes and activities Monday, warn campus staff, faculty and students "to remain indoors as much as possible" citing an unexplained threat.
Monday classes and activities at UChicago Hyde Park Campus canceled due to threat. More info: https://t.co/RRT3q7oOEp
— UChicago (@UChicago) November 30, 2015
"Based on the FBI's assessment of this threat and recent tragic events at other campuses across the country, we have decided in consultation with federal and local law enforcement officials, to exercise caution by canceling all classes and activities on the Hyde Park campus through midnight on Monday," Zimmer said in an email.
Classes are scheduled to resume Tuesday.
Dean is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to a press release from the US Justice Department.
Below is the criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent against Dean:
Jabari Dean Criminal Complaint by DNAinfo Chicago


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Attacks on CBPP's Reputation Totally Baseless
Yves Smith's suggestion in an FDL post today that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities was in some way "bribed" to support the tax-cut-UI compromise that Congress struck in December is outrageous and completely false. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has not taken a penny from the Peterson Foundation or anyone else with an interest in extending high-income tax cuts.
Had Smith bothered to check the record, she would have found that few policy organizations in DC have issued as many reports and analyses assailing the high-income tax cuts, from 2001 — when they were first considered — through the present day, as has the Center.
We consistently called for the expiration of the upper-income tax cuts at the end of 2010, and supported the December compromise because we were convinced its defeat by the last Congress in December would lead to a more unfavorable deal under the new Congress that took office in January. We think the track record of the new Congress to date bears out that judgment.


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THE BUSH administration's proposed missile defense program is designed to radically reduce, if not eliminate, through intercept the number of offensive nuclear missiles that are capable of striking the United States.
Even though such a system still is years away from being implemented, it appears to have already begun achieving its goal: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that he would drop his resistence to the U.S. deploying a missile defense so long as both nations made dramatic cuts in their nuclear arsenals.
Mr. Putin's acquiesence removes a major stumbling block to the deployment of a national missile defense (NMD). Critics of NMD which have included Russia and several European allies had warned the Bush administration that the system violates the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In their minds, preserving that obsolete piece of paper co-signed by a country that no longer exists and ratified in a time that is far removed from today's geopolitical and technological realities, is more important than satisfying America's current and future national security needs.
Mr. Putin Sunday did not explicitly renounce the ABM treaty, but his agreeing to a conditional acceptace of NMD all but makes the treaty insignificant. It abandons the Cold War mentality that kept ABM supporters clinging to a nostalgic strategy and opens the door to crafting a fresh, modern defense framework in a post-Mutually Assured Destruction world.
Mr. Putin characterized the agreement as "unexpected." Perhaps he was talking about the timing, coming at the end of a G-8 economic summit in Genoa, Italy. Because the concept was hardly novel. Indeed, Mr. Bush himself made such missile cuts a campaign issue last fall and reiterated his desires shortly after he took office in January.
Reducing nuclear stockpiles makes sense today, even factoring out NMD. There is no more Cold War rationale for practicing massive deterrence between competing superpowers. Plus, limiting the number of ballistic missiles would decrease the availability of nuclear warheads to be stolen or sold to potential U.S. adversaries. And it could reduce the risk of an accidental launch.
So why tie the two together now? Perhaps Mr. Putin was influenced by America's successful test on July 15 of a missile interceptor high above the Pacific Ocean. That may have persuaded him either that the technology was viable, or at the very least, that Washington would be convinced of the system's viability and would proceed unilaterally with deploying it and scrapping the ABM treaty. Either way, the Russian leader may have decided it was time to cut the best deal possible with Mr. Bush.
That's not to suggest that Mr. Putin waved a white flag. The agreement reached Sunday, while politically a victory for Mr. Bush, benefits both nations and lays the groundwork for future cooperation between the two.
Furthermore, it should reassure skeptical European allies that NMD isn't a threat to their safety, but rather a key component of securing it.
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To Dora from a salamander
A/N: My Little brother really likes Dora the explorer and got interested in my writing so this was born lol sorry if it doesn't make sense!
Dear dora, I love your hair! Boots, I love your boots. Dora write something for boots, because you should write him some stories! And that's the end ^_^
Salamanders story for Dora
One day Dora and boot were bored and then they saw a frog;
"Hi Mr. frog, what are you doing today?"
"I lost my eggs, can you help me Dora and boots?"
"Sure! where did you you lose them?"
"At the rainbow rug! Swiper stole my eggs."
"Oh no, we have to stop swiper!"
"Lets climb the ladder, cross the draw bridge, and stop swiper to get your eggs back!"
"First we have to climb the mountain!"
BUt they had to cross the draw bridge really fast or the crocks would get them! and then stop swiper!
"Oh no I lost the eggs!"
Dora and boots grasped the eggs that swiper had dropped and cheered as they handed Mr. Frog his eggs the end!


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Ajahn Chum has said that these takruts were created in strict accordance with an ancient science believed to be at least 1000 years old and incorporate the sacred power of many great men over the centuries, including Lord Buddha, the greatest king, the greatest warrior and so on.
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Ways to Achieve Financial Freedom
Most people dream of getting their first million on their savings account early on in life. Some people make it happen sooner than the others. Wonder what's the trick?
It is a tough world we have, where we deal with everyday chaos of earning money, paying bills, saving for our future and balancing checkbook. It's quite tricky on how to save a few bucks for rainy day funds and investments.
So here's a few tips to empower your spending habit and achieve financial freedom asap.
1. Be Determined.
Make this determination: Why do you go to work every day? A lot of people come up with a lot of answers-to buy a car, to pay rent, buy a house, send kids to school. All good answers, but wrong.
The real answer is this: I go to work each day so that I do not have to go to work. What that means is you have to set goals immediately so that you know exactly how much you have to work (and make money) so eventually, you do not have to go to work.
Assuming you can't find money to save is the biggest financial mistake most people make. The truth of the matter is that almost everyone with an income can find something to save. It doesn't have to be a dramatic amount of money, but it does require desire and discipline.
Goals are simple. What do you want? Write it down. Achieve it. [Jesse Brown on lovetoknow]
2. Pay Yourself First!
Want to spend ten minutes doing one thing for your finances that will have an absolutely MASSIVE impact on your ability to spend less, save more, and reach your goals faster?
The concept is simple: Every payday, the very first thing you do is set aside a percentage of your income in a savings account. You do this before you pay the rent, before you pay your other bills, and before you head to happy hour. You "pay yourself first". [money under 30]
3. Pretend you didn't get a raise.
So you were lucky enough to secure a raise! Congratulations! Now if you're able to pretend you never received it and instead sock this additional money away especially in an investment account that compounds with time, you may surprise yourself further down the road with a substantial nest egg. I agree, not being able to celebrate a raise may not be that much fun, so use a small portion of it to reward yourself (but I'd avoid those big ticket items)! [the digerati life]
4. Pay off your 'bad' debt.
Set aside 10% of your monthly income to eliminate debt. Debt incurred to purchase liabilities (or non-cash-producing items) is labeled 'bad debt'. This usually includes most of the items charged to credit cards and retail store cards. If you have problems managing credit cards, a debit card can be a practical alternative. There are also several effective systems to reduce bad debt quickly. [hidden wealth keys]
5. Establish an emergency fund.
This may be where some sacrifice is required. Establishing an emergency fund can be difficult, especially when funds are already tight, but it's a necessity if you intend to stop your dependence on credit cards. Most experts agree that you should establish a fund that would allow you to pay for three to six month living expenses in case you were to have a medical emergency or lose your job. This may be daunting, so start out with a goal of one month, and add to it as you are able. You really need to examine your budget closely to look for opportunities to save. [care on credit]
6. Save your change.
When you get home at night, put your change in a jar. When the jar gets full, bring it to the bank. A medium-sized mason jar full of silver-colored coins will bring in about $100. Put that directly into savings. [live real now]
7. Stop Carrying Credit Cards
Sometimes the temptation to use these plastic cards is just too great — it is so convenient, isn't it? A good way to stop yourself from using them is not to carry them around. Carry just enough cash for whatever you have planned for the day. This will force you to think about your spending habits, and prevent you from buying on impulse. If you manage to clear your credit card debt, you can reward yourself by keeping one in your wallet for emergencies. [moolanomy]
8. Reward yourself below your means
Your goal is to be frugal, not a miser. Small rewards–within your budget–are a wise way to keep fun in your life. Living beneath your means takes self-control, but the emotional and financial benefits are tremendous. An occasional treat energizes you to keep up the good work. [dumb little man]
I know it's easy being said than done, but with a little discipline, it might get us there. Right?
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The Visitation
The complete story is told in our forthcoming book: "Tequila and Chocolate, Far Travels of the Morning Star, Memoirs of this World and the Other, The Adventures of a Reluctant Prophet and His Soulmate."
I don't believe in otherworldly beings. I know otherworldly beings. "If you are blind and have never seen the sun rise, it doesn't matter how many hypotheses you can array; you still don't know. Belief is simply the adoption of someone else's idea. Once you have seen the sun, you don't believe in it; you know it."[i]
I have been in the presence of otherworldly beings, which my wife identified as angels, but they just as well could have been identified as gods or goddesses. No matter what identity is assigned, most importantly, I have not seen angels in my mind, in a cloud formation, or in my dreams or as some type of human figure. I've been in the presence of and witness to an archangel and two assisting angels.
Having been in their presence, I know angels in the same way that I know a sunrise, the buzz of a bee, or rain falling on my head. I know otherworldly beings not with my mind but with my senses—no filters. It was a sensory firsthand experience.
The term I use for this unprecedented event is the Visitation, which was witnessed by my wife, Sherry, and twelve of our apprentices. It occurred on the night of the new moon, Sunday, August 3, 1997, in the woods of Maine. I was also born on a new moon. Numerically, the date of the Visitation is a 10. The number 1 symbolizes the Absolute, the One, the Divine, the Great Mystery, the Creator. The number 10 symbolizes the reflection of the Divine or the perfection of creation.
Otherworldly beings are awesome, essential, and most assuredly significant heavenly beings of creation who exist in a state of timelessness, not linear time. But since timelessness and linear time interpenetrate, they may appear anytime and are as close as a breath of air. But for them to physically appear and step into the stream of linear time and our reality, a purification of the elements that compose linear time must occur. Early on that Sunday afternoon, we experienced an otherworldly storm. One moment, the sky was crystal clear, tinged only with a few clouds, and in the next moment, the sky darkened into an ominous, swirling bluish-black tempest. There was a moment as if the world paused—there was no sound or movement as if a jötunn (giant) was holding its breath. And then…thunder, lightning, and rain—Þórr's presence. Torrents of rain fell as thunder boomed overhead and lightning struck all around my wife, me, and our twelve apprentices. Everyone ran to huddle underneath the cooking tarp, shaking and scared by the otherworldly intensity. People were terrified at the suddenness and force of the wind and the rain, the thunder and the lightning.
As the storm abated, the earth felt different—a purification of sorts. It was only later that I had a sudden realization that the pre-Christian Hawaiians would recognize this sudden downpour as a sign of the presence of the Akua Lono—the white god. Our apprentices were milling around, slightly disoriented by the storm. The good news—now we could have a fire. However, the storm changed the timing of building the death spiral. It would now occur later than we had planned.
At the time, we didn't know what to make of such an unusual natural occurrence. Approximately eight hours later, with the appearance of an archangel and two assisting angels as three immense pillars of light, the reason for the storm became apparent. The volume and intensity of the thunder and rain and the strength and force of the lightning was a purification of the earth and its elements. A major sanctification had taken place.
For the remainder of the afternoon, we finished building the death spiral and prepared for the death-and-rebirth ceremony. When we were almost finished building the spiral, one of our apprentices took a picture of me within the center of the spiral. (the picture above) One of the universal symbols of the serpent is the spiral. Our spiral was a narrow path, the way of the serpent, to reach the center where our apprentices would experience the death of their old selves (shedding the skin and leaving the old self behind) and then the rebirth of their new selves.
After the death spiral, the apprentices fashioned images out of wood of one of their fears. The fear was to be minor, one that they could let go of in the night's exercise. Darkness came around nine o'clock when I lit the fire to begin the experiential exercise. Everyone sat on the ground in a semicircle with the fire in the center and the west direction open so that each apprentice could approach the fire from the west. Symbolically, this is the black direction of fear but also the direction of rebirth.
One after another, the apprentices approached the fire and laid the symbolic image of their fear before them. When they were ready, they fought their fear with the wooden sword and then tossed the remains into the fire.
Whether it was tiredness or the effects of the death spiral, the apprentices only halfheartedly fought their fear. When all were finished, I looked around the semicircle, and each apprentice's head was hanging low, staring into the fire. It was evident that they knew they had listlessly and with little heart fought their fear. A few were accomplished martial artists. How was I going to tell them that they blew it? They had squandered an awesome opportunity to release one of their fears. With these thoughts going through my mind, I decided to stand and talk more philosophically about releasing fear rather than giving them a searing commentary on—you blew it.
I stood and began a more nurturing synopsis of the exercise, only stating a few things before…before I felt my neck twitching and an icy-fire sensation around my head—I recognized the feeling. It is the one I always get when there are otherworldly energies around. But this time it was different, much more intense and strange. I turned my head to look behind me into the woods. Everyone else was still seated on the ground, staring into the fire. No one else was looking up.
This was the night of the new moon, and the only light in the clearing was cast by the small fire. The night before, while the apprentices were sitting alone in the woods on their vision quest, I had stood in this very same spot observing the dark woods. I was listening and making sure that everyone was all right. When I had turned off my flashlight, I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me.
"What…no." These two short thoughts coursed through my mind as I turned my head back around to see if there was some other light source coming from my front other than the small fire. And when I observed nothing that could explain what I just saw, I turned my head back around again in disbelief—making sure I saw what I saw. This all took less than a minute.
"Please stand, and be quiet. We have visitors," I said as calmly as possible, all the while not knowing what I was seeing.
As Sherry stood up next to me, looking at the lights, I leaned over and whispered into her ear, "What are they?"
Without any hesitation she said, "Why, they're angels!"
And then I remembered my prayer for a sign of who I had been. It all made sense, but I never expected a sign like this.
"A shooting star," someone said as we all looked up as it blazed across the night sky.
"A white dove," an apprentice exclaimed as it flew over our heads.
"Look at the stones of the death spiral," another said.
The stones had increased at least fivefold in size; some were now the size of boulders. But the most unusual thing was the greenish, otherworldly glow that surrounded each.
After this, no further words were spoken. Time seemed to be suspended as Sherry and I and our twelve apprentices witnessed in awe a massive pillar of light—a living pillar of iridescent light a few feet off the ground, at least six feet wide and five or six times as tall. This light was in the north by the entrance to the death spiral. It was a light that was whitish and not of this world.
Suspended higher up by it were two other pillars of light, not quite as bright or as large. The legends have always told that an archangel is always assisted by two helping angels. Many traditions believe that the north direction is symbolically the direction of the ancestors and heavenly beings, such as angels.
At the Visitation, as messengers of the divine and in answer to my prayer, the archangel and the two assisting angels announced who I was in my previous incarnation through their presence and the other signs that were shown along with their appearance. "In biblical accounts, angels traditionally appeared in order to make an annunciation or a revelation of transcendent import. Usually an angel's message is one of concern not only to the individual who sees the vision, but to the collective group as well. Such visionary experiences mark dramatic turning points personally and culturally."[ii] In the case of our twelve apprentices, my wife, and me, the Visitation was not a visionary experience but an actual physical, sensory, extraordinary event.
It was late on an October afternoon of the same year when one of our apprentices contacted me. "J C, you'll never guess what I have," he said in an excited tone. "While you were finishing the late-afternoon building of the spiral, I took a picture of you in the center of it. When I got home, I just threw the camera into my truck. Last week I finally got around to getting the pictures developed. I knew something was up when the photo shop lady said, 'One of your pictures has caused quite a stir.'"
He paused and then said, "Guess what? I have a daylight photograph of the archangel and the two assisting angels. They were observing us building the spiral…and no one ever suspected!"
The picture is sacred and precious. Closer examination of the picture revealed a very faint image of what looks like the shape of a sword (sword of light) or an elongated, four-pointed star pointing to the heavens. This dim image is within the center of the reflected light. This is the picture at the beginning of this page.
The Effect of the Visitation on Spiritual/Philosophical/Religious Knowledge
During the Visitation, we experienced something that few humans believe in and even fewer get the experience to know. The majority of humanity's spiritual/philosophical/religious beliefs are based on secondhand knowledge, either written or oral, from others who have also based their beliefs on secondhand, thirdhand, and further removed knowledge.
This miraculous happening opened the gateway to knowing certain truths concerning spiritual/philosophical/religious beliefs. I will attempt to lay them out as best as I can:
Knowledge: The interconnection and interpenetration of consciousness throughout the seen and unseen universe.
David Bohm theorized a new reality of the universe. He named this reality the implicate order—the "hidden" aspect of the universe. "The theory of the implicate order contains an ultraholistic cosmic view; it connects everything with everything else. In principle, any individual element could reveal 'detailed information about every other element in the universe.' The central underlying theme of Bohm's theory is the 'unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided, flowing movement without borders.'"[iii] In other words, "Within the implicate order, everything is connected; and, in theory, any individual element could reveal information about every other element in the universe."[iv] Bohm named the known or visible universe or manifest world the "explicate order." In the implicate order, "'everything is enfolded into everything.' This is in contrast to the explicate order where things are unfolded."[v]
The Visitation provides proof of Bohm's theory as the physical appearance of the angels (immense pillars of light) was due to my prayer. For the angels to respond while in the implicate order, they would have had to have received the information from myself in the explicate order.[vi]
After the intense, unusual storm, they were present in the afternoon but hidden41 while they were still in a layer of the implicate order. It was only in the evening that they became visible to us in the explicate order—in Bohm's terms, when they unfolded.
Knowledge: Reincarnation.
Based on what I knew within my heart I prayed for a sign to be given of who I was in my last incarnation: "Let them see a sign knowing that I was ________________." I mentioned the name, as people would recognize it today.
The angels responding to my prayer indicated that I was alive before in a different body, place, and time. I am no different than anyone else. If I have had a past life (lives), then everyone else has had past lives. This is proof, as far as we can take it, considering we are attempting to prove the unprovable mysteries of life and creation—that our lives on earth are not a one-shot deal with a result of Heaven, Hell, or oblivion waiting for us.
But it is an ongoing death and rebirth evolution of our soul—our Golden DNA or Divine Spark/Starlight.
Sentient beings that humanity has named angels, gods, goddesses, bodhisattvas, and so forth physically exist even though they are usually hidden from sight while they remain in Bohm's implicate order. This leads to a conclusion that other sentient beings exist, namely gods and goddesses and others, such as elves and faeries and, in Iceland, the hidden ones. But once again, they are in the implicate order and hidden from our senses and sight.
[i] Malcolm Godwin, Angels An Endangered Species, 237.
[ii] Sallie Nichols, Angels and Mortals, 190.
[iii] Beatrix Murrell, http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/plenum/plenum_3.
[iv] Ibid.
[v] Ibid.
[vi] Bohm's theory of the implicate order stresses that the cosmos is in a state of process. Bohm's cosmos is a "feedback" universe that continuously recycles forward into a greater mode of being and consciousness. Ibid.