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Serves: 4Preparation time: 35 minsCooking time: 10 mins
1. Preheat the grill to 200°C. Place all satay ingredients except the peanuts and coriander in the Braun Multiquick 5's hand blender compact kitchen machine and pulse using a high speed to form a paste.2. Pour half of the paste into a large bowl and add the salted roasted peanuts, chopped coriander leaves and diced chicken breast. Mix well and leave to marinate for at least 15 minutes. Wash the appliance and set aside.3. Thread 3 or 4 pieces of chicken onto 8 wooden skewers, keeping them slightly spaced apart. Brush with remaining satay paste and place under the pre-heated grill, turning occasionally, for about 10 minutes until just cooked.4. For the sesame and cucumber salad, use the Braun Multiquick 5's hand blender compact kitchen machine with its slicing blades to slice the cucumber. Place the sliced cucumber in a bowl, add the rest of the salad ingredients and toss to combine. Leave to marinate for 5 minutes and serve with the chicken satay skewers.
If you have any leftover satay sauce why not try this dish with beef? Just make sure you buy a good quality cut such as sirloin.This recipe was prepared using the Braun Multiquick 5's hand blender compact kitchen machine with its slicing blades.
• 4 chicken breasts, diced• 8 wooden skewersIngredients for satay
• 150g smooth peanut butter• 50g salted roasted peanuts, finely chopped• 200ml tinned coconut milk• 1 stalk lemongrass, roughly chopped• 1 medium red chilli, deseeded• 1tsp turmeric• 1 clove garlic, peeled• 1tbsp chopped fresh ginger• 3 kaffir lime leaves• 20g fresh coriander, finely chopped• Juice of 2 limes and the grated zest of one• 1tbsp Thai fish sauce• 25g light brown soft sugarIngredients for sesame and cucumber salad
• 1 cucumber• 1tsp chopped ginger• 2 tsp sesame oil• 2 tbsp sweet rice vinegar (e.g. Japanese Mirin vinegar)• 2 tbsp rice vinegar• 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds• Salt and pepper to season
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I don't know what gets into me, I really don't. I can't leave it alone, and I never could.
A few posts ago I was talking about fan art, which I've never done before, mainly because I have no artistic sensibilities whatsoever and can't draw or paint to save my life. Once during a manic phase, I did a lot of abstract painting and was convinced it was REALLY GOOD and went around scanning it and sending it to everyone. Unfortunately, it was shit. I had no idea why everyone seemed so embarrassed.
I don't know how artists do it, except through true talent and determination.
I can't leave it alone. These dolls, these alabaster time-travellers created by the mysterious genius Marina Bychkova (a Vancouver girl, I'm happy to say) pull something out of me, something equally strange.
I want to unjoint them and take them apart and see how they work, or at least dress and undress them. Why? What's the matter with me? I hated dolls as a little girl.
I didn't even have any, except an execrable Debbie doll with a big head and permed black hair like my mother's, and an even worse one called Miss Debutante. Does the average eight-year-old know or care what a "debutante" is? It's a strange term at the best of times, and like "chatelaine" it has no male equivalent. I used to call her "Miss De-BUT-ton-ty", when I called her anything at all.
I did mummify my Barbie, and got some strange looks for it, even from my schizophrenic brother Arthur who seemed to be from some other planet. What can I say, I loved mummies and hated Barbie and it seemed like a good solution.
I can't play with dolls even now, I can't afford one as good as these, and feel a bit silly prowling around doll shows where people just hoard them. So this is my only way of playing.
I have to reveal a secret: while I played with images today, I worried about a medical test I'm having in a week. I don't feel well and I haven't for some time, though as usual nobody has a clue about it because "you seem fine to me". When you've hidden depression and other kinds of wretched imbalance for nearly 60 years, you get awfully good at it.
This seems to be "physical", meaning "not my fault" and "not something I'm just making up to get attention that I could snap out of any time I wanted to, except I don't want to". It's weird, because part of me hopes there's something wrong, or at least something they can locate, so it won't be one of those vague situations where you KNOW there is something wrong but no one in the medical community will acknowledge it.
It seems a bit idiotic to say, "Gee, I sure hope they find something wrong."
But I do.
I have another secret, and now I will reveal it. I wanted to use one of those hideous birds by Hieronymus Bosch in my "fan art", but discovered it really wasn't do-able, any more than my equally bright idea to make my own Russian nesting dolls. But I did find this, some sort of hawk making that screaming noise they do. What struck me is that its mouth was a perfect mother-of-pearl-looking heart, so I used that as a basis for my fan art, or desecrations, or whatever they are.
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Another Major SL Search Borking
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, SL In-World Search
Are you sick and tired of being hosed yet? Have you had enough of being bent over the barrel and screwed without any purpose, notice or warning? Have you pretty much given up on being able to get ahead in Second Life? Well then join the rest of us because once again the Blunder Wizards as Linden Lab have chosen to bork In-World Search.
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The Issue with Traffic
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search, The Project to Save Second Life
Before I dive into the meat of today's topic, I want to spend a bit of time laying the groundwork. I think it will help you better understand what I'm up in arms about this time around and how it will probably affect you in the near future.
The most basic rule of any business is to "make money". Any business that doesn't have money flowing in … at least in quantities large enough to match or exceed the money flowing out … that company is dancing a Minute Waltz. Any minute now that business will waltz off into the pages of history. Businesses within Second Life are no different. While there are many Merchants that set up an In-World store or go to the trouble of making a Storefront on the SL Marketplace purely for the fun of making and selling things, there are also a lot of people that take the operation of their business very seriously. Not all of those make a living off their store either. They may just be making money to spend in SL, or they might cash out from time to time but nothing big enough to live on. No matter their "Bottom Line", they use the time and experience of setting up and running a business in SL as very real and not at all "simply a game".
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Timetable for Changes to In-World Search
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
This past Tuesday afternoon, Nya Linden of the Search Dev Team made a relatively quiet but monumental post on the Second Life Forums. Titled "Search Back-end Engine Update", the details she laid out set a concrete timeline for changes to the In-World Search service that so many Merchants depend on. As of this writing, there have been no comments or replies to her post, I think partly because it's posted in the SL Viewer Forum, but also because I'm not sure everyone understands what it means and how it will affect them and their businesses. In today's post, I will be digging into the full meaning and ramifications of the (rapidly) upcoming changes.
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In-World Search – V2 Search Bot Released!
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, Linden Lab and Second Life, New Products, SL In-World Search
Everyone has been holding their breath, waiting to see how they rank in the new V2 Search announced by Linden Lab. If Search is important to you (and if you want to find anything in Second Life, it should be) then you've probably been checking the V2 results and trying to compare them against the old V1 results. Some say they're better, some say worse, but no matter which way you feel, you need to know how your store ranks.
Released today is our first product that works with V2 Search – our popular Search Bot. Available in two packages, Search Bot V2 1.0 maintains all the same popular features of the previous Search Bot v2.8. The basic package contains just the V2 version Search Bot, however we've also released a Combo BOX that contains both V1 and V2 version Search Bots at a savings of L$250.
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In-World Search – Bad News and Good News
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search, Technical Info
As most everyone is aware these days, Linden Lab has announced the end of their GSA-based In-World Search service and the upcoming release of a new SOLR/Lucene based version. As these two versions are roughly associated with different versions of the SL Viewer, the GSA-based Search is commonly referred to as "V1 Search" while the new Lucene-based Search is called "V2 Search".
Not too long ago the DG Products for Second Life (DGP4SL) SEO Tools were offline as a result of being blocked from using the Search Services at secondlife.com. After a good bit of conversation with the LL Search Dev team, we've made some changes that should help performance going forward and made significant strides in getting ready for the new V2 Search as well. In today's post I'll address the changes released today and the path going forward as well.
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The Lying Thieving Bastards of Second Life
Filed under: Internet Life and Humanity, Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
Yup, you heard me right … Lying … Thieving … Bastards … and they're in Second Life! (zomg!) In fact, you probably know one. No, strike that, you know a LOT of them. Want to see them listed? Want to find a ready-made guaranteed list of every single cheater, liar, thief, cut-throat, scammer, spammer, crook in Second Life?
Pull up your Friends List.
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Making In-World Search More Relevant
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
In several of my recent posts, I have mentioned different ways to improve In-World Search in ways that extend beyond what exists today. Basically that means adding features and functions to In-World Search that do not currently exist. While that's a grand goal, it's also pretty much a pipe dream. Why? Well, Linden Lab has a long-standing reputation of "Doing It Our Way". Actually, it's more like "Doing It Anyway EXCEPT Your Way". Not to single them out as if they're the only tech-based company to behave that way … because they aren't. In fact, if anything, they are more the norm in that manner than the exception.
But with that despairingly blunt introduction, there are things that can be done without extending or adding to the existing services and infrastructure. They need to shift their perspective just a bit, gain a better understanding of what really is "Out There" (inside Second Life) and accept the well-proven truth that damage to In-World Search is directly traceable right to damage in Linden Lab's purse. Once they do that, internalizing and implementing some of the ideas I present below should be a simple matter of "Git 'er done!"
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New Search Magic Formula
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
As promised, as soon as I have a beginning idea how to rank higher in the new In-World Search, I would blog about it so others could benefit. Well, I still haven't succeeded in getting anywhere adapting my SEO Tools to the new Search, but I've figured out how to make it work for you anyway. So, you wanna learn the "Magic Formula"?
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How It Should Work: In-World Search Part 2
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search, The Project to Save Second Life
In Part 1 (How It Should Work: In-World Search) I went through a rather extensive justification for why In-World Search is a Tool to be used by Merchants and Sellers in Second Life. If you haven't taken the time to read that yet, please do so now. I know it's a long read, but it will help you understand the basis for a lot of what I discuss in this post.
Now that you're up to speed with the introduction stuff, let's begin from this basic observation: The tools and methods for advertising your products in Second Life are paltry at best and non-existent at worst. In an environment that derives a large amount of its livelihood (and income) from a commerce driven system, that's an omission that is unforgivable. So let's tackle ways in which Linden Lab can remedy that problem as they relate to In-World Search.
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How It Should Work: In-World Search
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search, The Project to Save Second Life
I get dinged a lot by folks that insist I'm nothing but a doom-sayer. They routinely box me about the ears claiming I never say anything positive or beneficial, and that all my negative ranting does nothing good for anyone. I have a different view of course, or I'd probably not post so many negative rants … but fair is fair and I do like to give equal time to all viewpoints. (Even those that are wrong cuz they disagree with me. *grin* just kidding)
Sometime back I posted a few blogs under the category called "The Project to Save Second Life". Well it's time to contribute at least another one, and maybe a few more depending on how the muse feels. Tonight's entry is about In-World Search in Second Life and how it should work (in my ever-so-humble opinion).
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- Aquinnah Public Beach (Moshup Beach)
Off Moshup Trail. Extends from Philbin Beach to just before the Cliffs. Ten minute walk from parking lot on cleared trail. Paid parking only in summer.
- The Aquinnah Cliffs are a National Landmark and are seriously endangered by climbing on cliffs or removal of clay (both prohibited by law).
- East Beach (Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge and Wasque Reservation) On Chappaquiddick. Access from Dike Bridge and Wasque. Open to all, but subject to the regulations of The Trustees of Reservations. Fee charged for non-members.
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At the bridge between Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven.
- Fuller Street Beach
At the end of Fuller Street near Lighthouse Beach in Edgartown.
- Joseph Sylvia State Beach
Two miles of mild beach along Beach Road between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown. Owned by the state and maintained by Dukes County. The Edgartown end of this beach is known as Bend-in-the-Road Beach. Edgartown has lifeguards in season.
- Lake Tashmoo Town Beach (Herring Creek Beach) End of Herring Creek Road on Lake Tashmoo in Vineyard Haven.
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A harbor beach at Starbuck's Neck, off N. Water Street near the center of Edgartown.
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- Menemsha Public Beach
Next to Menemsha Harbor. Gentle beach typical of the north shore.
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Three miles of barrier beach on the south shore in Edgartown at the end of Katama Road. Surf on one side with protected salt pond on the other.
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I sent out a false alarm because of a blurb in Robert Moynihan's blog that 200 page document on the two synods on the family would be out March 19, 2016. Recent suggestions say that it will out next Monday, the day after Easter. The blurb, copying words of Cardenal Walter Kasper, had seismic dimensions to it by saying the following: "In a few days, on March 19, a document of about 200 pages will come out in which Pope Francis will express himself definitively on the themes of the family addressed during the recent Synod, and in particular on the participation of the faithful who are divorced and remarried in the active life of the Catholic community
"This will be the first step of a reform that will make the Church turn a page after 1700 years."
"We must not repeat formulas of the past and barricade ourselves behind the wall of exclusivism and clericalism, the Church must live (in) our times and understand how to interpret them." —Cardinal Walter Kasper, in the northern Italian city of Lucca, on Monday, March 14, at a parish church, commenting on the upcoming papal document on the Bishops' Synod on the Family
"We must not repeat formulas of the past and barricade ourselves behind the wall of exclusivism and clericalism, the Church must live (in) our times and understand how to interpret them." —Cardinal Walter Kasper, in the northern Italian city of Lucca, on Monday, March 14, at a parish church, commenting on the upcoming papal document on the Bishops' Synod on the Family
"Everyone consoles the bereaved, but nobody resurrects the corpse:" The Church and History Starts Fresh
It is quite exciting to consider Pope Francis' centering on the family now as the mainspring for a global revolution when you put it together with St. Josemaria Escriva's central observation that there is a quid divinumto be found in the most ordinary circumstances and it is up to us to find it. That is, it is not a case of looking for a center of power to occupy in order to do great things for God and man, but rather to begin to make the gift of oneself in the daily grind in the unspectacular and humdrum of secular life.
Notice how this plays out in the thought of Pope Francis. On the occasion of the Jubilee of the year 2,000, he issued (as archbishop) "a rallying cry for Argentina "to recover 'the adventure of anew nation' and to be reborn in the promise of the pioneers who began our fatherland.' That meant, he said, restoring social bonds and solidarity, and reaching out to the young, the jobless, the migrants and the elderly. He again pointed to the growth in community organizations as a sign of hope, and called on the politicians to 'make the community the protagonist.' But he presented the grim image – the prophetic, as it turned out - of a people profoundly disillusioned with their self-referential politicians, incapable of generating the solidarity needed for a functioning democracy.
In the interview with Anthony Spadaro S.J., Pope Francis offered the following profundity: "God manifests himself in historical revelation, in history. Time initiates processes, and space crystallizes them. God is in history, in the processes.
"We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces. God manifests himself in time and is present in the processes of history. This gives priority to actions that give birth to new historical dynamics. And it requires patience, waiting.
"Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way. God is found in the gentle breeze perceived by Elijah. The senses that find God are the ones St. Ignatius called spiritual senses. Ignatius asks us to open our spiritual sensitivity to encounter God beyond a purely empirical approach. A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God—this is the sign that you are on this right path."[1]
The point being that the quid divinum is the family as the incubator and communion where human persons are generated, nourished and formed. When speaking of Argentina as country in the year 2000, he said that "We need to recognize, with humility, that the system has fallen into a broad umbral cone, into the shadow lands of distrust, in which many of the promises and statements sound like a funeral cortege. Everyone consoles the bereaved, but nobody resurrects the corpse. Get up! This is the call of Jesus in the Jubilee. Arise, Argentina! As the Holy Father (John Paul II) said to us on his last visit, and as our pioneers and founders dreamed. But until we face up to the duplicity of our motives there will be neither trust nor peace. Until we are converted, we will not know happiness and joy. Because unchecked ambition, whether for power, money, or popularity, expresses only a great interior emptiness. And those who are empty do not generate peace, joy, and hope, only suspicion. They do not create bonds."[2]
Hence, just before the opening of the Synod, he referred to the family as "a new alliance of man and woman [that] becomes not only necessary but also strategic for the emancipation of people from the colonization of money. This alliance must return to orientate politics, the economy and civil coexistence! It decides the habitability of the earth, the transmission of the meaning of life, the bonds of memory and of hope. Of this alliance, the conjugal-family community of man and woman is the generative grammar, the "golden bond…." – the transformative power of the new civilization of love.
Hence, the family as the "quid divinum" that must be rejuvenated and entrenched at the very core of historical reality. It will emancipate the human person from "the colonization of money," renew the habitability of the earth ("Laudato Si'"), "reorient politics and civil coexistence," "transmit the meaning of life," and thus make arise a new culture that the Magisterium has called "the civilization of love." At the same time, the regeneration of the family will form a new generation of persons whose self-gift will change the epistemological prism through which all reality is viewed. That prism is the human person whose prototype is the God-Man Jesus Christ. This civilization will be secular as Jesus Christ is the meaning of secularity, secularity meaning the autonomy (freedom) of self-determination.
The divine Person of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, has assumed a created body and soul with the faculties of intellect and will. That human created will has been assumed by the divine "I" of the Son of God as "His" and wills the gift of Himself to the Father for us. Attention: the human will of Christ does not will. Only Persons will. Hence, the human willing of Christ is the will of the divine Person of the Son. Hence, the freedom and autonomy of that will (created and human) is medium of the Self-giving of the Son to the Father. That will is not an "instrument" of the Son but the Son Himself willing [Actiones sunt suppositorum: only person act].
Therefore, the kind of loving and living that is family imaging Trinitarian Life is a "divine something" that will transform the entire social order, yielding a new culture and civilization.
Hence, what Francis is doing is not lamenting the human collapse of the culture from Isis to Wall Street, but resurrecting the corpse from the bottom – the family – up.
Concerning the Eucharist for the divorced/remarried, of course, I don't know what's in the document. However, the solution must take place in a different epistemological horizon than Greek objectified "nature," concepts, syllogism and principles. It will have to take place in the horizon of Christian anthropology which is the horizon of the person which is accessed by another kind of experience than empirical sensation and abstraction. It must be within a consciousness of the self going out of the self as the knowledge of Christ is available only by matching His experience of going out of self. Both levels of experience must be involved – that of subject and that of object.
Christ's forgiveness of the woman caught in adultery, forgiven (subject) and told to sin no more (object); the father of the prodigal son who forgives him (subject), but loves the son who has been obedient to the law (object) – reveals the God of Jesus Christ. Somehow, we are like the physicists at the turn of the last century who found that matter is both particle and wave, not either-or, but both-and, and that their mode of understanding had to change. Newtonian physics worked for the macro but not for the micro particles. The discovery of Ratzinger's generation of theology is that the God of Jesus Christ is One but only in the sense that the Father is the action of engendering the Son, the Son is the action of obeying and glorifying the Father, the Spirit as the personification of the Two. The divine Person are relations, and therefore so must be the persons who image them. Christ is teaching that mercy and law are compatible, nay, at the level of the Creator, identical. On the level of the Creator, Mercy is the Law of God, and Love is His Truth. If it is such in the Creator, it must be achieved in the creature. Let's wait for the document.
[1] "A Big Heart Open to God" America September 30, 2013 Issue, Anthony Spadaro Interview.


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Power Query Data Cleansing – solving all sorts of Excel issues
by Wyn Hopkins
Some may see Power Query simply as a brilliant way of connecting to multiple data sources and loading that data into a Microsoft Power BI development environment (Excel Power Pivot or Power BI desktop).
Having spent 25 years using Excel / Lotus 123 functions and macros to clean up messy data and automate manual tasks I find it is so much more.
It is a breath of fresh air.
There are lots of great people out there giving great advice on how to get the most out of Power Query and I salute them all. A big thank you.
Power Query data cleansing can solve all sorts of problems for the Excel user who is wrangling with data. Consolidating, Splitting, Merging, Replacing, Filtering, "UNPIVOTING!"… the list is comprehensive and seems to be ever growing.
Here's just one small and very unusual example. It's the "unusualness" that prompted this article. It hopefully goes to show that if there's a problem that you don't know how to solve using "normal" Excel then Power Query data cleansing may well be the answer.
The Problem
A table of data had been entered in Excel but rather than a unique row being used for each value the user has entered data using the Alt+Enter trick to transfer data onto the next line in the same cell.
This makes it impossible to create totals (OK not impossible but you need an array formula and some "out-there" thinking to get it done).
Power Query Data Cleansing to the rescue….
1. Turn the original set of data into a Table (highlight and Ctrl+T)
2. Power Query > From Table
3. Then click on the Split Column > Split by Delimiter
And select the Custom Option followed by ticking the box Split using special characters and pick Line Feed (this picks up the Alt+Enter separator)
(note I've put 100 columns to split, this allows for 100 items to be entered in each cell, there are better but more complex ways of doing this)
4. Right Click on Types of Uniform and Unpivot Other Columns
5. Right Click on and Remove the Attribute Column
6. Right Click on the Types of Uniform and select Group By…
7. New Column name = "Total Sold" Operation = Sum Column = Value
8. Click Home > Close and Load To…. then select table and load the data into Excel
Done! Simply Right Click and Refresh the green table whenever required
Ideally, we'd avoid all this and explain to the user why using Alt+Enter, in this case, is not a particularly good idea.
The aim of this unusual example is just to get you thinking that Power Query may well be able to help you ways you never thought were possible.


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So the forecast is for BAAAAD weather. But in Alaska that means 33 deg F. Got on the lake around noon to see some folks in the area I usually fish. But as I was unpacking, they took off. Too bad!
33 deg F means it was 50 degrees warmer than at 6am Last Sunday at Big Lake. Too be honest, I prefer the 17 below! The drive back was HEINOUS! I counted at least a dozen vehicles in the hour drive from Wasilla to Anchorage. But no one cares about the drive, let's talk fishing.
I set up in the other folk's hole and its about 20 feet. Too deep to try the underwater videos. The water was a bit dingy as well. So I decide to set the gopro on top and see if this "gift" hole will produce.
First 5 minutes, I impale an immature salmon about 8 inches long. Remarkable considering I was using a 5 inch long spoon! Well you can't keep salmon so back it goes.
After a few more minutes, I decide I really want to see the fish so I prop my rod on my chair and go punch some more holes shallow. I know better than to prop up my rod like that. But I am using a spoon and nothing is going to hit it while it just hangs there right? WRONG! Well you are just going to have to watch the video to see the outcome. If you recall last weeks video had me dropping my rod down the hole. Will history repeat itself??? Watch the vid.
I did manage two rainbows, 14 and 16 inches long. Once again remarkable given I am using a 5 inch spoon. I impaled the smaller one smack in the middle of the head and eye so I kept it. I released the 16 incher.
It's nice and comfy until the wind picks up. Then comes the freezing rain! So I did pop up the shelter eventually.
The horror story of the day is I managed to impale a big gamakatsu single siwash hook THROUGH my fingernail of my index finger. OUCH! I thought it was going to end the day. Just gripped and ripped since I had no choice...once again, gotta watch the video. But I managed to keep my nail and so I kept fishing! But not to sound like a wimp, but I am ALLERGIC to PAIN! OWIE!
Not a bad day except for the drive and the impaled finger. Not sure if I will venture out tomorrow with the road conditions!


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Digital pianos can be a great stepping stone for the acoustic instruments. They cost less and usually take up much less space by comparison.
When buying a piano for your child most of the same factors that need to be considered for an adult still hold true. The difference lies in the fact that certain factors need to be tailored for use for a smaller child.
When buying a digital piano for your child avoid worrying about getting the most advanced features unless they will be needed for the child's playing experience.
As any digital piano buyer would do, you should start by researching pianos before going to bring one home. If your child has an instructor, it may be best to rely on his or her recommendation when considering which instrument to buy.
If not, ask around for friends or associates that play piano if they can recommend a digital instrument. You may even take them along when going on the hunt to purchase the final choice.
If you have no other players with whom to consult about the matter check reviews online. Digital piano users often leave reviews about their purchases and the experiences they have had with their own pianos.
Rely on those and expert pianist opinions if you know no one that can personally guide you to one.
When going on the hunt it is best to actually play the pianos to get a feel for them before making the final decision.
A good digital piano will provide a realistic weighted action to simulate the resistance provided by an acoustic piano. This effect is necessary in order to learn the proper technique and finger strength that is needed to graduate into playing the acoustic.
Weighted action will also be needed if your kid plans to practice or perform many Classical pieces. Also necessary is a full keyboard.
Some pianos will have less but you should look for an instrument with 88 keys in order to play the most famous pieces and to allow versatility.
One of the most important differences in buying a piano for a child is the fact that the child's size and comfort must be taken into consideration.
The child's hand and finger length, height and arm length will affect the size of instrument he or she will be able to comfortably play. Also important is the size of the instrument in relation to the child's surroundings.
If the piano will be placed in the kid's room it should be small enough to allow space for the child to sit upright with arms and feet in the proper playing position.
If you need to keep the playing environment quiet, be sure to use headphones that provide a comfortable fit.


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KITTERY, Maine — Ron Ross is back on the job.
KITTERY, Maine — Ron Ross is back on the job.
During a week that included a three-day suspension from his position as Traip Academy football coach pending an investigation into player safety, Ross was cleared to resume coaching on Friday afternoon and ran practice at Memorial Field in advance of Saturday's game against Oak Hill.
"As of 3 p.m., Ron Ross was cleared to resume activities," said Kittery superintendent of schools Allyn Hutton.
Ross had been suspended Tuesday pending that investigation, said Hutton.
According to sources, it centered on a practice drill that called player safety into question, and the investigation included interviews with players and witnesses.
"Information was brought forward to the administration that there may be a concern with a coaching practice," said Hutton. "(Student safety) is something we take very seriously."
Traip activities director Mike Roberge, who is also the school's assistant principal and oversaw the investigation, would not confirm Friday morning that Ross had even been suspended.
"The only thing I can say is this is a personnel issue, and I can't talk about it further," he said.
Ross got word shortly before 3 p.m. on Friday that he was cleared of the accusation and could get back on the sidelines. He said he did not know what incident spurred the investigation.
"They told me today that they came to a decision that I could go back to coaching," said Ross. "They said time served was enough, with which I agree."
Ross said he was asked to meet with administrators on Monday to "close the issue." The Rangers (1-5) have two games remaining.
Now in his 13th season, Ross is the third-longest tenured high school football coach on the Seacoast, behind Bill Ball of Exeter and Randy Small of York. He was a finalist last spring for the job of head coach at Portsmouth High School, where he played in the 1980s, but was not selected.
A 1988 graduate of Portsmouth High School, Ross grew up in the city after his father was transferred to Pease Air Force Base in the 1970s. He joined coach Bob Boss' staff at Traip in the late 1990s and was named interim head coach five games into the 2001 season, after first-year coach Rex Stevenson was fired.
He was the steward of the program during its 51-game losing streak, which ended in 2006, but also during its resurgence. The Rangers went 6-3 in 2010, 8-3 in 2011 – reaching the Western Maine Class C championship game – and 8-2 last year, making the regional semifinals.
But this has been a rebuilding year in a new Class D classification, with only 16 players dressing for most games, more than a third of them freshmen. The team's only win came in Week 3 against Sacopee Valley, a program that is currently mired in a 38-game losing streak.
Ross said he was received well at practice Friday afternoon, by both players and some parents, whom he stressed have supported him throughout.
"The (players) were excited. They were happy," he said. "Some of them said they were rejuvenated, others didn't know what to think. But it was good to be back."
Hutton called the process of investigating the claim "time-consuming," but that the safety of the athletes is the primary concern.
"The School Department takes very seriously the safety of the students," she said. "We will always err on the side of caution. When reports are made to us of any actions that will put students in danger, we will conduct a full investigation."


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Commuters must do their bit to mitigate risks
On Tuesday, November 18, the Government Railway Police statistics revealed that 13 people died and 13 got injured while in the train, or trying to cross the tracks
On Tuesday, November 18, the Government Railway Police statistics revealed that 13 people died and 13 got injured while in the train, or trying to cross the tracks. The majority of fatalities were because people were trying to cross the tracks and got mowed down by an oncoming train. In other instances, people have fallen off the trains due to overcrowding or standing on the edge of the footboard. In just one day there were 26 accidents, which is an astonishingly high number. The majority of commuters who lost their lives were in their 20s and 30s.
Railway authorities make regular announcements about why one should not cross the tracks, and the awareness and advocacy is on the uptick. Yet, for a variety of reasons, we see people defying orders and common sense wisdom and crossing tracks at will. For some, the Foot Over Bridge (FOB) is too far, or too crowded. For others, it is simply a matter of convenience. Why climb when you can cross? It is also the heady and often misplaced confidence of youth, which makes them sure that they would be able to cross the tracks without injury.
One cannot put the blame on the Railways. Even though FOBs may be inconvenient, they are present and people need to use them rather than risk life and limb by crossing tracks. Strict fines for crossing tracks may be one way to deter people, but in the end, it is the commuter who has to take responsibility for his life. Overcrowded trains also result in people hanging on for dear life, at the footboard. Missing crowded trains is one way to tackle this, but one realises that the commuter does not always have an option.
One can only advocate caution when getting into a crowded train. Other commuters, if possible must show some compassion by making at least some room for those hanging outside.
Railway stations and trains are dangerous, not in themselves but because of the sheer numbers commuting. Demand does outstrip supply. For these very reasons, commuters have to do all they can to mitigate risks to themselves. Like the authorities say, the rule is ours but the life is yours.
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It should really be called the Legend of Link, not the Legend of Zelda. Coming from humble beginnings he struggles against monsters, dungeons and awkward Nintendo puzzles. But that teasing, troublesome tart Zelda never even gave our hero a flash of boob for all his daring efforts.
What kind of legend are you?
There is a legend inside us all, but nobody is born that way, we all have to start somewhere. Heroic tales of regular folk rising to the challenge, facing all the trials that Hyrule / London / New York / Tokyo etc. can throw at them and coming out on top. Heroic tales wouldn't be nearly as inspiring without all the effort they put in to conquer hardship, yet come out on top. Yay for the underdog.
Our multi-talented hero will even go so far as to risk a time / space paradox that could potentially destroy the known universe by learning the Song of Storms from a man in the Kakariko village, then travelling back in time and playing the Song of Storms in the windmill in as a child; so that same man learns the tune and can then teach it to Link in the future. What lengths will you go to in order to reach your goals?
So what can we learn from this damsel rescuing, dungeon delving, Paradox dodging, all round awesome adventurer?
What can't we learn from Link? He's a freakin' legend. But we need to be 'realistic' about things, so here's how we apply his heroic endeavours the Level Up way. Yay.
Find your motivation then explore everything
First you need to figure out what you want. Finding the motivation was easy for Link; he unwittingly found a sword, got a quest from a talking tree, busted his way through a bunch of dungeons, did a little time travel via an ocarina, kicked Ganondorf's ass and rescued the prudish princess.
There are literally thousands of fitness routines, skills and proficiencies out there; even ways to become smarter, so explore everything. Decide which attribute or skill you wish to work on, but make it something you really want, something fun or even something profitable. It really has got to be something you want though. Nobody ever succeeds getting in shape for the sake of it, or learning a new skill unless there's a good reason or desire for it. Once your goals are defined, add the all important motivation. Like wanting to do serious strength training to be able to lift all those pesky rocks that seem to cover the entrance to anything useful in Hyrule, or training for a specific skill such as archery to clear those dungeon critters at long-range, or get up close and personal with some Swordsmanship. Then the motivation should fall sweetly into place. Once you have a specific goal in mind, and the motivation has dug its heels into you, it's on to the next nugget of Hyrulian wisdom.
Use the right tools for the job
Link didn't just charge straight through Hyrule, confront Ganondorf, grab little miss never-puts-out and ride off into the sunset. He had to run a gauntlet that covered all of Hyrule, in both past and present, each step of the way he was faced with obstacles that required him to figure out exactly what he needed for the task at hand. It wasn't always obvious what he needed either; maybe a hook-shot to enter the forest temple, iron boots to navigate the water temple or a colossal hammer to smash stuff that allowed access to other areas.
The same applies to taking on a journey to learn and / or improve skills and attributes. There will be a lot of trial and error finding the correct method to achieve what you want. Always give new ideas a try, but be weary, there are many fads out there waiting to take your hard-earned rupees, be sure to research thoroughly and pay nothing up front. The minions of evil are trying their darndest to sabotage us and our quest to legendary status. They're even making a profit from it. Check out these disturbing links: The Flex Belt, Ab Circle Pro, and my all time favourite ridiculous, ineffectual piece of rubbish Power Spin. Beware, beloved reader, these are the tools of the foolish, not the tools of the legendary.
Find the right training for the results you want
Sounds a lot simpler than it is. You need to know what kind of training will garner the results you are after. You won't be a great basketball player if you go powerlifting and don't instead practice plyometrics. Not doing your research may lead you into fitness ruts, you could end up doing the same ineffectual workouts and be totally befuddled as to why it's not working. Going to the gym and feeling obliged to bodybuild is a fine example of a fitness rut; Lifting heavy on a split body part routine whilst pumping yourself full of excessive amounts of protein aren't the right tools to become an endurance athlete for example. I know how tricky it is to go to gyms and avoid the bodybuilding peer-pressure, don't misunderstand me, beloved reader, there is nothing wrong with bodybuilding if that's your goal, but these vile dungeons called gyms are full of meat-heads, jocks and gym-rats and are quite the environment of unspoken coercion. All you have to do to avoid this awful phenomenon is visualise those that have fallen for some fitness fad-trap, (cue Admiral Akbar), there will be plenty of them in there, and realise how sickeningly sycophantic they are; then have a great workout knowing you will reach your goals because you've dodged that misinformation bullet, whilst they probably don't even know what they are working toward at all, and more than likely quit after a few weeks.
Most of you will probably want to train more sports / skill specific; muscular endurance and flexibility for Martial Arts, cardiovascular endurance to compete in marathons or for the true bad-asses, like Link, go and compete in the pentathlon with his swimming skills, constantly running everywhere, equestrian prowess, unrivaled marksmanship and expert swordsmanship, he'd totally own it.
Training can all be accomplished in the gym or at home, even outdoors if you don't mind the inarticulate japes of the ignorant and sedentary that plague the streets. At home is my personal preference, that way I can avoid distractions from people who use the gym solely as a social gathering, and the gym-rats trying to 'inform' you. Plus home training always allows access to the equipment I require, without waiting for some rude guy using what I need to use and is unwilling to share. The choice of training environment will depend greatly on the skill you are improving.
Don't be shy to use assistance or ask for help
Link asks for help all the time, even though he is truly bad-ass, he knows in his rather ample stores of applied wisdom, that he cannot complete this epic solo quest without a boost from some unlikely new friends. He enlists help from frog choirs to families that have been magically transformed into Skulltulas, from going through overly long trials and tribulations to acquire a new song from some twat who wants nothing more than to inconvenience our hero, to that brutally hard second race on Lon Lon Ranch to get Epona whose help is essential to help get him through his epic quest.
If you're hitting it hard on the bench press don't be shy to ask for a spot, that is assuming you don't have a training partner, if not there can some agreeable and amiable folk to be found in the gym, far fewer than your friendly neighbourhood Rogue Advisor would like, but there are some helpful chaps and lasses.
Or if you can't manage to perform pull-ups yet, don't feel abashed, regardless of the disapproving looks you may get from the gym-rats, about using the pull-up assist platform on the gym's machine, remember that those meat-heads and jocks had to start somewhere as well, so screw them and their arrogant criticism. They probably have erectile dysfunction after all the steroids they've pumped themselves with. Or if you're attempting pull-ups at home, work up to them gradually, start off with inverted rows, then maybe hit the pull-up bars with the assistance of resistance bands, like our hero Link, you will get there eventually. If you put in the effort, it really is just a matter of time.
Don't bite off more than you can chew
Link didn't strut straight up to Ganondorf / Ganon thinking he could take the gargantuan villain on right away, he knew he had to work up to it. And work hard he did, numerous dungeons did he delve through, gathering all the items and power ups he would need to face such a deadly adversary.
Basically, leave your ego at the door when you enter the gym. I see way too often, guys slapping on the poundage on a barbell, that they clearly cannot lift properly. They pick it up swing it all over the place with awful technique and form, and gaining very little for their 'efforts'. Their ego said "lift heavy", this is good advice, but what is meant by lifting heavy is the greatest weight you can mange, not a vast amount of iron beyond your current capabilities. Remember it is the exercise itself that produces the anabolic effects we desire, the weight is merely there to offer resistance. With consistent training that resistance will increase when you train with perfect form. It wont increase if your cheating the movement by swinging, potentially risking injury, and looking foolish to anyone with even a smidgen of kinesiological knowledge. Behold, exhibit A:
But that's not to say don't push yourself a little harder each workout. If you can add some resistance, then do so. Strength training, or any kind of training for that matter is a slow progress. Kind of like geology; it takes time and pressure added in carefully measured increments. Always keep a record on an Excel spreadsheet, it's a really handy tool to keep track of weights / reps / sets /distance etc. also it's really nice to look back a few weeks through your training log, to see how well you've progressed. A good motivational tool.
A rest day is a rest day
I've heard way too much bullshit about 'off' day conditioning. The point of a rest day is to recover, that's when the magic happens. All physical attributes grow during the days off, don't add any more. If the training regime requires rest days, you must take them. That's not to say do completely nothing on those days. Light activity, known as 'active rest', is a great tactic. Engage in some light activity such as walking, playing pool, and of course fishing. It's when your resting after training and getting proper nutrition, that your body is making its repairs, leading to the attribute, skill and sports performance gains you worked so hard for in the workouts.
Never quit
Does Link simply hang up his sword, shield, bow, boomerang, ocarina, various masks and bottled fairies to call it a day? Nope. But that doesn't mean be too strict. If your working hard, taking an extra day off as a reward is fine, having a filthy great cheat meal like a massive pizza is fine too. But don't make a habit of it. Sure, the results of training are the rewards of our work. But without our little evils, we will end up wondering why it's worth it, we are not machines. Yet. Viva Skynet.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) � Cocktail Party? The world's largest outdoor pity party is more like it.
Georgia and Florida, which started out with championship aspirations, have been ravaged by injuries and head into their annual game in Jacksonville, Fla., staring at one last gasp to salvage something from their disappointing seasons.
Thanks to Missouri's overtime loss to South Carolina, the winner will still have a shot in the Southeastern Conference East.
The loser is all done.
"Both teams are a lot alike this year," Georgia Coach Mark Richt said yesterday. "Both of us are fighting to try to stay in the race for the East title."
Georgia (4-3, 3-2 SEC) has lost back-to-back games, including a stunning defeat at Vanderbilt. Florida (4-3, 3-2) is also mired in a two-game losing streak, falling to LSU and Missouri by double-digit margins.
Neither team is ranked after both began the season in the top 10. That has taken some of the luster off one of college football's great rivalries, though neither side is willing to concede any less passion for beating the other.
"If you can't get excited about playing Florida in that venue, you shouldn't be a Bulldog. Period," Richt said. "Everybody gets their blood pumping for that one."
Injuries have been a major factor in the downfall of both teams.
Georgia got an idea of what was to come early in the season opener, when top receiver Malcolm Mitchell sustained a season-ending knee injury.
Two more key offensive players � tailback Keith Marshall and speedy receiver Justin Scott-Wesley � have since gone down for the year. In addition, star running back Todd Gurley has missed three games with a sprained ankle, though it looks as though he'll play Saturday against the Gators.
The Bulldogs are also hoping for the return of yet another receiver, Michael Bennett, who underwent arthroscopic surgery three weeks ago.
Don't count on getting any sympathy from the Gators.
A staggering eight Florida players are out for the season, a list that includes starting quarterback Jeff Driskel (broken leg), defensive behemoth Dominique Easley (knee) and dynamic kick returner Andre Dubose (knee). Three more defensive starters missed Florida's last game, a 36-17 loss to Missouri on Faurot Field in which the Gators surrendered 500 yards � their most since 2007.
"Both teams probably expected to be undefeated or have a better record coming into this game," said Florida's Tyler Murphy, who has been ineffective at quarterback since taking over for Driskel.
"But both teams still have high hopes of finishing the season off well. It's kind of like a one-game playoff."
Early in the season, Georgia was scoring enough points to overcome its leaky defense, beating South Carolina 41-30 and knocking off LSU 44-41. But, as the injuries have mounted, quarterback Aaron Murray has struggled to come up with enough weapons to keep the offense moving.
Clearly limited by all the injuries at receiver, Murray threw for just 114 yards against the Commodores, his longest completion going for a mere 17 yards.
Richt conceded that Georgia should've taken more shots downfield, even if they weren't completed.
Both teams got an emotional boost when Missouri lost.
At least now, there's a glimmer of hope.
"I went crazy. I was jumping around the house," Florida safety Cody Riggs said. "We're back in it. We still have a chance."


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Just as April showers bring May flowers, our April zooming led to May blooming. We examined poems about flowers.
Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) – bio
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) – bio
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) – bio
King James Bible
Song of Solomon, Chapter 2
Other translations
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) – bio
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) – bio
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – bio
The Daffodils (aka I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)
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On July 13th, 2017 Joshua Brown was featured as a contributor for VloggerGear.com in an article entitled: "Insights From Successful Online Content Creators On How To Keep Motivated". Below is Joshua's excerpt, you can click through below to view the entire article.
Staying motivated, is a tricky thing. Because by simply asking the question, you are revealing to yourself that you have lost some motivation. Perhaps you are tired, or bored, or not seeing the results you had hoped for.
When we started our YouTube channel in 2015, it was just a personal travel log to share with family and friends. After 6 months and 500 subscribers, we thought, 'Hey this could be a thing!' After a year, we had just barely crested 5,000 subscribers and getting 500 views on a video was an achievement.
Christmas rolled around and we took a small break from making videos. During that time we felt free, but purposeless. It was then we decided to put everything we had (literally) in to making YouTube videos and share our experiences around the world with the world.
Fast forward to last week. We have 27,000 subscribers… and could barely get 1,000 people to watch a video. In that moment I felt defeated. I didn't know why our videos had been doing so poorly. And motivating ourselves? Well that's not really possible when you are having a pity party.
So what did we do? Nothing.
By which I mean to say, we didn't change anything. We pressed on.
Motivation in and of itself doesn't come from anywhere. It's a strong will to keep going despite the current circumstances. It's the gut feeling you know that you are giving your work everything you have. Motivation is knowing that no matter what 'value' others are putting on your work, that you have created something to the best of your ability. Motivation is knowing that in the end, it will all be worth it.
As the saying goes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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A shift is taking place in the Middle East that may culminate in a powerful Iranian-Muslim Brotherhood alliance. The two are killing each other in Syria right now, but an emerging split in the Sunni bloc offers an opportunity for them to make amends once the fight is over.
The Sunni bloc has devolved into two factions, separated by their relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt is now governed by the Brotherhood and has passed a Constitution that institutes Sharia (Islamic) Law. Qatar lavishly blesses the Brotherhood, though it is led by a monarchy that the U.S. considers an important ally.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi writes, "Qatar is today the Muslim Brotherhood's banker and personal financier, bankrolling its budget and investing heavily in the group's project." It is home to Al-Jazeera, the anti-American "news" network where Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi has his own weekly show. Qatar has come to the economic rescue of Brotherhood-run Egypt and supported the Libyan Islamists' bid for power. The Qatari Royal Family is supporting the Brotherhood but, like the Saudis, is bound to regret it one day.
The other faction is led by pro-U.S. Sunni governments that oppose both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. The loudest member of this faction is the United Arab Emirates, which is arresting suspected Brotherhood operatives and publicly called for an anti-Iran/Brotherhood alliance in October. The police chief of Dubai is especially forceful in his language, warning that the Brotherhood has a plan to try to wrest control from the Gulf monarchies by 2016.
The Jordanian government is in the anti-Brotherhood bloc as well. King Abdullah II is trying to outmaneuver the Jordanian Brotherhood by embracing its more secular-oriented opponents. Jordan just held elections and there was high turnout even though the Brotherhood endorsed a boycott. The Brotherhood is trying to capitalize on Jordan's economic troubles, prompting the United Arab Emirates to urge the Gulf Cooperation Council to provide financial aid. Interestingly, the Emirates haven't delivered on its pledge of $3 billion in aid for Egypt.
The Saudi Royal Family is just as concerned about the Brotherhood but is less vocal about it. The Saudi government still supports the Islamist ideology, but fears its manifestation in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda. In February 2011, the Saudi government ordered libraries to get rid of books by Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna and the Brotherhood cleric that inspired Al-Qaeda named Sayyid Qutb.
The split within the Sunni bloc is reflected in Syria. The Sunni bloc agrees with supporting the rebels in general, but the Saudis and Qataris are supporting rival elements within the Syrian opposition. Qatar is backing the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, while a rebel military official says the Saudis "don't want any ties to anything called Muslim Brothers."
The civil war in Syria prevents an Iranian-Brotherhood alliance against the pro-U.S. Sunni governments, but only for now. If Assad falls, which many analysts consider inevitable, there are two scenarios that could unfold.
The first scenario is that prolonged sectarian warfare breaks out and very possibly spreads to Lebanon, threatening Hezbollah. The Sunni-Shiite proxy war continues, precluding a strategic realignment from happening.
The second scenario is that the civil war in Syria ends. Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood make amends, with Iran accepting the fact that Syria will be Sunni-run. The two sides join forces against a common enemy: The pro-U.S. Sunni governments.
The Iranian regime would rather the Muslim Brotherhood rule the Sunni world than the governments it views as American puppets. In "The Coming is Upon Us," the documentary produced by Ahmadinejad's office in 2011, it is stated that the Brotherhood's coming to power in Egypt is the fulfillment of prophecy. The Brotherhood's rise is depicted as an Allah-ordained event that paves the way for an Iran-led coalition to destroy Israel.
This rapprochement seems to already be happening. Iran had cut funding to Hamas because of its anti-Assad stance but later armed the terrorist group with rockets. Hamas publicly thanked Iran for its support during the latest round of fighting with Israel. Ahmadinejad accepted Egyptian President Morsi's invitation to come to Cairo and will arrive early next month.
If Egypt and Qatar align with Iran, the remaining Sunni governments will face extraordinary pressure to change their policies on Islamism, the U.S. and Israel. An Iran-Brotherhood alliance could dictate the region's course without having to take it over.
If this realignment happens, the West must convince the remaining governments in the region that it is in their interest to resist and not to capitulate.
Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org's National Security Analyst and a fellow with the Clarion Fund. He is the founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.


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I have never really paid too much attention to Alan Watts until now. He is a pretty awesome bloke. This is after I was introduced to his game called Black and White.
Allow me to tell you about it…I think you will be interested.
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What is in this post is from one of those newsletters…
The Game
Anyways, Alan Watts is a British philosopher of sorts in that he interprets eastern philosophy for a western audience. His game of Black and white goes like this.
Everyone gets taught this game as a child. The object of said game is that white must win.
To begin playing, we must first divide everything-all things and events- into two categories. We do this by naming everything.
Which really is ridiculous because as we all know (or should know) everything is interconnected and dependent on each other.
These two categories are good and bad, okay and not okay, appropriate and inappropriate.
Get the message on the categories? The issue with this is that the way everyone makes or divides is different. It varies from person to person, family to family, culture to culture.
The way the dividing happens also leads to arguments and even all out war…
The fact that everyone divides into categories differently also proves the case that everything is arbitrary and not intrinsically anything. Not good. Not bad.
Meaning is assigned by someone's beliefs. Maybe even someone's beliefs you don't even know. Those are how the categories are made.
Weird, huh?
Do You Resist?
Here is where the game gets real interesting…
We resist what we label as bad and undesirable and hope the good or desirable wins…
Black and white…
Now this of course is not all wrong. There are some things we need to pay attention to for our own health and well being. Staying out of dangerous situations, eating well and such.
I am also not saying that anything goes, either.
Just that basically not anything is really good or bad. Those are just labels.
Everything we do has consequences no matter what.
And just to be clear, the word consequence is not a 'bad' word. The definition of consequence is 'a result or effect of an action or condition.'
No Way Out
This game. This black and white game has to be played. There is no way out of it.
But how hard you play this game of black and white is up to you entirely.
The more you insist on labeling and then insist on white winning and black losing?
The more you suffer.
Whatever it is-black or white- is going to happen. If you resist, you will suffer. Resistance is, after all, suffering.
Here is the thing…
Like I typed earlier, We have labeled good and bad, black and white, desirable and undesirable.
But these terms? Good, bad, black, white…They are just ways of thinking about things. Ideas,at best.
When you don't know this plain and overwhelmingly simple fact or forget it? You will suffer a lot.
Polar Opposites…
Here is something else that is interesting. It is also the main reason playing a very strict and serious version of this game creates so much suffering.
All these words I am using here: good, bad, right, wrong, desirable, undesirable. They have their polar opposites. As a matter of fact, each word cannot exist without the other because they are used to define each other.
Anything you think is bad is only in relation to something that is good. Same with up and down, right or left, here or there, love and hate.
So you cannot have the one without the other.
We are stuck with both sides.
You can never get rid of all bad entirely but you can minimize it by your level of awareness. Or should I say the more aware you are, the more control you have of the impact these things you label have on you.
So this is good right?
It doesn't matter how rich you are, how powerful you are, you will always have something to be concerned about. What matters is how you react to those things.
And if you are aware enough, you can actually control how much suffering comes to you…instead of unconsciously creating more of the suffering.
So as you can see, it is about awareness. Being aware of how you label and then how you react to those things you labeled.
And that labels are just words and ideas.
Labels ain't crap to me.
Pardon me…I guess I just labeled labels.
So I ask you: Can you identify your labels? How do you react to them? Are you conscious of them?
So what have you gotten out of this post? I know that I did my best relying the information without just copying and pasting and I hope that I did the information justice. If you gained some knowledge from it, then I suppose that I did.
Between the article I read and the fact that I use Holosync everyday to improve my life by improving my mind, I know that I am a much smarter human.
You can be too. I hope you want to be. I am glad to help if you need some.


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The Agonist
Waiting out the Winter
Which is more elusive -- freedom or sanity?
When one disappears the other follows so quickly.
Certain species, races, beings are gifted, you see, with the power to rob us of either should they feel so inclined, to bother.
The land is run by a man-made set of rules, described an Holy or patriotic tools.
Ethics are invented, although as a consciousness is not.
Adamant beliefs are highly protected and when challenged frequently emerge victorious.
You can't speak, think or feel.
Severed wings never heal.
So justifies the kill.
Wait out the Winter under forced custody.
The static cold feels more like home than this open-armen penitentiary and we embrace the comfort of lost liberty.
So fictile is identity without self-governance.
They name the soul as an important part.
That's why free-thinkers always feel so lost and desperate.
But every species has a heart.
And I just witnessed my first death.
I watched the last escaping breath.
I just saw a life turned to death.
For them to claim it doesn't count is reckless, blind ignorance!
A cry for help -- silenced -- I saw her go...
I don't know where, a frightened stare became a lifeless glare...
Suddenly she was no longer there with me, although I'm there with her.
I don't quite know when it was okay to exhale...
The excuse-making race decides that breaking their own laws applies.
But, taking ANY life is wrong; I feel the pain for everyone.
Though you can stand, learn, still ignore, the weight of knowledge cracks glass floors.
Ink runs quickly, blood runs slow, so wait for the rain (red) waters to flood the snow.
Wait out the Winter under forced custody.
The static cold feels more like home than this open-armen penitentiary and we embrace the comfort of...
Disgrace yourself because you've caged yourself in.
Destined path's and dead-end.
Eyes take snapshots from broken clocks.
Motion slows to a sleep-walk and senses shut down with the frost and All in ending...
Mental hibernation.
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What are your expectations? It doesn't matter if it's in business, life, a career, sex, your spouse (or significant other/mate), food, eating out, a new video game, your president, your government, etc.
Where did you set the bar? High? Low? Somewhere in the middle? Do you set certain expectations high in your list that only you know about?
With people nowadays, you can see something like:
"10/10. Would bang again."— Internet Troll
"Drove like a snail in rush hour traffic. Wouldn't recommend. 1 star."— Anon Uber App User.
or maybe something like:
"They looked great but was horrible in the sack. Also found out now I have The Clap." — Anon, Booty Call App User
I mean, we have a president that uses Twitter to influence others; ratings can go up or tank at a single whim.
This leads to the next point: Reviews—they're similar you know. In fact, they're mostly just the faux mask that covers "expectations." You are reviewing your expectations and addressing those expectations of an establishment, book, place, person, etc.
Some folks nowadays can't function very well out in the world without the strong opinion of "the elite." You know the folks that are on Yelp that say "Elite '15, 16, 17," and so on? Or "highest reviewer" accredited to their username via Google+.
No, I am not one of those folks.
There are tons of horrible people, sure. However, there are a lot of good people in the world too. We're humans. It is expected. You can sort and sift through reviews and you get a glance—a glimmer of what type/kind of person someone is. Not only by their history of visits, purchase history, and the sort but by how you are being told how they interacted with whoever they are reviewing [this also constitutes an establishment, customer service, etc.].
"I had a bad experience here. They threatened my fish." — Anon
"Food was horrible. I wouldn't even consider bringing it home and giving it to my dog." — Anon couple; I actually overheard this one.
There are millions of reviews out there. Those who feel the need to make a point. Those who must feel the need to feel needed. Those that seek others satisfaction.
Ah, the Digital Age.
The Internet is a wonderful, yet, scary place to be on. You have an insurmountable wealth of knowledge and tools. Yet we spend hundreds to thousands of hours watching cat videos. Fragging people [Nothing wrong with that, game on! And yes, that is me being bias.]. Stealing other peoples' identity. Hacking elections. Ousting pedophiles that have horrible images on their computer drives. I can keep going.
Technology has changed us—humanity. The human race. Technology knows no racial bias (except maybe console versus PC; Sony vs. Microsoft, .etc but that's reaching at best.). It knows what we have programmed it to be. What we want it to be. What advances we want. Cures. Curse. Death. Damage. What can we do to inflict unto others? The good intermingled with the bad and vice versa.
You may ask, "What the hell does that have to do with expectations? Why did you bring up reviews? Who the hell threatens a fish?"
Well, we expect a lot. So much from businesses, people, schools, etc. Our family. Some men expect women to put out on the first date. We expect food to be hot (or cold) and served at our preference. We expect to be put first, high up on a pedestal. Some people expect their religion is right and is superior to another person's. We expect the loser to go home crying. . .with a participation trophy. We expect too much—as a society, a whole. It's a path that can—and will—lead us to our downfall. We cater too much, while not giving a damn about consequences. Enter your "keyboard warriors," cyber bullies, trolls, etc.
Great expectations.
We are not a community that is so transparent. Well, we are. . .when it comes to greed. But that's another lengthy discussion, though. We're not a close-knit community that really backs each other up, helps one another without expecting something in return, gratification, or simple enough—money.
Technology has sped up our dehumanization and desensitization. When we are able to truly modify our bodies as cyborgs and/or androids, will a person even care about anyone else? Would we still exist as being. . .human?
That "eternal salvation" of uploading your memories and consciousness to the Internet (Transcendence on crack), while say, a meteor that will destroy mankind indefinitely here on Earth, but elsewhere in the galaxy or universe, we are beamed via satellite signal to space and wake up in new sleek android models. It was just a few seconds in delay to us, but in actuality, it was a hell of a long time.
I digress. Simply put, times have changed. The radical evolution of societal influence and lack of actual human interaction, the lessening of empathy, lack of sympathy, morals tossed out the window, common sense that is now rare, and so on.
We often like to say that we are the superior race, especially, when it comes to man versus beast. However, are we really that much better? Cool—poseable thumbs, a large neocortex, "alleged capabilities of complex problem solving, and operating weapons of mass destruction." Sure, I guess we are. I suppose I would say that sardonically, because I know even after we are all gone, Nature will go on without us. It has for millions of years and will.
Sure, I guess we are. I suppose I would say that sardonically because I know even after we are all gone, nature will go on without us. It has for millions of years and will continue to.
You can consider this, I suppose a young person rambling on. Perhaps. But would you disagree? That there are a lot of issues that are presented here that are of importance and relevant, that are just tossed aside like everyday refuse? Swept under the rug. Dismissed and barred from public discussion because it's a "no-no" and would make someone else upset and they might break out the whips and chains [Not the good kind either.].
Suicide, depression, anxiety, PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder], bullying, all of these and more are getting quite out of hand. As a sufferer of one of these many. . .side effects. . .I've made it my way of life to explore them, help others, learn other peoples' stories and experiences, and even just listen. We all bleed the same. We all break. When, how, and why, though will come in to question.
So, you will see posts about suicide. Depression. Anxiety. PTSD. Other mental health issues and such. Writing is my therapy. It's my way of sharing with others. Though it may be fiction in some ways, you do not have to feel silenced, judged, oppressed. With how news, media, and press are getting gagged, misinformation everywhere, etc. What's next? Writers of fiction and non-fiction are hunted? We'll see, right?
While I hope to entertain people, make it my career, provide expectations, get reviewed—I do it for myself. Do you want to know who my most cynical critic and ball-breaking is? It's me. Granted, I am changing that way to not giving a damn completely, it's still a process. I want to write just for the pure enjoyment I get out of doing it; being a god amongst men and women, creating worlds, life. In the very same manner—becoming death, chaos, a destroyer of worlds and relationships.
I could go on and on. . .though I would like to know: what are your expectations in life right now?
I will end with one of my favorite quote from the movie Legend with Tim Curry and Tom Cruise.
"The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity. Dreams are my speciality. Through dreams, I influence mankind." — The Lord of Darkness; Tim Curry
I wish you all well. Be safe and take care. The world is a mess. . .but it is a beautiful mess under all those bandages.
P. S. While I reintroduce some works, I invite you to check out a free ebook on the Kindle store: Abnormal Side Effects. If it's not free for your region, then I invite you to a free copy here.
Feel free to talk with me, too. I don't bite. Too hard.


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Every surface of this cafe, which is located opposite busy Westmead Hospital, is crammed with little collections of bric-a-brac. The interior is wall-to-wall kitsch filled with the kind of figurines and collectables that you'd fine at your nana's house.
Things get a bit more retro-chic at the entrance to the cafe with loads of great vintage furniture and collectables. I get talking to the Barista - a young guy - who tells me that the cafe is owned by his family (who also own the Thai restaurant next door) but all the collectables are his. He simply ran out of room for his collections at home so started bringing to work. I LOVE it! It's so much fun - a really lighthearted space with a sense of humour.
They serve Campos coffee here and whilst my beloved Iced Latte isn't on the menu (the do an iced coffee with all the trimings - whipped cream + ice cream for $5.00) the Barista happily makes me an iced latte when he hears me trying to order one from the waitstaff. It's a good coffee, not too strong or bitter for my tastebuds.
In a very rare moment of putting health over my tastebuds I decide to have a simple breakfast and opt for the fruit salad ($6.90). It's such a delicious looking bowl of food and each piece of fruit is perfectly fresh. My fruit salad comes with watermelon, pineapple, apple, rockmelon, kiwi, strawberry and grapes and for $1.50 I could've added yoghurt or ice-cream.
On my next visit I bring The Boy along with me, hoping he'll get as much of a kick out of the quirky decor as I do (he does, I think). Half way during our brunch one of the staff rolls out this little toy car and parks it by our table. Why? I have no idea but it had my grinning like a clown at the sight. Love it!
We kick things off with coffee, as is de rigueur for any weekend. A piccolo latte ($3.50) for me and a big cappuccino ($3.50) for The Boy put us in the brunching mood. Both are very good - my piccolo is a bit strong for my weak caffeine taste buds but half a sugar puts things right. I'm trying to be a bit more mature about my coffee tastes hence the recent transition to "grown-up" coffee (plus it's too cold for iced-coffees at the moment).
The Boy's big breakfast ($14.90) is SO big it comes on a platter. He's pretty happy (especially as the eggs have runny yolks) but points out to me that this is not the biggest breakfast on offer. That honor is reserved for the Massive Breakfast which I think he plans to order next time.
I initially ordered the Ocean Benedict that comes with smoked salmon but someone in the kitchen was feeling as bleary eyed as me so I end up with your regular type of Eggs Benedict with ham ($12.90). I normally don't order ham/bacon when out unless it's free range but I wasn't going to send this back to the kitchen as it most likely would've been thrown out which means that pig died just to end up as landfill. Not cool. The dish was really good - the poached eggs had lovely, runny yolks and the hollandaise sauce was nice and rich with a good balance of butter + vinegar. I walked away happy and cannot wait to come back again...maybe for lunch next time (I've been told the fish burger is good stuff).
Picnick View is at Shop 6, 163-171 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead. They are closed on Sunday's and not open for dinner. Phone them on 9687 7262.


text: Ranging from soul to soft rock, singer and songwriter Gino Vannelli had several hits during the 1970s, including "People Gotta Move" and "I Just Wanna Stop." Vannelli learned to play the drums early in life and studied music theory at McGill University. He formed an R&B band with two brothers, but later began recording solo material for RCA in 1970. He became popular four years later when A&M released his hit single "People Gotta Move," from the Powerful People album (retitled People Gotta Move). Many albums followed, including Storm at Sunup (1975), Gist of the Gemini (1976), A Pauper in Paradise (1977), Brother to Brother (1978), Nightwalker (1981), Black Cars (1985), Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987), Inconsolable Man (1990), and Live in Montreal (1992). After a lengthy absence from the recording studio, Vannelli returned in 1995 with Yonder Tree; Slow Love followed three years later. After yet another lengthy absence from the studio, Gino recorded the ambitious Canto in 2003 and 2006's These Are the Days, which featured remastered recordings of some of his best-known work alongside seven new compositions. A Good Thing, featuring a CD and accompanying book of poetry, was issued in early 2009, followed by another CD/book package, Stardust in the Sand, later that same year. After a decade-long hiatus, Vannelli returned in 2019 with Wilderness Road. ~ John Bush


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Tonight sees the main events of one of Jelsa's favourite events, the Jelsa Wine Festival. Donkey races, climbing the pole for the prsut, or just generally having fun, the party in Jelsa is guaranteed to go long into the night.
Bastijana is delighted to support such an event, and the team will be presenting the Tomić range with other members of the Hvar Wine Association - PZ Svirče, Carić, Plenković, Tudor and Vujnović - at Veli Most starting at 21:00.


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On March 7, 2009 Jayapura City will celebrate its 99th anniversary. In relation to this matter, Ketentraman dan Ketertiban (Trantib) of Jayapura City carries out the control beginning with monitoring towards the cleanliness of the good environment such as housing and office complex including prohibiting resident to stake out laundry on the clotheslines at the edge of the road. Head if Trantib Section, Drs Otniel Meraudje, MM asks resident to pay attention to the problem of the cleanliness of the environment, such as painting the fence, cleaning the water channel and their residence environment.
Happy Anniversary.


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TNI Spring 2010 -- Editor's Note: Aviation security was in the headlines again last Christmas, with the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by the so-called "Underwear Bomber." In reaction to the incident, the Transportation Security Administration is rushing to deploy 450 whole-body imaging machines to airports nationwide. That number will rise to 1,800 by 2014. According to the GAO, staffing these machines will cost several billion dollars. A number of aviation security experts are wary of the move however.
Nearly ten years and tens of billions of dollars after 9/11, just what is the state of aviation security today? To find out, we sat down with Charles G. Slepian, founder and head of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center in New York City. The center works to develop homeland security protocols. Slepian is an in-demand resource on aviation security for federal and state government, private corporations, and media.
"It's virtually impossible now to commandeer an airplane and fly it into a building."Slepian: You asked "Are we any safer?" I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are safer. That's because cockpit doors have been reinforced, so it's virtually impossible now for a hijacker to commandeer an airliner and fly it into a building. But I can't give you a guarantee that our commercial pilots will never be co-opted by our enemies.
Politics and Media
"Another terrorist attack is coming and probably sooner rather than later."
"One Congressman who complained about the TSA was warned to quiet down."
Passenger and Bag Screening
A proposal to deploy retired law enforcement and military as passenger screeners was rejected.
CTX machines confuse items with like densities such as peanut butter and Semtex.
–Charles Slepian to TSA official
Research and Development
"R&D should be focused on the chief threat—explosives."
"Most of what government does is to convince the public that we have a good security system in our airports. It's hogwash."
Perimeter Security
"The perimeter is highly vulnerable."
The Twilighting Clause
"Unfortunately, a reversion to screening by private companies has not happened in America."
The Next Attack
TNI: Will terrorists continue to focus on attacking our aircraft? And if so, what do you think the likely scenario will be?
Slepian: Well, first let me say that I don't think that the fact that terrorists focus on airlines precludes their focusing on other things as well. I think their target of choice is aviation and I think that if you're talking about a sophisticated group—Al-Qaeda, Hamas—something like that, they could go after airliners in my opinion because they are sophisticated enough to know how to penetrate the system and perhaps to commit several terrorist attacks at once on airliners and maybe as many as 10 or 15 almost simultaneously in different parts of the country. I think they could do that and I think they will.
"A sophisticated terrorist group—Al-Qaeda, Hamas—could attack as many as 10-15 airliners simultaneously in the U.S."
Related sidebar: " An Act of Political Deception ."


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I got this message again today (see below), as we had about 3 hours with no internet.
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