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You are viewing Cheat Codes for Super Mario 64
Game Name : Super Mario 64
System : Nintendo Wii
Date Added : 2006-10-25 04:53:37
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Look through walls
Walk up to a wall at a certain angle in first person view to see past it.
Collecting coins
Pick up every coin you can find. You get a free life for every 50 coins you collect.
Highest point of the castle
Get to the second peak of the castle. Then, find the wall facing the waterfall and walk up the wall. You will now be at the highest point of the castle. It is possible to fly up here in the center where the flag is located.
Defeating third Bowser
To defeat the final Bowser very easily, stand on the edge of the arena opposite of Bowser, next to a bomb. Face the outside (make sure you can still see Bowser) and hold [Z]. When he charges at you, press [A] and you will backflip over him. Press [B] to grab his tail and you will have his face already stuffed in the bomb -- you do not have to aim or even throw him. Press [B] again and repeat the sequence again. After you blow him up a few times, the edges will fall out of the arena and it will turn into a star. Do not fall off along with them. Go to a corner of the star and do the same thing, but you will now have to throw him. Go to the middle and get the big star. Some things will happen and you just basically complete the entire game.
Bob-omb Battlefield Warp 2
There is a warp in Bob-omb Battlefield that allows you to go up the mountain quickly. Begin by heading up the mountain until you come to the first indentation in the mountain that metal balls come out of. Go into the indentation, and stand there. The game will warp you to another indentation higher up in the mountain.
Defeating second Bowser
When you meet the second Bowser, he will jump and the platform slopes. After that, go very close to the farthest bomb from Bowser. Press [Z] to duck .When he tries to bump you, and is very close, press [A]. Mario will do a backward somersault. After that, grab his tail and throw him to the bomb.
Water Rise in Wet Dry World
There is a way to control how high the water level is in Wet Dry World when you enter it. If you jump high into the painting, the water level will start off high. If you jump low into the painting, the water level will start off low. There are several differents water levels that it can start as, and these are determined by how high you jump into the painting.
Control the speeds in the Tick Tock Clock
In order to control the speeds in the Tick Tock Clock, you will need to play close attention to the minute hand. When the hand is on the 3, the platforms in the clock will be slow. Like wise 6 will be medium speed and 9 will be fast.
Extra lives near Yoshi
Go to where Yoshi is located. Look at the wall to find some extra lives.
Bob-omb Battlefield Warp 1
There is a warp in Bob-omb Battlefield that lets you get from one side of the level to another quickly. After going up the first slanted bridge, go right and stand in the flower bed. The game will warp you to another flower bed, near the mountain. You can also warp from the flower bed next to the mountain to the flower bed next to the slanted bridge.
Coins from stumps
When you see a stump, try to circle it five times. If done correctly, five coins will appear from the stump.
Hidden extra life mushroom
After getting a total of three stars, enter the room with the painting of the sunken ship. Turn to the left of the entrance. Once in the room, press (C-Up) to look around. Look carefully to see a black square in the wall near the ceiling. Perform a double jump and climb into it. An extra life mushroom will come out. Note: Make sure to choose the square to the left of the entrance. The one on the right will lead you to the Castle's hidden aquarium.
After emptying the moat in front of the castle, use the ramp to walk down into it. Go under the bridge and press (C-Up) to look up to see two yellow coins. Perform a wall kick to get both the coins. Once you get both coins, an extra life mushroom will drop from above. This trick takes practice, and you may want to do a double jump and then a wall kick, as the coins are very high.
Use the following trick for another way to get the two yellow coins. If you have collected all 120 stars, cannonball yourself to the top and get the flying hat. Jump of the castle and fly under the bridge to get the first coin. Swing around in order to get the last coin. Then, pound ground to land so you can get the extra life.
Go to the first door on the left in the castle that does not have a number on it. Enter it and jump into the painting. Select any level and go to the cannon by the Chain Chomp's territory. Jump onto the tree just behind it, then do a handstand to get an extra life.
Easy lives
Enter the castle and go up the stairs all the way to the right. Enter the room and jump through the painting on the right. Go through the level collecting fifty or more coins and complete the level to get an extra life. This may be done as many times as needed as you will not lose a life if you fall off the track. Note: Hit the blue coin switch first to get fifty coins much easier.
Go into the basement after you have unlocked it. Leap into the picture of the fire with a face on it. After you have retrieved the first two stars, you will make a box appear above a platform off to your left from the beginning of the level. Open the box and you will get a turtle shell. Ride the shell around the lava to find plenty of extra life mushrooms.
Prevent damage from falls
When falling from a large drop, press (Z] just before you hit the ground to slam and you will not take any damage.
Jump off a high place and do a Super Butt Slam just before you hit the ground (or slightly higher), and no damage will be taken off.
Water level
If you jump in the water level, the level of the water will vary. For example, if you jump in the picture at the bottom, the water will be at the bottom. If you do a triple jump, you can get in the top of the picture and the water level will be at the top.
Sleeping Mario
Remain still for about a minute. Eventually Mario will yawn and fall asleep. In the v1.1 of the game, turn the camera to see bubbles coming out of his nose.
Little boxes
Throw the little boxes -- when they break, they give you extra coins.
Reaching high ledges
To reach high ledges, back flip, triple jump, or wall kick.
Stop the clock level
To stop the clock level on the third floor of the castle, jump in at exactly 12 o'clock
Go in at 12, 3, 6, or 9 o'clock.
Extra stars
Collect a hundred coins on a stage to get a star. Besides the six stars in each course there is an additional a seventh star obtained when 100 coins are collected. There are also stars in the castle. Toad gives Mario a few, as well as the running rabbit in the basement. After you get the first key from Bowser, unlock the door in the basement. Go in and look for a rabbit and catch it. This is very hard and frustrating, but will result in a star after he stops complaining that he is late for tea. On the Princess' Slide level, there are actually two stars that can be obtained. The first is collected by completing the course in under 25 seconds and the other can be obtained by completing it in under 20 seconds. To complete it in under 20 seconds use the following trick. When you first see the coins that move from the surface towards the air, jump. Hopefully you will land on a solid floor which is barely three seconds from the finish. Go to the first floor and into the one with a boat picture. Go right and face the cloud wall. Do a flip. You will find a black box. Jump in and then get eight red coins. On the other side, it is the same thing but you will get a mushroom. Play the magma Level with the mini volcano (the red hot log rolling mission). You need the red wing cap to fly. Get the wing cap box behind you with a long jump and start flying. Stop directly in front of the volcano and start doing the 1, 2, ,3 jump and fly. Start flying over to the logs in the bottom right corner, directly from where Mario starts. When you see the log, fly above it and you will see the Star. Fly into it. In the desert level, get the shell out of the box near the wing cap box. Keep jumping on the pyramid for the top of the pyramid star. Be careful not to hit a fall or a fire.
Fat penguin race
After getting 120 stars, go to race the pengiun in the 3rd world (The snow one) and he'll be fat, harder to beat, and have a new message for you.
Talk to Toad
Talk to Toad when you see him. He gives you stars, hints.
Shifting Sand Land Warp
In Shifting Sand Land, head over to the tree that is next to the oasis. Stand under the tree, and the game will warp you to a metal platform in the quicksand area. The cannon is there, as well as a black brick block. You can also warp from the metal platform to the tree.
Bob-omb Buddies
Talk to Bob-omb Buddies. They do not give you (n, but get the cannons ready for you.
Easy health refill
When Mario's energy is low, find water, swim underwater, then get some air. Another technique is to keep collecting coins.
Extra lives from butterflies
Butterflies may appear on courses 2, 12, and 13. Punch the butterflies to turn them into round black bombs that will chase Mario. The bombs will explode or turn into extra life mushrooms.
Infinite 1-up mushrooms in 6th level
While in the Hazy Maze Cave, get into the Hazy Maze itself. Kill eight of the moles in a row, you will get a 1-up. Make your way to the lone mole on the other side of the maze, kill him eight times, get a 1-up. Now go back to the first pair of moles, kill eight in a row and a THIRD 1-up mushroom will appear! Continue going between the moles for the desired amount of lives.
Thousand coin unlimited lives (Japanese version)
During the first fight with Bowser, avoid him and collect all the coins that appear. After a considerable amount of time, you should be able to collect 1000 coins. At this point, a green "M" will appear next to the number of lives remaining. From this point on, when a life is lost, the number of lives increases. The reverse is also true - gaining lives will actually lower the number of lives remaining. The cheat will end if the number of lives reaches zero, such as when Yoshi gives Mario 100 lives after obtaining 120 stars. The North American version only allows 999 coins to be collected.
Change Mario's appearance
Wait until Mario's head appears on the opening screen. Press (A) and use the hand that appears to grab and stretch various parts of his face. Press (B) to make Mario's head smaller. To keep a previously stretched piece in that position, hold (R) and select another piece to change.
To make Mario look like a baby, grab his cheeks with the hand and put them behind his nose so the mustache does not appear. He will resemble how he appeared in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island on the SNES.
Hold (R) and press (B) when Mario's head appears on the opening screen. Stretch his cap down, his mustache up behind his nose (which you should stretch up), his ears behind his head, and his mouth up to make him look like a baby.
To make Mario look like a hillbilly, pull his mustache up as far as possible, then put his ears behind his head. Next, pull his lip up all the way. Then, pull his nose to the left as far as possible. Finally, pull his hat down all the way.
To make Mario look like a pirate, Take the left side of his mustache, pull it up as far as possible, then cover his eye. Next, take the other side of his mustache and move it behind his nose, just until his nose is covering all of his mustache except the bottom. Finally, pull his hat down until you cannot see his left eye.
To make Mario disappear under his hat, hold (R) and press (B) until he is as small as possible. Then, put his mouth up as far as possible. Put his left ear to the right as far as possible, and do the same thing to his right ear. Next, put his hat as far down as possible, then press (B). If done correctly, Mario will be completely hidden under his hat.
To make Mario look fat, pull his mouth halfway down. Then, put his ears behind his back. Pull his cheeks on the left diagonally left and his cheeks on his right diagonally right. Finally, pull his nose down slightly.
To make Mario resemble an army sergeant, pull his cap down as far as possible, then pull the left and right side of his mustache over his eyes. Swing his ears behind his head. Then, pull his lips up and out to your left (his right).
To see Mario sleeping with his eye's open, pull his hat down all the way. When Mario starts sleeping, his eyes should be open.
To make Mario look like an alien, pull his nose all the way down. Then, pull his mustache behind his nose. Pull his ears all the way out. Finally, stretch his cap all the way up.
To make Mario look like he is wearing sunglasses on, pull his mustache all the way up as far as possible. Then, pull the top of his face down until the eyes go behind the mustache.
Extra lives in third Bowser battle
Walk behind the top left pillar to collect an extra life if you lose a life during the battle.
Obtain all 120 stars and go outside the castle. Climb inside the cannon opening that is now located where the grating was near the Fish Pond. Aim to land Mario onto the roof, where he will meet Yoshi. He will speak to Mario, award a 100 life bonus and a triple-jump move, and quickly leave.
When you start the game, you will see the castle . Go to the right side of the castle . Start from the first tree closest to the castle. Stand next to the tree and run forward, then press (A)x3 to do a front flip, then kick off the castle, then get to the grass wall that stands next to the castle, Keep doing the same thing until you get to the top of the castle, where you will find Yoshi.
Control camera during credits
To control the camera during the end credits, simply beat the last Bowser with a controller pugged into port #2. During the credits use the controller in port #2 to control the camera.
Extra life from tree
Go outside the castle, near the waterfall. Climb the third tree from the waterfall. Do a handstand on top of the tree to get an extra life. Enter the castle's first floor. Then, return outside and climb the same tree. Do another handstand for another extra life. Repeat the trick as needed.
Get all items in Vanish Cap section
When you empty the moat that floods the bottom of the bridge outside the castle, go into the newly opened hole. This is the Vanish Cap section. Slide and try and get all the mushrooms, red coins, etc. It can be climbed if you missed anything. If you land on a platform or go straight to the ground, climb up by crawling. This can be done by holding [Z] + "Analog-stick Forward" (do not release [Z]). This will take awhile, but it is worth it.
Mushroom following you
Collect 120 stars then go to a tree outside of the castle. Quickly climb it and jump off the top jump. A Mushroom will appear and follow you.
Spiral stairs shortcut
Walk into the castle, walk up the stairs to the door with the key hole, then go inside. You will see a column to the left, just before the staircase starts to spiral. Walk along the wall to your left until reaching the corner where the wall and the column meet. Perform a double jump while still moving in that direction. This should allow Mario to jump through the ceiling and bring him right to the top of the stairs. Although this is not a very large shortcut, it will save a few seconds and some dizziness.
Ending sequence camera
After completing the game, use the Analog-stick on controller two to control the camera in the scene featuring Mario, Princess Peach, and her Toad guards. The camera is also controllable on the credits screens. Note: The second controller must be plugged in before the Nintendo 64 is turned on.
Statue message
Go to the courtyard where all the Boo ghosts are located. Get close to the statue of the star and press (C-Up) to look. You can see that the statue reads "L is Real 2041." The meaning of this is unknown, but the total number of coins in the entire game is 2045.
Special Triple Jump
Get 120 stars and the lives from Yoshi on the roof of the castle.
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Complying with the regulatory laws of an organization paves ways for the success of the organization. Hence, it is vital that compliance training is marked as primary and important in every organization's training calendars. E-learning goes well with compliance training. This is because e-learning can quickly reach a large population of employees and get them acquainted with the changing policies and regulations. So, while e-learning is mostly preferred, it is important for e-learning developers to adhere to certain design strategies while creating a compliance course.
In my blog today, I wish to discuss a design strategy that we have adopted for compliance training through e-learning.
- Scenario-based approach: Usually, compliance content would be very long and text heavy. Our strategy was to make that text heavy content into an engaging course, which our learners could take without getting into the state of boredom. For this, we used a scenario-based approach that started with a message from the head of the organization. We introduced a character to represent the head of the organization that addressed the employees (learners) and explained the importance of complying with the regulations of the company. The entire learning was volunteered by this character and also the other characters. The elements of learning were incorporated within the course progression.
- Use of interactivities:As said earlier,compliance content is very long and text heavy. This is due to the fact that companies have a vast set of regulations and policies regarding their business trade. For instance, a healthcare organization may have policies regarding product promotion, medical utilities, education and training, scientific research and many more. Learning about all these guidelines might be very tedious for the employees. To mitigate this challenge, we made effective use of interactivities through which learners could interact with the content and explore learning on their own.We presented each section of the compliance unit separately so that learners could just click and learn about the respective unit. An effective use of images and graphics were made for each compliance unit in order to enhance learning.
- Assessment strategy for retention and recall: While learners learn about thecompliance of the company, it is vital that they are able to remember and recall it in future. For this, our approach was to include assessments in the course that would help to check employees' understanding of policies and procedures. We included formative assessments after each section of the compliance unit so that learners could take the assessments and then proceed to the next compliance unit. A formative feedback was also accompanied with each question that would help learners know the right and wrong responses.This was again an effective approach to reinforce learning and instill knowledge about compliance of the organization.
Compliance training has a great impact on the quality of work that is carried out in organizations. Hence, it is mandatory that every organization transits employees on compliance. By following the aforementioned e-learning strategy, compliance training can be made interesting and engaging for the learners.

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text: The Swedish auto motor & sport have now run Tesla model S tests in the two latest editions of the magazine. in the latest they did test the model s vs BMW M550xd and Lexus GS450h. The model S won big time. The cons they noted regarding the tesla was high insurance price, the headroom in the back, the not so good headrests that would probably be bad in a whiplash situation, the seats and interior quality, not tested, the very expensive service, laxk pf euro NCAP test, no cleaning of the headlights (actually law over here...), no automatic brakingsystem (will be mandatory in 2015). The index for the tesla was 403, the Lexus 155 and the BMW 111... So it ate the other cars alive. The cons just to tell what could be improved... ;-) they think the car is amazing but expensive. Its also cool that in the special round focusimg on sporty car the tesla got 22,5 points, the Lwxus 16,5 and the BMW 16... The BMW to heavy with 4*4... They called the Tesla like a big lotus Evora!!! The car was a P85+. They noted the huge difference vs the car they tested in the edition before that was a P85 with the allyear tires... Huge difference with real summer tires and the +... ;-) i did not expect the model S to eat the M550xd alive but it did! ;-)


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Victory Dalat Hotel
Property Details
Property Location
A stay at Victory Dalat Hotel places you in the heart of Da Lat, within a 10-minute drive of Cathedral of Da Lat and Da Lat Market. This hotel is 1.1 mi (1.7 km) from Linh Son Pagoda and 1.2 mi (2 km) from Domaine de Marie Church.
Make yourself at home in one of the 40 guestrooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and complimentary bottled water, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, a television in a common area, and tour/ticket assistance.
At Victory Dalat Hotel, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 6 AM to 9 AM for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge during limited hours, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Hotel policy
Bed Types are requests only and may not be honoured at the hotel if availability does not permit.
Property Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. Airport shuttle service is available during limited hours. Contact the property in advance to make arrangements.
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Please note, there is important information about this property to know before you arrive.
Know Before You Go
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: VND 80000 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: VND 350000 per vehicle (one way)
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At the end of the previous post I mentioned a fifty-year-old book of essays, recently reissued, with the title The Transfigured Cosmos. I said that for me the title is a wonderful summary of the consequences of what Thomas Berry calls the "new mode of religious understanding" that's ours thanks to modern science. Because of the new cosmology we are, as Berry says, "recovering reverence." And when we do, our world is indeed transfigured.
One of my main points in the previous post is that we are genetically coded to the Cenozoic era-- to the Earth's "lyric period," as Thomas Berry calls it. Primal religion is in our genes. I think it's especially important for us to appreciate the fact that this fact has been established, as Berry emphasizes, not by any of the religious traditions but by the efforts of modern science to understand humanity and the world we live in.
From the point of view of "Big History"-- the longest long-range perspective available to us, starting with the Big Bang and ending only with the present moment-- the major religious traditions as we know them today began quite recently.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the West, and the spiritual traditions of the Eastern world such as Buddhism and Hinduism, all appeared around the same time in human history-- about 25 centuries ago.
Those early humans and to a great extent indigenous peoples still today, says Berry, are attuned to the natural world and the numinous nature of the cosmos spontaneously. For them, "Mountains were spiritual modes of being. Sunrise and sunset were sacred moments. Animals were spirit presences."
And it's from this spiritual communication with the natural world that all "religious ritual, prayer, poetry and music were born."
We are no less capable of experiencing communion with the Earth-- the sacred, the holy, the mysterium tremendum et fascinans-- than were our very earliest human ancestors a million years ago.
In Western culture, that sense of communion with the Earth was, as Berry says, "lost for a time." We became "doubly estranged"-- by both religious dualism and scientific rationalism. But thanks to the new cosmology provided by contemporary science, we are discovering again the story of our origins and of our place in the universe.
Berry emphasizes that we learn to hear this story by listening to the voices of nature: "the stars at night, songs of birds at dawn, the smell of honeysuckle on a summer evening."
He says those experiences of "wonder for the mind, beauty for the imagination, and intimacy for the emotions" are experiences of "that numinous reality whence the universe came into being and by which it is sustained in its immense journey."
Especially important for us today is appreciating that these voices of nature are "dimensions of the human soul, revelations of the divine being communicated to us, and inspiration for our spiritual life." Berry sums it up nicely by saying that because of the new cosmology, we know today that "Evolution is our sacred story."
Despite the strong unitive and sophiological perspectives in the scriptures of the Western religious tradition, Judaism, Christianity and Islam could hardly avoid adopting the patriarchal and dualistic attitudes of the culture in which they arose. And early science, with its tremendously practical successes due to its focus on physical matter, greatly enhanced that loss of communion with the natural world.
But it was the Industrial Revolution, with its extraction technologies such as coal-mining and oil-drilling in the 18th and 19th centuries, which put an apparently definitive end to Western culture's sense of unity with nature.
"With extraction," says Berry, "the planet lost its beauty, wonder, majesty, grace and life-giving-ness. It became an object to be used." The engineers took over, he says-- "the mechanical, the electrical, the chemical and now the genetic engineers." The result is that in our contemporary world "the radiant presence of the divine is no longer recognized."
The most important point here, once again, is that our unique human ability to experience the numinous is still in our genes. We remain "genetically coded" to recognizing "the radiant presence of the divine" by listening to the voices of the Earth. And thanks to the new scientific cosmology, we are in fact recovering reverence.
With regard to the consequences of our recovery of reverence, I think the most important practical result has been global humanity's growing awareness of our responsibility to take care of the Earth from which we have emerged.
When we see that "evolution is our sacred story" and that we are participants in the evolutionary process, we recognize immediately that, as Berry says, "Every geological, biological and human component of the Earth is bound together." His point is that "what happens to one happens to all."
He quotes a Native American speaker who expresses these thoughts with simplicity and power: "We live with all that lives and is, and it calls us to take care of it."
I learned a chant along these lines many years ago, on my first vision quest. It's sung to a steady drumbeat, with the last three words getting two beats: "The Earth is our mother; she will take care of us. The Earth is our mother; we must take care of her."
When we know our life to be a participation in the cosmic process, then our numinous experience of communion with nature calls us take care of Mother Earth.
In the same way, it becomes clear that we are called to take care of one another.
Berry says that this sense of being responsible participants in cosmic evolution is now the context for every kind of social action. No "good works," he says, "will succeed in our time apart from the larger context of the natural world; it is the only effective context for survival."
I'm sure that most readers agree with the thoughts I've shared so far in this post. They are relatively familiar. But it's the importance of the recovery of reverence specifically in terms of global religious conflicts that may be new for many readers. That's what I want to give more space to here.
One of the most immediate and significant results of recognizing that our numinous experience of the sacred goes back to our earliest human ancestors is that we recognize, in this larger context, that "primal" or "Cenozoic" religion is the basis of all humanity's religious traditions.
In light of the unitive perspectives of the cosmo-the-andric unity-- whether we call that numinous awareness "contemplative" or "mystical" or "spiritual"-- we can readily see that all the religions of the Earth have the same fundamental source.
It is our inborn genetic sensitivity to the numinous in the natural world that allows us to see-- not via any external authority but from our own personal experience-- that all the religions of the Earth are expressions of the sacred.
In an earlier post (#84), I quoted Thomas Berry's remark about how hard it is for those of us in Western culture to believe that science that has established the fundamental spiritual aspects of human nature:
I think it's just as difficult-- maybe even more difficult-- for those of us in Western culture to believe that our personal experience establishes the validity of all religious traditions. But it's the essence of our new mode of religious understanding.
This new understanding was expressed well by the British monk Bede Griffith, who went to India in the middle of the 20th century to live in the style of Hindu ascetics.
In an essay published in 1994, Bede speaks of the need for a universal wisdom "which can unify humanity and enable us to face the problems created by Western science and technology." It is, he says, "the greatest need of humanity today." And he stresses that the "religions of the world cannot answer this need. They are themselves part of the problem of a divided world."
Bede notes explicitly that even our ancient religious traditions need to be reinterpreted in terms of the new scientific cosmology:
The especially important point Bede is making here is that there is a much earlier wisdom which the present religious traditions of the Earth have inherited. The "wisdom" he is referring to is of course precisely the experience of the sacred-- the holy, the numinous-- which is still in our genes and which is the basis of all humanity's religious traditions.
In terms of the numinous experience of our early ancestors, Thomas Berry spells out nicely this essential idea of the validity of all the Earth's religious traditions: "From these primordial indigenous experiences have come the diverse scriptures of the world, the various forms of worship, and the variety of spiritual disciplines."
Speaking to a Western audience specifically with regard to the world's religious scriptures, Berry says that it would constrict rather than expand our understanding of divine-human communication if we were to consider "only the Western Judeo-Christian Bible as revelation and eliminate the Koran of Islam, the Vedas and Upanishads of India, Buddhism's Lotus Sutra and China's Tao Te Ching."
"It would not be an improvement on our understanding of the numinous but an impoverishment," he emphasizes, if we were to eliminate "India's Shiva and Vishnu, Asia's Kuan-yin, or Native America's Manitou and Wakan-tanka."
In words that I hope will bring to readers' minds my earlier posts on the two mavericks C. G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, Berry makes an especially important point with regard to the validity of all the world religious traditions. "While every archetype needs multiple realizations," he notes, "the sacred [needs] more than any other."
Asian cultures seem to understand, better than Western people do, that the idea of the holy needs multiple expressions, that the numinous-- the Tao, the Great Mystery tremendum et fascinans-- cannot be limited. If it's in our genes to experience the sacred, we can expect that our cultural experiences will differ.
The point is that in our day we can trust, as our grandparents would never have been able to, that we don't demean the Mystery of God by recognizing-- via our recovery of reverence for the world of nature-- the validity of all humanity's religious experience.
Indeed, if anything does demean the divine mystery, it's religious conflict. I see this realization on the part of the Earth's religious traditions to be an especially significant global consequence of our recovery of reverence.
I also see that this global consequence of recovering reverence comes just in time.
In February of this year (2011), data is scheduled to be released of the observations made by NASA's space telescope "Kepler" about the number of nearby planetary systems containing Earth-like planets.
Early word is that the data will include tentative identification of several hundred planets similar to our own. The implication is that our whole Milky Way Galaxy may contain tens of billions of planets roughly the size and mass of the Earth.
And there are billions of galaxies besides our own Milky Way Galaxy!
[Added 31 Jan 2011: An introductory background report appeared in today's New York Times: see Gazing Afar for Other Earths, and Other Beings.]
[Added 3 Feb 2011: See today's Astronomy Picture of the Day for a good diagram comparing the newly found 'solar' system containing six planets to our own solar system.]
If "the cosmic process has a human dimension from the start," as Berry emphasizes, we can expect that biological life and reflective-- self-aware-- consciousness eventually will have emerged on some, if not many, of the billion-billion planets in the universe.
And so we can look forward to someday learning of the many forms of religious experience that have appeared on them.
Won't it be exciting to see how religious ritual, prayer, poetry and music find expression on planets other than our own!
Won't it be exciting to see how "that numinous reality whence the universe came into being and by which it is sustained in its immense journey" has shown itself to our cosmic cousins.
Surely the most significant global consequence of recovering reverence will be this truly cosmic perspective. We'll see better than ever that, as Berry says, "the universe is a vast celebration," that "it is our role to enter into it," and that "this is the purpose of all existence."
I think that will be quite literally a "transfigured cosmos."
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How To Decorate for an Elegant Halloween Party (courtesy of UrbanRoute)
If you want a spooktacular Halloween, you have to have the right ambiance. Dah dah dah dah! It's like magic! I love this time of year! You never know what's gonna happen. Check out these great hats and this fabulous room! Jill, what have you done in here?
Well, you know we went to town. We made it really elegant, instead of being tacky. Because, Halloween can be that way. So, we went out into nature, went for a nice walk and gathered wonderful twigs and branches and leaves, and we've added all kinds of lovely, elegant throws and pumpkins. Even if you don't carve them, the pumpkins look really fabulous, just around the room.
OK, I love the spiders!
It's fun, because you can just add a little whimsy with things like that. And, they're just little magnets. And with the pumpkins, put them around, put them in groups of 3…we even put one inside the blackbird house.
Let's go check out how you can have the perfect Halloween dinner setting.
We have had SO much fun putting this table together, because it's wonderful to have the opportunity to be creative with some color from nature. So, the leaves on the table, and, the centerpiece…honestly, it is so simple! There's sugar, candy corn, black beans and red lentils, and they become the anchor for twigs, and, just get dramatic. Go for some extreme height, add a crow, look at what you get!
Except, I think my son would try to dig down and get the candy out, I'm telling you right now!
Just put some more in another bowl somewhere else – maybe he won't be so tempted.
But, if you do want a little candy, check out the napkin rings!
Isn't that fun? Black licorice – you gotta have it! And, just knot it around the napkin that's just rolled up. And, then, when you're done, you can eat it! Such a great trick! I also love that this isn't your classic Halloween orange.
Yes, we've gone with a more subdued, cinnamon color, and,it then means you can use it again afterward. I think the final thing is to be organized for your guests. Set up a little bar cart and have all of the things you need handy, so it makes your life easier. Then in the kitchen area, don't forget to add a bit of drama. You can get wonderful, white mini-pumpkins and mass them in quantity. Use a couple of glass cloches and put some goodies inside of there….branches and pumpkins…and, voila! It's elegant, yet it's festive at the same time!
Thank you, Julie. I can't wait to get home and decorate my house for Halloween! Have a Spooktacular Halloween!


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The Odyssey Preparatory Academy is accredited as an International Baccalaureate school, offering the MYP and DP programmes.
The Diploma Programme (DP) level, for grades 11 and 12, is a comprehensive two-year advanced academic studies program designed to prepare scholars for success in higher academia and participation in a global society. Scholars begin the program in their junior year of high school and study six subjects chosen from the six subject groups, complete and extended essay, follow a theory of knowledge (TOK) course and participate in a Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) plan.
OI has already been accepted in the IB community to offer The Middle Years Programme (MYP), designed for 6th to 10th-grade scholars. The MYP focuses on scholars becoming creative, critical and reflective thinkers, all while emphasizing intellectual challenges and encouraging the scholars to make the connection between their studies and the real world.
Currently, The Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies is the only school in the state of Arizona offering all of the Middle Years Programme for scholars in the 6th through the 10th grades. Odyssey will be the fourth school in the state of Arizona offering both the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. Odyssey will be the only school in the state of Arizona requiring the entire student body from the 6th grade through 12th grade to take the IB programme.
For comprehensive information on the International Baccalaureate program and the rigors of this learning experience, please visit the International Baccalaureate Organization.
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Adventures in Supercomputing
The Adventures in Supercomputing (AiS) program is designed to offer an interdisciplinary approach to project-based curriculum using the techniques of the field of computational science. The AiS program embraces many of the ideals expressed in the education reforms which have been proposed to engage students in effective learning with an emphasis on critical thinking, hands-on problem solving, and independent research.
Adventures of Josie True
Free Web-based program for girls designed to encourage exploration and promote confidence in math and the sciences through multicultural educational software.
American Computer Science League
The American Computer Science League (ACSL) organizes computer science contests and computer programming contests for junior and senior high school students.
Annotated Bibliography of Books Related to Gender Equity in Math and Science
Binary Girl
Sharing knowledge with those interested in learning more about technology through an interactive community of women, bringing members together so that they may create the ultimate resource for themselves, and providing encouragment and support women need to expand their endeavors, whether it be building the perfect PC or starting their own IT business.
Club Girl Tech
Enhancing the lives of girls 8-12 with stylish, technology-based and innovative products.
Computer Museum
The Computer Museum, located in Boston and cyberspace, has interactive exhibits, computing history resources, and a Computer Club House.
Computer Science role models for girls
Provides a collection of profiles of female computer scientists, reasons to pursue technical career, and what its like to work in a variety of technical industries.
Cool Jobs for Girls
Introduces girls to high-wage nontraditional occupations, jobs in which women represent less than 25% of the workforce.
Cornell Science & Arts Gateway for Education (SAGE)
A gateway providing links to resources for educators and students from K-12.
Destination 2020
Helps teenagers find what they are good at by imagining what a day in their life would look like in 2020.
EGEMS - Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science
Great site with examples of creative games for girls involving discrete math and computer science concepts. A free CD-ROM is available.
Expanding Your Horizons
Since 1976, over 500,000 6th through 12th grade girls and young women have enjoyed hands-on math and science at Expanding Your Horizons workshops led by women role models who have math-based careers. The Math/Science Network licenses the program to over 100 groups across the country each year. The Web site provides information on all of the conferences and on famous women mathematicians and scientists.
Exploring Your Future in Math and Science
A web site aimed at encouraging high school girls to consider becoming scientists.
Family Math Home Page
"FAMILY MATH is a program developed by EQUALS, at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California. The goal of FAMILY MATH is to encourage underrepresented groups (especially girls and minority students) to enter careers that use mathematics. FAMILY MATH is, of course, family-based."
Girl Tech
A girl-centered web site with a search engine and links to other sites, as well as some excellent articles for parents and teachers.
A Texas organization to empower girls in math, science, engineering, and technology.
Cynthia Lanius of Rice University has put together a valuable collection of resources concerned with spurring girls' interest in mathematics and computer science. This page includes an introduction to the issue, ten tips, and a large collection of links to related sites.
Internet for Girls: Connecting Girls with Math, Science and Technology
Donna Woodka's homepage. Online version of her not yet published book regarding girls and computer science (title above).
Inventive Kids
An interactive website on invention and innovation, with a focus on Canadian and female inventors.
New Moon
A magazine for "girls and their dreams" with separate resources for adults who care about girls.
Operation Minerva
A Canadian organization that runs a network of local projects in Alberta, designed to increase the participation of girls in math, science and technology. Each project is independently organized by interested volunteers and with community support.
Role Model Project for Girls
This site was created to share the notion that girls can grow up to be almost anything--in a wide variety of professional careers--way more than they probably know exist.
Sally Ride Science
This organization was founded by former astronaut Sally Ride to encourage and support girls' interest in science, mathematics and technology. Their website provides a variety of resources designed to help girls excel and to sustain their interest. These include: The Sally Ride Science Club, Community Science Festivals, and Space Camp Adventures.
Techbridge, a program for girls in technology, science and engineering, developed a guide to help role models, corporations and educators to plan effective classroom visits and worksite field trips.
Telementoring provides a wide range of print and on-line resources for mentors, students, parents, and teachers. The menu of resources supplied here is intended as a support directory for Telementoring participants. A core group of resources are print materials developed by the project to assist participants in preparing for on-line telementoring experiences. Additional resources include on-line pointers to curriculum materials and teaching strategies for educators, information sources about girls in science and technical fields, and other interesting web-sites that provide support information about careers in the sciences, professional associations for women and minorities, and college information.
Women In Computer Science
A list of short biographies of some women working in the field, aimed at younger women considering a career in mathematics or computer science.
Women in Technology Project
The Women in Technology (WIT) Project, at Vermont Technical College, is committed to encouraging young women in middle school and high school to study math, science and technology and to explore opportunities for careers in these fields. Through its Summer Technology Camps, Speakers Bureau, and many other programs, WIT helps girls, parents and teachers dispel stereotypes and overcome barriers to girls' educational and career success.


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MEXICO CITY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Mexican auto exports soared 11.9 percent in November compared with the previous year, the country's main auto industry group said on Wednesday, but domestic sales fell for the sixth consecutive month due to declining demand for small cars.
Auto production shot up 4.5 percent, the Mexican Auto Industry Association (AMIA) said. Domestic sales slumped 8.5 percent.
Mexico's booming auto sector has become a growth engine for the economy and an export hub for the industry due to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Manufacturers have been lured to the sector by cheaper labor and numerous free trade agreements. (Reporting by Sheky Espejo; writing by Julia Love)


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AML, KYC On-boarding Remediation - Sub Contractor/ Contractor Role
- New York, NY
- Contract
Company Description
Sia Partners is a unique management consulting firm composed of 950+ passionate consultants who drive business changes among our customers. Through unparalleled industry expertise, we deliver superior value and tangible results to our clients in over 21 sectors and service teams.
Financial institutions have drastically changed over the last decade and further evolutions are yet to come. Regulatory constraints have driven most of these transformations, but the disruptive revolution is much more complex and cannot be limited to the latter. Business models must be adapted within each business line and operating models must take into account industrial partnership, outsourcing or strategic alliances. Sia Partners assists its clients in coping with these transformations in order to improve their competitive advantages, flexibility productivity and profitability: strategic deployment, financial performance, business process optimization, digitalization, risk and regulatory adherence.
Sia Partners is hiring! Thanks to Sia Partners' international footprint, the Financial Services practice is strategically located in all major financial and energy hubs (New York, Charlotte, Houston, UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific) and our integrated model allows teams from different countries to easily partner, when appropriate.
Job Description
We are currently searching for a Sub Contractor/ Contractor for our AML, KYC On-boarding Remediation team at a Global Bank. The project will be about 3-12 months.
- This individual will work on-site at our Financial Service clients and assist the banks in performing KYC Remediation for their customers' accounts. (The title of this position will be based on experience)
- This individual will be responsible for performing KYC Remediation of our client's customers' accounts by drafting procedures, describing the process of remediating their accounts, and then executing this approach.
- Collaboration with internal and external bank stakeholders.
- Understand the US and Global Regulations to perform KYC remediation.
- Analyze existing AML/KYC policies, guidelines and procedures and create new AML/KYC policies, guidelines and procedures that are consistent with the US Global Regulations.
- Perform GAP Assessment of the required information that will be needed for customer accounts.
- Identify and implement new regulatory rules.
- Enhance and centralize the banks onboarding policies, guidelines and procedures. This includes: preparing information requests to relationship managers, retrieve missing documentation from their customers, screen and transaction monitoring of the accounts, and compile the final KYC packages to complete the remediation.
- Prepare information requests for relationship managers, and retrieve missing documentation from their customers.
- Screen and transaction monitoring of the accounts, and compile final KYC packaged to complete the remediation.
- Strong academic background (e.g. Business, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering)
- At least 2 years in management consulting experience or Financial Services
- Outstanding team player, autonomous, dynamic, result oriented, rigorous and committed
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and able to communicate complex ideas to all areas of the business
- Flexibility, able to execute against tight deadlines, work with minimum supervision, exercise independent judgment and prioritize work
- Assist clients with onboarding their new client relationships and remediation of active clients by working with multiple the business lines. Includes US KYC / AML, Dodd Frank, FATCA and other regulations that impact their business
- Knowledge of AML, KYC Sanctions, screening and on boarding, Due Diligence compliance framework, i.e. USA Patriot Act, BSA, OFAC, etc.
- Collect, upload and investigate client documents
- Process modelling: Analyze current business process to understand the business needs and to determine how to best fulfill those needs
- Strong knowledge of Client On-Boarding process/lifecycle and experience of such projects within a top tier Financial Institution or Management Consulting firm
- No Relocation or Travel Stipend
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. At Sia Partners, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.


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Acclaimed chef Hubert Keller is no stranger to big knives, pricey meat or television.
Keller has his own show on PBS, and his lingering French accent and shoulder-length white hair have made him a recognizable face at the judges' table during three seasons of the Bravo's hit kitchen competition Top Chef.
When it comes to high bill meat, his Mandalay Bay incarnation of Fleur de Lys serves up a deluxe burger that goes for a cool $5,000. They're not "flying out the door," he admits with a laugh. And on the big knife front, well, he's a chef. Oh yea, he'll also likely be using one tonight on the debut of Top Chef Masters (Bravo, 10 p.m.), and not to scare some chef who overcooked their calamari. Keller is trading his judge's seat for chef's whites. He's competing.
The man behind Mandalay Bay restaurants Fleur de Lys and Burger Bar will join fellow local Rick Moonen of RM Seafood and a roster of 22 other elite chefs in sautéing, slicing and sous vide-ing for the title of Top Master Chef and a $100,000 check for the charity of their choice. Here's what Keller had to say about stepping up to the competition, dealing with the cameras and succeeding in Las Vegas:
What was your experience like as a judge on Top Chef?
As a judge it's not really very complicated. It's actually a pretty cool experience. You're totally surprised when the dishes come in front of you to see how well the chefs are doing that day. … I think as judges it's very important that each time when we're sitting down we do not judge how that chef has performed in the past. He's really judged on that single "quickfire" or that single challenge. Like any other thing in sports, that's your chance; that's your race. Right now, here's your moment.
Did your experience judging on Top Chef help you as a contestant on Top Chef Masters?
No. I think some of the other chefs were saying, 'Well, at least you know things there, at least you have been there, you know how certain things work.' In reality, … as a judge you kind of imagine what's going on [in the kitchen], but if you are not doing it on your own, and you can't stand in the shoes feeling that particular pressure and the surprises that have been thrown at you, even having been a judge it doesn't help anymore. You stand alone … just competing against who is left and right of you.
As a chef in your restaurants, are you being judged from scratch every time a dish goes out or a new customer comes in to dine?
We are in a daily competition. We're in a daily Top Chef race. Every night when we open up the doors it's a performance. … You have an audience and the whole idea is to make sure that audience leaves that showroom or the restaurant with happy faces. I think that as a chef we have to keep in mind it's not only about the cooking. It's about the entire experience. You only look so good as your last performance, and the next day you have to roll it out again. Whoever is able to play the card of consistency – that will be the winner at the end.
As a restaurateur and a chef your job is to feed people and make them happy. How much of a struggle is there between what you think the customers want and what would be exciting for you to create?
I think it's basically what your doctor tells you to do and what you're really doing in reality. It's about the same thing. (Laughs) There's a pretty fine line, and I think over the years where you're developing a style, you're developing a personality, you're developing something where people put themselves in your hands after several years of you proving yourself.
- Related Stories
- Vegas chefs sharpen their knives for Top Chef Masters (6/9/09)
- Rick Moonen and Hubert Keller among Bravo's new "masters" (4/9/09)
- Beyond the Weekly
- Top Chef Masters
What about being a contestant on Top Chef Masters surprised you the most?
We didn't have cameras, of course, in our bedrooms, but besides that and for the very few hours that we slept at night, you constantly had a camera on you. You constantly had somebody with you; you're never left alone. So, it's an extremely serious competition in the sense of there's no escaping. ... It's extremely fair, but pretty intense. Not to go into detail, but if you go to the restroom someone's going to come with you and wait outside the door. ... But at the same time it makes it real. There's not one thing being shown and in the back it's much cooler or things are arranged. No.
Cheftestants on Top Chef often have a hard time taking criticism. How did the master chefs who've had so much acclaim react to being critiqued?
We don't have to prove anything anymore. I know I sound pretentious, but we came together as Top Chef Masters and we have proven part of ourselves through our restaurants, so we didn't go to the competition to be discovered…We were competing like professionals. … It's not like the guy puts his pan on the fire and one of us turns his fire off or crank up the oven; it's not about that. … I think it's like the Olympics. We are competing on that level. … And the viewer can say, "Oh my god, look at these guys and how they think." In certain situations our mind works a little different, and that's what makes Top Chef Masters very exciting.
As an already successful chef, did you learn anything from the show?
Not in the sense of something I could implement in the restaurant. For me, it worked in the other way totally around. I was able to use everything that I use in my restaurant and use all the tricks and trades in the competition. Of course, I never cooked pasta in a shower, and hopefully, I'll never have to cook pasta in a shower to cook macaroni and cheese again, but it was more like using things, ideas, techniques, recipes and combinations of flavors that I used in the past in the restaurant.
Some chefs say they have to be careful what they serve in Las Vegas, because of the population that comes here. Have you found that at all with your Las Vegas restaurants?
I disagree on that. I think, when it comes to Las Vegas, you can definitely carry a menu that I would put in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago or New York. Those are absolutely great restaurant cities. … Today, there are so many good restaurants in Las Vegas and not enough people probably for all the restaurants that it becomes competitive. And I think competitive is good, because it knocks off the ones who are not the best ones and the other ones stay. It becomes like San Francisco where I have had Fleur de Lys for 22 years, and that's what we're doing for 22 years: We're competing. That's what makes a real restaurant city. Who would have thought Las Vegas would be on that level 10 years ago? And today it's absolutely there.


text: In a world where kids make the rules, super-villains won't know what hit them. Join the Supercrew on a wild musical adventure filled with jet packs, secret lairs, and selfies! When Superdude loses his Bucket of Destiny, Doctor Rude comes up with the perfect scheme to take over the world. Luckily, Duder #9 and the Damsel have a plan — but it involves the entire audience! This show is sure to entertain all ages, but is ideal for ages 5-12.


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Lent: A Spiritual Approach ~ by Doreene
It's that time of year… The period known as Lent is the beginning of a shift of energy on the planet. From a Spiritual standpoint, during that time people tend to release or surrender things that they no longer want in their lives, or things that have too much negative control in their lives. In […]
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Song of the day: Mahogany/"Chance"
One of the new additions to Rhapsody today is Memory Column, a compilation of singles, rarities and other work from the dreampop group Mahogany. I've been giving it a listen this morning, but haven't found anything that compares to "Chance," my favorite song on the band's 2001 album Dream of a Modern Day (pictured above). It's atmospheric pop at its best, with layered, shoegazey guitars and delicate female vocals, and a great way to float off into the holiday weekend. Enjoy the music.


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Laundry Room Organization
Posted on Feb 5th 2010 by topshelfcloset.
Laundry shouldn't be a dirty job. We understand how important it is to minimize your valuable time with this never-ending chore. A well-planned laundry room should be a pleasant place to work. With an TopShelf Exquisite Closets of Cincinnati design, laundry, ironing and cleaning supplies will be conveniently stored in an orderly manner. Having your laundry room will work with you is like an having extra set of hands.


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Does this look heavy ? Well it is so heavy it took four of us to bring it into the house. It's Made solid red oak and red oak veneer plywood. Yes that top is solid oak (cutting board style) 60" x 25" x 1.5" . This again is when I was in my oak phase.
This was made to fit a 27" T.V. and like needed equipment, and has three draws for tapes and DVDs. It has about 5 coats of brushed on laquer (so far so good).
-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???
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#1 posted 04-29-2008 04:37 PM
HOLY SMOKES !!! Beautiful piece of furniture and the finish looks great too. Oh yeah , love your quote about your mistakes ! lmao : )
-- I'm absolutely positive that I couldn't be more uncertain!
#2 posted 04-29-2008 04:52 PM
Great looking chunk of oak!
-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX
#3 posted 04-29-2008 05:16 PM
Great work!
Thanks for the post
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#4 posted 04-29-2008 05:39 PM
Nice job on the cabinet. I hope you have it where you want it so you don't have to move it often.
-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.
#5 posted 04-29-2008 06:37 PM
That is a nice entertainment center. You did a good job with its execution and construction.
Thanks for the post.
-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine
#6 posted 04-29-2008 06:42 PM
That is really puuurty!
And the top is sturdy enough to supporst a big screen so you can watch the game while Mrs. Unknownwoodworker watches her shows on the smaller set. :-)
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
#7 posted 04-30-2008 01:46 AM
That looks really HEAVY and beautiful.
-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)
#8 posted 04-30-2008 01:49 AM
Norm—-come on…NEXT TIME TAKE THE TV out before you try to lift it!!! With all your experience I thoiught you would figure that out…of course in TV Land you always have a bunch of lackeys around to do the work (AKA INTERNS)...
regardless…nice job…
-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007
#9 posted 04-30-2008 08:06 AM
Very nice. Very pretty. Very HEAVY look too.
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. Wood-a-holics unanimous president
#10 posted 06-08-2008 04:15 PM
Great work!
-- jeanmarc manosque france
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HOLLYWOOD -- Who is the heir to Batman and Dick Tracy in this year's summer-movie merchandising tie-in sweepstakes?
Get ready for Robin Hood breakfast cereal and Terminator video games.
If Hollywood's production companies have their way, you'll be seeing a lot of these characters on T-shirts and pajamas, as toys and video games.
About 35 percent of yearly movie admissions are sold during the summer. "When you've got that kind of potential for audience," says Carolco Pictures' president of licensing, Danny Simon, "the kind of exposure you get with film tie-ins is vital for us."


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Corporate personhood protects shareholders from liability for corporate debt. If you were to become part owner of a non-incorporated company, and that company went bankrupt, you would be liable to pay off the company's debt that you probably had nothing to do with. When a corporation goes bankrupt, its shareholders (part owners), being separate legal entities, only lose the money that they have invested in the corporation. Corporate personhood does not protect white collar criminals from prosecution. If an accountant commits tax fraud, they, not the corporation that they work for, are guilty.
Corporate personhood protects its shareholders from corporate debt. For example, if you were to invest in a non-incorporated company and become part owner, and that company got sued, you would be personally liable to pay off the company's debt that you likely had nothing to do with. Treating corporations as a separate legal entity protects shareholders from personal liability. If Pepsi goes bankrupt, the shareholders, being separate legal entities, only lose the money they have invested. Corporate personhood does not protect white collar criminals from being prosecuted. If someone working for a corporation commits tax fraud, they, not the corporation, are liable.
This only came into place to make employees not responsible for their immoral actions. If they broke the law or victimized someone it is because their vague idea of a personhood-wielding-all-holy-company made them. We let white collar crime slide by creating a tricky system of legal hijinks instead of calling it what it is - bullying.


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Best Kids Parties: Under the Sea
Get your snorkel gear ready for Vanko's terrific party. His mom Tatyana shares: My son has had a fascination with ocean life and his favorite tale Deep in the Sea is one that we listen to in the car every day when I drop and pick him up from school. So for his 4th birthday I decided to try and transform some of the characters (like the jellyfish) into his party.
A few details:
• Chandelier - I used rice paper, ribbon and tape.
• Accessories on my children are from the incredibly talented Darla Home on Etsy.
• The starfish, whale and shell sandwiches I made with cookie cutters. This was a big hit, unexpected.
• Cupcake flags I made from paper and color toothpicks.
• We had a small project to decorate the newspaper hats that I made with pirate stickers.
• The bottle labels and the gift bag once are from Jones Design Company.
• Candy gift bags from Target. The candy idea I saw somewhere but can't recall it...
• Napkins from Ikea.
Thanks Tatyana! Readers, find Tatyana's beautiful photography on her site No Added Sugar Photography.
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text: We weren't too happy with Mother Nature when she didn't support our snowmobiling plans this winter. However, what we didn't anticipate was that our mild winter would be such a boon to MN ice fishing! We've had more fishermen in this year than ever before and fishing has been really good. Our guests have found lots of nice sunfish, largemouth bass, northern pike and an occasional crappie. Most lakes are very accessible right now with the low snow totals but be careful out there – spring is around the corner so we'll start losing ice on those lake!


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Had dinner tonight with an old friend. Hadn't seen him in quite a while. Ate at a little sushi place an old chef we are fond of started up.
As we were catching up on old times, he started talking about a class he had taken on communication. One of the activities they did in the class was to group up with four other people, and with a timer took two minutes per person to talk about themselves. Maybe it is human nature, or just the way our society has gone, but very few, if any of the people could last two minutes without interrupting the person that had the floor. The instructor would start calling out the people that were talking out of turn. The point of the exercise was to show that we do not actually listen to what the person speaking is actually saying. We tend to feel that we have to put our two cents in.
I am just as guilty of this as many others. I get upset and lose patience when people try to finish my sentences for me or jump in with an experience that they have had that is similar. I get reminded that I do it too. I have thought about this in the past. I will be putting forward an effort to focus on what people are saying to me. Listen, hear, process what it is that they are saying. Stop my brain from wandering off and having me change the subject. Show the person that what they are saying is important.
You never know what actually listening to someone, not just hearing, can do. Maybe you could save someone's life, just by taking a couple minutes to actually listening to what they have to say. When you think about, you would want that person to listen to you.


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Chapter 8: Ancient China
The Internet offers a range of social studies resources, including Web sites of museums, government agencies, educational institutions, and the news media. Listed below are links to some outstanding ancient history Web sites. Use them to learn more about the themes, ideas, and events in the lessons in this chapter.
Lesson 1: Geography Shapes Life in Ancient China
- China
- A comprehensive overview of ancient China from Minnesota State University's emuseum. Includes a timeline and many maps.
- http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/index.html
- Ancient China
- This British Museum site is a virtual exhibit on ancient China. Contains maps, photographs of the region and of artifacts, a glossary, and several interactive challenges for students.
- http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html
- A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
- An excellent site on Chinese civilization, with dozens of photographs and maps, from the University of Washington.
- http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm
Lesson 2: China's Ancient Philosophies
- Taoism
- A brief overview for students of the main features of Taoism (Daoism), with links to other belief systems, including Confucianism. Prepared by the Oswego City School District in New York.
- http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/beliefsystems/TAOISM.cfm
Lesson 3: The Qin and the Han
- Early Imperial China
- Site provides information on the rule of emperors Shi Huangdi and Wudi through links from timelines of the Qin and Han dynasties.
- http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/China/EarlyImpChina.html
- Han Dynasty
- An overview of life during the Han dynasty, with illustrations and a map showing the Great Wall, from Minnesota State University's emuseum.
- http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/early_imperial_china/han.html
- Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
- From a Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) site, a summary of the accomplishments of the Han Dynasty with links to works of art from its collection.
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hand/hd_hand.htm
Lesson 4: The Legacy of Ancient China
- The Silk Road Project
- An overview of the rich history of trade and cultural exchange along the routes that crisscrossed Eurasia from the first millennium B.C. through the middle of the second millennium A.D. Includes a map.
- http://www.silkroadproject.org/silkroad/
- Chinese Science and Culture
- Site for students that provides information on, and illustrations of, China's many inventions, especially those in agriculture and transportation.
- http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/frameset.html
- Ancient Trade Routes Between Europe and Asia
- An overview of ancient trade routes connecting Europe and Asia, including the Silk Road, from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes a good map of trade routes.
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/trade/hd_trade.htm


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Volunteer coaches are needed for each team. Coaching a youth team is a rewarding experience as you have an opportunity to shape young lives through sport. Guiding an archery team presents a unique chance to work on both an individual and a team level. Each archer is unique and it takes a coach's caring eye to understand what that archer needs to improve. The coach also needs to shape the team as a whole so that they work together to encourage and challenge each other.
Coach Expectations and Responsibilities
All coaches in the program are expected to:
- Follow all safety guidelines of the Park Archery League and to ensure safe practices by all participants.
- Create a learning environment for their athletes that fosters:
- Sportsmanship
- Teamwork
- Love for sport
- Teach the Olympic style of archery
- Understand and follow the rules and format of the Park Archery League
Certification/Archery Coach Training
To ensure that the coaches can meet their expectations and responsibilities, they must have a current archery certification.
Park Archery League accepts a variety of certifications including:
- USA Archery
- National Field Archery Association
- Olympic Archery in Schools
- National Archery in Schools
To ensure that all coaches have training in Olympic-style equipment and training they must complete section 2-8 of the OAS online coach training:
If a coach has USAA Level 3 certification or higher, then the online training is not required.
For coaches needing certification courses and local coaches, these can be found through USA Archery.
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Though remodeling a kitchen can be a huge disruption to the homeowner, the finished product will quickly erase the brief inconvenience. If you have a large kitchen remodeling project you will need to set up a temporary kitchen a different part of the house. One of the many other pros to kitchen remodeling is one that you might not necessarily have thought of before.
A kitchen designer will be familiar with all the newest trends in kitchen designs, know the latest options in green materials, and be up to date with new products for the kitchen. Their knowledge will save you a lot of legwork or computer searching, if decide to remodel your kitchen. If you begin your kitchen remodeling project by consulting with a kitchen designer, I think you'll be surprised with the insight they will give your whole kitchen project.
In interviewing remodelers, ask tough questions and demand great answers. As you do, maintain in mind these tips for locating your own best remodeler - the 1 with the kitchen remodeling expertise, financial and manpower resources, and also the solid business practices to get your job done right.
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Good Evening, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.
Today is mental Monday, when this Rabbit reviews a book, today's is The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich.
The story starts in October 2003 and ends in May 2008 with a where are they now in 2009. It follows Mark Zuckerberg's progress of building what was initially called "The Facebook" through Harvard and into the business world. My key take outs from this book were:
- Mark is a VERY VERY focused guy who will get whatever he wants eventually – regardless of who he has to step on to get it
- Mark had a very clear vision and nothing stopped him from achieving that vision
- You need to be passionate about what you are doing to achieve your goals
- Don't care what other people think of you, eg Mark attended a meeting with potential investors in his pajamas
- If you can play the game you can win, eg the pajamas meeting was to make the investors feel that they could control him in business, because obviously he had no idea
Obviously it is hard to know when reading this book how much is fact and how much the author embellished. I wonder if Mark actually contributed to the book, it seems very very unlikely. It is far more likely that his first business partner Eduardo Saverin contributed, there is a lot of info in the book about how Mark basically took advantage of him in the early days and was then "persuaded" to devalue Eduardo's shares to nothing.
Regardless of this, the book is all about power, people who want power, people who want to be seen, to be recognised and use their IT skills to stand out where normally they would be labeled "geeks". Mark is portrayed as someone who is so focused he will stop at nothing to keep his beloved "Facebook" growing, and yet when people who work with him have fulfilled their usefulness they seem to "disappear", not in the killing them off sense, but that they are no longer part of Facebook. The reasons seem to be that they are a liability, or have exhausted their usefulness.
This is a very easy read, and even it is not 100% true, it is a very interesting story that makes you want to find out what happened to the players in the end, although of course we all know that Facebook survived.
The main points that I got were that the vision and focus above all else will help you to achieve your goals no matter how big. This is because you don't worry about what others think, you don't worry about upsetting people, you just worry about "your baby" working, growing and succeeding. Plus if you put in a lot of hard work you will succeed, there are many times in the book when the Facebook team are coding for 4 days straight with no sleep, that is how passionate and driven they are to achieving the results.
So this weeks book, was perhaps rather frivolous, versa others that have been reviewed, but as in Crush It! it is all about the hard work and dedication that get results. If you've read it tell me what you think in the comments below or on the Social Rabbit Facebook page.


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Why the Brandon Browner, Richard Sherman Suspensions Will Doom the SeahawksNovember 26, 2012
As if the sting of losing on the road to the Miami Dolphins wasn't enough to put a damper on the conclusion of their Thanksgiving weekend, news has now surfaced that could start the new week off for the Seattle Seahawks with a devastating blow to their defense.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that starting cornerbacks Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner will both be suspended for four games for violating the National Football League's performance-enhancing drugs policy.
Filed to ESPN: Seattle CBs Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner facing 4-game suspensions for violating performance enhancing drug policy.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 25, 2012
It was later reported by USA Today's Mike Garafolo that Sherman and Browner tested positive for Adderall, a drug given to patients with Attention Deficit Disorder that also led to four-game suspensions for Joe Haden of the Cleveland Browns and Aqib Talib of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season.
Btw, not that this will shock anybody, but I'm told it was Adderall for Sherman and Browner.— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) November 25, 2012
Schefter went on to state that both Sherman and Browner have proclaimed their innocence and will appeal the suspensions. Though not only are their odds of ducking those suspensions slim, but they are an absolutely crushing blow to Seattle's playoff chances, especially coming off the loss.
Both Sherman and Browner are big, physical cornerbacks. Not only are they the best players on the team at the position, but also two of the cornerstones of the Seattle defense.
A great deal of what the Seahawks do defensively, especially where blitzing is concerned, is predicated on the ability of their starting corners to not only force opposing wide receivers out of their routes off the line of scrimmage but also hold their own in coverage without help.
Now the team is looking at being down two of their most important defensive players for four of the their past five games, although depending on how quickly the appeals are heard it's possible that the Seahawks will have the duo for this week's matchup at Chicago.
If there's a silver lining, it's that three of the team's last four games are at home, but with a matchup with the San Francisco 49ers looming and precious little margin for error, a four-game vacation for Sherman and Browner likely means that Seattle will be taking one when the postseason starts as well.


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Thread: Final Goal...?
- 10-03-2010 #21
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I notched my girth goal down from 6.5" to 6" whem my girl said 6" was too much. Still waiting for her to adjust to 6" girth.
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My goal is the typical 8"x6", although I'm not sure whether I want that 8" to be BPEL or NBPEL yet. My girth tapers, being thickest at the base and gradually becoming thinner toward the top. I like these proportions, as I think it's preferable for my penis to be wider the deeper I penetrate with it. However, I would like a thicker glans but not the kind of mushroom head that some guys here are aiming for.
My current and starting stats are 7"BPEL x 5.5" ave. EG (base 6", mid-shaft 5.5", below glans 5").
I'd like to increase that to 8"(NBP)EL x 6" ave. EG (base 6.5", mid-shaft 6", below glans 5.5").
These targets are by no means set in stone. I'll constantly be reevaluating my goals when I begin to gain, mainly based on the response it gets from my girlfriend. Once I get to 8"BPEL, I'll decide whether I wish to continue with length and hit 8"NBPEL. Also, I've considered aiming for 6.5" ave. EG (base 7", mid-shaft 6.5", below glans 6") but this may be too big. There are already teeth involved when my girlfriend gives me head at my current size. Adding a whole inch in girth may mean blowjobs become impossible. Again, this is something I'll think about when I reach 6"EG.
My course of action is:
1. Increase length
2. Increase girth
3. Increase size of glans
4. Cement gains
I feel that my initial goals (and what may well turn out to be final goals) are realistic, as I'm 'only' looking to gain 1" in length and 0.5" in girth. Sadly, I've gained nothing in my first three months. I think I'm going to stop measuring for a while and just focus on my workouts. I've heard other PE'ers report of long periods with no gains, then suddenly they see a lot of growth. Hopefully this is coming my way in the not too distant future.
- 10-03-2010 #23
My goals are rather realistic I think. I'd love to eventually reach 7" bpel x 5.5" mseg.
- 10-03-2010 #24Physiological Indicators (the original post)
Don't forget your KEGELS!
- 10-03-2010 #25
My initial final goal used to be 7"NBPEL (7.8"BPEL), and 6"EG, but after about 8 months of PE (I'm 11 months in now) I decided that 6"EG was way too much. One day I was curious about how big that'd actually be, so I searched my room for something that was 6" in circumference, and thought to myself, "whoa.. that's really big... *shifty eyes*" Not only that but my dick refuses to gain girth (I started at 4.33" EG, and now I'm at 4.6" EG... after 11 months), so that goal instantly went down the drain.
However, this also opened up a new idea for me: a "happy"-size vs a "I need to stop this"-size. The happy size is when you'd be happy with your penis, and the "I need to stop" size is.. well.. self-explanatory. For me a happy size would be 7"BPELx5"EG, and a "I need to stop" size would be 7"NBPELx5.5"EG.
Right now I'm 6 and 15/16 inches (about 6.9"BPEL)... so I'm very eagerly waiting for the full 7" BPEL! Considering I started at 5.8"BPEL, I will feel VERY accomplished with 7"BPEL. The 5"EG will definitely take close to another year though, but whatever, the trip is very enjoyable (and not without its benefits)!
- 10-03-2010 #26
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As far as Shane, I can't see him at 7" girth - I would have to think he's bigger than that. Hell, my base girth is close to 7" and I don't think I'm anywhere near that guy's size. I was doing some mindless surfing last night and found came across a vid of him and Claudia-Marie and another vid of him with some skinny chick - DAMN. Small hands and all of that aside, that guy's girth and sheer mass/weight of his unit is unbelievable ...
However, 7" would be ideal and certainly what I'm shooting for ...Old Gym Log - Tracking progress with the iLogPE App
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- 10-03-2010 #27
I was thinking about my final goal regarding the size and i think that 7x5.2 or something like that will do just fine, after i achieve that i will just cement it. I didn't began any serious work about it and probably won't until spring.
I see some gains during my mmo training, but i just don't want to mesure it. But by the griping i think that i gained a litle bit of lenght and grith, and my eq is really satisfactional for me.
- 10-03-2010 #28
I just searched up Shane, and damn... I wonder what it's like to be hung like that. I'd like to trade penises for a day just to see. Imagine trying to jelq- you'd have to use two hands just to get all the way around.
If I were to guess, I'd say he looks at least 7.5" MEG.
- 10-03-2010 #29
8x6 as standard but i'd probably settle for 7.5 nbel x 5.5+starting- sept 1st 2010 = 6.5bpel X 5
current - nov 1st 2010 = 7.25bpel X 5.125
short term = 7.5bpel X 5.5
long term = 8nbpel X 6
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Take a look at this: Shane and Claudia
When he has her eagled-up on the couch and puts his cock on her stomach, wow ....Old Gym Log - Tracking progress with the iLogPE App
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Canned tuna sparked with lemon and capers creates a superb sauce that complements many pasta shapes — penne, shells, or linguine, to name only a few. I prefer solid-pack tuna in olive oil for the best flavor and texture. I sometimes add a small handful of unpitted black olives — Kalamata or Gaeta — and a large, ripe tomato, seeded and diced, for a delicious variation. Italians would never serve cheese with fish, but you have my permission to break the rules!
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- Serves 2 to 4
- 1 can (6 ounces) tuna (chunk or solid in olive oil), drained
- 1 large garlic clove, finely chopped
- grated zest of 1 medium lemon
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup fruity olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons capers, drained
- 1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Place tuna in pasta serving bowl and break it into large bite-size pieces. Add garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and capers and stir gently to combine. Set aside to warm to room temperature, or preferably, place the bowl (be sure it's heatproof) over the pasta pot to warm the ingredients while heating the water. Once the water comes to a boil, remove bowl and set aside.
- Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Drain pasta well and immediately add to sauce in bowl. Sprinkle with parsley and toss. Serve at once with Parmesan cheese. Pass the pepper mill.
- Recommended pasta: 8 ounces penne rigate, medium shells (conchiglie rigate), rigatoni, or linguine.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP)- Gov. Martin O'Malley will be going on a business trip to Israel in November.
O'Malley's office announced the 8-day trip on Monday.
The governor will be leading a delegation of business, elected and civic leaders.
O'Malley's office says the itinerary is still being developed. He is scheduled to travel to Eilat to speak at the Eilat-Eliot Renewable Energy and Innovation Conference with Israel's chief scientist, Avi Hasson.
He also is scheduled to go to Tel Aviv where he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It will be O'Malley's second economic development trip to Israel. He last led a trip in 2008.
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If the stock price is cheap and debt issuance is at record lows buying shares with debt is a wise decision. I would not like to see this done if the stock was overvalued or debt was expensive. Value would be destroyed in such a case.
Take the case of Intel, who just issued apparently cheap debt in part to buy its stocks. If the market is perfectly valuing the stock price and the bond interest rates then an asset conversion does not change the value of Intel. You are free to believe that.
On the other hand you can believe that the stock is undervalued and debt is cheap. Treasury bonds are near multi-decade historical record lows, and arguably yielding less than inflation. So if you chose to believe that the market is wrongly valuing interest rates and Intel's stock then swapping debt by stocks is wise.
Anyone is free to think whatever they like. At the end only with time we will know who were the smartest investors.
I agree with what thrivecap wrote as a comment to a recent Intel article on the buyback subject. To reinforce it here is what Martin Whitman wrote about share repurchases on the Agressive Conservative Investor. That is an excellent book recommended by Seth Klarman, also referenced on my list of favorite books:
On an overall basis, buy-ins have relative advantages for stockholders: in the usual case, such receipts of cash are taxed only on a capital-gains basis; on the part of the stockholder, the receipt of the cash usually is optional, rather than mandatory (as is the case with dividend receipts); weak shareholders sell out, with possible favorable implications for future market prices; and if, as is frequently the case, buy-ins are at a price below the value based on corporate reality, the per-share corporate-reality value of the shares not bought in is enhanced.
There are advantages to corporations as well. Insofar as the common stock is dividend-paying and, as is usual, the company desires to maintain a dividend rate, cash requirements for future dividend payments are reduced; earnings per share, book value per share and corporate-reality value per share may be enhanced; and a program can result in the elimination of all, or virtually all, public shareholders. Furthermore, where the price of the stock can be a tool to be used by the company in, say, future acquisitions, buy-ins can result in a more favorable price for shares that remain outstanding than would otherwise be the case.
PD: I continued on the same subject here: Some Words On Share Buybacks II