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October 31, 2003
The personal portable server cont.
I have been thinking about a personal portable server. A couple I have seen lately are based on these USB flash memory devices, sometimes with a thumb print device. Most don't have software to truly sync, or enough capacity.
My friend Troy sent this which is a major step forward if it is made:
MetaPad is an ultraportable PC HD and CPU capable of docking to any number of input or display devices. The concept solves data synchronization problems, doesn't make you buy a brand new PC for your PDA, and is much more convenient than hauling a laptop or being limited to a handheld. Take the 3x5x.75" core, dock it anywhere.
I saw the initial announcement, then heard IBM wasn't going to develop it. http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20020206_metapad.shtml
but these folks licensed MetaPad from IBM: http://www.antelopetech.com/en/index.aspx?view=i-products_theVision.htm
Having an ultraportable chassis (9"), a fat notebook chassis (16"), and a desktop chassis could hit mainstream affordability. The display is about half the cost of a laptop, so given $1100 laptops, we could see $500
(incremental cost) for a new form factor.
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October 30, 2003
Mossberg reviews three digita music devices and services
The Mossberg Solution -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal. The iPod, Dell and and Samsung offering. Good overview. I don't like any of them because they don't have an FM tuner. I need that in a digital music device. And the ability to play lots of formats. High capacity is not so important. 10 gig is enough.
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New SPAM study
Pew Internet & American Life Project has produced a new SPAM study. Some may find some of the things surprising. Like the fact that 7% of respondents actually bought somehting from a SPAM. Who are these people? They can have my spam.
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AC Propulsion
Here are the guys making the fastest electric car. AC Propulsion Home I hope they have a real business outside exotic cars. I would love one for $40K or so.
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The history of bot baffling
I always wondered who dreamed up those distorted images that you have to get through to prove you are human. Here is the entire background... Scientific American: Baffling the Bots -- Anti-spammers take on automatons posing as humans
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The World's fastest electric car
Now here is a car I could buy! Forbes.com: The World's Fastest Electric Car But at $220,000 I may wait for the consumer model. It has speed and range, something missing in most current electric cars. Read on to find how it achieves these innovations...
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How do you lend money to friends?
Over the years on occasion I have lent money to different people. Sometimes family, sometimes friends. The general rule is to not do these kind of transactions due to the ramifactions to your personal relationship if the business relationship goes bad. My solution was pretty simple. Consider the money a gift. Consider it gone. If it ever came back, be happy. Never talk about it. If I couldn't afford to loose the money completely, don't make the loan. That strategy has worked well for me and allowed me to sleep and keep up relationships.
Now, there is a solution that may work better. Especially for people who actually want to believe they will get their money back some day. CircleLending | Home Page: Complete loan and mortgage document creation and servicing, including contract development, billing, and payment collection. Maybe I will try using this next time.
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October 29, 2003
Found the place to buy performance stuff for Avalanche
Just down the road in Tacoma. G&M Honest Performance - Seattle's best source of performance parts and machine work!. The options are
1. Exhaust, cold air, and chip upgrade. About $1,000 and one day install.
2. Whipple Supercharger, 50% increase in torque and HP, about $4900 installed, two day install, 10 days out.
Hummmmmm how much power do I want?
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Dr. Dan in Seattle delivers Biodiesel
Was reading the seattle times this weekend and ran across these guys. Dr. Dans Altenative Fuel Werks Someone who actually is doing something about delivering alternative energy today. They manufacture biodiesel which can be used in any diesel engine. Those who would rather buy a clean source than the further deplete the oil reserves can sign up. I wonder if that business is scalable?
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Performance stuff for my Avalanche
OK, it has come time to upgrade the Avalanche. I am trying to decide how to get another 80-90 hp out of it. There is the chip, airbox, exhaust way or the supercharger way. This site has some great guides on how to do it. Performance Products - Your best source of parts and accessories for your Porsche car - Mercedes - Toyota - Jeep - Chevrolet - GMC - Ford Truck and SUV and more. I guess I could do both. But the issue is installation. Without a garage now, I need a local installer. Let me poke around for one.
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October 28, 2003
here is the code to change you MT upload directory
So you can find it again. movabletype.org : Support Forum
Yes my blog is now my memory.
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How to configure thumbnail image upload in MT
I have been hacking away trying to figure out how to get images in my blog. As you can see below, they are now working thanks to: Sniptools �| Tutorials | Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type. I found this VERY helpful tutorial by following a bunch of links. My ISP didn't have IMAGE:Magick, so I installed NetPBM and it was up in a jiffy.
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testing netPBM image uplaoder
this is weird
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October 27, 2003
You can now buy a Sipura VOIP eval unit!
Here is the site if you can't wait! Sipura Technology SPA-2000.
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October 26, 2003
The coolest Gadget... Wheelman
I have been following these guys for a couple of years. Invented down in Australia. Wheelman. It is a powered offroad surfboard/skateboard thing. You stand inside the wheels and there is a handbrake. They are just starting to make them for the US. Gunna put my order in tomorrow...
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Tim Bray promotes pay for e-mail (again)
there are many variations of "pay for e-mail and the spammers won't be able to keep up" tim bray revives another one. ongoing � Another Whack at Spam. This is being tawked about alot on Slashdot, but there is alot of emotion and not as much reality. One of the things that I do agree on though is that the "talking heads" won't solve the problem by some kind of industry agreement. The people need to have something easy to implement that they can implement themselves. Cloudmark is working on some interesting things in this area.
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October 20, 2003
Ironport trying to gain street creed
One way for companies to gain credibility with the masses is to provide some kind of free service to the industry. Ironport is offering SenderBase. Basically a list of which ISPs and IP addresses are creating the most e-mail on the internet. I guess it is one piece of information that a mail administrator could use to verify senders.
The problem with so many of these one trick pony techniques to SPAM is that they are just that. And typically you need more than one approach. Or layers. For example, just because a domain is sending alot of e-mail doesn't mean it is spam. It could be a listserver. It could be any number of valid senders. The problem is multi-faceted, the solution needs to be too.
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October 19, 2003
RIAA repeats failures in history and ignores market
There is a guy who has been writing here:RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes about all the ways that the RIAA is repeating the mistakes of history. The most recent article is in response to the RIAA crackdown on DJ mixes in Independent record stores. The recording industry is taking a typical "consolidate at the top" approach to retailers. For example, the new CD wholesale prices from Universal are only available to the largest distributors who buy 30 or more CDs. The "street compilations" of local DJs are a staple of many small independent record stores profit margins. The record companies would rather have a few very large distribution partners that they can whip into submission.
Here is a personal example of how far they have screwed up their distrubution channel. Saturday I went to a new movie from a director I really like. The soundtrack was AWESOME. I like the guy and want to support his work, so I went to the record store to buy the soundtrack. Tower was out. So was Barnes and Noble. Amazon said three week delivery. Kaaza said about 15 minutes.
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October 16, 2003
Canada gets into the music download business eh!
Always a follower, Canada is now here. NATIONAL POST And they matched the current $.99 per track industry pricing. But remember, this is Canadian! So buy your tracks and drugs across the boarder....
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VOIP vendor Packet8 seems to be a favorite
I am just starting to research home VOIP systems. There is a good thread here lauding the virtues of Packet8. broadband � Forums � Voice over IP � 1st Day -Packet8. They seem to be the low price leader and the crowd favorite. In fact, our own Mark Price sent me a mail saying he uses them and is very happy.
I read a review in a magazing that looked at Packet8 and Vonage (I can't find it on-line) and the reviewer gave Vonage the nod for market leadership and features. Although it is higher price per month. I bet is really a packaging thing. Also I understand that Vonage uses SIP and that Packet8 uses a codec developed by parent 8x8. Although Packet8 does sell a SIP video phone.
What I want right now is just a dongle that I put in between my existing phone system and the broadband switch that lets me switch VOIP providers on the fly. I see a heavy price war a coming on the carrier side. I e-mailed the guys at SIPURA and asked when their open dongle would be available. They replied November. So I am going to probably wait till after Christmas to buy into the deal at home. There will be many more options then.
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Case study for VOIP meets 802.11
Red Hering points to a case study where the University of Arkansas (yes that technology hub), took their monthly phone bill for intercampus calls from $530,000 to $6,000. RED HERRING | The Business of Technology The phone companies better be quaking in their boots.
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The one dongle that may be useful
You see those USB hard drive dongles everywhere these days. I get them free at trade shows. I never understood who would really pay for just repackaged memory. There has to be more value. Now there is: Migo by Forward Solutions, Inc.. When you put some smarts on the memory, sync all important files and settings so that when you plug it into another computer it basically becomes your computer, now that is useful. Think about it. How many files do you normally use. I bet there is way less that 1Gig of files that I actually care about on my 60GIG drive. There are less than 200mb of files that I use in any one week. Lets see, would I rather carry an extra bag with a laptop and all the associated crap, or a little dongle on my keychain? Which is more likely to be stollen on a trip? Which costs more?
The Migo is definitely a 1.0 product. According to Rafe the thing doesn't sync all the stuff that you need (like network settings, VPN settings, IDs, passwords) and the first one he got didn't work, so he had to send it back.
There was actually a guy in my office three weeks ago from a different company with a prototype of a similar device that was still in R&D stage. His had a fingerprint reader like the next Migo is supposed to have. I would probably want that.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. I would buy one.
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October 15, 2003
Photo book printing
I was talking to my friend Chris McQuarrie monday as we were shooting large calibre handguns over at Wades on Monday about digital photography. I was pining for an application that would let me print books with pictures and words from my digital pictures. He, being a MAC user of course recommended ilife from Apple. I need a PC version. Found it here: MyPublisher Home. Gunna try it today. Let you know how it goes....
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Sipura VOIP adaptor looks cool
The way I want to implement VOIP in my home is basically to buy a little box that I can plug in my existing phones on one side and into my ethernet on the otherside. Then I go somewheres else and sign up for a VOIP carrier to carry my calls to where they need to go (another computer or another phone). The original guy who designed the leading dongle like this (cisco ATA-186) has started a new company called Sipura to make a Cisco killer. Feature-Packed Telephone Adaptor to be Released :: Voxilla.com :: A user's guide to the communications revolution. I can't wait to buy one...
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The blowhard starts puffing about VOIP
Voxilla has an interview with: Internet "Bad Boy" Michael Robertson on the Future of Phones :: Voxilla.com :: A user's guide to the communications revolution
When I started Loudeye Technologies I was on a panel a couple times with Michael. A total blowhard who likes the spotlight over thinking deeply about a business. All hat and no trousers as they say in Texas.
I am interested in VOIP and how I can use it at home though. Look for more posts. I recently bought a lot on Queen Anne here in Seattle and hope to have a new house standing up in two years. It is an interesting exercise to try to pick systems for a house in two years. What do you do for phone? Connectivity? LAN? Security? Home monitoring?
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October 13, 2003
The next TIVO
I have a TIVO that has revolutionized the way I watch TV. For example last night, I read a book instead of watchin Alias and The Practice, but I can watch those tonight and skip all the commercials! Now if you love Linux, there is a DVR that is built to hack. I get Rich orders one immediately. Device Profile: Dreambox DM7000 -- an open TV hacker's paradise
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Missouri files first suits against Spammers
Well let's see if the laws work. Nixon files first suits under state's No Spam law - 2003-10-09 - St. Louis Business Journal. I am doubtful that laws like this will work because it is so easy to just move offshore or hide your identy through shell corporations. So the questions becomes who do you sue? In the end someone has to benefit from the e-mails though, usually the provider of goods or services being schlocked. If you made that person liable....
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Poor man's Segway
Many people have been tracking my experence with my Segway here. A friend found this post: Building a Balancing Scooter It is basically a home-made Segway. It is self-balancing and has electric motors. It runs on a standard controller, tractor wheels, and some wheelchair parts. A couple of the parts were made for the battlebots hobbiest. I love finding tinkerers who do stuff like this. There is no market for this home-made one because it doesn't have even rudimentary safety features (like redundancy) that a commercial product needs, but it sure looks like fun! I bet one of the really cool things you could do with it is make it go as fast as you wanted! Something I am still trying to figure out with my Segway...
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October 10, 2003
The power of the people in security
Most of you know my affinity with community based technology to solve complicated, distributed problems. Like Cloudmark for spam filtering. Well, take that concept into intrusions and you get myNetWatchman - Network Intrusion Detection and Reporting. Basically this is a community based IDS service. You sign up and contribute your firewall logs to the community. The central database tries to do a good job of filtering out false positives and tracking trends across the net. When something real is found, they go into pro-active mode with their customers (ISPs). I have seen a number of security consoles for the enterprise that do this for one organization, but this is the first community based one. I am sure there are more.
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The RIAA should read more history
This professor at Wharton points out that the auto industry tried the "sue your customers" strategy 100 years ago to prevent them from buying "the upstart" Henry Ford's "unlicensed" cars. It didn't work then and it won't work now. Knowledge@Wharton -
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3G radiation problems
My friend Mark Anderson (firstname.lastname@example.com) Strategic News Service - Home Page, in his recent newsletter has a very interesting piece on the potential issues with 3G base stations. I have put the entire section here with credit to Mark. He is absolutely right about one spooky aspect of airwave regulation, the fact that health effects are not even considered. He rightly points out that you are basically introducing a very large amount of new stuff into our environment without testing the consequences. If someone wanted to add something to the water supply, there would be endless hearings and studies. But the airsupply? The ionisphere? Just because you can't see or hear it, doesn't mean it can't kill you.
From Mark:
3G Base Station Radiation Issues
Having early predicted the biological dangers of 2G cellphones, we are now entering a new phase of interest and concern: as operators and users rush to new global 3G standards, will they be at risk for biological radiation effects?
Let's begin by noting the complete lack of any initiative taken by governments, almost universally, worldwide, on this and related issues. If I were to start a company whose business was to add a special secret sauce to U.S. drinking water, you can imagine how many minutes it would take until 50 government agencies were breathing down my neck. But exposing all U.S. citizens to the unknown potential effects of radiation is not cause for the slightest concern - or testing.
On that note, we can now thank the more rational Dutch for at least asking the question, as 3G users move into the millions. Specifically, we should note a report issued this week by the Dutch ministries of Economic Affairs, Health and Telecommunications, noting stastically significant negative (and positive) effects caused by exposure to radiation like that emitted by 3G cell towers.
The double-blind study, done by the Dutch technological institute TNO, found exposure to expected average levels of radiation caused tingling sensations, headaches and nausea, as well as boosting cognitive functions and memory. (Earlier work in England also found these "beneficial" results, together with radiative heating of brain tissue; it is possible that both of these benefits are directly proportional to the heating itself, and/or to related increased bloodflow.)
Summary: Here is what matters from this first study on 3G health effects:
1. The double-blind test produced statistically significant changes in users; no base station test has done this before. Therefore, 3G may warrant more attention than 2G, in terms of health effects.
2. The type of 3G examined was in the GSM standard; this group currently has the largest user base in the world, and therefore provides another reason for caution.
3. The modeling used presumed that base station exposure would be more constant in amplitude, and weaker, than exposure caused by 3G handsets. No studies have been done on 3G handsets, but if the lower levels of base station radiation received are problematic, this should be prioritized.
Prediction: We will now watch the cellular industry again do all it can to obscure and obfuscate, instead of improve designs, to assist in avoiding health problems. If you are a 3G phone user, you already know you should use an earmike. If you live near a tower about to be upgraded, you probably should have new concerns about negative physiological responses, at the least.
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October 9, 2003
New SAN/FBI top 20 vulnerabilities
Read 'em and weep...SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities - The Experts Consensus
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New names for gigabytes
Turns out that the difference between base 10 and base 2 math is at the heart of much confusing in computing. Not so much for the computer scientists and geeks used to base 2 math, but more when it gets into the hands of the marketers who only understand (barely) base 10 math. For example, when you say a GigaByte of data, do you mean 1 000 000 000 B, (base 10 math) or do you mean 1 073 741 824 B (base 2 math)? Turns out hardware guys (marketers) mean the former and software guys (geeks) mean the later.
On of the upshots of this is a recent movement to change the names we call things so that base 2 and base 10 have their own unique names. Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes So a gigabyte GB would be 1 000 000 000 B (base 10) and we would have a new name gibibyte GiB which would be 1 073 741 824 B (base 2). It is about time.
now I can sleep
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The mysteries of hard drive capacity
I recently have the joy of installing two spanking new 200gig hard drives into an extra tower system I have under my desk at home. Now this experience was fraught with lots of fun that only tech geeks like myself could love including long strolls through the BIOS, endless jumper position fiddling, multiple card slot swaps, various cable positions, and the ever joyous Windows configuration. Most of this happy work went along just fine (meaning it took a long time to do and was very complicated but intellectually rewarding with lots of "ah ha!" moments) with the notable exception that Windows only understood 120gigs of the 200gig drive. Never fear says the manufacturer, just download this little thing, reconfigure your BIOS, set a couple switches and all weill be well. All is well with one drive, but the other still looks small to windows.
This morning, I ran across a very helpful white paper which explains the many various hard drive size problem quite well. Worth the read.
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A socially responsible angel group
I have a friend with a very interesting bicycle start-up who is raising money. The venture capital market is hard enough for traditional tech start-ups, for non-tech it is nearly impossible. An interesting resource for those types of deals could be: Investors Circle. A group of angel investors who want to balance financial, social and environmental issues. Could be an interesting idea.
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October 8, 2003
E-mail the California Senator on SPAM
Senator Kevin Murray, firstname.lastname@example.com from Los Angeles wrote the new Californis anti-spam law that basically makes it illegal to spam Californians. Members Database
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Wireless internet meets green energy
those crazy brits. Two of my favorite subjects together. iTrike: The World's First Solar-Powered Internet Rickshaw! Not so much a practical application, but a publicity stunt. We need more of these. Raise awareness of how to be cyberconnected, but earth-responsible at the same time.
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October 7, 2003
More fun blog indexing
Just registered at: Blizg - The Blog Resource. looks like they are trying to get more people to use metadata. That is a good thing. Not sure how useful it is, other than allowing computers to understand more about a page than simply scraping the text. Structured data actually. Interesting effort.
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Just changed my firewall
To Zone Labs Pro with Anonymizer. Zone Labs: Product Information. It has too many pop-ups right now (asking for permission to go to the internet), but I haven't really configured it yet. So far I really like it. It does seem though that some of the pop-up blocking functions may conflict with a pop-up blocker I already have.
I will do a full review of Anonymizer later. Initial impression is that it slows down web surfing signifantly. It basically routes all URL requests through their servers. This is kinda silly. Maybe the way they keep centrally updated a list of things to block and how they obfiscate the referrer, but the hit on performance is unacceptable. I currently have it turned off.
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October 3, 2003
New draft of AMTP
On Sept 28, the new draft of AMTP, a secure alternatitive to SMTP was released. <a title="" href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-weinman-amtp-01.txt">AMTP draft 2.0</a> I still don't subscribe to the idea that you can change the mail protocol to solve the spam problem. I just think it is too engrained in the infrastructure and the upgrade would suck. Maybe there is a phase in approach. This group seems to be doing good work in the area though.
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A twist on the Blog...
One cool thing about a Blog is that you can use it sort of like a memory. I have replaced my IE Favorites with the blog. I just post links here that I want to share with other people or even just ones I want to remember. One interesting twist on this is <a title="RAM" href="http://www.randomaccessmemory.org/">RAM</a>. They are trying to get people to post memories by year. Then they aggregate them by year so you can see other people's memories next to yours. Not a very good search tool. This may be good for public memories like who won the super bowl and what the hit song was, but it doesn't scale down very well to groups or personal memories. What this site is doing could be done equally as well by just mining the existing BLOG databases like <a href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati</a>
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October 1, 2003
If I had a travel trailer
this would be it. Not that I am the travel trailer type. But if i HAD to... <a title="Airstream :: International CCD" href="http://www.airstream.com/product_line/travel_trailers/intccd28_int.html">Airstream :: International CCD</a>
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MX.com Introduces New Healthcare Solutions That Reduce Hospital Operating Costs
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MX.com today announced the addition of three solutions designed to help hospital administrators reduce spending and improve new healthcare reform performance measures. Inexpensive and easy to implement, the solutions address unnecessary treatment, overspending and quality of care measures.
- Blanchard Valley Health System's Value-Based Purchasing Interactive Performance Modeler converts retrospective CMS Value-Based Purchasing data into actionable information, enabling hospitals to improve quality of care, interventions and provider education. It calculates the net gain or loss for a hospital based on the 20 current CMS measures.
- Advocate Physician Partners' ACO Suite: High-Cost Imaging Protocols uses evidence-based methods to help physicians determine whether an imaging procedure is medically necessary. Industry experts estimate that CT and MRI scans cost about $26.5 billion annually, although up to half fail to help diagnose ailments or treat patients.
- Advocate Physician Partners' ACO Suite: Preferred Medication Charts give physicians and other prescribers an easy-to-use format to find generic medication alternatives for costly brand name drugs. The solution includes more than 30 medication comparison charts that are easily customizable and may be distributed in printed or electronic formats.
"These solutions are proven to drive down hospital operating costs and result in demonstrable savings," said MX.com CEO Joseph Davis. "Each costs under $1,000, giving hospital administrators an extremely cost-effective tool that can be immediately put into action."
MX.com is the leading source for hospital toolkits, guidelines and other intellectual properties developed by leading medical institutions to improve operations and patient care. The site offers a comprehensive inventory of free and licensed peer-to-peer solutions.
ABOUT MX.COM MX.com by Medimetrix Solutions EXchange is the first online peer-to-peer marketplace for free or licensed healthcare management solutions designed to help hospitals improve performance and standards of care. The site features an extensive inventory of clinical and management solutions developed by Duke Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Partners HealthCare and other leading medical institutions. Established in 2010, MX.com is a privately held company founded by Joseph Davis, chairman of the Medimetrix Group and Spirit of Women Health Network. Equity holders include Medimetrix Group, Inc and its affiliates, private investors and interested health systems including Johns Hopkins Medicine and Adventist Health System.
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- Title:Boss
- Premiere:October 21st, 2011
- Genre:Action, Crime, Drama, Family
Boss PlotMayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) sits like a spider at the center of Chicago's web of power; a web built on a covenant with the people. They want to be led; they want disputes settled, jobs dispensed, and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves through deception and troubling morality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, they look the other way.
Yet despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, a degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him. He can't trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself.
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Entering the Dharma Realm Part 1
Chapter Thirty-Nine------------
At that time, Transformationally Manifesting Dharma Realm's Vow Moon King Bodhisattva, aided by the Buddha's spiritual power, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses saying:
As the imperial blue gem
Can turn all colors blue,
Those who see the Buddha in the same way,
All resolve on Bodhi's practice.
In every single dustmote,
the Buddha manifests the power of spiritual penetrations,
Causing measureless and boundless
Bodhisattvas to be purified.
This profound, subtle, wonderful power,
Boundless and unknowable,
Is a state of the Bodhisattvas,
Which none in the world can fathom.
The manifestation of the Tathagata's body
Is an appearance pure and adorned,
He universally enters the Dharma Realm,
And brings all Bodhisattvas to accomplishment.
Within inconceivable Buddha-lands,
Realizing Proper Enlightenment,
Are all of the Bodhisattvas
And world hosts – filling them up.
Shakyamuni, Unsurpassed Honored One,
Is at ease with all dharmas.
He manifests the strength of spiritual penetrations
Which are boundless and measureless.
All of the Bodhisattva's conducts
Are measureless and without end.
By the strength of the Tathagata's self-sufficiency,
He appears for their sakes.
The Buddha's disciples are adept at cultivating and learning;
In all profound Dharma realms
They achieve unobstructed wisdom
and understand all dharmas.
The Well-Gone One's awesome spiritual power
Turns the Dharma Wheel for beings.
His spiritual changes universally pervade
And purify the world.
The Tathagata's wisdom is perfect,
His states are also pure.
Like a Great Dragon King,
He universally aids all beings.
At that time, Dharma Wisdom Blazing Light King Bodhisattva, aided by the spiritual power of the Buddha, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses saying:
As to the Tathagatas in the three periods,
None of the Sound Hearer disciples
Can know of the Buddha's
Lifting or setting down his foot.
And in the past, present and future realms,
All the conditionally enlightened ones,
Also will not know of the Tathagata's
Lifting or setting down his foot.
How much the less would common mortals
Fettered by the knots and servants,
Whose mind's consciousness is covered by ignorance,
Know of the guiding master!
His Proper Enlightenment and unimpeded wisdom
Surpass the paths of languages.
Their measure cannot be fathomed.
Who is able to know and see them?
Like the bright moonlight,
Whose boundaries none can survey,
So, too, is the Buddha's power –
Its end cannot be seen.
Each of the expedient means,
Transformed at every thought,
Reaching to limitless kalpas,
Is not known through consideration.
Meditating on All-Wisdom
And these inconceivable dharmas,
As to each of the doors of expedients,
Their bounds cannot be attained.
If regarding these dharmas
One brings forth vast, great vows,
Then as to these states,
To know and see them will not be difficult!
Courageously and diligently cultivating
The seas of inconceivable great Dharma,
His mind is without obstruction,
And he enters these doors of expedients.
His mind and will are subdued,
His aspirations broad and extensive,
He will obtain great Bodhi,
That most supreme of states!
At that time, Smashing All Demon Armies Wisdom Banner King Bodhisattva, aided by the Buddha's spiritual power, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses saying:
The Wisdom Body is not this body,
It is unobstructed, hard to imagine.
If it could be imagined,
Then in all things it would be unsurpassed.
From inconceivable karma,
This pure body arises,
A supreme wonderful adornment,
It's unattached to the three realms.
Its light illumines all things,
The Dharma Realm is purified,
Disclosing the Buddha's door of Bodhi,
It brings forth All-Wisdom.
Like the sun in the world,
It universally emits light-wisdom,
Far apart from dust and filth,
It destroys all obstructions.
It universally cleanses the three realms of existence,
And forever severs the flow of birth and death.
In accomplishes the Bodhi way,
One brings forth the unsurpassed enlightenment.
He manifests boundless forms,
Yet these forms rely on no place.
Although their appearances are limitless,
They are completely inconceivable!
In a single instant of Bodhi,
One can awaken to all dharmas.
How can one hope to fathom
The scope of the Tathagata's wisdom?
In one thought, he completely understands
All dharmas of the three periods.
Thus one says that the Buddha's wisdom
Is without end and indestructible.
Wise ones should in such a way
Single-mindedly contemplate the Buddha's Bodhi.
This contemplation is hard to imagine,
It cannot be attained through thinking.
Bodhi is ineffable,
The Way of enlightenment is unutterable,
Surpassing the paths of language.
All Buddhas are born from this,
This Dharma is hard to conceive.
At that time, Vow Wisdom Bright Banner King Bodhisattva, aided by the Buddha's spiritual power, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses saying:
If one can well contemplate
The limitless sea of Bodhi,
One can leave stupid thoughts
And decisively receive and uphold the Dharma.
Upon obtaining a decisive mind,
One can cultivate wonderful practices.
In the stillness of Dhyana, meditating by oneself,
One forever severs all doubts and delusions.
His mind is not weary,
Nor is he lax or lazy.
Ever increasing in progress and cultivation,
He perfects all Buddha-dharmas.
The wisdom of faith is accomplished,
Thought after thought it grows,
He always delights in and contemplates
The Dharma which cannot be attained and which has no reliance.
In measureless millions of thousands of kalpas,
The practices of merit and virtue he cultivated –
All of these he transfers,
To the way sought by all Buddhas.
Although he dwells in birth and death,
His mind is not defiled or attached.
Peacefully he dwells in all Buddha-dharmas,
And always delights in the Tathagata's practices.
Of all existences in the world,
The skandhas, the realms, and such dharmas,
All of this he leaves behind,
And solely seeks the Buddha's merit and virtue.
Common mortals have infantile, false delusions,
Constantly they turn and flow in the world.
The Bodhisattva's mind is unobstructed,
He relieves them to brings about their liberation.
The Bodhisattva practices are hard to appraise.
In all the worlds it is impossible to imagine
How he pervasively relieves all anguish,
And universally bestows joy upon all beings.
Having obtained Bodhi's wisdom,
Again he pities the multitudes.
His light illumines the world,
And crosses over all creatures.
At that time, Smashing All Obstructions Courageous Wisdom King Bodhisattva, aided by the Buddha's spiritual power, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses, saying:
In measureless millions of thousands of kalpas,
The Buddha's name is hard to hear.
How much the more to draw near him,
And forever sever all doubts and delusion!
The Tathagata, lamp of the world,
Penetrates all dharmas.
Universally he gives rise to blessings of the three periods,
And causes living beings to be purified.
The Tathagata's wonderful form body
Is admired and praised by all.
Through millions of kalpas they always gaze up reverently at him,
Their minds never feel sated.
If there are Buddha's disciples
Who contemplate this wonderful form body,
They'll most certainly renounce all attachments to existence,
And make transferences to Bodhi's Way.
The Tathagata's wonderful form body
Forever proclaims the vast great sound.
His eloquence is unimpeded
In disclosing the door to Bodhi.
He awakens all living beings,
Limitlessly and inconceivably,
Enabling them to enter wisdom's gate,
And bestows on them Bodhi's prediction.
The Tathagata appears in the world,
As its great field of blessings.
He universally guides all sentients
To gather blessings in their practices.
Those who make offerings to the Buddhas,
Forever leave the fear of evil paths.
They destroy all suffering
And accomplish the Wisdom Body.
Upon seeing the Doubly-Fulfilled Honored One,
They can bring forth a vast, great mind.
Such people always see the Buddha,
And grow in wisdom-power.
Upon seeing the most supreme one in all of humankind,
Decisively they resolve on Bodhi.
Then each person himself knows,
That for certain he will attain Proper Enlightenment!
At that time, Dharma Realm's Various Spiritual Penetrations King Bodhisattva, aided by the Buddha's spiritual power, contemplated the ten directions and spoke verses saying:
Shakyamuni, Unsurpassed Honored One,
Is replete with all merit and virtue.
The beholder's mind is purified,
And makes transferences toward great wisdom.
The Tathagata, great, kind, compassionate one,
Appears in the world,
And universally for all creatures
Turns the peerless Dharma Wheel.
The Tathagata in innumerable kalpas
Diligently toils for living beings.
How can those in the world
Repay our great teacher's kindness?
I would rather for measureless kalpas
Endure the suffering of the evil paths,
Than to ever forsake the Tathagata
To seek escape from this.
I would rather for living beings' sake
Take on all suffering,
Than to ever renounce the Buddha
To seek security and bliss.
I'd rather stay in the evil destinies,
And forever hear the Buddha's name,
Than to be born in good paths
And for a moment not hear of the Buddha.
I'd rather be born in the hells,
In each one of them for innumerable aeons,
And never be afar from the Buddha,
Or seek to leave the evil destinies.
Why would I rather dwell for a long time
In all of the evil paths?
So as to see the Tathagata,
And so that my wisdom will increase and grow!
Upon seeing the Buddha,
All suffering is destroyed,
And one can enter into the Tathagatas'
States of great wisdom.
If one gets to see the Buddha,
One leaves behind all obstruction.
One forever nurtures endless blessings
And accomplishes the Bodhi Way.
The Tathagata can forever sever
All the doubts of living beings.
According to their delight,
Universally he satisfies them all.
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Senior Member
Username: leathab
Post Number: 1914
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 6:43 pm:
That's the problem, with food storage (even a few weeks) things begin to run out, with cold winters, people would have to migrate to southern climates, if they survived the trip, they would have to become workers of the land, day-laborers. And with little or no skills, they would die off, leaving only those who know how to run a farm, the ability to survive. Does anyone still know how to sew, knit and crochet to make clothes, or know how to tan leather to make boots/shoes? Those will be the first things to go, as our society has only produced items that are designed to be thrown away in 2-5 years, rather than last a lifetime.
Can you cane a chair, carve a chest of drawers? Build a house?
Interesting when we start really talking about "end-times" how totally dependant we are on so many people to feed, clothe and house us.
Intermediate Member
Username: hale
Post Number: 138
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 8:51 pm:
Too many weak links.
It'll be interesting to see how it works its way out. Hopefully not the worst case scenario. Maybe a few good surprises thrown in.
Advanced Member
Username: john
Post Number: 205
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 11:22 pm:
you all make me think on the dreams I have of being told I need to get goats and learn to make shoes and soap. it discourages me when I get these they are worse then the invasion dreams with the ever changing face of the so called enemy that we are told are our enemies at the time.
one dream was when my step father had waited for the last minute to leave an area that was going to be invaded. it was reoccurring for years. we were stuck and razor wire went up and we were guarded at gun point. first south Americans the Chinese now middle easterners.
frankly I don�t believe it. but the images in the dream for years were hard to take.
but on a lighter note last night I dreamed of color dancing across my vision field like light on the water how it ripples and makes a pattern. also I was talking to an old friend in that dream too. who I have no clue but we knew one another and were happy to talk and were laughing.
been in a great mood all day despite I have a headache and stiff back. its the weirded thing
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Username: leathab
Post Number: 1918
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 12:04 am:
Perhaps it only requires us to find one thing, that can be used as "exchange." Bartering services for food etc. If each family had one skill or a group of skills they were interested in, passionate about, that is being "saved" down through the ages, (such s knitting, animal husbandry, orchard care, etc.)
We don't all have to have every skill, just a few.
Just a sparkle of sunshine on the water (reminds me of the old "Sky" album Rod McKuen made years ago)....
When the old memories you call back to help you do the things that will put you to sleep don't work anymore, and even the aphrodisiac of magazines doesn't help, and there is no place to go and no one to call, try thinking about the sun. The way it catches in the trees sometimes, the way it follows you while riding in a car, the way it plays in the hair of strangers on the beach, the way it runs behind the rudder of a boat, the way it climbs hills in the morning.
Think about the time of noon, when everybody's just a little crazy. Remember that the cliffs are white and steep.. You'll grow tired climbing them, so - go slow. The sun is years away from going down and we've got time to watch it every mile. There won't be any moon tonight and this is the time of noon.
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Username: buddie
Post Number: 1234
Registered: 3-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 5:58 am:
Lab those words the sun imagery reminds of
when my ex and I first moved into this apartment.We have a beautiful view from
here and as the seasons were changing we
both had a little bet as to the spot the
sun would reach before it went totally
It was fun .. we watched for months
he ended up winning .. one of our good
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Username: jmb
Post Number: 273
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 8:25 am:
DD was having trouble falling asleep last night. I was listening to an old C2C with Linda Moulton Howe from July where she's interviewing the guy who talked to the flight surgeon who observed the autopsy at Wright-Patterson. KARMA! They even played "MacArthur Park" as one of the bumper songs! At long last, my obsession with Richard Harris and UFOs crossed paths!
Ignore me: I'm weird.
When DD came in, I asked her if the content of the show was scaring her, she said no, but I put on my old illegal Napster files instead. Soon she fell asleep, and so did I.
After a while, I became aware of a repeated "song" or tone. Soon I realized it was an owl hooting five notes over and over. I cannot repeat them too well here, but it was like: hoo hoo hoo hoo HOO! over and over. I remember laying there, not able to move (hmmmm) thinking how I had seen the owl outside my window during the day for over a week before my mother died in 2005. On the last day, it opened and closed its mouth SEVEN TIMES, then flew off. Seven days later, my mother was dead. I lay there thinking, I'm the fifth child born in my family (second born in second set of fraternal twins; there is one last child after me). My 51st birthday is this Sunday on the 10th.
I have a memory of going to the open window and "talking" to the owl, but it's fuzzy after that. When my alarm went off, my very first question to DD was "DID YOU HEAR THE OWL?" and she shot upright and said "YES! It WASN'T A DREAM! It was IN THE ROOM!" I pressed her for more information, but she suddenly clammed up! I hope THIS "owl" is not a bad harbinger for ME!
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Username: albi
Post Number: 607
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 9:46 am:
It doesn't have to be a bad omen. I find owls reassuring. Owls see in the dark and can navigate through it. I've heard before that birds sometimes announce deaths; that's not their only message though.
Powerful bird - Owls. That's an interesting experience with an owl.
(Message edited by albi on September 05, 2006)
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Username: jmb
Post Number: 276
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:47 am:
I also just realized that I don't remember shutting my window last night, but now it's shut! What other messages do they convey, opal?
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Username: etsi
Post Number: 3025
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 1:38 pm:
is there any native american in your background? just curious because for alot of cherokee, owl is not a good sign. owl always shows up to my friend before a death. not that they bring death, but they prepare you. we all don't feel that way. owl happens to be my totem and has been a good sign.
also '7' is sacred to us. the combination in your 'dream' is curious.
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Username: albi
Post Number: 608
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 2:16 pm:
Here is some interesting info on
"Owl medicine can help a person to extract secrets, to see that which is hidden in the darkness and is very powerful for soul retreivals for this reason. Many shamans, psychic healers and mediums have owl medicine either as a primary totem or can call upon one as needed. They can see clear through to the core reason for any type of imbalance and then they can spot the proper medicine needed to heal the imbalance."
And this is coincidental - with 7 days:
"Chakra - Root, Crown
Essential Oil - Rosemary, Lime, Cinnamon
Chant - Ti mah su
Planet - Pluto
Other Supportive Measures - Write a letter to a loved one who has passed over or light a candle for them for 7 consecutive days. Look back at some of the "deaths" in your life, how have they helped you to become the person you are today? .., Make up your own ritual for this and follow your own inner knowing or call upon Owl to help show you the way."
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Username: albi
Post Number: 609
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 2:28 pm:
If you're going to do a soul retrieval that involves time travel, don't let the soul hear the gray's talk during re-incarnation - it's like a running sports commentary from the tough-love furies.
(Don't ask me where that came from, must be a poem.)
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Username: nina
Post Number: 190
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:01 pm:
Two vivid dreams, one night after another, this week.
The fist night, I dreamed I was at a kind of convention (I never go to any). It was a venue with predominantly amber colored wood interior and I was somehow helping in the organisation. I approached a group of women, one of them was chatting to someone now moving away, and she said to the person "Let me read you a quote!" and she opened her hand where a quote was written and read it to this person. They both seemed really happy about it. I don't know what the quote was, but my job was to get this quote lady to come inside the auditorium.
We went inside the auditorium and from the (glass?) doors, positioned in the centre, I could see a stage, and seating arranged in kind of a horse shoe with an aisle leading to the stage. It was all in that amber wood. The seats were not moveable, they were built in the hoseshoe...like kinda rows of seating inside the horseshoe shape. That's all I remember.
My dream last night was a 'nice' one, in that I had a romantic interest and we were getting to know each other. We were walking around discussing our kids (he had 15 year old twin girls and a 13 year old girl, marriage ended or maybe his wife had died...) and I was talking about, of all things, some surgery I had that has caused me some minor problems since. We were outside, but walking along ramps and stairways, until we sat down near a wall and some kids with their teacher approached us, and walked on their way past us to somewhere else. I was saying friendly 'hi's' to some of the kids and felt I knew some of them. I was aware that me and the guy had to part soon and that made me sad, and then I woke from the alarm going off. I remembering this dream very well, but the guy? I woke thinking he had a bluish grey suit on, broadish shoulders, dark hair, was tallish and handsome...and yet I can't recall his face or his name.
Auditorium dreams and not seeing faces of someone I am interacting with in dreams always make me think twice.
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
Senior Member
Username: leathab
Post Number: 1924
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:06 pm:
Secret School?
Intermediate Member
Username: nina
Post Number: 191
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:33 pm:
Hi L.A.B
That thought crossed my mind about the kids in my dream, but I don't know. I know their teacher was with them, but I can't remember her face. I got the impression she wasn't happy about me saying hi...
I DO recall one of the little girls faces...I think there was something wrong with her eyes...OMG. As I typed that, I KNOW the significance of just blurting something like that. I remember her eyes as blue/grey, but they seemed to be set wrong in her face maybe too far apart and slanting, but downwards...her head seemed large and I think it kinda looked...well deformed in some way. I said a particularly friendly hi to her, but she just looked sullenly back. She was wearing a little blue checked dress.
I am in Australia and I have not yet read anything about Aussies involved in Secret Schools. Doesn't mean it can't happen though. This first dream, I should have said...I woke just before the alarm...I hardly ever do that.
The auditorium dream bothers me. I know I was involved somehow in organising the event. At one point at the start of the dream I am standing there admiring the foyer, set up with a little table with a vase of flowers on it. Women are arriving and mingling in the foyer. They mostly seem short like me. And even the quote lady I go get, I don't recall her face, but she had dark blond, somewhat teased or messy shoulder length hair and she was maybe in her fifties.
The thing is, like most people I don't always have such detailed dreams, and I can't usually recall conversations like the ones mentioned here or seemingly unimportant details...why bother remembering a vase of flowers on a table?
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
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Username: gemini
Post Number: 301
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Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:04 pm:
I have noticed something odd about my dreams lately, and I'm wondering if they've always been like that and if other people experience it too. When I have a dream and think back on it, it consists of things that I've recently seen, heard, thought about, saw on tv, etc., all put together to make a 'story'. Sometimes an element in the dream is something simple - like one day my husband and I were walking across a parking lot and I saw our car in the distance and so that scene of the car being in the distance ended up in my dream. Or an element might be more complex - today I had a nap and dreamed and I dreamed of someone I haven't seen for a long time. I couldn't think right away of why he would be in my dream, but then I started to think about I'd recently mentioned something about Gettysburg to my husband, and he had mentioned something about cannons and my mind put that together and put this person into my dream because the guy is a civil war re-enactor!
So now I'm wondering if my dreams have always been like that - has my mind always taken the things I've seen, heard, thought about and made 'stories' and I just didn't realize it before? Do other people experience this, too?
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Username: buddie
Post Number: 1264
Registered: 3-2006
Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 6:34 am:
Gemini..most of the "normal" dreams I have
are of things I've encountered through out
the day - week.. or someone I was thinking
about or work with..I dream alot ..
Then there are the "visit" dreams that are
totally different..I'm tired of talking
about them at the moment..they have that
effect on me..
I "BURN OUT" when I discuss them..
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Username: brown
Post Number: 819
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 6:52 am:
Nina that dream about the school and the fella , I think that might be a precognitive dream in that the detail is there... more so than if it had just resulted from day residue .. so note the details just journal that one.
The school could've been for children with disabilities.
The fella ..lol.. you've yet to meet him.. then you'll know.
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Username: jmb
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 7:51 am:
susi, absolutely no native American in my background, but a lot of Scots-Irish, whom I've heard are very prone to being abducted. opal, I may try what you suggested.
Last night was a wild night, with a SCREECH owl calling all night, plus some AWFUL, unknown bird call I can't even begin to describe. My daughter and I have also heard this bird during the day.
Nina et al, the auditorium/school/mall dreams are a staple of mine. The weird part is, there are never any chairs! I, too, can never quite see the faces. Gettysburg, here in PA, is TERRIBLY haunted, and some of the best ghost pictures EVER have come out of there, and even been posted on C2C. These poor young men died a quick, traumatic death, and I believe they don't even know they are dead.
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Username: nina
Post Number: 193
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:11 am:
brown, did you know I am a teacher when you wrote that? I can't recall from reading here...are you psychic? Gee it would be nice if it was a dream of the future! But then the *SNAP* I got when I was talking about the little girl's eyes bothers me.
I have had a few precognitive dreams in the past, and one I believe was occurring in real life as I dreamed it. That was a very, very scary experience which I might write about tomorrow (close to bedtime here). Maybe I have written about it before...I will check before posting.
gemini, yes I have that kind of thing happen all the time, but those dreams above were not from anything in my life that I can pinpoint. Just last week I had a passing thought about seeing a friend the next day, and I had a long dream about her.
gracies, yep, I have had quite a few dreams of the auditoriums and malls too. This is the first auditorium dream that has hit me with such detail, but a few of the mall ones are very vivid...and it is weird but a feature of these kind of dreams seems to be stairs, escalators, ramps. I am always travelling up or down to get somewhere.
And gracies, I am Scottish born so I also have Celtic roots. Most of my family go back to Ireland (I am doing my family tree as a hobby).
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
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Username: albi
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:18 am:
Sometimes I think the Druids must have made successful contact.
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Username: leathab
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 11:39 am:
Nina, your reaction to the 'dream' seems to be one of you being the "student" in the Secret School, not the teacher.
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Username: nina
Post Number: 194
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 7:28 pm:
Hi L.A.B,
Which dream were you referring to?
Well, when I thought about the Secret School, I was referring to the children I saw, not exactly ME being a student there, although obviously I was in conversation with this guy and may have been taught something. I can only recall talking about our lives a little bit. I did recall last night another scene in that dream where we were in a restaurant, we were lined up to pay, people behind us also waiting. There was a high table and this guy put his 'wallet' (looked more like a purse) on it to get money out, but left the wallet there and turned his back on it to pay. I picked it up, slightly bemused that he would be so careless. This seemed to be at the beginning of the dream. Logically I am thinking why would there be a lot of people leaving at once, hence the big line of people waiting to pay? See, this is what alerts me that perhaps these dreams were more than the usual dream...I can't even recall what I dreamed about last might, except in teeny fragments.
The auditorium dream is more like a teaching dream (not that I saw any of the events actually taking place in the auditorium) but that may be my mind associating the auditorium setting with lecture halls.
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
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Username: brown
Post Number: 824
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:48 pm:
no nina I didnt know that you're a teacher all I've noticed here is you're over in ditch there in Oz..right. (nzer here)
you ever learned sign language..?
I'm just guessing as in not psychic just pick up stuff about folks sometimes.
Wax Tadpole
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Username: waxtadpole
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:55 pm:
"ditch"? More Down-Under slang?
Does anybody know of a *denser* food source of potassium than blackstrap molasses?
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Username: nina
Post Number: 195
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:16 pm:
Hmmm...ditch? Lol, I have never heard it called that before. No waxy, we just say we are 'down under'.
I did learn a kind of sign language for a year, not indepth, just what I needed to know in order to teach twins who had invented their own language between themselves before coming to school. I learned the technique via their speech therapist. In order to get them to form specific sounds, I used signs which is supposed to remind the child what to do with his tongue in speech, as these little guys had never learned any of the correct sounds in English speech. Don't ask me how that happened...their mum was a very concerned and involved parent, and they had two older brothers. They were learning to speaking pretty well by the end of that year.
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
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Username: brown
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:34 pm:
my bad I meant to write 'over the ditch' just means the sea between Oz n Nz..lol.
Hey interesting Nina that you have that background sign language..maybe want to explore taking that further.
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Username: nina
Post Number: 196
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Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:56 pm:
Oh yeah, the weird dream I referred to above...
I was sitting in a plane on the left side. I could look out the window and see the wing a bit behind me. Suddenly a 'round thing' as my mind told me in the dream and later in describing it to my Mum, fell off the wing. The plane began veering heavily to the left and the next thing I know I am on the ground, there is a blinding flash of light and an explosion, and I heard a little kid say "Mummy! Mummy!". I woke up in a fright.
Next morning I told my Mum about it, and went about my day. About 6pm that evening the news was on. My Mum was outside bringing in washing from the clothesline. After I watched for a bit, I was the one screaming for my mother. I ran outside and told her that what I had dreamed about was on the tv. She was shocked, but she put it down to my being psychic from an early age. Like I wanted to see stuff like that...!
They described a plane crash in Chicago, which had killed all aboard. It had crashed shortly after take off because the left engine had come off.
I kinda calculated at the time that I was dreaming it would have been close to the time of the event actually happening. And I have read on the net and in one book I own that for some reason this particular plane crash had a lot of people claiming to have dreamed about it. And some even say the crash site is haunted.
The date was May 25 1979, and you can find some references to it on the internet. Here's one link from Time.com discussing the cause of the crash:
A guest of George Noory's also had a dream, but three days before the event:
There is a link on the page describing the crash in more detail.
This dream is the reason that I tried to block my psychic awarenesses for about fifteen years afterwards. It scared me SO bad! I though, in my 18 year old mind (at the time) kinda way "If I am gonna see crap like that, which I can do nothing about, I don't WANT to be psychic!!!"
(Message edited by nina on September 06, 2006)
"Sometimes we find the message; other times the message finds us, and sometimes we ARE the message."
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Username: hale
Post Number: 161
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 2:50 pm:
I had a rather disturbing dream last night. It was as if I stepped into another person's life, or dream. Pretty atypical scenario, at least for me.
I was with a woman who was my wife, but she was not my wife (short and brunette with curly hair---my wife in real life is tall and redheaded). We drove up to what I think was a hardware store. We were there to kill one of the guys who worked there, or who owned the store. We cased the place first to see who was there. We then went out to the car and there was a rifle in the car with a small package which I think were the bullets.
We went into the store and I was carrying the gun. I walked in like I was trying to be nonchalant. Everyone noticed me when I walked into the store with the gun in a cloth bag. I walked over to where I thought I had seen the guy we were supposed to shoot, over by the paint area, I think. Someone walked up to me and asked me in a concerned voice if I needed some help. I stood there for a moment, feeling like my plan was unravelling. I asked if they did gun repair, and the person said that I should wait there and they would get someone to help me. I glanced back toward the front of the store where my "wife" was and gave her a look like I wanted to get out of there. At some point the gun was out of the bag and I was looking at it, and moving the cylinder in the chamber. We both began to leave the store quickly, and as I glanced over I saw the guy I was supposed to be shooting. Small guy. He looked concerned, and he had several people standing around him behind a counter, like he knew what was up.
It seemed like we went back into the store, but the details are not totally clear. Later, my "wife" comes back and I ask her where she has been all this time and she tells me she has been out gambling, or perhaps buying lottery tickets or the like. She says she has just won $4,000.00 and I am amazed at this. As we walk out, there is this odd shift and I am aware that we turn and look back and we see the couple but as they will be 20 years or more later. They are both older and grey, and both look short. Maybe in their mid to late 60's.
Pretty yucky feel to it. Maybe it is the full-ish moon....
hazel mclane
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Username: wordspeak
Post Number: 273
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Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 5:49 pm:
this is not where i need to post this dream, but to keep the thread about dreams, i give my bit.
2 years ago this message was printed about other life forms.
"all day my heart has been heavy as i had a prophetic dream last night.
about being led around the planet by beings that i cannot describe fully, at this time, except to say--they exist,but on and in different elements
than humans do.
i was shown great destruction that had been done througe the years to theirs and other living species that are different than us, but occupying much of the same space as we do.
i cry as i write this as it hurts so much.
many of these species are more intelligent than we, yet very fragile.
for me to understand what they were showing and telling, they formed outlined human forms to express themselves with others.
i was shown how our unhealthy and polluted world looked like and how it had affected them and how it has destroyed so many.
i saw how and where all the tests of firearms and bombs had destroyed many of their species.
their species are a purpose to us as we are all tied in destiny togather, we are a purpose and have this connection.
the hate and fighting going on in this world is causing...for understanding of a right word ...melting of elements that benefit them and us....the elements being them.
i saw clouds raing down upon this world , crumbling the earth within,
i did not get a feeling of what to do except...pity, have pity.
this may be strange to many, yet i was compelled to try to write this.i have not been able to get many of the images to an understanding language or level. yet it may come"
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Username: albi
Post Number: 658
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 7:29 pm:
when I put tobacco down
Water flew out of my eyes
and my chest seized.
I started sobbing
and then couldn't breathe
when I stuffed it.
Today belongs to Echo.
Little people come out of the trees
jump into my solar plexus
show me the green.
Just a split second understanding
moves so fast you have to stay still.
Or they cry with me.
Buried alive
a tree near a road
where they're planning to build.
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Username: who_am_i
Post Number: 47
Registered: 3-2006
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 9:00 am:
I had a very vivid dream two mornings ago. I was debating on whether to even post this but since this dream was so vivid I will go ahead and share. It is an embarassing dream.
The dream started when I saw two long fingered tan hands that looked like they were reaching towards me. Both of the hands had long fingernails that were the same color as the skin of the hands. When I looked at these hands I knew that it was the hands of a visitor, I don't know why I just knew at first. Very suddenly the hands dissapeared and out came what looked like a very white form that seemed to change in shape as it moved past me. For some reason I had a very hard time seeing the real shape of this thing. As it moved passed me I also got a glimpse of its face, but not so much the face, just two almond shaped black eyes. When I saw this form in it's entirety with those eyes I felt utter terror. It is very hard to describe this feeling. When I realised how frightened I had become I tried to run, to get away, anything to feel better but I could not. The white form was saying something to me in my head but I could not understand what it was saying to me. I then did something that is odd for me. I screamed, "In Jesus's name I pray!"(I am not religious) As soon as I said that I became less afraid and more aware of what was going on around me. I was on my bed and could only slightly move my arms and torso. This part is very embarassing so I will try to say this. I had something up my rectum and this thing was trying to push it further into me. I managed to grab this thing out of me only to have it inserted into me again. I could FEEL this object thing go into me, it hurt and was extremely uncomfortable. This is the first dream I have ever had that I could actually physically feel what was happening, besides some dreams I had as a kid. And that terror I had experienced felt VERY real and vivid.
I woke up becuase I was hot so I tried to turn on the fan next to my bed. It would not turn on. I then realised that the air conditioner was off and the clock on my radio was off as well. I got up and went into the living room and all of the other clocks were out in the house including the grandfather clock. I checked the refridgerator and that was off too. The ice was half melted in the freezer. I figured there was a power outage and went back to sleep so I have no idea what time in the morning I woke up. It was a beautiful sunny day though. When I woke up next, the clock by my bed was back to normal and it said 5:00 PM. The rest of the clocks were fine accept the Grandfather clock which had to be reset. The stuff in the fridge and freezer seemed to be ok. I got dressed and went to work shortly after.
The dream itself was short and that is all I remember of it. The dream was far more weird than the way I described it but I tried to describe it the best way I could. I feel fine physically and mentally. I have never had any previous weird experiences that I know of. This was probably the most vivid dream I have ever had besides these wonderful flying dreams I had as a kid.
Anyways, it was a powerful dream and I thought I would share it. Thanks for listening.
hazel mclane
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Username: wordspeak
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Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 9:31 pm:
those aliens have a fasination with human [tale].
enjoyed your post brandon.
i never remember these big black eyed [people?]
i know that i had an implant and maybe 2 and still have something in one nostril.
it seems most of my encounters looked human and treated me great.
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Username: who_am_i
Post Number: 48
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Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 10:42 pm:
I figure the dream was brought on by the research I have done on the subject of UFO's over the past year. It has been a mild obsession of mine for awhile now. It was only a matter of time before I had this kind of dream with how much thought I have put into the subject.
I really wish I could delete the probe part of my post as it can be offensive to people that have actually been through this terrible experience.
My apologies to anyone who was offended by my post. As I said the dream was vivid and I decided to post all that I remembered of it.
hazel mclane
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Username: wordspeak
Post Number: 279
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Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 6:53 pm:
it is okey brandon. probably the best thing you ever did, as you made yourself present what you thought was offensive. bless you and yours.
Southern Cross
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Username: jolinda
Post Number: 1101
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 6:00 am:
Brandon, grandfather clocks don't run on electricity. What you describe doesn't sound like a dream to me, especially the part about the physical feelings. It could be that you became interested in UFO's because of some personal experiences that were hidden before.
susi t learn
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Username: etsi
Post Number: 3098
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 8:13 am:
this isn't much to report, but i felt it had to be recorded.
i woke up in the middle of the night knowing i had dreamed something but couldn't remember what. only that it left me with an anxious feeling of 'something's going to happen'.
a few minutes later, bryn woke up and told me he had a bad dream. when he wakes up this morning, i'll see if he can remember the details.
pretty vague i know.
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Username: who_am_i
Post Number: 49
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Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 9:39 am:
Bless you and yours too.
Southern Cross,
Good point about the Grandfather clock. I can't believe I forgot about that. I run into that Clock at night in the dark all the time so that could be what stopped the clock, and the Grandfather clock stopped at 4:00-ish so I probably did bump it on the way to bed. It does'nt usually stop though.
I actually have been interested in strange phenomenon most of my life. Just this year I have been more interested in the subject than I normally am as a result of lights I see in the sky at night frequently. I have tried to debunk the lights(As you can see in my profile) but I still can't explain some things about them(like hovering and abrupt changes in direction). I still see these aircraft almost every night on the way home. I saw one last night that puzzled me. Who knows?
Can people physically feel sensations in dreams? I thought it might be common in vivid dreams, I don't usually have them. Then again, as I said before, I did have recurring dreams when I was a kid where I could physically feel the wonder that is flying. I remember that I had to concentrate in the center of my body until I started floating, then It would become easier over time until I could control flight completely and was high above the city. The feeling itself was pure ecstasy, and it truly felt like I was free of all restraints. I hope I can fly again in the future, maybe when I am between lives. I think that is where I remembered to fly in my dream in the first place because it felt very real and familiar, like I have flown before.
The recent visitor dream did'nt feel like a dream but it did at the same time if that makes any since. It is almost like I was between the physical world and the dream world. Could that be possible? I did'nt feel any pain when I woke up or afterwards.
I live in the City right now but am moving to New Mexico temporarily in a woody area on a mountain right near White Sands. So I'm kind of hoping that this was just a vivid dream as I don't think I could handle a real confrontation with anything that frightening.
My Step Mother is a relative of Loretta Proctor who, as a girl, got to see the wreckage of the Roswell crash and was the neighbor to the farmer where the supposed saucer crashed. I might get a chance to talk to her and am excited about it.
Anyways, I'm tired and have been rambling. I'll stop now. Hehe.
Have a good one.
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Username: leathab
Post Number: 1992
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 12:45 pm:
Had two dreams, the first is significant somehow as the words "Modesto, California" was said over and over (earthquake??) and Elton John was playing there.
The second dream had me meeting an old school chum (who in real life had just appeared at a SF convention, a week ago, didn't go, but know he was a guest, had worked on Trek as guest star on two occasions) who was eating at a restaurant I was eating at, we met and hugged, talked a bit...then on the counter, there appeared a box of gerbils and one hamster. They were cute, but as the dream progressed they escaped into the hotel, was trying to help personel capture them, but they keep "breeding" and escaping. It was a maze of rooms with beds to look under, cupboards, doors etc. etc. The end was the exterminator, I had saved a box full of gerbils and one hamster, but all the rest were destroyed along with a salamander, bugs and other "critters." (Wonder if this is a "parable" about our status?? A few saved and the rest "exterminated??")
Southern Cross
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Username: jolinda
Post Number: 1103
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 1:07 pm:
I've always had the flying dreams, too. isn't it such a wonderful, free feeling? As to your "dream," it sounds very similar to a "dream" I had about ten years ago. Same sense of pain, which I don't feel in normal dreams, and the same sense of lucid dreaming. It was such a vivid abduction experience that I thought, geesh, I've been reading too many books about this stuff. Maybe our brains don't recognize how to interpret certain experiences, so they lump them into the dream experience. Why don't you post the dream under the UFO experiences thread?
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Username: sharon
Post Number: 109
Registered: 6-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 1:12 pm:
Brandon, that is so cool to know these people. When I was a child of 8, My family and I had a close encounter in the White Sands area.
You hear about all of the stories of the area, and sometimes the confusion that comes with the truth, and the non-truth can cloud your eyes.
Here a couple of years ago, met a man who's father told his family about Roswell, he was in the Air Force. He told him no matter what news came out on the tv. This was a true event. Over the years he would come home and tell them about the sightings.
In the area you are going there is many strange things going on. You should read Charles Hall books on the tall whites in the area.
Better to know whats in the area.
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Username: who_am_i
Post Number: 50
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Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 8:46 pm:
That is an interesting dream you had. I often have maze type dreams and they can be so confusing to me.
Southern Cross,
Yes they are wonderful dreams.
I would post this experience in the UFO board but since this dream is rather embarassing and it was hard enough to write about it the first time I think I will leave the topic here for now until I have more to draw from this particular experience. So far it was just a vivid dream to me. I would not want to make a mountain out of a molehill like I did with these lights in the sky. If anything else happens or something else is remembered about the dream I will surely report it on the proper board.
Thank you very much for the tall white information. I am researching it now. Indeed it is better to know what strangeness lies near the area you live in. I was quite suprised at the phenomenon that happens in the Olmos Basin Park right near me. After reading "The Secret School" I asked my Mother who lived in San Antonio most of her life whether or not she knew of any people that had similar strange experiences around the same time Whitley had his as a kid. Sure enough she asked some of her friends and found quite a few people that had unexplainable experiences as children around the same time as Whitley's Secret School. One of my Mother's friends actually knows Whitley and Anne through their Goddaughter and her mother. Small world aint it.
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Username: slw
Post Number: 474
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 11:44 pm:
susi, Did you get any details from your son? Maybe the two of you shared a dream!
Night before last, I had a weird dream. I told it to my husband after he got up but I failed to write it down. Now I barely remember it and he surely doesn't! But it keeps nagging me so here goes:
I enterred an odd building, no windows, the floor was messy like melted sludge, an inner door was open but I moved the door and when I did a body wrapped like a cocoon was in the slush behind the door. My doctor came in but acted like he didnt see me and I felt it important that he not see me! I went back out through another room and discovered three or more bodies, wrapped cocoon fashion. The faces of the bodies were exposed and mostly seemed female but I didn't recognize any of them. A lady who works in the deli at Walmart was there and as she looked at me, I quickly left. As I walked down the street, two pick-up trucks passed me. A lady in the first one looked at me and said "Call 911?" to which I replied "Yes, call 911!"
I probably dreamed the 911 part because of the upcoming 9/11 anniversary but I'm not buying anything else from that deli and I'm not going back to that doctor either. Silly dream, I guess, but I feel like it had meaning.
Southern Cross
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Username: jolinda
Post Number: 1109
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 11:55 pm:
That's cool, Brandon. I understand that it was embarassing. In my "dream" I felt like something was inserted into my cervix. It hurt like H*ll. We can chat about it here if you like. I like to characterize my experience as a lucid dream for my own comfort. I don't think it was, though/
susi t learn
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Username: etsi
Post Number: 3119
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Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:07 am:
no, because of his head injury, he has extreme short term memory loss. sometimes he'll get up and write them down. but if he doesn't...they're gone.
Wax Tadpole
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Username: waxtadpole
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:13 am:
White Sands, huh? My Dad was in the Army, and he was stationed around there for awhile. Here's a nifty little tale from my youth:
There was a resort area with dunes that our family would go to often. On one occasion I can remember going to a museum there, and I'm pretty sure I saw a display telling the story of a ghostly woman who would come out during sandstorms. Somehow I got the notion from this that if I drew a giant spider on a dune, a sandstorm would bring it to life in comparable fashion.
Now, I don't know if this next part was a dream or a vivid daydream or if it happened in reality, but I have this clear but fragmented mental image of myself drawing that spider outline on the very peak of a good-sized dune while seeing a dark, brooding storm rapidly approach before me. I also remember having a strong feeling that it would literally work.
It'd be neat if there was a metaphysical aspect to this that I've forgotten. I've heard kids are more open to this stuff...
(Message edited by waxtadpole on September 11, 2006)
"...I'm goin' to Hoag Land, Hoag Land..."
Wax Tadpole
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Username: waxtadpole
Post Number: 1054
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:19 am:
I'll be darned if my memory doesn't find new ways to impress me! Thanks to you all, I thought of this old memory while online and realized I could do a Google to partly resolve it. Presto! The museum memory must be real:
"...I'm goin' to Hoag Land, Hoag Land..."
Wax Tadpole
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Username: waxtadpole
Post Number: 1055
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:24 am:
I actually choked up for a few moments, reading about "Pavla Blanca". I really was afraid this was a pure fantasy memory until now... Heck, I had to have been 4-5 years old or thereabouts!
"...I'm goin' to Hoag Land, Hoag Land..."
Wax Tadpole
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Username: waxtadpole
Post Number: 1056
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:30 am:
I'm pretty impressed that my tiny self would be able to read/interpret the tale well enough at that age to remember it so long, as well as get the notion that this could translate into bringing a sand drawing to life. And why a spider, for gosh sakes? I HATED bugs as a kid!!!
"...I'm goin' to Hoag Land, Hoag Land..."
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Username: hale
Post Number: 182
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 11:03 am:
Had a "news" dream.
In the past, these kind of dreams have seemed to me to be 'important info' so I put it here. Between one dream sequence and another, my dead Grandmother shows up, and she is examining a piece of paper. She acts grave, or concerned. Then I am sitting in front of a t.v. and watching a news show. They are showing a piece of footage of what looks like a nuclear bomb going off. I am catching it midway through. I watch a large cloud suddenly expanding and rising upward. Color erupts from it like a bomb, and the cloud swells into what looks like a mushroom cloud. But then they play the footage backwards, and this is where it gets interesting.
The cloud implodes on itself in fast motion and it goes back to what it was when the clip starts. It isn't a nuclear bomb, its just clouds. It all goes back into being a large cluster of low lying cloud. It's as though someone is turning a cloud into something akin to a bomb.
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Username: leathab
Post Number: 2005
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 12:58 pm:
Maybe I misheard, and it was Modesto, Mexico?? (The gulf had a 6.0 earthquake yesterday!!)
Ah well, it seems suddenly we are all "dreaming" when over the last few years, personally, I haven't had any that I remembered. It seems strange that all of a sudden, we are getting very peculiar dreaming going on.


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