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D-I Quarterfinals Notebook: Coach's Intuition
May 23, 2010
By Andy Johnston
Special to NCAA.Com
ATHENS, Ga. - Virginia coach Brian Boland is glad he went with his gut.
He listened to what his intuition was telling him and decided to replace senior Lee Singer with little-used freshman Julen Uriguen at No. 6 singles for the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships. Uriguen has come through with strong showings in two matches.
On Sunday, he defeated UCLA's Maxime Tabatruong 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 to clinch top-seeded Virginia's 4-2 quarterfinal victory.
"Julen worked really hard over the last semester, and it just took a little bit more time for him to make the adjustment, but he was very persistent in the things he had to do to become a better player," Boland said. "I'm not surprised he came up big when we needed him. It's something we waited for until the time was right."
Singer is 31-9 and ranked 72nd in the nation this season. Uriguen was 7-1 entering the tournament and wasn't considered among Virginia's top eight players, but that hasn't kept him from locking down the sixth court for the Cavaliers.
He was leading Duke's Luke Marchese 7-6 (3), 2-1 when the Cavaliers clinched that Round of 16 match on Thursday. In his quarterfinal win, Virginia's players gathered on the adjacent court to cheer on the unlikely hero.
"It was great," Uriguen said. "My teammates were great supporting me the whole time. I really felt their energy. I felt that inside. That gave me a lot of strength to finish the third set off. At 3-love, I got a love-40 game and they were all cheering me on and I managed to pull that off and close out the match."
NIGHTMARE COME TRUE: After defeating Wisconsin in the Round of 16, Ohio State coach Ty Tucker said he didn't want any part of Southern California. He knew what he was talking about.
Defending national champ and fifth-seeded Southern California (23-3) eliminated the fourth-seeded Buckeyes 4-0 on Sunday, taking three singles matches in straight sets.
"They put it on us," Tucker said. "I knew it would be a tough match. USC started the season ranked No. 1. We didn't want to play USC, and now you know why. ... Anybody who plays them, they're going to have their hands full."
Ohio State (35-2) saw its winning streak end at 27 matches.
CARDINALS COME HOME: Stanford women's players Lindsay and Mallory Burdette have quite a following during the Cardinal's matches.
They are from the Georgia town of Jackson, about 75 miles from Athens, and their brother and sister are both enrolled in Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Lindsay, a senior, plays No. 2 singles, and Mallory, a freshman, is at No. 3 singles for Stanford, which will play Notre Dame in a women's semifinal at 2 p.m. (EDT) Monday.
Mallory's 6-4, 6-0 victory over Baylor's Taylor Ormond on Saturday helped Stanford upset the top-seeded Bears in the quarterfinals.
"This hasn't sunk in for me yet," she said after the match. "I think that was our first real battle I've experienced with the team. I was really happy to be able to contribute to the team in the win and get off the court first and get that momentum going our way."
Oldest sister Erin was a four-time All-American at Stanford and brother Andy went to West Point before heading to vet school at Georgia.
FINALLY HEATS UP: The NCAA Championships usually are accompanied by early summer Georgia heat and humidity, but Sunday was the first day when temperatures approached the upper 80s.
Georgia's notorious humidity has yet to descend upon the tournament, much to relief of players and coaches.
"I don't feel (the heat) hurt us anymore than it hurt (Virginia)," UCLA coach Billy Martin said. "It was certainly the hottest day, but I think we're all prepared when we come down here for the heat. The heat doesn't bother us as much as the humidity, and there really wasn't a lot of humidity. That's what really zaps the Californians."


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Sanders formally endorsed her rival Clinton: what's behind it
Senator Bernie Sanders, who tried in vain to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections of 2016 from the Democratic party has finally officially announced support for yesterday's rival Hillary Clinton. "The hatchet" Senator socialist from Vermont and the former U.S. Secretary of state completely "buried" in a joint performance in Portsmouth.
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Clinton won the race for the right to be nominated from the Democratic party, stated Bernie Sanders. I plan to do everything in my power to become the next President of the United States.
However, the big surprise this statement Sanders did not – on the one hand, he was convinced that the further struggle for the right to act on behalf of the Democrats in the US presidential election they lost, as Hillary Clinton far surpassed him at the end of the primaries. On the other hand, Sanders is forced to support their former opponent in the face of common enemies – Republican Donald trump.
About it openly and said Mrs. Clinton, speaking after Sanders: "We joined forces to defeat Donald trump… We are stronger together!"
Of course, the official proclamation of banderovskoe support was preceded by a long open and closed negotiations between the teams of the two politicians. Earlier, the official support Hillary Clinton spoke and President Obama appearing next to the former first lady of America at a campaign rally.
"Consolation prize" for Sanders, designed rather to attract to the side of the Clinton supporters were the promises of former Secretary of state to include in its programme certain provisions that called the Senator. In particular, the increase in the minimum wage to $15.
I must say that, while expressing support for Clinton, Bernie Sanders did not fail to take the opportunity to remind her that not all supporters of the Democratic party willing to give her their voices: "Let me begin with gratitude to those 13 million Americans who voted for me during the democratic primaries. Our campaign was successful in the primaries and the Caucus-goers in 22 States."
It is unlikely that after the "surrender" Sanders all his supporters will support Clinton. And Donald trump is excellent it feels and tries to attract the sympathy of the dissatisfied with the political establishment of the Americans on their side. On the eve of the joint statement by former Secretary of state and Senator, he wrote on Twitter that Sanders "is completely sold out corrupt Hillary Clinton": "I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders is not true to themselves and their supporters. They are hardly happy with what he sold!"
– A large part of Sanders's supporters would be willing to support Clinton – says "MK" political analyst Nikolai ZLOBIN. For trump they will not vote in any situation. But whether they will go to the polls to vote for Hillary Clinton – it is a question the next three months. I think it will depend on a number of factors. First of all, how many key provisions of the program, Sanders will enter definitively into the program, Clinton. We know that over the past few weeks the team of Hillary and Sanders led the debate on the compromise program. In these circumstances, Sanders supported Clinton because she pledged to support a part of the core theses of his program that do not conflict with its facilities. Also to a large extent this will depend on who will be chosen by the candidate in Vice-presidents from Democrats. There is a chance that it will be Sanders. Or the person who will represent the interests of his supporters. Plus Sanders will have to make an effort to convince its voters to vote for Clinton. And I think that this is also included in the package of concluded agreements. Basically, Sanders is now able to act in a glamorous role of a unifier of Democrats", it's a good position – and in this sense it will have an effect on many things, if Clinton becomes President (on assignments, bills, etc.). The Treaty resulting from a political compromise sereznogo, important and beneficial to both parties.Related posts:

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If you're wondering how the
heck Alexander the Great was able to take
over most of the known world, if not all of it, you have come
to the right place.
Alexander was a great military mind. He devised ways
to lay waste to enemies with more men and resources. Although
I consider myself to be reasonably well versed on tactics, I doubt
that I can bring Alexander's full intellectual strength to paper.
But here goes...
When Alexander's father was killed he had to take
over. His enemies thought "Hey, here's a great moment to
go waste this weak empire with this inexperienced kid in charge."
Little did they know that Alexander had been well taught by military
minds and had already taken part in numerous battles with his
Alexander's father, Philip II, developed the phalanx,
a box formation for infantry soldiers from 8 to 36 men deep. Alexander
was the one who exploited it. The men in the front carried spears
of about four to six meters (12 to 18 feet), that were usually
held in an upright position. When held vertically, the wall of
spears helped hide what was going on with the units behind the
formation. When held horizontally, enemies could be killed at
a safe range from the formation. The phalanx was revolutionary
for its time and was a very potent weapon. It was only surpassed
when the Romans developed the legion, another infantry formation
with different weapons and armor.
Even though there wasn't much in the way of technological
know how compared to modern warfare, Alexander was able to put
together a very impressive army. The weapons of the time consisted
of spears, bows and arrows, swords, cavalry, chariots and some
light and heavy armor. This may not seem very impressive today,
but it won many wars for Alexander.
His order of battle was also impressive. He was an
expert at organizing his units for complex battle maneuvers, hiding
the true numbers and make up of his forces, and managing his army
during the flow of the battle.
The soldiers life was similar to today's in some
ways and very different in others. These soldiers did not have
the variety of uniforms of today, they had only one. There weren't
many different jobs for them, but the ones they did have they
were very well drilled in. Alexander had his men drill constantly
and the morale and discipline was always very high. Alexander
had mercenaries come and drill his men along with their regular
officers so you get the idea they did know what they were doing.
I have heard many times a saying that applies almost
anywhere, " It's the man not the machine." Now, think
of this: ten soldiers on one side with shields and swords but
they don't really want to be there and haven't been trained very
much, so on the whole they don't really want to fight anyone.
On the other side one veteran of 5 major battles, hard bitten,
well trained and with the same weapons.
In a regular battle, I would bet on the side with
the experience rather then side with numerical superiority, wouldn't
you? In a few of Alexander's battles this general idea of him
being out numbered but with better men could explain his victories.
But in most of his battles he fought hard bitten, well trained
enemies. This is where tactics and strategy come into play.
For those of you that are military illiterates an
explanation is in order. Tactics refers to movements you do every
five minutes or so. Strategy is your overall plan. Usually tactics
win a battle not strategy. But you have to have a good strategy,
or plan of battle, before you can make can make good decisions
on the fly. Alexander had brilliant strategies that were used
later by other generals like Napoleon.
But a good strategy only worked if your enemies did
exactly what you had thought he would do. This was almost never
the case, and that's when tactics came into play. You may have
a bad plan of battle, but if you have killer tactics, you can
still carry the day. (For any of you serious game players out
there you know what I mean.) Tactics are developed on the fly
as the battle progresses and sometimes they might decide the entire
In Alexander's time many battles were fought with
the general or leader off on a distant hill watching the battle
progress and giving an occasional order. So when Alexander wasn't
at the front fighting with his men he was on a close hill watching
the battle and giving orders. Alexander was very good on the fly,
developing tactics to overcome the odds. For many years battles
proceeded like this. Today, many battles are fought with just
low grade officers giving critical orders.
If anyone is wondering where training or discipline
comes in, well, its in all the time. A well drilled solider with
good discipline, which means he will do what his superior tells
him to without question, will stand his ground with just a spear
against a charge of cavalry. In Alexander's battles in India discipline
and training was very important. Alexander's men had never seen
elephants before they entered those battles. When faced with fighting
a man up on top of an elephant untrained and undisciplined soldiers
would most likely have run, but Alexander's well trained veterans
stood their ground. They were confident in their superiors' abilities
to tell them what to do. They didn't run, even when faced with
these bigger enemies.
If you would like more hands on experience learning
about tactics and strategy look into the huge selection of strategy
and real-time games. I personally suggest any Warcraft game, or
Command and Conquer game. I have personally played them and they
are big on strategy, tactics, and weapons. For games that have
more things to worry about like towns or empires I suggest any
Lords of the Realm game.
If you have played these games and don't like them
or would like different choices look for any game with a real-time
strategy feel. Even 3-d "shoot em ups" have a great
deal of tactics involved. If games are not what you are really
into then I suggest the book Men at Arms Series: The Army of
Alexander the Great.
There is also an Alexander the Great game
available, but I haven't played it personally, so I can't give
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by Astrophysics, Nov 10, 2013.
there were a lot of missed tackles in the rams game which pissed me off
The question is who do we replace Munch with? I have my top two choices, and may seem unconventional. The biggest thing about these two is that they are from OUTSIDE the organization. The NFL is no place for nepotism.
Nick Saban - Really? Does he have anything left to prove in the college game? I think as competitive as he is, the lone blemish on his coaching resume is that he couldn't get it done in the NFL. I think that bothers him and he wants another shot. Give him a year or two, completely committed to the team and I think we have ourselves a coach and a team.
Art Briles - This guy knows how to coach an offense. No matter how many 1st round draft picks we spend on offense we can never seem to get over the hump. Put this guy in place with the offensive weapons we have and he'd be like a kid in the candy store. I mean, have you guys SEEN Baylor play this year? They could possibly be the best team in the NCAA but won't get a shot at the title because they're a small school.
Based on the article written by Climer (he talked to Tommy Smith), it doesn't sound as if Munch is going anywhere. At least that's the impression I got from it.
exactly. He's here for a while. Unless we lose the next 7 games and finish 4 and 12... we're stuck with Munch.
Munch should be gone today! LAST NIGHT! We need a coach and a qb that does not get hurt every 4 games
Apparently, "The Jaguars were going to beat someone" and "we can't have unrealistic expectations." According to Mr. Smith of course.
Then **** him too.
This organization is so backwards. I just don't get it.
Munch may not be going anywhere but my money is.
Mike Munchak, Tennessee Titans
Signed through: 2014
Record: 4-5 this season, 19-22 overall
Odds Munchak returns: 1-1 (even)
Odds Munchak is out: 5-7 (-140)
Preseason vibe: This was looking like a playoffs-or-bust season in September when team owner Bud Adams expressed high expectations after spending "a lot of money" to upgrade the roster. Adams subsequently passed away and his grandson took over the team.
Trending: Losing at home to the previously 0-8 Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 10 felt like an outcome that could haunt Munchak in the final evaluation. The Titans have now lost four of their past five. Coaches can sometimes overcome a disappointing record if they've got a young quarterback trending in the right direction. The Titans thought they had one, but losing Jake Locker to a potentially season-ending foot injury would undercut Munchak on that front as well.
Part of me would be OK with Munch staying as long as his hand is forced to dump both Lowgains and Gray. Make Williams the D-coordinator and hire a new, innovative, offensive mind as OC. I'm not sure if an Art Briles would give up a College head coaching gig for a lesser position in the NFL but we should explore those kinds of options. There are plenty of guys out there if we could just, hint, hint... look outside the friggin' organization.


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Originally posted by luxordelphi
As far as the 'internal' UK flights increasing - could you supply some statistics and altitudes with these flights? You may be onto something.
Just as an aside: since the UK has a lot of fronts and is known for weather, it would be a shame to alter that pattern creating, initially, floods, and then drought through chemtrailing. But that's not happening there, is it?
Total Movements 2000 FINAL 17 LONDON (LHR) 466 815 1.9
Total Movements 2001 FINAL 15 LONDON (LHR) 463 568 (0.7)
Total Movements 2002 FINAL 13 LONDON (LHR) 466 554 0.6
Traffic Movements 2003 FINAL 13 LONDON (LHR) 463 650 ( 0.6)
Traffic Movements 2004 FINAL 15 LONDON (LHR) 475 999 2.7
Traffic Movements 2005 FINAL 17 LONDON (LHR) 477 884 0.4
Traffic Movements 2006 FINAL 14 LONDON (LHR) 477 041 ( 0.2)
Traffic Movements 2007 FINAL 14 LONDON (LHR) 481 479 0.9
Traffic Movements 2008 FINAL 13 LONDON (LHR) 478 518 ( 0.6)
Traffic Movements 2009 FINAL 12 LONDON, GB (LHR) 466 393 ( 2.6)
Traffic Movements 2010 FINAL 13 LONDON, GB(LHR) 454 883 ( 2.5)
As an aside, due to the weather conditions this year, we've had far fewer days with widespread contrails visible than usual. Or maybe our unusually wet weather is due to the lack of chemtrailing?
Originally posted by luxordelphi
I will agree that there are some sectors involving flights that are up. Military flights are up. Military and government cargo flights are up. Cloud seeding flights are up. Weather modification flights are up. Drone flights are up. Atmospheric testing flights are up.
A bunk science was invented, overnight, by morons, to explain it.
I live near 3 airports within a 35-40 mile radius have done ALL my life
What I suggest YOU do is find out average aircraft flying heights over the decades
As for your UK weather comments I have lived with it for 5 decades HAVE YOU we can get all the seasons in one day and have done as long as I can remember and its not due to contrails
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by DenyObfuscation
It is very easy to find hard data about air traffic. It is impossible to find hard data about the number of "chemtrails" spotted. There is no point in arguing this one.
Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by wmd_2008
As for your UK weather comments I have lived with it for 5 decades HAVE YOU we can get all the seasons in one day and have done as long as I can remember and its not due to contrails
I have lived in all climates except tropical and arctic. Again, not sure where this is going but I'll wait patiently for you to make your point.
And incidently, long haul flights are more likely to produce contrails since they usually fly higher than short haul. In Britain a persistent contrail is more likely to be produced by a flight from Paris to Montreal than one from Bristol to Birmingham
The possibility that normal jet contrails are being laid down by US Air Force tanker aircraft has been shot down by a high-ranking American military official. In a recent letter to a Washington State chemtrail sufferer, Major General Gregory Barlow of the Office the Adjutant General stated that "Our KC-135 jet aircraft operate at altitude below 33,000 feet which is typically the altitude where jet contrails form."
Hundreds of photographs, a box of videotapes and my own observations of the spray planes operating over Vancouver Island off Canada's west coast confirm that unmarked, all-white tanker-type aircraft are often laying thick billowing 'trails over American communities at altitudes often below 10,000 feet. At such low altitudes, it is impossible for normal contrails to form because there are no ice-crystals in the air to be nudged by wingtip vortices and hot engines into condensation trails.
While occasionally known to linger in "cloud corridors" formed by constant jet traffic over heavily-flown air routes, according to the FAA, normal contrails usually dissipate harmlessly within 45 seconds like the wake behind a boat.
I think the point is that Britain has a quite unique climate - very different to the USA, Canada, India, Brazil, China, Australia and continental Europe. If you haven't spent years here, then you may not appreciate how quickly it can change, And how varied the prevalence of contrails is.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by DenyObfuscation
It is very easy to find hard data about air traffic. It is impossible to find hard data about the number of "chemtrails" spotted. There is no point in arguing this one.
Originally posted by The X
Truth is, by the time you guys have realised all along we were right, your kids will be suffering from the effects, they are being poisoned daily, and you are compliant in that.
Anytime that you want to support your wild claim that air traffic has decreased, feel free to do so.
Originally posted by ProtectedWitness
I support this spraying. Ever since they started spraying in my area, I have had more energy, a renewed sense of creativity, and overall better health. I hope they keep it up. The reason why the pilots agree to spraying is because they are aware of the benefits. I have a feeling this has remained a secret because we don't want our enemies to know of our super-spray.
Originally posted by Human_Alien
What I am saying is the footage speaks for itself.
To deny this is to derail reality.....so, you don't want to be a member of delusion do ya?
Originally posted by jude11
Always been a believer. Thank you.
When I see my clear blue sky become filled with 'trails' within an hour and then have a haze that covers the sun for hours, I have to wonder how it looks in the city, near airports...
Since I am NO WHERE NEAR A CITY OR AIRPORT...how does it happen in my sky this summer and not once in the last 50 years?


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I have been looking into solution that how can I link my pre-compiled dlls into different projects in git repositories, and, I don't want to copy dependencies code always in each repository.
This can be achieved by creating Git sub-module in repository where you want to use it.
Following steps need to be done:
Step 1: Go on top level directory where sub module needs to link:
$ cd <local path of git repo>
cd c:/bitbucket/mylocalrepository
Step 2: Create submodule in repository:
git submodule add path_to_repo path_where_you_want_it
$git submodule add http:/githubrepo/repository.git Repositories
This will create submodule in lib folder of my local repository.
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Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) September 24, 2012
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The decision to expand to the Northeast was driven by OnMessage's history of success helping clients develop effective messaging and marketing strategies for a wide range of complex products, services and target markets. OnMessage, with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, says the expansion north is intended to capitalize on the growing market opportunities in the Northeast. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York are home to more than 100 companies on the Forbes Fortune 500 list and, according to US Census Data, Philadelphia, PA (2), Boston, MA (4) and New York, NY (8) are among the top ten cities with the largest healthcare employment opportunities.
A long-time leader and provider of strategic messaging consulting services, OnMessage has helped numerous companies including 3M Unitek, Transplace, The SCOOTER Store, Sun Microsystems (Oracle), and AmerisourceBergen with critical marketing initiatives.
AmerisourceBergen, a long-standing OnMessage client, was a key driver in the decision-making process to make Philadelphia the home for OnMessage in the Northeast.
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Baylor Wind Ensemble to Perform on April 21April 16, 1998
by Richard Veit
The Baylor University Wind Ensemble will present its final concert of the 1997-98 academic year at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Jones Concert Hall of the Glennis McCrary Music Building. Guest soloist for the concert will be Kathryn Steely, instructor of viola on the Baylor music faculty. The Wind Ensemble is conducted by Michael Haithcock, professor of conducting and director of bands.
Opening the concert will be the overture to Le Roi d'Ys, an opera by 19th-century French composer Édouard Lalo. This exciting overture was written in 1879, but the complete opera was not premiered until May 7, 1888, in Paris. The Wind Ensemble will present it in a transcription by Dutch composer Piet Stalmeier.
Martin Mailman is professor of music and coordinator of composition at the University of North Texas. His three-movement work from 1988, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, was inspired by the sonnets of William Shakespeare.
In addition to being one of the most innovative of all tonal composers in the first half of the 20th century, Paul Hindemith was an accomplished violist and a member of the renowned Amar String Quartet. His Viola Concerto is subtitled "Der Schwanendreher," due to the employment of a German folksong ("Seid ihr nicht der Schwanendreher?") in its third movement. Steely will be the soloist in this work, which dates from the year 1935.
Composer Frank Ticheli is professor of music at the University of Southern California and composer-in-residence of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. He wrote his Blue Shades in 1996 on a commission from a consortium of 30 concert bands, of which Baylor University's was one. The work pays tribute to the "Big Band" traditional jazz which Ticheli heard while growing up during the 1960s near New Orleans.
This concert by the Baylor Wind Ensemble is free and open to the public.
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Scouting the Flames: 23.03.09by Torie Peterson / Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames have a busy week ahead as they face off against the defending Stanley Cup champs and three playoff-hungry clubs. This week will be a test of the team's resolve as they enter into their last stretch of games in the regular season.
Calgary vs. Detroit, Monday, Mar. 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Pengrowth Saddledome, TSN & The FAN 960
The Detroit Red Wings ride into Calgary on a four-game win streak and are coming off a very strong performance in Atlanta where they picked up a 6-3 win. The winning streak has kept them ahead of San Jose by a single point, making them the best team in the NHL.
Pavel Datsyuk has been the hottest player for Detroit lately. He has points in seven straight games, tallying 11 points in the span. Datsyuk has 29 goals on the year and 88 points. He's scored six of those points in three games against the Flames. In his 25 career games against Calgary, he's put up six goals and 23 points.
Goaltending has been the Wings biggest issue as they head into the postseason. Neither starter Chris Osgood nor backup Ty Conklin has been very impressive this year. The two have been alternating duties all season but Osgood has been in net lately. He hasn't played a game against the Flames this season though so the coaching staff may opt to put Conklin in net. Conklin has two wins and an OT loss to Calgary this season. His GAA vs. Calgary is a 3.17 and his save percentage sits at .898 when facing off against the Flames.
The last time the two teams played, Calgary made headlines with their huge comeback SO victory. At one point, they were down 4-1 but rallied back with three third period goals. Jamie Lundmark played the hero in the contest, scoring two of the third period tallies and picking up a helper.
Dion Phaneuf leads the Flames in scoring against the Wings. He has four points in three games. Michigan's David Moss has been productive against Detroit as well, picking up three points this campaign.
This is the last game of the season series.
Calgary vs. Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Mar. 25, 5:30 p.m. at the Mellon Arena, TSN & The FAN 960
Pittsburgh has been making the most of the last couple of months. After they fell well below a playoff position earlier in the season, they've fought back to get themselves into fifth spot with 86 points. The Eastern Conference is as tight as the West though and they're only five points ahead of eighth place Montreal.
Evgeni Malkin has been on torrid pace this season. He leads the NHL in assists (72) and points (105) and has netted an impressive 33 goals in his 73 games. In a single career game against the Flames Malkin has a goal.
Superstar Sidney Crosby trails Malkin in scoring. He has 28 goals and 95 points this season and has nine points in his last five games.
Petr Sykora has been red-hot vs. the Flames. In 26 career games against Calgary he has 13 goals and 25 points. He has 24 goals this season and a single point in his last five games.
Daymond Langkow has been a thorn in the Penguins side throughout his career. In 30 games, Langkow has seven goals and 13 assists. He's amassed 22 PIM against Pittsburgh.
Jarome Iginla has also been potent when playing against the Penguins. He has seven goals and five helpers in 14 games.
Miikka Kiprusoff has never lost to the Penguins in regulation. The Finn has two victories and an overtime loss to them in his career. He's only allowed six goals in those games and has a 1.70 GAA when playing Pittsburgh.
The Flames are 38-35-18-1 against the Penguins. The last time the two met was Dec. 6, 2007 in Calgary where the Flames fell 3-2 in a shootout.
Calgary vs. Columbus, Thursday, Mar. 26, 5:00 p.m. at the Nationwide Arena, Rogers Sportsnet West & The FAN 960
The Blue Jackets are playing excellent in the stretch drive to the playoffs. The team looks like it's on its way to postseason for the first time in franchise history and the team is playing hard.
They've won seven of 10 games this month and head into the week on a 3-1 victory over the Florida Panthers.
The Blue Jackets are currently sitting in sixth place with 82 points.
Captain Rick Nash is leading his team in scoring with 34 goals and 67 points. He has three points in his last five contests and has scored a shortie against the Flames this season.
R.J. Umberger is the Blue Jackets leading scorer against Calgary. In three games he has three goals. Trailing him is Manny Malholtra with a goal and two helpers against the Flames.
Former Flame Kristian Huselius is second in scoring for the club. He's rattled off 20 goals and 30 assists in 68 games. His career high in goals came when he was with Calgary in the 2006-07 season. He had 34 goals and 77 points that year.
Rookie sensation Steve Mason has been in net for all three games in the season series. He's allowed 9 goals when playing Calgary this year. Overall, he has 2.23 GAA and a save percentage of .919. He picked up his 30th win of the campaign on Mar. 18 in a 3-1 win over Chicago. The 20 year-old leads the league in shutouts with nine.
Iginla has been on fire against the Blue Jackets this season. The captain has points in all three games and in the last contest he was involved in all four Flames goals. He has four goals and seven points when playing Columbus this season. Mike Cammalleri has also had a great year against Columbus. The winger has picked up three goals and two assists in three games.
The Flames hold the edge in the season series, winning the last two of the three games played. This is the final meeting between the teams.
Calgary vs. Minnesota, Saturday, Mar. 28, 8:00 p.m. at the Pengrowth Saddledome, CBC & The FAN 960
The season is winding down in a way the Minnesota Wild didn't expect – they're out of a playoff spot and while they're not out of the race yet, it's going to take everything they have to make it. The Wild are 10th place in the West with 76 points.
The month of March hasn't helped the Wild's playoff push as they've only won four out of 11 games.
Minnesota captain Mikko Koivu has had a successful season thus far. He's on pace to surpass his career high of 20 goals and has already passed his points high of 54. He has 18 goals this year and has 62 points. Koivu hasn't picked up a point in four games and has one point in his last five. He has a single assist against Calgary this year.
Starting goaltender Niklas Backstrom has stuggled lately, going 1-2-2 in his last five games. He has 31 wins this with a 2.41 GAA and .919 save percentage. He's been in goal for three of the Wild's losses to Calgary including the Flames 4-1 win on Feb. 27.
Former Flame Owen Nolan has had a great season, notching 22 goals and picking up 37 points. He had 16 goals and 32 points in Calgary last season. He scored twice in the Wild's 5-4 OT loss to the San Jose Sharks on Mar. 10 and had two goals in the Wild's 3-0 win over the Oilers on Sunday.
Veteran Andrew Brunette leads the Wild in points against Calgary with two. He has a goal and a helper in the four games. Brunette has four points in his last five games and has 17 goals this season. He's an -8 on the year.
Langkow and Cammalleri both have two goals and an assist vs. the Wild this year to lead all healthy Flames in scoring. Calgary will miss Todd Bertuzzi as the rugged winger has four points against the Wild this year.
Animosity between the clubs could be at an all-time high in this game as it was the Wild's Dan Fritsche who injured Rene Bourque in February. Bourque has been out with a high-ankle sprain since the Feb. 18 game.
The Flames have won all four games against Minnesota this season and outscored the Wild 12-6. The play again on April 3 to close out the season series.
This Week's Key Numbers
Daymond Langkow needs one point to reach 600 in his career.
Miikka Kiprusoff needs seven wins to reach Martin Brodeur's record of 48 in a single season.
Adam Pardy celebrates his 25th birthday on Sunday. This is the defenseman's first NHL season.


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A man is accused of kidnapping a woman by dragging her into his vehicle and kissing her before letting her go.
Prosecutors told Dubai Court of First Instance the 27-year-old Pakistani defendant chased the Filipina in the Refaa area of Dubai then kidnapped her because he wanted her to be his girlfriend.
The court was told the 26-year-old Filipina cashier was walking back to her flat after midnight last July when a white car stopped in front of her. The defendant stepped out and dragged her to his car.
"He pulled me to the back seat. I was yelling for help when he started driving and calmed me down. He offered me a cup of water and claimed he did it because he liked me," the woman said in official records.
She said she begged him to let her go. He kept driving for 40 minutes then stopped and released her. "He kissed me on my head then took me home," she added. A 31-year-old Indian woman who was walking nearby saw what happened, took the car's plate number and called police.
A patrol car located the suspect's vehicle and arrested the defendant minutes after he dropped off the Filipina.
The defendant denied the charges and the trial was adjourned.
Off-duty officer stops duo's bid to kidnap 12-year-old as she bought ice cream
Expat mother accused of kidnapping son awaits decision in custody row


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I was thinking about my childhood fantasy the other day because the topic came up among a group of women I was talking to. They were lamenting about the temptation of Halloween candy and one women said, "Don't you wish you could eat all the Milky Way bars you wanted and then just wiggle your nose and not gain a pound?"
You can't even begin to imagine how many times I've wished that. Ever since I saw my first black and white episode of Bewitched, I've fantasized about how wonderful it would be to be Samantha Stevens and just wiggle my nose to have anything go my way. Now I wish I had that power especially when it comes to food and weight. Please don't think I'm incredibly shallow. IF I ever got the power, I would certainly wiggle my nose for world peace, cures for every disease and an end to poverty way before I'd be a size 10. Since I am not going to become a witch any time soon, I thought it would be fun to think about things near and dear to this blog.
If I could wiggle my nose, my first order of business would be to make my favorite Stewart's ice cream calorie free and just as delicious. After that, who knows? What would you do?


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When you're in show business for almost three decades, you learn a lot, not the least of which is how surprised you are that you've been doing something for that long.
That's what happened when I spoke to Sara Rue about her current role in the TV Land comedy Impastor. When I mentioned to her that she has been an actress for 25 years, she corrected me and said "26…or 27" with a combination of shock and amazement. She was right; her first credit was in the movie Rocket Gibraltar in 1988, when she was nine years old. It's been a quarter-century-plus of roles big and small, and memorable stints as a supporting player in Popular and a four-year stint as the star of the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect.
And what wisdom has Rue accrued during her time in the business?
In Impastor (airing Wednesdays at 10:30 PM Eastern), Rue plays Dora Winston, the assistant to the new pastor of a small-town Lutheran church. The person who shows up to town isn't the guy she recruited, but small-time criminal Buddy Dobbs (Michael Rosenbaum), who took the reverend's identity after a freak accident. She found the show's dark comedy intriguing, even if she didn't quite connect the show with the home of Hot in Cleveland.
"I read Impastor and I just assumed it was a dark weird FX show that [my agent] was sending me, and I was like, oh, 'I love this FX one. I really like it, it's hilarious,'" she says. "So we had all these sorts of misunderstandings, like this mismatched conversation about what I was talking about was not what he was talking about. Then finally I was like, 'No, I like the show about the pastor,' and he's like, 'Oh, that's TV Land.'"
"When I think about the earlier part of my career, especially when I was a little kid, I think the hardest part was the rejection, and the getting really close to landing certain jobs and not getting them was really hard on me," Rue says. "I took it so personally every time, and I would love to go back and somehow try to tell that little girl that it wasn't really about her.
"I've learned over the years that you just only have so much control as an actor. I think when I was younger I always thought, 'Wow, I just wasn't good enough or just wasn't pretty enough or just wasn't this,' and the truth is I just wasn't what they had in mind, and it wasn't a reflection on or judgement of me most of the time, and I think it was really hard."
The perspective not only came from so many years in the business, but from the change in priorities that marriage and children bring; Rue and her husband have a two-year-old daughter, Talulah. "I mean, I don't think I wrapped my head around [the control issue] for a very long time, and I think that was really hard on me being a little kid, and even though people would tell me that, I just never understood it on a level that made it less painful. So I wish I could go back and make [nine-year-old me] understand that. I wish I could go back and really ingrain in myself that it's not the end of the world, like every job, and that there are things out there that are just as important if not more so than show business."
In 2002, 14 years into her acting career, the 23-year-old Rue finally got a lead role, as the vivacious Claude Casey in the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect. "I had been on so many shows at the time that had been picked up for six episodes and cancelled before they even got on the air, or playing supporting roles on TV shows that only go one season. It doesn't really advance your career very much, and you just don't know what it means" to get a lead in a new show, she said, especially because the chance for any pilot to become a successful series is a longshot. "I just felt like every step of the way I was like I'm going to wait to get excited because I also knew that it could be taken away like that, but it was so exciting" to see the show get picked up.
Being the star of even a moderately successful show, though, brings with it scrutiny that Rue didn't expect, mainly revolving around her weight. Her size was considered "normal" by most standards… except for Hollywood's, and the entertainment press wasn't kind. Articles about the show often referred to Rue as "plus-sized" or "full-figured" even though she was about a size 8 at the time.
"There was a lot of backhanded complimenting happening," she said. "They'd be like, 'Good for her, and she looks the way she looks and she's still got a lead in the show,' and I was like, what the fuck? I just remember being like, 'That is not a compliment at all.' Because I wasn't super skinny and it just didn't occur to me that it was a big deal until people started making a big deal about it.
"I just kept saying, 'But you understand it's normal and acceptable for a woman to not look like a standard check-the-box skinny model and be the lead of the show,' and everybody wanted to sort of talk about it and make a big deal about it."
Despite being adamant that she was happy with herself, Rue did drop weight before the fourth and final season of Less Than Perfect. The weight loss, she admits, was partially influenced by the years of pressure about her weight.
"It was something personally I had always wanted to do so I did, but it did make things a little bit easier on the Hollywood side of things for me," she says. "It's always hard when I talk about it because I never want anybody to feel like, 'Oh, to feel comfortable they should lose weight or they should conform,' because that's not the message. It's just, for me at the time it was the right thing in my life, but it wasn't because being a little bit curvier or chubbier is a bad thing. It just stopped working for me and I wanted different things.
"I wasn't there to be a poster child for anything. I'm an actor, and to me it shouldn't have been about how I looked whether I was 20 pounds heavier or not," she says. "The point was, do you like the show? Isn't the show funny? I thought the show was really great, and I really enjoyed working on it, and I was proud of the work I was doing, and to me it didn't matter what I weighed when I was doing it."
After Less Than Perfect, Rue was cast in the lead of some pilots that didn't get picked up, which helped her open her mind to supporting roles again. "I was getting offered smaller things that were going to be on the air and taking those," she says. "You're like, 'Oh, it feels good to be in something that people like and that's good.' I don't know, somehow my attitude just about it changed a little bit, just wanting to be a strong member of a really great cast is to me equally as exciting as being just the lead, whether the show be great or successful or not."
It's led to a more varied portfolio since that show ended in 2006. She played a tomboyish lesbian on Rules of Engagement and spent a year as the third banana to Lily Tomlin and Reba McEntire on Malibu Country. This past season, he had a guest role on Chuck Lorre's hit Mom as Candace, the overbearing fiancée of Baxter (Matt Jones), the stoner ex of Anna Faris' character Christy. She'll reprise the role this season.
When we spoke, Rue was about to bring Talulah to a toddler group class. Being a mother has changed the roles she takes, as much as anything else, because she has more than herself to consider. For Impastor, for instance, her husband and daughter moved to Vancouver with her while she filmed the first season.
"Whatever the size of the role is, I just want to do good projects because I'm now asking my family to make sacrifices so that I can do these good projects," she said. "You want them to be good, you want them to be worth it. When you look back it's more of an effort. It's not just me getting on a plane and going to stay in a hotel somewhere. It's like our life for however long the shoot is, so I just feel so grateful to have that."


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Since you are gung-ho on orange, I say that you find a dress (or seperates) that you like in a shade of orange for them to wear. Hopefully it won't be toooo expensive and it would be something they could wear again. It would look nice to have them match, but be different than the BM that are able to go to the ceremony. IMO
BM attire opinions needed
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 05:35 PM
Gretchen "GiGi"
Posted 05 February 2008 - 05:36 PM
Carly I think you should def spring for the parasols, you want to make the honorary ones feel special too, especially since they are partaking in so many of the other wedding related events. As far as the dresses go, I think your idea is perfect. It will look really nice in pics.
Posted 05 February 2008 - 05:36 PM
| Originally Posted by LC_Rachel
Right on. Sounds perfect to me!
And while you're throwing money around, can you thrown some my way
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:33 AM
| Originally Posted by carlymcmullen
Ok, fine, you guys just want me to spend every last dime I have!! ;-)
Your plan sounds perfect! I think they will appreciate you making the extra effort to include them and show you appreciate them!
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1.Don't give little kids chocolate before bed. This will only end in your destruction when babysitting.
2.If somebody tells you that it's a really good idea to get on a broom and fly around even though you have motion sickness, don't do it.
3.If Dominique Weasley comes anywhere near you with any type of make-up item, even an innocent looking lip gloss, run far away.
She handed the small bottle out to me and I look it tentatively, as if it would explode. Which some of her products have before. Dom watched me eagerly as I opened the lid of the bottle and smeared a tiny bit of sparkly gloss on my lips. I closed my eyes and braced myself for the worst.
"Dom," I said happily "It worked!"
Dom looked positively gleeful. "Yes! Now, I can make more and sell it at Vic's wedding! I mean she does owe me since I practically made the wedding happen."
I rolled my eyes. "Dom, there's no way Victoire is going to let you sell—"
But, Dom's eyes grew wide again. Oh, no. I rushed to her vanity and looked in the mirror. My lips were green.
Nick visibly paled and looked around to make sure lovely Dominique hadn't heard me. You see, Nicholas here had been in love with Dom since he first set eyes on her, but he doesn't want to 'ruin their friendship'. He just stood by like a puppy and watched her walk off with a different guy to shag every night. Poor boy.
"She's not down yet Nick, relax!"
It was sadly obvious how Nick felt, but Dom is so clueless that I bet if he went up and snogged her she still wouldn't know how he felt.
Nick relaxed and then smirked again at my green lips. "So seriously, what happened? Another 'Domnifique' product?"
I nodded and he shook his head exasperatedly. "Thank Merlin I'm a guy!"
"If only I was one!" I groaned and buried my head in my hands.
"Oh, your not far from it Baker."
Wait. That wasn't Nick's voice. I lifted my head and came face to face with the most arrogant, selfish, bigheaded prat in the UK: James Potter.
"I mean," he continued "You already look like a guy, so you can't be far off from your goal." Potter gave me his signature smirk.
I glared at him. "Why don't you just fuck off Potter and go find something to snog. You know I was thinking of doing an article for the Hogwarts Daily: 'The Day in the Life of a Manwhore'. You interested?"
Potter:0 Bryn:1
Potter scowled and stalked away to his group of devils-I mean 'friends'. There were Mimi and Faye, or as Dom likes to call them the 'doublebint twins'. Madison Radly, the bitchy leader of the doublebint twins, Joseph Simet, Harvey Fillin, and the only member of the group with worth, Fred Weasley.
Fred was an actual human being that was nice to everyone, but since he's pretty much been best friends with Potter since birth, he finds himself in the so-called 'popular group'.
You see, Potter and I have been enemies ever since I can remember. Back in our first year, 6 years ago, his ego was as big as the Atlantic Ocean and he basked in the limelight that everyone gave him because of who his family was. Girls flocked him asking him to flex his muscles, or flash them his signature smirk. It was disgusting. Finally, I called him out. And he was not happy. I was a little fire-cracker back then (still am) and we had our first duel against one another. And then our first detention together. The first of many. Ever since we have hated each other. We pranked each other, duelled, he ruined quite a few of my relationships, and I interrupted quite a few of his rendezvous. We hated each other and we always would.
"I've done it!" I looked up from my plate to find Dom holding the tube of lip gloss that cursed me with a triumphant look in her eyes.
"Dom, get that stuff away from me!" I said scooting away from her.
Nick raised his eyebrows. "What exactly have you 'done' Dom?"
Dom smiled evilly. Oh no. "I, my dear Nicholas, have thought of a proper use for this lovely Domnifique product!"
Before Nick or I could stop her, she got up and started making her way over to Madison and the Doublebint twins. I saw Dom smiling convincingly and gave the lip gloss to them. Madison glared at her (she was super jealous of Dom's veela-ness), but took the lip gloss anyway. Dom then made her way back to our table end.
"How stupid are they?" I asked exasperated.
Dom smirked. "You know Madison can never resist my charm! And besides, this is payback for stealing Jonah from you Bryn!"
Jonah Ryans had been my boyfriend for a few months before Madison decided I'd had enough fun and fucked him in a broomstick closet. She broke his heart a few days later, but really he should have known better.
Suddenly there was a screaming coming from the three girls as their lips turned green. Shrieks of 'OMGOMG' resonated around the Great Hall.
Dom smiled and Nick and I burst out laughing. Payback was sweet.
I was in good spirits as I walked back to the Gryffindor Common Room, so I decided to take the long way so that I could go to my favourite spot in the castle: the Astronomy Tower. At night you could look out the window up there and see all the beauty that Hogwarts has to offer. It was so peaceful and I tried to go up the Astronomy Tower and think as often as I could. It was hard sometimes though because Hogwarts was full of horny teenagers that liked to shag on the tower floors. Hopefully it would be empty tonight.
There was a cold chill in the tower when I finally reached the top and I pulled the sweater I was wearing over my uniform closer to me. For a few moments, I was in a peaceful bliss watching the stars. And then guess who ruined that bliss?
"Cold Baker?"
I didn't even have to turn around. "Potter can you fuck off for like one night?"
Potter chuckled and I felt him move behind me so that his breath tickled my ears. "You know Baker," he mused playing with a strand of my blonde hair "your hair is really soft."
Okay. What the fuck was he playing at? Potter and I never compliment each other. Ever. Unless it's a sarcastic compliment.
I turned around stupidly forgetting how close we were and our noses were almost touching. "What are you playing at Potter?" I voiced my thoughts.
He didn't say anything, but took his fingers and gently brushed them down my cheek. I was too stunned to move. Why was he acting like this? Why was he looking at my lips? Why did he have that look in his eyes? Oh shit.
Potter leaned in close and I think we can all guess what's coming next. His lips touched mine and that was when all hell broke loose in my very fragile world.
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About Us
Drum Brothers
In the late 1980's, Matthew and his brother Patrick Marsolek were inspired by the rhythmic music created during evening circles at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, an educational center west of Helena, Montana.
Patrick began making drums for himself, but the instruments were so popular with the Feathered Pipe's guests that they all were purchased immediately. Matthew soon joined him in this new entrepreneurial effort and the two set up shop in the Ranch's garage. During this time, Matthew began studying West African music with his friend and teacher, Michael Harrison.
In the fall of 1989, Michael Marsolek left Portland, where he worked in the restaurant business, and moved to Montana to join Matthew and Patrick in the musical trio, The Marsolek Brothers. The three also worked together in the newly named drum-building company, Drum Brothers Drums. Not long after this, their father David, who had been building drums in Wisconsin and working as a family therapist, also moved to Montana to be part of the venture. Drum Brothers Drums, now based in Arlee, Montana, has distributed hand-crafted instruments across the United States and in Canada.
Drum Brothers began performing together as a musical group on New Year's Eve 1994 as a part of Missoula's inaugural First Night celebration. The early group consisted of Matthew, Michael and David Marsolek, and Casey Alexander.
The band soon developed a following in Western Montana and released their debut CD, Power of Rhythm, in early 1997. In mid 1997, David and Casey left the band to follow other interests (David continues to manage the drum-making shop in Arlee Montana).
Multi-instrumentalist Lawrence Duncan, joined the band in June, 1997. Nathan Zavalney, who first connected with Drum Brothers as Matthew's student, followed in November. Nathan played with Drum Brothers for 10 fun filled years and in March of 2007 left the group to follow other pursuits. Drum Brothers newest member since July 2007 is Colin Ruggiero, a Missoula based musician and documentary film maker with a sweet touch on the drum.
matthew at drumbrothers.com
Matthew Marsolek
Matthew Marsolek has received awards of excellence from the University of Montana for his musical work with theater and dance.
He has studied East Indian and West African music for the past 18 years with a variety of teachers, including Mukesh Desai from India and Abdoul Doumbia from Mali, West Africa. Matthew has experience and training in jazz, classical, and Hindustani vocal technique and is also an accomplished jazz and classical guitarist.
As a recording artist, he has released projects with Drum Brothers and Mandir as well as two solo recordings, the most recent entitled, The Bhakti Road.
A dedicated and charismatic educator, Matthew has a passion for rhythm, harmonic relationships, and the healing and community building potentials of music. He teaches classes and clinics in voice, rhythm, and hand drumming throughout the Northwest.
Matthew has been composing music for just about as long as he can remember. In addition to his work with Drum Brothers and Mandir, he's created music for theater, modern dance, spoken word, and film. Click on the juke box below to listen.
michael at drumbrothers.com
Michael Marsolek
Michael Marsolek is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. In Drum Brothers and as a guest in other ensembles he is featured on numerous drums and percussion instruments. He has a passion for the didgeridoo and Native American flute and is a long time singer, currently in his seventh season with Dolce Canto. Michael has been collaborating with Lawrence Duncan on the Musical Dreamtime Journey events for 15 years and he's appeared with the world music ensembles, Mandir and Tapas. He produced and performed on The Stories Project and A Musical Dreamtime Journey CD's and has performed on over 15 recordings since 1996.
Michael was the live recording coordinator and engineer for Bill Harley's "Yes to Running" 2009 Grammy winning CD. In 2011 he received the individual artist award from the Missoula Cultural Council for grateful recognition of his outstanding achievement and contributions to the quality of life in Missoula. Michael has worked at Montana Public Radio since 1989 and has been program director for the network since 2001. In addition to regular radio work, he's also a voice over artist and appears on Montana PBS and on-stage, announcing at numbers of concert events and festivals around Montana. He lives in the Rattlesnake valley of Missoula, Montana, with his two youngest children Sophia and Patrick.
lawrence at drumbrothers.com
Lawrence Duncan
Lawrence lives and works as a musician with his partner Mary Werner a few blocks from downtown Missoula, Montana. He is employed as a Music Thanatologist by Hospice of Missoula, and as a performer and workshop co-facilitator with Drum Brothers World Music/Rhythm ensemble based in Arlee, Montana. He has recorded tracks on projects with Shake Russell and Dana Cooper, Mandir, Drum Brothers, Brian Kopper, John Floridis, and A Musical Dreamtime Journey.
Bassoon, soprano saxophone, flutes and recorders, West African percussion, harp, voice and EWI are some of the instruments Lawrence makes use of in performance and in his work as a contemplative musician. Essential to his life as a musician is the conviction that musical activity can be a means of connecting with the world of Divine Creative impulses.
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Colin Ruggiero
As part of his degree in Cultural Anthropology, Colin completed more than 40 credits abroad conducting independent studies of music and dance in Latin America with a focus on the influence of African music traditions. Colin plays percussion as well as guitar and his studies have taken him to nearly every country in Latin America including Cuba to study Rumba and 6 months studying traditional folkloric guitar technique in Mexico.
He has played with numerous performance groups including Los Rumberos, Sambisho, Forty Freedoms, and Les Etudiants de l'Afrique and has played consistently for a variety of African, Brazilian and Cuban dance classes over the past 10 years.
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Dave Marsolek
Dave has had a rich life of musical experiences, from playing in a polka band as a young man, singing in choral groups, playing guitar and harmonica, to performing as a founding member of drum brothers.
Over the years, he has worked variously as a medical technologist, teacher at a junior college, family therapist (he has a M.S. in family therapy), massage therapist, Forest Service employee, and as a cabinet maker.
In 1990, Dave was invited by his sons to join the Drum Brothers partnership as a drum builder. He also performed with Drum BrothersT from 1994 through 1997, when he left the performance ensemble to shift his focus toward drum building. Dave has helped with the manufacture of over 7100 Drum Brothers drums.
"It's gratifying to know that through classes, drum circles, drum building workshops, and drum groups around the country, thousands of people have discovered this delightful way of creating and participating in making music," Dave says.
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Tracy Topp
A dancer since she was three, Tracy has choreography experience and training in many dance styles, including West African, Middle Eastern, modern, and jazz. She has studied African dance with many teachers including; Youssouf Koumbassa, Mabiba Baenge, and Djeneba Sako.
A self described renaissance girl, Tracy has a B.A. in Arts from Nebraska Wesleyan and is also a singer and multi-instrumentalist (You can hear her sing on The Bhakti Road).
Since 2002, she has been contributing her artistic talents to Drum Brothers in the manufacture and custom painting of frame drums.


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A Finding Aid to the Nathan Hilu Papers. 1945-1957.
Manuscript Collection No. 799
Funding, in part, for the arrangement and description of this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Biographical Sketch
Nathan Hilu was born in New York City in 1926 and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945–1957. In Germany he served as a prison guard at Nuremberg, attached to the 6850th Internal Security Detachment where he guarded high ranking Nazis Party members, German military servicemen, and German government officials on trial for war crimes. Following the end of World War II, he continued his military service in Japan and various bases in the United States before being honorably discharged in 1957.
After his return to civilian life, Hilu settled in New York and achieved renown as an artist reflecting his life and times. The phrase art brut, coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1922, best describes Hilu's style — naïf, or outsider art that does not adhere to the mainstream. His 2008 series of drawings of the Nuremberg prison and its occupants are currently held at the Holocaust Resource Center Archives at Queensborough Community College, and a showcase of his work, "Nathan Hilu's Journal: Word, Image, Memory" is currently on display at the museum of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. Hilu continues to draw daily.
--Adapted from: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/25807; http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2010/04/nathan-hilus-lifetime-of-drawing-at-educational-alliance.html; and http://huc.edu/external/email/11/08/hilu/. (accessed November 7, 2011)
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of Nathan Hilu's artistic 'memoir' of his service in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War (1945-1957). The memoir consists of nineteen binders created by Hilu containing his handwritten reminiscences, together with his drawings of persons and events described therein. In this sense, this 'memoir' is both an autobiography and a work of art. Of particular interest are the binders concerning Hilu's time as a guard at the Nuremberg prison during the time of the Nuremberg trials in which he describes and sketches persons he encountered there such as Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and other Nazi leaders.
Arrangement Note
This collection is arranged in one (1) series.
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This collection is open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.
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Nathan Hilu, by the act of donating the Nathan Hilu Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Nathan Hilu and his heirs.
Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.
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Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Nathan Hilu Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:
[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-799. Nathan Hilu Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Nathan Hilu Papers were received from Nathan Hilu, New York, N.Y., 2003.
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Processed by Kevin Proffitt, August, 2011.
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by Joshua Jacob Seraphim
(Frater N.O.X.)
Copyright © 2002 e.v. Anno IVx
Baphomet as the Horned God is Pangenitor Panphage, the Begetter of All, of Gods and of Men. The archetype of the Ass-headed God worshipped in the arcane initiatory Order known as the Knights Templar is a vulgar corruption of the solar-phallic 'Devil', Baphomet is the Goat of Mendes regarded with horror and aversion by the Adepts of the Aeon of Osiris who were ignorant of His personification. The emblem of the Devil, of SThN (Satan the Prosecutor of Man) is Saturn behind the Sun, the Supreme Soul who is the phallic Baphomet. The Black Goat of the Sabbat is the Androgyne God who bade unto Man, "Know Thyself" and who taught initiation upon the dawn of darkness in the unformed lands of ancient lore.
To Baphomet is attributed the Atu XV in the Tarot of Thoth, which is the "Devil" pertaining to the Hebrew letter ayin which translates to 'Eye.' It is the Secret Eye before whom all light and shadow and God is but a pale reflection of a brief flash of existences in between endless No-Thing-ness. Thus, Baphomet is the exalted embodiment of hermetic gnosis, his concealed Zodiac sign Capricornus, the Goat leaping in ecstasy as the Godhead. Baphomet is Man made God, exalted in Him as Aegipan, the ALL. Worshipped by the Order of the Templars as the Goat-headed Lord of the Sabbats, the etymology of Baphomet is unveiled in the Arabic term for the "Father of Understanding", given as "Abu-fi-hamat" theorized by Sufi scholar Idries Shah. Shah also suggests the Sufi term "ras el-fahmat" which translates as 'head of knowledge.'
Furthermore, pertaining to the nature of etymology in the name Baphomet, scholars postulate a corruption of the Old French term for Baphomet originating in the vulgar spelling of Muhammad, as Mahomet by the French court of the Fourteenth century whom aspired to the vast wealth of the Knights Templar and their political sway in the medieval courts. It is likely that the archetype of Baphomet in whatever tongue, was a known entity before the demise of the Templars in e.v. 1307 with their persecution under King Philip IV and Pope Clement V of France, known even amongst commoners. Baphomet presides over the Sabbat of the elden witches who met along the nightside crossroads, seizing the light to perform their rites of nature. He is the unconscious beastial self - the spiritual phallus whose Horns bear the Torch of Understanding, the black flame of Luciferian self-illumination.
The Rite of Baphomet is a Sabbatic Sacrament. In this Rite is the Hidden One awakened. The Magician recalls in Hir Mystick History the First Memory, the First Night, the First Secret in which the Undying & Secret Self first commanded Hir spirit. In this Rite of self-deification, one is to destroy foul images of deity which serve as an escape from a false fear of life, image upon image of the ritualist is to be destroyed until an Indwelling of one's secret self beyond self occurs. The Indwelling of Baphomet is a Sabbatic liturgy wherein Man becomes God, self-deified, self-realized, and self-Mysterious. The Rite is not a Neo-Satanic ritual of abomination to nature, nor is it an adoration of foul images of Pan consecrated to powers of desolation and darkness. The Rite of Baphomet is a Magickal Working of Frater N.O.X. self-created according to His own Nature, and like all Magickal Rites, may be fitted unto the character of the Magician and Hir True Will. The Canticle of Baphomet was scribed by Frater N.O.X. upon the Sabbat of Yule, the Winter Solstice of e.v. 2002.
Black hooded robe (Cloak or garment)
8 black or indigo candles
Musk or Civet incense
the hieroglyph of Baphomet (by Eliphas Levi) or a representation of an Ass or Goat altar in black or indigo covering
Holy Water (from the natural earth)
Musk, Civet, & or Abramelin oil
*other devices to indwell the spirit and elate the workings of the Rite are left to the creative enchantment and Will of the Magician*
I Purify and consecrate the Sanctuary or chamber of the Rite. Perform Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram (Banishing). Copious amounts of incense (Musk or Civet) are to permeate the Sanctuary or chamber, enshrouding the Ritualist in a thick fog of smoky incense. Arrange 8 black or indigo candles in a circle, the hieroglyph of Baphomet given by Eliphas Levi Zahed is recommended to place upon the altar in the South, along with or as alternative images/idols of Ass and/or a Goat. The Sanctuary or chamber of the Rite is to be adorned as one would call forth the Indwelling of Baphomet, the Goat-Godhead and Dark Lord of the Sabbat.
II Robed and decorated as s/he may deem proper to the Rite, let the Magician face the Altar of the South. Strike the bell 1-3-3-1 and proclaim in benediction:
The Word of the Law is Thelema. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. Blessing and worship unto the Snake and the Black Goat, the Eye in the Triangle, the Mystery of Mysteries in His name BAPHOMET! In the Name of the black one of the unbeholden, I declare the Indwelling of Baphomet and the shades of malediction flee away! In the Name of the Horned and Terrible One I proclaim the shells banished unto their habitations! Fugite O' apage infidelia, fugite! Ecce!
III Litany of Enchantment At this gateway of infernal sorcery to the prologue of the Rite, the Ritualist/s initiate a chthonic supplication consisting of a series of invocations and resonating chants. This black liturgy is designed to convoke the androgyne polysexual forces of the primal Secret Soul beyond Self whereby the Sorcerer-Sorceress attains a mystick rebirth as Baphomet; initiating a re-creation of one's spiritual constitution as the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. By resonance and repetition of the Litany, an enchantment of arcane archetypal forces within the draconian depths of the human psyche, until the Indwelling, previously unexpressed. A Rebirth as Undying Baphomet summons forth the archetype of the Horned Lord of Self-Initiation, Serpent Secret-Soul, the inborn Initiator-Begetter of WoMan whom is veiled in unexpressed & untellable mysteries of the immortal WoMan. Therefore as an Enchantment proper to convoke the energies of the Aeon of Horus (Antichristendom), the Litany serves one to self re-create the psychic body and accommodate Indwelling energies of the Opposer-Initiator.
-Make aright and set upon in the Southern quarter thine Altar.
-Adorn in the Northern quarter of the Sanctuary a hieroglyph of Baphomet (by Eliphas Levi) or a representation of an Ass or Goat.
-Circumambulate thrice in the bearing of the Setting Sun (counterclockwise), pace and stalk about thy Holy Sanctuary with the swiftness and stealth of a Snake, giving the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold when passing the Altar in the South so as to exude the force that flames thereforth.
-Execute the threefold Circumambulation, return to the Center of the Sanctuary, face the South Altar giving the Sign of Silence and shriek: "The Mystick Circumambulation symbolic of N.O.X. the Concealed Light is accomplished!"
-With thy spiritual Voice and Breathe Howl the Litany of Enchantment:
I Am He! Great Wild Beast! Gnarled Goat of Golgotha! Double-Horned One! Genitor-Genetrix of WoMan! Begetter-Opposer! Great Black Goat of the Woods!
I Am He! No-Thing-ness! In-All-Things!
Inverted-Initiator of the Star of the East! I Am Naught!
Great One of the Night of Time! Concealed Eye of the Concealed Sun! Thou Art!
I Am Pan to the profane, who worships Me as Baphomet knowest Myself, yet unto the unbeholden I AM AegiPan, exalted in Man! All in the Eye! Lord of the Gates of Matter!
All-Dark, All-Power, All-Causer!
As Typhon-Set Am I revered with my Blood of the Sun! Ye Lusts of the Snake extended in unlife!
As Belial Am I revered with my Canon of Lies! Ye Eaters of Speech!
As Lucifer Am I revered with my Covenant of the Eye! Ye Accursed Separators of Light and flesh!
As Leviathan Am I revered with my Scourge of Wisdom! Ye Acolytes of the Black Flame in the Dragon-Abode!
I Am! He is He and I AM IN HIM! I Am the Hidden One! Shadow of Shadows behind the Sun!
I Am the Eye and the Tooth! Fingers of Lucifuge the Firstborn is My Name!
I Am the Backward Face, He whose face is Behind Him! Lord of Faces is My Name!
I Am the foul-smelling Breath of the Maw of Hell! Disposer of Speech is My Name!
Thee, Thee I call forth! Thou Terrible and Invisible One!
BAPHOMET! I summon Thee, I summon Thee, I summon Thee!
Nay! I call thee not, in Thee I AM, and I Am naught, for in Him Am I invoked!
He, Devourer! He, Retreater! He, Overthrower!
Lord of the blackened blasphemous bloodrite! BAPHOMET!
I Am He, Darkener of the earth!
I Am He, Elder of Gehenna!
I Am He, Double-Accursed One!
The Snake Illuminated! The Goat Exalted! The Secret Phallus Erect!
I Am Thou, He is He! Mine is the flesh, the Blood, and the Kingdom forever and ever!
Roarer! Eater of Shades! Double-Horned Lord!
As My Bride and Acolyte, is the Sister of Seduction! Lady of the Bloodrite!
As My Son and Acolyte, is the Brother of Night! Sire of Concealed Light!
O' Soul Unknown!
Thou Lust! Thou Silence! Thou Beauty!
Where I AM in Him are these things concealed, for Thee unveils the veiled Eye!
I AM the Indwelling Self, the Secret-Self that is Naught save that which is the self beyond Self!
In He I Am No-Self indwelling in thy-Self Concealed! Nay! Self-Revealed!
In Him I AM the Revealing No-Thing-ness that is concealed in All-Things-to-be!
And in Him is the Truth, the Truth, and the Truth! Verily is this also a Lie!
O' Self Revealed!
O' Thou! Thou? Nay, Fool! Thou Art That!
Embraced by the Black Flame! Shadow of Shadows! Opener of Mouths!
There is no part of the Gods that is not of Me!
There is no part of Me that is not of the Gods!
He, the Seven-fold Star Initiator! He, the One in Eight! Begetter of Naught!
I am He, the Destroyer of Destroyers the Slayer of the Self-Slain! Mystery of Mysteries!
O' Thou Eye!
In Him am I called forth, In His Name! The Indwelling!
IV Allegory (Baphomet's Invocation) The Allegory is the mystick self-identification of WoMan with the phallic current of the All-Begetter in the spiritual procession throughout the Aeons. Face the Northern quarter of the Sanctuary whereupon is decorated a hieroglyph of Baphomet (by Eliphas Levi) or a representation of an Ass or Goat. Execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold upon thine hieroglyph of Baphomet and hiss the Allegory (Baphomet's Invocation):
In the first aeon, I was the Great Spirit
In the second aeon, Men knew me as the Horned God.
Pangenitor Panphage
In the third aeon, I was the dark one, the Devil
In the fourth aeon, Men know me not, for I am the Hidden One
In this new aeon, I appear before you as Baphomet
The God before all gods who shall endure to the end of the Earth.X
Give the Sign of Silence and return unto the centre of thy Holy Sanctuary
V Ritual of the Averse Pentagrams
The term Pentagram stems from the Greek "pente" which literally translates as 'five', and "gramma", which translates to "letter."
The arcane significance of the Pentagram predates written history. Hieroglyphs of the Pentagram have been unearthed in ancient civilizations of the Hindus, Babylonians, Akkadian, Etruscans, Sumerians, and the Egyptians. The sigil of elemental equilibrium is venerated and vulgarized by subsequent societies. The ancient Hebrews correlated the Pentagram with the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses in the Old Testament. The Christian Church in its infancy looked in fear upon the Pentagram as corresponding to the five wounds suffered by the fabled Christ upon the Cross. To the elder Greek philosopher-mathematicians, the Pentagram was the PentAlpha, composed of five interlaced letter Alphas. Ancient Astrologers also attributed the Pentagram to the zodiacal patterns of Venus conjunctions with the Sun.
The innumerable elemental mysteries concealed in the hieroglyph of the Pentagram pertain to WoMan as the Microcosm justified and equilibrated. The dreaded Averse Pentagram is a source of misperception and phobia amongst Initiates, including those of the old Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Averse is defined as 'turned away from an axis', and 'disinclined.' In essence, two Pentagrams upon an axis at the base, mirror the other. The Averse Pentagram is a hieroglyph of Self-Initiation concealed in the elements of an Individuals own Undying nature. It is a self-alchemical formula of realization and synthesis. The Averse Pentagram does not, as the vulgar postulate, represent the Victory of Matter over the Spiritual, as a sigil adverse to profane spiritual materialism, the Averse Pentagram represents the Spirit Self-Initiating into the depths of Matter.
Purify and Consecrate thyself with Holy Water and with Fire in such a manner that preparest thee for the Indwelling of Baphomet. Face the Altar of the South whereupon is adorned an image or hieroglyph of BAPHOMET, stand erect in the centre of the Sanctuary. Take up thy Wand, which is the Blade of Baphomet, and let Hir execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold unto the Altar of the South. Turn and face the North quarter of thy Holy Sanctuary wherein the hieroglyph of Baphomet (by Eliphas Levi) or a representation of an Ass or Goat is exalted.
Formulate the Kabbalistic Cross:
Touch thy brow and recite: Ateh (Thine is)
Touch thy breast and recite: N.O.X. the Night of Pan! (or OAI - Osiris! Apep! Isis!)
Touch thy genitals and recite: Malkuth (the Kingdom)
Touch thy right shoulder and recite: ve-Geburah (and the Power)
Touch thy left shoulder and recite: ve-Gedulah (and the Glory)
Place thy palms together upon the chest in benediction and recite: le-Olahm Amen (Unto the Ages)
Facing the North quarter let the Magician trace with Hir Wand (which is the erect phallic Blade of Baphomet) the Averse Pentagram proper to Invoke the element of Earth:
Execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold, touch the centre of the Pentagram with the Blade of Baphomet to project a force of consecration unto the sigil, cry aloud BELIAL! Withdraw in the Sign of Silence.
Carry the Point from the centre of the formulated Pentagram to the West quarter and let the Magician trace with Hir Blade of Baphomet the Averse Pentagram proper to Invoke Water:
Execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold, touch the centre of the Pentagram with the Blade of Baphomet to project a force of consecration unto the sigil, cry aloud BABALON! Withdraw in the Sign of Silence.
Carry the Point from the centre of the formulated Pentagram to the South quarter and let the Magician trace with the Blade of Baphomet the Averse Pentagram proper to Invoke Fire:
Execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold, touch the centre of the Pentagram with the Blade of Baphomet to project a force of consecration unto the sigil, cry aloud SThN (Shaitan)! Withdraw in the Sign of Silence.
Carry the Point from the centre of the formulated Pentagram to the East quarter and let the Magician trace with the Blade of Baphomet the Averse Pentagram proper to Invoke Air:
Execute the Sign of the Enterer of the Threshold, touch the centre of the Pentagram with the Blade of Baphomet to project a force of consecration unto the sigil, cry aloud LUCIFER! Withdraw in the Sign of Silence.
Return unto the North quarter completing the Mystick Circle, extend the Body in the form of an X: thus, separate widely the feet and legs diagonally so as to formulate with the lower half of the Body a '?'. Extend the arms above the head wide as to form a 'V'. With the Body in the form of an "X" recite:
Before me Lucifer;
Behind me Baphomet;
At my right hand Belial;
At my left hand Babalon;
About me flames the Pentagram
And about the Middle Pillar illuminates the Sevenfold Star!
Equilibrate the Concealed Light by again resonating the Kabbalistic Cross as before. Return unto the centre of the Sanctuary.
VI The Canticle of Baphomet The Canticle of Baphomet was scribed by Frater N.O.X. upon the Sabbat of Yule, the Winter Solstice of e.v. 2002, II Anno Antichristus. The Canticle represents the bidding of the Ritualist to Indwell within hirself the Archetype of Baphomet. The Canticle is a most harrowing summons of those powers and archetypes previously unexpressed and unexplored by the Initiate. It is a vocal litany of Silent Self-Initiation into the Antichristian current of the Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati.
Face the South Altar upon which is adorned the Hieroglyph of Baphomet.
Behind thee an image or representation of an Ass or Goat in the North quarter.
Stand Erect and bellow the Canticle of Baphomet:
Be Silent! I AM the Indwelling!
Obscene One!
Breaker-In-Pieces! Liar-of-Covenants!
Double-Horned Hinderer!
I AM the blasphemous Indwelling self of the Self-Initiator
O' Soul of My-Self! he is HE!
Self-slaying seed of Satan!
Self-revealing ego of self-concealment
I AM the ego of Man; I am No-Man
He is in Thee and I in Him!
O' Man of Him! Alas!
I AM He! I AM No-Self
One-thousand-and-One Lies of the Prophets beckon My Name!
I AM the Lie, verily is ego a lie as Man is the Lie
Lo! Hearken to this Canticle of the Blasphemy of BAPHOMET!
I AM the True Beast, the True Man and the False Prophet
Yea, He is the Lie of the Testament as Man is the True Beast 666
Hearken and bethink! I name Thee! I Will Thee!
Gnarled Goat of Golgotha!
Blackened Blasphemy of the Great Black Flame!
Mad God of gods of the Horror of the Abyss!
I AM Hell!
I AM the Veil of the Abyss wherein the Veil is the falsehood of its Rendering
and the falsehood of the Knowledge and Conversation
I AM the Abyss from the No-Thing-ness of the Maw of Hades comes No-Man forth Horned and Eyeless Son of Iniquity!
In Thee I AM Inverted
Dispeller of the Dying Darkness!
Disposer of speech!
Devourer of the flesh of Muhammad!
O' Ye whom awaken the Lust and Malediction of the Horned Serpent
I AM the Eye of the Goat and the Serpent whom sleepeth Dead but dreaming
I AM the Blood of the Goat where is the resurrection of the Snake
I AM the Horn of the Goat, and mine is the Gilded Wand in the Black Sanctuary!
Horned One of Silence!
Great Goat of the Night of Man!
Double-Horned Elder Serpent!
Lord! Hierophant!
Mage of Mages, Mystery of Mysteries, Word of Words!
God of the Great Gates of the Black Spheres!
Mine Father! The Eye! Inverted Head!
My-Self made perfect! Indwelling self of No-Self
I AM in Him and in Thee I AM Not for I AM SELF
Silent Self Indwelling of My-self! I Beckon Thee! Nay!
I call Thee not for in Him am I invoked!
Progenitor! Malefactor! Vanquisher!
Lo'! Hearken to this the Black Liturgy
of the Canticle of the Blasphemy of BAPHOMET 666!
Nay! Be Silent!
VII Hieroglyph of BAPHOMET. Formulate with thine vessel the Signs of N.O.X. ; thus professing the Mystick Self-Revelation of the Indwelt Archetype of Baphomet. The communion with the Indwelt archetype of BAPHOMET is accomplished by the giving of the N.O.X. signs which represent the Concealed Light and self re-created psychic body in the guise of the Inverted-Opposer-Initiator. The Signs of N.O.X. are as follows:
N - The Sign of Peur (the Boy). Khem. Heru and Mentu. O - The Sign of Vir of Pater (the Man). Amoun. Attitude of Pan or Bacchus; followed by the Sign of Puella (the Girl) Venus Pudica, the Sign of Chastity. X - The Sign of Mulier (the Woman), Isis in Welcome; Sign of Babalon; Attitude of Baphomet. This Mystick Formula is concluded by the Sign of Mater Triumphans (Triumphant Mother), Isis Rejoicing; Isis with Horus; Set Triumphant.
VIII Revelation of the Rite The climax of the Rite is unconditionally interdependent upon the Mystick Will of the Magician. The Sorcerer/Sorceress should enter wild dance and lust-bidden celebration in the Spirit of BAPHOMET Indwelt. The archetype of BAPHOMET is the unbound personification of Lust and Chthonic Self-Initiation, self-identity and power. "thou hast no right but to do thy will." Perform the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram aright. Close the Sanctuary/Chamber meticulously, and with a reverent manner.
- Baphomet as the Octonimos is the eight- headed body concealed in the Kabbalistic Tree of life. The Horned Head of the Black One lies in Daath. The Mystery of unveiling the Octonimos comes forth from Liber AL II;15 - "For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret."
- Latin: Flee! Away O' Infidels! Flee! Behold!
X - Excerpt from Liber Null - Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll, York Beach, Me. (Samuel Weiser), 1987, S. 131f.