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Spending time in jail is no fun anywhere, but each society has its own cultural refinements of misery. The sadistic imagination of Chinese prison authorities, though hardly unique, is often remarkable. But so is that of the inmates themselves, who form their own hierarchies, their own prisons within prisons.
At the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau Investigation Center, for example, also known as the Song Mountain Investigation Center, the cell bosses devised an exotic menu of torments. A few samples:
SICHUAN-STYLE SMOKED DUCK: The enforcer burns the inmate's pubic hair, pulls back his foreskin and blackens the head of the penis with fire. Or:
NOODLES IN A CLEAR BROTH: Strings of toilet papers are soaked in a bowl of urine, and the inmate is forced to eat the toilet paper and drink the urine. Or:
TURTLE SHELL AND PORK SKIN SOUP: The enforcer smacks the inmate's knee caps until they are bruised and swollen like turtle shells. Walking is impossible.
There are other tortures, too, meted out in a more improvised manner. Liao Yiwu, in his extraordinary prison memoir, "For a Song and a Hundred Songs" (translated from the Chinese by Wenguang Huang; New Harvest), describes the case of a schizophrenic woodcutter who had axed his own wife, because she was so emaciated that he took her for a bundle of wood. The cell boss spikes the woodcutter's broth with a laxative, and then refuses to let him use the communal toilet bucket, with the result that the desperate man shits all over a fellow-inmate. As a punishment for this disgusting transgression, his face is smashed into a basin. The guards, assuming that he has tried to commit suicide, a prison offense, then work him over with a stun baton.
Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States in 1831 to study the country's prison system, and ended up writing "Democracy in America." Observing the Chinese prison system from the inside, from 1990 to 1994, as a "counterrevolutionary" inmate, Liao Yiwu tells us a great deal about Chinese society, both traditional and Communist, including the impact of revolutionary rhetoric, forced denunciations and public confessions, and, as times have changed since Mao's misrule, criminal forms of capitalism. He ends his account by saying that "China remains a prison of the mind: prosperity without liberty."
Liao was incarcerated for writing a poem, "Massacre"—a long stream-of-consciousness memorial to the thousands of people who were killed on June 4, 1989, when the pro-democracy movement was crushed throughout China. The poem, in its English translation by Michael Day, begins as follows:
And another sort of massacre takes place at utopia's core
The Prime Minister catches cold, the people must cough; martial law declared
again and again.
The toothless machinery of the state rolls towards those who have the courage to
resist the sickness.
Liao was not a political activist, or, strictly speaking, a dissident, and his resistance had a spontaneous quality. Politics didn't interest him much, even during the nineteen-eighties, when many young Chinese thought of little else. He led a rather dissolute life, wandering from place to place as a "well-dressed hypocrite, a poet who portrayed himself as a positive role model but all the while breathed in women like I was breathing air, seeking shelter and warmth in random sex."
Like many Chinese who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, Liao was more or less self-educated in literature, although he received a grounding in the Chinese classics from his father, a schoolteacher. His memoir is sprinkled with the names of Western writers—Orwell, Kundera, Proust—some of whose works penetrated even the prison walls in Chongqing. Among them, amazingly, was Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four." In Liao's words, "On the page was an imaginary prison, while all around me was the real thing."
Unlike his friend Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Prize-winning critic and a writer with strong political convictions, Liao never wished to stick his neck out. He describes himself as an artist who simply wanted to be free to write in any way he liked. As recently as 2011, he told the journalist Ian Johnson, "I don't want to break their laws. I am not interested in them and wish they weren't interested in me." But, in 1989, he put himself "on a self-destructive path" by performing his poem in bars and dance clubs, howling and chanting in the traditional manner of Chinese mourning. A recording of the poem was distributed informally, and a film, entitled "Requiem," was made of his recitation by a group of sympathetic artists and friends. None, according to Liao, could be classified as "dissidents" or "democracy fighters." But they were all arrested, their work confiscated, and thus "the Public Security Bureau destroyed a vibrant underground literary community in Sichuan."
Liao's time in prison didn't turn him into an activist, either. He was approached at one point by a fellow-"89er," who planned to start an organization of political prisoners. Liao refused to take part, and explained the reason for his having written "Massacre" in the first place. He "was compelled to protest," he said, because "the state ideology conflicted violently with the poet's right of free expression." To this, he added in his memoir, "I never intended to be a hero, but in a country where insanity ruled, I had to take a stand. 'Massacre' was my art and my art was my protest."
Several famous dissidents have written vividly about their prison experiences. Wei Jingsheng's "The Courage to Stand Alone" is an account of eighteen years spent in prisons after he helped lead the Democracy Wall movement, in the nineteen-seventies. Harry Wu's "Bitter Winds" describes his ordeal in forced-labor camps in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Their heroic stories bear a strong political message of standing up to dictatorship. Liao is a literary man, and this actually makes his prison memoir even more compelling. For one thing, he is ruthlessly candid about his weaknesses, and his fears. There is nothing especially heroic about him. Watching the guards in combat training on his first day in prison, he "shuddered like a nervous rat." Forced to sing songs over and over again with a parched throat in the freezing cold to entertain the guards, he is beaten with an electric baton. When he cannot go on any longer, he is stripped and wrestled to the ground: "I could feel the baton on my butthole, but I refused to surrender. The tip of the baton entered me. I screamed and then whimpered in pain like a dog." Liao tried to commit suicide twice, once by bashing his head against the wall. This elicited ridicule from his cellmates, who accused him of playacting, something they thought typical of a bookish poet. If he had really wanted to smash his skull, he should have made sure to use the wall edge.
Liao describes very precisely what it is like to be in constant fear, to live in a cramped cell with so many other men that there is barely room to lie down, and to be starved of proper food, and sex. One ravenous inmate caught a rat, skinned it alive, and ate it raw. Another stuffed his mouth from a bucket of slop. Sex goes on, but in a debased form. A prisoner almost burned his bed down by masturbating to a cigarette lighter that, when lit, showed a picture of a naked woman. And one man got carried away with lust at the sight of a soap-opera star on TV. Liao saw men crowd around a window, the cell boss hoisted onto the shoulders of his slaves, as they jacked off while trying to catch a glimpse of a female outside. A young man was raped by the cell boss, fell in love with him, and was dismissed with a smack in the face when the boss became impotent.
One of the less creditable reasons we read prison memoirs such as this one with horrified fascination is that the torments of others can have a lurid pornographic appeal. But what makes Liao's work so riveting is his gift for observation. Despite his own suffering, he is endlessly curious about others, their characters, their stories, and how they cope with the terrors of prison life. His encounters with other prisoners are skillfully transformed into short stories. Since some of these men are facing execution, the stories are often about dealing with imminent death. A heroin smuggler nicknamed Dead Chang wants to borrow Liao's atlas in preparation for his next life as a wandering ghost. Dead Chang got lost too many times in his present life, and wishes to visit his favorite haunts after he is dispatched with a bullet to the neck. Being told by this condemned man that they might meet again in the next world, Liao finds that his "limbs were quivering." Dead Chang asks him whether he is O.K., and "let out a sinister laugh. The deep crease between his eyebrows seemed to have opened up like a mouth, ready to swallow me."
Some of the prisoners were featured in another remarkable book by Liao, first published in Taiwan as "Interviews with People from the Bottom Rungs of Society" (2001), and in the U.S. as "The Corpse Walker" (2008). Among them is an illiterate peasant who declared his native village to be an independent monarchy, with himself as the emperor. For this act of counterrevolutionary subversion, he was locked up for life. What fascinates Liao about this "peasant emperor" is that his fantasies are derived from Chinese classics. One of his claims is that a yellow ribbon bearing his imperial name was discovered inside a fish. When Liao points out that this ruse was used by a peasant rebel two thousand years ago to trick people into following him, the emperor tells him to shut up: "It's awfully rude of you to talk to Your Majesty this way. Your Majesty knows that you are a journalist in disguise and have been sent from the hostile kingdom of China. You have attempted to conspire with the prison authorities to lure me into giving you incriminating evidence."
Literature can serve as an escape, as when Liao drifts into memories of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." He identifies in particular with one of the characters, Colonel Buendia, who loses his mind after being tied to a chestnut tree for many years. Like the Colonel, Liao retreats into his own mind. At other times, literary works illustrate the most primitive aspects of prison existence. Liao recalls Milan Kundera's definition, in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," of totalitarian kitsch as "the absolute denial of shit." Liao writes that he cannot raise human feces to a higher level of metaphor: "In this ordinary memoir of mine, shit is shit. I keep mentioning it because I almost drowned in it." This is quite literally true; as a newcomer in a cell, or if he had lost favor with one of the cell bosses, he would have to sleep with his face next to the toilet bucket.
And yet he can't resist using shit metaphorically, as in his statement that he is living "in the shitty pigsty called China." Sickness, too, is elevated to metaphor: "If China were a patient suffering from colon cancer, the city of Chongqing would be the filthy terminus of the colon, a diseased anus." Prison is frequently described in his book as a prison within the giant prison of a diseased Chinese society, a grotesque mirror of the political institutions and rhetoric of the People's Republic of China.
The language of Maoism, now almost as ingrained in Chinese life as Confucian maxims once were, and often used in a similar way, crops up again and again in prison conversations. Inmates sometimes use Mao's dictums sarcastically, as when the unfortunate woodcutter, after having imbibed the laxative, is prevented from getting to the toilet bucket: "Without discipline and rules," they taunt him, "revolution will not succeed." Sometimes Mao is quoted in earnest. A cell boss who is sympathetic to Liao warns him against cultivating the friendship of a fellow-intellectual: "Don't be too bookish. . . . Remember what Chairman Mao said about class struggles—never let your guard down against your class enemy."
Quite apart from Maoist sentiments, it is the Chinese system of government that is replicated inside the prison. This owes something to Leninist Party organization, but a great deal to more traditional practices as well. When Liao first enters the Song Mountain Investigation Center, his cell boss explains how things work. He likens the cell hierarchy to the Politburo and the Central Military Commission, whose members are above the common people. They can do anything they please. But, to maintain order, they must impose absolute unity in the cell. The first sign of rebellion will be crushed without mercy. However, the boss says, echoing centuries of Confucian doctrine, the rulers cannot be too harsh: "We need to let the people beneath us feel that we are like their parents." When Liao objects, quoting Chairman Mao's saying that the people are the parents of the Party, the boss shows a better understanding of Chinese reality: "That's goddamned nonsense! If a thief here wishes to have a nice filling meal, it's up to me to decide."
Not surprisingly, the prison authorities also model their methods on common practices in the People's Republic. The use of political campaigns, for example. Inmates at the Investigation Center were forced to take part in an annual campaign called "Confess Your Own Crimes and Report on Others." Formal rallies were held in the courtyard, just as in Maoist times, with much chanting of political slogans and long speeches made by police and prison officials. Many hours were devoted to writing confessions and denunciations. Cell bosses were encouraged to pick the juiciest items from their menu of torments for those whose keenness to confess or tell on others was judged to be inadequate.
This tactic, too, is a toxic combination of tradition and modern innovation. Ritual confession was always part of Confucian justice. Being forced to report on others, though hardly unknown in the past, is a totalitarian refinement designed to break all trust among people, so that their only loyalty will be to the Party. Liao writes that confess-and-report campaigns were so rough that several people died under torture. When things threatened to get seriously out of hand, however, the authorities would call a halt to the proceedings, and, in the usual Maoist fashion, turn the tables on the perpetrators by starting another campaign, this time one called "Crack Down on Prison Bullies." The very people who had been encouraged to "break" recalcitrant prisoners were now broken in turn.
But, of course, China has moved on since Mao's decades of terror. When Liao was in prison, China's door had already been open to business with the capitalist world for more than ten years. Economic reforms began in the early nineteen-eighties, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. In 1992, Deng called for even faster economic growth. As a result, in Liao's words, "prison personnel never missed a beat and were quick to take advantage of the free labor to fatten their wallets."
Free labor is a polite phrase for slavery. Each prisoner was required to spend at least ten hours a day putting together medicine packets, while being subjected to political exhortations from loudspeakers—the usual Chinese Communist mixture of ideological bullying and economic exploitation. Liao remarks that this type of repetitive manual work had already been abandoned by local factories. But prison authorities could make tidy profits by whipping the incarcerated slaves into reaching quotas of up to three thousand packets a day. Inmates who tried to escape or who resisted the prison regimen would be beaten up or thrown into "dark cells" that were just big enough to crawl into and lie down. "After a year or so," Liao writes, "the dark-cell-dweller's skin turned pale, his bones fragile, and his hair white as frost. The skin became so transparent that one could see the blue veins."
Liao mentions a few moments of respite. There were instances of kindness from cell bosses who favored him, sometimes for being a poet; respect for the written word is not dead in China. A Buddhist monk taught him to play the flute. And, once in a while, conditions improved a little because of foreign pressure on China to do better on human rights. This should make those of us who had given up all hope of influencing official Chinese behavior from the outside a little less cynical.
Meanwhile, Liao tried to keep his memories of what he had heard and seen in prison by scribbling tiny notes in a copy of the classic Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." On January 31, 1994, he was freed. But, in his account, his release was only the beginning of a different type of ordeal, perhaps more bitter in its way. Troublemakers and dissidents are rarely popular in oppressive societies. They cause problems for others by provoking reprisals, and they make the majority of people who refuse to rebel feel uneasy about their conformity. Liao dreaded going home for the New Year and other family celebrations, because he knew that he would be criticized. His wife decided to divorce him—perhaps not surprising, as Liao never claims to have been a devoted husband. Worse was his abandonment by old friends. After four years of jail, he writes, "I was no more than a pile of dog shit to my fellow writers." This rejection might suggest a peculiarly Chinese form of callousness, but it actually has more to do with how China is now run. After the failed rebellion of 1989, the Communist government made a clever deal with the educated classes: if members of the urban élite would stay out of politics, they would have the freedom to enrich themselves. "Our whole country was suddenly busy making money, which was a corrosive acid that dissolved political dissent," Liao writes. "The same people who used to march fearlessly in the street for democracy now have become 'apolitical' in the current era of rampant materialism—Communist style." Several of his former artistic comrades had become businessmen.
In such circumstances, the normal human tendency to shun troublemakers is strengthened by the irrepressible consciousness of having made a shabby deal. Liao's keenest readers, as is so often the case with people living under dictatorship, were the officials who were paid to censor his words. Reduced to life as an educated vagabond, sometimes playing his flute in the streets to survive, and terrified of being sent to jail again, Liao managed to cross the border into Vietnam; from there, he made his way to Germany, where he now lives. And so it is that this immensely gifted Chinese writer performs his poetic acts of mourning for the entertainment of audiences in Berlin and New York—an exotic "dissident" abroad, his voice to be heard everywhere except where it is most needed. ♦


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Police found a stash of ammunition and newspaper clippings about mass shootings in the padlocked bedroom of the Connecticut student accused of bringing loaded guns to the University of New Haven campus on Tuesday, authorities said.
William Dong, 22, is charged with illegal possession of an assault weapon, breach of peace and other counts after allegedly bringing two handguns and a rifle to the campus, prompting a lockdown and building-by-building search for him.
Police were first alerted after a 911 call reporting a man with a long gun walking toward campus, authorities said.
Officers found Dong on campus about 20 minutes later, with the two handguns. The Bushmaster assault rifle, illegal in Connecticut, was also found, although it was not immediately clear where.
Police also said they recovered several rifle magazines from a blue Toyota RAV4 that was parked near campus.
No shots were fired and no one was hurt, police said.
A student who said she was in a 12:15 p.m. biology class with Dong told NBC Connecticut he got up and left during a test, and the lockdown alert was issued shortly after that.
Dong's friends have called the incident a "huge misunderstanding" and said Dong was often confused about where he was allowed to carry guns.
Manuel Pallares, who described himself as Dong's best friend, said Dong carries weapons every day to protect himself while working at an armored truck company.
"I'm pretty sure he's not going to go out and shoot people," Pallares said. "He frowns on those people. He hates hearing about gun violence."
Fairfield police said Dong had gun permits for two handguns, but they haven't specified whether those are the same guns recovered.
"It was a shock," said Thomas Wething, who went to high school with Dong and watched police search his home from across the street. "I was questioning it at first."
Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara said police have previously responded to the home where Dong lives with family members, but did not elaborate. The other incidents were not as serious, he said.
"We want to know what his intent was up there because we want to know whether there was an intent here," MacNamara said.
Dong was being held on $500,000 bond. His family did not comment in court.

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The IATSE, along with every other union and guild across the country, has come under recent attacks. Everywhere from Madison, Wisconsin to Washington, DC, anti-worker politicians are trying to silence the voices of American workers by taking away their collective bargaining rights, stripping their healthcare coverage, and doing away with defined pension plans.
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wagi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Abadoo is a free ads website located and targeting users in the UK. Please see here http://www.abadoo.co.uk The site is targeted at anyone who would like to advertise an item, service, business, event etc
We would particularly like to target small businesses wishing to list their services in their particular locality by posting a long term advertisement on the site.
Anyone wishing to advertise an item, event, service etc
Particularly small businesses
We require some work on the homepage to make it more attractive. At the moment it is too bland. We would like the design to be light and simple and should tie in with the inner pages, which are predominently white.
We require the general layout of the homepage to remain similar to what we have - think of the current page as a wireframe. Consideration should be given to the time it takes to load a page so we need to keep the design light-weight.
If you click on "Currently not signed in" then click on a coloured theme you can see the coloured bars change colour. We are thinking of keeping this idea so designs will need to go with the other themes.
At the moment the logo and "Post your free advertisement" icon stay the same colour across the colour themes and do seem to go with the themes.
Regarding our current logo and "Post your free advertisement" icon, we don't feel that these are particularly bad and could keep them. Modifications to the categories text probably would improve things and maybe some nice icons for "Currently not signed in" and "Change location" would bring a bit more life to the page.
We also require a design for the listings page and the item display page, however there shouldn't be too much to change - they just need a tidy up to make them look a little neater. Maybe a divider on the listings page to separate each ad. But heh, I'm not a designer so please feel free to be creative.
For inspiration 99designs isn't too far away with the exception of some of the colors. Bright, simple and appealing is what we are looking for and especially appealing for local businesses.
For inspiration here are some classifieds sites we like:
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Ze Miguel Mateus, Portugal coach
What we've learned at this World Cup is that we need to strengthen the national team from top to bottom. The time has come to relax now, though, and get ourselves in a calm frame of mind so that we can think about the future in the right way and carry out an in-depth analysis of everything we've achieved in previous tournaments. All the same, I'm satisfied with the work my boys have put in, and even though we didn't reach our main goal, the players have really stuck together and shown their courage, togetherness and friendship.
Rudis Gonzalez, El Salvador coach
I'm very happy at how well this tournament has gone for us. We'd never won a game before so to win just one here would have been an achievement in itself. But we've done even better than that, achieving a historic result for ourselves and the people of El Salvador. These boys are my second family. They're all sons of mine, and I'm delighted for them first and foremost because they've played with their heart and shown complete commitment.


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In the creation/evolution controversy, much of the dispute would become clearer if writers would carefully provide readers/listeners with precise definitions of terminology.
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I believe that Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers makes a good statement about North Carolina Amendment One, up for vote on May 8:
"You're sending a message to the world that we're not inclusive… North Carolina is competing with the world for business, and we have to be inclusive and open."
This amendment has an economic impact. As a business owner, it impacts my ability to attract the talented, highly educated, open minded people that Lulu needs. It further impacts my ability to offer competitive health benefits to my employees and their families.
This is not about supporting or opposing gay marriage, it's about taking the conversation off the table completely. It's about North Carolina, via its constitution, sending a message that everyone in the state isn't even willing to have the conversation.
Founder and CEO of Lulu, as well as one of the founders of Red Hat, Bob is a consummate entrepreneur.


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Police: Woman stabs dad, bites grandma, and fights deputy while holding child
BELL COUNTY, Texas — Bell County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a woman Sunday night, after they said she stabbed her father, bit her grandmother, injured a deputy and walked through traffic holding her 2-year-old child.
Virginia Lynn Ewton, 30, of Round Rock, was being held in the Bell County Jail Monday, pending felony charges.
Deputies said she got into an altercation with her father while the family was driving south on Interstate 35. Investigators believe the vehicle stopped roughly one mile south of a rest area, where Ewton stabbed her father multiple times with a knife. Officials also said she fought her grandmother, who suffered "several bites" to the arm. Their conditions were not immediately clear.
From there, Major T.J. Cruz said Ewton walked a mile back to the rest area, at which point 911 callers told dispatchers they saw Ewton in traffic holding her small child. When a Bell County Sheriff's Deputy arrived and located Ewton on the interstate, authorities said she got into a fight with the deputy.
"She was confronted and a scuffle ensued involving the suspect and a Bell County Deputy," Major Cruz explained. "The suspect was still holding the child during the scuffle."
Ewton was eventually arrested. The deputy, whose injuries were not serious, was treated and released from Scott and White Hospital in Temple.
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BBVA, Self-Proclaimed 'Bank Of Sports,' Extends Sponsorships Into College Football
November 4, 2010: BBVA Compass, a leading financial institution in the Sunbelt Region and the self-proclaimed "Bank of Sports," has signed a multi-year deal to become title sponsor and marketing partner of the Birmingham Bowl, which pits teams from the Southeastern Conference and the Big East. The first BBVA Compass Bowl, which formerly had been known as the Papajohns.com Bowl, will be played Jan. 8, 2011, and shown on ESPN.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was signed with ESPN Regional Television, Inc., a subsidiary of ESPN.
This is the second major sports deal for BBVA since September, when the firm signed on to become the official bank of the NBA, the WNBA and the NBA Development League in the U.S., Spain and Puerto Rico. Parent company BBVA Group in Europe also has an alliance with La Liga, Spain's top professional soccer league. When the NBA deal was signed, Gregorio Panadero, BBVA global chief communications officer, stated that the agreement "solidifies BBVA's position as the 'Bank of Sports' and opens up a new and ambitious pathway to growth in Spain, as well as in the U.S., through the BBVA Compass brand."
In addition to title sponsorship of the BBVA Compass Bowl, the agreement also provides BBVA Compass secondary sponsorships in three of ESPN's other Bowl games: the New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque (Dec. 18), the Texas Bowl in Houston (Dec. 29) and the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth (Dec. 30).
Several other college football bowl games also have signed new sponsors this year, including the Discover Orange Bowl, the Vizio Rose Bowl and the GoDaddy.com Bowl.
According to BBVA executives, these partnerships "enhance BBVA's overall commitment to sports . . . and fully identifies the bank with the values of passion, teamwork, and fair play inherent in sports."
"The agreement with ESPN will allow us a channel where we can connect with our customers' passion," Manolo Sanchez, BBVA U.S. country manager and president and CEO of BBVA Compass, said in a statement. "For many people, their favorite sports team is a central part of who they are and college football fans are among the most passionate fans in the world. At BBVA Compass, we want to provide fans an opportunity to participate in what they love."
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Activation around the BBVA Compass Bowl will include the BBVA Compass Street Festival the evening prior to the game, the Fan Zone at Historic Legion Field on game day, Internet, POP and signage and other marketing in and around the venue.
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Now in its fifth year, the now titled BBVA Compass Bowl has generated more than $41.3 million in economic impact for the Birmingham area, according to officials. "The BBVA Compass Bowl provides us with a great opportunity to enhance the economic impact to the city of Birmingham while the agreement also allows us to reach fans in three other key Western markets that we serve," said Sanchez.
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Minutes January 11, 2008
Present in person: Wayne Lunsford, Frank Philpott, Pat Vaughn, Beth Daniel
Present by teleconference: Jerry Turner, Rich Swanson
Visitors: Reid Henry (sjclimber), Mike Beavers (AR_Hick)
Before the meeting discussion:
Why should people join ArkGeo?
What can we offer that they can't get elsewhere?
Ideas offered:
To spread geocaching across the state by:
*CITOs or other service activity
*Starting an account on geocaching.com that can put out caches of high quality - possibly in these service activity spots - that could be later adopted by cachers in those parts of the state
*Puzzle cache that uses clues from ArkGeo web site for the coordinates
*Discussion held about how caches will no longer be approved more than 50 miles from home coordinates
*Seed caches could be a possible idea on the ArkGeo account or caches around the state with supplies for new caches inside an ammo box (supply depot)
*How many state parks don't have caches?
*Maybe this could be a responsibility of the Community Relations Committee? Jerry (committee liaison) will ask the committee to get a plan together for this and to think about a pamphlet that we can pass to potential city officials, park officials, etc. about geocaching
Meeting officially called to order at 6:30 pm with the above attendees
I. Treasurer's report
* We currently have $2343.96 in our account. There have been no deposits, no checks, only withdrawals have been the monthly service charge.
*All necessary official documentation will be faxed to the bank next week to switch our account to non profit status.
*PayPal has been notified that we would like a donation button to add to our website. They have not yet responded.
II. Website issues/questions
1. Membership downloads will be made available soon.
2. Inactive accounts are being deleted.
3. Registration status being readily available to members when they log onto the site is being discussed between Wayne and Bert.
III. Committee reports
All committee members will be listed on the website so that any ArkGeo member can bring ideas, questions, or concerns directly to the appropriate committee. Each committee liaison from the Board needs to send a list of their members' ArkGeo and real names as quickly as possible please.
Election committee:
Mike Beavers reported to the Board that they have selected four potential candidates from committee nominations. The committee is meeting with each potential nominee to determine if they are willing and able to serve.
Community relations:
Please think over above mentioned ideas for holding events or service activities in sparsely cache-populated areas of the state and a plan, a presentation, or packet of informational material to promote geocaching
Events Committee:
Annual membership meeting is planned for the weekend of May 31/June 1 at Lake Catherine State Park. We have reserved the picnic area next to the pavilion and have permission for camping in this area at $3 per person per night. Saturday activities to include the annual membership meeting called for in the by-laws, evening activities of hot dog/marshmallow/etc. roasting/cache stories by the campfire/etc. etc. Sunday activity will be a CITO Event for the park. The cost of the pavilion is $80 per night and their calendar is filling up quickly. Cabins are available for those who aren't overly into camping. We could possibly tie some fund raising into this.
Motion was made, seconded, and approved to provide a budget of $250 for this event. If more funds are necessary, the committee is encouraged to come back to the board with that request.
Fund Raising Committee:
Liaison was unable to attend due to a family emergency.
New Business:
*Frank will sign up for an ArkGeo account with gc.com. He will also email Chuck Walla about this.
*Teleconference phone for meetings:
Due to the travel burden for board members to be able to meet together, it was discussed whether it would be wise to purchase a teleconference phone. It is very difficult to hear anyone attending by phone and for them to hear those physically at the meetings.
A motion was made, seconded, and approved to purchase a teleconference phone with budget not to exceed $250.
*Web site expenses:
Due to the GROWING traffic on our website (!) and this very necessary ongoing/regular expense which has thus far been generously provided by Bert Drake, the Board discussed the feasibility of ArkGeo finding our own dedicated web space.
Motion was made, seconded, and approved to authorize the web hosting expense for the club.
*Election 2008:
The terms of Max, Wayne, and Gunnar will be expiring this July. Timeline for elections is as follows:
February - The Executive Board will appoint the new Executive Committee (officers), determining how many Board positions will be open.
March 1 - Board recommended slate presented for open positions and nominations from the general membership begins
April 1 - Nominations close and list of nominees sent to voting members
May 1 - Election begins
June 1 - Elections close and winners announced
July 1 - Newly elected Board members take office
Next Board meeting - appointment of new Executive Committee - officers will be held by teleconference (short meeting) on February 7th at 6:30 pm
Next face to face Board meeting - April 25th in Conway at 6 pm


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The sun is shining today...for the second day in a row...after 5 days of constant rain and drizzle and wet and gray and cold and YUCK. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. 'Nuff said.
Something crisp and refreshing to sip as I enjoy this sunny day? Of course. How about a Pomegranate-Honey Cooler? This is basically a wine cooler, but not your syrupy sweet Bartels and Jaymes (rest assured, I had to Google to know how to spell Jaymes properly). Blending dry and slightly lemony Pinot Grigio with the mild and fruity pomegranate juice creates a brisk, fresh drink that is thirst-quenching on a sunny summer's day. Add just enough honey to balance the tartness, but don't go overboard.
Now, please excuse me. I have some sunshine to enjoy with the Pomegranate-Honey Cooler On My Plate (or rather, In My Glass...but that might be another blog).
1 botttle dry white wine (I used Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio)
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
2-4 tablespoons honey
slices of lemon
Combine wine and juice in a pitcher.
Add honey and stir until dissolved.
Divided among 6 ice-filled glasses.
Garnish with slices of lemon. (Serves 6)


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Two important lessons we learned at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago:
1. Recent graduates in anthropology are deeply devoted to the field and motivated to spread the good word. The rising scholars we spoke with had broadly-conceived career goals like 'make a difference' and 'do something meaningful'. And they were eager to introduce anthropology into less-familiar career settings – design anthropology, program evaluation, evidence-based policy, data artistry, digital anthropology, organizational behavior, heritage management, to name a few. Discussions in the hallways, between sessions and workshops, in the Careers Expo and the Section Summit, often centered on the array of career alternatives available to anthropologists and the preparation needs of students in a rapidly evolving job market.
2. Despite all our enthusiastic conversations over the course of the Annual Meeting, we had nowhere to continue the conversation and no central location for keeping in touch with one another.
As a result, we have developed The Engaging Anthropology Forum on Facebook to provide a platform for discussing careers in anthropology. This page will serve as an avenue for recent graduates pursuing careers in academic, applied, and practicing anthropology to share career prep and job search advice, news items spotlighting the work of anthropologists, and information on funding and training opportunities.
We also want to include current students in post-graduation discussion. Soon-to-be anthropologists need to be kept abreast of the evolving job climate and opportunities to prepare early for innovative new careers, so we invite current students and student organizations to join the discussion Forum. So far more than 50 student groups can be found on the Anthropology Clubs Roster (listed under Notes) on the Engaging Anthropology Forum. In addition, the broader field of anthropology can learn much from the enthusiasm of these student groups. Many of the clubs maintain group webpages, including Facebook and Tumblr pages. We invite you to visit their pages and see how they are bringing anthropology to their schools and communities. By sharing these stories, we hope to further incorporate student interests in AAA activities and offer inspiration for ever bigger and better anthropology clubs.
We have some exciting projects in the works for collaboration with up-and-coming anthropologists! We hope that this forum will open new channels for communication among the networks of emerging anthropologists.
Visit the page, let us know what you think, and next time you come across a useful piece of information on careers in anthropology, come share with your colleagues on the Engaging Anthropology Forum!


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A Toast to SFIFF56!/
Yesterday we toasted to the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival with our Press Conference, Member's Night, and Festival website launch! Our trailer has gone public, film guides are out, and merchandise is in and on sale. Hats off to our amazing staff, volunteers, members and supporters who made last night a blast!


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Teen's complaint seeks schooling during pregnancy
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia teen says in a civil rights complaint that she should have been allowed to complete her schoolwork from home while pregnant and on doctor-ordered bed rest.
According to the complaint filed Thursday, 18-year-old Mikelia Seals was a junior at Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School when her doctor ordered bed rest seven months into her pregnancy. The complaint says a guidance counselor told Seals the school did not have a program letting her take classes from home.
Wilkes County Schools Superintendent Rosemary Caddell says she has not seen the complaint yet.
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Despite high winds, on Thursday Macy's managed to fly balloons in its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade without anyone being injured (or cops stabbing and stomping Barney the Dinosaur to death) That gives me an idea for this week's 'Shop Contest.
Two years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog's reintroduction to the parade was the subject of this contest—so I'm not asking you to rehash that. What I am suggesting, however, is that you take the crowd scene above (or any other you can find) and replace Sonic with another balloon character—the weirder and more esoteric, the better. Or roll up the whole scene Katamari style. You guys are the experts, I'm just the one rolling out the balls before the game.
Source Image: The 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, by Anthony Quintano, used here under Creative Commons 2.0 license.
That should be clear enough. Feel free to use Sonic if something about his pose strikes your fancy, though.
While most of you are smart enough to figure out how to upload images, here are some simple steps to take for those less familiar with the practice.
1. Create your 'Shop and save it to your desktop.
2. Go to the bottom of this post and click "Discuss."
3. This brings up a comment window. Click the icon that looks like a picture.
4. This brings up another window called "Insert Image." Click "Choose file" if you're uploading your 'shop from your desktop
5. Alternatively, you can upload the 'Shop to a free image hosting service. I suggest imgur. Then paste the image's URL into the field that says "Image URL." Note: this must be the URL of the image itself, not the page where it is displayed. That means the URL ends in .jpg, .gif, .png, whatever.
6. Add editorial commentary and hit submit and your image will load. If it doesn't, upload the image to imgur and paste the image URL as a comment. I promise I will look at it.
7. Large-size images may not upload properly, though we have seen some big-ass animated .gifs upwards of 5 MB. If you're still having trouble uploading the image, try to keep its longest dimension (horizontal or vertical) under 1000 pixels, or the whole thing under 2 MB.
Alright! Have at it. Thanks very much for your participation.
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13.5 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. Can you tell me of the earliest, first known thing in the creation?
Ra: I am Ra. The first known thing in the creation is infinity. The infinity is creation.
13.6 ▶ Questioner: From this infinity then must have come what we experience as creation. What was the next step or the next evolvement?
Ra: I am Ra. Infinity became aware. This was the next step.
13.7 ▶ Questioner: After this, what happened?
Ra: Awareness led to the focus of infinity into infinite energy. You have called this by various vibrational sound complexes, the most common to your ears being "Logos" or "Love." The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware or conscious principle called by us as closely as we can create understanding/learning in your language, intelligent infinity.
13.8 ▶ Questioner: Can you state the next step?
Ra: The next step is still at this space/time nexus in your illusion achieving its progression as you may see it in your illusion. The next step is an infinite reaction to the creative principle following the Law of One in one of its primal distortions, freedom of will. Thus many, many dimensions, infinite in number, are possible. The energy moves from the intelligent infinity due first to the outpouring of randomized creative force, this then creating patterns which in holographic style appear as the entire creation no matter which direction or energy is explored. These patterns of energy begin then to regularize their own local, shall we say, rhythms and fields of energy, thus creating dimensions and universes.
13.9 ▶ Questioner: Then can you tell me how [the] galaxy and this planetary system were formed?
Ra: I am Ra. You must imagine a great leap of thought in this query, for at the last query the physical, as you call, it, universes were not yet born.
The energies moved in increasingly intelligent patterns until the individualization of various energies emanating from the creative principle of intelligent infinity became such as to be co-Creators. Thus the so-called physical matter began. The concept of light is instrumental in grasping this great leap of thought as this vibrational distortion of infinity is the building block of that which is known as matter, the light being intelligent and full of energy, thus being the first distortion of intelligent infinity which was called by the creative principle.
This light of love was made to have in its occurrences of being certain characteristics, among them the infinite whole paradoxically described by the straight line, as you would call it. This paradox is responsible for the shape of the various physical illusion entities you call solar systems, galaxies, and planets, all revolving and tending towards the lenticular.
13.10 ▶ Questioner: I think I made an error in asking that question, getting ahead of the process that [you were] describing. Would it be helpful to fill in that great leap that I mistakenly made?
Ra: I am Ra. I attempted to bridge the gap. However, you may question me in any manner you deem appropriate.
13.11 ▶ Questioner: Could you tell me— taking the question previous to the one that I asked about galaxy and planets, would you tell me the next step that occurred after that step?
Ra: I am Ra. The steps, as you call them, are, at the point of question, simultaneous and infinite.
13.12 ▶ Questioner: Could you tell me how intelligent infinity became, shall we say (I'm having difficulty with some of the language), how intelligent infinity became individualized from itself?
Ra: I am Ra. This is an appropriate question.
The intelligent infinity discerned a concept. This concept was discerned due to freedom of will of awareness. This concept was finity. This was the first and primal paradox or distortion of the Law of One. Thus the one intelligent infinity invested itself in an exploration of many-ness. Due to the infinite possibilities of intelligent infinity there is no ending to many-ness. The exploration, thus, is free to continue infinitely in an eternal present.
13.13 ▶ Questioner: Was the galaxy that we are in created by the infinite intelligence or was it created by a portion of the individualized infinite intelligence?
Ra: I am Ra. The galaxy and all other things of material of which you are aware are products of individualized portions of intelligent infinity. As each exploration began, it, in turn, found its focus and became co-Creator. Using intelligent infinity each portion created an universe and allowing the rhythms of free choice to flow, playing with the infinite spectrum of possibilities, each individualized portion channeled the love/light into what you might call intelligent energy, thus creating the so-called natural laws of any particular universe.
Each universe, in turn, individualized to a focus becoming, in turn, co-Creator and allowing further diversity, thus creating further intelligent energies regularizing or causing natural laws to appear in the vibrational patterns of what you would call a solar system. Thus, each solar system has its own, shall we say, local coordinate system of illusory natural laws. It shall be understood that any portion, no matter how small, of any density or illusory pattern contains, as in an holographic picture, the One Creator which is infinity. Thus all begins and ends in mystery.
13.14 ▶ Questioner: Could you tell me how the individualized portion of intelligent infinity created our galaxy [inaudible] that the same portion created our planetary system and, if so, how this came about?
Ra: I am Ra. We may have misperceived your query. We were under the distortion/impression that we had responded to this particular query. Would you restate the query?
13.15 ▶ Questioner: Primarily, then, how the, shall we say, the planetary system that we are in now evolved— was it all created at once or was there first our sun created and this [inaudible] was created.
Ra: I am Ra. The process is from the larger, in your illusion, to the smaller. Thus the co-Creator, individualizing the galaxy, created energy patterns which then focused in multitudinous focuses of further conscious awareness of intelligent infinity. Thus, the solar system of which you experience inhabitation is of its own patterns, rhythms, and so-called natural laws which are unique to itself. However, the progression is from the galaxy spiraling energy to the solar spiraling energy, to the planetary spiraling energy, to the experiential circumstances of spiraling energy which begin the first density of awareness or consciousness of planetary entities.
15.21 ▶ Questioner: Well, in yesterday's material you stated "we offer the Law of One, the solving of paradoxes." You also mentioned earlier that the first paradox, or the first distortion I meant, was the distortion of free will. Could you tell me if there's a sequence? Is there a first, second, third, fourth distortion of the Law of One?
Ra: I am Ra. Only up to a very short point. After this point, the many-ness of distortions are equal one to another. The first distortion, free will, finds focus. This is the second distortion known to you as Logos, the Creative Principle or Love. This intelligent energy thus creates a distortion known as Light. From these three distortions come many, many hierarchies of distortions, each having its own paradoxes to be synthesized, no one being more important than another.
15.22 ▶ Questioner: You also said that you offered the Law of One, which is the balancing of love/light and light/love. Is there any difference between love/light and light/love?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the final question of this time/space. There is the same difference between love/light and light/love as there is between teach/learning and learn/teaching. Love/light is the enabler, the power, the energy giver. Light/love is the manifestation which occurs when light has been impressed with love.
16.22 ▶ Questioner: Thank you very much. In previous material, before we communicated with you, it was stated by the Confederation that there is actually no past or future… all is present. Would this be a good analogy?
Ra: I am Ra. There is past, present, and future in third density. In an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the space/time continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion there exists only the present. We, ourselves, seek to learn this understanding. At the seventh level or dimension, we shall, if our humble efforts are sufficient, become one with all, thus having no memory, no identity, no past or future, but existing in the all.
16.23 ▶ Questioner: Does this mean that you would have awareness of all that is?
Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. It is our understanding that it would not be our awareness, but simply awareness of the Creator. In the Creator is all that there is. Therefore, this knowledge would be available.
16.53 ▶ Questioner: All right. Continuing with what we were just talking about, namely densities: I understand then that each density has seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities. This expands at an extremely large rate as things are increased in powers of seven. Does this mean that in any density level anything that you can think of is happening? And many things that you never thought of are happening… are there… everything is happening… this is confusing…
Ra: I am Ra. From your confusion we select the concept with which you struggle, that being infinite opportunity. You may consider any possibility/probability complex as having an existence.
19.12 ▶ Questioner: This seems to be a carefully planned or engineered stage of development. Can you tell me anything of the origin of this plan for the development?
Ra: I am Ra. We go back to previous information. Consider and remember the discussion of the Logos. With the primal distortion of free will, each galaxy developed its own Logos. This Logos has complete free will in determining the paths of intelligent energy which promote the lessons of each of the densities given the conditions of the planetary spheres and the sun bodies.
19.20 ▶ Questioner: Well, this would seem then that there is a relationship then between what we perceive as physical phenomena, say the electrical phenomena, and the phenomena of consciousness, and that they, having stemmed from the One Creator, are practically identical but have slightly different actions as we [tape ends.] [Is this correct?]
Ra: I am Ra. Again we oversimplify to answer your query.
The physical complex alone is created of many, many energy or electromagnetic fields interacting due to intelligent energy; the mental configurations or distortions of each complex further adding fields of electromagnetic energy and distorting the physical complex patterns of energy; the spiritual aspect serving as a further complexity of fields which is of itself perfect but which can be realized in many distorted and unintegrated ways by the mind and body complexes of energy fields.
Thus, instead of one, shall we say, magnet with one polarity you have in the body/mind/spirit complex one basic polarity expressed in what you would call violet-ray energy, the sum of the energy fields, but which is affected by thoughts of all kinds generated by the mind complex, by distortions of the body complex, and by the numerous relationships between the microcosm which is the entity and the macrocosm in many forms which you may represent by viewing the stars, as you call them, each with a contributing energy ray which enters the electromagnetic web of the entity due to its individual distortions.
27.4 ▶ Questioner: Would you define the word intelligent in the concept of intelligent infinity?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall address the entire spectrum of this question before defining as requested. Your language, using vibrational sound complexes, can be at best an approximation of that which is closer to an understanding, if you will, of the nature of conscious thought. Perceptions are not the same as sound vibration complexes and the attempt to define will therefore be a frustrating one for you, although we are happy to aid you within the limits of your sound vibration complexes.
To define intelligent apart from infinity is difficult, for these two vibration complexes equal one concept. It is much like attempting to divide your sound vibration concept, faith, into two parts. We shall attempt to aid you however.
27.5 ▶ Questioner: It is not necessary to divide it. The definition of intelligent infinity as one part is sufficient. Could you please now define intelligent infinity?
Ra: I am Ra. This is exponentially simpler and less confusing. There is unity. This unity is all that there is. This unity has a potential and kinetic. The potential is intelligent infinity. Tapping this potential will yield work. This work has been called by us, intelligent energy.
The nature of this work is dependent upon the particular distortion of free will which in turn is the nature of a particular intelligent energy or kinetic focus of the potential of unity or that which is all.
27.6 ▶ Questioner: I'd like to expand a little on the concept of work. In Newtonian physics [the] concept of work is what we call a force which moves through space, it's the product of force and distance as we measure it. I'm assuming that the work of which you speak is a much broader term including possibly work in consciousness. Am I correct?
Ra: I am Ra. As we use this term it is universal in application. Intelligent infinity has a rhythm or flow as of a giant heart beginning with the central sun as you would think or conceive of this, the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality as you spoke.
27.7 ▶ Questioner: Now I think I have extracted an important point from this in that in intelligent infinity we have work without polarity, or a potential difference does not have to exist. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. There is no difference, potential or kinetic, in unity. The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself. From this undistorted unity, however, appears a potential in relation to intelligent energy.
In this way you may observe the term to be somewhat two-sided, one use of the term, that being as the undistorted unity, being without any kinetic or potential side. The other application of this term, which we use undifferentiatedly for lack of other term in the sense of the vast potential tapped into by foci or focuses of energy, we call intelligent energy.
27.8 ▶ Questioner: Now, I understand that the first distortion of intelligent infinity is the distortion of what we call free will. Can you give me a definition of this distortion?
Ra: I am Ra. In this distortion of the Law of One it is recognized that the Creator will know Itself.
27.9 ▶ Questioner: Then am I correct then in assuming that the Creator will know Itself the Creator, then grants for this knowing the concept of freedom— total freedom of choice in the ways of knowing? Am I correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct.
27.10 ▶ Questioner: This then being the first distortion of the Law of One, which I [am] assuming is the Law of Intelligent Infinity, from all other— correction, all other distortions which are the total experience of the creation spring from this. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is both correct and incorrect. In your illusion all experience springs from the Law of Free Will or the Way of Confusion. In another sense, which we are learning, the experiences are this distortion.
27.11 ▶ Questioner: I will have to think about that and ask questions on it in the next session, so I will go on to what you have given me as the second distortion which is the distortion of love. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
27.12 ▶ Questioner: I would like for you to define love in the sense— in its sense as the second distortion.
Ra: I am Ra. This must be defined against the background of intelligent infinity or unity or the One Creator with the primal distortion of free will. The term Love then may be seen as the focus, the choice of attack, the type of energy of an extremely, shall we say, high order which causes intelligent energy to be formed from the potential of intelligent infinity in just such and such a way. This then may be seen to be an object rather than an activity by some of your peoples, and the principle of this extremely strong energy focus being worshiped as the Creator instead of unity or oneness from which all Loves emanate.
27.13 ▶ Questioner: Is Love— is there a manifestation of love that we could call vibration?
Ra: I am Ra. Again we reach semantic difficulties. The vibration or density of love or understanding is not a term used in the same sense as the second distortion, Love; the distortion Love being the great activator and primal co-Creator of various creations using intelligent infinity; the vibration love being that density in which those who have learned to do an activity called "loving" without significant distortion, then seek the ways of light or wisdom. Thus in vibratory sense love comes into light in the sense of the activity of unity in its free will. Love uses light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. Thus vibratory complexes recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity, thus showing the rhythm or flow of the great heartbeat, if you will use this analogy.
27.15 ▶ Questioner: Then I will expand a bit more on this concept. We have the infinite vibration of Love which can occur, I am assuming, at varying frequencies, if this has a meaning in this; I would assume that it begins at one basic frequency. Does this have any meaning? Am I making sense? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Each Love, as you term the prime movers, comes from one frequency, if you wish to use this term. This frequency is unity. We would perhaps liken it rather to a strength than a frequency, this strength being infinite, the finite qualities being chosen by the particular nature of this primal movement.
28.3 ▶ Questioner: This light that occurred as a consequence of vibration which is a consequence of Love. I am going to ask if that statement is right. Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This statement is correct.
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To Get A Home in San Francisco, First Get A $140,000-A-Year Job
This post has been updated.
What kind of job do you need to afford a good house in San Francisco? One that pays around $140,000 a year before taxes, according to a new report from financial publisher HSH Associates.
And even then you'll be unable to qualify for a good number of homes on the market. That salary makes the City by the Bay the least affordable major city in the country, said HSH, which gathers its estimates using its own mortgage data and home-price estimates from the National Association of Realtors.
The report is one of a number of recent measures that distinguish the tech-crazed San Francisco Bay Area as the nation's most insane housing market. One report from Trulia shows San Francisco has the lowest share of homes available to the middle class. Another report, from Redfin, shows San Jose and San Francisco are among the least affordable for teachers .
Still, the HSH report serves as an important reminder that despite rising home prices and higher interest rates, homes are still affordable in places not called New York or California.
The cheapest city was Cleveland, where a family could buy a median-priced home with a pre-tax income just under $30,000, followed by Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
(Correction: The figures in this post represent pre-tax salaries. HSH Associates initially said in its report Tuesday morning that the salaries were after-tax figures, a point that was confirmed by a spokesman. The company later said Tuesday afternoon that its figures were incorrect and then updated the description of its methodology.)
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Moment of Silence Planned for Pair Killed in Ohio Air Show Accident
(DAYTON, Ohio) -- The Vectren Dayton Air Show in Ohio will re-open Sunday afternoon with a moment of silence for the wing walker and her pilot who were killed in this weekend's air show crash, an air show spokesman told ABC News.
The moment of silence will take place Sunday at 11:55 a.m., before the show continues at noon. Continuing an air show after a fatal accident is a time-honored tradition to honor the dead.
"The thing is if you would ask virtually any of the air show pilots if something happened to them during an air show what they would want to have done, they would tell you they would want to have the show go on because that's what they live for and that's what they really love," Andy Stanley, a search and rescue pilot, told ABC News' Ohio affiliate WKEF-TV.
In a statement released on Saturday, organizers of the Vectren Dayton Air Show confirmed the deaths of wing walker Jane Wicker and her pilot Charlie Schwenker.
"The Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger expresses its condolences to the families of wingwalker Jane Wicker, 44 and pilot, Charlie Schwenker, 64, whose lives were lost during their performance at the show on Saturday, June 22nd. The FAA and other agencies are currently investigating the accident and results are not expected for several months," organizers said.
Video from the event appeared to show a wing walker sitting on the wing of her single-engine plane as it suddenly crashed into a grassy field at the Dayton International Airport.
"I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if there was a mechanical problem," said Joel John, who witnessed the crash, told ABC affiliate WKEF-TV. "From what I saw the plane was really low, they tried to do a flip and that's where it looked like the pilot lost the balance."
The plane that crashed was licensed to Wicker, an FAA official told ABC News.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating the crash.
Kris Nuss had worked with the wing walker and pilot before.
"Absolutely fabulous people," she said. "I was amazed at how much trust both of them had in each other."
A post on the Jane Wicker Airshows Facebook also addressed the crash.
"It is with sad hearts that we announce that Jane Wicker and Charlie Schwenker were tragically killed while performing at the Vectren Dayton Airshow," the post said. "We ask for your prayers for the families and privacy of all involved and allow them time to grieve and work through these events."
According to her website, Wicker has been wing walking since 1990, when she answered an ad because she thought "it would be an exciting way to enter the air show business."
In addition to being a wing walker and pilot, she is also a full-time budget analyst at the FAA.
A man who answered the number listed on Jane Wicker's website declined to comment.
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio


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The memories kids have from camp last forever. Sometimes their swag does, too! They carry, wear, and drink from items they get at camp like a badge of honor. When they see another camper wearing a camp shirt or carrying the camp bag, it's like a secret club they are both proud to be part of.
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A man was injured Monday morning when he fell from a cliff less than a mile south of Silverton and landed on or beside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad tracks.
The privately owned Eureka Palisade No. 4, an 1875 locomotive in Durango for the Railfest, had left Silverton at 10 a.m., and the crew found the victim, said Paul Schrank, vice president and general manager of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
The railroad sent a motor railcar and an emergency medical technician to return the man to Silverton, Schrank said.
Details are sketchy. No official source knew the victims name, why he was on the cliff, how far he fell or what injuries he suffered.
Karola Hanks, with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority, said the Silverton San Juan County ambulance took the victim to Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort where he was taken by air ambulance to Mercy Regional Medical Center.
Mercy spokesman David Bruzzese said he couldnt provide information without knowing the name of the victim.


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Chemistry shouldn't be a problem with Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis set to star on the screen together for the first time in "My American Lover."
Depp is quoted on BangShowbiz confirming the news. "It's in preparation. It's called 'My American Lover.' Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho."
Director Lasse Hallstrom (who directed Depp in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape") will have the honors of directing the two in the story of the 20th century French writer and philosopher -- famous for her treatise "The Second Sex" -- and her American writer lover.
But the story is almost secondary to the excitement about this onscreen pairing after 12 years and two children together. It could be the "Britney and K-fed Story" and it would still bring in agog critics and fans into the multiplexes.
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The Pooflinger 2.0 Moltensteelman's theme-related art proposal for Burning Man 2012
As told by moopie, January 31, 2012Project Rationale
Moltensteelman Studio raises the welding torch in salute to the Burning Man Organization for offering up Ticket Launch Lottery, an overwhelmingly successful participatory community art installation that offers a sly and sophisticated riff on this year's recycled procreant theme. This installation asks boldly "What could be more fertile than full measure of manure?" We respond that there could be no better way to launch a festival focused on all that is fertile than to stage a full-fledged shitstorm right from the start.
And what a grand and glorious shitstorm it is. The anus-clenching experience that used to be known as Ticket Day has been rolled out and extended so that people seeking tickets may experience even greater gut-churning angst and anxiety for weeks on end. Remember, Burning Man is a journey. Participating in Ticket Launch Lottery is like getting an extra week of Burning Man for free, whether you get a ticket or not!
Secondary themes are used adeptly in this installation. Good art may not always be pretty, but it makes you think. Here, a rising flush of public sentiment has unleashed a backlash (or would this be backsplash?) against the corporate structure of the organization. In step with a United States election year that seems especially fertile for political change, citizens of Black Rock City are presented the opportunity to organize in protest against closed-door decision making by corporate elites. The grueling lottery process is not too bad for discouraging newbies, either, weaving in a deft reference to the issue of world over population.
The Project
In homage to this remarkable demonstration of artistic leadership, Moltensteelman Studio is launching a tribute to this year's unforgettable start to the Burning Man year by designing a new project that further explores the concept of fertility. It is also a participatory art installation that is meant to include the entire playa community. Ladies and gentlemen, for 2012, we bring you the Pooflinger 2.0.
Total city participation is the goal. Pooflinger 2.0 is designed to ensure fertility throughout the entire city and surrounding environments by casting a fragrant bounty of nutrient-dense organic solids to create the essence of authentic experience. No citizen of the city will go untouched, no camp will be unscathed, and no mutant vehicles will escape from the permeating effects of the Pooflinger 2.0.
Careful planning and research are hallmarks of Moltensteelman Studio, and planning for
the Pooflinger 2.0 has been no exception.
Plans are based on farm equipment to create familiar yet suitable implements for community participation at Black Rock City.
The Pooflinger 2.0 will be made in a playa-friendly scale, and designed to embrace the forces of natural ventilation that are expressed by nature as dust storms and gale-force winds. Situating the Pooflinger 2.0 in the correct position should achieve maximum air loft for the trajectory, ensuring mass participation day and night. Remember, total coverage is our goal.
Despite short notice of this year's theme, countless hours have been invested in testing and developing the Pooflinger 2.0. Look, we've even got a SketchUp drawing!
Remember, we can't do this alone. Look for our Kickstarter campaign starting April 1, and yes of course we've got lots of great shit to give you in return for your generous donations. –Moltensteelman Studio
New idea for theme based art
Fertility 2.0 - Black Rock City is a kind of Petri dish. Theme camps cling in fertile clusters to its latticework of streets, artworks tumble out of it, like pollen on the air. These nodes of interaction mutate, grow and reproduce their kind. Burning Man communities have now escaped this capsule world: our culture in a Petri dish has effloresced - it spreads across five continents. This year's art theme contemplates the tendency of any being or living system to create abundant life.
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I love this.
And the Amish guy is hawt.
And the Amish guy is hawt.
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Time for the Pooflinger 2.0!
Today's the day we start our Kickstarter for the Pooflinger 2.0.
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Shit, let's just all flush some cash down this toilet.
We have an obligation to make space for everyone, we have no obligation to make that space pleasant.
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