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thatton Mar 5, 2010 at 10:29 am
dannycat Mar 5, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Sveninho Mar 5, 2010 at 10:30 am
I wonder if this one gives me extend battery life!
shackk Mar 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
Great to see, will download later tonight and install.
iLovemy_bb Mar 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
I'm on it tonight...
iLovemy_bb Mar 5, 2010 at 10:32 am
I opened crackberry at the right time, now I can get this first tier before the site cancels the file...
amccray5 Mar 5, 2010 at 12:44 pm
me too.
tae_254 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
FInally.. downloading now..
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 am
Dling now. What has been said about this version?
Also the thread link doesnt work says to contact admin
iLovemy_bb Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 am
It just came out, give it a day at least.
iAndrew27 Mar 5, 2010 at 3:13 pm
almost the same as the other os'
i just got it two hours ago
battery only lost 5% battery in the last two ours which is a positive for me
the stand by button doesn't work so i'm using the keyboard lock button on the opposite side of the stand by button and it works differently now. the keyboard lock button is like the new stand by mode i guess idk, but it works the same as it now
other then that i haven't found anything different about this os
my previous os .442 lagged a bit and use to freeze at times but since i updated to this os, it hasent dont that
Downloading now.....
SurrealCivic Mar 5, 2010 at 10:37 am
brades Mar 5, 2010 at 10:39 am
nice, dling now
I am such a fiend for new stuff (leaked or official! lol) Downloading NOW!
dnoredsi Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 am
awesome, i was wondering when the next leak would drop.
greeneink Mar 5, 2010 at 10:42 am
Can't we get a 9630 leak that works! .530 reboots are useless
vic_machu19 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:44 am
Ima start downloading yay... Forget doing laundry hahaha
Busterwolf16 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:13 am
who needs clothes when you have a new OS???
ofutur Mar 5, 2010 at 10:45 am
The speed from the server is pathetic :D
Waiting for a megaupload link :)
giantvegenetics Mar 5, 2010 at 11:13 am
Here's an alternate Download location if the original is failing/slow:
dazednfazed Mar 5, 2010 at 10:47 am
btw the forums link seems to be down?
dkonigs Mar 5, 2010 at 10:50 am
Still waiting for T-Mobile to offer me something officially newer than 18.104.22.1680... I'm getting tired of having to live with "initial release" quirks that are no doubt long fixed by now. (of course I could just run a non-approved build, but I'd rather not with this device.)
KeNNethX Mar 5, 2010 at 10:53 am
I got tired and went to another carrier's .423...so much better!
gerry702 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:41 am
you'll be waiting awhile, my pearl 8100 hasn't had an upgrade from t-mobile in a couple years
gerry702 Mar 7, 2010 at 9:05 am
install .423 it is an official release just not from t-mobile. i installed the day it was released and had no problems at all
Kirblar Mar 5, 2010 at 10:50 am
when will this wretched 9530 drought be over. D:
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 10:50 am
ka3yan#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 10:57 am
I really like .442, but newer is better right? RIGHT?
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 11:00 am
not always.. i had 442 for a day and went back to 423
Busterwolf16 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14 am
i never had problems with my .442 thats why i wanna know whats new with this one before DLing
fostirop Mar 5, 2010 at 10:58 am
Nice one!!
Downloading now!!
Any one got the chance to try it out yet ?
SunRhythms Mar 5, 2010 at 10:58 am
Can you repeat video with this thing now?
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 11:04 am
restoring device data.........
jiggawhat_23 Mar 5, 2010 at 12:28 pm
you and I both!!!!
excited to see whats been improved or updated...or if its even noticeable!
AjStone Mar 5, 2010 at 11:07 am
Hey Adam, you forgot the OS Leak disclaimer!
oneday116 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:07 am
Let see what happens!
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 11:13 am
finished installing what should i check for...?
Cultus Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14 am
EXCELLENT....TESTING it out now...already downloaded and installed, so far so good too early to tell.
nextgenius Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 am
something i noticed When u lock it it doesnt have the lock icon on the bottom right and it unlocks very quickly almost instantly
webmastir Mar 5, 2010 at 11:22 am
screw the bold. where's the Verizon official Tour 9630 OS 5.0!!!??!?!?!?
Screw the Tour! POS!!!
amzchhabra Mar 5, 2010 at 11:26 am
CrackBerryV79 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:29 am
People notice all these "new features" as soon as a new OS leaks or is released. Some are legit - most seem to be exaggerated. "The pictures seem crisper..." or "The phone seems actually lighter in your hand now..." or "My girlfriend's voice sounds sexier on this build..." - gimme a break. lol
Crackberrier09 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:50 am
lol my girl friends voice always sounds sexier everytime she calls me at night.
amccray5 Mar 5, 2010 at 12:49 pm
"The phone seems actually lighter in your hand now..." Too funny. Appreciate the good laugh.
Smokeaire Mar 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm
"The phone seems actually lighter in your hand now..." or "My girlfriend's voice sounds sexier on this build..." - gimme a break. lol"
I just spewed coffee all over my laptop and 9700....I hope the new OS makes my phone coffee proof.
Way too funny. Thanks.
1magine Mar 5, 2010 at 4:38 pm
On some builds - it was clearly easy to notice fuzzy thumbnails, or poor sound quality from the speakers. I had a S1 and now an S2. And I remember the super loud, super fuzzy speaker build. And I remember when they removed part of the color palette on the ap screen. And I remembered when they f-ed up the camera zoom, and I remember (b/c its still the case on our OS) that thumnails and album art have reduced quality in an effort to get them to load faster. BTW all of these things were SO CLEARLY VISIBLE only the uninterested and ignorant did not seem them on first glance. Hope I didn't offend anyone. If I did - LOOK SQUIRREL!
Any way funny about the phone feels lighter though.
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gerry702 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 am
downloading now will check after install
CooperDogg Mar 5, 2010 at 11:57 am
msliggins Mar 5, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Downloading now and installing during lunch! Will report back shortly.
circles313 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Are there any major changes to this os?
Crackberrier09 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Standby button no longer works for me.
iAndrew27 Mar 5, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Keypad Lock on the opposite side of the stand by button is the standby thingy now i guess
it gets the job done as like the stand by button does so im using that one for now
First of all I am on BES, so I don't know if this works with everyone. The one thing I noticed is when I recieve an email, with customized stationary, it now shows on my berry, unlike before I recieved the email with a white background. Again I could have not noticed it before.
OK disregard that, apparently it did that before!
dsdaddy Mar 5, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Wrong article
bigmikew Mar 5, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Will install this later. This OS should only make my Bold that much better!
hennesseystealth Mar 5, 2010 at 2:51 pm
and no love for the Storm 1 : (
Nick_Goodman Mar 5, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I really NEED one of those!
dienamik Mar 5, 2010 at 5:17 pm
This isn't a contest, its a beta OS leak!! Lol
gerry702 Mar 7, 2010 at 9:08 am
yeah you won just download and install, congrats
neoflasher Mar 5, 2010 at 4:15 pm
going to dwnld and try it immediately..
Kiddo_24 Mar 5, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Any out there have had difficulties installing a leaked OS through Windows 7? I had no problem using Windows Vista, but now my Windows 7 keeps saying "Some resources are missing" . . .
I really want to install this one on my new T-Mo 9700!!
gerry702 Mar 6, 2010 at 12:28 pm
i installed on t mobile 9700 using windows7 professional, it was probably the easiest install i've done
Enraged Medic Mar 5, 2010 at 4:48 pm
where's my standby button at???? WTF? FAIL!!!
lantagne21 Mar 5, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Just installed... Does anyones standby button work? I've only seen a few users mentioning this problem.
On that note, mine doesn't work either.
msweet#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Installed AOK. Usual having to enter all of your password sand resync Google everything.
I love they disabled that dreadful standby button that I pressed every time I touched the unit. The lock key just shuts the screen off and locks the phone (no lock symbol anymore). I have no problem with this.
I hate the fact that your Blackberry "MyWorld" resets every time you update firmware. I haven't noticed anything new yet.
gerry702 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:11 pm
finished install on my t-mo 9700, everything is working good haven't really noticed anything different will report if any probs
Steve1350 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Will i loose my apps that i installed when installing a new OS?
J-Nificent Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 pm
I have no problems with the upgrade so far. With the previous upgrade, however, I lost usage of the Bing app. But, other than that, no issues to report.
DonJoseofOrange Mar 6, 2010 at 12:39 am
Good so far for me. The lock button is much nicer.
sonar_chris Mar 6, 2010 at 2:08 am
Loaded it up and it seems to be a good build. Navigation is faster with no lag. The browser, both native and Bolt load pages really quickly, a lot faster than .442. Stand by and lock are now both combined into just using the lock button but the screen just goes black. Over all I'm very happy so far.
Mikehogains Mar 6, 2010 at 3:17 am
i try to load app world and get the following message---blackberry app world is having trouble connecting to the blackberry app world server. verify your network connections and try again. also iheart radio had trouble starting and slacker and the bowser couldnt load a page for me. need help fixing his problem with this new os. everything loaded just fine so i dont know where i went wrong cuz ive done this like a million times so if anyone has the answer please let me know
mcyoung Mar 6, 2010 at 7:43 am
love me some otterbox baby!!
fjerske Mar 6, 2010 at 11:02 am
On tmo here and I like that only one top button locks/standby now. But no longer have the option for unlock by *phone,but that's fine by me. There is no myfaves in this build but mobile backup is. Witch is good for me. I still have myfaves but never change them, but it never worked for me and always removed it anyway. When I removed them beforew it removed the backup to. Its seems quicker too, but then again its a new install.
gerry702 Mar 6, 2010 at 12:33 pm
my battery usage is excellent with this build
phoneboy101 Mar 9, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I fully expected the same, but am experiencing a steady and faster battery drain than before the upgrade.
danageplan Mar 6, 2010 at 1:24 pm
seems to be running very smoothly no lag on any menus browser is the same. I could be crazy but the speaker sounds better I think they reworked the eq, lightspeed sms notification doesnt sound distorted when the bb is on hard surface now,
Lock button locks the phone and puts it into standby, but doesnt password lock the phone, so if you use encryption and like to tap the lock button to lock up your device securely you will need to use the password lock icon for that function, so i moved my password lock to the homescreen, in the future i'd like to see a tap to lock hold to password lock funtion on the lock button, similar to the mute/standby method in previous versions.
when you press the lock button your screen will turn off instantly and enter standby mode, great feature to improve the batt life even more.
Applications are running normally
everything else seems the same,
ICaNS33It Mar 6, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Ok sooo installed last nitee and heres some things I figured out (at least for me)...Running OS 184.108.40.2066 on TMO BB BOLD 9700...
1) Yes the Lock Key in the upper left is now a "Lock/Standby" Hybrid. So some ppl know if you enable your password lock function the phone will indeed lock after the alotted time you give it. I.E. if you set your time out for your password lock to 1min. after that time it WILL lock your phone while in standby. And yes there is no "Lock" icon unless it locks on its own after the timeout. I have mine set to 1min. which is the lowest given built-in.
2) If anyone has seen an issue connecting to their "Email Setup" client for any reason I found that if you drop your network connection to 2G/EDGE/ETC. and connect it'll work. Then, put it back to 3G/ETC. and you should be good it worked for me.
3) Not sure if anyone has had this issue but for the last 3 OS upgrades I've done with "Mobile Backup" installed and linked to a Gmail account. I've noticed that prolly 95% of the time the contacts sync kinda whacky either with duplicate contacts and/or merging a few of them. The only thing I've done is backing them up on my computer/storing on SIM card really so its become a ritual in re-doing my contacts over and over again whenever I upgrade my OS. I've become a pro at this by now lol. If anyone has a better alternative please let me know. Also, I can't backup the file in "Advanced Backup/Restore" on DM, it says "Cannot Backup/Restore on items linked to Mobile Sync" ETC.
4) Regarding contacts again. If you notice a few contact photos dissapear from time to time etc. either from a facebook app photo or BBM or personal pic, and/or information like their email/IM screen name/ETC disappearing in you contacts profile...it happens. Just redo the info and it'll sooner or later stay put lol. If anyone knows a good way around this and/or has happened let me know.
5) It would seem this build ommits the "Audio Postcard" APP. No biggy to me and not sure if this is on all peoples phone. I'd guess it is since the client is RIM OS related and not carrier provided I believe.
Other than the posted issues/bugs/views posted above I see nothing else wrong. The OS seems quite good. A little speed up in load time for browsers and pics still load fast like in .442 OS. And the OS seems to fix a little visual display problem that I seen occur with Facebook and Myspace APPS. When logging in it wouldn't display Login box correctly but now does, guess the little things count lol. No complaints either way.
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lorennayturbe Mar 6, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Love the battery life with this O.S
omgtdubb Mar 6, 2010 at 7:09 pm
im loving it so far. i think the lock/sleep button is better for battery life anyways. it's much quicker.
no problems so far. i think this one is a winner.
stamatgeorge Mar 6, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Has anyone installed 184.108.40.2066 on a Bell Mobility 9700 ? if yes, what's your comments ?
iggie2010 Mar 6, 2010 at 10:50 pm
how do i install this on my blackberry bold 9700? go step by step please!
Downloaded yesterday seems to work fine. All features work including t-mo UMA.
ICaNS33It Mar 7, 2010 at 12:07 am
Loving the battery life compared to others so far especially the .442 version. I've been running Facebook, Myspace, Twitter (BB Beta), AIM, and been Texting, BBMing, and phone talk, etc. for about 9hrs. and just lost 1/2 a bar LoL.
Wizzkidd09 Mar 7, 2010 at 2:50 am
So I noticed when i was looking for a file from word to go that this os has a media card icon and a device icon when you choose where you wanna search, thought that was pretty tight, os runs smooth...me likey, will report anything else i notice when i notice it.
jnaught Mar 7, 2010 at 9:59 am
so good! I've been running it for about 12 hours and it's been flawless. The new lock/standby feature is terrific. And, having upgraded from the crap .330 it came with (just upgraded from an 8900 last week), it's great to have sms back! I still can't figure out why T-Mobile would approve an OS that had such a blatant bug?!
jiggawhat_23 Mar 7, 2010 at 12:16 pm
everything has been running smoothly and I've been running for about 48 hrs now. FB, MSN, BBM, Poynt & Google Maps have all been great.
honsoloswookie Mar 7, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Been running it for a day here and the battery life is greatly improved. the lock button change doesn't seem to bug me that much as it still locks just the keyboard and my password timer will password lock the unit anyways (well after 15 minutes for me)
I used to just have the cell network on and would drain a lot of power just standing by but now i can have my wifi and cell network hooked in and uses a significantly less power.
the lock button and the browser feel faster (the lock button especially) and the phone call quality and pic browsing feel about the same to me (which was pretty fast i thought)
Can someone who installed the new OS please go to Options -> About and let us know what the 3G bands of this release are?
Thanks! :)
rvzero Mar 8, 2010 at 10:34 am
rvzero Mar 8, 2010 at 10:36 am
Although, from BGR:
"Enter the BlackBerry 9700. RIM has done something incredibly smart. They've been using identical hardware for every single BlackBerry 9700, regardless of the carrier it is intended for. Let's revisit that… RIM has used the same exact hardware for AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, WIND, Rogers, TIM — whatever. How could this be, you're asking? The chip RIM uses in these units supports practically every 3G band out there, and so do the antennas. What controls the hardware is the vendor/branding of the device. This enables RIM to produce one set of hardware, and brilliantly change the software to enable the 3G bands they desire. This keeps manufacturing costs lower as they only have to manufacture one single piece of the puzzle as opposed to two completely different ones, and this also will apply in theory to 3G devices going forward."
bdjj2006#CB Mar 8, 2010 at 10:11 am
phoneboy101 Mar 9, 2010 at 10:54 pm
You use BBMaps? I can't stand that program. Have you tried Google Maps? It's worlds better. The first thing I do whenever I set up a Blackberry is delete BBMaps. The second is to install Google Maps.
kaputnik Mar 8, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I installed 184.108.40.2066 yesterday on my 9700 - then any apps that used the internet stopped working. calls and SMS still worked, as well as the blackberry browser (and opera mini 5 beta 2 to be fair). Did a chat with AT&T support and they ended up having to remove the Blackberry services from my account and re-add them, then everything started working.
jmcdowell Mar 8, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I am not sure about taking the leaked upgrade or not, does anyone know if a legitimate upgrade is near since there is this leaked one, does a leaked one tell us anything? Also, is anyone else experiencing problems such as these; when I try to compose a SMS from the home screen by typing a contact's name it will not allow me to. When I compose an SMS from the already opened SMS messages it won't let me compose the message unless I send it to the person twice. Any thoughts? and would an OS upgrade correct this?
jnaught Mar 9, 2010 at 9:44 am
the upgrade fixes the SMS issue ... at least, it did for me :).
Downloading and installing :)
bkwillia Mar 8, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Upgraded yesterday. The only thing I have noticed aside from what's already been mentioned is that scrolling from day to day in the calendar is slower. I was running .421 previously and you could scroll pretty quickly with one swipe of the trackpad. Not a big deal but takes a little getting used to.
I just upgrade, I will report tomorrow :)
I forgot to mention that I upgraded and my phone is only showing 3 G bands = 1,4,8
is this correct?
jnaught Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 am
how does that compare to other OS's?
04carmines Mar 9, 2010 at 9:46 am
ANybody having trouble with Tmobile 9700 on this?
Installed on desktop.
Deleted Vendor.xml file
attempting to upgrade, they new OS shows up but won't install. It just says "No upgrades are required".
jnaught Mar 9, 2010 at 9:55 am
You can't do it through desktop manager. You need to go straight to the app loader in your RIM file (same folder you deleted the vender.xml from).
phoneboy101 Mar 9, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I installed it on my TMO 9700 with Desktop Manager. Try disconnecting the computer from the internet before the install.
jenaywins Mar 10, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I installed via my DM with Tmobile successfully. Everything seems to be running smoothly so far, and the browser is quite a bit snappier. With .330, I got HORRENDOUS reception everywhere I went. Has anyone else experienced reception issues with the 9700, and would you say that this OS addresses any of them...? thanks.
Just to report that I have been using the 536 and I had not issues to report.
Beweather released the latest version.. just in case that you are not aware.. that latest ver is working like a champion.
Thanks team,, happy saturday from San Diego!


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Kakembo, Vincent and Rowntree, Kate and Palmer, A.R. (2007) Topographic controls on the invasion of Pteronia incana (Blue bush) onto hillslopes in Ngqushwa (formerly Peddie) district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Catena, 70 (2). pp. 185-199. ISSN 0341-8162
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The role of topographic factors in the invasion of hillslopes by Pteronia incana, an unpalatable shrub, was investigated. The study combined field observations with image analysis based on high-resolution infrared imagery. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of 20 m spatial resolution was used to derive terrain parameters. The Topographic Wetness Index (WI), a component of the TOPMODEL, was derived from the DEM and its relationship with the spatial distribution of P. incana was explored. The absence/presence of P. incana was noted to be strongly influenced by slope angle and aspect. The probability for P. incana occurrence increased with slope steepness and southerly slope orientation. Abandoned and grazing lands were identified as the main invasion hotspots on hillslopes. The combined influence of slope gradient and aspect, and land use was noted to have promoted the invasion. This is borne out by the concentration of the invasion on abandoned steep slopes with a southerly orientation. The WI confirmed the bearing local topographic variations have on P. incana spatial distribution such that, P. incana was associated with the low WI values of convexities. The coupling between local topography and soil surface crusting underpins soil moisture variability. This in turn determines the competition between the patchy P. incana and grass species and the eventual replacement of the latter by the former. Restoration efforts of the invaded lands should focus on trapping of sediment and litter, and moisture retention on the inter-patch bare areas.
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Gun groups spent millions on the gun debate this year.
Gun control groups spent five times more lobbying for reform laws such as background checks and bans on high-capacity magazines in the year following the Sandy Hook massacre.
In the year following the Sandy Hook massacre, gun control activists have spent millions lobbying for reform laws, but there has still been little progress made this year on the federal level, according to a new report released Monday from the Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency group.
In 2013, gun-control groups spent five times as much as they had the previous year pushing for reforms, including increased background checks and bans on high-capacity ammunition clips and guns. They found success in states like Connecticut, New York, Maryland and Colorado.
But thanks to a polarized and paralyzed Congress, the ramped up spending and organization was for naught.
[READ: Report: Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza Was Obsessed With Mass Shootings]
The most recent lobbying reports show gun control groups like Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence spent a combined $1.6 million campaigning on Capitol Hill. The groups hired three dozen new lobbyists, many of whom had never lobbied on guns before, but were well-connected to Fortune 500 companies and influential decision-makers on Capitol Hill. They also got their message out on the airwaves and in special election campaigns. Mayors Against Illegal Guns ran ads in 17 states this year and the super PAC Independence USA spent $3 million on campaigns.
On the national level, lobbying spending by powerful pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association dwarfed the gun reform efforts. The NRA and others spent more than seven times as much in 2013, doling out $12.2 million on lobbying, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
But the NRA spent relatively little when it came to campaign spending, though it may not have been necessary to achieve their goals. Pro-gun groups were able to recall lawmakers in Colorado for their push to strengthen gun laws in the state.
This year was the first time since 2004 that the gun control issue was the focus in Washington, but the gridlocked Congress failed to come to a consensus and no new laws have been enacted.
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Reform advocates wanted Congress to pass new laws to strengthen background checks and reduce the kind of ammunition clips available to buyers. Pro-gun groups, meanwhile, fought to maintain the status quo and not add any new laws to the books.
The Senate moved to pass a comprehensive gun bill in April that would have required every gun buyer to pass a background check before purchasing a firearm online or at a gun show. Yet, even that small reform stumbled. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives never acted.
Since Sandy Hook, Americans are less engaged or interested in the gun control debate, according to recent polls. Public surveys following the shooting showed more than 80 percent of Americans in favor of at least strengthening background checks, similar to the failed Senate initiative. Now, fewer than 50 percent support an overall gun law overhaul. The polls indicate the gun control debate may not mobilize voters in the way Democrats had hoped for in 2014 when they planned to used the issue in competitive swing districts in the suburbs of New York, Pennsylvania and Colorado to gain seats in the House of Representatives.
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Mr. Twin Sister, Formerly Twin Sister, Celebrate Name Change With New Track "Out of the Dark"
By Evan Minsker on May 27, 2014 at 9:26 a.m. EDT
Photo by Kimi Selfridge
"I am a woman, but inside I'm a man, and I want to be as gay as I can." So go the lyrics to "Out of the Dark", the new song from the New York indie pop band formerly known as Twin Sister. Along with the song (below), they've also made a big announcement: They will henceforth be known as Mr. Twin Sister.
Twin Sister's Andrea Estella to Replace Leighton Meester in "Veronica Mars" Movie
By Carrie Battan on July 15, 2013 at 11:15 a.m. EDT
The Kickstarter-funded film of the hit TV show "Veronica Mars" just took an interesting turn. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Leighton Meester (aka Blair from "Gossip Girl") will be replaced by Andrea Estella of New York indie pop band Twin Sister. She'll take on Meester's former role of Carrie Bishop, a character who appeared in two episodes of the television series. Meester was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts.
Photos: Twin Sister
By Pitchfork on September 30, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. EDT
Twin Sister performed some material from their new album, In Heaven, at New York's Mercury Lounge last night, and photographer Alexander Stein was there.
Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our Facebook page for even more photos.
Video: Twin Sister: "Kimmi in a Rice Field"
By Larry Fitzmaurice on September 27, 2011 at 8:32 a.m. EDT
Twin Sister's debut LP, In Heaven, is out now via Domino. The video for album highlight "Kimmi in a Rice Field" was co-directed by Twin Sister drummer Bryan Ujueta with Dan Devine. It starts out very lush and romantic but gets freaky at the end. Watch it below:
Stream the New Mastodon Album
By Carrie Battan on September 20, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. EDT
Over on their website, Mastodon are streaming in full their new album The Hunter, the follow-up to 2009's Crack the Skye. The album's out September 27 via Reprise in the U.S. and Roadrunner everywhere else.
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New Twin Sister: "Gene Ciampi"
By David Bevan on August 18, 2011 at 10:40 a.m. EDT
Twin Sister: "Gene Ciampi" (via SoundCloud)
"Gene Ciampi" is another incandescent pop cut from Twin Sister's forthcoming full-length In Heaven, due September 27 (and one day earlier in Europe) via the Brooklyn-Long Island outfit's new label home, Domino. Listen to "Gene Ciampi" above and watch the video for first single "Bad Street" here.
Video: Twin Sister: "Bad Street"
By Tom Breihan on July 28, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Brooklyn pop mystics Twin Sister will make their full-length debut on September 27, when Domino releases their album In Heaven. That drawing you see above is the album's cover art. And below, check out director Dan Devine's video for first single "Bad Street". The clip focuses on a summertime outdoor party that looks like a whole lot of fun, and it makes excellent use of a fisheye lens, on some real 90s shit. Also, there is a very high cuteness level here. It was shot at the Long Island home of singer Andrea Estella's family.
Twin Sister Announce Tour, Single
By Tom Breihan on July 7, 2011 at 2:25 p.m. EDT
In Heaven, the debut album from Twin Sister, arrives September 27 on Domino. And in the months ahead, the band will tour all over North America, playing a busy schedule of shows that includes our own Pitchfork Music Festival and dates with Explosions in the Sky, Wild Beasts, and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
On July 19, they'll also release the album track "Bad Street" (above) as a single, available on 10" vinyl and digital download. It'll feature two non-album tracks, "In Heaven" and "You Remind Me Of", as B-sides.
Below, check out the band's tour dates.
Twin Sister Announce Debut Album
By Tom Breihan on June 9, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
Twin Sister: Bad Street
New York indie-pop quintet Twin Sister will release their debut full length, In Heaven, September 27 via Domino. Up above, check out the album track "Bad Street". Below, we've got the album's tracklist, as well as the band's tour dates. They'll tour around North America all summer with Beirut and Wild Nothing, and they're on the bill at our own Pitchfork Music Festival.
News in Brief: Twin Sister, Vast Aire, Distortion
By Tom Breihan on May 24, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
-- After releasing a pair of EPs on smaller labels, New York dream-poppers Twin Sister have signed with Domino, who will release their full-length debut later this year.
-- The clothing company Ben Sherman is auctioning off signed guitar picks with handwritten notes from various musicians, all part of the company's VIP Plectrums campaign. Broken Social Scene, Weezer, Matt and Kim, Ra Ra Riot, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Echo and the Bunnymen, and many others are offering up picks.
-- On May 31, Vast Aire, formerly half of the pioneering indie-rap duo Cannibal Ox, releases his new solo album Ox 2010: A Street Odyssey, via Man Bites Dog/Fat Beats. The LP includes collaborations with Raekwon, Guilty Simpson, and Cappadonna. Watch the video for his single "Nomad" here.
-- The nightlife festival Distortion takes over venues in Copenhagen June 1-5. The fest features Michael Mayer, Austra, Abe Vigoda, Superpitcher, Matias Aguayo, Iceage, Prins Thomas, Laurel Halo, Nisennenmondai, Tim Sweeney, Crookers, Highlife, Lucky Dragons, Gang Gang Dance's Brian DeGraw, a DJ set from Hot Chip, and more.
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So, Who Is The Bad Actor In This Drama?
Neil J. Young pens a review of a new book, The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception, by J.B. Haws. (HT: Ed Stetzer). I quote from the review with emphasis added:
Growing up in central Florida, I did not go to the beach for spring break. Instead, nearly every March my family would escape the swampy humidity of Orlando for the crisp mountain air of Utah. Skiing throughout the week, we'd often take one day from the slopes to rest our legs and explore Salt Lake City—which usually meant a visit to Temple Square, the institutional and symbolic heart of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There, earnest missionaries would bear their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ brought about by the prayerful seeking of a young Joseph Smith. We'd exchange knowing glances at these moments; we were Southern Baptists, and we knew a lot about Mormonism. A good bit of that knowledge, it turned out, was erroneous, but it was the product of a concerted effort begun by the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s to make its members more mindful of Mormonism, a "heretical" faith that was gaining sizeable Baptist converts.
The Mormon Image is bookended with the tale of two Romneys: George Romney's 1968 run for president and his son Mitt's 2008 and 2012 bids for the White House. In 1968, George Romney faced hardly any questions about his faith, a fortunate inheritance from JFK's history-making victory eight years prior. If anything, Americans saw Romney's Mormonism as an asset, proof that he was a trustworthy and upstanding man. A 1967 Gallup poll found 75 percent of voters had no hesitation voting for a Mormon for president. Yet forty years later, Mormonism likely prevented Mitt Romney from capturing his party's nomination. In 2007, 29 percent of Republicans had indicated they "probably or definitely" would not vote for a Mormon. As Haws writes, "being a Mormon in the public eye meant something different in 2008 than it did in 1968."
And so, confronted with America at its weakest internationally since before WWII made us a superpower , Obamacare wrecking untold medical and financial havoc at home, a President that thinks he can pick and choose which laws he wants to obey, and an American public demoralized, who has helped and who has hurt the nation?
It is a question worth very serious consideration by very many parties.
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Les Cocottes de Constant?
Pros: very good cooking at reasonable prices
Cons: no reservations, diner style seating.
Here is a recent link: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/5228...
was just there last night. place is quite awesome. Had the chicken fricasse, totally classic, really delicious. Get there before 7:45 to get seated immediately or be prepared to wait. I like to be there by 7:30. The ceasar salad (a dish I *never* order anywhere else) is really quite nice as well.
highly recommended, great food, pleasant service and don't forget the chocolate tart ...... a must try.
re: malan
I 'live' in the neighborhood when in Paris. Will arrive Nov. 1 for 6 weeks. I always go to Les Cocottes for lunch on arrival day, unless timing is just vad! I always know that I can go to Cafe or Cocottes for dinner or lunch if I arrive early..which I do. I also dine at Violon. The Constants do feed me well when in Paris. I can get lazy..the food does not get much better and it is so very convenient!!
I eat at all the Constants regularly. Can't get food any better anyplace in Paris. Chances are that many of the others probably learned from Christian at one time oir another.
Les Cocottes having the bar stools get a bit uncomfortable for long dinner dining!
Just returned from 5 weeks there and Violon/Cocottes/Cafe were regulars for me along with Spring twice(dinner), Guy Savoy and a multitude of others..enjoyed my stay and looking forward to arrival in mid April now....
Well...we ate a Les Cocottes 2 weeks ago and I realize there are many factors that go into a visit, but we won't be going back. The time we have when visiting is too precious to waste on a hit or miss meal.
This was our experience:
I agree wtih grace3 - the bar stools are very unconfortable for the full length of a dinner, but I put that aside for the food.
Service was nice and very professional - absolutely no complaints there.
I'll preface the rest by saying that it is likely what you pick as to whether you have a good experience, but I have a hard time appreciating a place that for us was hit or miss - either very good or not so good at all.
We started well - I had the pumpkin soup and my hubbie the caesar salad - both were excellent. We moved on to mains and I had a horribly dry beef that was almost all fat. The hubby had a good daily special, but since I don't remember what it was, it must not have been that outstanding. We ended with the saddest of all dessert. The hubbie had the daily crumble which was apple and served cold. Isn't the whole idea behind a cocotte that you can go oven to table? I decided to go with something light and "safe" for dessert - the fresh fruit from the market. It was not fresh. In fact, I would guess it was from a can. It looked and tasted that way anyhow (see attached picture).
As I said at the beginning, it was probably just what we ordered, or maybe it was an off night, but we'll give it a pass next time.
Just a quick review. We went their tonight for the first time and left a bit disappointed. Friendly service (tri-lingual people make me so jealous) but the food was not as good as I hoped.
I had the poached egg w/ lardons on frisee. The egg was over cooked and the lardons were finished in some sort of glaze (i believe balsamic?) that i just found odd. My GF had the ceasar which i sampled and found the dressing terribly watery (or else the lettuce wasn't properly dried).
We both had the langoustine ravioli w/ artichoke puree. The puree was very tasty, the ravioli was good but not outstanding.
The chocolate tart was mixed. The chocolate part was great, the tart crust was soft and pastey not crumbly. The gauffre was not like a Belgian one but more like a IHOP waffle. Yuck.
Also for the first time ever in Paris we were presented with the bill without requesting it.
re: mrbitterpants
re: mrbitterpants
True, the lardons were sort of glazed, but my egg was perfect and the dish good. But this was a couple of years ago now. Service was fantastic when we were there. Shame if it's all gone down. Never felt like I'd go out of my way to go back but would have stopped in if in the neighb. Allors...
re: Gman
We wandered by on Tuesday night late (10ish) after having eaten a huge three star lunch earlier in the day.
I didn't think the food was anything special.
We did however really like the atmosphere. Service couldn't have been friendlier. In fact we shared a four top with a couple from Italy and our waitress was charming. I'd say everyone else around us was local.
I also like the fact that I ordered just an appetizer (the special - white asparagus blanched with a orange hollandaise vinaigrette) and a glass of wine and felt completely comfortable doing so.
If you are hungry and happen to wander by (which is what we did) I'd say it isn't a bad choice but I wouldn't make a special trip there.
re: gowest
re: Nancy S.
To add to what everyone else is saying, we ate here christmas day and had a mediocre meal. Loved the atmosphere and concept. But it was a holiday menu which was nothing special. I had scallops with pieces of white truffle inserted in the middle. Scallops were properly cooked but could neither taste nor smell the truffle. They were sitting on a risotto that was a little too gluey/cheesy for my taste. My husband had short rib which was a little dry. It was topped with a small sliver of seared foie which was a drop overcooked. We also had the foie terrine app which was a little livery for our taste. We chalked it up to it being a holiday but based on the above posts maybe the cooking here has gone down...
We went there when we stayed in the 7th, hungry after arriving in Paris and walked in for late lunch...the chicken with mashed potatoes were amazing and the mrs liked her caesar's salad - we also ate at the constant's cafe another night while there because of how good the food was there - the mrs got the chicken again and it was better than the quail and foie that i had
i would recommend any of their chicken dishes...and normally I would never order chicken out at a restaurant - however theirs is excellent
We would certainly go back to them both again, i think next time we would try to top end restaurant in their line if there is time


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Category Archives: love
The Final Lap
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you;
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes;
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do well.
Seek justice,
Relieve the oppressed,
Judge the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:15—17
Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto the Lord what is the Lord's".
The Lord gets the soul and Caesar gets the taxes. This is very important because we have come so far from being able to clearly make that distinction. It may be easy to say what is Caesar's—it is the price, in coin, that we pay for anything material. It is the rendering of that which is of the material to the material. Yet, when it comes to what is the Lords we become a little lost. So, let us specify some of those things which belong to the Lord. These things are: our compassion, our faith, our hope, and above all—our adherence to the most important of Commandments, "Love thy neighbor as thyself". This commandment translates into the Golden Rule, "Do unto others that which you would have others do unto you".
When we do not live up to that Golden Rule, then we are rendering unto Caesar what is the Lords. When our material gain requires the loss of someone else's faith, or hope, or even life—we are rendering unto Caesar what belongs to God. So it is also when we are not living our lives with compassion, love and forgiveness. For what is Caesar's is not simply those things of Mammon—gold, silver, or wealth. What is Caesars are greed, envy, judgment, hatred, and revenge. If we take from others or cause directly or indirectly their harm for the sake of those emotions, then, we are rendering unto Caesar what belongs to God.
If, to succeed in the world of Mammon, as it was known then, or Capitalism as it is known now, we feel that we must render unto Caesar what belongs to God, then, regardless of how we justify ourselves we are stealing from God. This is why Jesus said that man cannot serve two masters:
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Luke 16:13
This was not an admonition—it was a statement of fact. Yet, He also says that if we first seek the Kingdom of Heaven, all else will be added unto us. What this means is that if we live by the Golden Rule, show justice, compassion, love and forgiveness—whatever material gain we do receive, and we will receive it, will be blessed by the Spiritual. This is the blessing of the age to come. It will be that of balance. All will give and therefore all will receive, all will share therefore all will have—and what they have will be imbued with the qualities of generosity and love. The Lord and Caesar will be one—the essence of the Lord in the world.
How do we get so lost? It happens little by little, like all paths that lead away from God. We make little, almost unnoticeable compromises, that we, perhaps promise ourselves that we will later undo, or make right. Then it is as if we become lost in a fog that becomes thicker and thicker the farther we go. Soon, the compromises grow larger and larger and our resolve to make right transforms into our justification that we are right. Finally, we are either too lost to find our way back or too mesmerized by the glitter ahead of us to want to.
This is where man is today. We have over the past millennium become so lost in the world of the senses that we have decided it is where we should be. It makes no difference whether that world consists of our mansions, our corporations and our big cars—or the superiority of our religion over that of any other. It is only a matter of exchanging one worldly obsession for another because in all cases the cost of sustaining our obsession is born by our souls. Whether we are willing to kill for oil, kill for country, or kill for God—the result is the same—a broken commandment.
Yet, mankind's destiny of harmony is fated to be learned through conflict—it is how we grow as individuals, as families, as nations and as a species. Over the past two thousand years it has been the conflict between the spiritual and the material, and between the heart and the mind, good and evil. Yet in the new age we will unite heart and mind to form Wisdom and through that wisdom we will unite the spiritual that is within us with the material that we are made of and spirit will truly inhabit the flesh and God will inhabit the world.
The lessons of this age have been carried in through the words of Jesus Christ for He ushered in the age of Pisces. Many times in His sayings He mentions the "end of this age", that phrase is synonymous with Judgment Day. It is the day that this generation graduates. I believe that this day is not a day but a time—a period of years, perhaps decades—which will fully bring us into the Age of Aquarius. Christ said, "…For there are five trees for you in Paradise that remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever becomes aquatinted with them will not experience death". The trees are Faith, Charity, Joy, Peace and Hope.
His teachings were the same teachings as all of the prophets before him, yet, they were like the mustard seed in their growth around the world. Many people now, in the Christian world are talking about the ascension in flesh. This certainly seems like the best time to ascend. I believe that we do not really understand what that means. The physical world is a world of death. It is the valley of the shadow of death, because death is all around us, yet our souls walk through the shadow of death because our souls never experience it. By this time many of us are realizing that heaven is within not in some place out there. Since heaven is within, then we must certainly ascend to Heaven while we are in the flesh. This ascension is finding God or Spirit within ourselves and living it in our lives. Christ says, "For he (man) did not find it in the day he was in the body, so that he will not find it in the Day of Judgment". It is stated in other words in Hebrews 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord"
We must live this commandment that was stressed by Jesus Christ:
The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. And then You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
He said, "Get behind me Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men". Here again it is the same choice, either the things of God or the things of Men. We have been battling this choice over the past millennium. We reached a point in the 80's where the God that we worshipped was Satan.
If you look at the devil in the Rider Waite Tarot Deck, you will notice that the devil is holding the man and woman with chains. However, the chains are not locked, representing the fact that they can leave at any time. That card called the Devil represents our being chained to the material world. In reality the devil is not some horned creature in physical form. It does not require weird ceremonies and the sacrifice of virgins. The devil requires corporate downsizing to increase profits, factory closings to make more money, and the sacrifice of people's livelihoods for the sake of greed. The Devil requires us to build ourselves up by putting others down. The devil requires that we hate and steal, whether it is a purse or someone's business, or walking over the homeless on the street without even acknowledging their existence.
It requires that we condemn people because their beliefs are different to ours, or they look different to us. It is an energy that tempts us with the material world and binds us by our passion and our greed for possessions. It is that passion for worldly things, and for power over others, that is the fire of hell. Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish." Gospel of Thomas
For those things have no soul and cannot lead us in any way to God, but in fact, lead us away. The devil is all things that are void of love.
Many say that there is a battle going on between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. This causes a kind of imagery that I am not at this time comfortable with. Yet, there is a battle being waged now between the Spiritual and the Material. However we describe it the energy is the same. Yet a battle between darkness and light feels like a battle that is going on outside of us. The battle is not outside but is really being waged within. Energy is energy it has no form. We give it form and we direct it. Our choices will decide either which side wins, or if we can find the Wisdom to make peace between the two. There is an Hasidic Quotation that goes as follows :
On the day of destruction, power lies at the bottom of the deep and grows. If a pregnant woman goes into labor in the eighth month, when the time is not yet come, doctors try to stop her labor. But not so in the ninth month. If the woman goes into labor then, doctors try to increase it, so that she may soon give birth. That is why, formerly, when people called to heaven, begging God to free the earth of some misery, their prayer was granted, for the time was not yet come. But now that redemption is near, no prayer which ascends in behalf of the sorrowful world is of avail, but sorrow is heaped upon sorrow, so that the birth may soon be accomplished.
This is the same as saying that while we are learning, if we ask the teacher a question we are immediately given the answer. However, on the day of the final exam we will not be given any answers for now it is time for our knowledge and our ability to learn to be tested. If and how the end comes will depend upon our choices, but it is certainly clear that sorrow upon sorrow is being heaped upon the world. Yet we cannot pray for God to make things better, we must pray for God to give us a chance to make ourselves better.
Everything is catching up to us now. We are destroying the earth and the things of God, so that we may make more room and have more resources for the things of the material world. The more life that we destroy the more nature is destroying us.
Some delusional being decided one day that if we are created in the image of God, then we have to power of God. Over the past two thousand years we have built our own Tower of Babel. We have treated Mother Nature as though she were a thing to suck dry. She lives, and as we are seeing in the Gulf and around the world through disaster after disaster…she reacts.
All of the hatred and prejudice that we each repress is being played out by the racists and terrorists. Yet they are not acting in a vacuum, they are absorbing what has been hidden, the emotions that motivate those who move to segregated neighborhoods although they do not consider themselves prejudice, those who do not approve inter-racial or even inter-religious marriages, yet they do not consider themselves prejudice. It is all of these hidden feelings that are becoming manifest. Christ said, "For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]" Gospel of Thomas. In Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for every purpose under the Sun. This, is the time to reap.
There are those of us who realize that in order to effect change we must open our eyes, however unpleasant, to that which must be changed. There are those who will hide from what is front of their faces and seek a liar to tell sooth them. The ancient alchemists knew that the world "out there" and the world within ourselves is the same. They saw that my separateness from you is the illusion.
Most people have resentments and prejudices that they hide, perhaps even from themselves, but now those feelings are being acted out within our society. We can no longer profess love and compassion we must become love and compassion. We can no longer consider ourselves alone. As an astrologer, I am one of those who believe that the Judgment Day began officially on August 11th 1999, the day of the Great Millennium Eclipse. This is our last chance to connect with our spirit.
We must begin to consider our immediate family one that is global. This generation of souls entered in the Age of Leo, and it is love in its highest form that we must learn. Up till now we have been learning to develop our individual abilities and our individual sense of self. Now in the Age of Aquarius we will be asked to take that love and sense of self and use it to serve the greater good of all. We were not meant to learn this the easy way. Yet how hard it is depends upon us. As it stands, we must learn it through terrorism, disasters, wars, hatred and disease. The good thing is that we still have a choice. We can still change. This moment in history is critical.
The earth is attacking us with a vengeance; we are attacking each other in the same way and will continue to do so until we learn what we are here to learn. Christ said,
Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary.
To stand solitary means to stand united as one. This is the purpose of what we are experiencing and will continue to experience into the new millennium.
Our collective unconscious, the fabric that holds us together has begun to tear apart, to have holes in it, just as the ozone layer has on the physical plane. We no longer have agreements to rely on. We are lost and seeking some firm ground to stand on. People see three sides of every issue, question every rule and break or ignore every law.
Things will change and we will be a part of that change, whether it is through disaster or through love. We have history for us to learn from. How many empires crumble because they become too heavy on top for the foundation to support. We must evenly distribute material of our world because there are cracks in the foundation and it soon will collapse. We can create that change if we begin within our own hearts. The world that we live in is the one that we create. Not merely by our actions but by our true intentions. We must change the world outside by changing the world inside. We must become one in truth. We must find the one truth, because we can no longer agree on any facts.
We are at the end of an Age. We must connect with those five trees, eat their fruits and become them. So it is important to know what the core curriculum was, and that core curriculum has been taught by sages and prophets since the beginning of time. It is the Word of God, spoken in all languages and by all of His incarnations. In this millennium, our teacher in the west has been Jesus Christ. It is time to love. Love someone each day, help someone each day and just give of your heart. We must make the changes in the world by making them within ourselves. It is never too late, not as long as we are here. There is no help that we cannot receive for us to be saved. But we have to choose who we will serve. Heaven will be on earth when it is alive within the hearts of man hearts. We must make every season the season of giving. We are the lost sheep, and when we return to our hearts we will be found. Jesus said:
The (Father's) kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. One of them, the largest, went astray. He left the ninety-nine and looked for the one until he found it. After he had toiled, he said to the sheep, 'I love you more than the ninety-nine.
And those who assumed the form of my type will assume the form of my Word. Indeed, these will come forth in light forever and (in) friendship with each other in the spirit, since they have known in every respect (and) indivisibility that what is, is ONE. (Gnostic Scriptures, The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, Jesus speaking about himself, 65:19-33)
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Karma is something that is really misunderstood. It is usually considered something that we earn – we earn good karma or we earn bad karma. Just how do we earn this karma? It seems like we earn it by either doing something good or doing something bad. However, if karma were a bucket the size of the earth, those explanations would be drops the size of mothballs.
Having done a number of past life regressions for people, I have found a whole new appreciation for and understanding of karma, sort of karma for dummies. Karma is really something that we have to learn – plain and simple. Here is an example of karma for myself, in this life. I have carried over into this life a feeling of extreme vulnerability in the physical world. My father was one of those larger than life characters, someone my husband would call a "Mans' man". I grew up feeling completely safe with him around. I did not take into considerations his character flaws, I just saw him as a MAN who was tough and strong and so he could keep the monsters away and insure my safety.
As I began dating, I was attracted to men who could protect me. The type of man that many woman are attracted to – MACHO. I was attracted to dragon slayers. I liked men who kept the masses at bay either through their financial power, or that physical energy that some men just emit. I met these men, and, as was my karma, they were equally attracted to me. We would even fall in love, or, more aptly put when referring to karma, we would fall into obsession. After countless disappointments, and sometimes a little violence, I found that the men I attracted to my life were not strong, at least not when it came to a strength that required more than lifting heavy rocks. In the end it always came back to my own strength. It was my karma to take responsibility for myself. Each time I handed over responsibility for my well-being to someone else, I paid a price, in love, in business, in anyway. Another karma that I had was with my self-worth and my lovability. Each time that I turned to someone else to show me that I was worthy, they challenged my worth. Karma is not necessarily about something that you have done to someone else, or to others in general – sometimes, very often, it is about something that you have to do for yourself.
My grandmother believed that she could not be loved for herself; she believed that she had to buy it, or place herself in a position that others needed her. She couldn't give, although that is what she thought that she was doing – but there was a debt to pay for her giving and somehow in her mind this exchange was as close as she could come to being loved. My grandmother held on to every penny that she could. She did nothing, went nowhere and only used her money to hold on to the people that she loved. She believed that no one really loved her or could love her so she saved every penny. In her mind, no one would be there for her when she was old so she didn't want to be in a position to have to depend on anyone, who she believed, would only reject her. After an unfortunate and unforeseen karmic turn of events she lost everything and had no choice but to rely on the kindness of strangers. However, those people that she was so sure would not be there for her when she was in need, turned out with open hearts blessing her with all of the love that she never believed possible in her life. That too was karma. It was the karma of learning. It is all the karma of learning.
I have a friend that I regressed to a number of past lives. In each one she was some kind of slave. Someone who was not given any value, except for one life, in which she did find and relish her own value and her own accomplishments after a childhood of being devalued. However, old habits die hard and she brought that same unworthy mindset into this life and was treated as a lesser being by the same souls who had done it to her in her past lives. However in this life she is learning and beginning step by step to assert her own power. And with each experience in which she does this – she finds that those souls who once intimidated her begin to treat her with greater respect. This is karma also. Perhaps with this karmic reinforcement she will become one with her own power and her own worth and the lesson will not require more lives, the karma will have been released. Most times we return to learn our lessons with the same souls but wearing different costumes in a different set. I believe that we choose to experience these lessons with the same souls not because they owe us, or we them, but because that soul level contact awakens in us those feelings that we need to rise above. We are innately intimidated by those who have left us with scars of feeling less than in past lives. Just as we awaken in them a need to treat us in a way that they may not really understand themselves in this lifetime. It is not so much that they do it to us, and then we do it to them. It is better explained as they do it to us over and over again, lifetime after lifetime until we do not allow it anymore. I have often heard someone say to me, "I don't understand it, I only act this way with you". It is because this drama is between us. Generally, this drama, repeated over lifetimes on different stages teaches a lesson to all parties involved, and it is repeated until the lessons are learned.
Of course there are the karmas that involve race, religion, social status, and power. Someone may be very poor in one life, and feel enormous resentment towards those who have more. That person may come back again poor, but in the next life that soul has the opportunity to amass great wealth. The lesson is in how they handle that wealth, just as there is a lesson in how one handles poverty. All roads lead to love, compassion, empathy, understanding, acceptance and brotherhood. All of these things must be learned but not just for the benefit of others but equally for the benefit of ourselves. Karma is ultimately about learning the lessons of unconditional love which inevitably leads us to the knowledge that we are all One, and that the totality of that One of which we all are is God.
We write our karma as we go along. We write the plot for our next life in this one. Reincarnation is about walking a mile in someone else's shoes. Karma is the path that we walk that mile on so that we may learn the true love of God, of other and of self and know that there is not differentiation between the three. That is the trinity that has existed since the beginning of time and before. Karma is not complicated. It contains no judgment, no punishment and no reward, except perhaps the reward of becoming the Love that we so desperately seek.


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Had breakfast in the hotel and walked to the Royal Ontario Museum. Great dinosaur skeletons and first nations totem poles.
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Flew in from Gatwick to Toronto Pearson, and picked up car - a white VW Beetle. First time driving on the right and driving an automatic. Drove to Hotel Isabella on Sherbourne and Isabella without incident.
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Amazing managment/great hide-away
My stay was overwhelming. From the moment I entered the hotel, everyone was so kind. The cleanliness of the public areas and guest rooms was second to no hotel in the city. Thank you for making my stay in T.O memorable.
Close to the Heart
Stayed at this little gem while in the city for a seminar. Found the rooms to well kept and staff (who I saw) to be very friendly. I liked the fact it was close to the heart of the city and yet in an area that was not very busy.
Would recommend this to any business traveller looking to relax and unwind!!
Business traveller
i would like to say that this hotel has been a god sent for me. i am in the city alot with the starting up of a new business. For the price it has accommadated my needs beyond most other hotels in the area. The staff has been nothing but friendly to me and having stayed there as often as i have they are a big part of my returning. They have provided above and beyond what you would get with a major chain, guided me both with my business and personal stay. Places to eat, how to go to get to where i need to be.
The rooms are small but suit my needs well.
I personally have never seen a single bug and have now stayed there over 40 times.
It is so nice to go into the hotel where they know my name and care about my comfort.
Extremely Bad Choice - Save Yourself The Grief
I've never stayed at such a dirty and bug infested place before. Yes I admit the price was eyecatching, but I found out too late that it was a high price to pay in return. When I first saw a big flat brown spot on my shirt I thought it was a stain or fuzz, it was only when I tried to use my hand to remove it that I realized it was a bug. Totally freaked me out.
Not a bad little place
This is an adequate hotel with LITTLE rooms at a nice price. Like some other reviewers we also had the issue of different price charged to that advertised to their website. We found the room to be spotless including the bathroom but very small, not ideal for a couple but fine as we were there for only a couple of days. The area the hotel is in is not great (as advised by a friend who is a cop in Toronto) but fine as long as you don't spend too much time across the street near the flats. Parking is an issue at this spot but you are close enough to walk into downtown Toronto although it is a decent walk.
Not a bad place for one night
Trying to find a hotel to stay in for under $100 CAD in downtown Toronto is quite challenging, let alone trying to find any place to stay during the film festival. I wanted a place to stay that was clean and safe and near public transit.
It's Alright. . .
I stayed one night with my b/f here b/c we needed a cheaper place and this hotel looked nice from the pictures and people seemed to have given it good reviews.
Good value in Toronto
Stayed at the Isabella for a business/pleasure visit to Toronto early June. Good location-easily accessible to transportation to attractions. Had some problems with checkin-was twice put into occupied rooms. Straightened out on third try. Was told staff member handling checkin was new. Also had elevator and airconditioning problems during my stay. Elevator was fixed the first day, airconditioning was not which was a problem since there was a heatwave that week. Staff was apologetic and dealings with them were always pleasant. Nice area and good value for the money.
A Gem in the City!
So I definitely took a risk when I booked a room in a hotel that I had never heard of, but I decided that with their rates and the pictures I saw on their website, it looked perfect. Well, I was right! I stayed in a standard room, and although the rooms are small I didn't mind. It was clean & comfortable. The interior design was modern and I had all I needed in the room. A TV, phone, hair dryer, nice bed, clean linens, toiletries, etc etc. The staff is so much fun to talk to! Since it's a small hotel you get to know the staff pretty quickly. It makes you feel special because by the second day most of them know your name! That was cool, usually I just walk by the front desk and don't even make eye contact with the guy/girl sitting there. I will definitely go back to this hotel and am looking forward to my next trip to Toronto. Hopefully this time the weather will be good so I can have a beer on their patio!


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TOMPKINSVILLE — A Bowling Green man was found fatally wounded Thursday in Monroe County, and a Tompkinsville man has been arrested in relation to the death.
On Friday, at approximately 8:43 a.m., Kentucky State Police Post 15 in Columbia received a call from the Monroe County sheriff in reference to a deceased male subject that had been located inside a residence on Galilee Road, 10 miles west of Tompkinsville. Upon arrival, units determined the victim, Terry Alexander, 33, had been shot multiple times, according to a KSP press release.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Monroe County coroner. Further investigation revealed that Demarcus Hamilton, 32, had shot Alexander, according to the KSP statement. Hamilton was located and arrested in Cookeville, Tenn., and charged with murder. Investigation is continuing by Detective Brooks. Kentucky State Police was assisted at the scene by Monroe County Sheriff's Office and Monroe County Coroner's Office.


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Discussions about women's health care in Michigan often revolve around one topic: abortion. But a package of bills supported by State Rep. Vicki Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) and other House Democrats aims to change that.
Barnett, Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-Huntington Woods) and Dian Slavens (D-Canton) spoke at the Farmington Community Library Main Library Monday afternoon about four bills and three resolutions:
- HR 140, naming May 12-18 "National Women's Health Week" in Michigan
- HR 138, urging the Dept. of Community Health (DCH) to promote programs that identify and address inequities in the prevention, treatment and research of diseases threatening women
- HR 139, recommending that the state intensify efforts to reduce the rate of teen pregnancies
- House Bill 4067, requiring all health facilities and agencies to offer emergency contraception to rape survivors
- HB 4722, which directs the DCH to develop and disseminate information about emergency contraception, including a description, explanation of use, safety efficacy and availability of emergency contraception
- HB 4721, requiring age-appropriate, medically accurate and objective sexuality education to be taught in public schools
- HB 4260, requiring doctors to give women information on breast density and encourage those who have dense breast tissue to consult with their doctors about other screening options
"Earlier this year, House Democrats went on a listening tour ... and one of the things we heard repeatedly is that Michigan is letting down its women when it comes to access to health care," Lipton said.
Democrats know they'll have to negotiate with their Republican colleagues to pass the bills, all of which have been introduced in previous sessions. In press conferences across the state, lawmakers encouraged women and men to let their representatives know that "women's health care does matter," Slavens said.
Lipton said Democrats are making the bills part of a "larger conversation" about women's health care. "Debates often evolve to a single issue," she said. "Access to women's health care is much broader." She said centering the conversation around abortion is "just diverting attention" from the larger discussion about women's health care.
"Women don't live in a vacuum," Barnett added. "What happens to the women in your lives and their health care really affects an entire family and the entire society as a whole."
In addition to speaking out on behalf of the package, Barnett said, women and men need to go to the polls and ensure that women are fairly represented. Currently, only 24 women serve in the House and four serve in the Senate, even though women comprise 52 percent of Michigan's population.
"The majority of people in the legislature are men, the majority of people doing (health) research are men, the majority of the people giving the money to do the research are men," Lipton said.
Barnett said it's also important to encourage young women to get involved in science and tech careers "to make sure the population is fairly represented."


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I do my working out in the morning, and was wondering what others did for pre and post workout meals. Since I work out first thing in the morning, I usually will do it on an empty stomach (maybe a glass of OJ before, if anything), and then I'll have a meal after I shower and get dressed (which ends up about 30 to 40 mins after I'm down working out.) Breakfeast usually consists of a packet of plain oatmeal (usually right out of the package (Why cook it when you can just inhale it dry). And usually 8 to 10 eggwhites (sometimes 1 or 2 of those eggs being whole eggs). Other days If Im in a rush I'll pick up 2 Metrx bars and a bottle of water on the way to work....
Anyway, Should I consume anything before lifting? If so what and how long should I wait before lifting?
I could not train right with no food in me.
also, post workout meal in general depends on your goals at the time.
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You should have a small meal with equal portions of protein and slow digested carbs with no fat about 1-2 hours before the training session.
I can't train on a full stomach too.I feel very tired and my lifts suck...
TCD: Right now I'm looking to put on weight (well solid size, not fat ass size)
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You should have a small meal with equal portions of protein and slow digested carbs with no fat about 1-2 hours before the training session.
Equal portions? as in physical size or grams (ie: a Myoplex Deluxe wouldnt work 42gP/24gC)
Slow digested carbs? Forgive my ignorance, please explain.
If I was to take a guess, I would think like brown rice instead of white rice (which I never eat anyway, I just eat brown). I would understand slow digested so I would have the energy for longer, but what types of food are you talking about?
Equal portions:for ex.:42protein/42carbs
So, a myoplex mass is not a good preworkout source.
Then,for the slow digested carbs:like you said,brown rice is ok,as oatmeal or sweet potato are too.
We choose slow digested carbs because they don't cause a rapid raise in blood sugar levels and thus a fast insulin response which can make you feel sleepy and ruin your workout.
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I train at 6:40am
Wake up at 5:30
Eat at 5:50...
1-2 cups oatmeal
2 egg whites
1 whole egg
40g protein, 5-8g creatine, 7g glutamine, three scoops gatorade or maltodextrin or nothing...
That meal before I workout helps me a lot, I think.
Janzik, when you wake up after a whole night of sleep, your body has basically been fasting the whole time you're asleep.
So working out on an empty stomach might subject your body going into a state of catabolism tuttut
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I work out first thing in the morning before work. I have to balance getting decent sleep and working out/getting to work before 11am.
7:45(normally)- wake up to stumble, incapacitated, to the bathroom to take MASSIVE torrential leak. I then return to bed and take 3 H-cuts.
8:00- get my ass up and eat. Usually a PBJ and a bowl of oatmeal or some raisin bran, etc. I try to get a decent mix of high and low GI carbs, some good fats and protein for breakfast.
8:30-40- Take off to gym
9:00- arrive at gym to be stared at by homosexuals in fabulous San Francisco!
I'd never work out without eating first. Never.
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DansGuardian is an open source web content filter which currently runs on Linux systems, including Ubuntu. It allows you to filter content on web pages based on phrases, text and URL. When configured correctly, it will block inappropriate content as well as content not suitable for children.
If you're looking for a simple content filtering system in Ubuntu, then you may want to take a look at DansGuardian. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to install and configure DansGuardian in Ubuntu.
- Install and configure DansGuardian in Ubuntu
- Enjoy!
To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to install DansGuardian and Squid.
sudo apt-get install dansguardian squid
Next, run the commands below to open DansGuardian's config file.
sudo gedit /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf
Then find the highlighted line shown below and delete it. Or just comment it out by adding the ( # ) before the line. Save when done.
Next, run the commands below to open Squid config file
sudo gedit /etc/squid/squid.conf
Then find the line shown below and add the option ( transparent ). Save the file when done.
http_port 3128 transparent
Finally, open Firefox and click 'Tool –> Preferences –> Advanced –> Network' and choose Manual proxy configurations. Then add the IP address and port # shown.
127.0.0.1 8080
Restart your computer and test it.
To start DansGuardian and Squid, run the commands below:
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Live Preview of the 6th Annual Sloan-C/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium (April 9-11, Las Vegas) - Onsite program preview - FREE
A conference devoted to the emerging and innovative uses of technology designed to improve teaching and learning online
Learn more about the 6th Annual Sloan-C/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium (ET4Online), taking place April 9-11, 2013 at the Planet Hollywood Resort in exciting Las Vegas, Nevada.
Join this free webinar to learn about the full complement of over 200 presentations organized into this 3 day conference. Conference sessions include an array of free interactive workshops followed by our keynote presentation, plenary panels, information sessions, best-in-track sessions, featured sessions, MERLOT Award winner presentations, poster sessions, and vendor showcase presentations. Un-conference barcamps and an un-conference post-conference session, facilitated by Dr. Jen Ross from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, co-author of the "Manifesto for Teaching Online" (Ross, Bayne, Macleod, & O'Shea, 2011), will be offered Wednesday afternoon at no additional charge for registered conference attendees. Additionally, learn about two new programs offered at this year's conference – the Career Forum for job seekers and Launch Pad, offering access to educational technology startups.
The 2013 ET4Online Symposium offers you an opportunity to share best practices, understand applications, discover new technologies, and connect to others who share a love for and belief in the promise of educational technology. Join us and learn more about the symposium described by EdSurge Newsletter as 'a "perfect storm" of quality learning events'.
NOTE: If you have a disability, use assistive technology, or may need accommodation to fully access a webinar, please email us at email@example.com. You will be contacted by someone from our webinar staff as quickly as possible to discuss your needs.
• Shari Smith –Conference Chair –Education Consultant
• David Wicks –Conference Chair-Elect and Program Chair – Seattle Pacific University
• Cathy Swift – MERLOT Program Chair - MERLOT
• Christine Hinkley – Director, Conference Services – The Sloan Consortium
• Katie Fife Schuster – Associate Director, Conference Administration – The Sloan Consortium


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