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On my first attempt to get to the Fushimi Inari Shrine, being a bit of an idiot I ended up 40 km away, in Nara. But I found my way to the shrine later that day.
The distinctively orange torii gates of Fushimi Inari are paid for by companies or individuals — their names are etched on the back of the gate they donate. Torii gates in Shinto shrines usually mark the entrance to the shrine. In Fushimi Inari, there are two parallel rows of gates going uphill, a long procession of orange and black, shadow and sunlight.


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Lot 248: Danish Japanned longcase clock, William Green, Apenrade
Important Estates & Collections
by Charlton Hall
17 November 2016
West Columbia, SC, USA
Live Auction
Danish Japanned longcase clock, William Green, Apenrade Apenrade, second half 18th century, carved bonnet above glazed door flanked by scrolling supports, above long case with panel door with glazed port, bombe base, adorned with gilded Chinoiserie scenes and motifs on rich deep blue ground; encasing brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, painted moonphase, movement with calendar and minute disposal; signed: WM. GREEN, APENRADE; H96" W17 1/2" D10"
Provenance: Antonio''s, San Francisco, purchased 1988
South Carolina private collection
Other Notes: William Green (1733-1817) was the oldest son of the well-known English family of clockmakers who worked in Aabenraa (Apenrade), Denmark from the mid 18th century.
Condition Report:
Damage to panel on right side of bonnet. Loss to paint on bottom. Missing finials. Case with old repairs and touchups. Scratches and scuffs consistent with age and use. Clock is currently running.
***No guarantee is given as to the working order of clocks or watches.
*** Notice to bidders: The absence of a condition report does not imply that an object is free of defects or restoration. Condition reports are prepared by request on a 'first come, first served' basis. For more information please read paragraph #9 of Terms and Condition of Sale.

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This case is the latest in a line of actions to test the boundaries of privacy rights. It started in 2004 with the lengthy battle between Mirror Group Newspapers and Naomi Campbell after MGN published a story with photos of the model leaving Narcotics Anonymous, saying that she was being hypocritical in pretending that she did not take drugs and was a public role model. Campbell sued for breach of her privacy and data protection rights. She won in the High Court, lost in the Court of Appeal and won in the then House of Lords (now The Supreme Court) by a 3-2 majority. The judges said the sensitive nature of her treatment should not have been disclosed.
The House of Lords then decided that the ECHR's wider interpretation of a private and family life applied in English law. This has been used by celebrities such as John Terry in cases that were a turning point in rationalising the extent of celebrity privacy.
MGN challenged the House of Lords decision on Campbell in the ECHR but could not persuade it that the photographs and details of her drug use were necessary to make the story credible. The judge, however, accepted that Ferdinand put himself in a position as a role model and that the kiss-and-tell story contributed to legitimate debate on the footballer's suitability for the role and so was in the public interest.
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I spray painted all the knobs on our kitchen cabinets about 2 years ago. So far, most have held up really well. There are a couple that have peeled but they tended to be where I got a big drip of spray paint or put them back on the doors too soon... but yes, the vast majority have held up surprisingly well. (I used a paint from HD that was supposed to give an aged bronze effect. I can't remember the brand but it was a little more expensive as spray paint goes. About $7 or 8, I think.)
ReplyDeleteoh thanks for sharing the specifics. .I have painted the brass colored hinges on my doors white with white trim paint which is a pain as it takes lots of coats. . never thought to use spray paint. . mmm. . gonna do that to rest of house. . I think it just makes the hinges blend in and it is so much cheaper than swapping them out. Plus once you take the door down, you can never get it back just right. Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteWe spray painted the old doorknobs in our old house...can't remember the paint we used, but not cheap stuff. Anyway, it did not hold up, after about a year, little paint chips started coming off on your hand. I had to remove them and strip them down to make sure the kiddos didn't ingest paint chips. I hope yours hold up better:-)
ReplyDeleteI will keep you posted on the doorknob progress!
I didn't even think of using a clear coat on top of them! I think that would greatly improve the chances of them surviving in this house...
June ~ Yes, I just sprayed them right on the door. I taped up some newspaper to protect the wall next to it and went to town. It really is so much better than taking the whole door down.
Laura~right now, there are hats, gloves, mittens, an umbrella, baseball hats, gloves, shin guards, stuff I need to return to Target, a rain poncho for my daughter's field trips, etc. I love baskets...Melissa, everything looks beautiful!
I'm glad to hear about everyone's experiences with the doorknobs. I actually had bought spray paint for a lock we couldn't replace in our new house, and was toying with the idea of spraying the brass doorknobs too.
We miss you guys - hope you're loving your new home! :)- melissa*320 sycamore1/8/14, 3:18 PM
ReplyDelete - Cooksr1/8/14, 6:10 PM
how have the doorknobs held up over the past few years? I'm contemplating doing ours but haven't made the plunge yet as we'd need to take them all off and do the hinges as well - a HUGE undertaking! :)
ReplyDelete - melissa*320 sycamore1/8/14, 6:13 PM
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Glory Seeker
Ninth Edition — Common
Creature — Human Soldier
The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.
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Ninth Edition — Common
Creature — Human Soldier
The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.
Creature — Angel Spirit (0/3)
Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Creature — Volver (1/1)
Kicker and/or (You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)
If Degavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with "Pay 3 life: Regenerate Degavolver."
If Degavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with first strike.
Creature — Cat Spirit (2/1)
Protection from green
: Regenerate Spectral Lynx.
Creature — Human Flagbearer (1/1)
While choosing targets as part of casting a spell or activating an ability, your opponents must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.
Creature — Human Soldier (2/2)
: Moorland Inquisitor gains first strike until end of turn.
Creature — Human Cleric (2/1)
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Nearheath Pilgrim is paired with another creature, both creatures have lifelink.
Creature — Cat Beast (2/2)
Sacrifice Felidar Cub: Destroy target enchantment.
Creature — Kor Soldier Ally (2/2)
Rally — Whenever Kor Bladewhirl or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.
Creature — Kor Wizard Ally (3/1)
Kor Castigator can't be blocked by Eldrazi Scions.
Creature — Human Cleric Ally (2/2)
Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Creature — Human Soldier Scout (1/1)
First strike
: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Creature — Angel Spirit (1/1)
: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Pinus Parviflora Bonsai
Marilyn Cornwell 10/28/2012 3:39:25 AM
Such a wonderful image - the shapes and colours are so vibrant! Congratulations on POTD! #1494904Dominick M. Dimacale 10/28/2012 4:54:33 AM
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Outstanding work, Feliciano. Congratulations. #10387665Joy Rector 10/28/2012 5:24:44 AM
congrats on the POTD #10387672Andre Larose 10/28/2012 6:01:50 AM
Congratulations Feliciano on your wonderful POTD :) #10387723Mary L. Olson 10/28/2012 6:22:31 AM
Congratulations on the POTD. #10387751Nancy Marie Ricketts 10/28/2012 7:01:20 AM
OUTSTANDING, Feliciano! Congratulations on this gorgeous POTD! #10387823Laura E. Swan 10/28/2012 9:16:34 AM
What's not to love here! This is so beautiful with the heart there for a leaf! WOW! Congrats on the huge POTD honor from BP!-Laura Swan #10387929
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Beautiful image, thoughtfully composed! Congratulations. #10388697Ellen Hodges 10/28/2012 7:14:06 PM
Huge congrats on a fabulous POTD!! #10388716Usman M. Bajwa 10/29/2012 10:49:10 AM
Great colors and comp, Feliciano. CONGRATZ on the POTD!UB. #10391150
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Thank you everybody for your nice comments. This is my favorite bonsai tree. God Bless you all! Dr. Jusay #10394726Richard D. Love 11/22/2012 12:33:38 PM
Congratulations, Feliciano. Excellent colors and lines!Rick #10429543
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Fed to buy more bonds as it sets jobless target by Steve Goldstein
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a fresh bond-buying program worth $45 billion per month of longer-term Treasurys in another effort to reduce what the central bank calls an "elevated" unemployment rate. What's also new is the guidance for how long interest rates will be kept exceptionally low, which instead of "mid-2015" now is targeted to an unemployment rate above 6.5% as long as inflation one to two years ahead is projected to be no more than 2.5%. The size and composition of the new bond purchases were in line with market consensus; the rate guidance was discussed but not expected. The purchases replace an expiring program, popularly dubbed Operation Twist, in which the central bank swapped short-term government debt for longer maturities. The Fed also kept its existing program to buy $40 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities, and it maintained its targeted Fed funds rate between 0% and 0.25%, as it has since December 2008. The vote was 11-to-1, with Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker disapproving both the asset purchase program and the forecast for lower rates.
U.S. sells $21 billion in 10-year notes ( 10_YEAR ) by Carla Mozee
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Treasury Department on Wednesday sold $21 billion in 10-year notes (10_YEAR) at a yield of 1.652%. The auction was a reopening, meaning the debt sold carries the same maturity date and coupon as the original securities, in this case sold in November. Bidders offered to buy 2.95 times the amount of debt sold. Indirect bidders, a group which includes foreign central banks, bought 24.2% of the sale. Direct bidders, a group which includes domestic money managers, purchased another 42.7%, a "very strong direct award," as the result was above the recent average of 25%, said CRT Capital Group. Yields on benchmark 10-year notes, which move inversely to prices, edged down to 1.66%, from 1.67% ahead of the auction.
Pfizer to pay $55 mln Protonix drug settlement ( PFE ) by Steve Gelsi
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that Pfizer Inc. (pfe) agreed to pay $55 million to resolve allegations that Wyeth LLC illegally introduced a misbranded drug, Protonix, between 2000 and 2007. Pfizer bought Wyeth in 2009. "The government alleges that Wyeth trained its sales force to promote Protonix for all forms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), beyond its limited erosive esophagitis indication, and that Wyeth sales representatives frequently promoted Protonix to physicians for unapproved uses," according to a statement. Pfizer shares fell 0.4% in recent trading.
Caterpillar paying first-quarter dividend early ( CAT ) by Steve Gelsi
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Caterpillar Inc. (cat) said Wednesday it'll accelerate its first-quarter dividend payment to Dec. 31, "because of the uncertainty about U.S. tax policy." The Peoria, Ill., maker of bulldozers and other earth-moving equipment said the move could save its stockholders about $30 million.
Oil pares gains after EIA supply report ( CLF3 RBF3 HOF3 ) by Myra P. Saefong
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures pared gains Wednesday after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a modest increase in crude supplies, along with a bigger-than-expected jump in gasoline inventories for the week ended Dec. 7. Crude supplies rose by 800,000 barrels. Analysts polled by Platts expected a 2.5 million-barrel decline. Motor gasoline supplies climbed by 5 million barrels, while distillate stocks added 3 million barrels, the EIA report said. Analysts had forecast a rise of 2.5 million barrels for gasoline inventories and a climb of 1.25 million barrels in distillate supplies. Following the latest data, January crude (clf3) traded at $86.53 a barrel, up 74 cents, or 0.9%. It was trading around $86.87 ahead of the report. The American Petroleum Institute reported late Tuesday that crude supplies rose 4.3 million barrels last week.
Netflix target upped to $105 by Morgan Stanley ( NFLX DIS CSTR VZ ) by Dan Gallagher
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Morgan Stanley upped its price target on Netflix Inc. (nflx) to $105 from $80 on Wednesday morning. In a note before the opening bell, analyst Scott Devitt kept his overweight, or buy, rating on the stock, citing his belief that the online movie provider is "on course to potentially disrupt the long-standing premium cable ecosystem." Devitt said the deal the company announced last week with the Walt Disney Co. (dis) "is meaningful in that it is Netflix's second output deal with a major film studio as well as the fact that it is Disney, one of the most successful film franchises." He added the prediction that the deal "may open the door for Netflix to sign additional direct output deals with other studios." Netflix shares were up 1% to $86.95 in early trades. Redbox (cstr) and Verizon (vz) also announced plans early to launch a beta version of a previously announced movie streaming service that will compete with Netflix.
Berkshire buys back $1.2 bln in stock ( BRK.A BRK.B ) by Steve Gelsi
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (brka) (brkb) said Wednesday it bought 9,200 of its Class A shares for $131,000 per share from the estate of a long-time shareholder, whom the Omaha, Neb., holding company did not name. Berkshire's Class A shares and Class B shares both rose about 1.7% on the heels of the announcement, after trading was halted on the New York Stock Exchange. Berkshire Hathaway, which is controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett, said the company's board of directors authorized the purchase "coincident with raising the price limit for repurchases to 120% of book value." Berkshire said it may buy additional shares in the market or through direct offerings at no more than 120% of book value.


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Do you struggle to drain all the water out of your can of tuna? Do you barely avoid cutting your fingers on just-opened canned tomatoes? Maybe this can colander is for you. Or, on the other hand, maybe the old "strain-with-the-lid" technique is good enough. What do you think? Tell us, then read on for more information about this strainer plus one alternative version.
The strainer at the top of the post is made by Progressive and available from Amazon here:
• Stainless Steel Can Strainer/Drainer, $7.92 at Amazon.com
Then there is this alternate version, available at The Spoon Sisters:
• Can Strainer, $8.95 at The Spoon Sisters
What do you think? Can colander - good gadget or useless unitasker? (via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools)
Related: How To: Use a Waiter's Key Corkscrew
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Tag Archives: health
Live Q&A with Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit- Cosmos Chi Kung for Health and Well-Being
Streamed live on Oct 13, 2016
Shaolin Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, popularly known as Sifu Wong, is answering questions live from the YouTube audience about Shaolin Cosmos Chi Kung for health and well-being. This Q&A commemorates when Sifu Wong was awarded "Chi Kung Master of the Year" in San Francisco in 1997.
Sifu Wong will also be teaching chi kung and kung fu in North America:
San Francisco – New York – New Hampshire – Toronto – Florida
For Sifu Wong's North America full schedule:
A big Thank You to the North American Shaolin Wahnam Family for facilitating this excellent Q&A.
(reproduced from http://www.shaolin.org/answers/sp-issues/meaning.html)
While combat efficiency is important, Shaolin Kungfu is not just a fighting art but a complete programme of personal development
What does Shaolin Kungfu represent? What is the purpose of learning this style?
— Juan, Mexico
Shaolin Kungfu is the style of martial art first developed at the Shaolin Monastery in China, and is now practised by many people in various parts of the world irrespective of race, culture and religion.
Many kungfu styles branched out from Shaolin Kungfu, and some examples include Eagle Claw Kungfu, Praying Mantis Kungfu, Hoong Ka Kungfu, Choy-Li-Fatt Kungfu and Wing Choon Kungfu.
In my opinion, shared by many other people, Shaolin Kungfu represents the pinnacle of martial art development. Indeed, as early as the Tang Dynasty in China more than a thousand years ago, the saying "Shaolin Kungfu is the foremost martial art beneath heaven" was already popular.
The main purpose of learning Shaolin Kungfu is to have a complete programme of personal development from the most basic to the most advanced levels. At the physical level, Shaolin Kungfu provides health, fitness, agility and vitality, besides the ability to defend ourselves. At the emotional level, Shaolin Kungfu gives us joy and tranquillity.
Shaolin Kungfu trains us to be mentally focused, and enables us to expand our mind. At its highest level, Shaolin Kungfu leads to spiritual fulfillment, irrespective of religion. Obviously, Shaolin Kungfu is not just a fighting art.
It is also significant to note that an important aspect of the Shaolin teaching is direct experience, which in this case means that a Shaolin disciple does not merely talk about good health and mind expansion, or just read up on spirituality, but actually experience these benefits. If he does not experience, according to his developmental stage, the appropriate results Shaolin Kungfu is purported to give, he should seriously review his training.
An important aspect of Shaolin teaching is direct experience. Shaolin practitioners do not merely talk about spiritual cultivation but actually experience it.
(reproduced from http://shaolin.org/answers/ans15b/nov15-2.html)
Molly Sorensen
Question 1
I really should have written you earlier, as I owe you many thanks for the wonderful courses you taught in Hawaii. I returned from that week feeling not only revitalized, but also a deep sense of confidence I did not have previously regarding my abilities as a Chinese medical practitioner, teacher of qigong, and overall public figure and speaker.
As the months have gone by a voice inside of me which had been unable to express itself has gotten louder and clearer, and I am very excited to finally begin my career helping others. The way to go about doing that has also revealed itself very simply and straightforwardly.
Editorial Note
Molly's e-mail was received soon after the Hawaii courses in July 2014, but because of a long waiting list, the questions and answers are only posted in the Question-Answer Series now. You can have a glimpse of the Hawaii courses here and here.
— Molly, USA
I am glad you have benefited much from and enjoyed the Hawaii courses. The Intensive Zen Course, the first of its kind, certainly gave participants a lot of confidence and mental clarity.
I was very impressed that every one could speak on the spot on any topic provided by the audience. This was indeed a remarkable achievement. It will certainly enable you to perform well as a Chinese medical practitioner, qigong teacher, public speaker and any other responsibilities.
Question 2
I have an opportunity to teach qigong at a local clinic which treats infertility. This is an area of particular interest to me and one that I will be specializing in in my private practice.
This particular clinic has never offered qigong and my intent is to start with a 12-week session and see what sort of response I get from the patients there. I believe it will be quite positive, and that all of these women will greatly benefit from our Cosmos Qigong.
Teaching qigong at a clinic that treats fertility is a meaningful job, helping to bring lives and joy to the world. Later you may start your own clinic for this worthy purpose.
Jean, the Chief Instructor of Canada whose husband is a world-top surgeon, told me that she had 100% success in her qigong class with women who were previously infertile and wanted to have children if they practice twice a day.
Lifting the Sky
Question 3
My plan for the session would be to transmit the basic skills for practice, as well as teach the basic pattern Lifting the Sky, as well as those more suitable for helping with fertility, such as Nourishing Kidneys and Carrying the Moon.
Of course I am aware that other patterns may be more suitable for some women depending upon their conditions, so I'm wondering if there are any other specific patterns you can recommend which might help with fertility.
Your teaching plan is excellent. Rotating Hips and Dancing Fairy are also useful, but these exercises need not be practiced, or only be practiced gently and occasionally, after women are pregnant.
Question 4
I was reviewing the instructions for Nourishing Kidneys that you wrote in the "Art of Chi Kung" and noticed some details in the book which you never mentioned in class when teaching this exercise.
When I teach this exercise, do I need to make any mention of a gentle focus of the Yongquan or Laogong points, or qi flowing up the spine, or is it best to simply pass this on as you have taught it to me in class, without those details?
The exercises, including Nourishing Kidneys, in my book, The Art of Chi Kung, were written for those who did not have the opportunity to learn from me personally. The book was also written when my teaching skills and methodology were far below my present levels. Those who have learned from me or from our certified instructors will get the best benefits practicing the exercises the way they have been taught.
Hence, in your teaching of Nourishing Kidneys it is not necessary to mention a focus at the Yongquan or Laogong points, or qi flowing up the spine. For other qigong patterns it is also not necessary to mention details described in my book.
Nourishing Kidneys
Question 5
My other question is regarding how to proceed if any of these women do become pregnant during the course of the class. I recall you saying in a Question and Answer series that a pregnant woman with sufficient skill may practice gently until the third month of the pregnancy. Would you say that is still the correct guideline?
For precaution purposes, when a woman is pregnant she does not need to practice the way qigong has been taught to her by you. But she can induce a gentle qi flow once a day with some gentle exercises. My advice that a woman with sufficient qigong skills may practice gently until the third month of the pregnancy is still a correct guideline.
There is, nevertheless, an excellent exercise as follows that she should perform whenever she likes except around noon.
Enter into a qigong state of mind. Gently think that her baby is developing beautifully and healthily, and when the time is right, the delivery will be safe and pleasant.
Question 6
If you feel I am missing any details that may be helpful for teaching a group like this, I would greatly appreciate any insight you might be willing to give.
Make your teaching and the students' learning fun, and ensure that your teaching is beneficial to them, but without burdening them. The benefits the students get should be more than the fees they pay.
The Force Method in Triple Stretch
Question 7
As for myself, my life is hectic but good. Joshua and I are still practicing kungfu regularly, are making good progress.
I had spent five months from May until October studying two to eight hours a day for all of my national Chinese medicine exams. Thanks to my kungfu and qigong practice, I was able to do that, work two jobs, go to school, and find time for my boyfriend, all without getting sick where someone else surely would have.
My lovely boyfriend and I have been together for nearly a year. We plan to get married next year, and start a family a year after that. It seems as if I'm on the brink of a new chapter of my life and I'm looking forward to it with excitement and gratitude.
You are an inspiration to all other students. Not only you are not sick for the hard work you are doing, I am sure you enjoy your work too and perform better than most other people. Our training certainly enrich our life.
Congratulations for having a boyfriend and planning to get married. To be a wife and mother, as well as to be a husband and father, are some of the happiest things in life.
Question 8
In the book, "The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu", Sigung explains that in performing One-Finger Shooting Zen, "as you move your hand out and in, tense it and visualize it as charged with internal force" and then "even though you tense your arm and finger, you must never be tensed, especially in your chest"
So how to tense without tensing? If tensing the muscles is one of the biggest mistakes, how to do One-finger Shooting Zen correctly? http://www.wongkiewkit.com/forum/showthread.php?12258-Questions-on-One-Finger-Shooting-Zen
— Karol, Norway
Editorial Note: This question was summarized from Post 5 of Questions on One-Finger Shooting Zen in the Shaolin Wahnam Institute Discussion Forum. As this and the subsequent question are topical, they are posted here ahead of a long waiting-list.
It is a good question.
Let us have some fun. In performing One-finger Shooting Zen, you should tense your arm, and not tense your arm. The confusion is due to the limitation of words. Words do not explain exactly what we want to explain.
The first "tense" in "you should tense your arm" is not the same as the second "tense" in "not tense your arm". Although the meanings are different, I still used the same word "tense" when I wrote the book 20 years ago in 1995 because I could not find another better word.
After many years of teaching, now I use words that give a clearer meaning. Now I say, "Focus your energy at your index finger, but do not use muscular strength", or "Consolidate your flowing energy at your arm without tensing any muscles".
In other words, in "tense your arm", I mean "focus or consolidate energy at your arm". In "not tense your arm" I mean "not tense the muscles in your arm".
When you focus or consolidate energy at your finger or arm, your energy is still flowing, but it is focused or consolidated. The consolidated energy is flowing, not locked up or stagnant. You do not tense your muscles when you let your energy flow. If you tense your muscles, the energy will be locked up and be stagnant.
Such limitation of words occurs quite frequently in chi kung and kungfu descriptions. For example, after a few repetitions of a Sinew Metamorphosis exercise, we tell students to breath out forcefully but without using force! In developing internal force, we advise students not to use strength and they will develop a lot of strength.
In the "breathing" example, breathing out forcefully means breathing out with a lot of energy going out of the mouth. Without using force means without breathing out in a forced manner.
In the "internal force" example, the first "strength†means "muscular strengthâ€, and the second "strength†means "internal forceâ€. If we use muscular strength, we have to tense our muscles. When we tense our muscles, we stop the flow of energy that constitutes internal force.
The uninitiated will not understand the meaning of the descriptions although they know the dictionary meaning of all the words used. The initiated will have no difficulty understanding the meaning because they have experience of the situations.
Question 9
What are the flow method and the force method?
The flow method and the force methods are two main categories of methods to develop internal force. These terms were coined by me.
I did not invent the various force-developing methods. These various methods were used in the past. I analysed the principles in the various methods and categorised them into two main types, and call them the flow method, or xing-fa in Chinese, and the force method, or jing-fa.
In the flow method, we perform the techniques to train force in picture-perfect forms.. Then we perform the forms in a smooth flow, without beginning and without ending to generate an energy flow. When the energy flow becomes vigorous, it produces internal force. The various styles of Taijiquan are good examples of the flow method.
In the force method, we also perform the techniques to train force in picture-perfect forms. Then we consolidate energy into internal force. The consolidated energy is still flowing, but more focused and concentrated. Iron Wire and Triple Stretch are good examples of the force methods.
In studying and analysing various methods of developing internal force, I discovered that chi flow was necessary. It was increasing the chi flow or consolidating the chi flow that resulted in the flow method or the force method. This discovery tremendously sped up the process of building internal force. It is incredible but true that our students can now develop internal force in a month what I would need a year during my student's days!
The process in the flow method is form-flow-force, and the process in the force method is form-force-flow. It is helpful to note that the crucial part of the processes of both the flow method and the force method is the middle part, and not the end part. In the flow method, we let our energy flow vigorously to develop force. In the force method, we consolidate energy into force and let it flow smoothly.
Editorial Note: An excellent answer by Sifu Leonard Lackinger can be found here
If you have any questions, please e-mail them to Grandmaster Wong via his Secretary at firstname.lastname@example.com stating your name, country and e-mail address.
(reproduced from http://shaolin.org/video-clips-10/holistic-health-cultivation-centre/overview.html)
Holistic Health Cultivation Centre
The Holistic Health Cultivation Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which has an outstanding record of helping people overcome so-called incurable diseases conducted an Introductory Chi Kung Course from 11th June to 15th June 2015. The course was taught by Sifu Dr Foong Tuck Meng and Sifu Wong Chun Nga.
During a special training session taught by Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, the Grandmaster mentioned two important points:
As a matter of course, students who daily and correctly practice the exercises taught at the course will overcome their illness if they are sick, or will prevent illness happening if they are already healthy.
Students should choose the right techniques and practice at the right level to attain their aim of overcoming illness or maintaining good health.
Grandmaster Wong explained the difference between "as a matter of course" and "as a matter of fact". If a person drove on an expressway from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, arriving at Singapore was a matter of course. But as a matter of fact, he might not arrive, if, for example, he stopped half way or turned off to other roads.
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The Gourlay Family
The Name Gourlay:
The earliest record of the name is as "Gournay" in Belgic Gaul in the 4th - 1st century. The is a Gournay Island. Gournay-sur-Aronde (Oise) and Vendeuil are only 30 kolometers apart. This could possibly be the origination of the name?
Gourlay/MacGourlay is an Irish surname meaning the "son of Toirdeabhach" (shaped like a god) (Smith).
In The Book of Irish Families Great and Small it lists the original spelling as Mac Gourley. Gourley/Mac Gourley is tradtionally associated with the county Antrim in the north of Ireland. The name O'Gorley is also found in Ireland.
In The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families by Lewis C. Loyd, originally published in Leeds, England, in 1951, it states:
"Gournay-en-Bray: Seine-Inf. arr. Neufchatel, is a fortified town. The family is so well known that it is sufficient to refer to the documents in Daniel Gurnay's Record of the House of Gournai".
Hugh de Gourney, Sr. of Gourney-en-Brie, Normany, Domeday tenant of Liston, Ardley, and Fordham, Essex, County England. He married Basile Flaitel, the widow of Rauol of Gace, Constable of Normandy. Basile's father was Gerard Flaitel. Her home was the castle of Eccouche, near Falaise, Normandy. They had two sons: Gerard and Hugh. Hugh de Gourney witnessed the charter of the monastery of St. Stephen, Caen. This was provided for by King William the Conqueror. William and his wife Maude also chartered Holy Trinty in Caen, Normandy. Hugh and his wife Basile were buried at the Abbey de Bec.
Written and Researched by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska, B.F.A.
The Gourlay Arms:
- Gourlay - Eng., a boar's head, erased, ppr.
- Gourlay - Scot. a mullet of sis points, or.
- Gourlay - Scot., an eagle, issuing. Motto: profundia cernit or "he pentrates deep things"(Fairbairn).
John Lawson was christened May 29, 1768 Ceres, Kettle Parish, Fifeshire, Scotland. He married on June 19, 1784 to Elspeth Lawson, daughter of William Lawson and Isabel Gourlay. This is yet to be proven by anything but the parish records.
Children of John and Elspeth Lawson were:
Elspeth Lawson christened September 29, 1784 in Kettle Parish, Ceres, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Margaret Lawson christened July 17, 1785 in Kettle Parish, Ceres, Fifeshire, Scotland.
James Lawson christened March 18, 1787 in Kettle Parish, Ceres, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Henry Lawson
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ALL SOLD OUT!! There will not be any more. I have some spare parts left like frames, side plates, power tubes, linkage parts, detent parts, springs. Contact me for pricing on what you want, ill make you a good deal lol. buy the whole works and I will make you a really good deal and send everyone to you. There are no 3rd gen valve caps, cylinders or feeds available at all. Don't bother asking! Here is what you will be ordering: PICS ( Special thanks to CJOttawa for the fancy production pics!) ALL MARKERS SOLD IN DUST BLACK Here are the specs: - .68 Cal - SINGLE ACTION - Cocking the hammer rotates the cylinder and latches the hammer. Pull the trigger and it fires. Repeat for each shot. - Under barrel spring feed ~10 round. The spring feed is used to reload the cylinder as it rotates. You must pull the cylinder to refill the springfeed. - 12 gram powered - CCI 12gram bucket changer is integrated into the grip. This can be removed and a remote line installed. - The valve comes out the back without dissasembly of the rest of the marker - Cocker barrel threading -External velocity adjustment. -Dust black anodizing -2nd generation indexing detent for improved sealing and indexing -3rd generation valve cap for improved sealing and ease of maintenance -2nd generation cocking pall for improved spring life. -Serial numbers will be hand stamped. "3XX" -Comes stock with 2 extra cylinders (3 total) if ordered on or before November 1st OK, now to the down and dirty, the price: As shown, standard design DRV: $790 CDN plus shipping. No barrel included If you choose to remove stock parts from your order, I take no responsibility whatsoever how your parts fit, function or look with the parts I have supplied. That being said, if you would like to save yourself some money you can order the marker without some of the off the shelf parts. I have also provided some optional parts that just aren't cost effective for me to supply in the base price. A "-" in front means you remove that price from the base price, a "+" means that you add that to the base price, or a combination of the two. +25 CDNS Extra cylinder. +12 CDN Springfeed replacement plug +5 CDN Raw aluminum parts, you take car of your own prep and anodizing. +50 CDN 5 round springfeed ( I don't see th point of making 8's again, its a silly size) +25 CDN 3rd generation valve cap The way it works If you decide to order one ( or 5 if you want ) -Click ORDER HERE -Post in the thread as well what you wanted to order so that there is an easily accessible "paper" trail in case you ( or I ) lose the PM's. -I will send you a paypal invoice for 50% of what you are ordering ( excluding shipping). You will get my name, address, the amount of the invoice, details of what you have ordered. -pay the invoice. -The sales deadline will be November 1st. You have to pay on or before this date!! -Any changes/customization that you ask for ( other than those listed) will be completed at the end of the manufacturing process. I can handle any customization that you want, but it puts your shipment to the end of the list. I want this production process to proceed as smoothly as possible, building 10 completely custom makers when I am supposed to be building 10 identical markers is not efficient. -Any changes to your order will change the amount of down payment required, that difference is due when you request the change. -Customizing will be charged according to hours and materials used. Payment is due before I ship. -Based on my current schedule, I believe I can complete fabrication in 6 weeks for 15 markers. - Your down payment is part of the contract with me. It shows that you have ordered in good faith and wish to complete the transaction. It is non refundable, don't ask for a refund. The only way that you will get that money back is if I cannot complete the order. -You will recieve the second invoice for the other half of your payment,plus shipping when yours is ready to ship. USEFUL STUFF: Some videos are up: DRV :: DRVvalveinstal.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket DRV :: DRVvalveremoval.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket DRV :: DRVSideplate.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket DRV :: DRVpallspringadjust.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket DRV :: DRVdetentinstal.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket making a new pall spring: DRV :: DRVnewpallspring.mp4 video by duke737 - Photobucket Last edited by dukie; 10-11-2014 at 04:54 PM. |
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While most teens would die to spend a summer in Italy, Gabi and Lia Bettarini find it more than a little passe having spent many summers following their parents around Etruscan archeological dig sites. In violation of their mother's strict instructions, and in an effort to stave off boredom, Gabi convinces Lia to sneak into a newly discovered tomb to explore. Gabi gets more adventure than she bargained for when she finds herself transported to the sixteenth century and lands in the middle of a fierce battle between opposing Italian knights.
Rescued from an attacker's sword by handsome knight Sir Marcello Forelli, Gabi is whisked off to his father's castle, fearing she may not find her way back to the 21st century.
"He was certainly the first man I'd seen holding a real sword and in full-on knight gear-tunic, tights, breastplate, the whole enchilada. Somehow he made the look work."
Marcello is a young man destined to defend his father's castello and marry well to protect the Forelli's reputation and financial holdings. More than a little intrigued by the tall, attractive and oddly spoken Gabi, Marcello is torn between loyalty to his family and the strange, new visitor who may be friend or foe.
As enmity rages between the Houses of Forelli and Paratore, Gabi finds herself out of her depth in a world of danger, fear and unexpected heartache.
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A youthful-looking United side gave an early indication of their potential with a thrilling 3-2 victory over Manchester City in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday.
Defender Smalling, 21, new goalkeeper David de Gea, 20, and 20-year-old striker Danny Welbeck, who is back from a loan spell at Sunderland, all started.
New signing Phil Jones, 19, and 21-year-old Tom Cleverley, who spent last season with Wigan, also featured in the second half.
Ferguson is renowned for his ability to continually renew his side and now looks to be bringing in a new generation following the recent retirements of Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Edwin van der Sar.
Smalling, who scored the goal which sparked United's winning comeback from 2-0 down, said: "The manager said the young players will get a chance this season.
"At half-time in a big game like this you could see the young players step up. Hopefully that can carry on all season.
"I think we could go from strength to strength.
"Quite a few people feel like they have got a fresh start. They have been out on loan and are making a big step.
"The manager has given them a chance in pre-season. You can see these players are good enough and hopefully they will get more chances."
Smalling is now in his second season at Old Trafford following his move from Fulham.
He remains behind Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic in the pecking order for centre-half berths but his performance at right-back against City underlined his versatility and value.
He said: "This year the aim is to really kick on and play more.
"Hopefully I can start to get some more games at centre-back. But if the manager feels that I can play the odd game at right-back then I'll help if I can contribute."
City trailed at the break after Joleon Lescott and Edin Dzeko struck in a torrid six-minute spell for De Gea.
United upped the tempo after the restart and Smalling diverted in an Ashley Young free-kick before they levelled with a sublime goal from Nani.
Portugal winger Nani claimed the winner in injury time after robbing Vincent Kompany near the halfway line.
Smalling added: "We weren't too down at half-time. In the first half an hour we thought we played the better football but then City were a lot more clinical in taking their two goals.
"It was a bit of a sucker punch but we worked on moving the ball quick, getting on the turn and playing the forward ball.
"Luckily we took those chances when they came.
"It's been a while since I scored and, obviously, that was at Scunthorpe so this is a completely different arena.
"Just in terms of gambling, the manager said they played the zonal (defence).
"Ash has been whipping in some great balls all pre-season so it's down to us to get on the end of them."
Smalling is also confident De Gea will bounce back from his difficult debut.
The Spaniard, signed from Atletico Madrid for £18million this summer, failed to come for the free-kick which Lescott glanced in and was then beaten from distance by a low Dzeko shot.
Smalling said: "He'll learn from things like that and he made some good saves early in the second half.
"So it's good to see that he's not going to be down and out about it.
"He got up and made some really good saves."
Jones, another of United's recent arrivals after a £16million move from Blackburn, already feels at home with the champions and is looking forward to the start of the Premier League.
United begin their title defence with a trip to West Brom on Sunday.
Jones said: "I have settled in well, the lads have made me feel welcome and I am enjoying it.
"It was a good workout before the start of the season next week.
"Hopefully the lads will come back from international duty fresh and we can kick off the season in style.
"We are looking forward to it and hopefully we can get three points."
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NAME: James E. O'Keefe III
In 2012, the documentary Hating Breitbart, which attempts to paint the then-recently departed conservative propagandist Andrew Breitbart as some persecuted enemy of the left – which he was – who was merely getting the truth out about them – which he wasn't, was released. Ultimately Breitbart died as nothing more than someone who was trying to cover up the racial crimes of his conservative cohorts, and he did it with flimsy evidence and his infamous temper tantrums whenever someone showed him up. We bring up the documentary because in it was a little bit of a milestone – Breitbart protege James O'Keefe saying the first words he has ever said about the fact that he participated in an Arlington, VA white supremacist forum put together by the Robert A. Taft Club in 2006.
In one segment, the documentary zeroes in on political writer Max Blumenthal for authoring a story for Salon.com where he notes O'Keefe attending this conference where the panelists were American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor then-National Review Online writer John Derbyshire, who in 2012 was fired from that position after a racist article he had written in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, and Project 21 member Kevin Martin, a black conservative who was not announced until a few days before the event. "Blumenthal said that because I was at a debate where this racist guy was debating this black guy, because I was present...then he went on to say how I organized the debate, blah, blah, blah. It's all false," O'Keefe says in the segment just before they cut to the argument Breitbart and his Breitbart.com associate Larry O'Connor had with Blumenthal at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "And Breitbart went after him and say, 'Why did you lie?'"
The entire situation was a lesson in how mainstream conservatives will act when they are caught engaging in their racist activism. It was not Blumenthal that was lying, it was the Breitbart crowd that orchestrated a narrative that O'Keefe was just some unknowing participant in the event where he shook Kevin Martin's hand afterwards saying he did not agree with the other two persons on the panel. But when something is a narrative that means what is being said will be the real lie, and the reason why we at One People's Project in particular know its a lie is because it wasn't Blumenthal who broke the story. We did. We were at the conference as well, and we took pictures of everyone that attended. One of those pictures happened to be of O'Keefe with Taylor in the background.
We will get back to this whole episode in a minute, but it's good to look into the totality of this particular clown, because not only is he an example of what conservatives do when caught, he also shows how they are playing the racism game now. O'Keefe just might be the most bumbling of the racists that ever made it to the mainstream in this day and age, and no amount of people of color he keeps around him is going to wash that stink off. While the Taft Club forum has become our most notorious episode with O'Keefe, it was hardly the first. We were first on top of him while he was an up-and-coming racist hatemonger while a student at Rutgers University where he did his thing as a right-wing activist on campus. But he was able to parley this into a nice little career for himself, and at the time he was getting exposed as a racist activist, O'Keefe was just losing his status as the darling of the right. That's because he and three others were facing jail time for trying to tamper with the phone lines in the New Orleans offices of Senator Mary Landrieu.
The story goes like this: According to reports, on January 25, 2010, O'Keefe and his friends Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan visited the New Orleans office of Senator Mary Landrieu. Basel and Flanagan disguised themselves as repairmen, and attempted to access the office's telephone system by saying there was something wrong with the phone lines. O'Keefe was in the office and videotaped the some of the events with his cell phone camera. Office workers smelled a rat and called the authorities. The three of them were arrested, along with a fourth man Stan Dai, and charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.
But always expect conservatives to blame everyone else for what they do. A few days later, O'Keefe posted a statement on Breitbart's biggovernment.com crying about the media coverage of the arrest as being "journalistic malpractice." He still managed to grow a pair and admit, "On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building."
Too little too late. Conservatives that were praising him as a hero to their cause started dropping him like a hot potato. There are some that are joining him in taking the media to task for covering his case (!), like his pal Breitbart, who was among the few that still supported him. Still, your more established outlets are running for the hills. The primetime talk programs on the Fox News Channel, which hyped him up after the ACORN videos came out, said not one word about him the day the news broke about his arrest. And posters at Freak Republic admonished O'Keefe, one saying, "Hate to say it, but I think O'Keefe fits the old description that goes something like: 'he's got more nerve than sense'." O'Keefe and his friends all eventually plead guilty to a single misdameanor count of entering a federal building under false pretenses, and O'Keefe was sentenced to three years' probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine while the others received lesser sentences.
Of course, before his fall from grace he had got his claim to fame when he decided to take a camera and saunter into a few offices of the group ACORN posing as a pimp bringing along his prostitute - actually Hannah Giles, the daughter of conservative website TownHall.com's founder Doug Giles. They caught ACORN workers on tape telling them how to evade law enforcement, shield their assets from the government and win loans for their illicit endeavor. Needless to say, all hell broke loose around an organization that has become the bogeyman for the right over the past year because the man they love to hate, President Barack Obama, was a one time lawyer for the group. Because of the videos, the group had been denounced by the White House, defunded by the Senate, only to restore the funding after ACORN fought back in court, and several employees were under criminal investigation although no charges have ever been filed. Now the consensus in the midst of all of this was that if the charges were legitimate, ACORN needed to simply clean up its act if it was going to continue advocating for poor people. The thing is, when you are dealing with a guy like James O'Keefe, chances are the story isn't as black and white as it looks.
Well, let us rephrase that. It isn't something you can trust on its face. It being black and white – that's another story. Like we said before, we have history with this clown.
In 2005, we published an article titled "College Republicans and the Fascists who Love Them". In it, we spoke of a then-new and now-defunct publication that appeared on the Rutgers University campus called the Centurion. It basically carried the traits of your average right-wing campus publication found on any campus: while leftist – or what they would call leftist for the sake of propaganda – publications try to inform and advance education that addresses concerns of the time, the mission of conservative publications has always been to just attack liberals. Like a little kid having a temper tantrum, the Centurion has been nothing more than zingers aimed at liberals on campus and whatever liberal organizations they feel like harassing. James O'Keefe was one of the founders of the Centurion, and we noted a line in what he called his "Conservative Manifesto" in the section he titled "A Conservative is Politically Incorrect":
"Buzzwords like 'inclusion,' 'tolerance,' and 'diversity' are racist, hypocritical, and exclusive to, as Leo Strauss said, 'those who have stated clearly and forcefully there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.'"
Now we are used to the neo-con routine of being racist by saying that everyone else but them are racist, and O'Keefe is a prime example of this. His attitude towards people of color has been spotlighted by a Daily Kos blogger who visited his site and found this gem in his now deleted online diary about how he was kicked out of a dorm at Rutgers:
"My freshman year of college I was placed in a triple room on the second floor of Campbell. One of my roomates (sic) was gay. The other was just bizarre. Two months in I volunteered to leave and was put on an all-black, floor, the Paul Robeson floor, on Mettler 3 in November. I was placed with, no joke, an Indian midget named "Hashish" who smelled like shit. Then he transfered (sic). I had a single. For the month of January, I never left my room. Then on Valentines day (sic), the one year anniversary of James/Arielle, in came a greek kid named Paul. Paul was an absolute nightmare. Then, to my horror, he actually said to the all-black RAs that I called everyone on the floor "niggers." - a complete lie. It was my word against his. I was lead out of the room crying and screaming at him and my situation, no friends, no one one (sic) to talk to., forced to go in front of a black man, Dean Tolbert, to defend myself and help explain that I did not call anyone any names."
Well, perhaps this explains why O'Keefe hates Paul Robeson so much. It's not because he was a Stalinist, which was how the 2005 Black History Month issue of the Centurion he edited incorrectly tried to paint him. It's because O'Keefe got himself into a racial row with his roommate and was removed from the dorm. Put his whole concern about diversity and tolerance in a whole new perspective, doesn't it?
As mentioned, the Centurion's main mission was to go after anyone they don't like, and it is often the usual conservative targets: people of color, Muslims, liberals, people who don't like them, etc. And don't look for any highbrow stuff either. Example: a cartoon depicting former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, the first openly gay governor in United States history, has him telling a deliveryman asking him where he can take a package for him that he "takes it in the rear".
The Centurion was being funded by the Leadership Institute, the Arlington, Va.-based outfit that works to train conservative students to be activists on campuses around the country. In recent years, the racist activism in the Leadership Institute is a little more exposed, whether you are talking about former intern Marcus Epstein and his Robert Taft Club attempting to host that infamous forum on race, giving speaker funds to Michigan State University's chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, led by now-attorney Kyle Bristow and designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for among other things, inviting people like Taylor and British National Party members on campus to speak, or the founding by Epstein and other Institute members of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), which immediately began to wear out their welcome on college campuses across the country when people started to take notice of the white supremacists they were cozying up to. We will get back to them in a minute too.
O'Keefe started working for the Leadership Institute immediately after graduating from Rutgers in 2006. Usually it was Borat-style prank stuff, something he was good for while an editor of the Centurion. The problem is unlike Sasha Baron Cohen, O'Keefe has to spin the stuff he gets from his "stings" to what he wants them to be. In 2006, he brought fellow Leadership Insitiute member and anti-abortion zealot Lila Rose posing as a pregnant/underage teen to Planned Parenthood facilities with a hidden camera to record the conversations. They managed to catch one of the workers suggesting that they cover up a possible statutory rape situation. In 2008, keeping in tradition of his obsession with racial matters, O'Keefe called the Columbus, OH Planned Parenthood office and requested that his donation be earmarked to abort black babies. Now Planned Parenthood supports abortion rights and wants to make it more accessible for everyone, so it isn't an issue if someone wants to make abortions accessible for a certain community, and this wasn't an issue for the person O'Keefe called. O'Keefe then added a nice salvo at the end of this phone call, saying, "Because there's definitely way too may black people in Ohio. So, I'm just trying to do my part." That got a "Hmm. Okay, whatever." from the Planned Parenthood worker, but unfortunately for her not recoiling in outrage and hanging up the phone is what got the right wing MOB (Manufactured Outrage Brigade) standing outside Planned Parenthood offices and inside Fox News studios. Planned Parenthood put out statements on both incidents saying that the workers did not approach the two cases properly, and James O'Keefe start began to shine among the right. Leadership Institute thought that might have been a bit much however, and jettisoned O'Keefe after the affair.
The ACORN videos are curious however. The organization responded to them by noting things O'Keefe left out. The truth of the matter is when O'Keefe and Giles walked into a number of the ACORN offices he was seen as a joke, most notably by ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke whom they approached in San Bernadino, CA. "When the actors approached Ms. Kaelke with their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously," an ACORN statement read. "So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios."
The false scenario that got the right-wing blogs and Fox News pundits salivating and running with the story without checking it was how Kaelke murdered her first husband. That alone was enough for Glenn Beck to spend an entire show on the matter and Sean Hannity and O'Keefe and Giles on his program to talk about it. But when Hannity asked if the filmmakers bothered to check and see if the story was true, Giles responded, "We're working on that."
Soon, that job was done for them – by ACORN. NewsHounds.us notes that ACORN released the police report of the investigation into the "homicide" of Kaelke's husband and found "the claims do not appear to be factual. Investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands, who are alive and well." In addition, NewsHounds.us says, ACORN also points out that the fact that the filmmakers, Breitbart and Fox presented the video as truth, without any independent investigation, calls into question all of their journalistic standards. The organization also questioned why some footage that reflected well on ACORN had been edited out of the video. That might have something to do with their experience at the Philadelphia office on July 24, where things did not go as planned. According to a statement by the office there, "after causing a major disturbance, they were asked to leave the office, and a police report was filed." No charges were filed against O'Keefe or Giles, however, but what's even more interesting is how this particular video is one that hasn't been seen in the series of ACORN videos on YouTube or the "fair and balanced" Fox News Channel. This coming from the guy who edited a student publication that once complained of "the selective film editing of Michael Moore and the biased reporting of The New York Times, CNN and CBS".
There are bad people in every organization, but you fix the problem. Planned Parenthood and ACORN obviously needed to deal with the issues brought up in the video, but they weren't corrupt organizations, just ones that conservatives hate. As Whoopi Goldberg noted on an episode of the View, ACORN is the premier organization that advocates for the poor in this country. They were in New Orleans helping Katrina victims before President Bush even knew there was a situation. ACORN eventually folded, but the remanants simply went under different names and continued the work ACORN did. There however was that attempt to leave a significant hole, and given the history poor black people have had with conservatives, not to mention the history of Leadership Institute and their boy James O'Keefe, one has to wonder if that is not the plan.
And that brings us back to that 2006 Taft Club forum. Now originally, it was supposed to be held at the Leadership Institute, but it ended up being moved to a building at the Georgetown Law School. What the Breitbart crowd pulled when this information was put out there in 2010 was laughable. First, Andrew Breitbart went on an eight-hour Twitter rampage trying to either refute the story or pressure others not to run with it. Salon.com corrected some things, and made it clear it wasn't a retraction, but that was enough for the Breitbart crowd to pretend it was a retraction, even though it remains on their website to this day. Other right-wing blogs assisted in the ruse, including ironically the white supremacist ones. Breitbart even managed to get Kevin Martin to defend O'Keefe.
The funniest thing about the entire thing was how they avoided talking to us like the plague, even though we were the source of the story. There were only scant references to us, and to be fair they did include screen shots of our original article in Hating Breitbart, but direct contact with us? Nope. A weird phone call from someone that didn't give his name maybe, but nothing we can confirm. That changed at CPAC 2010, however when Daryle Lamont Jenkins went right up to Breitbart while he was conducting a radio interview about his run-in with Blumenthal and called him out as a racist and a liar. The other funny thing: O'Keefe kept his mouth shut the entire two weeks of the scandal and really didn't say anything until as we said, that Hating Breitbart documentary. That might be particularly telling, because it seems for all the talk that he knew nothing of the people that put on that forum, he seemed to know enough to accept an invitation from that same crowd to speak at Providence College.
Flanking James O'Keefe (center) is members of the White Supremacist group Youth for Western Civilization. Christine Rousselle is on the left and Timothy Dionisopoulos is on the right wearing the YWC T-Shirt. |
Something to note: The Robert A. Taft Club was co-founded by White nationalist (and another Leadership Institute alum) Kevin DeAnna, who went on to also co-found Youth for Western Civilization. Now YWC, which fancied itself a university student union, made no bones about his white supremacist leanings, working closely with Jared Taylor and his American Renaissance publication, and inviting white supremacists like fellow Taft Club founder Richard Spencer, now the Executive Director of yet another white supremacist group the National Policy Institute (NPI), to speak on college campuses. This was one of the reasons why the group was being shunned by universities across the country, most notably Rhode Island's Providence College, who wouldn't even recognize them as a student organization. To that end the YWC chapter there, ran by Tim Dionisopoulos operated under the auspecies of the College Republicans (CR), and brought hatemongers like John Derbyshire and Richard Spencer to speak on campus in 2011. O'Keefe was invited by them as well to speak on media activism. "Despite bravado and posturing from local antifa who made overtures to shut down the event, their threats turned out to be as empty as their beliefs, as none were brave enough to make an appearance on the Providence Campus," YWC/CR head Tim Dionisopoulos wrote. Not long after that, a YWC associate wrote a story on the YWC website about his visit to a conference at Pace University called the Left Forum, which we participated in, and made note of our flyer warning of folks from YWC wanting to infiltrate which featured the pic of James O'Keefe at the Taft Forum. "We're not sure if this is supposed to discredit O'Keefe or YWC. Either way, we don't care -- in fact, we display on our website pictures of YWC Providence Chapter leader Tim Dionosopolis posing with James O'Keefe at a recent event sponsored by the College Republicans."
Antifa eventually called Timmy's bluff, by the way. When Spencer showed up on campus, so did antifa, and that was the last event Dioniospoulos held on campus.
Eventually, YWC fell apart, and all the players went into some curious positions. Dionisopoulos went on to become a staffer for the Leadership Institute, fellow Providence YWC member Christine Rousselle, who took over College Republicans there after Dionisopoulos graduated is an editor at the right-wing website TownHall.com, and has appeared on outlets like CNN, and Kevin DeAnna and others found themselves at World Net Daily, a mainstream right-wing website that has been as of late inching its way closer to white supremacist groups for some reason. All of this, by the way, puts the whole temper tantrum that Andrew Breitbart and his people
Neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach with Andrew Breitbart, who by the way was Jewish but apparently that didn't matter to either of them for some reason. Still, it sure gives us a little insight as to why the Breitbart folks didn't want people to delve too much into the people James O'Keefe was hanging out with. |
threw in 2010 into perspective. After all, Breitbart himself posed for a picture with then-YWC member Matthew Heimbach, a neo-Nazi that has pushed for racial seperation and has said those who are against that "deserve a short drop with a tight rope around their neck."
Today's conservative is not about the work, only about the win. Everyone who works for a living and puts their time in to make their live better are enemies to the likes of O'Keefe, who while speaking of how conservatives work for a living and don't have time to engage in activism as liberals who don't work can, forgets that he is getting paid to be an activist by a group that is increasingly training their guns on people of color. It might be hard out there for a "pimp", but try being a racist conservative.


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WEST WYOMING (AP) — A former police chief from northeastern Pennsylvania charged with collecting several double paychecks won't face charges under a plea deal reached with prosecutors.
A judge in Luzerne County on Monday gave former West Wyoming Chief David Gashi 30 days to repay almost $4,000 back to the borough and more than $14,000 to the police pension fund. If he does so, the theft case against him will be dismissed.
Authorities accused Gashi and another former police chief in West Wyoming, Stanley Sipko, of receiving double paychecks between 2005 and 2009.
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text: The Tombs & Treasure wiki last edited by Jagged85 on 08/13/15 08:42AM View full history OverviewTombs & Treasure is the second game in the Asteka franchise, a series of adventures games from Nihon Falcom. Tombs & Treasure, also known as Taiyou no Shinden: Asteka II, was originally released for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, FM-7 and Sharp X1 (all Japanese computers) in 1986, but was later ported to the Famicom in 1988 and then the NES by Infocom in 1991 (the first American release in the Asteka series). In 1998 and 1999, Japan saw re-releases of the game on the PC and Sega Saturn.Plot A scene from the PC-9801 version of the game.The game stars two main protagonists: a male and a female. The names are customizable, but there are also a variety of computer chosen names that will be assigned if the player does not enter in a name. For simplicity's sake, they will be referred to as Mark and Celia. In addition to Mark and Celia, the player has control of José, a guide for the Mayan temple where the game takes place.Tombs & Treasure is centered around the disappearance of an expedition by Professor Imes. Imes's expedition sought to uncover ancient relics in the city of Chichen Itza, but the entire expedition mysteriously vanished, leaving only their guide, José. José aids the team (Imes is actually Celia's father), and they begin searching Chichen Itza for clues. The first scene in the game.There are a variety of locations to explore, and for the most part the story is non-linear. After discovering numerous artifacts, Mark, Celia, and José find themselves in front of the Well of Sacrifice, where most of the expedition disappeared. Mark enters alone, and is trapped. After he manages to escape, Celia has disappeared and José is unconscious in front of the Well. José said that Celia was kidnapped and taken to the Ball Court.When Mark and José visit the Ball Court, it is revealed that José is actually "Scareface," an evil creature who actually intended to use the power of the "Akbal Jewel" for himself (and his friends, who are also evil demons). After Mark kills him, he finds Celia, who has been knocked unconscious. Mark fights the leader of the demons responsible for all of the disappearances: Tentacula. Celia and Mark barely escape before the temple collapses.As the credits roll, it is revealed that the expedition that vanished was actually sent back in time to lead the Mayan civilization, and now Celia and Mark have joined them. Professor Imes is now the "High Priest Professor," and everyone lives happily ever after. After the credits, a line of text alludes to a sequel, although this was the last Asteka game ever released.Gameplay All commands are located in the box to the left.The gameplay in Tombs & Treasure alternates between two different perspectives. Either first-person perspective, which is more akin to point-and-click, or top-down perspective (for overworld exploration), which resembles that of a role-playing game (e.g. Final Fantasy). The game is centered around exploring various structures located in Chichen Itza, gathering treasure and uncovering clues.The player has a variety of options that allows them to interact with the world (these options are only present in the first-person perspective portions of the game). These commands are Fight (which is used in battle), Change (which is used to switch between the three playable characters), Go (which is used to move characters around), Look (examine an item), Take (used to pick up various items), Put (this automatically places the selected item, if it can be placed), Use (the player can select an item to use), Move (this command allows the player to move an element in the playing field), Push (this command pushes an element in the playing field), Smash (akin to Move and Push, this is used for interacting with elements), Join (combine two items), Wash (clean off items in the Well of Paradise), and Wait (which allows a certain amount of time to progress).In the overworld, there are no options like these. These options are only used to interact with items in a "point-and-click" atmosphere. In the overworld, the player is able to enter a variety of structures, ranging from the Ball Court to the Castillo pyramid.Tombs & Treasure also has some role-playing elements. At predetermined times, the characters actually level up, gaining more health and attack power. The "random encounters" in this game are also predetermined, and incredibly sparse. During these battles, it is impossible to heal, although fleeing is possible. After each battle, the characters are fully healed. Fighting is done with either the characters' bare hands, or the sword (if it is equipped using the "Use" command).


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Many, many years ago... can't remember exactly how long, but most likely before our firstborn... a friend from church gave us a sad little root-bound shrub that her nursery-owning father was going to throw out.
She told us it was called a Glory Bower.
We kept expecting it to die. But it grew, slowly but surely, and now is taking leaps and bounds each Spring.
We never did much research on it, just waited to see what it would do.
A few years ago, it put out its first blooms, pretty little white pods that opened into fragrant starburst blooms.
That was the year we noticed that the leaves smell like Peanut Butter.
And this year we spotted something new.
For reals... I did nothing to re-touch these photos.
Have you ever seen such a combination of colors? Other than in some tropical climate, I mean? This is the Pacific Northwest, after all.
Right now, at the onset of the season of bleak colors, to see such vibrance is absolutely delightful.
It took a long time, but this fabulous shrub is certainly living up to its name.
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Wow! Never saw anything like it! They are beautiful.....
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WOW again!! Hope there are some seeds one day in those beautiful blue pods! :) Then more plants!! Yay!
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Is it really economical/time-is-money thing for me to write a column that takes me three hours of writing and research for $60? Aren't I worth more than $20 an hour by now? And being paid the same amount as when I started three years ago, when the company has gone from start-up to being sold to a major corporation?
I think I'm getting screwed and am pretty close to asking for a raise or letting it go.
For the moment I'm saying screw it and going to the gym. Less than 24 hours till the PET scan which will fucking determine the rest of my fucking fucking fuckity fuckish Cancer treatment and hence the rest of my life, quality of and span. No biggie. Nope, not at all.
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Uncharted Territory
Dr. Richard Ehrlich is exploring uncharted territory, competing in Endurance Adventure events with his custom off-road bent. Richard and his team have placed on the podium in nearly every event they've entered, beating many strong teams on traditional mountain bikes.
His one-of-a-kind bike was built by Jim Best of Best Bike Works. The seat is made from carbon fibre laminated to aluminum and kevlar, the frame is machined aluminum, and the stem is adjustable and folds flat for transport. Most of the remaining components are standard MTB fare including a RockShox SID SL fork. See Richard's website for more information.


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