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US airline yield gains easing, but performance still encouraging
Southwest Airlines and United Continental have commenced the October traffic reporting period on a solid note, showing healthy increases in passenger revenue per ASM.
Southwest Airlines flew 6.9 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in Oct-2010, an 8.3% increase, while available seat miles (ASMs) increased 5.0% to 8.4 billion. Load factor gained 2.5 ppts to 81.7%, while passenger revenue per ASM is estimated to have increased approximately 11% for the second consecutive month – building on a small increases in September and October last year.
Southwest Airlines' monthly PRASM growth (% change year-on-year): Jan-2009 to Oct-2010
United Continental Holdings meanwhile reported consolidated traffic (revenue passenger miles) in Oct-2010 increased 5.9% year-on-year on a consolidated capacity increase of 5.0%. The carriers' combined consolidated load factor increased 0.7 points compared to the same period last year.
United's consolidated RASM increased an estimated 13.0 to 14.0% year-on-year, while Continental's October consolidated RASM increased 15.5 to 16.5%. (From Dec-2010, United Continental will report RASM estimates on a combined basis).
United/Continental monthly PRASM growth (% change year-on-year): Jan-2009 to Oct-2010
The figures did not set the markets alight – United Continental shares closed flat on Friday, while Southwest eased 0.4%. But American Airlines' shares took off ahead of its traffic report, surging 6.4% on Friday.
North & South America selected airlines daily share price movements (% change): 05-Nov-2010

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Political Perspectives #5: Thoughts on Meditation and Revolution
This is the fifth in an occasional series of posts on the various political perspectives of those involved in activism in the Bath/Bristol area. The views expressed are those of the respective authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of Standing Stone.
Thoughts on Meditation and Revolution
by Simon Jilley
|Vibrancy-activist G. Rilla
|Bath Love Police demo, December 2012
Secondly, this demonstration holds within it a call for a change in direction. Rather than aiming towards the economic revolution that so many speak of in the media, we have got to see the plausibility in the transcendent qualities of a spiritual revolution. You can have a spiritual revolution anywhere: in a jail, on a toilet, in your sleep…anywhere. It can happen at any time, too. There is no doubt that some of those who have been involved in this demonstration have had their own spiritual revolutions whilst being involved in these demonstrations.
The police liaison asked how long we were going to be staying around for. Each respondent stated that they were staying with G. Rilla, that the demonstration was being performed as a group and that Rilla was not an individual on his own in it all, and that no-one could tell how long he would be meditating for. One such reply was: 'Well, he's meditating on all of the problems that are in the world. As there are so many things wrong at the moment, he might be meditating for quite a long time…'. For some reason, the policewoman took this to mean that Rilla would finish meditating when the incense had burned down. She even tried interrupting the meditation in saying directly to Rilla, 'So we have agreed that you will leave when the incense has finished burning, okay?'. Fortunately, Rilla had not traveled too deeply into meditation and so was able to shake his head in order to give his firm answer, which was understood. Rilla was not moving.
Meditation should not ever be given a time limit. A lot of deeper meditation, after all, goes through timelessness. What may have seemed to have been half an hour of meditation, for instance, could have actually been two hours, or even two days or two weeks. In deeper states, also, the physical body can be put into a hibernation state, not unlike the hibernation states that colder-climate animals go into, but in meditation a form of consciousness will constantly be maintained through mindfulness. So it must be acknowledged that these demonstrations may last two hours, as in London, an hour, as at Starbucks, or anything hugely longer or shorter. Things should not be presumed, and that is a huge strength to the demonstrations. One of the greatest weaknesses to political demonstrations is often their time limits. This is where Occupy Bath almost stumbled: people had assumed, including some of those actually camped out at the time, that the occupation would only last for 10 days. What actually panned out over the following 32 days of camp was somewhat magical. Occupy Bath, and definitely the Bath People's Assembly, may not be still around if it wasn't for taking the camp to as far as it could be taken.
The final question, which is somewhat irrelevant now, is if G. Rilla wants a banana. This is like asking a Hindu if they want arthi, or a Christian if they want communion. The idea of 'wanting' any of these is a bit besides the point, really.
So, lastly, a little bit of advice will be given for those who will be involved in future 'here + now' demonstrations. Firstly, with the real change being here and now, allow that change to take any form. It needn't be about meditating, but I suspect that meditators will receive much less confrontation with authorities due to meditation being viewed as 'religious practice' and, ya know, the authorities are weird about anything considered to be 'religious'.


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Samsung's new SUHD TVs offer spectacular 4K entertainment options at assorted prices
Stephan Jukic – April 7, 2015
The technological innovations in 4K TV land just keep getting more interesting and after a hard, long race in figuring out who can come up with the best 4K UHD TV of the bunch for 2015, it seems that South Korean tech giant Samsung has taken the cake.
The competition has been stiff from some also superb competitor TVs like LG's 2015 OLED 4K TVs Panasonic's CX850U line of TVs and Sony's 2015 Bravia TVs to a lesser extent but in the end, we think we can say that Samsung's new SUHD line of TVs, particularly the JS9500 series, gives every other TV on sale a run for its money.
While LG may still have OLED completely in its pocket, with its unbeatable dark shades, Samsung still manages to outshine in a number of other ways with its SUHD line thanks to full HDR compability and the added color vibrancy enhancing feature of Quantum Dot nano-crystal technology.
Furthermore, the SUHD line of TVs offers one of the best examples of a considerable transformation in smart TV platforms, content delivery technology and how content looks on a TV screen. In addition to all these features, the SUHD TVs that Samsung has released are visually stunning in a very elegant, sleek way that's already quite distinct from the appearance of most 2013 and even some 2014 ultra HD TV models.
Launched just a few days ago at the very beginning of April, the Samsung SUHD series of TVs run on a new Tizen-based open source operating system that's one of a kind and one of the first examples of an open source OS to be used in a 4K TV (along with Panasonic's Firefox OS).
The SUHD's quantum dot technology is a remarkable new feature as well. Samsung is one of the pioneers of making this aspect of 4K TVs possible in a practical way and the result is nothing short of stunning. Colors are produced with vibrant vividness that could almost be said to outclass the much more expensive OLED of LG's TVs. The reason for the much more affordable pricing that goes with quantum dots is that, unlike OLED, installing them doesn't require the complete revamping of the TV itself. The screen of tiny semiconducting nano-crystals is just one more thin layer added to the regular LCD panel of the SUHD TV.
Nonetheless, the new SUHD class of TVs and particularly the JS9500, the lineup's top-shelf flagship model, are not particularly cheap. The incredibly powerful, feature-packed JS9500 is now retailing for just under $6,000 with its 65-inch screen. However, it is as fine a 4K TV as you can hope to find so far in 2015 and we've done a review of the JS9500 right here.
However, if you still want an SUHD but aren't quite willing to reach for the JS9500's top shelf, there are also several much more affordable options in the lineup. These include the 65 inch JS9000, which is nearly as good, features the same quantum dots, HDR and Smart TV connectivity but doesn't include full-array backlighting, motion control features or a built-in camera. It sells for $1000 less than the JS9500.
Then there are much smaller 48 and 55 inch versions of this same JS9000, both selling for $3500 and $4000 respectively.
Even more affordable models in the large SUHD lineup are available, the most cost-effective of these is the JU6700, with a 4K inch screen and a price of just $1,150. And while it won't offer the same mind-blowing quality as the JS9500, it still promises to be a powerful piece of HDR-capable 4K technology, on par with Samsung's usual levels of extremely high quality.
Samsung's SUHD TVs are just one of the numerous 4K TV lines coming out this year with ever more innovative and powerful features and it's great to see them all arrive, partly for their own sake and partly because of how they're also making older 4K TVs much more affordable and HD TVs ridiculously cheap thanks to competitive price decreasing market pressures.
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The Discomfort Zone
A Personal HistoryBook - 2006 | 1st Canadian ed
As Jonathan Franzen tells it, he was the kind of boy who was afraid of spiders,school dances, urinals, music teachers, boomerangs, popular girls--and his parents.He had nothing against geeky kids except a desperate fear of being taken forone of them, a fate which would result in instant Social Death. Approachingpuberty the way a fraud artist confronts a particularly tough scam, he pretended tobe a kid who naturally said "shit" and who didn't enjoy calculations on his new six functionTexas Instrument calculator.
The Discomfort Zone is Franzen'stale of growing up squirming in his own über-sensitive skin. It's a multi-layeredtour de force that daringly cascades from single moments into a domino-like discourseof sometimes truculent, sometimes piercing, always entertaining investigationand insight. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christianyouth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his own protractedquest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between birdwatching, hisall-consuming marriage and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelinglyengaged with the world we live in now. Franzen's personal history of a Midwesternyouth and New York adulthood is warmed by the same blend of comic scrutinyand affection that characterize his fiction; the result is an arresting portrait of aman, his family and his time.
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Fabulous writer, this autobiographical book has occasionally a bit too much detail but a good read.
This man can write - however , this book starts slowly - ends well. Nice effort !
Surprisingly, you'll never find a better description of "birding" (bird watching) anywhere.
And of course it's always interesting to know where prominent authors are coming from. Franzen's window on US middle class teenagers in the 1970's is fascinating. He was fortunate to have really interesting adults (and friends) around him. The new awareness and probing of the complexities of our inner worlds were not just a San Franciso happening. These youth leaders in the Midwest were amazingly progressive.
Without doubt the most self-centered, self-indulgent, and, as a result, irrelevant book I've yet read in 70 years of reading. Jonathan Franzen sure slipped one past HarperCollins's editors. Shame on them and Mr. Franzen!
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St. Anthony East Neighborhood Association (SAENA) is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to building relationships with community members and empowering them to invest and engage with their neighborhood.
The primary source of funding is through the City of Minneapolis's Neighborhood Revitalization Program and Community Participation Program. As such, SAENA strives to represent the neighborhood's needs through outreach such as mailings, door knocking, and holding public meetings. SAENA encourages resident involvement in every aspect of what we do.
St. Anthony East has a variety of stakeholders including Webster Elementary, small businesses, non-profits, the Islamic Community of Bosniaks in Minnesota mosque, and public housing. It is the home of two beautiful green spaces, St. Anthony Park and Community Commons Park. St. Anthony East has a community garden called Summer Street Garden. St. Anthony East is the second smallest, yet ever thriving neighborhood in Minneapolis with close to 1,100 households.
St. Anthony East is located in northeast Minneapolis. The neighborhood extends from Broadway Street NE on the northern border to Central Avenue NE on the east and southeast, Second Avenue NE on the south, and then Fifth and Washington streets NE on the west.
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I would like to seek your advice in designing a high availability architecture at my current work place.
We are moving to SQL Server 2012 platform and we currently have a set of OLTP databases serving for the application usage and these databases are being replicated (transactional, every 3 min) to another box for reporting purposes, I'm thinking of replacing replication with SQL Server 2012 High availability groups (asynchronous) (one of the reasons to bring high availability groups in to picture is to have HA in cases like database corruption (ex: page level corruption))
Q: as the indexing on report databases is different to indexing on application dB's, the failover between app db and reporting db will not provide better performance to application or reports on failover, this makes it a bit hard to design an effective cluster.
Please let me know if you can suggest a better solution for this situation.
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Term Limitation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Not since Proposition 13 created a nationwide tidal wave of tax protest has a political idea caught on with such speed. Polls show that over 70 percent of Americans back a limit on terms for elected officials, and by next month voters in states where one of every seven Americans live may have voted some form of term limits into law.
Elected officials from city council members to President Bush are scrambling to get to the front of the term‐limit parade. As Mike Kelley of Colorado's Independence Institute writes, "Term limitation could become in the 1990s what tax limitation was in the 1970s–a popular movement politicians abhor, but one to which they must respond."(1)
The gulf between legislators and the American people has never been greater than on the issue of term limits. A Gallup survey found that 66 percent of U.S. House members oppose limiting the number of congressional terms, while opinion polls show two‐to‐one support among all demographic groups.(2) (See Table 1.) The idea is overwhelmingly popular with Americans regardless of party, ideology, or income. Blacks favor it even more than whites, women more than men. Martin Plissner, political director for CBS News, says he has "never seen an issue on which there was so little demographic variation."(3)
Term limits were a part of the nation's first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, and were left out of the Constitution largely because they were thought of as "entering too much into detail" for a short document. Nonetheless, self‐imposed limits on officeholders were long a part of America's public‐service ethic; members of Congress returned to private life after a couple of terms. With the rise of the modern superstate, term limitation, once the accepted American tradition, has been replaced by congressional careerism. That is why the voluntary service limitations of the past must now be made part of the nation's laws.
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Audiences headed to London, or any other UK city for that matter, to witness a memorable play, are in luck. After all, this country has been providing such productions to theatregoers for centuries, whether the shows have been penned by figures like Noel Coward in the 20th century or if they were penned by William Shakespeare more than four centuries ago.
Around the UK new playwrights pen unique works at our regional theatres, whilst London offers up shows that gain monumental attention at locations like the Apollo Theatre and the National Theatre. From War Horse, which transports them back to the First World War, to Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, which has been running continuously since the 1950s, London has some unique and popular shows.
And this is unlikely to change any time soon. Plays continue to come and go in the capital, from classics like Much Ado About Nothing to recent additions such as The Audience, and audiences continue to pick up theatre tickets and ensure that they are the first in line. Some of the most talented people in the world work on these shores and this has ensured that there are plenty of reasons to keep on coming back for more, whether it is in locations like Bristol, Edinburgh or Birmingham, or if it in London's West End.


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Connecticut-sized dead zone found in Gulf of Mexico
Glass half full or half empty?The good news is that the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than expected this summer. The bad news is that it's still 5,840 square miles big, about the size of Connecticut, so it's not like it's a small problem. The dead zone is caused primarily by agricultural runoffs that "stimulate an overgrowth of algae that sinks, decomposes and consumes most of the oxygen needed to support life." Not much life without oxygen, hence dead zone.
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"A near-record area was expected because of wet spring conditions in the Mississippi watershed and the resultant high river flows which deliver large amounts of nutrients," said Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D. executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), who led the July 21-28 survey cruise. "But nature's wind-mixing events and winds forcing the mass of low oxygen water towards the east resulted in a slightly above average bottom footprint."Last year, the severe drought shrunk the dead zone to 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than Delaware (the 4th smallest dead zone on record). The largest dead zone took place in 2002, at 8,481 square miles.
Above is a map produced by NASA that shows aquatic dead zones around the world.
See also: Researchers study 18,000 hours of deep sea footage, find ocean seafloor is covered in trash
Connecticut-sized dead zone found in Gulf of Mexico
The good news is that the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than expected this summer. The bad news is that it's still 5,840 square miles big.


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A bit from the start of WIP novella Knights Out:
'Then how admirably mad,' Gwynn amended his opinion. His look had grown a mite abstracted.
'Indeed. Of course, Mattie sees her as a nice little windfall, though she thinks she could choose a better class of gentleman to get disenchanted with. Bless girls and their little ways, eh?'
Gwynn nodded in agreement, reaching for his cigarettes. He wondered, thumbing open the silver case, if he had not just been offered the solution to a problem that was lying on his mind.
Lighting an Auto-da-fé and inhaling at thoughtful length, he let his eyes drift up the steep hill above the street—with all the humid smog, coloured yellow by the lamps of the city, it was more an impression than a view—piles of bumptious marble and stucco blunted like ancient dolmens, traces of domes and balconies and narrow stairs, the farther up the further lost, drowned in an iodine sea—and on the other side, where the low parapet followed the edge of the terrace, with shabby palm trees spaced along it, the valley was filled with a golden gloom in which cupolas and statues on the roofs below were pasted like specimens pressed in tissue. In the road ahead were unknown companions—looking lost, too, as if they had until recently been part of a larger life form which had come to an incomplete end—shuffling along by the parapet, or groping forward with its support—one or two proceeding humbly but nimbly on all fours, like leggy novelties of the sea bed; not to disregard those over whom the promise of day held no power and who remained with the night, lying down under the palms in the truce and refuge of sleep; a humid breeze stirred the fronds above the stubborn bodies; an early rising bird cried out its heart to a vanished shore. Something beautiful was washed up, naked save for a sequinned mask and a saintly smile.
Of course it was the hour for inspiration to show up, gliding by on hypnagogic wings.
Reeling himself in, Gwynn questioned Jasper: 'Have any of her recent affairs not ended in murder?'
Jasper gave a shrug of bullioned epaulettes. 'Mattie didn't mention any.'
'Did she happen to say how the room mate rates?'
'High enough to make her greenish—not that that takes much.' An note of suspicion entered Jasper's voice. 'Planning a tragic love story?'
'In my mind,' said Gwynn, waving his cigarette for emphasis, 'it's more of a comedy. I don't suppose Mattie would mind a little help with matchmaking?
'I don't suppose she would. Who's the lucky punter?'
'No one to worry your pretty head about. Just bring this wondrous Pharice along on a night out and I'll call it a favour.'
Jasper turned on him with a deep scowl. 'Aye, I'll bring her, and kiss your pisspot too. I thought we trusted each other. I must have been thinking of someone else.'
'Jas, I trust you with all my heart,' Gwynn protested, laying a hand over the sparkling mineral layer to the fore of that organ, as Jasper continued to look disgusted. 'I'm only trying to spare you a tedious exposition.'
'Maybe I like tedious expositions. Who is it, you cagey fuck?'


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These days it seems like a lot of us are interested in either cutting down or cutting out the candy from our kids' Easter baskets. I have celebrated almost fourteen Easters with my oldest son and in that time I have managed to put together fun baskets without a lot of candy. Don't get me wrong, I do put some candy in, but very little. Seeing as though we still have some Halloween candy on top of our fridge, my kids are perfectly okay with that I think.
Here are some of the goodies that the bunny has left for my kids that don't cause cavities…
- books
- t-shirts
- baseball
- baseball mitt
- action figures
- a train for a wooden train set
- umbrella
- rain boots/sandals
- bubbles
- child-sized gardening tools
- stuffed animal
- yo-yo
- sidewalk chalk
- art supplies
- coloring books
- silly putty
- DVD or video game
- silly string
- matchbox cars
- card games (Uno, Skip Bo, etc)
What non-candy items do you use to fill your child's Easter basket?


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Bari are enemies found in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. They resemble real-world jellyfish, though are much more colossal in size. Since they are (presumably) a type of jellyfish, they'll shock any of their opponents (including Link) with a powerful jolt of electricity.
Bari were a common enemy in the dark world of Hyrule in the SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The Bari found in Ocarina of Time are creatures that can only survive inside of an already living being/host, and thus make Jabu Jabu their home (they're also found here in Oracle of Ages). In the game, the only way to kill one is to toss your boomerang at it. In Twilight Princess, you have to shoot your claw shot, which will grasp onto the Bari's brain and thrust it out of its body.


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Smash Alley-Too late to say no, 2007
I may regret using images now because you may look at this cover and go "boy, I'll bet that's a piece of crap". However don't be fooled by the cover in this case. Chicago's Smash Alley were apparently first active between 1987 and 1993. They built up a local following, but never achieved a record deal and the coming of grunge probably did not help their cause either. Well, now they are back and they have signed a deal with Kivel Records. My understanding is this is a new recording, but I am unsure as to if the songs were written back then or now. Whatever the deal is, it's pretty solid hard rock that sounds like it could have been done between say 1987 and 1990. A lot of different sounds overall on these thirteen tracks. The first one that leaps out me is late 80's Aerosmith, maybe followed by a touch of David Lee Roth's solo material and a dash of early LA Guns. For the most part the tracks here are catchy with sharp hooks and nice production values for an indie release. I have given it maybe six plays and it has gotten better to my ears after each spin. The greatest thing is that is a fun album. Boy, I miss those albums some times. The serious stuff is cool at times, but it's cool just listen to something that's just fun and that's all. It adds a kind of balance to things. Anyway, my only big complaint is that upon my first listen I thought vocalist Paul Messina was lacking some range. After repeated listens I think he sounds just fine on the rockin songs, but he doesn't quite handle the two ballads as well as maybe he should. They may have been better off skipping those songs. I am will probably listening to this one for a while. Oh, the year listed above is no mistake. Even though some sites say this came out on the last day of November and I got my copy around December 10th, the case still says 2007 so that's what I am going by.


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Growing up in Afghanistan, Siddiq Barmak dreamed of being a cinema projectionist, but he eventually realized that he wanted to have a more hands-on role in filmmaking, and in 1987, he got his masters in film direction from the Moscow University. He returned to Afghanistan where in 1988, he made his first documentary short film, called The Disaster of Withering, and in 1991, he filmed his first full-length documentary: The Hadith of Conquer. From 1992 to 1996 Siddiq was head of the Afghan Film... See All


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Reuters reports that a Tennessee couple who "defended" Jenelle Potter on Facebook were murdered by her father and another man. "This is just senseless," said Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece told Reuters. "We've had murders, but nothing like this." Jenelle Potter, 30, is one of those types who you just don't mess with.
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Chris Poole delivered the most powerful 10 minutes of Web philosophy of the afternoon at Web 2.0.
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"We're practicing for a play," Carrie said, quickly repeating her earlier explanation in the face of Glen's bemused expression.
The redhead raised an eyebrow at her. "Pretty fast rehearsal, given how you and Frank were in the cafeteria with Luci not five minutes ago. Besides Carrie, aren't you the only other one here taking drama? And wasn't Chartreuse absent this morning?"
"Yes, she's quite ill," Carrie agreed, swiftly changing tactics. "Yet apparently she still wanted to come in to try out this extra credit play for English class. We saw her in the room unconscious, so we're leaving now to bring her to the nurse's office."
"I see," Glen said. "Well, don't let me hold you up then. Though moving through the hallway after the bell is liable to, well, be a major headache. Might I suggest you pop through the back door access to the stage? Where there's less congestion?"
Carrie exchanged a quick glance with her time traveling classmates. "Makes sense," Frank admitted grudgingly. He moved to grab the time machine, which he had fortunately decided to conceal under a blanket. He made sure Glen didn't spot it.
"What major headache are you referring to there?" Julie demanded.
Glen shrugged. "Lots of people shouting and moving about as they get to class?"
Carrie saw Julie peer closer at the redhead, but his expression remained neutral. As Clarke had already retrieved Chartreuse and was heading for the back door access, along with Frank and the blanket, Julie fell into step behind them.
"Right then, thanks Glen!" Carrie called out as she brought up the rear. "And we're still on for, ah, this Friday, right?"
"Of course," Glen replied, offering back a smile. Carrie matched it, before hurrying through to the backstage area and closing the door.
"I don't get it," Frank said. "We've been sitting in this pizza parlour for almost an hour now, yet you haven't sensed us being here as causing any sort of temporal change. Not even when other customers came in. Why in the school hallway, but not here?"
"Yeah, I've been wondering about that myself," Carrie admitted as she toyed with her pop can. The two of them had taken up positions on the stools by the window of the establishment. It was only a block away from the middle school they'd once attended. A very light rain was falling; they both knew it wouldn't last.
"I think it has to do with the fact that we're now playing a very passive role in our own history," she decided. "Not crossing our paths as we did at school, or planning to blow up buildings that we know still exist in our present, or anything like that. Of course, if my father chances to stop by here, that could all change. So don't let your guard down."
"I won't," Frank retorted. "Though I will remind you that it was your idea to be out in public this way."
Carrie gestured vaguely. "I was thirsty. Besides, we'd likely attract more unwanted attention by hiding out in the bushes – in here, we blend in." She took a sip of her drink. "We can head out when the rain stops. Supposedly Soh's necklace was lost after school."
"Thing is, had me and Clarke proposed coming in here to buy something, you would have shot down that plan," Frank pointed out.
Carrie glared. "You making any kind of point there?"
"Merely that we should probably get a better idea of what sets off your headaches, and what doesn't."
With effort, Carrie quashed the snarky response that came to her head. Because he had a point, damn it. "Yeah, but no," she said, looking back out the window. "We will not be playing guess and check with my head. Me staying sane, it's kind of in all our best interests."
"I didn't mean provoking a headache. Not really," he clarified. "Thing is, not every trip into the past has resulted in changes to time. Remember Luci's trip last year, going back to when she started high school? That fulfilled a destiny instead. So is it equally possible that we were always destined to come back to this pizza place and order something?"
She reflected on that. "It's possible," Carrie granted. "It's also possible that we weren't always destined to do it, but that once we arrived in the past, and once I'd dealt with the initial headache… that's when this event became inevitable. There's really no way to know. All I can say for sure is that the me in this time frame never experienced a problem."
"Which is it's own issue," Frank continued. "Since you carried on a conversation with Glen that you hadn't been previously aware of. Why didn't HE give either of you a headache?"
Carrie's grip tightened on her soda can. "Glen was one person. Unlike the four students in the hall."
"But he's closer to you than those freshmen were."
"Not really."
"No? You even said you were going out with him again on Friday."
She smacked the can on the counter, then turned back to face him. "Fine, yeah, on Friday we DID see each other. It's when Glen told me about Lee's focus problem. What, is the issue of me dating Glen the real point you're making here?!"
Frank raised his palms up. "Whoa, what? No. Defensive much?"
"No! Yes. Shut up," Carrie said, warring with her emotions. He'd touched a nerve there, and they both knew it.
Frank hesitated at her gaze, but pressed on. "Listen Carrie, people from the future are after you. And after a month, Glen is still living all alone in a hotel. We've seen no sign of his parents, we know so little about his past, and sometimes he makes those cryptic remarks, like about the headache. It seems at least plausible that he's trying to–"
"Frank, if Glen were from the future, acting to change our present around us, I'd feel it," Carrie fired back, pointing at her temples.
"Would you?"
Her hand fell back to her side. Her gaze drifted back towards the window. "I… I want to believe I would. But fine. You could be right. Maybe I have the blinders on because I want to experience a normal relationship. But worrying that I can potentially wipe us all out of existence, it takes a toll, okay?" She took in a deep breath. "Glen makes me happy. And I think I'm allowed to feel that way! Or was I absent the day you and Luci bought the monopoly on touchy feely goodness?"
From the corner of her eye, she saw Frank flinch. Then he turned away too. "No, you really weren't," he said. "Seeing as she's spent more time in the past two weeks with that book of Linquist's than she has with me. I've tried what I can to break through, which works for a time, but she always ends up back in her room, trying to break that infernal code. I think maybe I was too inattentive towards her over the summer. We've been drifting apart, and now I'm not sure what to do."
"Oh. Uh, that's… too bad." Great, now she felt bad for bringing up relationships at all. Carrie downed the rest of her pop, to avoid having to speak. Outside, the rain stopped falling.
"Headaches aside," she said at last. "Corry has the right idea. If Glen has a secret, I won't learn it by distancing myself. Besides, if it's my destiny to make my own past life miserable, so be it." Before Frank could say anything back, Carrie jumped off her stool. "Come on then, let's find a good place to scout out the school grounds before their classes get out."
Clarke looked up as Julie entered the secret room beneath the LaMille mansion. "Anything happening upstairs?" he inquired.
"Random dusting. Neither Jeeves nor Mimi will notice the smelling salts are missing." The brunette knelt down next to Clarke and the unconscious pink-haired girl on the floor. "Any change with her?"
"Nope," the tall blonde admitted. "So let's hope this will wake her up." Taking the vial from Julie, he opened it and began to wave it back and forth in front of Chartreuse's face. "Still nothing," he murmured after a moment. "Baffling! She really doesn't seem hurt. There's nothing stronger than this around your place, is there Jewels?"
Clarke turned to look back at Julie, only to find that her attention had been diverted. "Jewels!" he repeated, clearing his throat purposefully for good measure.
The brunette slowly turned away from the black box on the floor. The one Frank had handed over to them when they'd parted ways. "I… I wasn't going to do anything to it," she said quietly. "I don't even know how to program it yet, not really."
"That's good," Clarke remarked. "Since that sort of betrayal would likely cut you off from the few friends you have left."
Julie frowned. "You say friends, yet I got the sense that Carrie wouldn't have left that thing with us today if you hadn't been here to keep an eye on it."
Clarke reached out to touch Julie's shoulder. "Can you really blame her?" he responded softly.
Julie clenched her hands into fists for a moment. "No," she granted. "I meant what I said to everyone though. I want to start helping, to try and get past my first memories of time travel."
"And I'm sure the others will see that. You're on this trip already, right?"
Julie nodded – even as her gaze drifted back towards the time machine. "Still… to think that we have the means right there to affect our own pasts… it's incredible, isn't it Phil? I mean, it would be so easy to just drop back a week or two… to stop Sue from acting the way she did at the dance…"
"Oh, I wouldn't," Julie said quickly. "Really I wouldn't, not without consulting with Carrie. But I can't help thinking it, can I? That's the way my mind works! Devious as ever, right?" She finally turned her back on the machine, firing off a weak smile. "At least now, I'm trying to use my powers for good?"
Clarke frowned, about make a reply when there came a groan from the floor. Both teenagers turned quickly to regard their pink haired companion. She had apparently come to her senses enough to bring a hand to her forehead and begin mumbling to herself. Being the closer of the two, Clarke leaned in to try and hear what she was saying.
"What? What is it?" Julie inquired after a moment.
Clarke looked up at her in confusion. "Something about Carrie tracking 'like, the wrong sister'."
Faye grabbed her things and hurried out of the high school as fast as she could. It was partly to ensure that she wouldn't have to talk to anyone, seeing as she'd only screw up any conversation she was in. But also because today, she was supposed to see that her younger sisters got home safely. A task which had been a lot easier last year, when their schools were closer together.
She HAD pointed this out to their mother. For all the good it did – mom never listened to her. Faye considered dragging her feet to prove the point, but she cared too much about her siblings. Plus Lee had offered to do it in her stead, and her brother had enough on his plate already. She had said she would do it, so she would do it right.
Faye headed for the middle school to get Sing first. After all, Soh would have better adult supervision until she got there, not to mention more awareness of her surroundings. "If Sing's reading in the library again instead of waiting outside, I'm gonna smack her upside the head," Faye muttered.
However, as she approached, Faye saw her sister waiting in the proper place. Still reading, mind. Then to her chagrin, she saw a boy come out of the school and grab Sing's book away from her. Faye broke into a run.
"G-Gary? Give that back!" Sing cried out in protest.
"Nyah, make me," Gary taunted. Sing made a grab for her book, but he held it just out of her reach and laughed. "Poor Singsong, can't read no more now! Whatcha gonna do?"
Sing glared, then bent her knees slightly and jumped, managing to grab hold of her book with both hands. She yanked it back down towards herself.
Caught off guard, Gary wasn't able to pull the volume away from Sing again until she had almost managed to clasp it to her chest. As a result, his subsequent jerk refused to dislodge the tome, and instead completely pulled her off balance. The two of them stumbled back, falling into the dirt, which was wet from the recent rain. They began to roll around, wrestling for control of Sing's precious book. A teacher standing in the area hurried to break things up; Faye got there first.
"All right dumbass, what the hell are you doing to my sister?!" Faye shouted, grabbing Gary by the scruff of his jacket and yanking him up.
The grade schooler's eyes opened wide at the sight of Faye's angry gaze. "N-N-Nothin'," he stammered. "J-J-Jes playin'." He realized belatedly that he was still holding Sing's book, and he quickly tossed it back into the lap of the long haired girl, who was now lying in the mud. Sing didn't even notice at first; she was trying to wipe off her glasses.
Faye's eyes narrowed. "If I hear my sister complaining about you again, the only game you'll be playing will be find the missing teeth, capiche?"
Gary nodded wordlessly, beating a hasty retreat as soon as Faye released her hold on him. The older sibling then turned to look at her sister. "You okay, Sing?"
"I think so. I… ohhh, my book's all dirty now!" Sing said sadly, holding it up by one corner.
Faye rolled her eyes. "Yeah, you're fine. And I got that detective story you wanted from Azure today, you can read that instead." She reached down to help her sister back to her feet.
"Ooh, really? The one Lee couldn't find in the library??"
"The same. Now come on, let's report this incident to Mr. Inactivity over there." With Sing on her feet, Faye motioned at the teacher who had stopped his approach in favour of eyeing the situation warily.
"Walkie-talkies, we should equip ourselves with walkie-talkies," Julie muttered. She peered out her bedroom window – it was nearing the time when Carrie and Frank were due to return. "It worked in 'Back to the Future', and that way we won't have this whole don't-call-me-we'll-call-you mess with cell phone duplicates on the communication grid."
Chartreuse had finally come completely to her senses about fifteen minutes ago. Yet by the time she'd explained to Julie and Clarke about how she'd been experiencing a vision of Lee comforting a brunette called 'Sing' not a blonde called 'Soh', it had really been too late to do anything about Carrie's mistake. On the bright side, Chartreuse had been able to provide them with the reason she'd been knocked out for so long.
"It was, like, my brain couldn't quite cope with the time strain," Chartreuse had explained. "It's normally attuned to the future, so when our past became this future instead, my mind had to, you know, completely reorient myself. It was real weird! I was kind of aware of you guys, but couldn't physically do anything. But hey, at least I've been able to, like, independently verify Glen's story about Lee's inattentiveness?"
Julie wondered whether Carrie would want to time jump again, to earlier in the day, to track the proper King sister. Part of her hoped that would be the case, yet Julie wasn't sure if that desire was due to humanitarian reasons, merely to make another time jump, or if there was some thirst for information gathering reasserting itself.
A hand waved up at her from the sidewalk. Julie recognized it as belonging to Carrie and waved back. She then crept back downstairs and to the back door, quietly letting both Carrie and Frank into the mansion. "Jeeves is still reading in the sitting room," she whispered. "And Mimi left. We can use the pantry access rather than the bathroom chute."
The others nodded, and Julie led them back through the kitchen, towards the third access point for Linquist's hidden laboratory. She'd discovered it while exploring the opposite end of the darkened passage, the direction that didn't lead to the china cabinet.
Kneeling down on the floor of the pantry, Julie reached around behind the cans of tuna to press the knothole that opened the piece of wall paneling. It swung out, and the three teenagers crawled down into the corridor, following the sloped passage down until they reached the secret room where Clarke and Chartreuse were waiting for them.
"So?" Clarke asked, standing up as they entered.
"So, success," Frank said, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out a small necklace with a couple of charms dangling off of it.
"Wait, what?" Julie asked.
"But, that's, like, totally impossible!" Chartreuse gasped. "I mean, I was sure that from what I half heard you say in the school, you'd be following the wrong person!"
"Wrong person, right school," Carrie affirmed. "Hey, glad to see that you're up and about again!"
Chartreuse smiled sadly. "Yeah, but I doubt I'll be able to time travel with you any more. It seems to mess with my head."
"Oh?" Carrie frowned. "That's a problem. Unless I can interrupt your present self while I'm out of my time – which, no, is it's own problem. Why, how long until you regained consciousness?"
"Less than an hour ago," Clarke offered. "And even then only with smelling salts." Carrie's frown became a grimace.
"But seriously, how did you two manage to get the necklace if it wasn't Soh's?" Julie demanded, looking to Frank.
"Lucky break," he answered, placing the piece of jewellery onto the lab table. "Even though we were looking for a blonde at the school, our attention was drawn to a fight – broken up by Faye. It clicked for me that she was Lee's oldest sister, and we put the pieces together that she had been defending another sibling. It then occurred to Carrie that the fight could have caused the brunette girl's necklace to fall apart."
"So me and Frank did a quick search, and managed to turn it up in the mud before it could get buried or cut down by a lawnmower or anything," Carrie concluded. She pointed at the object. "Looks like the catch is loose and it simply slipped off. Bad luck and poor workmanship more than anything deliberate."
"Well, good! I'm glad we could do something for Lee," Clarke said. "We should return it to him and his family as soon as we're back in the present – does anyone have his address?"
Everyone exchanged glances. Then shrugs. "This is embarrassing for me," Julie admitted. "Former Information Queen of the school, and yet I don't know the address of someone on student council."
"Wait, Lee's on the council?!" Frank asked.
Julie nodded. "Yeah. Heading the committees who do publicity stuff for assemblies and dances. They also put up the posters to keep people recycling. Not a high profile job, but he prefers it that way. We can phone him though, I've got his number."
"The more I think about it, the more I'm realizing how much Lee distances himself from people, even while staying in plain sight," Clarke observed. "He has nicknames for everybody, doesn't he?"
"Truth," Julie affirmed, folding her arms across her chest. "Maybe we should reach out to him? Pull him into our group? He was immune to future guy's mental control, after all. Could be useful."
"No!" Everyone turned to look at Carrie. She swallowed. "That is, he obviously has other things to worry about, like his family and Corry's band. And we don't him to think we're using him, on account of that mental thing. For now, let's keep our group the size it is, okay?" She attempted a smile, before picking up the necklace and pocketing it.
Julie saw Chartreuse reach out to touch Carrie, then think better of it, and simply lean in instead. "Carrie, it's not like Lee's gonna hate you for what happened last year, you know," the pink haired girl murmured. "I mean, you told me about it, and I don't hate you. In fact, I… I think maybe I REALLY don't hate you? If you know what I mean?"
Carrie barely looked at the other girl. "Not now Chartreuse, please."
Chartreuse shrank back. "Right." And Julie found her gaze flicking back and forth between Chartreuse and Carrie, spotting the signs of an issue there. An issue of… no. She had to be misinterpreting that.
"Carrie, want to help me reset this thing for the trip back?" Frank offered, having popped open the time machine. The blonde nodded, crouching down next to him.
Chartreuse turned to face Julie instead, and managing to sound as chipper as ever, remarked, "Well, go figure on how something as simple as a necklace can, you know, affect an entire family's emotional well being so drastically, huh?"
Julie smiled back wryly. "Yeah. But know what? You'd be surprised what the simple tearing of a piece of paper can do to a family under the right circumstances."
"Let's not think about such things," Clarke said quickly. "After all, it's not like anyone in our group is facing that sort of tenuous situation right now. Okay?"
Their trip back to the present was uneventful, although once again, Chartreuse ended up unconscious for a couple of hours afterwards. Yet there was one event that the time travellers never became aware of.
Ten minutes before their arrival, the young asian girl down in the basement of the LaMille mansion had realized her coding plans were coming up empty. Prompting the teenager to let out a scream of frustration, hurl the red book she was holding into a corner of the room, and collapse onto the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.
- The site is now 2 years old! And starting next week, posts will be half as long and twice as frequent. See the Commentary this Sunday for the reasoning.
- That was the end of ARC 2 in Book 3. Unrelated, I got another 2016 nickel today. Coin total is now 8.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Powder Room Under The Stairs
Posted by Content in a Cottage | 5:55 PM Labels: bathrooms, renovation
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- Penelope Bianchi said...
it isn't finished yet; but what a great idea! I had a powder room that size in my last house.....and it was perfect!!! (I put a skirt attached by velcro around the sink!)
- March 3, 2016 at 8:59 PM
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Wow,it's been awhile since I've been here! I've missed my LORDI people!
Let's get down to the nitty gritty: who here has competed in Tough Mudder? I have only been able to compete once, in September 2013. Currently I am training to improve myself physically and to better compete in this amazing competition! Post your inputs, videos and pictures here to show everybody what's up!


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A random evening spent slightly outwith my comfort zone, in the company of many a rich man looking to source a new Range Rover, with free champagne on tap and canopies I couldn't pronounce. Welcome to the unveiling of the new Range Rover. I tagged along with my friend, neither of us looking to buy a car, but both of us looking forwards to the fashion show (and the free champagne on tap and canopies I couldn't pronounce).
All these shots were snapped from the comfort of my own seat amongst the crowd. Not from laziness, but because I love the spectator's perspective of the fashion show.


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Hungarian Goulash
When the mornings get crisp and the leaves begin to turn, I crave heartier food. Hungarian goulash with the spices, herbs and earthy flavors of root vegetables is just the ticket. It is the perfect pairing with this month's H. Mynor Zinfandel.
4 Tbsp sunflower or Canola oil2 yellow onions, choppped1 1/2 lb. beef chuck, trimmed and cut into 1/2" cubesKosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste1/4 Cup sweet paprika 2 Tsp dried marjoram2 cloves garlic, finely chopped2 medium carrots, cut into 1/2" cubes2 medium parsnips, cut into 1/2" cubes1 1/2 lb. medium new potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2" cubes1 tomato, cored and chopped1 Italian frying pepper, chopped
1. Heat oil in 5 qt. Dutch oven over medium Heat. 2. Add onions, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Increase heat to high. 3. Add beef and season with salt and pepper. 4. Cook, uncovered stirring only once or twice, until the meat is lightly browned, about 6 minutes. Stir in paprika, marjoram, caraway, and garlic and cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes. 5. Add carrots, parsnips, and 5 cups of water. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium. Simmer, covered, until the beef is nearly tender, about 40 minutes. 6. Add potatoes and cook, uncovered, until tender, about 25 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and peppers; cook for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve with rye bread, if you like.
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Michael did a presentation at the Global Breakthrough Energy Movement (BEM) conference in 2012. In this session, he describes free energy system from ancient civilisations, and finishes off with his model for a society based on contributionism, or UBUNTU.
Tellinger's Topics from below: the imminent release of FREE ENERGY, which has existed for thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions of years – since the Universe was created, NSA, Vortex Energy, Scalar, transitioning to entirely NEW Blueprint for Human Prosperity, releasing the use of money, gold, etc., for corporate and global enslavement, the "trickery" of corporate legalities at the core destructive, and their transformation from unspoken agreements and contracts which we enter into without awareness. The corporate esoteric use of sacred geometry and advanced "concealed" technologies and more. We all know that those behind the curtain of all corporate, government and military control on Earth and on the Solar System and beyond…is the same core group.
Though "they" have NO INTENTION of EVER releasing a fraction of the beneficial technologies that have been patented and advanced via corporations, universities, secret labs and underground cities, is going to backfire. Those who are in key positions understand that we ARE going through a major transition to total transparency, and the "time is up" for the elite, the negative ETs and multi-dimensional beings, who have been in control of Earth for over 50 million years, which ends between 2011 and 2014, and no later than 2017. The card game has been taken as far as it can, with the antes all sitting there in a pile, and all the dark, light and "other" players have "called one another". The common term is, "I see you!" And see, we all will…there is nothing left to do but "show your hand". Only this time, not in subterfuge via Hollywood hints and sci-fi movies. Game over.
When we all SEE for ourselves, and it will be seen by all humanity, clearly and without interference from high-tech etheric frequency waves, mind control, nanotechnology, vaccinations, remote devices run underground or above and beyond, implants, chips, chemtrails, fluoride and thousands of other hideous ongoing programs to "densify, dumb down, blackmail or remove" most of humanity before taking it over permanently, then those who have been at the HELM, their "managers", minions and paid assassins, super soldiers, 3 letter agency infiltrators and those who control the "control rooms" of the entire financial system and the average level of light/consciousness, will be taken out or will have to remove themselves due to an inhospitable rise in the Universal Frequency. There will be no more killing, unnecessary suffering, profits to be made, or control to be had. You've had your chances and you've failed at every level quite miserably – for the Universal Consciousness which knows your every thought, desire, act and intent. The Dark is ultimately a TOOL for the Light. Be used as a tool to repair your mis-creations or consider being literally un-created and re-used as Source energy with no recollection or personality, no power, just etheric material that is cleansed, purified and re-used. Everything is re-cycled – even Demi-Gods out of control. No one who knows what you've done, even your own "minions" and management teams, will fail to turn and reveal all without loyalty or fear.
I know the sophisticated "movers and shakers", who have sold out all things beneficial, rising to the top of the corporate, banking, military, religious, esoteric groups and political dynasties, will have to face the music of their own karmic actions, and laugh at posts such as this one, with quadrillions of dollars and sophisticated networked technologies that have been kept private and secret backing them up, hardly think this is remotely possible. It will be a moment of reckoning, when the 90% that's human has the power (it is here now but not understood how to use effectively) to dissolve those higher dimensional and negative et groups and controls, including "devices", into vapor. It won't be necessary. There is so much higher dimensional incoming energy, along with what's here "right under your noses" unseen and NOT on your A.I. radar, that are gearing up to step in.
Each CEO, Royal, President, etc. must – without lying to themselves, look at the destruction and suffering each action has and would cause; then choose: help humanity reverse what was done to completely enslave and eliminate those who were intentionally used for gain at all levels. A small portion: etheric, religions/worship, money, workforce, military help, negative energies vampirizing everything. The people who gave you everything, i.e., from whom you milked all the positive and negative energies, money, work and health will hold you all expendable just as you hold us with a contemptuous snarl by those at the very top who have lost their conscience.
It makes no difference that one was "born into" the situation and must hold the contracts of domination and control. Mark my words: those who sit in underground cities, secret rooms, top floors that "don't exist", will all have to find other lodging – very soon. Think deeply about your actions and what effect they have and will have if they were allowed to complete. They will not be allowed to progress or complete. This also extends to those who claim to "know nothing", and are simply following marching orders; chemtrail plane fliers, upper mgt. that's "in on" the dirty secrets, military and "intelligence" sectors and all who are "clued in" but pretend not to be "for a price". A time will come when those people will wake up, with full awareness of their own conscience, and will turn on those above them. The last bastion of control may be the corporate controlled media, which will rapidly fall apart as the "talking heads" start to babble or throw temper tantrums on the air. Your "time" and position here are done. Leave now while you have the opportunity…or don't! Stay and see if you can pull more Aces out. Play it to The End. You have already lost, but don't acknowledge it or hold it as a remote possibility, or think you can pull a fast one at the last minutes. Let me know how that works out for you! On second thought, don't. I already know. Your Parents are coming to take back the keys to the convertible you stole so long ago, for a very destructive "joy ride" of selfishness, greed and destruction.
Zany Mystic
Michael Tellinger at the BEM Conference in Boulder CO:
(..) I urge you to share this information with everyone who is interested in alternative and new and FREE energy – the time is here. It will not be suppressed for much longer as the human consciousness rises rapidly and inventors no longer feel that they need to hold onto their patents. I will be showing how the ancients created energy using sound as its source. I will also expand on the sacred stones that are vortex energy generators and how the NSA and Homeland Security at the airport confirmed its activity.
I am now very close to finishing my new book on UBUNTU CONTRIBUTIONISM – Blueprint For Human Prosperity, which I will cover in great detail at the conference. As a small taste of some of the content, I insert just one of the important sections for you to absorb. The book will be about 350 pages of detailed history of money, corporate enslavement of humanity and the simple solutions that stare us in the face, which will convert our world into a place of unity and abundance on all levels of human endeavour.
Hope to see you in Boulder if you can make it – Love & Light & Unity
Michael of the family tellinger.
Living breathing human being – born free and sovereign with inalienable rights from the divine creator that no one may take away or infringe upon in any way.
It is an idea that was written down on paper and a bunch of people run around to enact the idea and the rules set out on that piece of paper. Corporations do not breath, they do not bleed, they do not have emotions and cannot show infinite love – only people can do that.
When the 14th Amendment was passed in the USA during 1868, an era of tyranny was unleashed. This tyranny was subtle, relentless and deadly. It appeared in the form of The Corporation. Ironically, the 14th Amendment itself was not intended to cause this tyranny. It was during a connected case shortly after it was signed, that a court reporter incorrectlyrecorded that a decision had been made regarding the legal status of a Corporation. From that day forth, despite the fact that no such decision had actually been made, a corporation was given the same rights as you and me. This detonated the nightmare that we are stuck with today.
As of 1868, a Corporation was to be treated exactly like a real human being. In fact, the legal term for it is an "artificial person". But because he? she? it? has no morals, it cannot die and has no cells or living tissue, a Corporation will continue to expand forever. Human beings, referred to as "consumers" continually feed this monster, nurture it and watch as it sucks the life out of everything it comes into contact with. It devours resources with no accountability and serves one purpose and one purpose only:to maximise financial profit.
And yet our laws uphold the rights of corporations – pieces of paper – more than they uphold the rights of living breathing human beings. Corporations are considered "persons" just like we are. The only difference is that we almost always sign contracts with them. They seldom, if ever, sign contracts with us. This places us in the position of having to do the delivering, the working, the paying and repeatedly subjugating our rights in their favour.
The tragedy is that most of these laws are written and enacted by other human beings who have no idea what they are doing. Slaves being enslaved because that is all they know. The words of a wise prophet come to mind at this moment: "Forgive them for they know not what they do."
If ever there was a great injustice perpetrated against all of humanity, this is it. And we have no idea that this unlawful activity has been going on for thousands of years.
The brutally inhumane practice of slavery, and the slave trade, especially in the past 500 years, is a sobering reminder of how corporations held infinitely more sway with the law than the human beings who were traded as property or chattel by those slave-trading corporations.
Slave traders were often noblemen of high standing in their societies. Many of them became incredibly wealthy and politically powerful because of their trading in human misery. This is unthinkable to most of us today. And yet, that is exactly what each one of us has become. An ignorant slave to the corporation or so-called country that we are born into – without realising it.
The saddest part of this deception is that many of us slaves are so brainwashed by our slave masters and their system that we are prepared to defend the system and even die for it. So let me remind you of these two historic statements:
"None are more enslaved than those who believe they are free". Goethe
Morpheus: "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." Matrix – The movie
… much more to come in the book.
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Zany Mystic on Michael Tellinger and his upcoming appearance at BEM – Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference (jhaines6.wordpress.com)
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- Michael Tellinger – UBUNTU A World Without Money (disclose.tv)


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The Songs of Summer II
Summer is a fantastic time of year in Melbourne. The bitter chill is finally shaken off, the throngs in thongs head for the beach, BBQs are dusted off and fired up, lawns are mowed, gelato is consumed and drinks are iced. The summer warmth gives us a new lease of energy, driving us outside to rejoice with friends and family.
This is a grace of God. In His goodness He created and maintains the seasons. His good gifts lift our thoughts and affections in praise and thanksgiving to Him. In this season of warmth, we want to celebrate and join in with creation that continually 'sings for joy before the Lord' (Psalm 98).
The Psalms are a collection of songs, which were written to give voice to deep and powerful emotions. In our series we will be exploring Psalms that worship God for His magnificence, sovereignty, grace, faithfulness and love.
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Highlights from LA & Las Vegas – HD Youtube Videos
This post has been a super long time coming as completing these videos took much longer than expected due to birthdays, busy schedules and attempting to prepare the house for the arrival of a hyperactive bengal kitten. This shows 95% … Continue reading
Day 5 – Wed 19th LA to Las Vegas: On the move…
We woke up at the usual time and had our last Froot Loops breakfast, today we were heading to Vegas. As it was to be my third trip, I was feeling lucky! We packed and got ready, then had a … Continue reading
Day 4 – Tue 18th LA: Exploring Farmers Market & Santa Monica
We were slowly adjusting to the time and woke up at 8am for breakfast before catching the bus to The Grove and Farmers Market. This trip was a lot less painful than our other bus adventures in LA and I … Continue reading
Day 3 – Mon 17th LA: From the hills to the boonies..
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Writing after a month feels pretty good and bad at the same time. Good because I am back at it, and bad because I have so many things to write about that I cannot decide what to write first!
Recently I tried 3 products by Himalaya Herbals and I thought I must review them on the blog.
This post is about Himalaya Herbals Gentle Exfoliating Walnut Scrub. I am a regular scrub user since my work involves a lot of traveling and it takes a toll on my skin.
Therefore I use a scrub twice a week to exfoliate all the dirt that my skin attracts. My preference has always been herbal scrubs for some reason – I seem to trust them more. Last year I purchased herbal walnut scrub from Kashmir, which worked wonders on my skin. After the product got over, I went looking for an alternative and found Himalaya's Walnut scrub
The product claims to exfoliate dead skin cells to remove impurities that routine cleansing cannot tackle. It contains Crab Apple, a soothing antiseptic and keratolytic agent that helps loosen dead skin fragments.
The key ingredients are as below:
- Crab Apple has antiseptic, cooling, soothing, nutritive and prevents skin cell degeneration and premature skin aging.
- Wheat Germ Oil, due to its high concentration of Vitamin E, along with proteins and natural antioxidants, is ideal for most skin types as it nourishes the skin and boosts the skin's elasticity.
- The exfoliating micro-particles in Walnut Shell scrub away dirt, blackheads and dead skin cells.
I have been using this over the past few weeks. My face feels pretty fresh after using the scrub and my mom loves using it too. The product has thick texture with a lot of granules that ensure to grab all the dust off the face. The scrub smells divine – it almost makes me want to eat it. For some reason it smells like a cupcake!
The packaging is like other Himalaya products and contains 100 gms. It can be bought for just Rs 130/- which is really light on the pocket for something that fetches very nice results. I bought Himalaya Purifying Neem Scrub too – just to compare both and see which one works better for me. I like the walnut scrub better – for the smell and also probably since I love eating walnuts.
Who is it for?
People with normal to dry skin
How often can it be used?
2-3 times a week
It can be a part of one's skin care ritual as it is a mild herbal product which is effective if used regularly.
You can always check on Himalaya's Facebook and YouTube to be updated with the new product launches by your favorite herbal brand.


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Another Cold Winter On Tap, Sounds Tasty
Remember last winter as you sat shivering in your house, nervously watching the thermostat and dreading the appearance of your next Vectren bill? Remember how it seemed that the Winter of 2010-11 just wouldn't end? Get ready for part two.
According to Climatologists, Indiana may once again be in the crosshairs of vengeful mother nature. It seems the trouble will be brewing down in the Pacific Ocean. In the article in today's Courier and Press, associate state climatologist Ken Scheeringa said "meteorologists expect the periodic cooling of the central Pacific Ocean that's known as La Nina to return and bring another severe winter to Indiana and the rest of the Midwest."
A few years ago the opposite of the phenomena, called El Nino, created a rather mild winter here in the Tri-State. Unfortunately that will not be the case this year. However the effects of La Nina and a warming of the ocean around Iceland and Greenland (dammit we should have listened to Gore), will combine to make your winter miserable.
Last year you might remember Snowmaggedon, which shut down Northern Indiana and the Chicago area. In fact, pictures of abandoned cars on Lake Shore Drive looked like something right out of the apocalypse. It seems that could happen again this year, so get ready.
However, if you got some cash to throw around, now would be a great time to invest in some Vectren stock. But if you're a broke bastard, like me, lets laugh at Chris Farley.


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Okay, it's only been a few days, but one of those consisted of about 6 hours of cooking and I think I should get some type of award for that.
And the fact that I can write such a long sentence with very little punctuation and it's still grammatically correct, but that's a whole different story.
But, we shall go in order…
I had oatmeal Friday morning. No smoothie though (was out of a few ingredients).
I also started pre-cooking for the Saturday party by making my spicy green sauce and homemade seitan for the arroz non pollo.
Friday night a stop at one of our fav wine bars and then dinner out with my love having a strange lemon pasta thing that was odd, but tasty.
Saturday morning he, his young one, and I went to brunch. Portobello bagel with hummus, fruit, and a tropical mimosa followed.
Saturday we had a Latin dinner party! I made black bean and sweet potato tamales, 2 empanadas (one corn, one a TVP-based "beef" taco), cheezy arepas, slaw, and the arroz non pollo (a rice, veggie, tomato, and seitan dish). My guy made the plantains, which were killer.
Sunday naturally started off with a cleansing smoothie after the feasts of the night before. Lunch was leftovers. For dinner we went to cinema cafe. I had popcorn and fruit punch….
This morning I threw a batch of Spanish rice into the rice cooker while getting ready for work (ran out of the arroz non pollo). Threw a couple empanadas on it for my work lunch. Breakfast was a banana and coffee.
Dinner was mac no cheese!
Weather was odd, so I did get a run in, but also did some spinning on my bike in the garage. Never got to the gym…
Probably one of the coolest things was having the downstairs powder room finished! They did an amazing job.
With school being done until Jan 7th, I've been reading for fun. Always my paranormal fun stuff, but also been reading a lot of nonfiction. Currently loving Where Good Ideas Come From and re-reading The Lean Startup and Blue Ocean Strategy.
Also upped my meditation game in the mornings, which has been nice.
Friday night I spent at my guy's house. Saturday we went to breakfast, toured a local island we like, and then hit up a tienda before he took me home so I could get cooking for the masses!
Saturday was the Latin Fiesta dinner party! All told, there were 13 of us. A combination of my friends, my kids and their friends, my boyfriend, and his son. The living room was a major video game battle zone while the "adults" hung out in the dining room drinking and talking.
Extra props to my friend MM who brought and made these yummy peppermint drinks! Whipped vodka, peppermint vodka, coconut cream, and grenadine. YUM.
Oh, and MM and his wife RM brought Kuma the BEST gift. It's a bucket of popcorn with 3 popcorn balls that come out. She loves it. She pulls out the popcorn balls and drops them at my feet one by one. I throw them, then the bucket (which she whips back and forth to "kill" while bringing it back). Then I stuff the popcorn balls back into the bucket, and we do this until she tires out. It's so much fun.
Sunday ended up being super chill. I admittedly got freakishly bored, but persevered. The evening ended with going to see Mortal Engines with my youngest, my middle, and his girlfriend. Oldest couldn't come because she started her new job as an ED Tech! In less than a year she finishes nursing school – so excited for her to move into a clinical role.
Today Kuma didn't want to get up (neither did I really), but eventually she did, and then it was a Monday at the office.
Tonight has been cooking, cleaning, blogging, and reading!
Seriously no updates. I'm feeling pretty self-conscious about that honestly. But that's the point of blogging – to have a written account and accountability, and I have literally failed since November. Due to holiday's, I'm not sure it was entirely avoidable, but I'm absolutely positive I could've done better. And I will….


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Liam John Neeson is known for playing some of the most iconic roles of all times, including Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning movie "Schindler's List" (1993) and Qui-Gon Jinn in "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" (1999).
Born on June 7, 1952, Neeson's other prominent movies include "Batman Begins" (2008), "Taken" (2008-15), "Clash of the Titans" (2010) and "The Chronicles of Narnia" (2005-10).
The 64-year-old actor has several awards to his credit. He has won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.
As the renowned actor celebrates his 64th birthday today, we bring to you some of his most popular quotes:
"Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
"You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track."
"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable."
"I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning."
"In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind."
"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realise you are a part of the human race."
"I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic."
"I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work'."
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Wall Push-ups
Forget expensive exercise equipment and fussy props. A wall is all you need for this exercise. Doing a push-up against the wall is not as hard as a regular push-up, but it still gives your biceps, triceps and pectorals a little workout. Contracting your abdominals and back muscles during the exercise helps strengthen your core muscles.
To make the push-ups harder, move your feet farther away from the wall, or do them on the edge of your desk.
- Stand facing the wall, feet shoulder-width apart and about one foot (0.3 meter) from the wall.
- Place your palms on the wall at about shoulder height.
- Keeping your legs and back straight, bend your elbows and lean toward the wall as far as possible.
- Push yourself away from the wall to the starting position.
- Repeat 10 to 20 times.