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"The sky and the earth are charged with our power as we pay homage to the Ram, who brings us the passing of winter and the emergence of spring. Flowers grow, and new beginnings are here. It is an ode to joy" (anna shaw)"Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,Daughter of Elysium,We enter fire imbibed,Heavenly, thy sanctuary"
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Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, ruled by Mars. As the first sign in the zodiac, and corresponding with the first day of spring, the Aries individual is a mover and shaker, fearlessly forging ahead or "springing forth" into new territory.
The Aries personality is always a force to be reckoned with. These are curious and energetic individuals, always delving into new areas, but often quickly becoming bored and moving on, leaving unfinished projects in their wake. Arians are forthcoming and direct. They don't generally have hidden agendas or ulterior motives. If they find an area in which they are interested for a long period, they can become accomplished, well-known, and wealthy.
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This is the seventh in my Zodiac Series. The others are…
This image was created in Photoshop CS4. It took over 70 layers to merge and blend all the foreground images with the background. Many different textures were added and lots of painting was involved. It was tremendous fun to create this.
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another gorgeous artwork…
hope to see it in the Inspired Art group !!!
my best, francis.
Francis, you are such a star!! Thank you so much. I have submitted it 'Inspired Art'.
– Anna Shaw
quite beautiful
Thank you so much. That means such a lot to me.
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Your at it again, great work, just love it, so well done you. Keep them coming.
David xx
Thanks so much for your support David. i am just a bit puzzled as I have left the hardes 'till last! What shall I do with a crab and a scorpion???
– Anna Shaw
Another wonderful piece of work Anna – this is your forte! As an Ariene, I may be biased, but I think that this image is the best of the series so far! xx
I think maybe you are a tad biased!!
Thank you so much.
– Anna Shaw
Your Art Anna is Gorgeous, OMG! Your style is Mesmerizing! True talent my friend…..True talent!!!!!!!! : ) Have a Beautiful Day & I can't wait to see your next Creative Gem!!! Sincerely, syl
Oh Sylvia, what a wonderful comment to receive. A huge Thank You.
Capricorn will arrive next I think.
– Anna Shaw
Oh & I will Anxiously await the "Capricorn"…………….. : )
beautiful scene… good job…
Thanks George.
– Anna Shaw
Wow great work Anna. Beautiful and enchanting.
That is lovely. Thank you so much.
– Anna Shaw
Beautiful work Anna and a stunning series. x
Anna, not sure about the scorpion but you could always eat the crab ;-D


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I thought that Oblivion was a tremendously varied mixed bag. [...] Good game design should be intuitive and the leveling system was anything but. You had to read up and study on how to do it correctly.
Not to mention that whenever you leveled up, everything else in the game mysteriously leveled up as well, in a way that was so painfully obvious it totally broke my suspension of disbelief. When the wolves mysteriously turned into timber wolves I realized leveling was pointless.
I also couldn't get past the fact that Oblivion was accessed by diving into giant flaming vaginas, which took you to a place you knew was evil because there was blood everywhere. Was the game designed entirely by gay men? They should have had an evil demoness called Menses to finish it off.
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If a person not producing a caste certificate while introducing Dr. Ambedkar's work ("An Ambedkar for our times, April 2) results in a controversy, should we expect only women to write on feminism, or the poor on poverty? It might be her controversial image which led the publisher to opt for Ms. Arundhati Roy to introduce the book, but one cannot take the credit away from her for the extensive research she has done. She underscores that Dr. Ambedkar's role in shaping the history of Indian society has been underplayed. It is preposterous to imagine that his ideas and vision were limited to a particular caste. Casteism, like all injustices, has more to do with the psyche of the oppressor than that of the oppressed.
Therefore, it is more important and encouraging that someone from outside the fold should draw attention to the "real" Ambedkar in context. Lastly, Ms. Roy's alleged image as a Maoist sympathiser (more aptly, Adivasi sympathiser) should not make her critics cringe at everything that she writes.
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Started by Orion Warrior. Last reply by Heather Jan 13. 17 Replies 4 Loved
Hiya, I'm just curiose about those from or have been to Andromena and if you have any memories from there? What was it like? What are the E.Ts like? What kind of energy and solor systems are…READ MORE →
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I figure there must be many sense it's a galaxy. I obviously don't remember any such details, so I'm curious. Here's a few different pics below that I found online of Andromedan species, and both…READ MORE →
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Watch your defintions @michiro hutaki. Reality reflects thought. It is very difficult sometimes to remember that what we witness is in fact fractal versions of ourselves. And we are fractal versions of it. Time does not operate as we perceive it, talking of time in the way you do is distracting you from seeing beyond separation. Categories can be useful for making meaning but often restrict the potential meanings that can be made. Love, be, accept, shift yourself. It is all you anyway.
. . . I found out a few days ago that my origin is Pegasus. Is that similar? It has been difficult to find any such information.
The last time I checked Andromeda was like being in Rome during the height of its power. I have been taalking to my people about what is happening at the civilian level in the Andromeda Galaxy and they seem to be forming a barrier just like the Galactic Federation of Light. Andromeda is in the center of their defensive barrier that has been set up in our galaxy. I would start asking hard questions pertaining to this conflict. All this perfect peace pertaining to a place we have never been seems to go to be true. I'm sorry if I burst anyone's buddle, but mine was burst years ago, by those that I have talked to that live there.
I'm not sure whether everyone has already seen this, but this is a good Andromeda meditation/activation:
Lastly, there are several planets Andromedans can be from, some have blue-white stars (so inhabitants have bluish skin color), others have standard yellow suns. There is allegedly a version of Andromedans that are brown-golden colored ... guessing their sun is a red dwarf or red sun. Andromedan females are supposedly famous throughout the galaxy for their beauty. Tall and slender -- some Andromedan races are 10 ft tall and live 600 to 700 years (by our measure). And some races are our height and don't look vastly different than us; perhaps more slender as a rule. Fun stuff!
I am told (but as yet cannot see) that I have a 7th dimensional Andromedan as my guide. I "imagine" it to be a "her" but I guess once you go past the 4th dimension gender is irrelevant. And similar to what Melanie just described.
I was also "told" (James Gilliland transpersonal session) that I myself lived on one of the Andromedan system planets. Leona's description reminded me of a dream I had once of being on a yellow-sun planet. I was a traveling "shaman", walking on simple dirt roads from village to village in a rural environment -- in fact there was no "modern infrastructure" anywhere. Yet the people were highly evolved and spiritual. Perhaps when a civilization is nearly united with Spirit, modern infrastructure goes away as it is not needed. Self-teleportation would kinda obviate the need for roads, vehicles, flying etc. Anyway ... in the dream I was to appear at this village, and when i arrived the whole village was abuzz about "so-and-so is in town". The so-and-so was my name which was impossible to pronounce once I woke up, and quickly lost. I remember as I was waking up I was mentally shouting "I know who I am now!". I gave a short speech and taught the people some fine points on spiritual attunement, and then brought out this flute-like device and played it. The audio vibrations uplifted and healed everyone. I've never forgotten this dream. Oh, and the world ... it really looked very much like Earth, trees, meadows, forests ... pristine, clean and beautiful. But there was the clear sense in the dream it was not Earth, but a distant planet. I appeared to be humanoid as was everyone else.
Melanie that being sounds like a 7th dimensional Andromedan. Lol, I wouldn't worry about whether it's Andromedan or Pleiadian, just be thankful you have one!
Hi Everyone. Funny story. I have for the longest time seen and communicated with a beautiful, loving and highly evolved being who was very very tall, thin and blue in colour. This being has come to me in my dreams, directed my psychic work and given me guidance. Someone one day mentioned the word 'Pleiadian' and I decided that that is what this being must be. So any who years on I attend a ET workshop and the lady asks me if I was aware of my big blue guide and I say yes of course, intimately. She tells me it is Andromedan and I think, nah its pleiadian! So I google Andromedan and low and behold pictures similar to my blue friend come up on the screen.....he never corrected me and I've been aligning myself to the wrong planet. Oops. anyway i am here now :)


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Celebrate Summer!* Tues-Thurs, May 26 - 28 9:00-1:00, Ages 3-6, $150 NorthPark Presbyterian Church Specifically geared towards the pre-schoolers who get out of school before the bigger kids, we will enjoy some of summer's greatest childhood pleasures together - celebrating nature, a picnic, camp crafts, a lemonade stand, classic indoor and outdoor games (no batteries included), and … [Continue reading]
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Happy Easter from my Family to yours! Bombarded with little plastic Easter eggs everywhere you turn? Here are a Dozen great uses for them! 1. Conversation Starters! Put in Easter Egg Questions: 12 Talking Tips for Your Family Meal! This is an idea we have used at our home before. Let the kids hide the eggs around the house or have everyone take an egg out of the basket when they get their … [Continue reading]
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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood Overwhelmed and exhausted with birthday parties, soccer games, egg hunts, spring music and ballet recitals, and school fundraisers? April and May can be a BUSY time of year! But have you just stopped to play outside? To notice the new bright green leaves on trees, to fly a kite in the breeze, to see the … [Continue reading]
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Dogs wanted to be fed early this morning, and the newspaper wasn't here yet, so I caught up on some of the Times Literary Supplement. I adore the TLS; I read about fiction, history books, science books, biography, music and the other arts, and so on. Philosophy, not so much. My eyes glase over.
Then there's the new law in Indiana, simliar to laws in 19 other states, ostensibly about religious freedom, except that only Indiana's law explicitly enables discrimination against gays or anybody else a merchant doesn't approve of. Odd that in a nation founded on the principal of religious freedom we are using religion as an excuse to curb our freedoms; never mind, too many of our laws are unnecessary and even foolish. But when I go to Facebook to check on what my grandchildren are up to, I have to click through 50 or 60 posts from complete strangers about the Indiana law! So I go to the mothership and try to tighten up my privacy settings. I have enough friends.
And finally, tonight we watch the evening news. At five on PBS there's the BBC World News, then later the PBS NewsHour. On the BBC World News a considerable segment was taken up with a young woman plugging her self-help book about the importance of good habits. And on the PBS NewsHour there was an item about a journalist wrapping a gizmo around his head and getting an electronic jolt that (he said) had the effect of caffeine without the coffee. (What do they have against coffee?)
March 25, 2015
How to park, part one
Patching up a 60-year-old house has meant a few trips to Ikea, which is always a busy place. Here is how one guy parked his boxcar.
March 24, 2015
An observation
It seems to be the case that the late Lee Kuan Yew, who was the enlightened authoritarian founding father of Singapore, suppressed freedom of the press as well as chewing gum, but allowed economic freedom. The same was true of South Korea, where Syngman Rhee and his like were essentially fascist dictators, who allowed their people to become more and more prosperous until they were able to purchase their political freedom.
March 24, 2015
A jibe
Let us imagine a man who lives in Akron, Ohio, and teaches the history of the Italian Renaissance. It is dreadful to think what he has to reconcile.
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March 24, 2015
Religious fundamentalism strikes again
Last Saturday night a fire in an Orthodox Jewish household in New York City cost the lives of seven children. The fire was caused by a hot plate which, it is speculated, had been left on because of Sabbath prohibitions against doing anything. If this is true, I cannot express my disgust at such idiocy.
March 15, 2015
How we live now
A new issue of The New Republic appeared on the newsstand, so I grabbed it, because it had me in it. I had been tipped off by my high school buddy Fritz Plous that David Hajdu had written an article about popular songs, and quoted me:
The Billboard chart had only been launched in 1940, and in fact the song was the first number one Billboard hit. It was still number one on the day I was born a few weeks later, which Hajdu did not mention, perhaps not wanting to broadcast my age to the world, gentleman that he is.
Fritz and I had subscribed to The New Republic for many years. It was a weekly for 85 or 90 years, then a bi-weekly, and the new issue is for March/April 2015. Hajdu is the only familiar name in this issue, almost everyone else having quit en masse late last year (see below, January 20). On the Internet I learn that Hajdu had been at TNR for 12 years, and that he joined The Nation in January. I wonder if his article is one that TNR had in the bank. The rest of the current issue is a general interest magazine, and not a very good one; I found nothing in it to read. Once billing itself as "A journal of politics and the arts", It has suddenly come down a long way.
Coincidentally, the Baffler also hit the newsstand this week, and contains a depressing if hilarious article by Chris Lehmann about his short career as a news executive at Yahoo. Yahoo hasn't been of much importance for a long time, but it has a lot of money and a lot of readers; unfortunately it is run by the same sort of Silicon Valley whiz kids who purchased The New Republic a few years ago, and who don't even know what journalism is. Lehmann describes what is happening to American journalism as "a slow-motion train wreck."
The Baffler is what The New Republic once was, but funnier and more acerbic. The Washington Post said about it, "The writers possess a contagious enthusiasm for showing how today's profiteers have caked so much lipstick on the pig that you can hardly see its face."
March 15, 2015
Bang Bang
Thriller novelist Stephen King was quoted on Facebook:
A Dave Einhorn commented, "Simple, Buy a lockbox. Duh." His comment was accompanied by a picture of a small metal box big enough for a single pistol. He doesn't get it. He thinks that when the federal stormtroopers come around to take his gun away, they are going to stand around patiently while he finds the key and unlocks the box. He just isn't paranoid enough.
March 15, 2015
They're coming to get us
Domino's is a successful national pizza chain. It offers so many toppings that Patrick Doyle, the CEO, calculates that there are 34 million possible combinations. Now the Food and Drug Administration is insisting that Domino's posts in every one of its 5,000 stores a menu board with calorie counts. Even if this would be of any help to customers, most of them are having the pizza delivered and will never see the signs, which will cost about $2,000 at each store and will have to be replaced every time there's a menu change.
Somewhere else, it was reported, a Chinese takeaway was closed down, because among other things the authorities want the busy owner to check the temperature of each ingredient every two hours.
Jim Duncan, our favorite food writer, reports that local authorities in Des Moines are undecided whether to allow food trucks around the city. Somebody commented that she would never buy from them: "How could you trust them?" she wrote. My comment was, "This year I shall reach the age of 75 without ever wearing a skidlid, using a hand sanitizer, or being afraid to patronize a hot-dog cart."
Which I did yesterday in front of a Home Depot: I had a quarter-pound jumbo weenie slathered with raw chopped onions, ketchup and mustard, served to me in the warm sunshine, and very good it was too. But we cannot know how much longer such freedoms will last. This has nothing to do with "liberal" or "conservative", by the way. What we lack more and more is simple competence.
March 15, 2015
The problems increase as you get older
Most of my adult life I have been covered by group health insurance plans (except while I lived in England, where they are unnecessary). Since coming back to the USA in 1998, Ethne and I have been covered by employer plans at Barnes & Noble, The Texas State Senate, Meredith Publishing in Iowa, Barnes & Noble again when Meredith decided to double the employees' contribution, and then at Rodale Inc. in Pennsylvania. When Ethne's employment at Rodale came to an end she had been wanting to go freelance again anyway, and I was only working part time, so we signed up for Medicare, since we were more than old enough.
We had to prove that we had been covered by adequate health care plans since becoming eligible for Medicare, otherwise we would have had to pay more for it. I don't quite understand that, since we had been saving Medicare money by not signing up, but okay, we obtained forms for each of us from four different past employers to the effect that we had been covered. This was a pain in the neck but an interesting experience: some of the people we had to deal with in the various human resources departments knew what they were doing while others were not firing on all cylinders. But when we turned up at the Social Security office in Colorado Springs on December 12 last, we had all our paperwork and everything was hunky-dory.
Until we tried to get prescriptions filled. One of Ethne's prescriptions that normally cost $20 suddenly cost more than $300. Obviously we needed to get some supplementary insurance that covered prescriptions. I get that; Medicare has to pay for itself somehow, and you can't expect, at least not in this country, the kind of decent coverage you hope for after working and paying in all your life. So Ethne did the research (she's better at that than I am) and we signed up with Humana. We got cards from Humana, and the next time Ethne wanted that prescription filled, it cost $13.
Now, there's obviously a scam going on here: if the drug company can lower its price that much for an insurance company that's charging us $10 a month or so, then somebody is being bribed or paid off, or the drug is grossly overpriced to begin with. But that's not our department; we know the score, but you get tired of the struggle. We were just glad to be with Humana, and have the problem solved.
But now Humana is sending me letters saying that I am going to have to pay a penalty.
I do not believe any of this. I take a thyroid pill every day, and the co-pay has always been nominal; the Social Security Administration (and Medicare) have had all the documentary evidence they need, but Humana wants to screw me out of another ten bucks a month for the rest of my life! And since we have both had exactly the same coverage all these years, why am I alone being penalised? I have been on the phone twice with Humana (and I suspect I am talking not to Humana but to a call center), and the second letter still started "Thank you for choosing a Humana Medicare plan. We appreciate your business and your trust." I don't trust them at all.
I cannot run and jump like I used to. There are a lot of things I cannot do too well anymore; we will not go into any detail. But must I also be punished with this bureaucratic incompetence for the sin of outliving my father? Don't they have computers?
February 27, 2015
Oblomov again
I am still savouring the Russian classic, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov (1860), and still seeing connections with today's Russia. (see below, "Beware of Russian nannies".)
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is sent away to school, but the village is only eight or nine kilometers away, and used to be part of Oblomovka, and is pretty much the same sort of place. It is already too late for him to be educated.
So during the Soviet period the factory workers made a joke of it: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." This is what the Russians see in their beloved novel, and what they recognize in themselves.
So Putin and his crooked friends can steal the country blind and nothing will ever be done about it. If the economy collapses, so what? It collapsed in 1917, again in 1989; this too shall pass.
Addenda: Since I wrote this yesterday, Boris Nemtsov, a brave, honest democrat and former member of the government who was organizing a demonstration against Putin's war in eastern Ukraine, was gunned down near the Kremlin, shot in the back by assassins who roared away in a car. Putin didn't even bother to put him in jail on phony charges; bullets are cheaper.
February 27, 2015
My mancave
I might be the luckiest man in the world. When my wife and son decided to buy this house in Colorado Springs last August while I was 2,000 miles away, they cared enough to first figure out how to accommodate me in it. Now David has carved one small room and another even smaller room out of a garden shed and the back end of the garage, and I am settling in at last. It's so small that it's hard to take a picture of it, and there's no curtain on the window yet, but I've got some pictures on the walls, and it's insulated so well that a single small wall-mounted electric heater is sufficient even when the temperature is freezing outside.
What to listen to first now that I'm in my room? A rarity and oddity first: Lennie Tristano's Descent into the Maelstrom, a long out-of-print Inner City album that a friend dubbed for me years ago in Texas (I think it was Wes Marshall), a funky compilation of ten tracks from 1952-6, the title track a solo rant that sounds like the Devil is disturbed because his plans have been foiled again. Then there's Andrew Rose's excellent transfer of Jascha Horenstein's 1953 recording of Strauss's Metamorphosen, a poignant essay for strings by a very old man just after WWII, contemplating what the Nazis have done to his beloved Germany. And the new Nessa release, Silver Cornet, by Bobby Bradford and Frode Gjerstad, with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Frank Rosaly on bass and drums, recorded less than a year ago in Baltimore: 45 minutes of totally improvised postmodern conversation by four serious chaps.
Oh, there will a lot of music heard in these rooms.
February 27, 2015
I'll stay in this century, thank you
I don't believe in virgins giving birth or people coming back from the dead, but I will nominally include myself when I say that we Christians do not practice our religion properly. After all, it says in Leviticus that if you grow two crops in the same field, I have to get the whole town together to stone you. Same if you cut your hair, or if your wife wears something made of two different kinds of thread. And woe betide you if you want a bacon sandwich; I'd have to smite you good and proper if I were a good son of the Judeo-Christian heritage. The BIble also says that it's okay to own slaves.
An article in the current Atlantic magazine by Graeme Wood, and also a piece this week in the Wall Street Journal by Gerald F. Seib, make it clear that it will not do to describe ISIS as "un-Islamic", or Islam as a religion of peace. The fact is that the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria is more Islamic than the vast majority of the world's Muslims. They want to follow the Qu'ran as it was followed 1,300 years ago. They are brutal psychopaths as far as I'm concerned, but they are not gangsters or criminals; they are well educated and very serious. (Secretary of State John Kerry also had a piece in the Wall Street Journal this week, but he had nothing to say; he was uselessly blowing platitudes.) It really is time to wake up: if the Palestinian problem wasn't bad enough, we destabilized the entire Middle East with our invasion of Iraq in 2003, and now we have to destroy ISIS or it will spend generations trying to destroy us.
There's a photo on the front page of the New York Times today of an ISIS vandal defacing an ancient Assyrian monument. The joke is that he is using a power tool, which he has to get from the West, along with his pickup truck, his machine gun, his cellphone and everything else, because Islamic nations have invented nothing for centuries.
February 27, 2015
Step right up
Speaking of the New York Times, on its website this morning there was a squib that said "Italian doctor says first human head transplant is only two years away." If I were Bill O'Reilly I'd want to be first in line.
February 21, 2015
Beware of Russian nannies
Visiting friends last night, the conversation turned to Russian literature, and it turned out that three of us were re-reading old favorites. We marveled at Tolstoy's powers of observation of human behavior in Anna Karenina and War And Peace, and at what a great man as well as a great artist Chekhov was. And I volunteered that, of the long list of books I would like to re-read, I am actually revisiting Oblomov.
This is Ivan Goncharov's only masterpiece, published around 1860, a classic in Russia but not so well known abroad. It is the story of a bachelor who spends most of his time lying down, and as much as possible of it asleep. He is perfectly bright and likeable, but doesn't see why he should do anything; he always has enough to eat, and he has a servant who is just as bound by tradition as he is, and his landlord is trying to kick him out, and the manager of his faraway estate, Oblomovka, is probably cheating him blind, but Oblomov does nothing, and nothing bad happens. This strikes a chord in the Russian people. They know that this is a portrait of an important part of their identity.
Large parts of the book are flashbacks to the village Oblomov owns and where he grew up, where everything took place naturally: huge meals were eaten, afternoon naps were taken, life was always secure and the sun was aIways shining; the same dog was always sleeping in the yard in the same place at the same time of day. I have Stephen Pearl's very fine translation, from 2006, on my Nook. That night in bed I went back to Oblomov's childhood, when his nanny told him traditional Russian tales:
And so it has always been in Russia, it seems. If the troops open fire on unarmed demonstrators in front of the Winter Palace in 1905, why, when the Czar finds out what's going on, he'll do something about it. If Stalin has purged his best military officers and then allowed himself to be double-crossed by Hitler, well, the man with the mustache will lead us to victory in the Great Patriotic War. If Putin and his friends have stolen the country blind and now start a new Cold War while they preside over the collapse of the economy, it matters not as long as the Russians still have their nanny.
February 21, 2015
The Next Right-To-Work Victory...
...crows a certain newspaper, might be in Wisconsin, once a progressive state, where 50 years ago I went to work for a decade in the world's biggest car factory, proud and happy to be a member of the United Auto Workers, and later the International Association of Machinists. The state legislature will soon send a bill to Governor Walker abolishing the closed shop, which is an agreement between a company and a union and should have nothing to do with any government.
The bill will allow individual workers to opt out of paying union dues, while still often benefiting from union negotiations. The Wall Street Journal editorializes:
Yes, and what was the purchasing power of the wages of the workforce in 1984 compared to today? Let us all join the headlong rush to go back to 1890. Maybe we should take the vote away from women, and send children down the mines.


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Hey guys, i was hoping someone out there can help and lead me in the right direction. I had a baptism tobshoot this past sunday, and it went very well. I go to my friends house to put the photos on a memory stick and edit them at home. I find out that the photos were not on the memory stick so i called him. He said he already formatted the cf card and already did a photoshoot with it. Is there anything at all i can do? Any good recovery programs that can go deep and recover them? They were shot in jpg on a 5d mark ii. Im so devastated. Please help
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|David Chavchavadze
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|20 May 1924
London, England
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Prince David Chavchavadze (20 May 1924 – 5 October 2014) was an American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.
Chavchavadze was born in London to Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899–1971) and Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (1901–1974), a descendant of a prominent Georgian noble family and the Imperial Russian dynasty.[1] His father, Prince Paul, was a fiction writer and translator of writings from Georgian into English, and an émigré in the United Kingdom, and then the United States.
Chavchavadze entered the United States Army in 1943 and served during World War II as liaison for the U.S. Army Air Force Lend-Lease supply operations to the Soviet Union. After the war, he entered Yale University where he was a member of The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the second longest running a cappella group in the United States. He spent more than two decades of his career as a CIA officer in the Soviet Union Division.
After his retirement, Chavchavadze specialized in tracing the nobility of Imperial Russia and authored The Grand Dukes (1989). He also published Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA (1989) based on his CIA experiences, and translated Stronger Than Power: A Collection of Stories by the Russian author Sandji B. Balykov. As a grandchild of a Russian Grand Duke, he was an Associate Member of the Romanov Family Association.
Through his mother, David Chavchavadze is great-great-grandson (through Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholaevich) and simultaneously great-great-great-grandson (through Queen of Greece, Olga Constantinovna) of Nicholas I.
David Chavchavadze died in his sleep on 5 October 2014, after a long illness.
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I brewed a batch of nut brown 8 days ago. And had no airlock activity for 7 days, so I pitched a second batch of dry yeast (at room temberature).
Still no bubbles. Thing is, I believe there was some drawback from the sanitizer I used in the airlock. I use OneStep (hydrogen Perozide). Let's just say 2-3 tablespoons of the stuff was drawn into my beer. Is that a Problem? Assuming it didn't steralize my yeast?
When I had the bung hole open, the beer smelled sweet so no obvious infection smells. And no reason to belive fermentation started. And I've checked the seal dozens of times. No Leak.
What the hell? I'll keep an eye on it for a few more days waiting for some indication of Gas being released.
Need to get that hydrometer out and tell us the facts. What did to sg start at and what is it at now? What was your recipe and procedure?
The airlock isn't the best indicator to determine if your beer has fermented or not. I have a rather cool basement that stays around 58-62 all year long. Most of the time the yeast will kick off strong and the airlock will go crazy for 3-4 days, and then it basically quits, but I know its not done yet. You need to take a hydrometer reading to determine if something happened. If its still hanging around your original gravity then something is wrong. What are the ambient temps where you have the fermenter? I wouldn't worry too much about the sanitizer/cleaner being sucked in...you got maybe an ounce or two sucked into 5+ gallons, it won't make a difference. That being said, unless I have been doing something wrong, why do you have sanitizer in your airlock when you are popping it into the top of the fermenter? I will clean and sanitize my air lock but then I usually just use tap water or cheap vodka if I have any as liquid in there.
You probably wasted your second batch of yeast by not taking a gravity reading before deciding to pitch and by going by lack of airlock activity.
Fermentation is not always dynamic...just because you don't SEE anything happening doesn't mean that the yeast aren't happily chewing away at whatever fermentables are in there....the only way to know comes from gravity readings, and nothing else.
Your airlock is NOT a fermentation gauge, despite what instructions or other people may have said. It is a VENT, and VALVE to release EXCESS co2 as needed. The amount of bubbles have no correlation to some concrete rate of fermentation. Initially there may be lots of bubbles, because lots of co2 is being generated in the first few days of fermentation. But eventually there's going to be less EXCESS co2 being produced, that doesn't mean fermentation is done, it just means that since most of the sugars have been consumed, the yeast are farting co2 less. SO the rate may change, or it may stop completely because there's no EXCESS being produced.
That's why you need to seperate the idea of bubbling = fermentation from your mindset.
Don't stress about what an airlock does or doesn't do. The rate or lack of or whether or not it bubbles at all, or if it starts and stops has more relation to the environment the fermenter is in, rather than fermentation itself. All it is is a vent, a valve to let our excess gas, especially co2, nothing else. It's not a fermentation gauge whatsoever.
It could just as easily be bubbling or stop bubbling for that matter, due to changes in barometric pressure, temperature, or whether or not the cat or vacuum cleaner bumped into it, as it could be to because it's still fermenting.
Activity, action, bubbles, even krausen can be affected by the envoironment just as much as it being caused by the yeast...so going by that is NOT reliable.
If you want to know what's going on with your beer, then take a gravity reading. The only way to truly know what is going on in your fermenter is with your hydrometer. Like I said here in my blog, which I encourage you to read, Think evaluation before action you sure as HELL wouldn't want a doctor to start cutting on you unless he used the proper diagnostic instuments like x-rays first, right? You wouldn't want him to just take a look in your eyes briefly and say "I'm cutting into your chest first thing in the morning." You would want them to use the right diagnostic tools before the slice and dice, right? You'd cry malpractice, I would hope, if they didn't say they were sending you for an MRI and other things before going in....
Do do anything just based on what an airlock does or doesn't do. You'll end up trying to "fix" something that isn't broken, and end up doing more damage, than if you'd just let things be.....
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this is one of the reasons why I am a big fan of carboys / better bottles. I NEVER go by what I smell out of an airlock - or its activity or not. After mixing your wort- aerating- and pitching- without fail- within 24 hours- if all processes are done correctly- the yeast should start to do its thing. Temperature has a lot to do with all factors.
But I still go by what I see. Fermentation begins- its quite visible- the yeasty gooey goodness starts to form- take up its own shape and rise out of the beer to a foamy kreuzen. But I always look at whats going on under that mess. The yeasties chewing and mowing down the fermentables. Thats where the real action is. Its like a carnival most of the time in my carboys. They love beer for some reason... so do I..
after a few days- my yeast buddies are usually done- and I let them clean up by themselves for at least a 17-20 days.
Took some time but the main goal is patience. Thank the beer gods I never had to pitch yeast twice in a week- that would really drive a man crazy.
Im betting that your yeast went balistic- ate / drank / got merry- / had their fun and passed out- waiting for that time to clean up- in a few weeks im betting a consistent grav reading - and if no spoilages- bottle that up - and drink. Id rather drink a ****ty bottle of homebrew- than some sams that I have laying around for the commoners.....
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Companion planting.. How close is too close??
So question is this.. When considering companion planting and vegetables (or what not and what to plant in proximity to another) how close can one plant a plant that isn't a "good" companion to another plant..
I am thinking potatoes and squash.. I am thinking carrots and dill... Peas and garlic... and those others that don't grow well together.
I hadn't heard that squash and potatoes actively discourage eachother....
I can say from experience that alliums and legumes do, or rather alliums considerably discourage legumes. It seems that the legume roots need to be outside the root-zone of the garlic or onions. I find at least two feet, maybe more. Clearly the allium roots exude something that the legumes find quite objectionable, but it doesn't seem to last long, when I plant peas where onions grew the season before I havn't noticed a problem.
Can I plant my brussel sprouts (in July) under my lemon cucumber trellis? I plan on building a trellis with arches, so the cuke seeds would be planted "in" the tunnel the arches create so to speak. Not enough sun for the sprouts?
Thanks for the tip re alliums and legumes. It is the distance to plant or not to plant and the reasons that the specific plants dislike each other that I find helpful. Yes re. squash, pumpkins, sunflowers.. and an apparent dislike for potatoes. I had not heard this before but from various literature re. companion planting they all suggest that potatoes do not like the previous. I wonder why?? Any suggestions??
More info. than you can digest, All good stuff. Plants need sunlight, root room, and nutrient room to grow properly. Too close and all you get is stunted non growing plants.
Run an internet search for campanion planting. There is alot of info,. out there.
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Those lists are great, but not always true. Many of these ideas go way back and are not neccessarily true. Some reasons not to pair things would be that they attract damaging insects. If you don't have a big insect problem that's not really an issue. Sometimes it's competeing for nutrients, other times it's about shadeing or root competition. Some herbs will flavor what they are grown next to... the list goes on I'm sure. The best thing in my opinion is to experiment in one spot in your garden and see how it goes.
We have our peas (sugar snap) and garlic about 6 feet apart and are growing tomatoes between them- and they are doing fine. I have stunted peas before when I stupidly didn't realize that chives were in the onion family :) I had one chive plant in the neighboring row and 4 of 6 of my neighboring pea vines were severely retarded. I've read that too much Nitrogen is very harmful to peas- they fix it in the soil- so they can be finicky and loose battles easily. That's why this year I put them at the far end of the garden.
Also, this year I have had- so far- my most successful garden ever (I am a newbie- this is only my 3rd vegetable garden- so take that into consideration). The map I used to plot my garden was designed around companion planting. For every vegetable I planted, I planted a neighboring herb that promoted growth and an herb that acts as a pesticide. I placed herbs with short roots closer to long rooted vegetables, etc.
For example: I have 4 tomato plants in a square 3 feet apart, bordered by marigolds on one side. Next to them (8 inches to the right) I planted camomile, to the left (8") I planted basil, and in the center I planted Borage. The borage will have to be kept under control and cut back in the summer, but it keeps tomato worms away and it has relatively short roots- while my tomatoes are all planted really deep.
I know that in an intensive garden disease and pests become a problem quickly when the leaves touch so we cut our plants back when they start overlapping. We cut off the bottom stems of out tomatoes so that there is about 5-6" of space between the bottom of the plant and the ground.
It's a big experiment at this point, but so far very successful. In 2 months my tomato plants are 3-4 feet tall and flowering, and the only pest we've dealt with has been cutworms eating the leaves (we corrected the problem with milk cartons around the base of the plants).
This may be a little TMI :) As you can probably tell I am excited.
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Last night I accompanied my husband to Sheppard Pratt Hospital and settled him into the Geriatrics wing. It was a tumultuous ambulance trip up and we arrived late at night. I didn't have the opportunity to meet all of his team but the ones I saw were warm and professional. The facility was clean, new and cheerful. I've spoken with his nurse,social worker and Therapist this morning will be talking with them again this evening for a report on his first day.
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This is the first time in five years that I havent been taking care of him and I am both relieved and very sad. We have probably waited too long to do this but it was like the frog in pot with the steadily increasing hot water, we didnt know we were boiling to death until it reached a critical point.
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Relief and sadness would be completely normal feelings. You have cared for your husband for a long time with a very difficult disease. Give yourself permission to have these feelings and yet find some enjoyment too. Your daughters will probably have various feelings too but I hope you can all find comfort in knowing you gave excellant care for as long as you did. Good luck and God Bless.
I'm so sorry, it must be breaking your heart, it's a terrible decision to have to make, you've given him loving attention, but now it's time to move to the next level of care for him.
My dad was quite distraught when my mother went into a nursing home. He cared for her for 14 years after her dementia diagnosis. It turned out, though, that she was much calmer and "happier" there. She seemed to feel safe knowing the boundaries of her world. This also upset my dad, but he accepted this as the right decision, and their visits were pleasant. She was no longer agitated, and she knew who he was. They lived in a Continuing Care Retirement Community, and the nursing home was part of the community, so he could visit any time.
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Davis scores 29, Magic hold off Nuggets 102-89
Meanwhile, Orlando has stretches of offensive crispness both in transition and in the half-court, outscoring Denver 60-36 in the paint.
"I want to let everyone know I'm here," Davis said. "I'm here to seize the moment. I'm here to step in the gaps. It was a good night."
Injuries were a problem in the preseason with several Magic players missing part or the entire exhibition schedule with various ailments.
Turkoglu's injury means Vaughn will have to get creative to fill his slot in the starting lineup, with no true small forward healthy enough to immediately fill-in.
Rookie Maurice Harkless, who was acquired in the Howard deal, would seem to be the obvious candidate. But Vaughn said that he only recently was cleared for full-contact practice following sports hernia surgery and will need a few before he's ready for game action. He is currently day-to-day.
Afflalo, at 6-foot-5, is also an option and said he's willing to step into that role if needed.
"That's my brother from another mother, man," said point guard Jameer Nelson. "I've been with Turk so long. It's upsetting to see that. He'll be all right. He's a trooper and we'll pick him up."
Orlando led 58-37 at the break, sparked by Davis and Redick, who each had 15 first-half points.
Despite a roster dealing with several early-season injuries, Vaughn substituted liberally in the early going, playing nine different players.
The fresh legs helped the flow of the offense, with the Magic moving the ball well and getting assists on 16 of their 24 field goals for the half.
The Nuggets, who scored just 38 first-half points in their season-opener, managed only 37 in the opening 24 minutes on Friday.
Nelson said Friday's start was exactly what the Magic needed going forward.
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Notes: North Carolina coach Roy Williams sat courtside Friday to support Vaughn, who is the first former Williams' player to become an NBA head coach. Vaughn played for Williams in college at Kansas. ...Orlando opened the season without backup big man Gustavo Ayon (sprained left thumb), swingman DeQuan Jones (strained hip muscle) and F Al Harrington (knee). ... Karl said C Timofey Mozgov (left knee strain) ran during shoot around on Friday, and could be ready for their home opener Tuesday against Detroit...The Magic improved to 15-9 all-time in season openers.
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