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This morning the BEA came out and said American personal income up was up 1.4% in May, which was more than the .7% it grew by in April.
That's where the good news ends.
For one thing, the money's being saved, not spent. Consumption was up only .3%, and the savings rate hit 6.9%. Actually, we don't buy into the orthodoxy that Americans need to spend-spend-spend in order to fix the economy, since that's the thinking that got us into this mess. But if you're desperate to see positive GDP sometime soon, then shrinking spending isn't what you want to see.
But beyond that, the gains came from transfer payments.
Karl Denninger breaks it down:
Here's what the BEA said:
The pattern of changes in personal income and in DPI reflect, in part, the pattern of increased government social benefit payments associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Right. The government hands out money (which it taxes or borrows) and this is reflected in these numbers but taking money from one hand and giving it to another does not help GDP as it does not represent income produced through labor.
A couple of paragraphs into the release the BEA explains:
Private wage and salary disbursements decreased $12.4 billion in May, compared with a decrease of $0.7 billion in April.
Notice that number - it is dramatically worse than April. That's the REAL income contribution (or in this case, loss) to the economy.
Just as we can't believe the financial markets, since the Fed has created so much liquidity, we're at the point where it's hard to believe the real economy, because so much of it is based on transfer payments and government spending obscuring what the private sector is able to do on its own.


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Ever confident in the divine.
Ever doubtful in herself.
Can't she see they're one in the same?
The Divine and she share the same name.
The same melody that moves the trees-- dances out in the way she laughs.
The same gray that floats with the clouds--covers her eyes when she's witness to betrayal.
The same space between the stars-- stretches out between the curves of her lips.
The same burning of the sun-- ignites her heart to carry her through.
The same shine of the moon--surrounds her, when completely content.
The same flow of the ocean waves-- crash with every beat of her heart.
The same love we feel, when putting our face against the wind-- exudes itself in one genuine smile.
Ever perfectly imperfect, as so nature goes.
One body, encompassing infinite soul.
She is the universe, the universe is she.


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From geothermal areas to tropical islands, New Zealand and South East Asia are both parts of the world that offer an almost other worldly beauty. Our guest writer and photographer from Flyingsolotravels.wordpress.com has captured some of the best and most beautiful scenery from New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and East Java, Indonesia….
Rotorua's Volcanic Parks, North Island, New Zealand
Wai-O-Tapu and Waimangu will more than sate anyone with a passing interest in geothermic attractions. Don't be put off by the omnipresent eggy scent of sulpur in Rotorua's (also known as Sulphur City) air, it's just a gentle reminder that the town lies on the North Island Fault System – a feature of the dynamic and constantly changing meeting point between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. Waimangu Volcanic Valley provides a gem of an afternoon stroll and is awash with bubbling mud pools and vividly coloured rocks, the likes of which I've never seen before. It was also vastly quieter than the popular Wai-O-Tapu with its crowd-pulling Lady Knox Geyser.
Lake Tekapo, North Island, New Zealand
Just as I was starting to feel a little homesick, I got a slice of Britain-esque weather at Lake Tekapo. One minute it's in the high teens, the next I'm caught in a hail storm on the wrong side of town and completely ill-equipped for such weather. It was worth it though to see the distant snow-capped mountains provide an awe-inspiring backdrop.
Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand
Mountscapes so breath-taking they're hard to comprehend.
Kawah Ijen, East Java, Indonesia
Getting a 12.30am alarm call, trekking up the dusty, sheer slopes and descending into this capricious crater guided only by moonlight will test your nerves, and your lungs. For fire and brimstone is far from fictitious at Kawah Ijen, twin hazards which have the unnerving and sinister ability to transmogrify the scene from sheer wonder to dire dystopia without warning. Shifting winds can thrust thick, toxic sulphuric clouds into your face, burning your eyes and airways, encasing you and rendering you motionless until some respite is offered.
Brimstone, an archaism for sulphur, is precisely what brings the hoards of heroic miners here and in part these miners, in unison with their surroundings, are what attract inquisitive tourists. Six months before I visited Kawah Ijen, it was closed due to increased seismic activity – something I found out once the trek was completed. Three months after I left Indonesia another East Javanese volcano – Gunung Kelud – erupted forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. A reminder of how volatile this humbling region can be. Would I do it again though? Absolutely.
Madakaripura Waterfall, East Java, Indonesia
If you're into your waterfalls, get this one on your bucket list. Rumour has it it's 200 metres high, and judging by the fact it's extremely hard to see the top from the bottom, I'm not going to argue. The walk to get there is half the fun and I don't want to give too much away but here's a top tip: don't shrug off the locals selling ponchos – you WILL need one if you hold any desires of keeping electronic equipment dry.
Koh Samui, Thailand
Much of Thailand is embodied within the 90 square miles oh Koh Samui. There's sweeping white beaches, peerless blue skies, mouth-watering sea food and cheap eateries trading next to shiny modern resorts. But this wouldn't be Thailand without the sight of scantily clad massage-offering ladies traversing the streets – day and night – and the sound of tuktuks seemingly hellbent on perforating your eardrums by promoting the next muay thai fight. It's everything that's bizarre and outlandish about Thailand, and that includes driftwood sticking out the sand with bird cages hanging off it.
Langkawi, Malaysia
Sunsets to die for in this Malaysian paradise where the west-facing beaches are a photographer's dream and almost too good to be true. A memorable day can be had by finding yourself a willing captain, a few rods and an afternoon fishing the Andaman Sea. Some restaurants may even be inclined to cooking the day's catch for you.
All words and images by Mark Peterson. Mark is a freelance travel writer intent on inspiring others to see as much of our perplexing world as possible. His favourite destinations include Vietnam (all of it!), Penang for its incredible food and the Fiordlands of New Zealand's South Island. Find him on his blog and Facebook page.


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According to calculations made by the National Accounts Institute (INR), the total value of real estate owned by private citizens in Belgium is around 1,412 billion euro. This is 334% of our country's GDP. The figure is also considerably higher than the total net financial assets of private citizens in Belgium that are currently estimated to be 1,066 billion euro.
The National Accounts Institute says that this is the first time it has made calculations based on the value of plots of land in the period between 2005 and 2016.
Real estate assets in Belgium are made up of 60% land and 40% buildings. The vast majority (74.2%) of the real estate assets is made up of residential properties. 6.3% of is given over to other buildings such as shops, offices and factories. 5% of the assets consist of plots that can be used as building plots, 4.5% is agricultural land and the rest (5.6%) fall under the category miscellaneous.
The total value of land in private hands in Belgium is estimated to be 863 billion euro. This is around 70% more what it was worth in 2005.
The value of the buildings owned by private citizens is around 549 billion euro. Almost all (97%) of this is made up of residential properties. In 2005 the total value of buildings owned by private citizens was 369.2 billion euro. – vrt


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As those who know me will have heard me say, I tried hard to get rid of traces of my Texan-speech when I moved to the midwest lo these many years ago. Now I would just as soon get it back. Mostly, it looks like I'm your basic general speaker, whatever that means. Can't shake all the Dixie, though. (Have a coke, y'all.)
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
30% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
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Virgo Full Moon: Do the work, human.
"Do or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
"Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it."
-- Chinese Proverb
What dreams seek to be born through you right now?
And what do you need to DO to make them real?
The Virgo Full Moon, opposite a dreamy and idealistic Pisces stellium, reminds us that our grandest visions can only be grounded by doing the work.
Showing up, day in and day out, is how imagination becomes reality.
No matter how glorious our dreams, we are still the earthly channel who has to make them happen. If we choose to avoid the mess, and let the details slip, our potential will evaporate like a pipe dream.
The muse will gift her song to someone more up for the task.
Virgo is the humble, efficient servant who takes care of the earthly details, while Pisces is the divine mystic who floats in the other realms.
Alone on Earth, Virgo is lost in the haystack, forever searching for that last damn needle, sifting through the chaff to find the wheat, and so aware of what else needs to be done, sorted or improved that it misses the bliss all around it.
Alone up above, Pisces is lost in the fog, enchanted by its own imagination and the inspired ideals of what could be. Endlessly disillusioned with life in the 3D realm, because it never quite measures up to the bliss of the spiritual world, Pisces opts out of this dense reality and longs to return home to Source.
This Full Moon, we can use the practical how-to ability of Virgo to make our Piscean dreams a reality.
Pisces teaches Virgo about transcending the details, and Virgo teaches Pisces how to clean the dustbin - of the body, mind and soul. Pisces learns how to be be human, and Virgo learns how to be Divine.
This Full Moon gifts us with the lessons we need to be fully present in the material world, so we can manifest the dreams that seek to be born through us.
It's time to do the work, and take care of the mess, rather than pretending it doesn't exist and floating off somewhere else.
To finish the job, rather than pressing the exit button.
How does Virgo get so much done? By making daily rituals and routines, by making a habit out of staying aligned to the highest good and the dream that seeks to be born through it.
"By doing the things," as my Virgo friend says. She's an inspired creative visionary, filled with flashes of brilliance and out-there enthusiasm. She runs a wildly successful real-world business, which began as a recurring dream.
So why is success a reality for her, and not for others who have such big dreams?
Well, she says, she has the dreams, then she does the things.
Such is the simple practicality of Virgo. Ground. Discern. Serve. Be useful, right now.
Do the work, human.
That's all.
Mars in Sagittarius preaches that your life can - and will - become your greatest adventure IF you show up and choose it.
If not… you'll just be another dreamer.
With the Moon square to Mars in Sagittarius, we're being pushed into action right now, and need to find the courage to break through fears that keep us trapped in perfectionism (Virgo) and avoidance (Pisces) - so we can go out there and take action.
Mars in Sag is on a crusade to know, and spread, the Truth; to see the bigger picture, and to follow a higher purpose. In order stay devoted to the work, we need to connect to our vision, and tap the energy and motivation of the warrior to keep at it until it's done.
A stellium of the Sun, Juno, Neptune, Mercury, Venus and Chiron in Pisces has been creating the wafty, blissful vibes of a meditation retreat in southern India for the last couple of weeks. Why fret about the details, why worry about the to-do list, when it feels so good to just… Be? None of this is real, anyway, so let's just leave the illusion behind and drift on back to God…
Yet, the Virgo Moon reminds us, and as any good ashram attendee knows, the Path is more disciplined devotion than free-flowing dissociation. There's chores to be done, work to be finished, and discerning checklists of practices to be completed.
Showing up to a daily practice, be it yoga, meditation, journalling, EFT, self-clearing, or just getting adequate nutrition and paying the bills on time, is how we bring our light down to earth.
In the doing, we find the bliss.
I'm the sort of Piscean who forgets I've left the pan on the stove until the whole house fills with smoke (and my partner, an ever-so-practical triple Earth, turns it off).
Earthing has never been my strong point. In my mind, life is a veritable playground of rich visions and inspired potential.
Reality often gets in the way.
I prayed recently to be more connected to God, and got the bemused reply that I actually need to be more fully human.
This week I came face to face with a core wound: the impulse to escape from the world. I've been rebelling and armouring myself against life on Earth, and now it's time to devote to being here.
To drop the divine discontent, and commit to the earthly journey. Which looks like being in my body, and being of service to others.
The Full Moon falls in my seventh house of partnership, clients and relationships. With Virgo here, I'd prefer to outsource the details of reality to others, when what I really need is to use Virgoan discernment, healing and practicality in my relationships with others. This Moon is showing me that my relationship is a path to wholeness, my clients need me to use my gifts to serve them in practical ways, and I am made whole by "doing the things," and connecting to the earth and her medicine.
To find out where the Full Moon falls for you, click here.
So, I asked my earthly plant teachers for some advice: How can I best serve others with my gifts? They answered like an amusingly Virgoan life coach:
Get out of your own way, and give them. :)
The tools are in your hands. It's up to you to use them:
Yoga. EFT. Journalling. Self-clearing. Nutrition. Movement. Sound. Breath-work... Do something from this list, every day.
You're not ENTITLED to heaven on earth…. You have to create it yourself.
Ritual. Habit. Routine. That is how great visions are made real on earth. The doing of the work.
As much as it would be nice, it won't fall from the sky...
Create it. Choose it. Do it.
We hand you back your power.
So, humbled, and brought back down to earth, it's time to utilise the Virgoan superpower of making a habit to create the bliss we want.
Clear and align the body, mind and soul.
Show up to the daily tasks.
Find the beauty in doing the work.
Keep at it until it's done.
In practical terms:
Journal, speak and think your intentions. Every day, as if they've already happened, as often as you can.
Clear your shit. Use EFT, kinesiology, self-clearing, or whatever tools you have on hand to tweak and align your own energy, as needed, whenever those blocks arise.
Think with your heart. Bring your awareness down from your head and into your heart - only there will you find the answers you need about the direction you need to take.
Take action in reality. Pay attention to the details of life, fulfil the requirements of the physical world, and do the things that need to be done.
Stretch and move your body. You don't have to run a marathon, or be a yogic master: just bring your presence into your limbs, your spine, and your joints. Keep the energy flowing and get mobile, every day.
Eat good food, often: whatever food your body really needs (not just the stuff you crave). Stay healthy, stay nourished, look after your physical vessel, and you'll be clearing your mental, emotional and spiritual bodies at the same time.
These little tweaks, refinements and discernments will snowball into tangible shifts in your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual world.
So, you want the bliss and the magic?
Do the things. And it make it so.
Do you want to learn how to use astrology in your everyday life?
The SoulStar Collective is my cosmic mentorship community, where you'll use the wisdom of the stars to create your best life on earth.
Door are open for a limited time - so click here for all the details.


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Glass is a renewable resource that can be recycled endlessly without losing it's quality. There are many benefits to using glass to store our food and drink, it's tamper resistant, it does not affect taste and it's rigid which is important for transportation. So it is important to recycle your glass, but, while sifting through your glass recyclables, you may ask "Why do I have to separate by color?" The task of separating your brown beer bottles from your clear jam jars may seem tedious, but there is a logical explanation of why we do it.
The color of the glass depends on what type of food or drink is going into the glass. If the substance is not affected by light, it will go into a clear glass container. This is true for many substances like sauces, water and alcohol. However, other substances, like beer, would be ruined by light, so it goes into a brown glass container for protection.
The glass is colored during the manufacturing process by adding oxides colorants. Since color is so significant during the manufacturing process, color is also significant during the recycling process.
For more information on the color significance of glass, click here.
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text: I think everyone on their natural journey has experienced this "ah ha" moment in finally accepting their natural hair in all it's kinky, difficult glory. It doesn't matter if you feel like your natural doesn't fit you. The fact that it's growing from your scalp means that's it's for you and you're suppose to work it and flaunt it to your satisfaction.


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After being accused of sexual harassment by several women on Thursday, veteran actor Morgan Freeman has now issued a longer statement in response to the allegations.
CNN had reported that eight women said Freeman created an uncomfortable work environment with frequent sexual comments and unwanted touching. On Thursday, he issued a brief apology. Now, through his publicist Stan Rosenfield, Freeman released the following:
"I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined, in the blink of an eye, by Thursday's media reports. All victims of assault and harassment deserve to be heard. And we need to listen to them. But it is not right to equate horrific incidents of sexual assault with misplaced compliments or humor.
I admit that I am someone who feels a need to try to make women – and men – feel appreciated and at ease around me. As a part of that, I would often try to joke with and compliment women, in what I thought was a light-hearted and humorous way. Clearly I was not always coming across the way I intended. And that is why I apologized Thursday and will continue to apologize to anyone I might have upset, however unintentionally.
But I also want to be clear: I did not create unsafe work environments. I did not assault women. I did not offer employment or advancement in exchange for sex. Any suggestion that I did so is completely false."
The longer statement was issued late Friday. The accusations weren't restricted to a single environment with the alleged unwanted behavior pattern taking place across movie sets, during media interviews or working at his production company Revelations Entertainment.
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Contacting Realtors and lending firms is what's required to get the word out about your service, high quality work in addition to prior expertise is what many of those business professionals will probably be looking for in a brand new start up company, you will want to bid on the jobs in addition to show that you've got all the correct licenses.
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The Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow conducts a further training course for persons who are not students of AFA within "Open Academy", i.e. open-type studies which are a form of continuous education.
The curriculum is of open nature and it is designed for all interested persons above 18 years old. Classes at the "Open Academy" are held during the entire academic year two days per week (on Saturdays and Sundays), from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. in the studios of the Faculty of Painting at Pl. Matejki 13.
The scope of the educational programme includes such issues as: nude study, still life, composition on prescribed topic and consultations of home-made works.
Cost per day amounts to 60 PLN (6 h)
Payments should be made at the cash desk or on the Academy's bank account No:
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The proof of payment should be shown to the teaching assistant each time before the commencement of classes.
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Smear Tactics of the National Post: Correspondence with Paul Russell and Jonathan Kay, February 17-21, 2010/
On February 14, 2010 I gave an invited lecture on "Media Self-Censorship and the Threat of Government Censorship" at the Islamic Society of York Region's Crescent Centre in Richmond Hill, a suburb of Toronto. My talk received hostile coverage in the National Post in an article by Joseph Brean published on February 16—to which I responded in a letter to the editor, sent very early the next morning.
My ensuing correspondence with two National Post editors is of some interest for what it reveals about the ethics of this newspaper. Letters editor Paul Russell stated on February 17 that he would print my letter (though not until after the 18th), and Jonathan Kay agreed that I was owed a right of reply. In the interim, the National Post printed on February 17 a letter which attributed to me an opinion Brean's article had snidely insinuated must be part of my belief system—and on that basis made a direct accusation of antisemitism. On the afternoon of February 21, by which time it was obvious that my original letter had been flushed down the memory hole, I wrote again to Paul Russell and Jonathan Kay. The last text here is Paul Russell's two-sentence message of apology (if that's what it is).
Cyril Connolly wrote in The Unquiet Grave that "Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signalling to be let out." One might say, by analogy, that within each of these two editors of the National Post a person of some decency was making rather pallid efforts—not, alas, sustained—to make himself visible.
Smear Tactics of the National Post: Correspondence with Paul Russell and Jonathan Kay, February 17-21, 2010
1. Michael Keefer to Paul Russell (Letters editor), February 17, 2010
From: Michael Keefer
Sent: Wed 17/02/2010 1:42 a.m.
To: Letters (National Post)
Subject: Letter to the editor (responding to Joseph Brean's Feb. 16 comments on me)
Joseph Brean's report on my talk at the Islamic Society of York Region's Crescent Centre illustrates very neatly some of the points I made about systematic omission, distortion, and deception in the news.
Mr. Brean wished elsewhere in his article to insinuate that an Iranian video shown earlier in the evening had stupidly exposed warlike nuclear ambitions on Iran's part. Naturally, then, he avoided mentioning that one of my examples of media falsehood was the deployment against Iran of the same lies about WMDs that were used to legitimize the invasion of Iraq in 2003—this despite the 2006 US National Intelligence Estimates, which declared that Iran was at least a decade away from being able to produce key components of a nuclear weapon. (The IAEA's rigorous inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities have of course never found any sign of a weapons program.)
I referred also to scientific analyses, published in the online Journal of 9/11 Studies, which show unequivocally that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by planned demolition—and noted, as one of my examples of deception-by-omission, that the corporate media have avoided mentioning these very newsworthy studies. Mr. Brean also managed not to mention their existence.
As for the Toronto 18 group, its only two or three members who had dangerously fanatical ideas had been under close surveillance for years. The group as such was assembled by one police agent, given the idea of making bombs by a second, and provided with expertise, financial assistance, and materials by a third. Until Mr. Brean can propose a better name for this pattern of events, "police frame-up" will do just fine.
Michael Keefer
2. Paul Russell to Michael Keefer (and replies), February 17
Letters (National Post) wrote (Feb 17, 6:10 a.m.):
Thanks for your letter. It will be considered for upcoming editions
Paul Russell
Letters editor
Michael Keefer wrote (Feb 17, 12:04 p.m.):
Dear Paul,
Thanks for your quick reply.
My text is perhaps longer than you normally print in the letters column. However, I do think the National Post owes me the right to respond to Mr. Brean's remarks about me.
Would that fall more under Jonathan Kay's editorial responsibilities than yours? I'll send him a copy of my letter.
Michael Keefer
p.s. I note that for some reason the apostrophes have dropped out of my text in the form you have it. I'm re-sending it to you as an attachment to this message.
Letters (National Post) wrote:
I'm planning to run your letter, so no concerns.
Michael Keefer wrote (Feb 17, 2:32 p.m.):
Dear Paul,
Many thanks.
Letters (National Post) wrote:
Thanks, and FYI, there is no room tomorrow.
3. Michael Keefer to Jonathan Kay (and replies)
Michael Keefer wrote (Feb 17, 12:22 p.m.):
Dear Jonathan,
I'm attaching a copy of a letter I wrote in response to Joseph Brean's February 16 column, in which I received his unflattering attentions at some length.
I sent the letter last night to the Post's letters page, and received a very prompt response from Paul Russell. I've replied to him saying that I would guess my text is longer than the Post usually publishes on its letters page—but that I do think the Post owes me a right of reply.
I also guessed that right-of-reply issues might be your editorial responsibility, and said I'd send my letter to you: I've attached it to this message. (For some reason, all the apostrophes dropped out of the version that Paul has.
Best wishes,
Kay, Jonathan (National Post) wrote (Feb 17, 12:30 p.m.):
Let me talk to the letters editor
I think you should have the right to respond ...
4. Michael Keefer to Paul Russell and Jonathan Kay (and reply), February 21
From: Michael Keefer
Sent: Sun 21/02/2010 4:29 p.m.
To: Letters (National Post); Kay, Jonathan (National Post)
Subject: Re: Letter to the editor (responding to Joseph Brean's Feb. 16 comments on me)
Dear Paul and Jonathan,
Unless I've been more than usually unobservant, the National Post hasn't run my letter. I would guess now, since we'll soon be five days on from the time I sent it in, that it's not going to be published in the Post. So much, then, for the right to reply.
I don't reproach either of you, but I do reproach whoever countermanded the good intentions you expressed in your notes to me.
In my letter, dated on the 16th but actually sent very early on the morning of the 17th, I replied just to Joseph Brean's article.
But let me draw your attention to the little twist the Post gave to the story by publishing on the 17th a letter from a person in Thornhill who asserted that Brean "quotes Michael Keefer as saying 9/11 was a planned demolition run by Americans (which was obviously a product of the all-powerful Zionist lobby in Washington)."
Most if not all readers will understand that sentence to mean that everything after "as saying" was actually quoted by Joseph Brean from the talk I gave. Not so: Brean didn't quote the bracketed words from me, for the very good reason that I said nothing of the sort.
Of course, without the implication that I blamed 9/11 on "the all-powerful Zionist lobby in Washington," the direct accusation of antisemitism in the person-from-Thornhill's last sentence wouldn't work quite as smoothly. (Unless one has something plausibly antisemitic to start with, it's a long jump to the blood libel.)
The profound indecency here isn't Joseph Brean's—he was just doing his job, which seems to consist of repeated exercises in what I've termed "subtractive politicizing." Nor should it be laid at the door of the letter writer with the Passover-Seder-hymn name, who's probably no more than a clever schoolboy.
The real indecency is on the part of a newspaper that amuses itself by dancing in the waltz-time of Two Smears-No Reply.
Letters (National Post) wrote:
I'm sorry, but while Jonathan and I generally supported the idea of running your letter, other senior editors had concerns with it, and hence its lack of publication. But thanks for your note and your observations about the other letter.
Paul Russell
NP letters editor


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If you are into yoga, hiking and eco-tourism then you will love this new budget-friendly yoga retreat/eco-lodge right in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle, near Kandy. I've been here since the beginning of July, as a yoga teacher, and I've been really enjoying my stay. Let me tell you all about it.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Affordable Hiking and Yoga Retreat in Sri Lanka's Best Eco-Lodge
If you are into yoga, hiking and eco-tourism then you will love this new budget-friendly yoga retreat/eco-lodge right in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle, near Kandy. I've been here since the beginning of July, as a yoga teacher, and I've been really enjoying my stay. Let me tell you all about it.
Sunday, July 14, 2019
What is the BEST Yoga Teacher Training in India? My TOP 10 List
If you are looking for the best yoga teacher training in India then this blog is for you. I created this TOP 10 list based on my own personal experience, on friends recommendations and also on people's reviews. It includes 200-hour, 300-hour or even 500-hour yoga TTC in Rishikesh, Goa, Dharamsala and more.
Friday, July 12, 2019
Sri BNS Iyengar: a Hidden Treasure in Mysore [Biography]
In this blog, you can find a brief biography of Guruji BNS Iyengar, a senior yoga master based in Mysore. This bio is courtesy of Andrew Eppler, who directed the documentary Mysore Yoga Traditions, and of Kanchen Mala of Mysore Krishnamacharr Yoga Shala.
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Learning the Secrets of Yoga with Guruji BNS Iyengar in Mysore
This February I was very fortunate to join a yoga philosophy and pranayama course with the living legend, BNS Iyengar, in Mysore. It was a priceless experience and I'm really excited to share it with you. Studying with Guruji felt like traveling back in time to learn the secrets of this traditional and authentic yoga, old-school style.
Monday, April 22, 2019
My Six Months Yoga Journey in India [Mysore and Rishikesh]
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Yoga Therapy and its Basis in Ayurveda [with Sanskrit Quotes]
In this interview, Dr. Ashutosh, the director of an ashram in India, talks about yoga as a tool for mental, physical and spiritual health. With a good sense of humor, and quoting Sanskrit texts, he explains what is yoga therapy, its basis in Ayurveda, and how these two sciences relate to modern medicine.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Inteyoga: Best Budget Yoga Therapy Training in India [Review]
I recently came to know about Swami Krishnananda Yogashala (Inteyoga), a small ashram in Mysore. One of my friends did their yoga therapy course and he loved it.
It's not just an affordable yoga therapy training in India, and a Yoga TTC. It's like a one-month intensive retreat, in an ashram setting, and it has excellent reviews (4.5 stars).
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Top 7 Yoga and Ayurveda Retreats in Kerala [With Reviews]
You asked for it, so finally, here it is! My curated list of the best yoga and Ayurveda retreats in Kerala. Only the best wellness retreats, based on personal experience and people's reviews [minimum 4.5 stars]. If you've been searching for an affordable health and yoga retreat in Kerala that people love, then this Top 7 list is for you.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Interview with Kushal Ram, Ashtanga Yoga Teacher in Mysore
Kushal Ram is one of the newest and youngest ashtanga yoga teachers in Mysore, India. He started teaching ashtanga yoga in Mysore just four years ago, but in such a short time he has already attracted many loyal and regular students. They praise his teaching skills, and his popularity keeps growing day by day.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Why You Need to Study the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Bethel Redding's Liturgical Prayer to the God of Mammon/
It seems this is what we should expect from NAR Prosperity Preacher, Bill Johnson:
Click on this recent episode of Fighting for the Faith to hear a little bit of Bill Johnson's Scripture twisting. Here's a recent episode about fellow Bethel Prosperity Preacher, Kris Vallotton: I See Rich People. For a LOT more information about Bill & Bethel check out this: The Bill Johnson Cornucopia of False Teaching, Bible-Twisting and General Absurdity
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Kim.. we have the same thing near us..pizza and take-away boxes in a row in the carpark where the boy racers line up at night.. no action.. then they fine us for parking a long vehicle in two bays and only buying one (expensive) commercial ticket at twice the car rate.. as you can tell.. not a happy husband! xxReplyDelete
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I nice spot of people watching, shame to see some louts as well.ReplyDelete
I bet the girls loved that Wendy House.
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With boys never had a Wedny house!!!
It was lovely- it had little gingham curtains and flower boxes and a stable door! We put a HUGE red bow on it when it was built for them!ReplyDelete
I know the feeling with the wendy house, one job always have a list of other jobs that need to be done first and then the main job doesnt get done. I have always like blue hydrangas as well and knew about the soil....just havent got round to getting one, lol maybe one day. Hope your dad has a good birthday and likes his tshirts....and the chicken should have been good after waiting so long for it :)ReplyDelete


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The cost of Illegal workers to UK Businesses
A recent survey by disclosure and barring service provider uCheck reports that UK business were fined £4 million by the Home Office in July-September 2017 for employing illegal workers.
Business owners could face an unlimited fine and a 5-year prison sentence if they knowingly hire someone without the right to work here. And the fine for employing an illegal worker after failing to carry out adequate checks to ensure a legally entitlement to employment, is currently £20,000 per worker.
But despite this, many businesses appear willing to take the risk. The uCheck report, designed to gauge attitudes to illegal workers, surveyed 2800 business owners and found 33.1% of them had sympathy for those trying to make a living - with 11% stating "they deserve the right to work here". The charity sector was found to be most empathetic, with 52.4% of the sector expressing sympathy, but the legal and public service space were not far behind with 47.4% and 43.4% respectively.
Acting on empathy is proving very costly for UK business, not only due to hefty fines. Aside from the legal costs, organisations face additional expenditure from employing illegal workers.
There is a risk of reputational damage which could prove catastrophic. Clients and customers trust is critical to successful operations, and the scandal of an immigration investigation could result in people taking their business elsewhere.
Many companies have faced temporary halting of business, and therefore loss of profit, because of an investigation or even a raid from immigration enforcement officers. Having to shut down during a profitable time is not only expensive, but also stressful and unpleasant for all involved.
Inadequate safeguarding as well as costly health and safety issues may also arise from employing illegal workers. Invalidated insurance policies and litigation due to on site accidents have driven many companies to bankruptcy.
Compliance is the key to ensuring that your business is protected from inadvertently hiring illegal workers. By ensuring that the correct right to work checks are carried out before employment, you will be able to prove that you have not knowingly employed someone without the right to work here in the event of an investigation. Retain evidence of employees right to work and ensure that all documents are kept up to date.


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VIDEOS & PHOTOS: Counter Protesters Shoo Off Confederate Supporters in Downtown Denton
On Saturday morning in Downtown Denton, a group of Confederate supporters from out of town gathered next to the Confederate monument. The group said they were informed of the demonstration last minute via a Facebook event created by Troyce Hendricks and Carol Mize.
One demonstrator said that they travel around the United States to support the Constitution and our history. There were approximately a dozen Confederate supporters in Downtown Denton this morning.
James Del Brock, the organizer of a group called Hiway Men, said that a group of people came in from Arkansas for this demonstration. They wore bright yellow shirts that said "The HiwayMen." Del Brock said that his group was at the Charlottesville protests as well.
About an hour into their demonstration, counter protesters showed up. A Denton police officer said there were about 50 counter protesters that showed up.
Supporters of the Confederacy left and the counter protesters followed them out around 1:00 PM despite the fact that their event page said it would last until 2:00 PM.
The weekly rally against the Confederate monument in Denton will take place again this Sunday from 6 - 8 PM in the same spot. The Confederate Demonstrators were not aware of tomorrow's event, one of the Hiway Men said.
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Shifting the balance of power
Poverty at its root is a question of power – more specifically, of powerlessness. Drawing on his recent trip to Senegal, George Williams considers whether improving the overall efficiency of value chains and developing new markets for producers can lead not only to increases in income, but also to shifts in the balance of power.
It is well-known that having more money can, in itself, be an important route to increased power. Among other things, money can help give people access to information, expand life choices, enable people to plan beyond the day-to-day, develop capacity to invest for the future, and allow people to build social safety nets such as savings and assets that can be sold during times of crisis. But in what ways do value chain and market development initiatives challenge long-standing, structural imbalances of power? This is a question I often find myself asking and one which I've talked about before in a previous blog.
In September, I visited our 'Juicing Justice for Farmers' project in Senegal. As part of the project, we're working with producers in the southern Casamance region of the country who harvest fruits and other non-timber forest products from the wild forests. When we first started working with these producers, they explained to us that they were beholden to the terms set by local, informal traders known as 'Bana-Banas', who came to their villages to source product. The producers knew that the Bana-Banas' prices were far lower than what they could get if they took the produce to market themselves – but due to their limited means of transport, the highly perishable nature of their goods and their desperate need for cash, they had little choice but to accept the terms offered.
Two-and-a-half years later, discussions with producers suggest that for some at least, this situation is changing. It's not a picture-postcard of transformative change, but there are positive examples that can be built on and disseminated to others in the second half of the project. There's no getting away from the fact that rural infrastructure in this post-conflict setting remains a major challenge, and that producers currently lack access to financial services that would enable them to invest in transportation, although we aim to begin addressing that soon. What is apparent, though, is that the institution-building methodology used by Traidcraft Exchange and its partners is enabling producers to build up their collective voice and influence – a case of 'power with', as per the seminal typology developed by Rowlands.
Producers have organised into 'GIEs' – Groupements d'intérêt économique in French, which translates as 'Economic Interest Groups.' These groups provide producers with a collective identity that helps them to access government services and support. Just as importantly, though, the formation of GIEs also facilitates a process of collective working. One GIE we spoke with up near the Gambian border explained how earlier this year they had coordinated with other GIEs in the area and called a large meeting across six villages, to which all villagers, including the village chiefs, were invited. At the meeting they discussed the challenges they face when selling their produce, including low prices, and together they agreed to set minimum prices for two of their key 'crops': baobab and néré.
Following the meeting, the GIEs continued to work hard to ensure that their non-member neighbours understood the agreement and that they would also adhere to it. To date, the agreement has held. Villagers in the area have stuck to these minimum prices when the Bana-Banas have come to source produce, and as a result they are earning more money. To do this, the GIE members explained to us, it was critical to have the buy-in and support of village chiefs.
It was pleasantly surprising to hear how effectively the GIE members reported it had worked, though they went on to explain that there are, of course, always some villagers who undercut the agreed prices. They were adamant, though, that these constitute a small minority: examples given were of young people who want money quickly to go to a "club", and women who might need specific ingredients for cooking at the last minute.
Not only, then, have the GIEs been successful in establishing a minimum pricing scheme in their area that provides some price stability and ensures they earn more than they used to, but they have also been largely successful in ensuring that the vast majority of villagers (both GIE members and non-members) adhere to the agreement. In short, everyone in the locality selling these products benefits, and the terms of trade have shifted slightly to the producers' favour.
As we continued our research in Casamance we heard similar examples from other GIEs, with two common themes emerging from our discussions. Firstly, that it was essential to engage the local village chiefs, as having their support makes it much likelier that such agreements will be adhered to. Secondly, that these processes are much easier to implement when trading dry food crops with longer 'shelf-lives' than with highly-perishable soft fruits. Neither of these themes are surprising, but it was encouraging to hear that the GIEs who had started with the dry products had found that collective working was feasible and felt confident that they could now try something similar with perishables.
Returning to my initial question, what was exciting for me about these discussions was that they provide some evidence that value chain and market development initiatives such as the one we're implementing in Senegal can, at the same time as improving incomes for poor producers, begin to address some of the more structural power imbalances in supply chains that keep many of the world's small producers poor. In a recent external evaluation of another Traidcraft Exchange project the authors referred to our work as using "a holistic approach combining the market development approach and asset-based community development approach." This captures it quite neatly for me: Traidcraft Exchange seeks to use 'market development' to enable small producers to take advantage of commercial opportunities and to increase efficiencies and profitability across value chains, but at the same time we use 'community development' to ensure that small producers have the collective voice and influence to affect the terms on which they trade. Working in this way enables producers to capture more of the added value released through improved efficiency and profitability.
The combination of these two ways of working is critical to our ambition to 'transform trade', as evidenced by some of the GIEs we're working with in Senegal. Whilst in the grand scheme of things it may not seem like much, a small shift in the balance of power for the producers of Senegal's Casamance seems to me to be a significant and highly encouraging step.
George Williams is Traidcraft Exchange's Impact and Learning Manager.


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Welcome to page 3 of Reef Aquarium Farming News. This page is dedicated to and celebrates the wonderful Xenia. This soft coral has more forms, colors, and interesting movements than any other family of corals. Xenia has proven to be an excellent aquaculture candidate, because of all the popular corals, only Xenia is so incredibly hard to import from the wild. As a hobby we are very lucky that Xenia strains can be domesticated. It is well documented that each generation of copies produces a stronger clone. Here at GARF we are working on no less than 16 distinct strains of pulsing Xenia and during the next semester we will make a concerted effort to trade for more types.
I want to take a moment to thank all the people who have traded corals with us during last semester. If we have not contacted you about a trade we thank-you and urge you to call 208-344-6163 because there are many people on our call back list. We have been trying to get back to each and every person who has offered to trade but a call to remind us that you have some corals for trade will be greatly appreciated.
We are happy to announce Reef Aquarium Farming Seminar 2000 October 21- 22, 2000. This will be the BIG one! We will cut all kinds of corals and many of the talks will be about marketing. Plan to attend next October and you will be able to meet people from whom you can purchase rare brood stock. Many people who want to purchase corals from you will be waiting to meet you in Boise for an intense course on reef farming. Please call us at 1-800-600-6163 so we can mail you more details SAVE A REEF - GROW YOUR OWN
It is hard to believe how fast a month goes by when playing in ones indoor reef. Winter is gone and spring is here. I find myself fighting between spending time with my reef and wanting to weed and plant my garden. This past month was a roller coaster ride for me. The constant pain of my spine controlled most of my days and I ended up with another surgery this past weekend. I have to smile at myself, because when I was lying on the operating table, I was thinking what it must feel like being a coral. Usually the Doctors put me out before rolling me into the operating room however this time they did not. I could hear vividly everything they were discussing before they finally put me to sleep. It really made me think of what our animals go through before the operation. Lets see lets cut this one here, lets move this one over here, lets use this tool, this guys is touching this guy so we have to give him more room. You get the picture.
All I knew about this pink colored Xenia was that it was a wild animal that came all the way from Fiji. I had dreamed about this Xenia, I had my heart set on the perfect spot to place it in my show tank. I worked out a scheme all night long on how I was going to get a piece of that animal without LeRoy knowing. I did not want to get caught again with my hands in his tank. I knew this to be a very delicate animal and one we wanted to survive but had very little success with. I went into work early the next morning making certain I arrived before LeRoy:)
I went straight to the tank that housed this lovely creature, but I was deeply saddened when I looked into the tank. The animal seemed to be melting away. Polyps were being blown across the tank and the mother colony was nothing but a slimy blob that was dying. I decided right than and there I was not going to let this animal die so quickly I was going to catch some of these polyps and try my luck at keeping it in my tank. For maybe if I love it enough it will live!
Mind you we had tired to glue pieces of our pervious strains with no luck and no one was willing to share their secrets so I had to think fast. It was at about this moment that LeRoy walked into the office, he too must have been thinking about this animal for I saw his heart drop that yet another Xenia had met it's fate at GARF. I did not have the heart at this point to tell him that I had rescued a couple of polyps and had them securely fasten in my show tank. All I heard him say was that we would never get any more Xenia for they just were not meant to be in Boise Idaho.
One of the orignal polyps in LeRoy's 135 one is still allive. The other one was a mystery for a while. I walked into the office and LeRoy was so upset one of his xenias was gone, he was trying to figure out who took it, and of course he had to ask me first for I am usually at fault. I swore up and down that I did not move it or take it. At this point LeRoy was very angry, for he knew it was there yesterday. I went to the source, the tank with the missing xenia. This is when I encountered a decorater crab that wanted to showcase this animal on his back.
After this experience I began to gain the confidence that was needed to learn about this animal and its needs. I found that it needed Iodide and began to use Sea Chem Reef Plus twice a week in my tanks, and even a little more when I was cutting the animals. I would give them a swig to heal the freshly made cuts. I found that the Xenia does not like to be in a tank that has temperatures above 80 degrees. They like some water movement and will grow in any lighting.
I have domesticated them so much that they will actually move to a different place in my tanks by laying down their stock and move among the rocks until they are were they want to be. You can really tell when the Fiji Pom Pom is most happy the polyps provide a constant pulse as if it is catching nutrients from the water. We have noticed that the pulsing polyps act as fiber optics that transmit light to the center of the colony.The next Xenia I was given did not seem to have much of a fighting chance. But I think LeRoy learned by now if the animal stood a chance at all it was better off in my tank or at least in my hands. So I was not up scheming how I was going to get this animal that night. We know this Xenia as the Giant Two Colored Bali Xenia. It is not so much of a pulser, it is a fast grower but it is the hardest to propagate successfully.
We have over 13 different types of Xenia at GARF; they all have their own story and their own needs. Some of these 13 I do not have in my tanks for they grow like crazy and can become a problem in a sps tank. For one must remember, they do grow fast and they will spread like wild fire. Since starting our farm we have found that corals which we call weeds are great for farming but one must keep a handle on their growth for if left alone in a show tank that will be all you would have left in the tank. As with gardening, every garden has a weed, no matter how much you manicure it there always seems to be one more. At this point I am extremely proud of our Xenia collection.
It is a huge commitment to provide the care for so much brood-stock for one step can not be ignored or you will loose the entire crop.
It is this animal however that constantly reminds me what farming is all about. The Xenia can not pull off the netting by themselves nor can they propagate by themselves, nor can they add the proper amounts of Iodide they need or keep the tanks cool enough to survive. A farmer does not just go out on the farm and plant his seed only to forget to water it. A farmer has to keep the weeds down, plan for his next crop and work countless hours to make a living. Some days I go into the office and would love to play in the tanks but I have to pull over 300 pieces of netting off my Xenia. Or I have to sit down and cut all the netting, it reminds me that one most love what they are doing to remain committed to farming these incredible animals. I believe keeping the pH of a tank as stable as possible also helps with the Xenia pulsing.
This animal is also a great indicator about the health of a tank. If an animal is going to show signs that something is wrong with the system this is the first one to give you the signal. This past summer when LeRoy was out of the office for long periods of time I was the soul care giver to the tanks. I can walk by a tank and just look into it and know when all is right and when something is going to be deadly wrong. I walked by one of the garage tanks, the pink creeper Xenia was laying flat on the rock I knew something was wrong. I called LeRoy. If I had not walked by and paid attention all would have been lost in that system.
The power heads had stopped working and were not creating oxygen by moving the water. The stalled Power heads were heating the system. This is just another reason to love and care for these animals. To me there is no prettier animal to be displayed in a reef tank. People always point to them and can not believe their constant movement in the tank.
I have Xenia that I named the Portland Pulser. It received its name when LeRoy and I were teaching at a seminar in Portland. A man came to the meeting with a bag of these animals to trade with us. This Xenia is easy to propagate, it grows fast and it is a constant pulsar. The Portland Pulser is darker in color, it has a yellow stock, it likes light, and it spreads a great deal. I also cut this animal by removing the entire head from the stock. The stock grows a whole new head. This animal has been at GARF about three years and I am proud to report that we are many generations away from the original clone we received.
I love the way these animals reflect in the water surface. You must remember to propagate this animal or it will take over and outgrow almost any animal. It does not sting the sps corals nor do they sting it but you must keep them both in check. This animal attaches itself to the plug within seven days. The netting must be removed on time or the animal will stick to the netting and not the plug.
When removing the netting in seven days you can see two different types of Xenia. They will grow nicely together and will not harm each other. If one was to ask me how many Xenia are too many, I would say you could never have too many. It is always nice at the end of my day after cutting and attaching the Xenia; LeRoy comes to me with an empty bowl and says with a smile on his face do you have any Xenia for the poor. By this time I am so tired of propagating these creatures that there are about three different types of Xenia on the last couple of plugs. I gladly give the rest to LeRoy for his Xenia Bed Filters. I have never forgotten if I had not had that first wild polyp from his tank I would never have come as far nor risked caring for so many different types of Xenia.
I found out through all of my quests for information that Iodide was important. I had heard of people using lugals solution and many of those people ended up crashing their tanks. I found that SeaChem Reef Plus(tm) gave me the ability to not over dose. I am able to sustain a vast amount of Xenia without causing problems to any of its tank mates. One does have to remember to place the SeaChem Reef Plus(tm) in the refrigerator after opening the bottle.
The beautiful creeping Xenia grows flat and spreads over rock so it does need to be cut back for she does grow quite fast. She will outgrow other animals in the tank. This is a great addition to the coral farm project. We have found that the Xenia growing on the glass can be scraped off with a credit card. If it is growing and spreading on rock you can break off a piece of the rock and glue that rock directly on a plug. You can even drop rock with nothing on it in the middle of a growing colony and it will spread unto the rock and be ready for sharing with others in a very short period. We have a couple of strains of this Xenia. Some look very pink and are beautiful. The other creeper Xenia has a yellow tint and it is spreader and a great addition to any reef tank. You can place just about any animal next to this animal just make certain you give this guy room to grow. It is a great addition to tanks that are bigger and have a great deal of space to be filled.
We have a Reef JanitorTM special in place at this time. We are giving away a free Beautiful Pink Creeper Xenia with any janitor order.
In some of the pictures in this article you will see the racks that LeRoy has built to hold the plugs for grow out in our cutting units. LeRoy uses his cuttings as a Xenia filter for his 150-gallon unit. I have a three 40 gallon tank unit - spaced three high. It houses about 1,500 cutting. My system has an Eco sand plenum in the bottom tank; the other two tanks have bare bottoms with just the racks sitting in them. To my surprise the bottom unit with the plenum is growing dozens of Fiji Pom Poms and other Xenia right out the sand. These colonies resulted from a polyp escaping from the netting and attaching to the sand or empty shells on top of the plenum, LeRoy calls this a true Xenia filter. It is in this unit that I grow out all of my brood-stock to take the burden off of my show tanks. I can now focus on growing as many Xenia as the Foundation can use.
I can grow all different types of Xenia in the same unit and as I stated above some of the plugs have more than one on them. I have found that placing some rock up to the racks help the snails and hermits get to all places in the unit and keep the plugs algae free. Each unit holds about 12 racks, has eight 40 watt lights and has generated many babies over the one year of its operation.
When landscaping your reef you can easily place different strains in the same tank and watch them grow almost daily. The Xenia add color and movement, and they are ready for propagation in a very short period of time. If you think the animal does not look healthy look for the cause of the problem right away. We have found not adding enough Iodide to be a problem for the animals. Heat is the main problem! I don't care how you do it, you must not let the tank get over 82 degrees or the animal will look like it is melting. We keep these animals in tanks that have VHO lighting, Power Compacts, Metal Halide lighting, and 40-watt lights.
We have developed nicknames for the many types of Xenia we have in our genetic bank. One came from a coral farm that has a leather feel to it. We fondly named it the clicker. The polyps seem to click open and closed. It does not open as widely as the Pom Pom and has a very slow pulse. This animal is almost the same color as the Pom Pom but does not have the bold polyps that take your breath away. It is not a fast grower but it has a great color. It is one that would be excellent for smaller systems when one is concerned about bio-mass. We propagate this one by cutting the head off the stock and using the bridal veil netting. When placing the netting over the animal make certain polyps are face up. With this animal it is important to get several polyps with each cutting. By making bigger cuttings it seems to attach better and because it is a slower grower it makes it available for customers a little faster. We are working on getting more of these animals available for we do not have a great deal of these on hand at any given time. We have had this animal about two years.
A recent favorite Xenia is the Red Sea Xenia. This guy is another great pulsar and has grown rapidly in my oldest system. When it arrived at the Foundation LeRoy had given up any hope because you could not even see a polyp on the rock. It looked like a small reddish smudge of toothpaste.
I felt LeRoy's disappointment and placed the animal in the miracle tank. It certainly did not take long before you could see it grow and hold its own. Our intern from England could not believe that I could save this animal, and recently wrote about his experience at GARF. He is right I have propagated this animal many times over and allowed LeRoy to place them in other tanks at GARF. One of our biggest goals is to get all of the corals in as many tanks as we can for fear if we had all the eggs in one basket what would happen if we dropped the basket. The fear of owning a Xenia should be set aside. For they are very easy to care for as long as you follow the information shared in this article. We have found that there is a great deal of success working with captive raised animals and we to continue to learn as much as we can about the wild ones.
ANNUAL CORAL FARMING CONFERENCE - Oct 21 and 22
If you haven't already made plans to come to Our Annual Coral Farming Conference in October 2000, I hope you will mark your calendar. Spaces are quickly running out. We have a great list of speakers and we are planning the first ever domesticated - coral show. Judges, who are true Pioneers of this Industry, will be giving ribbons for the best of the best. The date for this event is Oct 21 and 22. The cost for the two-day event is still only $50.00. Saturday will be all day lectures following up with the coral judging. Sunday will be all day workshops at GARF. We are inviting you to look at all of our systems and learn hands on what we do all day at GARF. You can call our office 1-800-600-6163 and speak to our staff for more information. I have one additional request to ask of you. Will you please double check your e-mail address before sending us your letter? It is very frustrating and disappointing when we take the time to write a response to your letter only to find out that we could not send the answer due to improper address.
If you enjoy propagating corals and especially if you've ever thought about making extra money by farming corals you need to attend this year's coral farming 2000. Sally Jo and I were able to take some extra time this spring and summer to research coral farming around the world. Unfortunately we have had to close the foundation to the public for the first time in 14 years so that we could dedicate ourselves to reef farming research. The great news is that we will reopen to the public October 20th, 2000 just in time to greet the wonderful group of speakers and visitors who will be coming to Boise.
Coral farming 2000 is dedicated to accomplishing one of our main goals. For several years Geothermal aquaculture Research Foundation has dedicated an incredible amount of energy time and money so that we can increase the number of reef farmers and do our part to help this industry get off to a good start. During the last five years the demand for captive raised corals has increased dramatically because of education and the growing concern for the world's reefs. The hobbyists have become aware that domesticated corals strains adapt to aquariums much better than wild collected coral strains.
With this combination of the better product - domesticated corals - and the increasing concern for conservation the market for captive raised corals has never been better. Corals farming are not a get rich quick type of business. It is farming and farming takes planning and hard work. One of the most exciting things about doing a research project that lasts eight years is that you are able to build on the things you learn each season. Yes, a coral farming has seasons just like most other types of farming.
A geology professor tempted me to come back to college with an offer I could not refuse; I was able to build two fully equipped laboratories. During the next four years I maintained dozens of captive breeding pairs of Chambered Nautilus in my labs at Boise State University. It was exciting to make early history when I was able to keep chambered Nautilus in close systems for up to three years in Boise, Idaho. At one time I had 14 separate systems housing chambered Nautilus and hundreds of their eggs.
The chambered Nautilus ate fresh prawns every day and each pair ate a lot of prawns because they weighed about 9 pounds. This constant demand for prawns led me into several years of intensive research in to raising giant fresh water prawns in geothermal water. In 1984 after I had been at GARF for three years I was hired to design and build a huge geothermal Angel Fish hatchery inside of a State Penitentiary. When this hatchery was finished it housed 1200-10 gal. Aquariums, 100-300 gallon grow out tanks, and about 60-140 gallon plywood and epoxy aquariums. GARF designed and built three other tropical fish hatcheries during that same period. I was responsible for everything from the original drawings, quarantining brood stock, to the final marketing of the products. During the late 1980's and early 1990's GARF also built several other large fish hatcheries.
I teach aquaculture classes and on the first day of class I write two things on the blackboard. In large block letters I write one question and one statement.
1. What is the most important tool on your new fish farm?
2. You can never make any money growing corals.
The answer to the first question is the telephone and you can never make any money growing corals because it costs money to grow corals, you make money when you sell them.
The name of GARF's seminar CORALS FARMING 2000 could well be changed to CORAL MARKETING 2000 because we will be talking about marketing more than half of the time. We will examine several business models including wholesale, direct retail stores, mail order and Internet. Of course we will also be spending much of the time learning to propagate corals and produce brood stock corals. In 1999 we had people in Boise from five countries and several of these people are coming back to Boise for a second seminar.
If you're planning on doing any coral propagation CORAL FARMING 2000 will be the best $50 that you have ever spent. Please call our office early because although we are having this year's conference at the Airport Holiday Inn the number of attendees will be limited. Please call 1-800-600-6163 because there are many places and things to see in Idaho and like I always say "the trees will be absolutely beautiful in October."


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Recently i bought an VPS server on the Godaddy.com. The server is an linux server (Cent OS) with Cpanel. I had few issues to setup server space for my websites.
Note: My website registered in the name.com.
Below are the steps to setup a website with WHM Panel and i believe that the steps would be really helpful somebody with new WHM panel and new website.
Step 1: Create Account in the WHM for your new website.
So the first step is about to create a new account in the WHM to activate FTP, Space and all. Once you done, you can login to FTP with the credentials you had given.
And you can start transferring files for your new website. 🙂
Below video helps you create a new account on WHM for your website.
WHM -> Account Functions -> Create a New Account
Setp 2: DNS Setup
Now you need to change the DNS for your website. Unlike the shared server, the VPS servers comes with the IP's. So the DNS Setup is little more complicated here (Bcoz i got an issue on here only).
Find your IP on Godaddy.com
Login to Godaddy.com -> Go to My Account page -> Click on Servers -> Click on Launch Button
On the My server page, you will find an IP.
Once you got your IP, Go to your domain registrar website to setup DNS for your newly create website. Below one is for Name.com.
The default nameservers (ns1.secureserver.net. and ns2.secureserver.net) won't be work. So you need to create your own nameservers with the IP given by godaddy.com
I found these steps from their website(name.com) http://support.name.com/entries/21479216-How-do-I-create-custom-name-servers-glue-records-
Just read the steps, it might be same for other registrar also.
Once you register the custom nameservers, you should then be able to change the nameservers to:
Step 3: Setup DNS in the WHM
Now you need to make the following changes in the WHM,
1. Login to your WebHost Manager – username: root
2. Click DNS Functions
3. Edit DNS Zone
4. Select exploreinsta.com and click Edit
5. Change all instances of ns1.secureserver.net. to ns1.yourwebsitename.com.
6. Change all instances of ns2.secureserver.net to ns2.yourwebsitename.com.
7. Change the IP for ns2 from 220.127.116.11 to <Your IP Address>
8. Change the IP for ns1 from 220.127.116.11 to <Your IP Address>
9. Click Save
Once you done with the above steps, Click "Restart Services" -> DNS Server -> DNS Server (BIND/NSD/MyDNS)
Restart the DNS server.
Thats all. DNS changes take 24-48 hours to propagate.


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The United States is a country that has numerous attractive destinations even for the duration of the winter season. A fantastic place to immerse oneself in Golden-era Hollywood glamour, Palm Springs is house to the world's very best-preserved collection of modernist architecture The showcase event for the city's iconic design is Modernism Week , which celebrates its 10th anniversary year (12-22 February), with a host of walking tours of iconic homes and neighbourhoods.
It really is simple to see why – a effectively preserved cultural heritage, open borders and efficient infrastructure tends to make visiting Europe a breeze, and hardly ever will you have to travel far more than a few hours prior to you can immerse your self in a new culture, and dive into a various phrasebook Even though it is the world's smallest continent in land surface area, there are profound variations between the cultures and ways of life in its nations.
With its poor exchange price (up till really recently, which is an additional reason to add a spending budget European destination to your trip correct now!) and more westernized culture, it is a lot more challenging to get around Europe on the cheap than it is in other areas of the globe like Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
There will be lots to do and to see when you travel to Barcelona (famous buildings by artist Gaudi, the dramatic Gothic Quarter and constantly on the biting edge of style, architecture, food, style, music and very good instances) and Istanbul (a city beautifully combining its wealthy heritage even though embracing its future as a cosmopolitan play area exactly where all visitors from the artistic to the thrill searching for locate activities suited to them).
Seasonal flights begin on April 1, 2014 on Ryanair to Chania from Bergamo, Billund, Bologna, Bournemouth,Bremen, Bristol, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Katowice, Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted, Marseille, Memmingen, Moss/Rygge, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta, Treviso, Vilnius, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław.


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Part 2 – Fruit of Death Or Fruit of Life
In these few verses from Romans 7 (verses four, five, and six) Paul emphasizes that a life apart from Christ – the 'normal' life of spiritual death that all people are born into – is characterized by the 'production' of 'bad fruit'. It's not that fallen mankind is as evil as they could be (only the devil is utterly depraved), but there is nothing within man that causes him to desire or even enables him to do anything of ultimate God-glorifying good that pleases the perfect and holy Lord God. Humans can do good 'human' things or works, but never can produce 'good' fruit for God's glory.
But when one comes to faith in Christ, now with the Spirit of Christ living within them (and the old sinful nature being crucified), Christians are enabled to not only worship, serve, and love the Lord God (which are in themselves 'good fruit') but there is now a desire to bear good fruit through a righteous life. No believer produces nothing but good fruit – we all still fall short – but one of the grand pieces of evidence that one has truly been transformed by God's grace is that one will humbly, yet joyfully grow in Christlikeness and exhibit the production of good fruit – fruit that will last. This growth or fruit will glorify the Lord God, advance the kingdom of God, cause the Lord to smile, and obviously help us mature into Christlikeness.


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Las Vegas' highly anticipated second annual Life Is Beautiful festival will happen October 24-26, with the official line-up revealed today. Headlined by Kanye West, The Foo Fighters, Outkast, Artic Monkeys, and Skrillex, the complete line-up is as follows: Kanye West, Foo Fighters, OutKast, Arctic Monkeys, Skrillex, Lionel Richie, The Flaming Lips, The Roots, Girl Talk, [cont.]
The biggest moments from this past weekend's Coachella festival, including Outkast's first reunion performance, Nas' Illmatic set (with special guests Jay Z and Diddy), and Pharrell's hat, which includes guest shots from Busta Rhymes, Diddy, Nelly, Snoop Dogg, and Gwen Stefani.
The artist formerly known as Mick Boogie returns with a special Outkast loosies mix for your listening pleasure. We'll pass the mic to him: Greetings Earthling: Outkast, hands down, is one of my favorite groups of all time – in any genre of music. Their music set trends, defined a generation, and created a mood [cont.]
Andre 3000′s long-awaited Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side, will finally hit theaters this August, according to IMDB. Take a look at the John Ridley directed clip below, which shows the first reveal of Mr. Benjamin playing Mr. Hendrix.
In spite of their upcoming tour together, Big Boi says that there is no new LP from Outkast currently in the works.
Big Boi's collaboration with Little Dragon and Killer Mike gets a new reworking courtesy of Dungeoneze.
Coachella won't be the only time that Big Boi and Andre 3000 will perform together this year, as the duo plans a 40-date international tour in celebration of their 20th anniversary together. The official press release reads as follows: Ingenious and iconic recording artists and performers, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton and André "3000″ Benjamin today [cont.]
Strong rumors suggest Outkast will reunite at this year's Coachella fest, for the first time since their split in 2007, Billboard reports. While no official announcement has been made, Billboard says multiple sources have confirmed the rumor, suggesting that the performance would be the beginnings of a multi-show tour for the group. Reps for Outkast, [cont.]
Goodie Mob spit some bars with Schoolboy Q, then speak on the status of Andre 3000 and Outkast in the interview segment.
Well, the Outkast reunion might not be happening anytime soon, but Big Boi's taking it upon himself to remix Andre 3000′s recent collabos with Frank Ocean and T.I. Here's the Outkast remix of "Pink Matter".
Big Boi aka Daddy Fat Sacks aka Sir Lucious Left Foot aka one half of the mighty OutKast stopped by the VICE offices to entertain all the good little girls and boys with Dr. Seuss's Christmas time classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Big Boi sits in with The Breakfast Club. Although the interview gets off to an awkward start, Big Boi touches upon the usual topics – the lack of an Outkast reunion, the meaning behind his new album title, Future's early career with The Dungeon Family, Janelle Monet's next album, Ice-T & Coco, and more.
Big Boi introduces himself on Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors as one half of Outkast, and while he and Andre 3000 have taken different creative paths, Big Boi's solo work is proving he is more than capable of holding his own. This is technically his second solo effort, a follow-up to 2010's Sir Lucious Left-Foot, [cont.]
Out Da Box TV caught up with Big Boi (Of Outkast) for a brief interview. He speaks on his upcoming album entitled "Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors" and tells us how he continues to stay motivated and successful in the music business today. He says that he has "a vault full" of unreleased music in [cont.]
"Some days I feel like I'll do it, some days I don't. Some days I feel like I don't need to, some days I feel like I want to do it before I die. So, I don't know where to fall. I am just hoping one day I get that inspiration," he said at an [cont.]
Andre 3000 spoke with Fuse about his new track with T.I., as well as the possibility of Outkast reuniting for another LP. He basically stated that a reunion is possible, but when it happens, you will hear it directly from them, not from….THE INTERNET.
Big Boi sits in with Sana G of Power 106, to speak on his new album, Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors. He says the album will feature guest appearances from ASAP Rocky, Ludacris, T.I., Little Dragon, Kelly Rowland, B.O.B. and more. No mention (yet) of Andre 3000….
VICIOUS LIES AND DANGEROUS RUMORS is Big Boi's long-awaited follow-up to Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, set for a release on December 11th. It's the follow up to the first stand-alone solo album from the Outkast MC, released July 2010 on Purple Ribbon/Def Jam. The album spun off Big Boi's first [cont.]
In a recent interview with Billboard, Big Boi updates fans on the status of Outkast, and also what happened to those two mysterious 'Kast collabos that were to appear on Frank Ocean and T.I.'s albums. "Dre didnt want an Outkast Record Coming out on anybody else LP," he said. "To give away a full OutKast [cont.]
Here's a little exclusive for you. Manik and I remixed Outkast's "SpottieOttieDopalicious" for the big room.
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Upcoming Lessons & Parties
New Oct-Nov Schedule
Lessons start Oct.1st!
ArubaSalsa's new season is about to start and we have lots of awesome new lessons!
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- Monday at 6:30pm or Friday at 6:30pm
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We are super excited to announce a new course dedicated to mommies-to-be… Dancing Bellies!
Starting on Tuesday, October 9th at 6:30 pm, expecting mommies-to-be can now enjoy dancing lessons tailored especially for them! These classes are given by the co-owner of ArubaSalsa Melitza, who is also expecting!
The lessons are given 2 times a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6:30pm at Emotions. Drop in classes are Afl.25 per person, or Afl.150 per person for 8 classes.