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ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THIS TRANSCRIPT: This telepathic channeling has been taken from transcriptions of the weekly study and meditation meetings of the Rock Creek Research & Development Laboratories and L/L Research. It is offered in the hope that it may be useful to you. As the Confederation entities always make a point of saying, please use your discrimination and judgment in assessing this material. If something rings true to you, fine. If something does not resonate, please leave it behind, for neither we nor those of the Confederation would wish to be a stumbling block for any.
CAVEAT: This transcript is being published by L/L Research in a not yet final form. It has, however, been edited and any obvious errors have been corrected. When it is in a final form, this caveat will be removed.
Sunday Meditation
April 16, 2000
Group question: The question this week has three parts. The first has do with information on what the experience each of us will face as we go through the experience of death will be like. We've heard a lot of things said about it, such as there will be guides and friends and teachers there to help orient us to our new environment. We would like Q'uo's perspective on what this death into life transition will be like. We also would like for you to relate that to the concept of what our entire evolutionary process is like from the third density on. Some writers here in the third density have mentioned the possibility of skipping the fourth density and going directly to the fifth, and we are wondering what Q'uo's take on that might be? The third part is information on how we can discriminate between positively and negatively oriented entities if a discarnate entity is in our daily lives and the information which we come across there.
(Carla channeling)
We are the principle known to you as Q'uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator in whose service we are. We thank each of you for making the effort to join in this circle of seeking on this day, for, truly, it is a blessing and a privilege to be called to this group by the energy of your desire to seek and to know the truth. It is a blessing to us to be able to share our thoughts and also because this sharing of our thoughts with those who would seek to know them is our chosen area of service to others. And so we depend upon groups such as yours for our opportunities to be of service to your people. Consequently, you loom large in our life at this time. We are most grateful to you, and we know what it costs each of you to be here this day, the will and determination that it took to lay aside those other things that are of concern to you that you might seek in this manner. We greatly appreciate your dedication.
As we share our thoughts with you we wish you to know that we are those with opinions and information that we have come to feel is valuable in spiritual seeking, things that have stood the test of time for us. However, we also know that in speaking to a group we cannot be all things to all people. And, consequently, those things that we have to share may or may not resonate with your own personal truth, and we would suggest that each of you does have an extremely efficient and very sensitive apparatus of discrimination which is, for the most part, a portion of your intuition rather than a portion of your logical mind. When you hear our information do not simply ask yourself if it sounds logical, because we generally do sound logical. However, our truth may not suit your seeking at this point. For there is a movement and an aliveness to truth. It evolves for each seeker, and we would not wish you to hold on to something that might turn out to be a stumbling block. So use what seems helpful to you and, if you would, it would be very helpful to us if you would simply disregard and leave behind all other thoughts. Neither we nor any is an authority for you. You are an authority for yourself. We encourage you to trust in this energy of discrimination which you have within you, and when you sense a thought that resonates with your own, seize it and work with it. And when you do not, release those thoughts that do not ring true.
We are aware that we would speak to you this day about the processes involved in what you call the death of the physical body and would only preface our discussion of this interesting subject by noting that the living of the life is at least as interesting as the end of it so that we encourage each of you not only to think of the goal or ending of that great adventure in the middle of which you are now walking, but to think of the death of the physical body as a portion of an ongoing experience of living that is not ended by birth or death or any ending whatsoever. But, rather, that each of you is a citizen of eternity, that you were in your spiritual integrity a creation before the world was created, before the universe as you know it was created, indeed, before this octave of creation was present. For you have been a spark of the one infinite Creator, a child of the one great original Thought, for eternity. And there is no end to you, or to me, or to any part of the one infinite Creator.
Having said this we feel more comfortable with focusing upon this portion of the experience of incarnation which is the physical death and that which occurs directly after the physical death. Perhaps in order to create a more coherent explanation it would be helpful for us to look at the basic plan of what this instrument would call the octave of creation which represents the creation in which you are now involved. As the one known as D was saying earlier, this consists of the seven notes, shall we say, of existence in the octave that you now experience and we would ask you to think of this term, octave, as specifically musical or, alternately, that which is colored. One may either think of the musical scale of the first note through the seventh note ending in the octave of the first note, which is also the eighth note, the same note one octave higher. Or you may think of the rainbow with its red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, ending once again in that octave of color which is, shall we say, white or the octave density which moves without noticeable change into the first note or density of the next octave.
The first density is that density of elements where the lesson is simply being. The second density is that density which you enjoy when you step outside. It is the density of the animals and plants that turn towards the light. It is the density of awareness, not self-awareness but that awareness which is wishing to turn to the light, to seek the light for growth or food and so forth. Those which are animals within second density do not always seek the light for food directly but seek those plants and animals which have sought the light in terms of food. Consequently, this very large density is a density which is one with the infinite Creator. It is not self-aware, but it is aware of the truth. There was never a discontented flower, for instance, nor a rebellious wild creature. These entities know who they are and do not have questions concerning their nature.
It is in the third density which you now enjoy as what this instrument would call a human being that you experience that self-awareness that asks, "Who am I? Where am I going? What are my goals within this experience?" The higher densities after third density pivot upon third density because third density is the density wherein self-aware beings take stock of their situation and determine the nature of their further seeking. Seeking is all about loving. And the question becomes, "How do I express love?" Usually, this is conceived in terms of service and the question of how to love becomes the question of how to serve. There are two basic options for service to those who have come to this point in their spiritual evolution.
One option is to serve the Creator by serving others as though others were the same as the self. The other option is to serve others by encouraging them to serve the self. The rationale there is that the self is the Creator and, consequently, when others are serving you they are serving the Creator. This is called the service-to-self path as opposed to the service-to-others path. And in many ways it is difficult for those within third density, especially wanderers, to recognize the difference between service to self and service to others. For those who wish to help others in terms of service to self are often extremely dynamic and charismatic entities, who wish to control and manage the affairs of others for their own good, as the one known as M said earlier. This can be extremely fatiguing and difficult to deal with for those who are focused on service to others. And it is, indeed, a challenge when a service-to-others entity is faced with those who wish to control or manipulate. We can only encourage those who seek to advance themselves through service to others to continue in that path in faith that regardless of the seeming disadvantages of this attitude or point of view, the energies involved in responding always in terms of service to others over a period of time begin to have their own momentum, thereby moving the self into a point of view which is enough changed that the efforts of service-to-self manipulation are seen as less fear provoking and more provoking the desire to pray for, care for, and love those entities which seemingly would wish to manipulate you.
This kind of choice begins a process which we have called polarizing and for the rest of your third density experience, once you have begun to deal with this basic choice, you will be repeatedly, and on various levels as you proceed through the incarnation, be involved in times of observing, evaluating and responding to situations in which you have the repeated choice of service to self, by control, manipulation, fear and offense, or service to others with no control, no manipulation, and only blind faith and a hope of meeting others in their needs in such a way that you may be of service to them. This process of learning to love goes on through the next two densities. The next density of your experience after this one is the so-called density of love and understanding, the fourth density. The density after the density of love has been called the density of wisdom. You will note that the density of wisdom is not called the density of understanding, for understanding is that which is of the heart rather than the mind or the wisdom. In the sixth density, love and wisdom, which have been studied separately insofar as that is possible, are now considered in terms of their balance, one with the other, within the seeker. And so the sixth density is called the density of unification. Somewhere in the middle of this density those upon the path of service to self, or the negative path as this instrument has called it, face a choice once again. For they discover beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot move forward in their own spiritual evolution until they have accepted at last that the heart holds truth, and that other selves are the self. This is a crushing and an absolutely life-changing discovery to those of service to self and the phenomenon of reversal of polarity occurs at this point individually for each service-to-self entity. Each entity must make this choice again for the self: whether to stay with all that has been learned along the path of service to self, or whether to switch polarities and move further on, having accepted the unification of positive and negative paths as a positive path.
We have called these two paths the path of that which is, that is, the path of service to others, and the path of that which is not, service to self. And the reason that we call them in this particular way is that in service to self the heart is denied and ignored. Consequently, the main source of power for service-to-others entities, and the strongest source of power for all, is left out of the scheme of things. This is the great limitation and it is a denial. Consequently, we call service to self the path of that which is not.
After the unification occurs, the end of sixth density and the seventh density are those in which the selves gradually stop turning backwards to look at what has been and begin being drawn, as if by gravity, into the heart of the source of all that there is: the one infinite Creator. At the end of seventh density there is a movement into timelessness, and in this time of unknowing the heart of the Creator beats and another creation begins. This is the panoply of cosmology within which you are now experiencing the third of seven experiences or types of experience. And each of these densities represents a considerable length of your time.
However, your third density is the shortest of all densities, being only 75,000 years long. During third density the pattern of incarnation is, at first, quite automatic. Entities are graduating from second density because of the growing realization of love itself. As they become harvestable, for whatever reason, they are able to incarnate as individuated consciousnesses and they become what this instrument would call human. At first, incarnations are largely automatic. Little is known. Much is in chaos. And there is a little learning each time and then a relaxing from incarnation through death into the body of light that is yours between incarnations within the inner planes of this particular planetary sphere. During this time between incarnations there is first any healing that needs to take place from the incarnation, any traumas that need adjusting and comforting, and so forth. Then there is the opportunity for another physical vehicle, the descent into the world of heavy chemical bodies that your physical plane represents, the gathering of more catalyst, more information, more experiences, until the incarnational self is completely full and has done all that it has hoped to do within this particular incarnation, at which time it moves through the physical death again, the healing of the incarnation after death, and, gradually, as the incarnations mount up and the entity within begins to crystallize beyond the simple personality shell this between incarnations process becomes lengthened because there is more to heal, and because more and more, as entities become senior in their vibratory patterns they earn the right, more and more, to have a say in their own incarnational plan. At this point within third density upon your sphere, this being the end of that 75,000 year period, each entity that incarnates upon your planet is capable of graduation from third density to fourth. Each entity has chosen the incarnational lessons of the present lifetime and the relationships that it will use for learning and for service.
In this particular lifetime for each of you there is the potential of graduation at the end of this physical death experience. Now, let us say that the physical death is one thing to the body and another to the consciousness that the body is carrying about at this time. For each of you is not one being, but two. You are a second-density animal, a hairless or nearly hairless great ape, with certain instinctual patterns of behavior and a choice-making brain that is extremely good at choosing what to eat and how to survive and how to protect the family. And you are also this eternal being whose present life is merely a parenthesis in eternity. When the physical body is exhausted or is traumatized and can no longer sustain the breath of life the spirit itself does not miss a beat. There is no alteration in consciousness. It is as though you were continuing to observe but the nature of your observation changes. For, instead of observing the heart beating, the mind thinking about dinner, the feelings of the physical body as they move into your consciousness, suddenly you are experiencing what seems to be a physical body, what seems to be physical feelings, what seem to be physical incoming data. But the body itself has altered.
This instrument has had the experience of moving through the gate of death and so we are able to say through this instrument that this entity's first-hand experience was a valid one. And this entity's experience was simply that, the kidneys having failed in this instrument's body, it experienced a great deal of pain and then when death occurred, there was the cessation of the pain. There had been disfigurement of the body because of the lack of the kidneys working. Suddenly the body was fair and perfect. The clues mounted quickly, however, that the entire situation had changed. For when this entity spoke to a rose upon a fence an entire section of rose bush wound itself around this entity's arm, without thorns but with endless love. This entity could hear music and see it in the air. And the colors that this entity saw were more substantial and had a life of their own. They pulsed and glowed with a three-dimensional seeming energy that is lacking in the colors upon your planet
The experience expanded through the death process rather than being cut off and then changing or stopping altogether. This is the actual experience at the time of death. Indeed, it is so persuasive that many there are who die suddenly who take quite some time to realize that they have indeed passed through the gates of physical death and no longer have a body or an incarnation upon the planetary sphere.
Now we would address that which occurs at the time of graduation, and this, in part, moves into the second question which you have asked of us this day. Picture, if you will, a walk that is long and beautiful and seems to be completely a walkway filled with light. On either side of this walkway are presences that are extremely loving and nurturing and that guard each and every spirit that walks this path of light. Picture then, if you will, a light whose very nature changes, becoming more dense, more bright, and, in ways hard to describe, more challenging. It is as though elements have been added to this light as you move along this walk. The reason for this is that the nature of light changes by quanta. A photon within your density is not as complex as a photon within fourth density, which is not as complex as the photon in fifth density, and so forth. When you are walking steps of light you are walking to find your most comfortable and attractive place to be. You are looking for your new home.
This situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that many there are among your peoples now, including many within this room, who do not originally come from the Earth and its density system but, rather, have moved through third, fourth, perhaps fifth and sixth, to some extent, on other planetary spheres or on other planetary influences. Then you, perhaps, [have] come back to third density here. Why? For two basic reasons. Firstly, you wanted to undo a balance between love and wisdom that you felt could be improved upon and intensified. And so you came back to third density to remake the original choice and to reinvestigate the power of love, especially unlimited or unconditional love. Your second reason as a wanderer for coming here was to lend all of your being to what this instrument has called the ministry of essence upon planet Earth. It is a simple plan and it is the basic plan of wanderers upon planet Earth. The plan is basically to come into incarnation here and become subject to the laws of third density, to forget everything that you knew so well, and to exist within this density living a life of faith with no proof, no way to be sure that you are right, but only your heart telling you, "This is the way for me."
In this way you hoped to make the choice even more purely, even more surely, even more firmly than you did before. And so you are hoping to offer to the planet, as you make this choice, your being as you breathe in and as you breathe out. As you love and as you accept the love of others. This allowing of the infinite Creator's love and light to flow through each of you and out into the Earth plane accelerates the lightening energies of the planet and, consequently, makes it much more possible for the planet itself to move through what is being a somewhat difficult graduation. For the planet itself is also graduating into fourth density, moving into a new area of space and time and experiencing that addition to the photon that fourth density is bringing to the very physical creation in which you enjoy this continuing adventure.
The reason that this applies to the graduation context is that in that question that was brought by the one known as J the entities involved felt that, as wanderers from the fifth density, upon graduating from Earth's third density they would automatically move back into their home vibration. This is emphatically not true, and we felt that this is a very germane point, for all wanderers become Earth natives when they incarnate. The taking of a physical body is the taking of the blood, and bone, and the sinew of the entire human experience. There is no such thing as a tourist in the body on planet Earth. All of you have become natives, whatever your planet or origin or your densities of previous experience.
This means that there is a very simple dynamic involved and it involves service to others, for the graduational criterion for positive polarity is that the seeker think more about serving others than about serving the self. The minimum grade for graduation from planet Earth is 51percent service to others. Now, for those who are attempting to polarize service to self, the maximum grade is 5percent service to others. To say that another way, the service-to-self entity must fight a graduation requirement in its purity of intention to serve the self. We may say that it is about as difficult to make the grade of 51percent service to others or of 95 percent service to self. We are extremely pleased that each of you have chosen service to others, for that is the polarity that we also have chosen, and we would truly be out of our depth in attempting to be of service to those who were attempting to polarize along the other option.
For service-to-others entities, appreciate each moment and see what you can do to find the love in that moment. There is love in the moment. There is love in every moment. There is love in every thought. The question is: how distorted is that love? And one helpful discipline for the seeker is to look at that which comes before the attention with an eye to using both the intellectual mind and the intuition to ask the self questions about what one is perceiving. And, indeed, about how one wishes to respond to what one is receiving.
When an entity is able to walk the steps of light of graduation into fourth density and feel comfortable there, one is able to move into fourth density for the next experience. And this is true in a continuing way. If an entity is able to enjoy and use the light of fifth density or sixth density, the entity may, indeed, move back into that home vibration. However, it is first necessary to rediscover that deep self within this incarnation which you now experience to the extent that you are able to recapitulate that choice and the decisions that lead to being able to tolerate the light that is offered to those whose thoughts are more than 51percent for other entities and how to serve them.
There is a tremendous amount of persistence and dedication involved in the processes of learning how to accelerate the pace of your spiritual evolution. And we would encourage each of you to take it slow, to attempt to seat experiences in silence, and to keep always before the self that light touch that is devoted to principles but not to the extent that the self and the principles become larger than the principles. Take the principles seriously. Take the self lightly, for you will be misunderstood. You will not always have anyone who is able to support or encourage you. There are aspects to the spiritual walk that are difficult. And, indeed, most of what this instrument would call the "good stuff," most of the pith and marrow of learning is received during times of intense suffering, limitation and change. Consequently, it is never obvious that this is a good thing. It is never clear that you are on the right track.
Occasionally all things may come together, and it is, indeed, a moment of clarity and delight. But again and again you as a seeker will be in the Dark Night of the Soul, looking for dawn but not at all sure that it will come. And all of this is a refiner of souls. You are engaged in distilling a truth and a duty that is so much larger and fuller and [more whole] than anything that you can imagine that we cannot express it to you. You are already a perfection that is the one infinite Creator, and yet you have this opportunity not to know and yet to seek. It is, in our experience, an absolute delight, and we feel that each of you here have had those moments of clarity and delight. We ask that you believe them, that you remember them and trust the memory. For these are little gems of your truth that have popped out into consciousness from that place where joy and purity and truth live within you. This instrument would say that they reside within the heart, and in a very real sense this is true. For it is through the heart center that these awarenesses are able to springboard from the unconscious or subconscious self into consciousness. In another way, we would say that these are energies of the deeper mind, this mind that attaches you to others, to the planet in which you now enjoy life, to all of life, and to the one infinite Creator.
This instrument is informing us that the time is nearly up for us to speak through this instrument. We do not wish to move beyond forty-five minutes. We have, in a sense, touched upon the discrimination between service-to-self and service-to-others sources within your reading and your hearing. And we simply encourage you to trust yourself. And at the same time to get to know that self that you are trusting ever more deeply, to consult your discrimination, and at the same time to strengthen your power of discrimination by trusting it, by using it, by seeing at first hand how it works. It is a faculty within you that is a gift from the one infinite Creator and from your higher self. And to this gift of discrimination is linked your guidance. We would encourage you to move into that place within the heart where you are able to ask within the safety of your own energy field, "Is this true for me?" If it is, move on it. Use it. Live it. Eat it. If it is not, walk on.
You will find those things that you need to be considering more and more coming to you in the words of a song, or the coincidences of a roadside sign, the flight of a butterfly or a bird, those things that pop into your reality seemingly from nowhere. All of these things are messages. And all of these things have something to say to you. Once you catch on to the synchronicity of spiritual events you will find more and more of your experience speaking directly to you in a spiritual sense.
May we say what a delight it has been to talk about these subjects through this instrument, and we would like to continue this meeting through the one known as Jim. We would leave this instrument in love and light. We are those of Q'uo.
(Jim channeling)
I am Q'uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time it is our privilege to offer ourselves to speak to any query that those present might have for us of a shorter nature. Is there another query at this time?
D: My question centers on thinking why Ra built the pyramids for that land. Isn't part of the reason that the King's and Queen's chambers would open up the heart so that the Egyptian culture would be able to share love amongst the members of the culture? And the complement to opening up the heart was activating the brain so that true intelligence could be used in conjunction with opening the heart in the context of love and light or mind and spirit, in the context of personal development and social development of the culture as a whole?
I am Q'uo, and we are aware of your query, my brother. This query is large in its scope but one which hopefully will lend itself to an abbreviated response, for we are often known as those who speak for too long.
At the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid, that monument of antiquity located in the holy land that you call Egypt, the peoples of this culture were engaged in an appreciation of the one Creator which you may liken to that philosophy which you might call animism or paganism, in which the Creator was seen in all things and was everywhere present. Wonders were a part of this culture. The miraculous was seen as that which was as it should be: a portion of the everyday experience. However, the individual entities of this culture were of a nature that lent itself to being taught, shall we say, by those who were other than the self. Thus, the kind of spiritual awareness that was available to these entities was that which was handed down from one entity to another, from teacher to student. Thus, within the structure called the pyramid there were located those centers of energy that you have called the King's chamber, the Queen's chamber, and the resonating chamber below the surface of the earth. Within these central locations of swirling energy students and teacher could meet and be infused with the intelligent energy of the one Creator for the purpose of healing, the purpose of teaching, and the purpose of facing the self for the potential experience of being reborn, of finding a new life, a new direction. Thus, these centers of energy within the pyramid symbolized to the population of that culture the means by which teaching and enlightenment could be achieved. Thus, individuals were able to gain a certain amount of advancement, shall we say, within these structures and then were able to move within the culture and to share this teaching with a greater population. These structures, for the most part, were successful in being able to share with the population of that culture the advancement that was sought. However, there was, after a period of time, the reserving of these experiences within the pyramidal structure for only those who were of an advanced status according to the measure of wealth, power and position. Thus, as the information available within the structures became less and less available to the general population the purposes of the pyramidal structures were perverted. And those entities who had aided in the construction of the pyramids found it necessary to take stock of themselves, shall we say, and to find other avenues of service through which they might begin to correct the imbalances that were promulgated by the reserving of the use of the pyramids to those of power and wealth.
Is there a further query, my brother?
D: I recently submitted a manuscript to a series of publishers, and I was wondering if anything was going to come out of what I submitted, or if I still needed to do work, or do I need to take another approach, or what's up?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. And, unfortunately, we are aware that to answer this query we move into an area in which we would be infringing upon your free will, for we are aware that you have made a great effort in personal sacrifice and achievement in order to have available these manuscripts and to submit them for further publication, shall we say. We recommend that one remember that there are no mistakes within this illusion, and the effort that you have put forth will produce its appropriate [result] and that there is the necessity for maintaining the faith in the perfection of all things in this instance.
D: Yes, I am curious. Could you share with me information about Jehovah, Yahweh, Id, the Council of Layette, and an entity known as Kingnah. I was wondering if you could share the types of entities that they are?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We find that there is only a certain distance that we may move in responding to this query, for there are elements of this query which also fall within the area of the infringement upon free will. We can suggest that there are entities such as Yahweh and Jehovah that are familiar to all who have appreciated the holy writings contained within your Bible and that these entities in their original and untarnished state were what you would call social memory complexes or groups of entities known by one name for the ease of identification by the populations that they chose to serve. These entities moved in service to those of not only this planetary sphere but also others as well, most notably those of the red planet that you call Mars who were in need of finding a new home upon which to continue their evolutionary process, having caused their original planetary sphere of home vibration to become inhospitable to life through bellicose action. Thus, these entities of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Creator set before the Council of Saturn a proposal for transferring and somewhat altering the genetic nature of the entities of the Mars experience that they might continue their progress towards the One on this planetary sphere. However, their efforts were not to go without meeting difficulties.
The enhancing of one group over another for the purpose of aiding that group's ability to apprehend the nature of infinity and of unity also creates an opening for negatively-oriented entities to communicate with the same Terran population and to give them the idea that perhaps they were special, they were elite, and that they were given this special nature in order that they might govern others and bring others into their influence of power. Thus, the experience of the ones known as Yahweh, the ones known as Jehovah, were difficult in that their efforts were lost to the groups of entities from the Orion constellation that moved also in service, yet moved in service of a negatively oriented nature and were able to make inroads for the first time upon this planetary sphere using the efforts first offered by others within the Confederation of Planets.
There is much that has been attributed to these entities that is not of their making. However, they were the first to offer the efforts that created inroads for a mixed contact, shall we say, and results which also were mixed in aiding the entities they desired to serve. Thus, upon reflection each of these social memory complexes have also sought to find other avenues of service to this planetary population that would balance the imbalances that they felt responsible for these many years ago.
Is there another query at this time?
D: One more. Do you have any suggestions that you could give that would assist me on personal healing in the areas of doing conscious out-of-body experiences and in opening the heart so that the love of God can simply be shared in a humble and consistent manner?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would recommend that in addition to the offering of yourself in the early portion of your day to the one Creator, as you now do, that there be given over at this time a special meditation in which you visualize the heart being able to open to the extent that it can encompass greater and greater need from others for the love that can flow through it. That you see in your mind's eye the green-ray energy center vibrating with a greater and greater brilliance of an apple green. That you see this center becoming bright, vivid and crystallized. That for a few minutes of your time you offer yourself without condition, with the open heart, for the service of the one Creator in the face of each entity that you see in your daily round of activities.
D: No. Thank you very much.
I am Q'uo, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?
C: I have a query and thank you for the opportunity. I recently learned of the term the neutral implant release, referring to the concept of voiding one's karma status in the third density. Could you help me understand and clarify some issues still unclear with this, such as what does this really mean in terms of voiding one's karma and does it have anything to do with releasing the death hormone, which voids remaining illness?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of the nature of your query, though we do not fully grasp the opportunity that could be offered to void the karma of the incarnation, for to our way of looking upon the opportunities provided by each incarnation, though each entity within the incarnation may see the karma that it has accumulated as a kind of weight or burden, we are not of the opinion that this is the most efficient way of looking at karma. For to be within your third-density illusion is a great privilege and honor. We see the ability of each entity within the third density to move ahead upon the evolutionary journey as being far, far greater than ever will be presented to an entity again in further densities. Thus, though your density may be one in which you move within a seeming darkness, lit only by the smallest of lights of your consciousness, yet this small light of your consciousness can accomplish a great deal within this illusion in a much shorter time than will ever be possible again. For those who move beyond your illusion find that the work that is able to be done there moves in a great extent because of the work that is done here, within the third-density illusion. Thus, we are unable to appreciate the desire to negate or remove one's karma. Perhaps we have misunderstood the query. Could you elucidate for us?
C: I think you've answered it adequately. It was a concept that was unclear to me, and I just wanted to find out your opinion.
I am Q'uo, and we hope that we have been helpful in this area. Is there another query at this time?
Carla: Could I follow up and ask if it would be possible that the good kind of elimination of karma would be forgiveness?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. The ability to forgive, to have compassion for that for which there was previously no compassion, is the healing of the incarnation, as we have heard it said. Indeed, the efforts that each entity makes in every area of the incarnation may be aided by the ability to forgive, whether the forgiveness is of another or, more especially, of the self. For we find that forgiveness of another and of the self are intertwined in a manner that is irrefragable; that is, they are one. As you see another entity and feel one emotion or another for this entity, it is for yourself that this emotion is truly felt. For each entity is a mirror unto you that shows you yourself and the face of the Creator at the same time. When you are unable to perceive that this is what is being shown to you, then there arise a myriad of emotions, both those that are what you call positive and those that are what you call negative, that you attribute to this entity. When, through your own personal work and perseverance, you have been able to see that the world about you reflects your attitude back to you, then you are able to open the door to forgiveness, to compassion, to mercy, to understanding, and to those qualities that truly stop the wheel of karma and allow you that progress that you desire: the opening of the heart so that compassion is felt, not just for those about you, but for yourself, for the Creator, and for all of the creation about you.
Is there a further query, my sister?
Carla: One other question. The instrument now channeling you is going to write a letter this week correcting some errors concerning those of Ra being part of the Stargate Conspiracy. Would you like to express any opinion that would help the one known as Jim as he writes this letter?
I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. And we would simply remind this entity, as we would remind each, that all entities are a portion of the same Creator. And that to salute that Creator in each is a firm foundation on which to begin.
Is there a further query at this time?
(No further queries.)
We are those of Q'uo. May we speak to any further queries at this time?
M: When you are dealing with times of hardship and you try to get through it the best you can, is it wise to take periods of rest before you jump back into the lion's den again?
I am Q'uo, and your query makes enough sense to us that we would say that you have answered your own query. Is there another query at this time?
I am Q'uo, and as it appears that we have exhausted the queries for the nonce we shall refrain from speaking overly long, for we do not wish to overtire those who have so generously offered their time and themselves for this circle of seeking. We thank each for bringing your queries and your heartfelt concerns, for it is to those of like mind that the journey is made easier by the companions that share it. We are known to you as those of Q'uo. We shall take our leave of this instrument and this group, leaving each in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.
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I expect Galen will do fine with all the parts of the test that don't involve other dogs, but I'd like to practice a bit first in case there's anything we need to work on. Quite a few of the tests involve the dog's behavior around a "friendly stranger", so if anyone would like to volunteer to be a stranger, let me know and I will buy you a coffee-or-whatever while we practice. For Galen, I expect people he already knows a bit will be more distracting than people he's never met, so you do not in fact need to be a stranger to the dog to be useful practice -- waiting patiently, then calmly and politely greeting actual friends should be more of a challenge.
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Political deal to form minority government including anti-immigration party could result in ban on face-covering veil.
Country's highest legal authority gives the green light to a ban on facial veils, despite previous warnings against it.
|The French senate passed the law in September, before sending it to the constitutional court [AFP]
France's highest court has approved a law banning full-facial veils in public – with the exception of mosques – eliminating the last hurdle for the ban.
Those behind the law argue that it will protect women's rights. Its critics, however, say that it stigmatises Muslim women and it is a breach of religious freedom.
The court found the law to be constitutional, bar in the case of places of worship.
"The ban on covering the face in public places cannot constrain the practice of religious freedom in places of worship that are open to the public," the court said in its judgment, a nominal nod to religious freedoms.
The decision in favour of the law by the constitutional council came as a surprise to many. The court had warned that the ban – which includes the niqab and the burqa, but not the hijab – might be unconstitutional.
The path is now clear for the law to be implemented in early 2011, after a six month period of "mediation" and "education".
"It's regrettable that this problem has gone on for a year," M'hammed Henniche, general secretary of the Union of Muslim Associations, told Al Jazeera.
"There are other more important priorities for France."
What the law means
The ban prohibits anyone from covering their face in public, from government buildings to streets, markets and private business and entertainment venues.
The opposition Socialist party had supported a ban in government buildings only, but had chosen not to challenge the legislation proposed by the ruling UMP party.
In six months time, women wearing a facial veil will face arrest and a fine of $195 or "citizenship lessons".
A man who forces a woman to wear a burqa or niqab will be fined $42,000 and serve up to a year in prison.
Secular values or racism?
While the law makes no mention of Islam, many see it as a part of a wider attack on their religious identity.
The government of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has framed the ban as protecting women's rights.
Its opponents say that far from protecting women, the law breaches French and European human rights standards.
As in the case of its deportations of Roma, France is testing the limits of European Commission standards. France is the first European nation to ban the veil, but many have similar legislation pending.
The court's decision came on the same day as news of an alleged official file listing "Non-Settled Ethnic Minorities" broke, fuelling further criticisms that French authorities have discriminated against the Roma.
"Yes symbols are important.. But I don't see this positively. The same day we discover ethnic files held by the police. These really aren't good news," Jean Leonguy, a French reader, wrote in response to an article on Le Monde, a daily French newspaper.
Other Le Monde readers, such as Jean-Yves Chailleux, were more favourable to the ban:
"Being very attached to secular values, I can only celebrate this decision."
'Paternalistic evolution'
With Thursday's stamp of approval from the constitutional council, only the European Court of Human Rights could strike down the law.
Yet many legal experts have expressed scepticism over the legislation's legality.
"In the current state of positive law, the general prohibition of the wearing of the burqa would be extremely fragile," Denys de Bechillon, a jurist specialising in constitutional law, told the daily newspaper Liberation earlier this year.
He said it would raise more problems that it would solve, and "would signal a terrible paternalistic evolution".
Following its approval by the French Senate, or upper house of parliament, members of Sarkozy's own party had themselves immediately sent the law to the constitutional court in September, in a bid to pre-empt any potential legal challenges.
Henniche told Al Jazeera that several organisations are considering to challenge the law before the European Court of Human Rights.
The European court has dismissed previous challenges to bans on the veil in public schools.
Awkward questions
The most humoristic challenge to the law so far has come from a video made by two young French women, published last week on the leftwing website Rue89.
Going by the pseudonym "NiqaBitch", the pair filmed themselves visiting various government departments wearing an unusual combination of burqas and minishorts, revealing their legs while covering their heads.
The anonymous web activists wrote in an editorial that accompanied the video that they wanted to challenge the authorities by "turning away the classic representation that we have of the niqab".
"Putting on a simple burqa would have been too easy. So we asked the question: how would the authorities react when faced with women wearing a burqa and minishorts?"


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Phishing and spamming have now become so rampant that hardly any user you would find who has not become a victim of email spamming in his life. Therefore, it's essential that you take the right measures to keep email spammers and cyber criminals at bay. Here are some pithy tips that might just work for you.
Don't open emails from addresses you can't recognize
It happens with many of us that we open many emails just by reading the email subject line. While this is a common practice, it might land you in some serious trouble. You would be better off if you check the email address from where the mail has been shot before opening any new email.
Try not to send confidential internet via email
There are cunning cyber criminals who create email addresses and even sites that look genuine but are nothing but traps for hundreds of email users like you. The moment you send some confidential information, i.e. your bank account details, over the email, these criminals get instant access to the details that you have always wanted keep secret. They can easily process your information and hack your bank account. Also, whenever you see an email from an unofficial and unsolicited email address, simply mark it as spam.
Do not open attachments that come with unsolicited emails
Do not try to open attachments that come along with unsolicited emails since these attachments often contain malware programs. These programs are designed to damage the computers of the users and you may end up damaging the hard drive.
Do not click on links contained in unsolicited emails
Did you just receive an email that says you are a lucky owner of some lottery or contest but you had not actually participated in any sort of contest? These emails are spam in 9 out of 10 cases and you need to be aware of these emails. Even if you open an mail like this, do not click on any link inside these emails as you may get redirected to a website which you do not want to visit.
Using a spam filter may just do the trick
You can also use a spam filter developed by some reliable and highly rated software developer. Spam filters work wonders when it comes to filtering junk emails and spam emails. You can go online to find a feature-rich spam filter or use the built-in spam filter of your email client.


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When you are choosing evening dresses, you may take many things into consideration, and pink evening dresses are very suitable for any reason. Evening dresses will be worn at any special occasion, like proms, weddings parties or company parties, and pink is the color, which can be warm, elegant as well as formal.
Many women choose evening dresses based on the individuality and the hint of class, and pink evening dresses will surely meet this demand. This will make picking the right dresses become very simple. Pink evening dress will make the function become unique as well as help you being the center of the attraction.
Hot pink evening dresses will help women look stylish and elegant. Pink is also the color which suits all different skin tones. Besides, pink evening dresses also have many different styles and designs. You could still catch the latest fashion and design. But you still take some time to try the evening dresses on first so that you will know which one will suit the body shape best. Not all the fashion designs will be suitable for you.
Measurements are also very important if you want the pink evening dresses for women to look good on you. If time is allowed, you may let your local tailor to customize the sizes of you and usually the customized dress will fit you well. Numerous local or online stores provide such service nowadays. You could also know about the fabric of the dress first. Different fabrics will have different looks on you.
Each woman will have several styles of evening dresses in the wardrobe, and cheap pink evening dresses are worth your keeping. It can be worn for many different events and once you find the right one which suits your figure, it will surely help you stand out in the occasion.


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Kanna wasn't the last winged being.
Think about it: Yukito's pseudo-Unwanted Harem all dreams of flying. Minagi specifically says that she feels like she had wings and then lost them. Kanna usually shrunk her wings and hid them under baggy traditional clothing, and Michiru's existence shows that other spirits can take a completely human form. Therefore, due to the veneration-imprisonment of Kanna's family, the others became humans and hid among the populace. Minagi and Kano are their descendants, the wings bred out of them over a thousand years.
- Adding to this theory, Ayu is also descended from the winged ones. Remember the pink wings she had in the Spoiler Opening of Kanon?
Misuzu was Donna Troy in her previous life...
Or in an alternate universe. Their curses are similar enough for this to work (the differences would be due to oriental and ocidental settings, thus, making the AU part work way better), and one hell of a Tear Jerker.
Sanae is friends with Akiko.
Sanae once manages to make her infamous bread worse by adding a special (yellow) jelly made by "a friend", and who makes an infamous yellow jelly?
Cousins maybe? While watching Air, the two of them kinda struck me as having rather similar personalities/roles when interacting with the protagonist, and the two of them have similar hair coloring (though Haruko lacks the Furukawa hair-tannae). Plus, it's a fun way of tying the series together with Clannad in a weird way.
Possible crossovers
== There are three Seasonverses, but they commonly come in contact with each other. == AIR, Kanon and Clannad all seem to operate under the same rules. Ayu, Makoto and Nayuki appear in AIR when it couldn't possibly be the versions of them that appear in Kanon, but in the crossover manga, the real ones show up in Kasumi. Therefore, the three worlds are Alternate Universes, but, possibly due to the magic infused in all three, their borders are constantly fluctuating.
- It also wouldn't be surprising if the CLANNAD characters are counterparts of the Kanon characters, although, unlike their versions in AIR, they are not identical.
- And how! Maybe: Ayu is Fuko, Nayuki is Kotomi, Makoto is also Fuko, Akiko is obviously Sanae, Kaori is Tomoyo, Shiori is Nagisa, Yuuichi is obviously Tomoya. Kotomi and Tomoyo are the two facets of Mai's personality, and Sayuri's closest Expy, sibling-related-issue-wise, is Tomoyo, since Sayuri's brother died, and Tomoyo's almost died.And of course, nobody could probably replace the Fujibayashi twins.
- Except maybe Kagami and Tsukasa, but that's another thing altogether.
- Look at this.


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We have cherry picked the very best from their range, to bring you a choice of treatment and product options. For best results, we recommend a synergistic approach combining both treatment in the clinic and products to be used at home.
When you come in for your free consultation with one of our skin experts, they will discuss what you want to achieve and any skin problems you want to deal with. They will then recommend which of the Aestheticare ranges is right for you.
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These treatments are made up of two parts:
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Aaron Adler, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Oltmans, Lisa Guttentag, and Randall Davis
The absence of software support for early-stage design suggests that conventional graphical user interfaces are inadequate for this task. Perceptual interaction -- in particular, pen-based interaction -- may afford more natural and intuitive user interfaces for design support. The development of a multimodal intelligent design studio poses several important research challenges. Natural multimodal interaction demands a better understanding of how designers use sketching in combination with other modalities to communicate ideas about design. Intelligent design feedback requires research on how designers want to interact with their tools, and how such interaction can be managed. This paper presents a research plan for developing an intelligent multimodal design studio. We will describe recently completed, ongoing, and planned empirical studies, as well as system components that we have built and plan to build.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual PBX, the pioneer and leader in hosted PBX phone systems, earned the prestigious Silver status in the Golden Bridge Awards for its Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world.
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Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere is a hosted phone solution designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses with a full-featured business VoIP service. Mobile entrepreneurs and businesses looking to telecommute will find Virtual PBX's deep feature set, smartphone apps, low rates, and lack of proprietary hardware particularly useful when shopping for a phone system that can grow with their businesses. Virtual PBX Complete was the only cloud-based phone service to make it to the final judging round in the Telecom, Cable, Broadband and Voice Category.
"As the Golden Bridge Awards' highest-ranked hosted PBX service, we believe that this recognition shows the tremendous value we provide for our customers," said Greg Brashier, CMO of Virtual PBX. "This award also affirms our continued efforts to provide the highest-quality business VoIP solutions possible."
More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated in the voting, and their average scores determined the 2012 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were honored during the awards dinner and presentation on October 2, 2012 in San Francisco.
About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new startups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com.
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Virtual PBX believes you never get a second chance to make a good first impression especially when it comes to serving your customers. Our hosted PBX phone service gives small and growing businesses a professional, fully automated call answering and routing solution that can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Forget the hassles and costs of buying and maintaining your own PBX hardware. With Virtual PBX, your employees, whether in one location or far-flung, can focus on serving your customers while we provide the advanced features and responsiveness that give you a competitive edge. We also offer a backup phone service to ensure your business stays up and running should disaster strike. For more information on how your business can benefit from our innovation and passionate commitment to great customer service, visit us on the Web at http://www.virtualpbx.com.
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Here's an innovative Celtic applique block design by Scarlett Rose, with three sizes of Celtic hearts to use in making your own unique Celtic quilt. These applique designs will fit on background blocks ranging from a 12" square for the small heart, up to a 24" square for the large heart.
Applique just one block for a wall hanging, several blocks for a lap quilt or make enough blocks for a bed sized quilt. These Celtic hearts could also be appliqued freeform onto a large background, making a medallion style quilt. Try mixing the sizes of hearts together in one project.
Use almost any large scale print to make a special theme quilt! For example, find a fabric printed with butterflies, cranes, geishas, cats, zoo animals, cowboys, clowns or flower bouquets. There are so many wonderful large scale prints to choose from! For the small size heart, the desired printed area of fabric is needs to be approximately 6 1/2" square, for the medium size heart at least 7 1/2" square and for the large heart at least 9 1/2" square.
Consider using inkjet printed pictures for a family history quilt, a wedding or anniversary quilt or as any other kind of remembrance or special occasion quilt. Since you will make your own quilt layout for this block, try a traditional block setting; straight, on point, with a lattice or with alternate plain blocks. Design your own medallion quilt, perhaps mixing this block with other applique or pieced blocks of your choice.
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text: Maria and I are extremely excited to be able to let you know about our new course which will be taking place at Schumacher College in the UK in January. The name of the course is Holonomics: Designing Flourishing Businesses with Soul and it brings together customer experience design together with our Holonomics approach which we created to really initiate profound organisational change in enterprises. Continue reading "Customer Experiences with Soul at Schumacher College"


text: Inside SEL was created to help curate relevant headlines, policy updates, and articles pertaining to social-emotional learning. We hope to act as a megaphone, amplifying the great work already being done by leaders in education across the country while also publishing original content. By providing a central location for sharing news and insights, we hope that Inside SEL will help to initiate more meaningful conversations about how to enhance learning for all students.


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I know the title is clickbaity, but I just couldn't resist. First, let me say that I'm not being antagonistic and the post is written in good fun. So, hopefully, the author won't take offense. So, what's the big deal? Well, today a certain post caught my eye: Membership Rewards are not worthless, but they are worth less
So far so good. I totally agree with that statement. After Avios transfer ratio was cut, I believe the value of MR program went down a bit. I actually raised my (speculative) valuation to 1.25 cents before this development, but probably have to downgrade it to 1.15 cents now.
Ok, so what's my beef then? Well, the post went on to criticize bloggers who promoted recent lucrative offer of 100K points on Amex Platinum. I was one of those bloggers and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Why? Because it really was a good deal.
It didn't pay commission to anyone, yet multiple sites wrote about it anyway. So, the statement from the post "Is that you, or is that the steady drumbeat of bloggers trying to sell you more and more expensive credit cards?" doesn't really apply. But let's take the arguments of Gideon (AKA The Free-quent Flyer) and address them one by one:
- Making a big deal out of ability to receive reimbursement on airline gift cards is ridiculous.
Well, nobody says it's a guarantee, but it definitely warrants a mention IMO. There are other sneaky ways to take Amex to the cleaners and personally, I don't want to endorse them. But the point is, with some creativity, you can get at least $400 of the fee back. Will everyone do it? Well, no. Just like not everyone will get the best value from their MR points. But more on that later.
- Making a big deal out of all the perks is ridiculous.
I will admit that they were not a swaying factor to me, but they could be to some. We all have different circumstances, and for certain people Centurion lounge access and Global Entry reimbursement could come in handy. Once again, it's the case of "different strokes to different folks."
- Membership Rewards points are not that valuable and this bonus isn't all that exciting.
Say what? Even if you never take advantage of all the perks and redeem the points for gift cards, you can get $1,000 in value. After deducting the fee of $450, that leaves $550. But let's say you plan to sell the gift cards and take a 20% loss. We would be left with $800 in cash. Deduct the annual fee of $450, and it's still a surplus of $350. Sure, it's worst case scenario and I'm not saying you should do it, but still.
- It's much easier for everyone to MS on Chase Ink Plus instead of signing up for a new credit card.
- Many people who have signed up for this offer have no idea what they will do with their MR stash.
I'm one of those people. I have no clue what I'll be doing with my points. But that's the advantage of having flexible currency. You don't have to decide because you are not locked in one program. Later on, I plan to sign up for Amex Everyday (no annual fee) credit card and cancel Amex Platinum. That way, my MR points will retain their flexibility for when I actually need them. Who knows, I might even redeem them for gift cards.
This argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Let's say an offer comes out and it gives $400 bonus (real cash). But at that moment you have a decent amount stashed away in a savings account. Do you say to yourself: "Well, I have too much cash already. I don't really have any plans for this bonus, so will pass"? Same logic applies to flexible currency. Sure, I prefer Chase Ultimate Rewards points, but beggars can't be choosers. Chase doesn't want me (weeps).
Bottom line
This was a very good deal and I have no regrets about publishing my post on it. That's the job of miles and points bloggers: to report news that apply to their specific audience. Can all of my readers afford $450 annual fee upfront? I'm sure that's not the case. But I trust each and every one of you to make that judgement call.
And if this offer comes around again, you better believe I will mention it regardless of whether it pays me or not. Well, unless I'm taking care of my kids at the moment. Speaking of…
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Author: Leana
Leana is the founder of Miles For Family. She enjoys beach vacations and visiting her family in Europe. Originally from Belarus, Leana resides in central Florida with her husband and two children.


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Former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno stopped by "The Arsenio Hall Show" on Wednesday to surprise his friend Arsenio with the announcement that his late-night talker has been renewed for a second season.
Check it out!
In addition to Tribune Broadcasting, "The Arsenio Hall Show" airs on stations in the Sinclair Broadcast Group, CBS Television Stations, Cox Television Stations, LIN Television and Post-Newsweek Stations station groups. Go to arseniohall.com for a complete station lineup.


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Legend Has It is the eighth DVD of Sonic Underground episodes to be released. Published by NCircle Entertainment on 1 June 2010, this DVD consists of four episodes of Sonic Underground. The total running time of the DVD is approximately ninety minutes.
- Getting to Know You - The newly reunited hedgehog siblings must learn to work as a team if they are to do battle with Doctor Robotnik. But do they really know each other well enough? It looks like they're going to have to work as a team!
- Harmony or Something - Sonic, Sonia and Manic put their training to the test as they embark on a mission to rescue the Oracle from Doctor Robotnik! Can they work together in harmony, or will they seal their own doom?
- When in Rome... - The Oracle, wishing to test the Underground's practical capabilities, strips them of their powers and sends them into an alternate, Roman-themed reality where a Sleet look-alike named Sleetus presides as King. The former fast and furious hedgehogs must use their usual blend of cunning and strategy to save this reality, but without their abilities, will they be stopped dead in their tracks?
- Six is a Crowd - The Sonic Underground are sent to an alternate world for training by the Oracle. They soon discover that, in this world, they are the evil ones and Robotnik is the hero! Now the hedgehogs must work with Good Robotnik to defeat their corrupt selves!
- All the episodes on this DVD appear to be centred on the Oracle providing the Underground with challenges for training.
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When it comes to building products, some people might think of content as a final flourish, words on a page or screen that can be written just before launch. But we know thoughtful, consistent interface content is a core element of a well-designed user experience. In this talk, we'll look at how to incorporate content throughout the design process. We'll start with the role of content in sketching and work our way up to polishing content in high fidelity mockups.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
Who should attend: This session is ideal for in-house or agency content strategists and UX writers who work closely with designers (or do some design themselves). You'll learn how to spend your time, and what to care about, throughout each stage of the design process when building interfaces, apps, software, and products. This will be best suited for people working on products (not websites), but there will be lots of visual examples, so it should be very accessible to all.
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In just two years, a bicycle ride launched by the actor who plays Dr. McDreamy on �Grey�s Anatomy� has evolved into a festival of bicycling, running, walking, food and entertainment.
Nine big-name cyclists are expected to ride in the third annual Dempsey Challenge, the primary fundraiser for the Central Maine Medical Center�s Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing.
Dempsey, who was born in Lewiston and grew up in nearby Turner and Buckfield, was spurred to action by the experience of his 77-year-old mother�s battle with ovarian cancer in 1997. His mother, Amanda, has experienced several recurrences but she�s healthy and volunteers at the cancer center.
Saturday�s festivities focused on running and walking.
Sunday�s events will focus on cycling, with Dempsey leading riders on a 50-mile ride. Other rides were scheduled for 10, 25, 70 and 100 miles.
An avid cyclist, Dempsey will be joined by Connie Carpenter-Phinney and her husband, Davis Phinney, as well as Tour de France veterans Levi Leipheimer and six other pro cyclists. Both Phinneys and Carpenter-Phinney won medals in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
It�s not a race. None of the events are timed, so the goal is to put the focus on the cause, not competition, said event manager Aimee Arsenault.


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A Ramen Renaissance
Ramen is back and it's big, as exemplified by two Portland restaurants, Biwa and the pop-up sensation that is Boke Bowl. Also includes a guide to shopping Asian markets (or any ethnic markets, really).
Read about them in my article, "A Ramen Renaissance," in today's FoodDay section of the Oregonian!
Photo above by Doug Beghtel for the Oregonian. Thanks also to Bruce Ely and Thomas Boyd for their great work!
Posted by Kathleen Bauer at 8:36 AM
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Event Type:Childrens Library Programs
Age Group:Kids
Program Description
Come read, rhyme and rock! This active storytime engages children ages two to five and their favorite adults in stories and songs in which everyone participates. After storytime, we invite you to stay and play with us! We'll have fun toys to enhance your child's early literacy learning!


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London, UK - March 17-23, 2018
If you are traveling with a friend or family member over 18 years of age you can register them for the IETF Companion Program for only USD 25.00
Benefits include:
You can register your companion at any time via the IETF website here or onsite at the meeting.
Any Companion may join the free companion's email list here.
There is also an IETF Companions Facebook Group.


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Program type: Shareware
Price $ 19.95 /
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File size: 1794 Kb
Date: 03/06/2013
Install support: Install and Uninstall
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Language: English
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Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur has issued recruitment notification for selection of the Degree/ Diploma Apprentices under Section-8 (3A) of Apprentice (Amendment Act 1986) at Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur (MP) for year 2016-2017. Eligible Indian Nationals apply within 07 days from the date of Advertisement, the last date for submission application will be 24th March 2017.
Name of Post
No of Vacancies
Engineering Graduate Trainees
16 (Chemical – 01, Electrical – 01, Mechanical – 10, Metallurgy – 01, IT – 01)
₹ 4984/- per month
Engineering Diploma Trainees
12 ((Civil – 01, Electrical – 02, Mechanical – 08, Metallurgy – 01)
₹ 3542/- per month
Eligibility: Engineering Graduates / Diploma holders in any of the Engineering branches: Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Information Technology, Metallurgy, who have not obtained any employment/ training after doing Degree/ Diploma.
Physical Fitness: Good Mental and physical health and no physical deformity.
Training Period: One year, from 3rd April, 201 7 to 2nd April, 2018.
Selection Process: Selection will be made on following basis:-
(1) Percentage of marks obtained in the Degree/Diploma Exam of concern Trade.
(2) Viva Voce (Interview) and Medical Exam at recruitment centre.
How to Apply: Typed Application in the prescribed application proforma on plain paper along with required documents should be submitted to Sr. General Manager, Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur-482011 (MP) within 07 days from the date of advertisement in Employment News Paper (18 - 24 March 2017 Issue) (i.e. Last date will be 24/03/2017).
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One of the fun parts of The School of Greatness hitting year two (and over 200 episodes) is that I get to have repeat guests on the show.
This is fun for me because I already know the guests, but it's also cool because a lot has happened with these guests in the past year or two since their last episode on the show.
Such is the case with today's repeat guest Drew Canole.
Drew was actually one of the first episodes on the School of Greatness, and I loved what we talked about.
But in the following 2 years, Drew's business went up and then down and then UP, which is a story we get into in this episode.
He is one of the most present, grounded, loving men I know and it was awesome to continue our conversation from last time around health, particularly juicing, and the incredible transformation he has created in his own health and thousands of others.
Since Drew has experienced the ups and downs in health and business, I knew he also had a lot of experience with stress.
So I asked him what his best tips are for relieving stress on a daily basis. He gave me seven because he's a champ.
Listen closely and notice the overall mindset Drew approaches health and success with. You'll be glad you did in Episode 224 with Drew Canole.
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"Every diet works; what doesn't work is not being consistent."
What is your why? Post a video on social media and tag me and Drew or use these hashtags #whydentity #whyvision


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Having a smoothie for breakfast could be one of the healthiest habits you develop, if it consists of the fitting substances. You might really feel it in your joints when you carry around a superb bit of additional weight, or any quantity of additional weight. You might want to actively interact in healthy behaviors, have wellness exam results within a healthy range or display threat category improvement in 2016 with the intention to earn factors. I wish to go biking or roller skating with my mate, these are issues we do and hold us healthy. They enhance your bodily features corresponding to blood circulation, metabolism, and improve cardiovascular well being.
When selecting well being products, select people who have pure components as a result of they do not have any uncomfortable side effects they usually provide other advantages to your body. Rich in fiber, important for well being bowel movement, and in nutritional vitamins like Vitamin A and B, pecans are a nutrient packed nut, which affords tremendous health advantages. I find this lens very instructive, since all of us need to be aware of the things which can be harmful to our health in any other case we are power to face the consequences. It's a superb one and can probably help somebody, someplace, who otherwise won't notice what's happening and get assist in time.
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I was a pretty good singer prior to this (different individuals had mentioned so!) but haven't been abl e to hold a tune since.. It occurred once I was working on the computer on a Sunday morning. So as a substitute of having Monday Morning Blues, you may have a Monday Morning Good Mood…LOL. All this whereas thought chick peas is nice for style buds but not very wholesome as it produces gas. Primary care is the standard point at which an individual enters the health care system.
The spinach and parsley each provide a broad range of vitamins and other well being promoting elements. Now you possibly can own a wholesome deep fryer for your favorite foods like french fries and more. The Good Health Clinic screens his well being and will get his albuterol totally free by means of PAP packages. It is a good apply to examine the water stage every 15 to 20 minutes and high up with water or inventory as required. However, some pointers are vital to make sure you are juicing in a approach that is truly wholesome for you.


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1st Mariner Bank Online Banking Login services let the user bank from their comfort zone. The bank is operating as the Howard Bank. At the bank, one can find a broad array of credit cards, loans, mortgage, and other banking solutions. Furthermore, the bank ranks as the best business bank of Baltimore.
Signing into your account one can pay bills, transfer funds, deposit checks, view the progress of their mortgage and loan accounts and check their account balance. The digital banking system has made banking an easier task for the customers as they can now manage their account in a better way and operate it as per their convenience. Scroll on to find 1st Mariner Bank Routing Number, 1st Mariner Bank Login, 1st Mariner Bank Locations and more.
How to Log into Howard Bank
Step 1– Visit the official web page (1stmarinerbank.com) of the bank. Search for the "Secure Login" button towards the top left of the screen.
Step 2– Once you find the button click on it and a login widget will appear on the screen. Select your account type from the drop-down menu present on the top of the widget, enter your login id in the space below and then press "Log In".
Step 3– User will be navigated to the login page where they require entering their password and click on "Submit". If the login particulars provided are correct you will be taken to your account dashboard.
Forgot Password
Step 1– If a user has forgotten their login password, click on the "Forgot Password?" link which is present at the bottom of the login section on the bank's homepage.
Step 2– Provide your access id, last 4 digits of tax id number, and email address in the fields below. Press 'Submit' and a new password will be sent via email.
How to Enroll
Step 1– If you are a new customer to the bank and wish to enroll your account for online banking then you must open the home screen of the First Mariner Bank.
Step 2– Click on the "Secure Login" button which is located towards the right of the web page. Below the login button, you will find a link reading as "Enroll in Online Banking Today".
Step 3– Next you will be navigated to the enrollment page. Complete the first time user authentication form below and finally click 'Submit' to complete the enrollment procedure.


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Working as Associate Director, in partnership with Sarah-Vyne Vassallo, to commission, develop and produce new work and co-manages support and reflection for the company's independent artists with disability, Dan plays an integral role in the development and delivery of Murmuration's artistic programs and community activities.
As Artistic Director of Dan Daw Creative Projects, Dan continues to work at the forefront of dance and disability in the UK, having commissioned two solo works – 'Beast' by Martin Forsberg and 'On One Condition' by Graham Adey. BEAST, a Trinity Laban/Greenwich Dance Compass Commission, previewed at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennale in May 2015, premiered at Greenwich Dance in November 2015 and was recently presented at Sydney Festival 2018.
'On One Condition', a co-commission with Murmuration, premiered at Skanes Dansteater in September 2015, before being presented at Sadler's Wells, SoHo Playhouse and touring to Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals 2017, where it received the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award.
Completing a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2004 and joining Restless Dance Theatre in 2002, Dan has gone on to work with Australian Dance Theatre (AUS), Force Majeure (AUS), FRONTLINEdance (UK), Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), balletLORENT (UK), Candoco Dance Company (UK) and Skånes Dansteater (SWE).
Throughout his performance career, Dan has worked with Kat Worth, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Janet Smith, Adam Benjamin, Wendy Houstoun, Sarah Michelson, Rachid Ouramdane, Nigel Charnock, Matthias Sperling, Marc Brew, Claire Cunningham, Martin Forsberg, Carl Olof Berg and Javier de Frutos.
A Candoco Associate Artist and currently a student at the Sadlers Wells Summer University (2015 – 2018), Dan continues to work at the forefront of collaborative performance making in the UK. Dan is a recipient of the BBC/South East Dance Performing Arts Fund Fellowship, the Outlet Dance Award and the Russell Page Fellowship in Contemporary Dance amongst others. He has been a part of Dance UK's Mentor Bursary and the National Theatre Step Change programme, furthermore evidencing his ambitions as disabled artist to impact and lead the conversation on dance and disability.
Dan is Dramaturg for Murmuration's current touring production 'Days Like These' and performing artist in Murmurations upcoming film, 'Bowerbirds'.
Click here to read more about Dan Daw Creative Projects.
Image credits: 1. 'Beast', photo by Graham Adey, 2. 'On One Condition', photo by Hazuki Kojima, 3 & 4. 'Looking Back' by Rachid Ouramdane, Candoco Dance Company, 2011, photo by Hugo Glendinning, 5 & 8. 'On One Condition', photos by Rasmus Vasli, 6. 'Bowerbirds', photo by Hayley Rose Photography, 7. 'The Flock', photo by Hayley Rose Photography.


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Kenneth H Hirsch, DDS
Meet Dr. Hirsch
Dr. Hirsch was born and raised on Long Island and has been practicing Oral and Maxillofacial surgery in Levittown since 1983. In 2018 he merged practices with Plainview and Massapequa Oral and Implant Surgery, which was then renamed to Plainview Massapequa Levittown Oral and Implant Surgery and relocated to a new, state-of-the-art office at 2920 Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
Dr. Hirsch graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1969 with a BS degree in Biology. He then attended Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, graduating in 1973 with a DDS degree and numerous honors — including being elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon national dental honor society, American College of Dentist's Award for outstanding achievement and leadership, American Academy of Oral Pathology Award and Van Woert Scholarship and Award for outstanding graduating student. While at Columbia Dr. Hirsch served as student body president 1972-1973 and president of Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity 1972-1973. Following graduation Dr. Hirsch began Oral and Maxillofacial surgery internship and residency advanced training at the Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center from 1973-1976. While there he served as Chief Resident in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at The Mt. Sinai Hospital, Elmhurst-City Hospital Center, and the Bronx VA Hospital. During his residency he obtained extensive training and expertise in the entire range of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery.
Dr. Hirsch in currently a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, a Fellow of the NYS society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Fellow of The American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, Diplomate of the National Board of Dental Anesthesiology, Fellow of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and a life Fellow of The International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. In the past, Dr. Hirsch has served on the Nassau County Dental Society Ethics Committee, Assistant Clinical Dentist at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, and as a medical staff member at numerous hospitals. He is currently certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
Dr. Hirsch enjoys spending his leisure time with his wife of almost 50 years, his 3 children, and 6 wonderful grandchildren. He is an enthusiastic sports fan and attends as many NY Mets and LI Ducks games as possible. He is also a long-time car enthusiast who enjoys attending car shows, driving new models and working on his own cars.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Hirsch, please call our office at Plainview Oral and Implant Surgery Phone Number 516-822-7880 or use our online appointment request form.


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Aren't these the prettiest colors of green? Green is my favorite color and so is this dressing.
I drool over this dressing. It's the kind they serve at Cafe Rio. I could eat it by the spoonfuls. Don't judge me. Just try it, and you'll completely agree.
Serve this dressing over a fresh salad or use it as a dip for veggies, tortilla chips, or burritos.
Creamy Tomatillo Ranch Dressing
(adapted from Veggie Belly)
makes about 2 ½ cups
2 large or 4-6 small tomatillos, leafs removed
1 clove garlic, peeled and cut in half
1 jalapeno, split in half lengthwise and deseeded
1 large onion, quartered
½ of one bunch, chopped cilantro
juice of 1 small lime
1 packet Hidden Valley ranch dressing mix
1 cup milk
1 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbsp olive oil
Toss the tomatillos, garlic, jalapeno, and onion with olive oil on a baking sheet. Broil on high in the oven till soft and blistered, about 15 minutes, turning once. Place the tomatillos along with all other ingredients in a blender. Blend into a sauce. Refrigerate till you are ready to serve.
If you want to use prepared/bottled ranch dressing, use 2 cups of the prepared dressing instead of the ranch dressing mix, milk and mayo. If you don't have tomatillos, Kalyn recommends using store bought salsa verde.