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Has anyone made the injector line heaters? Would like to put 6 on my Perkins 6-453 ci diesel. Need links, names of the wire and dia., heat resistant tape and/or anythings that would aide in a DYI project. Any help will be appreciated.
You can do a search for ILH or read through the 12v heater copy/paste below. It is based on ILH information so you can get much of the info you want from it.
(I have made improvements to my heaters since posting this years ago.)
12v electric heater
You can get your supplies from Radio Shack(RS), Ace Hardware(AH), Tractor Supply Company(TSC), Auto Zone(AZ),and McMaster(M).
From RS i got a roll of 12 gauge insulated wire and a relay rated at 30amp.
From AH i got two 1/4" female npt and male 3/8" barbs, a pack of female wire ends, a pack of male wire ends, a pack of 3"wide and 1/2" thick fiberglass insulation.
From TSC i got a 30' package of 19 gauge stainless steel wire.
From AZ i got an inline fuse holder, a 15" straight rediator hose PN1315, a tube of heat resistant silicone, a 20" lenght of 3/8" metal brake line, two brass fittings -- female flare (with inverted male inside) to male npt threads ( They are in a metal container near the brake lines.)
From M i got a length of heat resistant sleeve pn 8819K41 , and a roll of silicone tape pn 7643A79.
**You can eliminate the TSC stop and get the stainless wire from AH, and the RS stop and get those from AZ but i like the RS relays better. Purchase from the stores of your choice.**
I already had hydraulic thread sealant. Use a thread sealant of your choice.
This will take several hours to complete, including the install, but is worth it.
Make a sleeve 36" long with silicone at each end.
Coat the end with silicone, measure 36" and coat again (create a 2" wide band ). Allow this to dry at least 30 minutes. Cut at center of silicone.
Stainless wire in sleeve.
Fish the wire through the sleeve. Be sure to have an inch of wire exposed out each end of sleeve. Cut the wire.
Ends to stainless wire.
Tightly loop exposed wire and slide wire connector over wire, double crimp connector to wire. Do this to each end. ( Doing this to each connector creats 4 connection points for each end of the heater and greatly reduces the chances of connection failure.)
You now have a 12v heater.
The brake line.
Screw the (AZ) threaded brass fittings to the ends, these are flare so no need for sealant.
Add sealant to npt threads and screw (AH) barbed brass fittings to ends. Use wrenches and snug everything together. We will now call it a fuel line.
Preparing line for heater.
Mark a 15" area away from the ends. Cut two short lengths of silicone tape ( it adheres to itself more than to the metal at first ). Place the tape around the line creating a 2" wide band at each 15" mark keeping the mark at the center of each band.
This is safety insulation for the heater ends.
Heater to line.
Beginning at the center of a band, carefully coil/wrap the heater around the line.After several coils, use a piece of tape to hold the end of the heater in place.( Remember the 15" area? ).Continue coiling until you get 15" from end to end. Tape end in place.
Get the radiator hose and place it against the coiled heater to ensure the electrical ends go a little beyond the ends of the hose.Do not install the hose yet. Tape the entire heater from end to end . (Guess what, later that hose becomes the final heat shield).
Insulation for heater.
Coil/wrap the (AH) 3" fiberglass insulation with snug 2/3 overlaps. Secure with tape at ends. Take radiator hose( heat shield ) and carefully slide it over heater. Connectors must have access to connect power wires. Use tape to close ends of hose to line. This minimizes heat loss and gives a nice appearance.
The 12v power .
I used a (RS) 4 post relay and 12 gauge wire. Relay has posts 30, 85, 86, & 87.
Connect AZ 12 ga wire inline fuse holder(use 25 amp fuse)from 30 to a heavy 12v power source.
Connect 12 ga wire from 85 to a ground.
Connect 12 ga wire from 86 to a power source (turned on and off by the ignition) .
Connect 12 ga wire from 87 to one heater connector.
Connect 12 ga wire from the remaining heater connector to a ground.
This is a finished fuel line heater.
The heat shield gets warm but will not burn you.
Of course i changed the fuel line route while adding length to the fuel line.
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Thanks for your post. It is most helpful.
Amy updates and/or improvements?
Has anyone tried to do injector line heaters using motorcycle hand warmers?
What I did was remove the hard line, wrap it with a couple layers of this thin tape called Kapton..
Then took a length of nichrome wire, maybe 30 AWG, CRIMPED a brass connection on each end of it with a 5 inch section of "appliance wire" (Home Depot, bulk) which is silicone insulated then wrapped with fiberglass and won't melt in an oven hence the name. And crimped a bullet connector on the other end of the appliance wire at each end.
I spiralled the nichrome around the hard line, about 1" span per wrap.
On 18" hard lines (if stretched out), that makes for about 2 AMP draw per injector, when on.
Over this assembly, I wrapped more Kapton, then fiberglass cut as long strip (not fiberglass tape, just fiberglass cloth), then silver foil tape like you use for duct work, then a silicone tape (no adhesive, just sticks to itself on contact).
These start heating the oil INSTANTLY when on. Like in 2 seconds of driving, I watch the temp at each injector start rising... I have a temp sensor on each line near injector right against hard line and not covered with any of the heating wraps.
Truth be told... I double spiralled the nichrome interspaced so I have 2 discrete heating elements per hard line. Independently switch, one, or the other, or both... total of 4 AMPS per line at full tilt. This easily shoots veggy past 100*C on a mild day, but is absolutely needed when it's -40*C in the winter here. Yes. that cold.
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Had to make one more of the Clemson boxes. I thought the leopardwood would look good. The scroll work isn't as good with this one because the clock on getting it cut and getting in the shower so I didn't breakout was ticking. If I use this wood again it will be when it is cooler. I had to wear too many clothes in 95 degree weather. Going to try a South Carolina box next, and more importantly, a Tarheel box.
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#1 posted 06-19-2015 02:01 AM
Neat designed box. Great wood for it too!!
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
#2 posted 06-20-2015 12:27 AM
I think the leopardwood works really well for a Clemson box!
Don't know what you should use for the Tar Heel box. Maybe wenge?
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#3 posted 06-22-2015 03:22 AM
Maybe the next time TIGER maple.
-- "When we build, let us think we build forever." John Ruskin
#4 posted 05-09-2017 03:40 PM
You did a really nice job on this box. I like it.
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I don't feel like I fit in at church. As I've said, I'm not a fan of women's coffee and dessert nights. We don't really sing my type of music. As far as I'm concerned, the best church songs are at least 150 years old (with the original melody – and SATB harmony – please!). Often I think I'd probably fit better at the traditional service. Pity about the 60 year age-gap and the 8am start (not even the mighty Book of Common Prayer can get me out of the house before 8am on a Sunday). I'm married, but don't have kids. I'm a student, but I'm not 19. I don't make half the income of others my age. I'm a feminist and a Christian and I think they're perfectly compatible. I'll probably vote Green at the next election. I mill around at supper after the service… more small talk… I try to look like I'm looking for someone in particular as I circle the room… I've got nothing in common with these people… I don't think I quite fit.
I've got friends who no longer come to church because they don't like 'Christians' and they don't 'fit in.' I can't blame them; 'Christians' can be irritating at times, to put it lightly. 'Christian' sometimes seems like a distinct personality type (see Jon Acuff's blog for a full description of the Christian species – they all dress, vote and think alike). Probably an ESFJ. Optimistic. Bubbly. And if you can't fit that, you won't 'fit in.'
It's funny, but sometimes I get the impression that most people don't feel like they fit in at church. How can that be?
I don't think the solution is just about avoiding clichés, chucking out the veggie tales merchandise, conference T-shirts and the WWJD bands – trying to demolish the stereotypes so that everyone feels like they can 'fit in' without having to buy into all that. Nor do I even recommend trying to cater to all the personalities or interests at church – a men's breakfast group, a women's reading group, a bike-riding group, a knitting group, a gluten-free baking group… This is all well and good, but don't think you'll ever cater for everyone. Instead I think we need to re-examine the assumption that people should be 'fitting in' at all.
Generally I've assumed that 'fitting in' is good and necessary, especially for something as important as church. If you don't fit in, that's a problem we need to fix. But is it? Is that the purpose of church, to be a place where you 'fit in?'
I've been reading John Milbank's essay Stale Expressions: The management-shaped Church. He slams the idea of 'churches' for people who naturally fit together.
The church cannot be found amongst merely the like-minded, who associate in order to share a particular taste, hobby or perversion. It can only be found where many different peoples possessing many different gifts collaborate in order to produce a divine-human community in a specific location. St Paul wrote to Galatia and Corinth, not to regiments or to weaving-clubs for widow. He insisted on a unity that emerges from the harmonious blending of differences. Hence the idea that the church should 'plant' itself in various sordid and airless interstices of our contemporary world, instead of calling people to 'come to church', is wrongheaded, because the refusal to come out of oneself and go to church is simply the refusal of church per se….
For him, a church by definition is an assembly of followers of Jesus in a particular place. That is, people who have nothing in common apart from being Jesus' followers in that place. They share the one Spirit, and that's it. In fact there can be no 'fitting in' because this would compromise the witness of the church to the gospel. More than not fitting, we're a group of people naturally hostile to each other (Eph 2). We don't fit, that is, apart from the miracle of the Gospel of Jesus bringing us together. God is making the new humanity out of people who otherwise have nothing in common.
More than not naturally 'fitting' together, we actually need the people who don't seem like us. If we were all ears, how could the body smell? Since when did a nose ever look like it belonged on a face? Why is rhinoplasty so popular? Noses are funny-looking, but we need them to function.
Of course, this hardly helps pastorally for those who of us who don't feel like they fit. Wanting to belong is a good and natural thing. The answer to someone's sense of being out of place is not 'so what?', But also, trying to manufacture a sense of belonging based on shared interests, demographics, hobbies or opinions is a false hope. Not everyone is going to fit. We're too diverse for that.
Not only will it not work, but such an approach can risk masking a great truth of the gospel – WE DON'T NATURALLY FIT TOGETHER. There's no explanation for how this random group of people can hang together apart from Jesus.
So if you don't feel like you fit in at church, I know, it sucks, but I'd say have hope – this is actually evidence that there's something miraculous going on. You do belong, but it's through the Spirit, not your taste in music. More than that, if you don't feel like you fit, we need you even more. You might just be the sense of smell or ears or eyes. You're part of this body and we need you.


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Off shore company Sembmarine SLP recently held its latest charity awards, which saw it split £18,000 between 14 varying causes.
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NISKAYUNA — Olivia Owens first generated interest from colleges when she was in middle school.
The earliest scholarship offers arrived when she was in ninth grade.
The next year, things picked up even more for Owens when legendary UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma made a trip to see her play at Niskayuna High School.
The attention that came with all that was overwhelming, at times, but never a burden.
"If I could really go to every single college, I would," Owens said. "But I have to pick one."
So, Wednesday, the Niskayuna girls' basketball star announced her decision to accept a scholarship to play women's basketball at the University of Maryland. In a ceremony in the high school's auditorium, Owens dropped a stage curtain to reveal Maryland-themed posters, signs and balloons to celebrate a choice she took her time in making.
"I love the fact that I could share this with a lot of friends and family," Owens said, "especially for those who have been there throughout the entire process with me."
That process started in fourth grade when she first started playing. She wasn't a star right away.
"I realized nothing great comes easy," said Owens, who averaged 20.6 points and 12.3 rebounds as a junior.
Owens credited her brothers for helping to shape her on-court game, as well as her AAU coach Keith Danzy and high school coach Sarah Neely. Away from the court, Owens thanked dad Javan and mom Vanessa for making sure she took care of her schoolwork.
"She's worked hard for so many years," Neely said of Owens. "She set her goals extremely high and today we get to celebrate all the efforts."
"She's put forth a great deal of hard work and dedication to her craft," said Danzy, a City Rocks coach.
Niskayuna High School Principal John Rickert described Owens as a "special athlete, a special person" in starting Wednesday's ceremony. Owens, an honors student, is the president of her class at Niskayuna.
Owens joins a growing list of area athletes to head to Maryland in recent years, such as Shenendehowa graduate Kevin Huerter for men's basketball, Niskayuna graduate Carrie Hanks for field hockey and Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake graduate Dan Maynard for baseball.
Owens said she's excited to play in the Big Ten for veteran head coach Brenda Frese. With Frese as the program's coach for the past 15 seasons, Maryland has made three appearances in the Final Four and won the national championship in 2006.
"I'm really competitive, so I'm all for it," Owens said. "I'm ready to win championships, I'm ready to cut down nets and be a part of a program that's already successful."
Owens said she's unsure what she will major in at Maryland, but she's interested in pursuing a career in education or law after her playing career. She said she's excited to have her college choice made so she can focus on her senior year at Niskayuna before becoming a Terrapin.
"This is the one for me," Owens said of Maryland.
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The aim is to help local people access information and advice about care and support available in the county and help people stay independent for longer.
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I saw a card Kristina Werner made that used the small paper images on the cover sheet of a scrapbook paper pack. I had also kept all my Basic Grey pack sheets just in case I could use them and so now was the perfect time. I broke out their Archaic set and cut some of the small square contact images from the display sheet. I arranged them on the card and then used the alphabet stickers from the same set to spell out happy birthday. I loved this card and it was so easy as the papers all co-ordinated.
The card I made for Sam had been planned around the use of the Changito's in Space set. Joanne of Mainly Flowers blog made a fantastic 18th card with them and I fell in love with the stamps. As I call Sam a cheeky monkey at every available moment it seemed appropriate. So I created a round card (drew round a plate onto a folded card) and used chalks on a pearlescent blue paper to create a planet like surface . Then I used prismacolor pencils and oms to colour the stamped images which I arranged on the planet. I used a rocket to help balance the card.


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-- The Rabbinical Council of America joins the State of Israel and Jewish people all over the world in mourning the innocent lives that were lost on June 9th at the Gaza beachfront. At the same time, we deplore in the strongest of terms the rush to judgment and condemnations of Israel issued by many news outlets and governments.
The results of an Israeli army inquiry have, at the least, cast reasonable doubt concerning the origin of the explosives that took those lives. While the Israeli proposed timeline and explanation is not the only possible one, that explanation along with the track record of Palestinian attempts to misrepresent the actions of the Israel Defense Forces should have taught reporters and diplomats to adopt a more cautious attitude in reacting to events. After a UN investigation largely supported the Israeli version of events which Palestinians had branded "the Jenin Massacre," determining that no such massacre occurred, one would have expected future claims of this sort to be met with skepticism. Condemning Israel without even waiting for the results of an inquiry is reckless and irresponsible.
But even one who believes that an errant Israeli shell caused these tragic deaths has no right to condemn Israel for its actions. Over the last few months, since the total Israeli evacuation of Gaza, Palestinian terrorists have launched hundreds of missiles towards the Israeli town of Sderot, imposing a reign of terror on the town. No country in the world would refrain from taking the most vigorous steps to end such attacks, and criticism of Israel for its measured acts of self-defense is the rankest hypocrisy.
The terrorists not only target Israeli civilians; they display utter indifference or worse to their own civilian population. They use their own children as human shields, stationing rocket launchers 400 meters from a public beach, and knowing full well that--no matter how careful Israeli forces are--they will be unable to prevent some civilian casualties in their attempts to stop the missiles. Anticipating the inevitable civilian casualties their actions brought about, these terrorists then raise a hue and cry, "demonstrating" to the world how brutal the Israeli "occupation" is.
It is time for Palestinian civilians to rise up and say to the savage terrorists: "You may not live among us! We will not allow you to continue to use our children as shields behind which to hide!"
It is time for the world to ask why the so-called Palestinian "freedom fighters" position missile launching sites only 400 meters from a public beach.
It is time for governments and news media to ask why those who target civilians and hide among children are given credence when they decry the very deaths they engineered.
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Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data for Forest Fire Control
This project aims to establish the relationship of forest fire with ecological/environmental factors, such as forest structure and weather. We analyze records of forest fires during the fire season (May to August) in 1992 from the Forest Fire Management Branch of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource (OMNR). We start with a preliminary analysis of the data, which includes a descriptive summary and an ordinary linear regression analysis with fire duration as the response. The preliminary analysis indicates that the fire weather index (FWI) used by Natural Resource of Canada is the most relevant together with fire location and starting time. We apply semi-variogram and Moran's I, the conventional methods for exploring spatial patterns, and extend them to investigate spatial-temporal patterns with the fire data. Evaluations of the extended Moran's I statistic reveals strong spatial-temporal correlation in the residuals of the linear regression analysis. It motivates two sets of partially linear regression models to accommodate possible nonlinear spatial/temporal patterns of the forest fires. We integrate univariate and bivariate kernel smoothing procedures with the least squares procedure for estimating the model parameters. Residual analysis indicates satisfactory fittings in both sets of regression analysis. The partially linear regression analyses find that the association of fire duration with FWI varies across different fire management zones, and depends on the fire starting time.
Keywords: Kernel Smoothing; Local Constant/Linear Regression; Moran's I; Partially Linear Models


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It should be called: The Ruse. Because it's a Catholic propaganda flick. It's a piece of horseshit, or, muleshit (if you see it you'll get the reference). If you must see it (and there's nothing new or unexpected in it), wait for DVD or on-demand or free download or whatever, it'll save you the embarrassment of being seen in the theater watching the piece of tripe. Anthony Hopkins never disappoints, but it's painful to watch his talent go to such waste. Michael O'Donoghue and Alice Braga are very easy on the eyes, very, and they brought some beauty to an otherwise ugly, ghastly movie. As the narrative of the story constantly hints that disturbed demons lurk everywhere, the filmmakers should have done some soul-searching before dishing out this kind of quasi-spiritual garbage, and contemplated the intrinsic meaning of the message they were trying to convey.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
That Ol' Time Organized Religion
I remember a dream I had when I was around 19 years old. I was inside a church building, and the pews were set on top of rails which had mechanisms that made the pews go forward, rotate and come back to their original spot, only to repeat the process again. It was a mechanized setup like a ride at an amusement park. People were sitting in those pews being shoved forward to the front of the auditorium and then turned back around to where they started, and the same motion would repeat, over and over again. Televangelist Jim Bakker was there too. That was the entirety of the church service.
Monday, January 24, 2011
A Category-Theory Dream
Had a dream the other day in which Category-theoretic operations had somehow become three-dimensionalized and actualized into a huge machine of sorts, a wooden box hiding its bells and whistles inside, with an opening on top into which I (or anyone else) could jump inside. It was assumed in the dream, it seems, that there was an opening on the bottom of the huge box that would give results and answers. It was assumed in the dream again, that the results and answers would come from the instantaneous churning that this box would provide, and specific details regarding algebraic systems would come to be known, even though what entered the machine could be very general data. In went the general data (myself) and out came the details, plus new information regarding the general data, their relationships, and structures that were unknown prior to their going into the box, something like a "synthetic a priori" of sorts. It was supposedly the "Categories" box of functors and morphisms. I somehow thought of Saunders MacLane in the dream, and about how dreamlike his (co-)invention was.
Notwithstanding the obvious symbolism in the dream with regard to Categories, the dream reveals something about the nature of formal systems in general in a "Turing machine," theoretical-machine sort of way. Formal systems reveal nested hierarchies, the structure of which can be simply generalized into two parts, viz., the combinatoric and the analytic. This duality of formal systems can be viewed respectively in terms of discrete and continuous, or analog and digital, and so on, and even in terms of hardware and software. There is also a nested hierarchy of number sets (and their algebras (N, ⊙, 0): number set, operation(s), unit element, respectively from the one-generator free monoid of natural numbers to the field of Reals, and finally to the field of Complex numbers) which has its transitions in gradations from discrete to smoother, to smoothest. The same holds true of methods over these exemplary objects; perhaps it could be said that the strictly combinatoric ends with the set and ring of Rational numbers.
The dream symbolizes the extrapolation of analytic information from the combinatoric, and I suppose the implication of the dream's symbolism is that this works both ways, e.g., extrapolating intuitive, Boolean truisms from the Jordan Curve Theorem, extrapolating power sets of transfinite Alephs (א) from the cardinality of Real numbers, and so on.
A Simple Example of Referential Opacity
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Being and Nuthin'ness
Read today a statement by R. Sheldrake that Darwin thought of nature as dead, i.e., that even his concept of "natural selection" was merely a figure of speech, that his understanding of the entire process of evolution was strictly mechanistic (though Darwin couldn't quite reconcile himself with the idea).
What's significant to me here is that he thought that nature was strictly mechanistic. Perhaps this kind of thinking was an immediate fallout of Newtonian theology, of the universe in which the cosmogonic clockmaker wound it all up to tick on till demiurge-knows-when, until when all heaven-bound Kantians will finally know the answer to the possibility of synthetic a priori propositions.
I wrote an earlier blog about Steampunk as metaphor for materialism (mechanistic paradigm(s)) in general, and indeed, Frankenstein is its main avatar. Note the proliferation of Zombie flicks, lately (circa 2011, g.c., c.e.). Frankenstein is a Zombie of sorts, and indeed, it all fits like a necrophilic glove, because if nature, i.e., the cosmos, is dead and everything is utterly material and mechanical, then there is no difference between a fucking Zombie and human being. But there's more to that reflection, a cosmic whisper, that yes, that is where materialism will take you, and servomechanical cybernetics provides no argument to the contrary. There is a difference between strictly mechanistic principles and biotic beings. Ask your heart and not your academic brain, because you know it already, tacitly.
Here are some other aspects of the fallout. Consider the mechanistic theology of dialectical materialism, and the eventual Butterfly-wing impact of its lifeless field of morphic causation. Another one: consider the idea of Being, a la M. Heidegger. Granted he was starting where Aristotle (and his predecessors Parmenides et al.) left off with respect to the (at-first Husserlian) pursuit of metaphysics, but do recall that Aristotle too provided the Augustinian foundations for the orderly, geocentric universe that provided occidental paradigms with a mechanical framework. Einstein couldn't shake it off either ("god doesn't play dice"). But back to Heidegger's concept of Being. It was perfect that the seminal philosopher of Nazi Germany pondered Being as such with such a preponderant, conspicuous absence of Life. W. Kauffmann correctly designated him a "false prophet." As his acolyte R. Bultmann stripped mythology of all its form-critical superfluity (by way of his Entmythologisierung programme) to get to its so-called Kerygma---that semiotic extrapolation that is the foundation of all Western Ethics hitherto since zippo-B.C.---megalomaniac phenomenologist Heidegger warned contemporaneous theologians to keep their pencil-pushing hands off his non-theological metaphysics; but no, it also happened with P. Tillich, the systematic theologian par excellence, who just couldn't resist it either. From his three-part series came spinoffs of the "christian atheism" movement and so on (T.J.J. Altizer, H. Cox, et al.). Tillich's eventual conclusion was that god didn't exist, because it was a concept in reference to that which was "beyond essence and existence."
Indeed, Nietzsche's prophet was correct, god had died. More so, the cosmic life force had paradigmatically died. Everything had become Frankensteinian, and it's ironic that it all stems from ideologies founded on artificial theologies of order and theogonic clockmaking, i.e., materialism. In this Procrustean paradigm, the world is a lifeless, non-conscious, Steampunk junkheap. But don't go clutchin' onto no creationist and book-religious straws again, because there's no turning back, because everything hitherto had led to the Steampunk paradigm (of which creationism and book-religion are part). As some guy said in the past, you can't patch old wineskins with new leather.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Waiting Sentinel
This happened in Atami, Japan, Summer of 1977. I was visiting Japan at the time, and was invited out to the seaside of Atami, to a vacation home of a former Kempeitai (憲兵隊 "Law Soldier Corps") woman. She was probably in her sixties at the time; the peculiar thing about this woman was that she had served in the Japanese military during WW2 in some kind of higher-ranking leadership capacity in that brutal, fascist-police; she supposedly wasn't just a cadet (taking into account the sexism of the culture (especially at the time)).
She was a friend of my dad's, and although I had (and still have) no idea how they had come to be friends (my dad isn't Japanese), I acknowledged her as a cordial family friend, and accepted her invitation. My dad had told me that she was extremely scary in her day, and though the years had mellowed her completely, what he had told me (several times) never left the back burner. I was sixteen at the time of her invitation, and as a matter of fact didn't give a shit about what "Kempeitai" was, and never bothered to ask about the details. I just knew that it was some kind of Gestapo during the war, and that point had been made clear to me by my dad several times over while she was present, and she would smile and make nothing of it. Well, it so happens that the Kempeitai not only ruthlessly enforced loyalty, they ran prison camps and tortured their prisoners, and are known today for their hellish atrocities and war crimes.
I was a teenage party animal at the time, and I invited my friend Frank to join me for a trip to the woman's Atami vacation crib. Frank and I had just met in Tokyo, we had fast become friends, and had resonated well with each other. Frank was a genius guitarist and rock aficionado, and for some unknown reason, had brought with him the first album of Black Sabbath, which was stuck in the wrong album cover, "Master of Reality." We listened to it over and over again, smoked one cigarette after another, drunk a hell of a lot of beer, and got gassed out of our gourds. We joshed and laughed our asses off. My favorite song on the album was the theme song of the group:
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one, oh nooo!
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!
Is it the end, my friend?
Satan's coming 'round the bend
People running 'cause they're scared
The people better go and beware!
No, no, please, no!
The invitation to Atami was for a night, and I think that she had made the both of us dinner, and pretty much left us alone to our inebriated devices. After a long evening of boozing and Black Sabbath, we retired to our respective rooms. She had already gone to her room. I passed out on the futon on the floor in the upstairs room, looking up at the wooden rafters.
That night, I dreamed in real-time. In the dream (or, rather, utter nightmare), I was sleeping on the futon in that room, and was looking up at the rafters. A frenzied demonic being mainfested, and it swiftly dashed around the room; it jumped up to the rafters, jumped out the window, came back inside, and so on, repeatedly, while screaming, shouting, hollering, and cackling; it was in a fit of absolute rage that had driven it mad, stark, raving, psychotic mad. Its presence pervaded the room. He (it was male, I think) knew I was in the room, and was letting me know that he was right in there with me. It disapproved of me, and was letting his fury be known. When it zipped out the window and stared back at me from the windowsill, I woke up in a startle. I was frightened out of my toasted wits. I have no recollection today of what I did afterward, but I probably went to Frank's room and slept there.
The morning light was welcome. As we left her and Atami, I reflected on what my dad had said again, that she had been a Kempeitai officer. I pondered about the kind of miasmic field that must surround her, and the terrible karmas that were still with her, waiting for their time of reckoning.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
阿弥陀 (Amitabha) (poem circa 1995)
Standing in the fog
A stone Kshtigarbha, waiting to protect.
In the gloom of the darkest night
A dimly glowing soul-flame
Of one who recently died.
Floating purple and blue heads of ghosts
One of which makes a gesture for silence;
Bringing to memory, realms
Of beasts, starvation and hell.
Further along, a towering body
And further on, a beautiful diamond statue
Of Mother Prajnaparamita.
Suddenly, out of absolute Nowhere
An appearance of Amitabha Buddha.
Nam Amida Butsu
Nam Amida Butsu
不動 (Acala) (poem circa 1995)
At the terminus of Samsara I sit
On a large rock where nothing blooms
Where flames shoot skyward behind me
Naumaku sanmanda
The fire has scorched my skin blue-black
Yet my concentration is clearer than ever
To liberate all, my only desire
Naumaku sanmanda
Deep, deep in concentration
My eyes have become uneven
My fangs have grown long
Naumaku sanmanda
My right hand wields the Vajra sword
I slice every illusion
None will get past, this my task
Naumaku sanmanda
There is nothing past this dead rock
If any insist on going past
Be assured, my rope will tie them down
Naumaku sanmanda
On my lips, the unceasing spell
Oh the great Bodhi, Nirvana awaits
I shall be the last to enter
Naumaku sanmanda
Ah Vairochana, this is my practice
None will fall into these eternal flames
None will get past this point of no return
Naumaku sanmanda
Naumaku sanmanda
Bazara dan sendan
Trata Kam Man
Naumaku sanmanda
Bazara dan sendan
Trata Kam Man
Naumaku sanmanda
Bazara dan sendan
Cherokee Magick: On the Power of Incantation in General
The following material from Jack Frederick Kilpatrick & Anna Gritts Kilpatrick, Run Toward the Nightland: Magic of the Oklahoma Cherokee (1967) Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas (second printing 1977, ISBN 0-87074-084-9) (also see "Muskogean Charm Songs Among the Oklahoma Cherokees" by the same authors in our Resources Library). I find to be particularly insightful, pertinent, apropos and readily applicable universally (not just to Cherokee magick) with respect to all esoteric-magickal incantatory practices---mantra recitations, seed-syllable intonations-visualizations, sound-based/vibrational-energy healing practices (musical, intonations, etc.), all forms of sacred supplication (i.e., prayer), and all ritual praxis of incantation (invocation, liturgy, chanting, etc.). I hope that you'll get as much from it as I have!
"For well over a hundred years the Oklahoma Cherokees have been writing down their magic by means of the Sequoyah syllabary in manuscript books that vary in size from tiny pocket notebooks to huge ledgers, and upon odd scraps of paper …
"Both magic and medicine are almost certain to be found commingled in a manuscript that the Cherokees refer to by the general term nv:wo:dhi digo:hwe:li ("medicine book [or papers]"), but also to be seen there are such typical oddments as family demography, scriptural references and extracts, drafts of letters, addresses, grocery lists in Sequoyan and phonetic English, and a considerable amount of mathematical doodling for which the Cherokees have a passion that long ago ought to have attracted competent psychological investigation. Side by side with an incantation to discomfit a demon may be a set of figures that attest to the comforting fact that the Lord's work is prospering in the Baptist Church nearby.
"Any layman may decide to preserve in writing that magic for which he has use and which is readily available to his social class: fishing charms, a little something to protect him in an emergency, and the like.
"Most Cherokee magical rituals consist of something that says (or merely thinks) or sings, called the i:gawe:sdi ("to say, one") and recommended physical procedures, called the igv:n(e)dhi ("to do, one") … The published literature on Cherokee magic does not recognize a fundamental truth: in any magical ritual all generative power resides in thought, and the i:gawe:sdi, which focuses and directs that thought, alone is inviolate.
"…one might get the impression that a particular i:gawe:sdi is usable for but one highly specific purpose, whereas in actuality any i:gawe:sdi is serviceable for any number of purposes for which its wording qualifies it. What is more, a master dida:hnvwi:sg(i) is at perfect liberty to improvise a text if the spirit moves him to do so. A text that has descended to him through tradition he will not knowingly alter, though he may not fully understand what he is saying, but upon occasion he may elect to use only part of it.
"Much of the vaulting nobility of the phraseology of the magical idi:gawe:sdi appears to transfer in translation, but the passionate life that throbs through those long and sinuous verb-forms that leap upon and joyously wrap themselves around raw thought-material that emerges timidly from the mind is little in evidence.
"The masters of the Cherokee language who conceived the magical idi:gawe:sdi created like great composers with elements of demonic force, surpassing plasticity. What in English are dreary little walls of word-bricks, "the Seven Clans," "not to climb over me," and the like, in Cherokee are sheer soarings of the human spirit, infinitely varied.
"One can well understand why a magical i:gawe:sdi, if not delivered in the language in which it was created, is devoid of all power of enchantment."
Now! Kingfisher!
You are a great Wizard.
Now You have just come to "remake" the White Tobacco.
You were a great Wizard.
You and I have just come to clutch it at the same time.
Now! We shall make our souls into one forever.
Now! You and I will be great Wizards.
Timewave as a Fractcal
Concerning the fractal nature of the Timewave: at first glance and for all practical purposes, the Timewave looks like a graph y = f(t), no fractal or iterative aspect is evident.
The question is whether the term 'fractal' is loosely used as a reference to its "density" in R^2 (i.e., if it were a graph proper of a function per se) or merely in terms of "weak" statistical self-similarity, i.e., assuming for now the definition of 'fractal' as that which entails recursion and self-similarity (on some scale).
The Quantum TW: Going beyond the TW as something like a mere R^2 graph with non-differentiable spikes here and there, we can informally view it as a strongly iterative fractal that is everywhere self-similar. "Telescoping" into any area of the TW would yield its own self-similar TW, and so on ad infinitum, or until we set the "time limit" as a unit of Planck time whose "vibration" is the TW itself. In this sense, every moment of time entails cosmogony and eschaton as each pulsating, discrete Planck unit of time entails incursion of absolute Novelty.
An aside: Informally viewing the TW as a quantum wave-function, the singularity f(t) = 0 implies its wave-function collapse. Speaking in terms of traditional metaphysics, it would be the actualization of pure potential, in this case the actualization of all history hitherto.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Nature of Ontologies
I recently read in a book a statement that quantum theory is not concerned with the question of what exists, and neither is science. It immediately reminded me of the "early" Quine's dictum, "to be is to be a value of a variable" from his seminal paper "On What There is" of old, back in the days when he'd wield Ockham's nominalist Razor with ontological fervor. It's my opinion that there was an irony about this, because what was intended to keep the population of the universe of discourse under control backfired to proliferate theoretical tickets of admission to anything articulable. That's fine by me, but it's also no wonder that Quine eventually modified his nominalism, rather drastically.
He came to call it "ontological relativity," which is to say, simply, that theory θ1's nonempty universe of discourse Λ has its set of quantifiable objects as does theory θ2 (also nonempty universe Λ ≠ ∅), but operators and quantifiers over θ1's universe, which are formal apparatuses universally applicable ("covariant") across the board to all universes of discourse (even to the set of all sets and to the empty set), can potentially yield differing ontologies of quantifiable objects, viz., that what exists for θ1 need not exist for θ2, and vice versa, and so on ad infinitum. This is rather radical, because it does away with the idea of asserting existence or non-existence in general; it looks to paradigms as the foundation of ontology, instead of the classical approach to ontology, viz., of imposing an acceptable universe of discourse to all paradigms in general. Hence θn is in general ontologically answerable solely with respect to its own universe of discourse Λn, and no other. Ontologically speaking, this even implies paradigmatic relativity, and is an elegant argument in its favor.
An example is, say the universe of discourse of a many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory and an e-prime interpretation of quantum theory. The theory is the same (quantum theory based on quantum mechanics) in terms of its subject matter (quanta), but the paradigms vastly differ with respect to ontology, i.e., universe of discourse. There is no homomorphism between the two theories either, as the former is inflated and the latter is stripped bare, down to specifically structured propositions that do not presuppose the realist correlation of assertions to their objects. There is no foundation but Consciousness; all ontologies are comprised of castles in the sky, floating in mid-air, free-falling in the space of Mind.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Cosmic Chreode(s)
Consider chaotic bifurcations---attractors---as an "ordering" principle underlying randomness; stretch it out even down to the quantum level. Consider the transmigratory whorl, the vortex of phenomenal existence and its teleological terminus, viz., the concrescence of being. Karmas and consciousnesses, egos and individuations collide with each other as they spiral toward the center, first in slow cycles, gradually increasing speed with each cycle; there are ricocheting effects, some get bounced back to where they started, some bounce about here and there randomly in the Brownian funnel of transmigration. The Center is the Attractor in the future, pulling all beings of the Six Destinations of birth-death toward "it."
Coin-funnel often seen in malls, etc., as metaphor
Monday, January 3, 2011
The 2011 Calendric Spiral
"Follow the white rabbit." So went the instruction from the inductor in the beginning of the old flick "The Matrix." The adventure in Wonderland begins for Alice as she goes down the Rabbit Hole. This is the year of the Rabbit (or Hare), the fourth sign of the Sinojapanese Zodiac, and in terms of the Sexegenary Cycle, this year's conjoining is with Kanoto, the eighth of the Ten Terrestrial Branches; this is the 28th year of the 60-year cycle: 辛卯 .
Teilhard de Chardin spoke of evolution as a temporal-spiral (teleological) process toward the Ω Point, the locus of concrescence, the convergence of all confluent chreodes of all morphic fields. The Rabbit-Hole concept has already entered the collective repository of thought, and thus it's not too much of a leap, so to speak, to attribute the entering of the current year of the Rabbit as the official entry of the collective into the Rabbit-Hole, the spiral toward concrescence. The Event Horizon as such is not yet, as of this writing, but the date of Timewave Zero is December 21, 2012 (Gregorian), the time is 11:11:11 AM (UTC).
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THE RECENT activity in improving traffic around Orlando has been most welcome to me. I am in favor of immediate construction of a interchange at State Road 50 and Florida's Turnpike.
It looks as if the bond issue to build about 30 miles of new roadway for the East-West Expressway, including construction west to connect to the turnpike, will be approved. It also should include funds for the construction of a S.R. 50 and turnpike exchange.


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Twin Flames In LoveYou can read the latest version of this article from my blog: Twin Flame Love
Twin Flames or Soul Mates… is Yours a Karmic Relationship?
It always fascinates me to see what brings people together. Why are we drawn into relationships that have a certain destiny? Astrology reveals our psychology, spirituality, evolution, and astrology tells the story about karma and past lives, why we are attracted to specific people, our personal, past-life patterns (personality and behavior) are being acted out in the here and now.
In other words, time is an illusion your past and future lives are running simultaneously in the present. As an astrological intuitive, I see that no two people have identical astrology or past life history, not even twin flames.
What is a twin flame you may ask?
The term most often has been confused with that of soul mates the two are distinctly different. The greatest love story ever told is the one you have with your very own beloved twin flame. In the beginning we were created in God (Alpha and Omega) in an ovoid white-fire-spirit-light, the soul was split just like the atom (Adam Kadman) into two identical parts (twin flames) each with the same identical soul blueprint. The tai-chi is a symbol of twin flames. Twin flames in love spiraling in infinity.
We then went forth from the Etheric realm (heaven) of God's perfect light into denser levels of consciousness (the physical world). The actual saga of Adam and Eve is about twin flames, for we all have our own Adam and Eve story. Somewhere in cosmos, each one of us has our very own divine other, who carries either the feminine or masculine polarity.
This soul memory of our twin flame is so powerful, that we can feel very alone in this world, as we search for that promise of that original perfect love, the twin. No other love can compare to your own twin flame. Moreover, what I have seen with some clients in very difficult relationships choosing to suffer in agonizing pain, just to be with their twin flame.
The movies Somewhere in Time, The English Patient and Moulin Rouge are modern day examples of twin flame love. Twin flames throughout history and literature are seen as tragic love stories i.e., Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, Samson and Delilah. The dark forces of anti-love run rampant on planet earth, working to sabotage twin flames and keep them apart. Often twin flames do not have enough Self-mastery to maintain a healthy partnership. Thus, they seek solace with the next best alternative a soul mate.
Soul Mates are passionate friends of old
Soul mates and karmic relationships are the other two positions of partnership. Soul mates can create very happy marriages as they are working on similar soul initiations, life lessons, and projects in this life. Soul mates have been friends for life times and may need each other in this life to satisfy a mission or complete a work. They may not experience the incredible, all-consuming, intense love dynamic as twin flames.
However, soul mates experience a calmer, more stable connection on the lines of a brother and a sister type rapport. This is not to say that they don't experience chemistry and passion. It is the slow burn that lasts a lifetime. Not the all consuming twin flame fire that can destroy lives. I find the very best marriages to be between soul mates they work very harmoniously together in business, raising children and contributing to the community. Soul mates make us feel happier, stronger and richer.
Karmic relationships and karmic debt
Karmic relationships are often confused with that of twin flames because they have the same intense attraction and emotional charge. The I can't get you out of my head thing, mental obsession. My body will not stop desiring you, the compulsive sexual attraction. In truth, these are often symptoms of a tragic past life experience from a prior life. Your soul is offering you as a warning Not a green light to get involved.
Yet people often ignore or mistake their Inner Being voice and jump in full speed ahead, only to come out hurt, defeated and lost. I speak from personal and professional experience. Karmic relationships are where either the person owes you a karmic-debt or you owe them from a former life. The liaison ends when the debt is paid or when Spirit determines the time of opportunity to play the relationship out is up.
All relationships are for mutual growth and personal evolution. How can you tell if you are in a karmic relationship? No relationship is perfect, but if you feel like you need therapy as a result of being with this person, then this could be an indicator. Feeling drained emotionally, physically, and financially are all indicators of a karmic entanglement. If you feel like you are on a downward spiral and are losing income your relationships is karmic. Are you doing all the giving and your partner is doing all the taking? Look-out it may be a karmic entanglement.
We need to love Self more than the need for any relationship. You are having a relationship with You first. We need to be in a strong healthy relationship with Self in order to be healthy with another. The Age of Aquarius is the age of Twin Flames and Soul Mates coming together in love to anchor in our Golden Age. In truth, we are the forerunners of this Great Golden Age dawning. The power of love between twin flames and soul mates spreads out into our communities and their love heals us all.
Balance is the key in all successful relationships and how the universe works. There must be an equal amount of giving and receiving for a healthy balanced union. Successful relationships whether they are twin flames, soul mates or karmic relationships give and receive from each other creating a healthy balanced dynamic.
Relationship Astrology Can Give You The Edge
Knowing your partner's psychology, pathologies, strengths, weaknesses, and true nature from his or her natal astrology can prove incredibly helpful in determining if s/he can be in a healthy relationship with you. Love's illusion can lead you blinded by the light of your own desire and not see the person for who they really are, what they are truly in your life to teach you, thus heartache can follow. Have you two been together in a previous life? Are you working out karmic issues from a previous life together? What roles have you played before with each other: husband and wife, siblings, parent/child or best friends?
Knowing the history can greatly help you in the present. What are the hurdles and bumps along the road of love for you? Can s/he give you what you need in partnership? Do you really know what you want in a relationship? Above all else, we must have a commitment to Self and Creator in order to understand who we uniquely are; from Self- awareness and strong personal foundation, we are better able to enter into healthy relationships with friends, family, lovers, and colleagues.
Instead of asking is this my soul mate? Why not ask, what does this relationship have to offer? What are our soul agreements? Does s/he bring out your personal best? Does s/he challenge you to grow and evolve? Is s/he interested in spiritual advancement? Is s/he an authentic reflection of you? Is s/he your highest complimentary partner? Or do you feel in your heart that "the one" for you is still out there?
Moreover, I have seen countless times when two individuals can have fabulous, harmonious relationship astrology; but if they have not yet worked through their personal issues, (natal astrology) and if they are not complete with their past, hence, possessing too much emotional baggage this will interfere with the ability for healthy relationship Now. As a result, s/he may not be available for union in the way you desire.
There will always be challenges to every relationship, even if you are twin flames or soul mates. You may not have a soul agreement for a long term partnership. This is why situations do not always pleasantly line up between two people who love each other. The relationship astrology is a powerful tool for you to understand how your relationship works on the most dynamic, intimate levels of body, mind, spirit, heart, and soul. In truth, no relationship is a mistake, but not all relationships are destined to be long-term happy liaisons.
In addition, relationship astrology can be used for business partnerships, children, and friend's comparisons. How compatible are we? Will we be a profitable business match? Why am I so attracted to you? Are you from my past? Friends, colleagues and lovers get the insight and understanding into what the relationship is "for" and not necessarily what you want it to be! Qualify all your relationships. You deserve to know the truth!
Love, Wisdom and Power,
Kelley Rosano
You can learn more about your twin flame and/or soul mate relationships by having a relationship astrology session. To learn more about relationship astrology: Relationship Astrology
Reader question to Kelley Rosano
You wrote " The forces of anti-love work day and night to sabotage twin
flames and keep them apart" can you explain why that is? I would
appreciate a response
Donella ("Rosie ")Hines
C-17 Configuration & Data Management
Just as you have your own consciousness, we also have a collective consciousness or mass consciousness where we all agree together on one thought form or belief etc. The anti-forces of anti-love are the collective energy that comes through individuals and is determined to sabotage the love of twin flames. This force will use people who do not value love, spirituality, or God. You can see this throughout history where twin flames are born into opposing camps of people such as one Jewish the other Muslim. They are right for each other and in love but those around them do not have discernment and can not see there is no one more perfect for you as a partner than your own twin flame even if he/she is not the 'right' religion, race or economic standing. For if we were all with our twin flames we would be in the Golden Age of love. The Age of Aquarius dawning is the age of twin flames and soul mates we are all leaving behind karmic relationships. I hope this is helpful.
Yes, this definitely helps! I see now why it has been hard for me and my twin flame to get together …
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The value of an antique china doll head depends on several factors, including the manufacturer and the condition of the head. Chipped or cracked heads are worth less than those that are whole and retain their original detailing. The value of an antique doll head increases if it retains the original clothing and parts, such as wooden arms or legs. Rare or unusual details, including facial expressions or hairstyles, may add value to a doll head. For example, as of September 2015, rare antique dolls on Provenance-Dolls.com fetch between $1,000 and $13,000.
Collectors desire intricate facial details, as well as original period clothing and hair. They may also seek special features, such as separately modeled teeth, eyes that can close or a maker's mark of authenticity. Maker's marks were sometimes stamped on the shoulder plates of the china heads or inside the heads themselves. Collectors often seek dolls made by famous French manufacturers, particularly Jumeau and Huret.
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Welcome to the first week of my fridge & pantry cleanout challenge! I am challenging my fellow bloggers and readers to not only plan their menus, but to use up those leftovers and pantry items as well! Please, leave a comment or e-mail me privately if you'd like your link added to this post. All I ask is that you refer a link back to this blog. You are also welcome to grab my button (above) and use it! I'm so excited to see what others are doing!!
This week's menu contains some tried-and-true, and some new adventures. I am so excited about trying Thursday's crockpot dinner from Stephanie a "A Year of Crockpotting": Chicken Makhani. This is my absolutely favorite dish, and any time I've tried to look up the recipe it looks way too complicated. Her recipe not only looks simple, but I have all the ingredients for the recipe on hand! Score!
Notable Fridge Items to Use Up:
3 quarts fil mjolk (cultured milk)
leftover beef tongue
1/2 head cauliflower
beef broth
sunflower seed pizza crust
nut butter
squash pudding
Freezer Items to Use Up:
ground beef
chicken thighs
Pantry Items to Use Up:
navy beans
lima beans
sea veggies
B: squash muffins (made from leftover squash pudding), orange slices, fil mjolk yogurt
L: veggie stir-fry w/ chicken sausage
D: tongue carnitas (leftover from last week's tacos, I will deep-fry leftovers in lard with spices), fixings: cortido, salsa, scallions, lettuce
B: bacon, eggs, collards, cortido
L: sunflower seed pizza (I will post this recipe soon!)
D: hidden liver sloppy joes over cauliflower "rice" (shredded, roasted cauliflower)
B: coconut smoothies, acorn-peanut butter squash bars
L: miso soup & sea veggies
D: zucchini latkes w/ roasted asparagus (only $0.99/lb at Freddie's this week!)
B: bacon, egg & broccoli scramble
L: leftover sloppy joe's
D: Crockpot Chicken Makahani w/ curried cauliflower "rice"
B: nut butter pancakes, fruit
L: sardines & roasted asparagus
D: navy bean chili
B: fil mjolk smoothies
L: @ niece's baptism reception!
D: on the road
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2 comments:
- seamaiden said...
I need to clean out my fridge, freezer and pantry like you wouldn't believe! I should do this next week... Anyway, sounds good and full of very clever ways to use up your ingredients.
(a gluten-free menu planner)
- February 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Wendy said...
I was excited about this challenge and started preparing for it but caught the flu :(
So my husband is clearing out the fridge and pantry this week but without any real planning from me :)
I enjoy your blog, and your outlook.
thanks for sharing.
- February 18, 2009 at 12:35 PM
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by Keith Williams
When you read and digest the revolutionary narrative that emerge from George Orwell's porcine animal farm characters, and juxtapose that with what comes out of the PPPC today and over the past two decades, the hairs on your skin tend to stand up because of the symmetry, almost word for word, context by context, that exist between the two. I am presenting selective passages in the form of a literary montage, with the character and other references adapted to reflect the current source of these narratives, and the era in which they take place, for your entertainment, and maybe some serious contemplation
A pre-1992 PPPC Narrative
"…remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that the opposition Constituents and PPPC constituents have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the other. It is all lies. They serve the interests of no creature except themselves. And among us in and of the PPPC let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All members and supporters of opposition are enemies. All members and supporters of the PPPC are comrades."
After 1992 PPPC Narrative:
"….Comrades!" You do not imagine, I hope, that we in the PPPC leadership are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike wealth and all of its trappings. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our standing and status as your leaders. Money and Property (this has been proved by Science, comrades) are absolutely necessary to the well-being of PPPC Leaders. We are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this Country depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we acquire money and property. Do you know what would happen if we leaders failed in our duty? Burnham would come back! …Surely, comrades," cried the PPPCspeaker from the podium almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and wagging his fingers at the crowd, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Burnham come back?……"
Reality Reveals Damning Evidence
YEARS passed. The election cycles came and went, the lives of the people of Guyana fled by. A time came when there was no one who seem to remember the old days before the Rebellion, except for a few courageous critics, a Lincoln Lewis, a David Hinds, a Freddie Kissoon, a Brathwaite, and a number of people who might share ethnicity with the PPPC leaders but did not agree with them.
…the luxuries of which the PPPC leaders had once taught the people to dream, the homes with electric light and flowing water, and the freedom of the press, speech and assembly were no longer talked about. The PPP in their actions now denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Communism. The truest happiness, they implied, resided in working hard by the masses and living frugally.
Somehow it seemed as though the Country had grown richer without making the people themselves any richer-except, of course, for the PPPC leaders and its sycophants and acolytes. Perhaps this was partly because there were not so many of them. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion of course. They were never tired of explaining that they were engaged in endless work, in the supervision and organization of the economy, of education…. For example, political opinion leaders and shapers explained to the people that the PPPC leaders had to expend enormous energy every day upon mysterious things called "files," "reports," "minutes," and "memoranda."…
As for the rest of the Country, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. They were generally hungry, they lived like crap, they drank from polluted water from the taps, they labored in the fields; in offices, in factories, in the bush, the overwhelming majority barely able to eke out an existence on a daily basis. During rainy season they they were troubled by floods and attendant stinking mud and refuse and diseases, and during the dry season stifling heat, and flies, and rats, and roaches. Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether before and in the early days of the Rebellion, if things had been better or worse than now….
Two decades and several election cycles after… the terrifying vision of what the nation had devolved into began seeping into the consciousness of the population….the people began looking at and examining things in the Country. Then they saw what Kissoon, Lincoln Lewis, Barrington Brathwaite, et al, had been seeing and denouncing all along.
It was the PPPC leaders and their sycophants involved in all of the things they had condemned as occurring under the PNC and Forbes Burnham, their constructed replica of George Orwell's farmer. The PPPC monopolizing and using the national media for its exclusive propaganda purposes. The PPPC leadership using Law Enforcement and the Army to go after, and abuse and persecute their political opponents. The PPPC nefarious association with criminal vigilante gangs under the generalship of two politically affiliated leaders that sought out, kidnapped, and permanently deprived hundreds of men they proclaimed to be criminal suspects of their citizenship entitlement to due process and the presumption of innocence. The PPPC controlling the Judiciary, practicing nepotism, marginalizing and discriminating against population segments, the PPPC being silent and recalcitrant on Law Enforcement and Army torture of so called suspects, taking no action against exposed larceny, embezzlement and other fraudulent practices at state institutions, laissez faire attitudes to concerns about narcotic trafficking and trafficking in persons and a host of other management perversions.
A terrifying sense of hopelessness began to inundate the Population. They huddled together exchanging glances at the eruption of every new and recurring venality, afraid to give voice to that of which they had become gradually aware and frighteningly conscious. The people watched as long lines of PPPC leaders and sycophants gathered in clubs, and bars, in places of entertainment. It was as though their world had been turned upside-down. … And throughout all of this, there was this tremendous display of triumphalism, and the bellowing in unison of a narrative that animatedly proclaimed…."opposition bad, PPPC good, opposition bad, PPPC good"
The message was unequivocally transparent in its delivery. All Guyanese Are Equal but some Guyanese are more equal than others!!! The people then thankfully stood together and demanded change. The people will continue to work together to achieve that change. The people will not allow the PPPC to take them back to corruption, killings, racism and under-development.


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Flannel bush, Fremontodendron, is one of those beautiful mediterranean plants I grew to love in California (though it actually hails from Mexico). Snuggled next to stucco walls and tucked under a red tile roof, it just glows, demanding attention. You may plant it as a background plant, but it will assert itself to be the star.
Some crazy (brilliant) person planted one up here in the PNW, and I've been stalking it to see if it lived and thrived. Fremontodendron doesn't like wet feet, and we pretty much float the grass 7 months of the year here. But look, here it is, blooming and brilliant.
You can see that it grows in a gangly, open habit. I've seen it hedged into a shape of some sort and can't recommend that approach. The leaves are very mallow-ish – they feel like suede and in fact the little hairs can be a contact skin irritant. A small price to pay for it's incredible yellow brilliance.
It's a favorite of Ceratina, the small blue carpenter bees, and I'd imagine bumblebees and all the other bees of note like it too.
Picture it: Sapphire Blue Oat Grass or blue Senecio planted about its base. Fabulous contrast. Okay, I'll stop gushing about it now.


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Kawartha Lakes Mums - Beware These Deadly Nut Butters!
Salmonella ! Trader Joes and MaraNatha Nut Butters Huge Recall List!August 21, 2014 - Salmonella! A food recall warning issued on August 19, 2014 has been amended to correctly identify the affected codes for the MaraNatha brand almond butter and peanut butter products. This is a huge recall list. See the details in the related links section below.
The food industry is recalling MaraNatha and Trader Joe's brands of almond butters and peanut butters from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. This recall was triggered by a recall in another country, and may be extended again to more products, so to be on the safe side, our family is going to stop eating this brand for a while until an all clear is given. What about you?
Salmonella - Why so Dangerous?
|Heads up Kawartha Lakes Mums - Big Salmonella Recall!
There are over 30 product codes involved in this Salmonella recall warning. Check to see if you have any of the recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
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RIP Richard Whitely - The People's Champion
Paradox of the Card- Carrying Libertarians
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Broadcast 'Tender Buttons'
Jamie Liddell 'Multiply'
Neil Diamond 'Greatest Hits'
The Sound 'From the Lion's Mouth'
Back on line again. The break has made me realise that there is a world outside of the internet, but it isn't particularly interesting.
Too much has happened recently to write about it all. Here are some key events:
Batman Begins is very good. Sin City isn't, suffering from a paucity of sympathetic characters, and Frank Miller's inability to write dialogue free of howling cliche. We turned it off after twenty minutes.
Monday, June 27, 2005
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