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"Confronted with a challenge to distil the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety." Ben Graham
"In the final chapter of the 'Intelligent Investor' Ben Graham forcefully rejected the dagger thesis; "Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety." Forty two years after reading that, I still think those are the right three words." Warren Buffett
"The idea of a margin of safety, a Graham precept, will never be obsolete." Charlie Munger
"The three most important words in investing -- "margin of safety" and the four most dangerous -- "this time is different." Frank Martin
"Low price is the ultimate source of margin for error." Howard Marks
"Is there a sufficient margin of safety?" Bruce Berkowitz
"If you buy stock with a sufficient margin of safety, the probability is with you." Li Lu
"The concept of margin of safety turns out to be the most important concept in investing. That's not exactly a secret because it's all over the books that Benjamin Graham wrote more than 50 years ago." David Polen
"Obviously, if you understood a business perfectly — the future of a business — you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So the more volatile the business is — or possibility is — but assuming you still want invest in it, the larger the margin of safety... Well, if you're driving a truck across a bridge that holds — it says it holds 10,000 pounds — and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, you know, if the bridge is about six inches above the crevice that it covers, you may feel OK. But if it's, you know, over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety, in terms of only driving a 4,000 pound truck, or something, across. So it depends on the nature of the underlying risk." Warren Buffett
"Most of the top ranked business schools around the world do not understand margin of safety. For them, low risk and low returns go together as do high risk and high returns. Over a lifetime, we all encounter scores of low-risk, high return bets. They exist in all facets of life. Business schools should be educating their students on how to seek out and exploit these opportunities." Mohnish Pabrai
"The best investments have a considerable margin of safety. This is Benjamin Graham's concept of buying at a sufficient discount that even bad luck or the vicissitudes of the business cycle won't derail an investment. As when you build a bridge that can hold 30-ton trucks but only drive ten-ton trucks across it, you would never want your investment fortunes to be dependent on everything going perfectly, every assumption proving accurate, every break going your way." Seth Klarman
"We only want to buy when we can pay less than 60% of a conservative appraisal of a company's value, based on the present value of future free cash flows, current liquidation value and/or comparable sales…. trying to create a big margin of safety." Mason Hawkins
"There is no investment rule that remains immutable except the margin of safety. There are always breaks and the trick is to begin to anticipate, if you can, where the break points will be and shift. Not the disciplines and not the framework but the tactics that are involved." Peter Cundill
"Use an appropriate margin of safety to manage risk. This way, you will not lose too much when you are wrong, and you will make much more when you are right. This way you can let your portfolio generate higher than market returns with less risk, in a sustainable and stable way." Li Lu
"The core concept of value investing is margin of safety. The idea of value investing should be first and foremost about reducing risk. If you reduce risk the returns will take care of themselves." CT Fitzpatrick
"No matter how wonderful [a business] is, it's not worth an infinite price. We have to have a price that makes sense and gives a margin of safety considering the normal vicissitudes of life." Charlie Munger
"The concept of a margin of safety is that an investor should purchase a security at a price sufficiently below his estimate of its intrinsic value that he will have protection against permanent loss even if his estimate proves somewhat optimistic. An analogy is an investor standing on the 10th floor of a building, waiting for an elevator to carry him to the lobby. The elevator door opens. The investor notices that the elevator is rated for 600 pounds. There already are two relatively obese men in the elevator. The investor estimates their weights at about 200 pounds each. The investor knows that he weighs 175 pounds. The investor should not enter the elevator. There is an inadequate margin of safety. Maybe he underestimated the weights of the two obese men. Maybe the elevator company overestimated the strength of the elevator's cable. The investor waits for the next elevator. The door opens. There is one skinny old lady in the elevator. The investor says hello to the lady and enters the elevator. On his ride to the lobby, he will enjoy a large margin of safety." Ed Wachenheim
"Purchasing a business at a price that provides reasonable assurance of a generous margin for error is an erudite way of saying to ourselves, 'Buy low, stupid'." Frank Martin
"We strive to avoid situations without our cherished dual margin of safety – the quality of business and the price. We need both to counter our inevitable mistakes and unforseen events." Christopher Bloomstran
"There is no margin of safety in top-down investing." Seth Klarman
"A margin of safety gives you an edge over just blindly buying stocks or an index fund." Chris Browne
"I want very modest downside. I am very interested in the risk factors. The overused word of 'margin of safety' is very much in our head. We are measuring and thinking about what can go wrong." Chuck Royce
"We only invest when the price is attractive, which provides both a margin of safety and favorable prospective returns." Allan Mecham
"As the future is uncertain, my advice is to remember the importance of margin of safety." Jean-Marie Eveillard
"You have to figure out what a company is worth either based on its cash flows or assets and then apply a large enough discount to have a sufficient margin of safety." Robert Vinall
"The function of margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future." Ben Graham
"Margin of safety for us comes from the quality of the business and second from buying into it at a substantial discount to our estimate of intrinsic value. Neither is sufficient on its own for us to be interested." Mark Curnin
"The most important three words in investing, stated by Mr. Graham, probably more than 60 or 70 years ago: Margin of Safety. What that means to us, our interpretation of that statement made by Mr. Graham and repeated so many times over the years by Warren Buffett is that we are looking at investing in very, very high-quality companies that have great franchises and that have had these great franchises for many years." David Polen
"The greater the margin of safety implicit in a deeply depressed market or stock, the less the risk and the greater the expected return." Frank Martin
"Always keep a large margin of safety, even if you're playing with house money." Joel Greenblatt
"Because we look for investments that have a healthy margin for error, a mis-judgment of analysis is rarely a disaster. We don't need much to go right in order to make money, and in many cases we can get a lot wrong and still break even." David Einhorn
"You might want to give some thought to how you'll fare if the future doesn't oblige. In short, what is it that makes outcomes tolerable even when the future doesn't live up to your expectations? The answer is margin for error." Howard Marks
"If I pay too much upfront, I'd better understand everything there is to know about the company since there is no margin of safety. If I invest when its undervalued, I can be wrong about a whole host of issues and still make a good return." Guy Spier
"We take very much to heart Ben Graham's notion of margin of safety and use what we believe are demonstrably conservative assumptions. If you can do that and still conclude a business is undervalued, that's built-in margin of safety." Ken Burgess
"All my stock picking is 100% based on the concept of a margin of safety, as introduced to the world in the book "Security Analysis," which Graham co-authored with David Dodd. By now I have my own version of their techniques, but the net is that I want to protect my downside to prevent permanent loss of capital." Michael Burry
"We insist on a margin of safety in our purchase price. If we calculate the value of a common stock to be only slightly higher than it's price, we're not interested in buying. We believe this margin of safety principle, emphasised by Ben Graham, to be the cornerstone of investment success." Warren Buffett
"What attracts us to the whole concept of value investing is the idea of having a margin of safety, in terms of value over price. That margin of safety only exists if values are stable and it only improves if value increases." C.T Fitzpatrick
"We greatly doubt whether the man who stakes money on his view that the market is heading up or down can ever be said to be protected by a margin of safety in any useful sense of the phrase… Thus, in sum, we say that to have a true investment there must be present a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience." Benjamin Graham
"We have to be comfortable buying in at a valuation that provides us with a margin of safety, irrespective of any activism we will attempt to initiate and that may be unsuccessful." Barry Rosenstein
"We insist on a margin of safety to minimize the effects of bad judgements and maximise the results of good ones." Frank Martin
"To help minimize the risk of permanent loss, I look for a margin of safety in the stocks we purchase." Ed Wachenheim
"Buying bargains builds in a margin of safety to counter the inevitable misjudgements or misfortune." Seth Klarman
"The margin of safety in our investment strategy is to identify fundamentally good businesses and adhere to strict valuation discipline." Jeffrey Ubben
"Margin for error is a critical element in defensive investing. Whereas most investments will be successful if the future unfolds as hoped, it takes margin for error to render outcomes tolerable when the future doesn't oblige. An investor can obtain margin for error by insisting on tangible, lasting value in the here and now: buying only when price is well below value; eschewing leverage; and diversifying." Howard Marks
"The further off you get into the future, the greater your chances of misjudging what will happen. Therefore, the greater the allowance needed for a possible margin of error the more difficult it becomes to determine true value." Phil Fisher
"Investing is inherently about predicting the future. But predictions can never reach 100% accuracy; they can only fall between zero and something approaching 100%. So when we make a judgement, we need a large buffer. This is called margin of safety. Because there is no way to ever be sure, you must always remember the margin of safety no matter how many other things you grasp." Li Li
"Business and capitalism is brutal, dog eat dog. All these guys want to encroach on your territory all the time. Businesses are not steady state entities, they fight for their survival and so when trying to project the future for business we should demand huge a margin of safety." Mohnish Pabrai


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|** Virginia Street will be closed for Christmas holiday from Wednesday December 14, 2011 to Tuesday December 27, 2011**
Virginia Street Cafe, conveniently located at the corner of Virginia Street and Cross Street in historical Urbanna, Virginia, has been providing food and catering services to the local community since 1989. Not only do we have the finest softshell crabs and oysters, but our fried chicken gives the seafood a run for its money. Our hush puppies, voted the best around, go with everything on the menu, but if you prefer homemade rolls, we certainly have them, too. So, come on in for a bite or contact us for a carry-out order. Either way you slice it, you're bound to end up with your belly full.

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Join us for our skills workshop offered to athletes of all levels, ages 6 and up. Focus will be on skills, skills, skills! Everything will be covered, from stretching, strength & conditioning, jumps, as well as running and standing tumbling. During the tumbling sessions, athletes will be grouped by skill level.
June Workshop will be held from 9-12 June 19-21
July Workshop will be held from 9-12 July 10-12
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|3 full scholarships for applicants from developing countries
14th Spring School on Immunology, March 18th – March 23rd 2018
We are pleased to announce that – through joint sponsorship by IUIS and the German Society for
Every year in spring the German Society for Immunology (DGfI) hosts the 'Spring School on
Registration and accommodation for the duration of the school (covered by the DGfI)
You will find the online application link on this web page: http://web.dgfi.org/spring-school/register.htm. Click on the text: Online IUIS_DGfI_Stipends Application. Upon submission, the
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There's a tent camper in my driveway and a garage full of paraphernalia. Bags are being packed and heaps of grocery shopping is about to commence. We have a lovely five-day Spring break ahead of us and … We. Are. Going. Camping.
For some of you that might be a typical vacation – your perfect idea of respite and refreshment. Mine would be someplace marked by 4-stars (at least), a spa, and valet parking. Which is probably why we don't take many vacations!
Among my closest friends I've somehow become attached to a princess reputation. Which is kind of ironic because lately, I've been the one scaling towers and fighting dragons – my tutu and tiara replaced by the sword and shield.
Perhaps the pretty-pink-label has more to do with my pension for cleanliness, order, and modern conveniences. Which simply makes me like the rest of the Type A, left-brained, tidy people of the world, right?
But, I have a husband and a 12-year-old son and the prospect of packing up the trailer and heading out to camp delights them. Their smiles far outweigh any cost I will endure.
Sometimes God breaks through our comfort zones.
He asks us to do things that aren't normal, or easy, or even convenient. He stretches us in brand new ways and points us toward uncharted territory. It might not be our favorite activity, the safest route, or our chosen destination.
Sometimes it's to teach us and other times it's to bless others.
God breaks molds and chains. Through Him we break free from our past – from sin. With Him, we break apart that which opposes faith (fear, worry, doubt). In Christ, we are unbound, unleashed – called to live the great adventure of faith.
Sometimes being broken is exactly where He wants us.
Surrendered hearts, empty hands, and a teachable spirit – it breaks all the rules the world would have us live by, but it positions us before Christ available to be used by Him.
Now – don't be misled. This camping trip is no survival expedition or trek into the great unknown. It's 3-days at a lovely state park, nestled next to the ocean. The forecast is for a delicious 80 degrees and we'll be surrounded by dear friends. This is more of a light tugging than a stretching.
But this past year, God has broken ties. He has made me bend and move in ways I never imagined. He's pushed, and pulled, and pointed me in a direction that has me scaling that tower, drawing my sword, looking that dragon right in the eye … AND believing that victory is mine.
In comparison to all that – camping is a piece of cake.
But mark my words, ours will be the tidiest, cutest, most orderly trailer in the park. ;)
*This post is part of the Five Minute Friday link-up. This incredible community of writers participate in a weekly five-minute-free-write. It is purposed to be unedited – but my Type A (see!) personality binds me to a quick refinement and spell check. Most importantly it's an opportunity to pour our hearts on the page over one pre-selected word prompt. This weeks word is: break. To learn more about this free write challenge, visit our hostess Kate Motaung and/or come join us on Thursday nights on Twitter (#fmfparty) for random conversation and great fun.
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Skills-based facilitation is totally my jam. Or preserves. Depending on how you look at it.
Facilitating a staff retreat? Looking for engaging content for your conference or event? I'll tailor a workshop towards the needs of your audience so they can walk away with tangible skills and next steps in building relevant and meaningful offerings, programs, and initiatives.
One-time workshops can focus on design thinking as a whole, or a specific element, and range from 90 minutes to 4 hours.
Workshop series can deep dive into specific elements and span several days, weeks, or months depending on your needs.
A few of the topics I facilitate include:
Design thinking deep dive
In this interactive session, we'll dive into an overview of what design thinking is and why using human-centered design is pivotal in the success of your initiative. Participants will get hands-on experience with the technique and clear takeaways for how to apply it to their work.
User empathy
Understanding your consumers, customers, and collaborative market are cornerstones to building a relevant offering. We will walk through how to use empathetic interviews, observation, and other techniques to have a deep understanding of who you are serving and how to serve them best.
How do you test out your idea? Instead of building something "perfect" and then gaining valuable feedback, we will create a plan to start receiving user feedback on your offering quickly, efficiently, and cheaply so you can iterate and build something that is relevant and highly desired.
Using business as a force for good
I'm passionate about using business as a force for good, and will help your organization integrate a relevant, meaningful, and sustainable way to incorporate social impact into your business, as well as into your operations.


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Going through and implementing a series of actions from a checklist is a great first step in the journey to sustainability—but it is only a first step! If you don't set meaningful goals for the future and evaluate progress over time, your initial efforts will mean nothing. Worse than wasting time, allowing your program to falter sends the wrong message to your stakeholders.
A strong Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) integrated with tailored sustainability metrics will allow you to prioritize actions, monitor and evaluate your progress, and make necessary changes. It helps to ensure you efficiently and effectively manage your valuable resources.
Read the How-To Guide on Continuous Improvement and Measurement (pdf)
Resources for Continuous Improvement and Measurement:
- Sample Continuous Improvement Plans:
- Initial (At time of certification) (.pdf)
- After One Year (.pdf)
- After Two Years (.pdf)
- After Three Years (.pdf)
- Sustainability Metrics Related to Sample CIP (.xlsx)


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AN ANGEL is looking over city chiefs for this year's Britain in Bloom entry as Birmingham bids to be become one of the most picturesque cities in the UK.
The 7ft angel, made out of wicker and standing on top of a floral stained glass window outside St Philip's Cathedral, will form the centrepiece of this year's entry.
It is just one of the highlights that city council chiefs are hoping will impress the panel of judges that visited the city yesterday.Related content
Several floral displays have been created along the judges' route from The Mailbox to St Paul's Church. They include 8ft floral towers, a basket of organic herbs, vegetables and edible herbs in Paradise Gardens and two 6ft floral bells.
The displays have been created by Birmingham City Council gardeners, community groups and city businesses.
The judges' finaal decision will be revealed at a national ceremony in Cardiff on September 28.
Coun John Alden, cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture, said: "Birmingham's magnificent entry into the Britain in Bloom competition shows the great horticultural talent of Birmingham parks' gardeners and demonstrates the strong commitment of businesses and community groups to making the city centre a beautiful place to visit and work."
Council chiefs are hoping to build on last year, when St Paul's Church and Birmingham Cathedral each received a silver gilt award for their flower trail. Details of the Britain in Bloom floral trail are on www.birmingham.gov.uk


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TRAILBLAZING: Built from as early as 500 BC, the Roman Roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman State.
If you are going to run an Empire, you need communications. The Romans had the Roman Roads, while Marco Polo's Travels describe in almost breathless tones the extensive communications system in the Great Khan's empire.
Using both runners and horses with posting stations spaced at regular intervals, messages could be transmitted across vast distances within the Mongol Empire at remarkable speed. So important was the system, that provincial or local rulers were required by law to maintain the physical and animal infrastructure and given tax concessions to encourage them to do so.
In the case of the
Empire, you find the Red
Route, the network of undersea telegraph cables
linking British territories. Intended to protect imperial interests and promote
imperial commerce, the Red Route
spread rapidly to the point that British cable laying ships dominated the
global trade.
Australians have recently been commemorating various events connected with the First World War. There has been little recognition in those commemorations of the importance of the
Red Route. It gave
the British and Commonwealth side secure global communications, while and the
other Central Powers found their global communications badly disrupted. Germany
Looking back, there were many remarkable features about the global spread of telegraphy. The first was its sheer speed.
Many complex problems had to be resolved before messages could be transmitted, let alone transmitted economically across a vast global cable network.
The first working telegraph system was created in 1816. The first commercial telegraph system was installed on the Great Western Railway between
London and in 1837. The
first undersea cable was laid in 1850 between Birmingham France
and .
The growing international cable system reached England in October 1872. Australia
If you think about it, that's very fast, just fifty six years from first commercial application to global transformation. Its about the same time from the invention of the Turing machine to the creation of the internet.
Telegraphy transformed to world. It reduced the time taken to get a message from
to remote
from many weeks to seven hours. It transformed industry and governance. Australia
New industries were created, warfare was revolutionised. For the first time, a newspaper in Sydney or Armidale could get information on events as they happened, not events past.. For the first time, a government official could expect to assert direct immediate control over a far distant subordinate. Real centralisation was born.
The remote Australian colonies were early adopters of the new technology. In my next column, I will look at this and the impact on New England.
Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 10 June 2015. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because they are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the Belshaw World and History Revisited columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012, here for 2013, here for 2014, here for 2015.


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Majestia Dozier is in Carrollton, Georgia, and doing fine. Eva's fine, too.
Back on August 29, 2005, when Lake Pontchartrain was pouring into New Orleans and I was in Boulder, feverishly packing to go and cover the disaster, I got a call from Margaret's aunt Missy, in Chico, California. Before marrying Margaret's uncle, Missy had spent more than thirty years in New Orleans, as the wife of a broker of commercial insurance. As I threw socks, disinfectant, and notebooks into my backpack, Missy told me that, whatever else I did in New Orleans, I should please try to find Majestia. Majestia had worked for Missy's family, cooking, taking care of the house, and practically raising Missy's two sons and two daughters. When Missy's marriage dissolved and the couple sold their Italianate cottage on St. Charles Avenue, a new owner, who lives in San Francisco and keeps the place as a second home, kept Majestia on. "Majestia is not in the best of health," Missy told me. "She may be stuck in the city. Please try to find her and get her out."
When I arrived in New Orleans, I was scared silly, unprepared to plunge into the Convention Center or set off in the rescue boats. I was glad to have a project uptown, which was relatively quiet and safe. Talking my way past the roadblocks was the first challenge, and then I had to get rid of my van. Travelling by bicycle, I made my way through the endless tangle of fallen oak boughs that had overtaken St. Charles Avenue, in search of Missy's old house. It turned out to be a charming bungalow that was painted pale pink and white, with dark-green shutters. It was set back from the sidewalk and raised eight feet off the ground. No trees lay across the house, but it was dark and locked shut. Majestia wasn't there.
The next few days were a blur of heat, filth, heartbreak, and witnessed misery. I slept on porches and rooftops, and bathed using fistfuls of baby wipes that I'd bought in Baton Rouge. Every day, I rode my bike past Missy's house, looking for signs of life. Five days after the levees broke, I was pedalling up St. Charles at dusk when I saw a figure sitting deep in the shadows on Missy's porch. "Majestia?" I said.
"Who is that?" the woman cried, terrified.
I stood at the bottom of the steps, hands away from my body, and explained who I was and how I knew her name.
"Oh, Lordy Jesus," she said, waving me up the steps and wrapping me in a hug.
When the storm hit, Majestia and her daughter, Eva, had been at the house on St. Charles. They'd waded through knee-deep water to check on their own house, on St. Philip, but only got as far as the Interstate 10 overpass, where they spent two days among thousands of other people, with little food or water. Unable to reach their home, they hitched rides back to Missy's house. The water, gas, and electricity had been cut off, and the inside of the house was an oven, but at least they were out of the sun and safe behind a locked door.
As we talked, Eva came out on the porch. Forty-seven years old, six feet tall, and broad in the shoulders, Eva had been severely handicapped since being shot by her boyfriend ten years earlier. She kept reaching for me and declaring, "I'm going to marry you!" Majestia had to physically restrain her a couple of times. That day, pumped-up policemen and deputy sheriffs from as far away as Oregon and Maine had arrived in New Orleans and begun racing around in boxy bulletproof vests and pointing weapons at everybody they saw. At dusk, as we sat on the porch, a red laser dot from a gunsight crossed my chest.
Majestia told me that she was diabetic and hadn't had her insulin since the storm struck. Earlier in my stay, I'd met an emergency-room doctor named Chris Wormuth who lived nearby, so I rode to his house. He told me that Majestia was in grave danger. By this time, it was dark—and I've never seen nights as dark as they were that week in New Orleans, with all the power cut and no cars on the streets. Chris handed me a riot gun, put a Glock pistol in his waistband, and inched his van gingerly down St. Charles, weaving to avoid the oak branches. With Majestia and Eva in the van, we drove to Ochsner Hospital, in Jefferson Parish, which was operating on generator power. Chris, who works at the hospital, went inside and came back with a box of insulin and syringes. "This won't last long unrefrigerated," he said.
The next morning, I reached Missy's son in Baton Rouge, and he agreed to drive down and collect Majestia and Eva. By nightfall, the two of them were on a bus to Atlanta, not far from where a grandson and a nephew of Majestia's lived.
Before she left, Majestia gave me a precious gift: the key to the house. I called the owner, in San Francisco, and reached one of his employees, who assured me that I was welcome to use the place. (The owner was glad to have someone watching it.) The house had a pool out back, and though two trees had fallen into it, it made a fine bathtub and a serviceable place to wash my clothes. That night, I slept between clean sheets. A couple of other New Yorker writers and I used the house for two weeks, and then, a few weeks later, I lived in it again, when I returned to cover Hurricane Rita. I left behind a page from my notebook with the words "In September, 2005, this house served as The New Yorker magazine's Katrina-Rita bureau."
When we spoke on the phone the other day, Majestia told me that she'd first gone to stay in Oklahoma, where another grandson of hers was serving in the Air Force. Now she and Eva are in Carrollton, Georgia, living near her son.
I asked if she had any plans to return to New Orleans.
"No," she said. "Jesus, no."


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BUBBLE MANIA: There is nothing quite like the childlike joy of blowing bubbles and there is definitely nothing like revisiting that joy at The Greatest Bubble Show on Earth. This Sunday at the Marsh you will witness extraordinary things like spinning flying saucer bubbles, square bubbles filled with fog, and bubble chains that look like centipedes. The bubblelicious magic starts at 11 a.m. [7x7]
FREE ADMISSION: The Contemporary Jewish Museum has made it a tradition: free Target Family Day on Christmas! If you don't celebrate the holiday and can't find anything to do, or if you do celebrate and you just enjoy seeing awesome art and exhibits for free, join the museum this Friday. You can even meet some of your favorite Wild Things characters at the Sendak on Sendak exhibit.
MERRY XMAS, SPACE COWBOY: Dear anime fans, if you're up late at night this Christmas and you need a dose of action packed, interplanetary bounty hunting, join the Bridge Theater for a Cowboy Bebop Christmas Night Movie Marathon. The event kicks off around midnight, giving plenty of time for the present-unwrapping weary to rest.
A WRENCH AND A BASS: Are you aware that the grease-covered dude at Jiffy Lube could be the next Miles Davis? If not, come meet the Jazz Mechanics. The trio burst onto the scene from their San Jose machine shop and are now expanding the genre of improvisational music with their original works. Enjoy a free performance at the Hotel De Anza. [funcheapSF]
TIME FOR A HOEDOWN: Grab your ten gallon hat and your best boots, because there's a free Line Dancing Class this Saturday. The instructor has created a fun way to learn the steps, which combine western cowboy dance, salsa, cha-cha, hip-hop, and even Kung-Fu techniques. Wear some comfy clothes when you mosey on down to the Berryessa Branch Library at noon. [Artsopolis]
DREAMING OF AN ICED CHRISTMAS: We may never have a white Christmas out here in the Bay Area, but we can have an Iced out one this year. Visit the Cartier and America exhibition at the Legion of Honor and you will be astounded by jewelry and works of art from the private collection of Cartier.
CHRISTMAS: Enjoy the Holiday, Bay Area!


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Located in Northern Virginia, straddling the counties of Fairfax and Loudoun, is the town of Herndon, Virginia. Surprisingly, Herndon is the third largest town in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and home to more than 23,000 residents. It maintains it small-town charm while offering the technological advantages along the Dulles Technology Corridor and easy access to Washington, D.C.
How Herndon Got its Name
Herndon was named for Commander William Lewis Herndon, an American naval explorer. He was Captain of the steamer SS Central America, a sidewheel steamer (also known as "the ship of gold" for its rich cargo) that sank in an 1857 hurricane. Captain Herndon went down with the ship after trying to save more than 150 passengers. Even more interesting, two years following the sinking, Herndon's daughter Ellen married Chester A. Arthur, who became the 21st President of the United States.
123JUNK has a Presidential Connection Too
Did you know that each of the 123JUNK trucks bear the name of one of our Presidents? You might have John Adams or George Washington coming to your door this week! We thought it was more fun than just giving them an identification number. The next time you see our truck, look to see which "President" is in your neighborhood.
We'll Take Any Size Load
Even though 123JUNK is not making history like Commander Herndon, we are certainly becoming a household name around town. We've been hauling junk and removing trash from this area for both homeowners and business clients since we began our business in 2008. You can often see our bright red trucks and dedicated staff working hard to "clean up" the town. Whether you have a small amount of items you'd like to donate, a home or business that you want to clean out, or yard debris from a spring or fall cleanup, 123JUNK is the company to call.
We Donate-Recycle-Dispose
When we remove our clients' usable items, like furniture, small appliances or household goods, we work with charity partners in the Greater Herndon Area, who recycles them back into the community for those who can use them.
We recycle approximately half of what we receive, a practice that meshes with our goal to keep re-usable items out of our landfills. For donated items, we issue a receipt so our clients can claim tax deductions. It's part of 123JUNK's three-pronged philosophy of Donate-Recycle-Dispose.
For Trash Removal in Herndon, give us a call
Whether you live or work in Herndon, 123JUNK can provide junk disposal and trash removal services. Our professional uniformed staff will do the work for you.
Call 123JUNK today!


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Vinn MartÍ Soul Motion Master Class
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS: a one time only two-hour MASTER class with beloved Soul Motion teacher and founder Vinn Martì.
This offering will replace the regular SoulFull Sunday Class. Great for people who haven't met Vinn and or those with busy schedules. Worth a drive from the surrounding area to take in the facilitated dance space - promising to be a spirited half day of transformation.
You will be dancing with practioners from around the country ... that are here for Vinn's 4-Day Workshop. Join in on this diverse mix of enchanting dance folks.
Experience Vinn Marti the creator and founder of Soul Motion. Conscious Dancer magazine calls him the "Minister of Soul".
Vinn presented a mastery class in Berkley last month and he sold out well before the event day. Come early, music will be playing by 9:45. Join us in this dance with the Minister of Soul - Vinn Marti.
Pre-registration - $15 (by Oct 22nd)
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The National Federation of the Blind and Amazon released a brief statement March 2, announcing a new initiative to "collaborate on improvements to Amazon's education content, platforms, and application," as well as meet on an "ongoing basis" to address the advocacy groups' accessibility concerns with its Kindle e-readers.
The NFB has been a constant critic of the online retailer ever since it launched the Kindle 2008. At issue is the method Amazon uses to convert written documents to digital formats. While most publishers use the ePub3 format to convert files, Amazon uses its own MobiPocket converter, which the NFB argues is inaccessible when reading anything but basic documents.
The issue has gained increased urgency as Amazon has partnered with school districts and higher education institutions to bring Kindles into the classroom, where they are often used to read mathematical tables and other complex materials. In August, the New York City Department of Education delayed a vote on a proposed $30 million contract with Amazon in response to protest letters from the NFB.
Neither the NFB nor Amazon included many details in the announcement, but stated that "initial results of this collaboration are expected this year and beyond."
"The National Federation of the Blind is dedicated to using our expertise in the development and implementation of built-in accessibility in technology to ensure that the blind have equal access to the information and tools we need to live the lives we want," NFB President Mark A. Riccobono said in the news release. "The NFB and Amazon have sought a productive collaboration to improve accessibility, and we now look forward to working together closely to improve the technologies that will make digital reading experiences better for all customers."
The NFB's page on Amazon's Kindle provides more background, press releases and other information about the ongoing accessibility issues.


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Saving money while at college can be a hard thing to do especially if you are a new student.
I came across an article at Daily Finance that talked about five simple and easy tips to help you save a bit of money while studying at college. The first tip is to set up a checking account. A lot of college towns offer "free, no minimum balance checking accounts." Most banks also offer free online banking, which can help a student track his or her expenses from their computer or smartphone. This will enable you to always know how much money you have. A checking account and online banking will also give you a great indication of where you are spending most of your money and where you need to cut back.
The second tip is to get a part time job. Most students might feel they have enough on their plate with a heavy course load, but if you feel extra ambitious a part time job can help you save a lot of money. According to the article, "most studies show that students who work for 20 hours or less per week don't suffer any ill effects on their grades; in fact, a recent article in "Inside Higher Ed" reports that students with part-time jobs are likely to be even more engaged in "educationally purposeful activities.""
The third tip is to be weary of people at colleges offering you the chance to sign up for a credit card. The prospect of having a credit card might be nice, but it could also be very detrimental. You should do your research first and don't give in to any perks you may receive from a person soliciting on your college campus.
The fourth tip is to be in control of what you are eating and how much you are consuming. Meal plans can be costly and unnecessary. Many colleges offer flex plans that charge you based on what you eat so you won't spend as much and won't nearly over eat and pack on costly pounds.
The fifth tip is to stay away from high textbook prices. Textbooks can be very costly especially if they are new. There are many websites that offer used or the option to rent textbooks.
These are just a few tips that can help you cut back on expenses and save money while studying at college.
via Bruce Heen http://bruceheen.org/how-to-save-money-while-at-college/


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Top 5 2014 Games We Missed: Thumbstick Athletes Podcast Episode 179/
As unfortunate as it may be, we are unable to play all the games we would like to throughout the year. We can't do the Podcast for 8 hours a day and certainly don't have the money to purchase every single game we would like to, so we have to pick and choose what we would like to spend both time and money on. Inevitably, we all missed out on some games that came out this year, whether we didn't have the system to play it on, time to play said game, or didn't like the developer/publisher despite a games reviews. Here is where we give those games credit; formerly a Thumbie category, now in it's own episode.
Nibblebits: 00:03:10
Will: Halo ODST remaster
Eric: Notch's sick house
Corey: Hearthstone out on Android'
Dan: Hatred put back on Steam Greenlight
Our Weeks: 00:12:55
Corey: new home, Serial Podcast
Eric: iPhone 6, Far Cry 4 trade in, Buffalo Bills, Steam Sale
Will: jail broke iPhone, gamestop visits, Thumbies work
Dan: first episode of Marco Polo
Main Segment: 00:31:10
What We Played: 01:08:10
Corey: Gauntlet, Shovel Knight, Dragon Age Inquisition, Hearthstone, Dungeon of the Endless, Trivia Crack
Will: Trivia Crack, CoD: Advanced Warfare, Fantasy Life
Eric: FIFA 15, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Dragon Age Inquisition
Dan: Dragon Age Inquisition
Feedback: 01:44:22
Roundtable: 02:04:00


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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Devils vs Demons (鬼 v 魔)?
I have been sick the last couple of days and took some extra sleep. It wasn't a total loss of time, though.
I did submit a first draft of my proposal to my advisor and I will be preparing a table of contents and my bibliography over the next month.
I wrote to Ori Tavor requesting a copy of his dissertation and he was very kind to share with me and wish me luck in my writing. He will be revising his dissertation over the next year or so in order to prepare the manuscript for publication somewhere. I'm sure it will be a frequently discussed book when it's published. You can read Michael Stanley-Baker's review of Tavor's dissertation over at the excellent site Dissertation Reviews.
Tavor had an article published in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy last year about Xunzi's ritual theory and it really opened up my thinking about addiction. Reading his article I kept slapping my head and saying, "of course, I wish I'd thought of that!" the experience has been really gratifying for me because to this point I've been thinking that I've been crazy to think about addiction from a Confucian ritual perspective. So, for just that alone I'm thankful. But then this weekend I was mulling over Hui-Lin's short article about cannabis and its linguistic impact on Chinese culture and I started wondering why ma 麻 + gui 鬼 = mo 魔? As it turns out, Tavor writes a bit about this term. I am very much looking forward to reading it.
Li translates mo 魔 as "demon" and notes that the hallucinatory capacity of ingesting cannabis ma 麻 combines with "devil" (gui 鬼) to create this new "demon" character, mo 魔. But why? It would seem that Li is suggesting here that ma is amplifying the quality of a class of being, "devil" (gui 鬼). But when did mo 魔 come into usage? What is the difference between a "devil" and a "demon" really? Gui 鬼 is used today in several bisyllabic words that are relevant to my dissertation: yangui 煙鬼 (opium smoker; heavy tobacco smoker), jiugui 酒鬼 (drunk, alcoholic), segui 色鬼 (lecher), and zuigui 醉鬼 (drunkard, alcoholic). Zuixin 醉心 apparently means "addicted to." That xin 心 is used must have interesting implications for the neuroscience of addiction. Xin 心 has historically been understood as both heart and mind together, but Western-trained medical professionals are more likely to understand xin 心 as referring to what we would refer to exclusively as "mind."
ASIDE: While Karen and I were in Shanghai last spring we were told by several faculty of China's most prestigious neurology and psychiatric departments that a delegation of German psychoanalysts have been coming to Shanghai over the last several years to train folks. Time didn't allow for us to ask much about these training sessions nor the practices that are apparently taking off like wildfire there. I'd love to know how this collapsed heart-mind, xin 心, fits into psychoanalytic practice. I wonder how much xin 心 is going to change the way psychoanalysts think about heart and mind.
Gui 鬼 occurs several times in the Zhongyong 中庸:
16. 子曰:鬼神之為德,其盛矣乎!
Legge—How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them!
Ames and Hall—The efficacy (de 德) of the gods and spirits is profound!
Jullien—La capacité dont témoignent les efficiences invisibles, comme elle est éminente!
(my take on Jullien, "The efficaciousness of supersensory effect-making is awe-inspiring!)
29. [...] 故君子之道本諸身,徵諸庶民,考諸三王而不繆,建諸天地而不悖,質諸鬼神而無疑,百世以俟聖人而不惑。質諸鬼神而無疑,知天也;百世以俟聖人而不惑,知人也。
Legge (30.)—He presents himself with them before spiritual beings, and no doubts about them arise. He is prepared to wait for the rise of a sage a hundred ages after, and has no misgivings. His presenting himself with his institutions before spiritual beings, without any doubts arising about them, shows that he knows Heaven.
Ames and Hall—Confirmed before the gods and spirits, no doubts attend it. Having waited one hundred generations for the appearance of the sage (shengren 聖人), there are no second thoughts. Confirming this way before the gods and spirits so there is no doubt about it, is to know tian 天; having waited one hundred generations for the appearance of the sage so there are no second thoughts, is to know the human (ren 人).
Jullien—C'est pouquoi la voie du Souverain a son fondement dans la personnalité morale de celui-ci et se voit attestée au niveau du peuple tout entier: si on l'examine en regard [du gouvernement] des Trois rois [fondateurs des trois dynasties], [on se rend compte qu']elle ne s'en écarte pas; si on l'établi en regard [du grand procès] Ciel et de la Terre, [on se rend compte qu']elle ne le contredit pas; si on la confronte à la dimension d'esprit du réel, on n'éprouve pas de doute à son égard; enfin, qu'on ait à attendre cent générations un Sage [qui vienne la confirmer], on n'éprouvera aucun trouble à son endroit.
Qu'on la confronte à la dimension d'esprit du réel et qu'on n'éprouve pas de doute à son égard, c'est connaitre le ‹‹Ciel»; qu'on ait à attendre cent générations un Sage [qui vienne la confirmer] et qu'on n'éprouve aucun trouble à son endroit, c'est connaître l'homme.
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Hopes dim for replacing SGR - Sebelius brought into transplant fight - Sources: Pallone running for Senate - Obama will promote ACA in California
With help from Kyle Cheney
HOPES DIM FOR SGR REPLACEMENT – There's still no firm plan for replacing the flawed Medicare physician payment formula with August recess just two months away. In most years, that's not really news — a replacement for the Sustainable Growth Rate formula has flummoxed lawmakers for years. But the best window for a permanent fix may be quickly closing in August, when the Congressional Budget Office typically updates its baseline estimates and could dramatically boost the cost of repealing the SGR. Right now, SGR repeal is going for the low price of $139 billion, which is way down from upwards of $300 billion just a few years ago. The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee holds a hearing today on a GOP draft, but it's far from being complete. The Pro story: http://politico.pro/12rIcm2
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--BILL GETS EARLY DEM CRITICISM – Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), who's been involved in bipartisan efforts to replace the SGR, called the GOP draft legislation disappointing. "While it recognizes and uses the terminology about moving away [from] fee-for-service towards a system that rewards quality over volume, it really doesn't do that," she told reporters yesterday. "It's a missed opportunity at best and certainly, we were hopeful they would move forward on a more significant proposal and work with us."
Happy Wednesday and welcome to PULSE, where we wonder if HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius got a little more email than usual yesterday after the AP published the address for her secret work account.
"You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so PULSE it"
SEBELIUS DRAGGED INTO TRANSPLANT FIGHT – Some GOP lawmakers have taken up the fight to get a lung transplant for a dying 10-year-old girl — literally begging Sebelius to intervene and save the girl's life — shining the light on what critics say is a policy that puts kids at a disadvantage. The policy in question drops children under 12 to the bottom of the waiting list for lungs from adult donors — and lawmakers have asked Sebelius to at least waive the rule for this situation. Sebelius has ordered a review of the policy, but she said she can't pick and choose who gets a transplant. As POLITICO Pro's Brett Norman explains, transplant policy is truly complicated: http://politi.co/11gmt9d
OBAMA HEADS WEST FOR ACA SPEECH – In case you weren't sure how psyched the Obama administration is by health insurance rates in the California exchange, there's this: President Obama will be in San Jose on Friday touting his health care law. "He'll highlight the promising news that despite dire predictions, early data on insurance competition and premiums in the state show that ACA — the Affordable Care Act — is creating quality affordable choices for Californians who plan to buy insurance this fall," press secretary Jay Carney said yesterday.
SOURCES: PALLONE RUNNING FOR SENATE – Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee, has been calling around to let people know he's running for the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's seat, sources told POLITICO. It sets up a primary showdown with Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the odds-on favorite. The POLITICO story: http://politi.co/15F1p1a
SUBCOMMITTEE PASSES ABORTION BAN – A bill banning abortion nationwide after 20 weeks passed through a House Judiciary subcommittee yesterday against the strong objections of Democrats. The proposed ban would be a few weeks shorter than the precedent established in Roe v. Wade, but GOP members of the subcommittee said the bill from Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) would get SCOTUS approval.
GOP: SEBELIUS DISCLOSURE RAISES MORE QUESTIONS – Congressional Republicans yesterday said new red flags were raised yesterday when Sebelius testified she discussed publicizing the ACA with three companies that she regulates. Sebelius told a House panel that she contacted Ascension Health, Johnson & Johnson and Kaiser Permanente about doing ACA outreach, but said she never hit them up for money and stayed within the confines of the law. "That the Secretary of Health and Human Services has now admitted to having pressured the very companies her agency regulates to get behind a non-government group in support of ObamaCare raises even more ethical and legal questions," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, ranking member of the Finance Committee. ICYMI, the Pro story: http://politico.pro/14tvfCD.
INSURERS SIGNAL INTEREST IN ARKANSAS EXCHANGE — The Arkansas exchange, drawing a lot of national interest for its unique approach to the Medicaid expansion, has received letters of intent from four insurers. They are Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, National Blue Cross Blue Shield Multi-state Plan, Celtic Insurance Company/NovaSys Health and Qual Choice of Arkansas. Arkansas still must formally seek out HHS approval to cover the Medicaid population through the exchange.
--The Associated Press notes that the exchange had been hoping at least six insurers would sign up in the first year. But state officials said they were pleased with the turnout, anyway. http://bit.ly/19GanOi
A MODERATE DEM'S OBAMACARE 180 – Former Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) was voted out of office last year partially because of his vote against the president's health law. Now, he's working to implement the ACA as a senior VP at Florida Blue, the state's largest health insurer. "From where I am right now, the key point is we want the law to succeed," Altmire told POLITICO when asked about his 2010 vote against Obamacare. At the time, he said he voted against the bill because it failed to reduce costs. Now, though, Altmire's just focused on making sure Florida's federal-run exchange works. The Pro story: http://politico.pro/18M4KN0
** A message from UnitedHealthcare: At UnitedHealthcare, we're using our experience and access to vast health care information to make health care simpler and more responsive. Learn more at www.uhc.com **
MEMO DETAILS LIKELY CHALLENGES FACING MEDICARE TRUST FUND – Last week's Medicare trustee report estimated that under current law, there's a $27.3 trillion unfunded liability over the next 75 years, but under an "alternative scenario" of policy changes and adjustments, the liability could swell even higher. A CMS actuary's memo to the Senate Budget Committee clarifies it could get $9 trillion worse, growing to $36.2 trillion. In their report, the Medicare trustees explain that the increased liability estimate is based on expectations that Congress won't let a dramatic cut to Medicare physician payments happen, that Medicare productivity adjustments won't save as much as envisioned, and that IPAB cost-cutting requirements won't be met. The CMS memo on the cost of the alternative scenario: http://politico.pro/13DbnOC. The alternative scenario breakdown: http://go.cms.gov/1aIuMQs
CHAMBER: HEALTH TAX REG COSTS EVEN MORE – The ACA's $100 billion tax on insurers will cost employers between $45 billion and $70 billion more under the IRS's proposed rule implementing the levy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce charges in formal comments. The business organization, citing an economic analysis from Quantria, says the proposed rule is designed to "tax the tax," which will be passed onto businesses. The Chamber writes: "This excess taxation will occur because the [proposed rule] implies that they will apply federal income tax to health insurance provider fee premiums that insurers collect and then forward to IRS." The Chamber is calling on the administration to exclude the health tax from gross income for reporting purposes. The Chamber comments: http://politico.pro/14g6A7R
IOM GUN REPORT OUT THIS MORNING – Following through on a January executive order from President Obama, the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council this morning will recommend an approach to researching the public health impact of gun-related violence.
ALSO TODAY – The 3rd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy kicks off at the Georgetown law school: http://bit.ly/15ymQjF
NUTRITION GROUP WARNS OF MALNOURISHED PATIENTS — A new "consensus paper" backed by dieticians, medical-surgical nurses and other health professionals calls for a redoubled effort to improve the nutrition of hospital patients. Describing evidence that hospitals fail to address, and in many cases worsen, patients' nutritional health, the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition published a series of recommendations for reform Tuesday in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Among the recommendations: Encourage doctors, nurses and other health professionals to be aware of patients' nutritional needs and status when they enter the hospital; diagnose malnourished patients and those at risk of malnutrition; and develop a nutrition plan for patients after they leave the hospital. The paper: http://bit.ly/10WEbQ5
WHAT WE'RE READING, by Jennifer Haberkorn
South Carolina could become the first state to restrict enactment of the health law with a bill that would allow the state attorney general to take businesses to court if he or she has "reasonable cause" to believe they're harming people by implementing the law, The State reports. http://bit.ly/14ukVdy
The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require small businesses to buy health insurance on the D.C. exchange beginning in 2015, The Washington Post reports. http://wapo.st/16IPeEC
The White House's mental health summit was a missed opportunity to discuss the role of mental illness in the nation's jails and law enforcement system, according to an activist and a parent of an adult son with mental illness in a USA Today op-ed. http://usat.ly/ZsgAZT
A New Mexico county is starting informational sessions about how to understand and enroll in the health law, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. http://bit.ly/17n9mLG
The Wyoming insurance commissioner told state officials Tuesday that the federal government is likely to face a tough road when the exchange opens for business this fall, the AP reports. http://bit.ly/11qEC8z
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones said Tuesday that he is forming a special commission to study the Medicaid expansion, the Missouri Times reports. http://bit.ly/14fBg9p
** A message from UnitedHealthcare: When it comes to health care, you have questions, concerns and doubts. We believe you deserve thoughtful answers and simpler, more responsive health care. That's where UnitedHealthcare comes in. We see information and data from across the health care system and we are using those numbers to innovate programs and tools. We're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million Americans. THAT'S HEALTH IN NUMBERS. www.uhc.com **


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by Pastor Tim Burt
You wouldn't think that God would have to talk about faithfulness and diligence in the Bible. You might assume that doing things well is common sense right? Hmmm. I guess we need God's Word to remind us!
Proverbs 12:24 (NKJV) "The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy man will be put to forced labor"
Have a good laugh!
2013 Contractor of the Year Award - Finalists
How does this even get past the planning phase?
"Houston, we have a problem!"
Good for cleaning the countertop? Maybe not!
Always good to measure twice!
Apparently, you don't want anyone seeing your face,
but everything else is okay?
but everything else is okay?
The oak seat is a nice touch, don't you think?
And the purpose for the door is?
Maybe if you had arms like an Orangutan...
Solved by a brilliant problem solver…
Making the throne, a throne!
That would be the half-bath listed in the real estate listing...
Proverbs 10:4 (NIV) "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth."
Hope you had a good laugh!
In His Love,
Pastor Tim Burt
Published by Pastor Tim Burt
Copyright© 2013 All rights reserved


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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The Augusta Jaguars will make their second appearance in school history at the NCAA Championships in Evansville, Ind., on Saturday, Nov. 18 after taking third at regionals to automatically qualify. The event is hosted by the University of Southern Indiana and the Evansville Sports Corporation at Angel Mounds State Park.
NCAA Championship Links
The top three teams from each regional meet automatically advanced to the finals for a total of 24 teams. The top two individuals not on a qualifying team also advanced for a total of 16. The men's 10K race is at 10:30 a.m. EST.
The Jaguars, led by eight-time Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year Adam Ward, won all four regular-season meets, took home the PBC Championship title, and placed third at the NCAA Southeast Regional.
"The NCAA Championships is often the culmination of not just a season's hard work and effort, but months and years in some cases," Augusta head coach Adam Ward said. "Our men told me their goals from day one: win conference and qualify for the NCAAs. The third one has yet to come to pass, but we will see how well we do at the meet on the 18th."
Augusta entered the regional race No. 6 in the NCAA Southeast Region rankings, and fresh off a Peach Belt Conference Championship – their fifth win of the season. Junior Daniel Broadhead finished the regional seventh overall (31:55.14) – his sixth top-10 finish of the season. Broadhead has led the Jags in every race in 2017.
Senior Dylan Forester fought for 11th overall in 32:22.14, junior Noah Hulett came in 13th in 32:39.17, and freshman Hunter Kimball placed just outside the top 20 in 21st (32:55.51). Freshman Jacob Poston placed 27th (33:20.37), and senior Josh Thompson 55th (34:27.98) to round out AU. Broadhead, Forester, Hulett, and Kimball earned All-Region honors for finishing in the top 25.
"This doesn't happen without talented freshmen buying into our philosophy from the beginning, senior leadership, and consistent veteran efforts in our top five. I really cannot say enough about how hard these young men have worked to represent this university every day with class and dedication. I know they are looking forward to competing against the nation's best come next weekend."
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Some Neandertals Were Pale Redheads, DNA Suggests
Brian Handywerk
for National Geographic News
October 25, 2007
Some Neandertals may have had red hair and pale skin, just as some modern humans do, according to a new genetic study.
The traits were likely more common in European Neandertals (often spelled Neanderthals), just as they are often seen in modern humans of European descent.
"I am quite sure this variant arose like the red hair variants in modern Europeans," said the study's lead author Carles Lalueza-Fox, of the University of Barcelona.
In the cases of both Neandertals and modern Europeans, he said, the gene mutation that caused fairer complexions spread only after the respective populations migrated from Africa.
Gene Keys Complexion Change
While studying Neandertal DNA samples, Lalueza-Fox's team found an unknown mutation in a key gene called MC1R.
Also present in modern humans, the gene regulates a protein that guides the production of melanin, which pigments hair and skin and protects from UV rays.
Variations in this gene's sequence limit melanin production in people with pale skin and red hair, although the particular mutation found by the researchers is not known to occur in modern humans.
The team tested the gene in living cells to see what effect the previously unknown variant would have had on the Neandertals who carried it. The test tube experiment showed that the variant suppressed the production of melanin, and thus likely gave the Neandertals who carried it red hair and pale skin.
Although it is not easy to find intact DNA from 230,000 to 30,000 years ago, Lalueza-Fox and his colleagues were able to study two separate samples unearthed in Italy and Spain.
The study was published today by the journal Science.
Skin Changes Similar in Humans, NeandertalsMore


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You've got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I wrote a summary of my thoughts in Part 1 of this series; I've written below in more detail what some industry players [...continue reading]
Should you co-found your company with a software development shop (1 of 2)?
You've got an amazing idea.You've got everything it takes to bring a start-up from nothing to something that really makes a dent in the universe.… and if you're like most of today's startups -- you need to get an app in the hands of customers.Once customers love your app and you show [...continue reading]
Startup Idea/Seeking Developers to Bid on a Project
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Event Details
February 18, 2017 @ 9:30am - 12:00pm
| Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
1100 Lake Shore Rd.
Patio Chic: Exploring Vintage Garden Furnishings
It may be cold outside, but this program will have you thinking summery thoughts as you explore Eleanor and Edsel Fords' vintage garden furniture collection – including pieces rarely put out for public view.
This program is part of our Collectors' Series, and will explore the history of garden furniture and how it was used for entertaining. It will be led by Maggie Lidz, cultural historian now working at Edsel & Eleanor Ford House and former curator of garden furniture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. She is also the author of The du Ponts: Houses and Gardens in the Brandywine.
The program will take you behind the scenes to the places in Ford House where we store our furniture pieces, and you'll learn about how we protect and care for our garden furniture during the off-season. You will leave with tips on where to find great pieces of vintage garden furniture to enhance your own outdoor settings!
At the end of the program, participants will get to mingle and further discuss the topics over sparkling wine and pastries.
Tickets are $40 non-members, $35 members per program. Or buy the series of three workshops for $110 non-members, $95 members and save! To purchase the entire series, click here!
Collectors' Series Package
Buy the whole series of three workshops for $110 non-members, $95 members and save! To purchase the entire series, click here!
In addition to the patio furniture workshop, you will get:
Rug Collections: Get Swept Away
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Horror, 2012
No, don't call the lawyers. Dave Morris isn't passing off Mary Shelley's classic tale as his. This Frankenstein is a beautifully rendered and designed gamebook app adaptation of the story. Or, to put it simply: this is a Choose Your Own Adventure version of the story. Okay, that sounds awful. You really shouldn't think that this is another cheap attempt to cash-in on stories written by long dead people in the "Abraham Lincoln slays zombies and romances Jane Eyre the steampunk BDSM queen" vein, because this is a sublimely written work that demonstrates the author's ability to deftly create magic with his words.
You know the story, I'm sure. In this interactive version of the story, with one exception, you are the voice in Victor Frankenstein's head. The exception is in Part Two, when you get to play the monster. The plot is largely faithful to Mary Shelley's story, so if you are familiar with that story, this one doesn't contain much surprises. What you do get to control, as a gamebook player, is the minute nuances of the characterization of Victor and the monster. As a voice in Victor's head, you can be his conscience or an enabler of his Mad Scientist ways. As the monster, you can choose to be a tragic martyr or a creature driven to hate and violence by the circumstances that befall you.
Frankenstein is an oddity of sorts. As an interactive novel, this is a pleasure to read. Mr Morris creates an atmospheric and intriguing immersion effect – reading this book is like actively taking part in a magnificent tale of pathos, hubris, misguided intentions, and the way life can give you a middle finger so often that you are driven over the edge in order to get your own back. It is easy to imagine young kids being drawn into this material and inspired to read the original material, and that's good.
The narrative is gorgeous and lush, a pleasant surprise from the rather basic and serviceable narrative Mr Morris typically used for his previous gamebook efforts. As a bonus, the narrative actually complements the tone and style of the original material nicely. This is not some defiantly contemporary adaptation of the source material, instead one that tries to stay true to the source material.
As a gamebook, though, this one is a bit lacking. Because the plot is pretty much set in stone, you are allowed to make choices that are primarily cosmetic in nature, allowing you to deviate slightly from the determined course. When an option presents itself to deviate from the course, choosing it will see the character vetoing your choice and forcing you to go along with the script. Basically, you get to mess around with the personalities of the principal characters a bit – for example, you can play it out as if Victor is genuinely in love with Elizabeth or is just playing along as he bides for his chance to go after the monster – but the course is set. What happens in the original material will happen here, no matter what your choices are. No, you can't make peace with the monster, and no, you cannot save those that cannot be saved in the original material.
Frankenstein, therefore, is a beautiful vicarious experience, allowing you to be part of one of the most enduring and deservedly praised modern horror or science-fiction (depending on who you ask) classic stories. But it is also a limited gamebook – it's a very enjoyable one, but the choices it offers make little to no impact on the story. The final score reflects this duality. It's a five oogie interactive book, but a three oogie gamebook. Average these two scores, and Frankenstein gets four oogies at the end of the day.
Oh, and this one comes with some nice extras: the original story by Mary Shelley, which is always a pleasure to read, and a gallery of beautifully macabre pictures that inspired the artwork in this gamebook.


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31.7 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. In the material earlier you mentioned "magnetic attraction." Could you define and expand upon that term?
Ra: I am Ra. We used the term to indicate that in your bisexual natures there is that which is of polarity. This polarity may be seen to be variable according to the, shall we say, male/female polarization of each entity, be each entity biologically male or female. Thus you may see the magnetism when two entities with the appropriate balance, male/female versus female/male polarity, meeting and thus feeling the attraction which polarized forces will exert, one upon the other.
This is the strength of the bisexual mechanism. It does not take an act of will to decide to feel attraction for one who is oppositely polarized sexually. It will occur in an inevitable sense giving the free flow of energy a proper, shall we say, avenue. This avenue may be blocked by some distortion towards a belief/condition which states to the entity that this attraction is not desired. However, the basic mechanism functions as simply as would, shall we say, the magnet and the iron.
26.12 ▶ Questioner: Has the Law of One been communicated within the past eighty years by any other source to a entity in our population?
Ra: I am Ra. The ways of One have seldom been communicated, although there are rare instances in the previous eight zero [80] of your years, as you measure time.
There have been many communications from fourth density due to the drawing towards the harvest to fourth density. These are the ways of universal love and understanding. The other teachings are reserved for those whose depth of understanding, if you will excuse this misnomer, recommend and attract such further communication.
72.7 ▶ Questioner: We have here, I believe, a very important principle with respect to the Law of One. You have stated that the attitude of the individual is of paramount importance for the Orion entity to be able to be effective. Would you please explain how this mechanism works with respect to the Law of One and why the attitude of the entity is of paramount importance and why this allows for action by the Orion entity?
Ra: I am Ra. The Law of Confusion or Free Will is utterly paramount in the workings of the infinite creation. That which is intended has as much intensity of attraction to the polar opposite as the intensity of the intention or desire.
Thus those whose desires are shallow or transitory experience only ephemeral configurations of what might be called the magical circumstance. There is a turning point, a fulcrum which swings as a mind/body/spirit complex tunes its will to service. If this will and desire is for service to others the corresponding polarity will be activated. In the circumstance of this group there are three such wills acting as one with the instrument in the, shall we say, central position of fidelity to service. This is as it must be for the balance of the working and the continuance of the contact. Our vibratory complex is one-pointed in these workings also and our will to serve is also of some degree of purity. This has created the attraction of the polar opposite which you experience.
We may note that such a configuration of free will, one-pointed in service to others, also has the potential for the alerting of a great mass of light strength. This positive light strength, however, operates also under free will and must be invoked. We could not speak to this and shall not guide you, for the nature of this contact is such that the purity of your free will must, above all things, be preserved. Thus you wend your way through experiences discovering those biases which may be helpful.
28.14 ▶ Questioner: Is there any reason for some portions being much more efficient in learning?
Ra: I am Ra. Is there any reason for some to learn more quickly than others? Look, if you wish, to the function of the will … the, shall we say, attraction to the upward spiraling line of light.
37.8 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. Thank you for that explanation of the mathematics, too. That was bothering me. Could you define spiritual mass?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full question of this session.
Spiritual mass is that which begins to attract the out-moving and ongoing vibratory oscillations of beingness into the gravity, speaking in a spiritual sense, well of the great central sun, core, or Creator of the infinite universes.
12.24 ▶ Questioner: [Would] this be against the Law of One and I would be making a mistake by grabbing these entities?
Ra: I am Ra. There are no mistakes under the Law of One.
69.3 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. A question I didn't get to ask the previous session which I will be forced to continue at this time is, is the trance state the only condition from which a mind/body/spirit positive entity may be lured by a negative adept to a negative time/space configuration?
Ra: I am Ra. This is a misperceived concept. The mind/body/spirit complex which freely leaves the third-density physical complex is vulnerable when the appropriate protection is not at hand. You may perceive carefully that very few entities which choose to leave their physical complexes are doing work of such a nature as to attract the polarized attention of negatively oriented entities. The danger to most in trance state, as you term the physical complex being left, is the touching of the physical complex in such a manner as to attract the mind/body/spirit complex back thereunto or to damage the means by which that which you call ectoplasm is being recalled.
This instrument is an anomaly in that it is well that the instrument not be touched or artificial light thrown upon it while in the trance state. However, the ectoplasmic activity is interiorized. The main difficulty, as you are aware, is then the previously discussed negative removal of the entity under its free will.
That this can happen only in the trance state is not completely certain, but it is highly probable that in another out-of-body experience such as death the entity here examined would, as most positively polarized entities, have a great deal of protection from comrades, guides, and portions of the self which would be aware of the transfer you call the physical death.
59.6 ▶ Questioner: I'm trying to understand the three spirals of light in the pyramid shape. I would like to question on each.
The first spiral starts below the Queen's Chamber and ends in the Queen's Chamber? Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The first notion of upward spiraling light is as that of the scoop, the light energy being scooped in through the attraction of the pyramid shape through the bottom or base. Thus the first configuration is a semi-spiral.
22.27 ▶ Questioner: I see. Then I will state the picture I have now of Atlantis and you can tell me if I'm correct.
We have a condition where a large enough number of the entities of Atlantis had started at least going in the direction of the Law of One and living the Law of One for their call to be heard by the Confederation. This call was heard because, using the Law of Squares, it overrode the opposition of the Atlantean entities that were not calling. The Confederation then used channels such as we use now for communication and also made contact directly, but this turned out to be a mistake because it was perverted by some of the entities of Atlantis. Is this correct?
Ra: This is correct with one exception. There is only one law. That is the Law of One. Other so-called laws are distortions of this law, some of them primal and most important for progress to be understood. However, it is well that each so-called law, which we also call "way," be understood as a distortion rather than a law. There is no multiplicity to the Law of One.
This will be the final question in length of this working. Please ask it now.
18.21 ▶ Questioner: Why did they want larger and stronger organisms?
Ra: The ones of Yahweh were attempting to create an understanding of the Law of One by creating mind/body complexes capable of grasping the Law of One. The experiment was a decided failure from the view of the desired distortions due to the fact that rather than assimilating the Law of One, it was a great temptation to consider the so-called social complex or subcomplex as elite or different and better than other-selves, this one of the techniques of service to self.
9.9 ▶ Questioner: The guardians obviously were acting with an understanding of the Law of One in doing this. Can you explain the application of the Law of One in this process?
Ra: I am Ra. The Law of One was named by these guardians as the bringing of the wisdom of the guardians in contact with the entities from the Red Planet, thus melding the social memory complex of the guardian race and the Red Planet race. It, however, took an increasing amount of distortion into the application of the Law of One from the viewpoint of other guardians and it is from this beginning action that the quarantine of this planet was instituted, for it was felt that the free will of those of the Red Planet had been abridged.
27.10 ▶ Questioner: This then being the first distortion of the Law of One, which I [am] assuming is the Law of Intelligent Infinity, from all other— correction, all other distortions which are the total experience of the creation spring from this. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is both correct and incorrect. In your illusion all experience springs from the Law of Free Will or the Way of Confusion. In another sense, which we are learning, the experiences are this distortion.
3.14 ▶ Questioner: This is slightly trivial, but I was wondering why, in that case, the pyramid was made of many blocks rather than the whole thing being created at once.
Ra: I am Ra. There is a law which we believe to be one of the more significant primal distortions of the Law of One. That is the Law of Confusion. You have called this the Law of Free Will. We wished to make an healing machine, or time/space ratio complex which was as efficacious as possible. However, we did not desire to allow the mystery to be penetrated by the peoples in such a way that we became worshiped as builders of a miraculous pyramid. Thus it appears to be made, not thought.
13.4 ▶ Questioner: Can you state who then should author the book?
Ra: I can only request that if your discernment/understanding suggests the use of this vibratory sound complex, Ra, the phrase "An humble messenger of the Law of One" be appended.
91.18 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. We have some observations on the archetypes as follows. First, the Matrix of the Mind is depicted in the Egyptian tarot by a male and this we take as creative energy intelligently directed. Would Ra comment on this?
Ra: I am Ra. This is an extremely thoughtful perception seeing as it does the male not specifically as biological male but as a male principle. You will note that there are very definite sexual biases in the images. They are intended to function both as information as to which biological entity or energy will attract which archetype but also as a more general view which sees polarity as a key to the archetypical mind of third density.
9.10 ▶ Questioner: Were the entities of the Red Planet following the Law of One prior to leaving the Red Planet?
Ra: The entities of the Red Planet were attempting to learn the Laws of Love which form one of the primal distortions of the Law of One. However, the tendencies of these people towards bellicose actions caused such difficulties in the atmospheric environment of their planet that it became inhospitable for third-density experience before the end of its cycle. Thus, the Red Planet entities were unharvested and continued in your illusion to attempt to learn the Law of Love.
3.10 ▶ Questioner: Then if an individual is totally informed with respect to the Law of One and lives, and is the Law of One, such things as the building of a pyramid by direct mental effort would be commonplace. Is that what I am to understand? Am I correct?
Ra: I am Ra. You are incorrect in that there is a distinction between the individual power through the Law of One and the combined, or societal memory complex mind/body/spirit understanding of the Law of One.
In the first case only the one individual, purified of all flaws, could move a mountain. In the case of mass understanding of unity, each individual may contain an acceptable amount of distortion and yet the mass mind could move mountains. The progress is normally from the understanding which you now seek to a dimension of understanding which is governed by the laws of love, and which seeks the laws of light. Those who are vibrating with the Law of Light seek the Law of One. Those who vibrate with the Law of One seek the Law of Foreverness.
We cannot say what is beyond this dissolution of the unified self with all that there is, for we still seek to become all that there is, and still are we Ra. Thus our paths go onward.
18.10 ▶ Questioner: I see. The entity Aleister Crowley wrote "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law." He was obviously in understanding, to some extent, of the Law of One. Where is this entity now?
Ra: I am Ra. This entity is within your inner planes. This entity is in an healing process.
16.41 ▶ Questioner: At what point in densities is it necessary for an entity to be consciously aware of the Law of One to progress?
Ra: I am Ra. The fifth-density harvest is of those whose vibratory distortions consciously accept the honor/duty of the Law of One. This responsibility/honor is the foundation of this vibration.
16.1 ▶ Questioner: As I ask questions, there will unfortunately be [inaudible] I think the direction I wish to go investigating the Law of One. However, I have ideas in mind of some questions [inaudible]. They may be stupid questions; I don't know, but [inaudible]. [Inaudible] trying to construct a complete, unbiased book about the Law of One, one which itself takes into account the Law of One. I hope that you [inaudible] ridiculous.
I would like to ask, considering the free will distortion of the Law of One, how can the Guardians quarantine the Earth? Is this quarantine within the free will distortion?
Ra: I am Ra. The Guardians guard the free will distortion of the mind/body/spirit complexes of third density on this planetary sphere. The events which require activation of quarantine were interfering with the free will distortion of mind/body/spirit complexes.
26.4 ▶ Questioner: Assuming that it is all right to continue, we're down to the last 3000 years of this present cycle, and I was wondering if the Law of One in either written or spoken form has been made available within this past 3000 years in any complete way such as we're doing now? Is it available in any other source?
Ra: I am Ra. There is no possibility of a complete source of information of the Law of One in this density. However, certain of your writings passed to you as your so-called holy works have portions of this law.
11.28 ▶ Questioner: Would this freeing from darkness be commensurate with the Law of One or does this have any real product?
Ra: I am Ra. The product of such a freeing would create two experiences.
Firstly, the experience of no need to find the necessary emolument for payment, in your money, for energy.
Secondly, the leisure afforded, thereby exemplifying the possibility and enhancing the probability of the freedom to then search the self for the beginning of seeking the Law of One.
Few there are working physically from daybreak to darkness, as you name them, upon your plane who can contemplate the Law of One in a conscious fashion.
57.14 ▶ Questioner: What is the aid or the mechanism of the aid received for meditation for an entity who would be positioned in the so-called Queen's Chamber position?
Ra: I am Ra. Consider the polarity of mind/body/spirit complexes. The inner light is that which is your heart of being. Its strength equals your strength of will to seek the light. The position or balanced position of a group intensifies the amount of this will, the amount of awareness of the inner light necessary to attract the instreaming light upward spiraling from the south magnetic pole of being.
Thus this is the place of the initiate, for many extraneous items or distortions will leave the entity as it intensifies its seeking, so that it may become one with this centralized and purified in-coming light.
26.7 ▶ Questioner: Which has more of the Law of One in it, the Old Testament or the New Testament?
Ra: I am Ra. Withdrawing from each of the collections of which you speak the portions having to do with the Law of One, the content is approximately equal. However, the so-called Old Testament has a larger amount of negatively influenced material, as you would call it.
40.6 ▶ Questioner: Would— this is a guess. Would the frequency going from second to third increase from the middle orange frequency or average orange frequency to the middle yellow frequency or average yellow frequency?
Ra: I am Ra. This query is indeterminate. We shall attempt to be of aid. However, the frequency that is the basis of each density is what may be called a true color. This term is impossible to define given your system of sensibilities and scientific measurements, for color has vibratory characteristics both in space/time and in time/space. The true color is then overlaid and tinged by the rainbow of the various vibratory levels within that density and the attraction vibrations of the next true color density.
94.14 ▶ Questioner: I can understand, to use a poor term again, the necessity for an archetype for Catalyst or a model for Catalyst of the Mind, but what is the reason for having a blueprint or model for Experience of the Mind other than this simple model of the dual repository for the negative and positive catalyst? It would seem to me that the first distortion of free will would be better served if no model for experience were made. I'm somewhat confused on this. Could you clear it up?
Ra: I am Ra. Your question is certainly interesting and your confusion hopefully productive. We cannot learn/teach for the student. We shall simply note, as we have previously, the attraction of various archetypes to male and to female. We suggest that this line of consideration may prove productive.
62.15 ▶ Questioner: I'll make this statement and you correct me. The Orion group has as an objective the bringing of service-to-self polarized entities to harvest, as great a harvest as possible. This harvest will build their potential or their ability to do work in consciousness as given by the distortion of the Law of One called the Law of Squares or Doubling. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
71.19 ▶ Questioner: You stated in a previous session that Ra searched for some time to find a group such as this one. I would assume that this search was for the purpose of communicating the Law of One. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. We also, as we have said, wished to attempt to make reparation for distortions of this law set in motion by our naïve actions of your past.
4.13 ▶ Questioner: I'm assuming, then, that the selected individual would necessarily be one who was very much in harmony with the Law of One. Though he may not have any intellectual understanding of it, he should be living the Law of One. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is both correct and incorrect. The first case, that being correctness, would apply to one such as the questioner itself who has the distortion towards healing, as you call it.
The incorrectness which shall be observed is the healing of those whose activities in your space/time illusion do not reflect the Law of One, but whose ability has found its pathway to intelligent infinity regardless of the plane of existence from which this distortion is found.
63.14 ▶ Questioner: You are saying, then, that for the transition from third to fourth density for one of the entities with doubly activated bodies, in order to make the transition the third-density body will go through the process of what we call death. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. The third and fourth, combination, density's body will die according to the necessity of third-density mind/body/spirit complex distortions.
We may respond to the heart of your questioning by noting that the purpose of such combined activation of mind/body/spirit complexes is that such entities, to some extent, consciously are aware of those fourth-density understandings which third density is unable to remember due to the forgetting. Thus fourth-density experience may be begun with the added attraction, to an entity oriented towards service to others, of dwelling in a troubled third-density environment and offering its love and compassion.
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Topaz is typically mined through a process called "surface mining." There are five different types of surface mining: strip mining, open pit mining, dredging, highwall mining and mountaintop removal mining. Topaz can be collected through underground mines as well.
In most forms of surface mining, heavy equipment and large machines are used to extract the mineral. When a seam of the topaz is mined, the process used is strip mining. It involves removing a strip of overlying rock and soil first. Open pit mining, as the name implies, involves extracting minerals from the earth through an open pit.
Dredging is used to collect underwater minerals by clearing or enlarging the waterways of boats. Highwall mining involves penetrating a cold seam through the continuous use of a miner that is propelled by a hydraulic push beam mechanism.
Explosives are used to blow the tops off mountains in a process called mountaintop removal mining. This type of mining is used primarily in the Appalachian coal fields of West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
Topaz is mined in Australia, Namibia, Nigeria, Russia, Pakistan and Brazil in addition to the United States. Once the mineral is mined, it is polished with tin laps and tin lead laps that are charged with diamond or aluminum oxide.


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