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Yoga FAQs
What differentiates The Barkan Method from Bikram or other forms of Hot Yoga? |
The Barkan Method is built on many of the poses and philosophies of Bikram Choudhury and Bishnu Ghosh, but integrates postures from other styles of yoga. Founded by Jimmy Barkan who has been teaching yoga since 1981, he has found that even though consistency is important to measure results, daily variations are necessary to challenge, excite and help students become unlimited in their practice.
Are classes at Hot Box Yoga a cardio workout? |
Absolutely. Our yoga incorporates many challenging postures that sustain an elevated heart rate.
What if I'm not flexible? |
You don't have to be flexible to start yoga. The heated room allows tight muscles to stretch with greater ease. In fact the more inflexible you are the more reason you should practice yoga. Yoga is about balancing the mind body and soul, not about flexibility.
Will I lose weight? |
Yes. With regular practice students find their bodies becoming significantly trimmer and toned. The added bonus is Yoga improves the major systems of the body, increasing health and vitality, which is the best way to lose weight in the long term. Of course a balanced diet should also play an important part.
Can you eat before class? |
You should come to class on an empty stomach. You should not have food for approx. 2 hours before class. You can drink juice or eat fruits up to 1 hour before class. It is important to come hydrated so make sure to drink water before, during and after class.
When should I avoid doing hot yoga? |
Hot Yoga is great for most people, however it is contraindicated under the following circumstances.
Pregnancy. Women in their first trimester of pregnancy, unless they have kept up a regular hot yoga practice for at least 6 months, are recommended to stay out of the heated room.
Heart Disease. Those suffering from severe heart disease that limits cardiovascular activity should consult their doctor about being in a heated environment.
Children. It is best that hot yoga is practiced only after the child's sweat glands have developed - usually around a girl's first menstruation or a boy's growth spurt.
How long are the classes, and do I book in advance? What should I wear/bring? |
The Barkan Method & Power Flow classes are 60 minutes long. There is no need to register in advance. Unless indicated, all classes are on-going and drop-in.
Be prepared to sweat. Wear light, non-restrictive clothing comfortable to stretch in. No shoes are to be worn in the studio. Shower facilities are available for use after class.
Please bring a mat, bottled water & towel (all are available for hire/purchase).


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Seminário de Investigação em Museologia dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e Espanhola, I, 2009
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AbstractThe term "loom weights" refers to different objects, which are usually associated to weaving. They are shown in some museums in Portugal, being sometimes related to a vertical loom reconstruction. However, considering the fact that that the way these weights were hung in the loom is still unknown, as is the reason for their morphology variation or even the relation to weaving, they should be more deeply questioned or investigated. Following this idea, we question how these weights, found in archaeological sites, are shown. So, in this poster we will give some examples of reconstructions of weights and vertical looms, focusing on how both of them are shown and explained to the public. How do you show and share something of which not all is certain, but whose familiarity is appealing?
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Catopsilia florella
Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
- kingdom Animalia
- phylum Arthropoda
- class Insecta
- order Lepidoptera
- family Pieridae
- genus Catopsilia
Common Names
African Migrant (English), Common Vagrant (English), African Emigrant (English), الفراشة الافريقية المهاجرة (Arabic)
Size: 55-65 mm. Large, powerful, small marks on the underside of the forewing margin; male bluish-white and the upperside of wing almost unmarked; female white or yellow.
The butterflies are sexually dimorphic - males are white, and females may be white or yellow.
Brief Summary
Catopsilia florella is the only African representative of its genus. It has a wide variety of colour variation from white through to yellow
Status in Egypt
Migrant, no permanent populations in Egypt except perhaps in Gebel Elba (Larsen 1990)
Not Assessed ( not resident in Egypt)
They are strong fliers and occasionally migrate in large numbers.
Ecology and Distribution
Global Distribution
Widespread (throughout Africa and as migrants in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, probably extending to India on an irregular basis: Larsen, pers. comm.).
Distribution in Egypt
Widespread. AOO = 95 km2. EOO = 460,000 km2. 11 locations
36 records. Latest in 2001 (South Sinai)
Gardens, parks, areas with flowers.
Life Cycle
Two or more generations per year.
The Flight Period
Trophic Strategy
Host-plants: mainly Cassia italica, with non-native Cassia spp and Albizzia lebbeck.


text: Vancouver consistently ranks among the most livable cities in the world. It is a coastal city with a population of about 2.5 million in the Greater Vancouver area and the busiest seaport in Canada. Although a wonderful place to live, if you are a driver, Vancouver parking is a challenge. For example, if you are a Canucks fan and looking for BC Place Stadium parking, you can avoid last minute parking fatigue by reserving a spot ahead of time through GottaPark. Likewise, if you are attending events at the Commodore Ballroom, Empire Fields, Orpheum Theater, Pacific Coliseum or the Rogers Arena, GottaPark can help save you time and money. Frequent flyers will find our Vancouver airport parking options useful to find cheap, convenient options. GottaPark makes parking in Vancouver easy.


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Chinese Chow Mein Loaf
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- 2 pound(s) hamburger
- 1 cup(s) celery
- 1 cup(s) onion
- 1 cup(s) white rice
- 1 can(s) cream of mushrooms soup 10 3/4oz
- 1 can(s) cream of celery soup 10 3/4oz
- 1/4 cup(s) milk
- 1/2 can(s) chow mein noodles
- Brown the hambuger in a deep skillet until it is all separated. Add the celery and onion. Cook over low heat until the onion is transparent and glazed. Meanwhile, place the rice in two cups water and cook for 15 minutes, or until fluffy and tender. Rinse the rice in warm water, drain and add to the hamburger mixture. Stir in the mushroom soup and celery soup. Add the milk. Mix all very thoroughly. Put into a greased 1 1/2 quart casserole; sprinkle the chow mein noodles over top. Place in a 350 oven for 30 minutes.
January 2012
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Congress leading critic of nonprofit abuses, has asked three of North Carolinas largest hospitals to share information about their use of a rapidly growing discount drug program, saying they dont appear to be passing along the massive savings to patients.
Instead, the discounts appear to be subsidizing bottom line operating margins, Grassley wrote in a letter that was emailed Friday to the heads of Carolinas Medical Center, Duke University Health System and UNC Hospitals.
The letters cite a recent investigation by the Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh, which found that large nonprofit hospitals are dramatically inflating prices on chemotherapy drugs at a time when they are cornering more of the market on cancer care.
The newspapers investigation found that hospitals are routinely marking up prices on cancer drugs two to 10 times over cost. At the same time, hospitals are increasingly buying the practices of independent oncologists, then charging more for the same chemotherapy in the same office.
More than 40 hospitals in North Carolina including Carolinas Medical Center and Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, Duke in Durham and UNC in Chapel Hill are able to obtain deep discounts on outpatient drugs under a federal program called 340B. It requires drug manufacturers to provide price breaks to hospitals that treat large numbers of financially needy patients.
Hospitals typically save 20 percent or more on drug purchases made through the program, experts say. Drugs used in the inpatient setting dont qualify for savings under the program.
Although Congress set up the program to offset the cost of treating Medicaid patients, hospitals can buy discounted drugs for all outpatients, including those with private insurance.
Grassleys letter noted that Carolinas HealthCare System, the $7 billion nonprofit system that owns Carolinas Medical Center and about 30 other hospitals, has been generating record surpluses in recent years.
If non-profit hospitals are essentially profiting from the 340B program without passing those savings to its patients, then the 340B program is not functioning as intended, Grassley wrote.
He asked the hospitals to summarize the revenue they have received from the program and to explain how they have reinvested the savings for the benefit of uninsured patients.
Hospitals responses
In a brief statement, Carolinas HealthCare said, We appreciate and share Senator Grassleys interest in controlling healthcare costs in the United States and plan to work with his office directly to review the facts.
A Duke official said the hospital would respond appropriately, while an official at UNC said: We will work with Sen. Grassleys office to provide the information he is looking for.
Nonprofit hospitals get substantial tax breaks. In exchange, theyre expected to provide charity care and other benefits to the communities they serve.
Carolinas Medical Center spent about 5.5 percent of its budget on charity care in 2010 a larger percentage than most N.C. hospitals. But Carolinas HealthCare has filed thousands of lawsuits against patients who dont pay their bills, and a previous Observer investigation found that some of those patients appeared to qualify for charity care.
Carolinas HealthCare, the nations second-largest public hospital system, has posted average annual profits of more than $300 million over the past three years. The chain has built up more than $2 billion in investments and owns more than $1 billion in property.
In a report last year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the 340B program got inadequate oversight from the Health Resources and Services Administration, the federal agency responsible for monitoring it. The GAO also found that the 340B program has increasingly been used in settings, such as hospitals, where the risk of improper purchase of 340B drugs is greater.
Helping the poor?
The number of U.S. hospitals participating in the 340B program has increased significantly in recent years, from 591 in 2005 to 1673 last year, according to the GAO. Some drug manufacturers have questioned whether all those hospitals need a discount drug program.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has repeatedly questioned whether hospitals and other nonprofits earn their tax exemptions. Earlier this year, in response to the Observers April investigation into nonprofit hospitals in North Carolina, he said most of those hospitals need to do more to help poor and uninsured patients.
A ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley in March teamed up with three fellow Republicans Sen. Michael Enzi, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Joe Pitts to launch the 340B investigation.
The intent and design of the program is to help lower outpatient drug prices for the uninsured, Grassley wrote in his letters to the N.C. hospitals. It is not intended to subsidize covered entities for providing inpatient services to those who are covered by private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
Grassleys letter to Carolinas HealthCare quoted system President Joe Piemont, who told the Observer that prices often reflect the practice known as cost-shifting, in which hospitals charge more for some services to make up for losses in others.
The drug itself may just be the vehicle for charging for the services that are provided (elsewhere), he said. We make literally thousands of trades to have it balance.
In a message to employees responding to the Observer stories last week, Carolinas HealthCare CEO Michael Tarwater explained: Decisions regarding the pricing of chemotherapy services or any other services for that matter do not take place in a vacuum. Those decisions must take into account literally hundreds of variables that affect our ability to take care of our patients.
In recent years, he said, the system has undergone a sustained economic crisis that has significantly increased the costs of charity care, in the context of flat government reimbursement models that, taken as a whole, do not cover the costs of care provided.
At the same time, Tarwater wrote, our mission requires a significant investment of resources in education, research, and many vital services that are not self-supporting, such as behavioral health.
Bloated charges
U.S. Rep Sue Myrick, R-N.C., questioned whether some hospitals are playing fair with patients.
Quality medical care is expensive, but cancer patients shouldnt be ripped off by hospitals that benefit from mandated federal drug discounts, Myrick, a breast cancer survivor, said in a statement. Health insurance policyholders shouldnt be forced to pay higher premiums just because a provider can collect on an artificially bloated charge.
Government cant fix the entire problem, she said, but surely with a major payer like Medicare, we should have some ability to alter the underlying incentives so that theres more downward pressure on prices, healthy competition for healthcare business, and more transparency for the consumer.
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., meanwhile, said the current system allows companies to profit from the poor health of patients and that he unlike most of the American public would prefer to see a nationalized healthcare system. He said he would also favor making nonprofit hospitals pay taxes the way for-profit corporations do.
These things are not nonprofit any more than General Motors is nonprofit, he said. Theyre getting the benefits of being nonprofit without the obligations.
News & Observer staff writer Jay Price and Observer staff writer Doug Miller contributed.
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Secret Sphere – Archetype CD review
Secret Sphere's new album, the amazing Archetype is the perfect example of a power metal album. With fast soloing guitar lines, high pitched vocal squeals and extremely catchy songs, Secret Spheres take on progressive power metal is one of the most powerful and soulful examples of the music you will ever lay your ears on. Featuring twelve all killer no filler, charging power metal anthems, one thing is for sure, you will remember Secret Sphere's name for a long time, and it's because of one thing…… The stellar new record Archetype!
The best bit about Archetype is the soaring guitar lines. Power metal is supposed to be fast, emotional, but never the less heavy, and that's what Secret Sphere is best at doing, writing good old fashion power metal riffs. Aldo Lonobile is a hell of a talented guitar player, and you can see he puts all he's got into tracks like 'Line of Fire', 'Into the Void' and 'Future', which are all guitar orientated. Whether it be heavy chugging guitar riffs, or insane tapping solo's this album is a must have for die-hards shredders, who most definitely will compliment Aldo as one of the best guitarists in melodic metal.
Secret Sphere not only are the masters of the fast paced riff. The more 'mellower' tracks and the ballads that are present on Archetype makes this experience all the more enjoyable, giving a new dimension to the album. Tracks like 'The Scars You can't See', 'All in The Moment' and 'Vertigo' may remind you heavily of the structure of a Sonata Arctica song, but the use string instruments and 'techno' sounding keyboard adds a new flavour into the mix. Whether it is the fast or the slow, it is memorable, and you can't help but air keyboard and sing along to these brilliant songs.
What is very odd about Archetype is that Secret Sphere has experimented with harsher vocals in some of their songs. Although this usually isn't a custom to power metal, the ferociousness of 'Line of Fire' and 'Mr. Sin' make the music sound all the more aggressive and powerful. It's excellent but strange, you don't expect it to happen and when it hits you, you will enjoy it! If more power metal bands sounded like this: Mature, talented and not to gimmicky. Power metal would be loved by so many more people, and Secret Sphere are the ideal ambassadors for this.
Forget Dragonforce, screw Blind Guardian and chuck your Rhapsody of Fire albums away, because the future is Secret Sphere and with an album as good as Archetype under their wing, they are working their way up the ladder. The ladder to power metal godliness! [8/10]


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Dream…Believe…Love/Happy Xmas(War is Over)
December 24, 2010 by Michael Wayne
Filed under Featured, Low Density Lifestyle
As we enter into the Holiday season, I thought a good way to end the year – this is the last article of the year (I'll resume with the Masters of Enlightenment series right after the New Year) – is with the above video.
It's a video montage I created in celebration of the spirit of the Holidays.
It's an homage to peace, love, trust, hope, belief, and the knowledge that we can make this a better world, a peaceful, sane, healthy and happy world, a Low Density Lifestyle world.
I call it Dream…Believe…Love.
If only everyone lived by that credo…
Below is another video that captures the spirit of the Holidays.
This is a song that when it came out in 1971 was branded as radical because it was written and sung by a notorious peace activist, John Lennon. Yet now, the song is heard every year at this time.
And that's because it tells us of hope – about a world of peace, which is what the Xmas spirit is about, and also what a Low Density Lifestyle world is about. So now the song is a hymn that is heard every Xmas holiday season.
As well it should.
The only sad thing about the song is that it was written by a man who is no longer with us, a visionary who perceived what a Low Density Lifestyle world looked like, and articulated it very clearly.
Happy Xmas/War is Over – Thank you John Lennon.
And I want to thank each and every one of you…
Have a wonderful Holiday season, and see you next year.
The Masters of Enlightenment: Alan Watts
December 22, 2010 by Michael Wayne
Filed under Featured, Masters of Enlightenment, Spirituality
The series on the Masters of Enlightenment continues today with a profile of the Zen teacher and scholar, Alan Watts.
The last profile was of Paramahansa Yogananda, and the profile before that was of J. Krishnamurti.
Alan Watts was born in Chislehurst, England on January 6, 1915 and died at his home in Marin County, California on November 16, 1973.
He was a philosopher, writer, and speaker, and best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism and Zen, for a Western audience.
As a young child in England, Watts had a mystical experience while sick with a fever that left an indelible mark. Also during his childhood, he was exposed to Buddhism and other Eastern influences, along with mystical Christian approaches. He went to college in London, and there met many prominent religious and spiritual teachers.
His biggest influence at that age may have come from going to a lecture from the noted Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki, as afterwards, at the age of 21, Watts published a book entitled The Spirit of Zen.
In 1938, at the age of 23, Watts left England with his wife for New York City, in order to enter into formal Zen training.
Watts left formal Zen training in New York because the method of the teacher didn't suit him. He was never ordained as a Zen monk, but because he felt a need to find a professional outlet for his philosophical inclinations, he decided to attend a seminary where he graduated as an ordained Anglican (Episcopalian) priest.
While in seminary, he attempted to work out a blend of contemporary Christian worship, mystical Christianity, and Asian philosophy. Because of his far-reaching and eclectic mind, while still in school the pattern was set for Watts, in that he did not hide his dislike for religious outlooks that he decided were dour, guilt-ridden, or militantly proselytizing—no matter if they were found within Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, or Buddhism.
Beginning in 1945 at aged 30, Watts worked as an Episcopalian priest, until he decided to leave the ministry in 1950.
In early 1951, Watts moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. It was at this point that Watts began lecturing on radio and to audiences live, and started building up a following that over the years counted millions of people.
While Watts was noted for an interest in Zen Buddhism, his discussions delved into other subjects that interested him, including Vedanta, the new physics, cybernetics, semantics, process philosophy, natural history, and the anthropology of sexuality.
Over the years he wrote 25 books, and between his books, tape recordings, radio, television, and public lectures, he inspired a generation to re-assess their values.
Overall, his life and work reflects an astonishing adventure: he was an editor, Anglican priest, graduate dean, broadcaster, author, lecturer, and entertainer. He had fascinations for archery, calligraphy, cooking, chanting, and dancing, and still was completely comfortable hiking alone in the wilderness.
He held fellowships from Harvard University and the Bollingen Foundation, and was Episcopal Chaplain at Northwestern University during the Second World War. He became professor and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, made the television series "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life" for National Educational Television, and served as a visiting consultant for psychiatric institutions and hospitals, and for the United States Air Force. In the mid-sixties he traveled widely with his students in Japan, and visited Burma, Ceylon, and India.
Though known for his Zen teachings, he was equally if not more influenced by ancient Hindu scriptures, especially Vedanta, and spoke extensively about the nature of the divine Reality Man that Man misses, how the contradiction of opposites is the method of life and the means of cosmic and human evolution, how our fundamental ignorance is rooted in the exclusive nature of mind and ego, how to come in touch with the Field of Consciousness and Light, and other cosmic principles.
On the personal level, Watts sought to resolve his feelings of alienation from the institutions of marriage and the values of American society.
In looking at social issues, he was quite concerned with the necessity for international peace, for tolerance and understanding among disparate cultures.
In several of his later publications, especially Beyond Theology and The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Watts put forward a worldview, drawing on Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, pantheism, and modern science, in which he maintains that the whole universe consists of a cosmic self playing hide-and-seek, hiding from itself by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe, forgetting what it really is; the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise.
In this worldview, Watts asserts that our conception of ourself as an "ego in a bag of skin" is a myth; the entities we call the separate "things" are merely processes of the whole.
Watts' work remains vital to this day, because the topics he covered are timeless in nature. One social critic, Erik Davis, notes the freshness, longevity, and continuing relevance of Watts' work today, observing that his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."
Here, in his own words, is Alan Watts on Nothingness:
The idea of nothing has bugged people for centuries, especially in the Western world.We have a saying in Latin, Ex nihilo nuhil fit, which means "out of nothing comes nothing." It has occurred to me that this is a fallacy of tremendous proportions.
It lies at the root of all our common sense, not only in the West, but in many parts of the East as well. It manifests in a kind of terror of nothing, a put-down on nothing, and a put-down on everything associated with nothing, such as sleep, passivity, rest, and even the feminine principles.
But to me nothing — the negative, the empty — is exceedingly powerful. I would say, on the contrary, you can't have something without nothing. Image nothing but space, going on and on, with nothing in it forever. But there you are imagining it, and you are something in it. The whole idea of there being only space, and nothing else at all is not only inconceivable but perfectly meaningless, because we always know what we mean by contrast.
The Masters of Enlightenment: Paramahansa Yogananda
December 17, 2010 by Michael Wayne
Filed under Featured, Masters of Enlightenment, Spirituality
In the last article in this series on Spirituality, I turned my attention to discussing people who were Masters of Enlightenment. The first article on this subject profiled J. Krishnamurti.
Today I will continue with the profiles by discussing another Master of Enlightenment, Paramahansa Yogananada.
Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on Jan. 5, 1893 in India, and died on March 7, 1952. He introduced many Westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.
Since the publication of the book in 1946, it has since been translated into twenty-five languages. In 1999, it was designated one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a panel of spiritual authors.
Autobiography of a Yogi describes Yogananda's spiritual search for enlightenment, in addition to encounters with notable spiritual figures such as Therese Neumann, Anandamoyi Ma, Mohandas Gandhi, Nobel laureate in literature Rabindranath Tagore, noted plant scientist Luther Burbank (the book is "Dedicated to the Memory of Luther Burbank, An American Saint"), famous Indian scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir C. V. Raman.
One notable chapter of this book is "The Law of Miracles," where he gives scientific explanations for seemingly miraculous feats. He writes "the word 'impossible' is becoming less prominent in man's vocabulary."
Kriya Yoga, which was Yogananda's core teachings, is a set of yoga techniques that were the main discipline of Yogananda's meditation teachings. Kriya Yoga was passed down through Yogananda's guru lineage — Mahavatar Babaji taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya, who taught it to his disciple Yukteswar, Yogananda's Guru.
Because of ancient yogic injunctions, "the actual technique must be learned from a Kriyaban or Kriya Yogi", according to Yogananda. He gave a general description of Kriya Yoga in his Autobiography:
"The Kriya Yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment."
Yogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of truth, as opposed to blind belief. He said that "The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God."
Echoing traditional Hindu teachings, he taught that the entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation. He taught that mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
He taught Kriya Yoga and other meditation practices to help people achieve that understanding, which he called Self-realization:
"Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing."
To that end, he founded an organization, The Self-Realization Fellowship, or SRF, to further the cause of self-realization and enlightenment. The Self-Realization Fellowship continues to this day, with branches all over the world; its international headquarters are in Los Angeles, California.
Yogananda's international reputation had its beginnings one day in 1920, while meditating at a school he had founded. Yogananda had a divine vision showing him that now was the time to begin his work in the West. He immediately departed for Calcutta, where the next day he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an international congress of religious leaders convening later that year in Boston. His teacher, Sri Yukteswar, confirmed that the time was right, saying: "All doors are open for you. It is now or never."
Shortly before his departure, Yogananda was visited by Mahavatar Babaji, the deathless master who revived in this age the ancient science of Kriya Yoga. "You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West," Babaji said to Yogananda. "Long ago I met your guru Yukteswar at a Kumbha Mela; I told him then I would send you to him for training. Kriya Yoga, the scientific technique of God-realization, will ultimately spread in all lands, and aid in harmonizing the nations through man's personal, transcendental perception of the Infinite Father."
The young swami arrived in Boston in September 1920. His first speech, made to the International Congress of Religious Liberals, was on "The Science of Religion," and was enthusiastically received.
That same year he founded Self-Realization Fellowship to disseminate worldwide his teachings on India's ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. The first SRF meditation center was started in Boston with the help of Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Lewis and Mrs. Alice Hasey (Sister Yogmata), who were to become lifelong disciples.
For the next several years, he lectured and taught on the East Coast; and in 1924 embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Reaching Los Angeles in early 1925, he established there the international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship atop Mt. Washington, which became the spiritual and administrative heart of his growing work.
From 1924–1935, Yogananda traveled and lectured widely, speaking to capacity audiences in many of the largest auditoriums in America — from New York's Carnegie Hall to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium. The Los Angeles Times reported: "The Philharmonic Auditorium presents the extraordinary spectacle of thousands….being turned away an hour before the advertised opening of a lecture with the 3000-seat hall filled to its utmost capacity."
Yogananda emphasized the underlying unity of the world's great religions, and taught universally applicable methods for attaining direct personal experience of God. To serious students of his teachings he taught the soul-awakening techniques of Kriya Yoga, initiating more than 100,000 men and women during his thirty years in the West.
Among those who became his students were many prominent figures in science, business, and the arts, including horticulturist Luther Burbank, operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, George Eastman (inventor of the Kodak camera), poet Edwin Markham, and symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski.
In 1927, he was officially received at the White House by President Calvin Coolidge, who had become interested in the newspaper reports of his activities.
In 1929, during a two-month trip to Mexico, he planted the seeds for future growth of his work in Latin America. He was welcomed by the president of Mexico, Dr. Emilio Portes Gil, who became a lifelong admirer of Yogananda's teachings.
By the mid-1930s, Paramahansaji had also met quite a few of the early disciples who would help him build the Self-Realization Fellowship work and carry the Kriya Yoga mission forward after his own lifetime was over — including two whom he appointed to be his spiritual successors as president of Self-Realization Fellowship: Rajarsi Janakananda (James J. Lynn), who met the Guru in Kansas City in 1932; and Sri Daya Mata, who had attended his classes in Salt Lake City the previous year.
Other disciples who attended his lecture programs during the 1920s and '30s and stepped forward to dedicate their lives to the SRF work were Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Lewis, who met him in Boston in 1920; Gyanamata (Seattle, 1924); Tara Mata (San Francisco, 1924); Durga Mata (Detroit, 1929); Ananda Mata (Salt Lake City, 1931); Sraddha Mata (Tacoma, 1933); and Sailasuta Mata (Santa Barbara, 1933).
Thus, for many years after Yogananda's passing, and continuing to this day, Self-Realization Fellowship has been guided by disciples who received Paramahansa Yogananda's personal spiritual training.
On March 7, 1952, Yogananda entered mahasamadhi, a God‑illumined master's conscious exit from the body at the time of physical death. He had just finished giving a short speech at a banquet honoring India's ambassador to the United States, Dr. Binay R. Sen, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
His passing was marked by an extraordinary phenomenon. A notarized statement signed by the Director of Forest Lawn Memorial‑Park testified: "No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death….This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one….Yogananda's body was apparently in a phenomenal state of immutability."
In years past, Paramahansa Yogananda's guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, had referred to him as an incarnation of divine love. Later, his disciple and first spiritual successor, Rajarsi Janakananda, fittingly bestowed on him the title of Premavatar or "Incarnation of Divine Love."
On the occasion of the twenty‑fifth anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda's passing, his far‑reaching contributions to the spiritual upliftment of humanity were given formal recognition by the Government of India. A special commemorative stamp was issued in his honor, together with a tribute that read, in part:
"The ideal of love for God and service to humanity found full expression in the life of Paramahansa Yogananda….Though the major part of his life was spent outside India, still he takes his place among our great saints. His work continues to grow and shine ever more brightly, drawing people everywhere on the path of the pilgrimage of the Spirit."
The Masters of Enlightenment: J. Krishnamurti
December 14, 2010 by Michael Wayne
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"What Krishnamurti has done is to free spiritual life as science has done in other areas. He has maintained that one can be in total freedom from the very beginning to the very end, and he has stood for that, like a rock, for forty years. I think it may well take the world fifty more years to understand that. I think he is the man of tomorrow." – Vimala Thakar
The series on Spirituality continues with articles about people who were true Masters of Enlightenment.
What I mean by that term is that they were great spiritual teachers, and also people who lived by the creed they spoke.
They were beacons of light, capable of pointing a finger to help us understand the map of reality.
Today, for the first article in this series, I will profile Jiddhu Krishnamurti.
J. Krishnamurti was born May 12, 1895 in India, and died Feb. 17, 1986. He was a radical teacher of enlightenment and the truth.
I say radical because he advised people to break free of their mental shackles and discard dogmas, religions, philosophies, gurus, teachers and theories, and in its place search for the undeniable truth that lies at the heart of reality.
Krishnamurti was relentless in his denouncing of all organized belief, the notion of "gurus," and the whole teacher-follower relationship. Instead he was single minded in his dedication to the work of setting man absolutely, totally free.
He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasized that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.
Denouncing the concept of saviors, spiritual leaders, or any other intermediaries to reality, he urged people to directly discover the underlying causes of the problems facing individuals and society.
Such discovery he considered as being within reach of everyone, irrespective of background, ability, or disposition. He declared allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent his adult life traveling the world as an independent individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals.
Krishnamurti had first-hand knowledge of gurus and saviors, because he was raised to be a savior – at a young age, he was deemed to be the World Teacher by the Theosophical Society, a quasi-mystical organization founded in New York City in 1875 that had gained prominent international media attention and public interest and was very influential in Indian society.
The Theosophical Society had an estate in India, and in 1909 the 14-year-old Krishnamurti was living on the estate, because his father worked as a clerk for the Society.
Charles Webster Leadbeater was the President of the Society, and he noticed the young boy walking on the grounds. Leadbeater was a clairvoyant, and in the boy he recognized "a spiritual teacher and a great orator," one likely to be used as the "vehicle for the Lord Maitreya" – the latter, according to Theosophical doctrine, an advanced spiritual entity that periodically appears on earth as a World Teacher to guide the evolution of humankind.
From that point on, Krishnamurti was groomed to be the World Teacher. He was privately tutored in India and Europe, and while in Europe met many prominent, and wealthy, people.
His daily program of studies included rigorous exercise and sports, tutoring in a variety of school subjects, Theosophical and religious lessons, yoga and meditation. At the same time, Leadbeater personally assumed the role of guide in a parallel, mystical instruction of young Krishnamurti.
Over the next few years, Krishnamurti continued his studies, but at the same time began going through a series of mystical and inexplicable life-transforming experiences. He would lapse in and out of consciousness, and described it to others as a "mystical union." About the experiences he said:
"I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased… I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world… Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated."
Over the next few years, these experiences intensified, and these, along with the death of his brother, to whom he was very close, led him to question everything about his journey as the World Teacher. He started changing his teachings and veered from Theosophy, and began to focus on concepts such as questioning authority and liberation, as opposed to following the teachings of any one person.
Finally, in 1929, without any warning, while speaking to the annual meeting of the Theosophical Society in India, he announced that he was disowning his role as World Teacher, and instead would focus on leading people to the unbridled truth. He said in part:
"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or coerce people along a particular path.
"This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
From that moment on, Krishnamurti became his own man, and spoke out on the specifics of enlightenment. He spent the rest of his life holding dialogues and giving public talks around the world on the nature of belief, truth, sorrow, freedom, death, and the quest for a spiritually fulfilled life. He accepted neither followers nor worshipers, regarding the relationship between disciple and guru as encouraging dependency and exploitation.
He constantly urged people to think independently and clearly and free their minds of their own incipient dogmas. "All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary."
Included in this was inward authority:
"Having realized that we can depend on no outside authority … there is the immensely greater difficulty of rejecting our own inward authority, the authority of our own particular little experiences and accumulated opinions, knowledge, ideas and ideals."
Krishnamurti's home base for the rest of his life was Ojai, California, where he could spend time sequestered in meditation and writing, and communing with nature, which from an early age was one of his passions.
From his home base his insights deepened and his influence grew. He befriended and collaborated with well-known philosophers, writers and scientists, which allowed his audience to broaden.
Over the years, his subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society. Maintaining that society is ultimately the product of the interactions of individuals, he held that fundamental societal change can emerge only through freely undertaken radical change in the individual.
"It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. If the mind is petty, small, narrow, limited, however great and complex the problem may be, the mind approaches that problem in terms of its own pettiness… Though it has extraordinary capacities and is capable of invention, of subtle, cunning thought, the mind is still petty. It may be able to quote Marx, or the Gita, or some other religious book, but it is still a small mind, and a small mind confronted with a complex problem can only translate that problem in terms of itself, and therefore the problem, the misery increases. So the question is: Can the mind that is small, petty, be transformed into something which is not bound by its own limitations?"
Walking Through Illusion: A Book Excerpt, Part 3
December 3, 2010 by Michael Wayne
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The series on Spirituality continues today with the third and last installment of a three-part book excerpt of the author Betsy Otter Thompson's book, Walking Though Illusion.
Here are links to the first two installments:
Walking Through Illusion: Part 1
Walking Through Illusion: Part 2
The first excerpt was the preface of the book, while the last excerpt and this one come from chapter 18. So now we continue on from last time with the last segment of chapter 18. At the end of the chapter is a worksheet with questions to ponder and reflect on.
Chapter 18
What is our real identity?
Did Peter's friends welcome Vrotskuv at the meeting he attended?
Some did; quite a few were resentful. Vrotskuv was a soldier as well as a stranger with nothing to recommend him but his need to find some answers. His constant talk of visions annoyed quite a few, some even questioned whether he'd had one. And those who did believe were envious. Why did this happen to him and not to us? He's a nobody, while we've been following Jesus for years.
Vrotskuv discovered that those who had known me on a daily basis were every bit as individually disposed as those who hadn't. In fact, several who'd known me as a friend were worried about their complicity in my fate. To appease their guilty consciences, they decided that any action they had or hadn't taken was excusable since I had help in ways that they did not.
As they believed in special help, they created separation instead of oneness, and oneness with the whole was how I found my help. Unwilling to accept responsibility for their own victim mentality, they looked for someone to blame; Vrotskuv was handy. But even facing their angry accusations, Vrotskuv didn't back down; he was more concerned with personal growth than impersonal resentment.
Did their feelings of victimization have any other drawback?
Yes, it caused them to forget the properties of spontaneous resurrection: self-responsibility, self-determination and self-enlightenment. As loss overwhelmed them and depression set in, they insisted that I would still be alive if people like Vrotskuv weren't.
Even though I resurrected to prove I was alive, ego rebutted here as well: Only someone who rose from the dead can be the love of God. And holding this one definition to explain divinity, they lost all faith in themselves. Then, to feel better, they looked for agreement.
What about those who didn't lose faith?
They were busy enacting their own resurrections.
Did anyone challenge Vrotskuv in terms of his vision?
Yes, but for him, the vision had been emotional; he didn't see how anyone could successfully challenge that.
What did he learn from the few who were kind to him?
More about himself.
Did Vrotskuv think of you as wise?
Wise for my journey, yes, but he suspected that everyone was the wisdom of God personified in form.
How could all those people have been God?
Who else would God have been?
A divine energy that was met upon their death.
Why would God be revealed to them out-of-form but not in-form? Seeking answers where none existed was the ultimate frustration.
What about the God who greeted them when they died?
God greeted them most assuredly, but as soon as they were met, they knew they'd been this greeter many times themselves. Just as they loved and supported their friends in-matter, they loved and supported them out-of-matter. Some didn't believe in the notion of God, but everyone knew the feeling of love; and everyone could expand it.
Did Vrotskuv see himself as a sensitive person?
He saw himself as an honest person. If he was cruel, he took responsibility for his cruelty. In his opinion, many followers did not. They rationalized their cruelty, calling it absolute truth. To Vrotskuv, their absolute truth was cruel because it said to others: We have the answer to heaven on Earth and anyone not believing in us will never find it. But anyone who claimed to have the one true answer to heaven on Earth had effectively shut the door to heaven. Heaven was felt through an open, accepting heart.
Yes, and if they knew something he didn't, he wanted to know them better. He sensed that several hoped to establish more authority by insisting that true believers preached what they preached: that I was the Son of God and no one else was. Vrotskuv honored what he believed instead.
He knew that I had referred to myself as God, but he also knew that I had referred to my friends as God, and my enemies as well. Few were repeating that line. Government retaliation was still an active force. But even after it wasn't, many followers didn't want the masses seeing themselves as the same authority they were. Then they had a dilemma. How could they have faith in themselves while telling others that faith in oneself was unwise?
Vrotskuv decided to investigate within, sure in the knowledge that progress would always be obvious by the progress of those around him.
Worksheet Section:
Chapter 18 – Identities
In your opinion, what qualities must a person have to live as God in humanness?
Where are some of those qualities being lived?
When those qualities are present, isn't that person God-like?
When those qualities are absent, has this person suddenly ceased to exist?
Haven't you learned more about who you want to be from who you don't want to be?
Questions to Ponder:
- Who inspires me more: a perfect person, or a person overcoming obstacles?
- Who supports me more: a static person, or a person sensing potential?
- Who do I want to be more: a person smugly satisfied, or a person looking for growth?
Personal Insights
I believe that God is a power within–not a power that is only met upon death. If that's true, it simplifies things, don't you think? No more dialogues about whose God is valid and whose God is not since every soul is equally valid. No more wars in the name of God since God is you, me, and everyone. No more posturing that God told me to do this and God told me to say that since God isn't separate from the speaker. No more worries about taking the name of God in vain since you might as well be cursing yourself. No more religions claiming that they have the one true path, since every path that offers a person love is the path of true redemption. No more guilt for breaking God's rules since the rules we have are the ones we've given ourselves.
Walking Through Illusion: A Book Excerpt, Part 2
December 1, 2010 by Michael Wayne
Filed under Featured, Spirituality
The last article of this series on Spirituality was part one of a excerpt from the book, Walking Through Illusion, by Betsy Otter Thompson.
Betsy Otter Thompson is the author of a few books, including The Mirror Theory: The Way to Inner Peace, Resolution, and Transformation; Loveparent: How To Be The Parent You Hope To Be; and Lovehuman: How To Be Who You Love.
To visit her website, and/or to order a copy, visit Betsy's website: http://www.betsythompson.com
In part one of this book excerpt, the Preface to the book was published. In this excerpt, we give you the first part of chapter 18. Next time we'll have the concluding segment of the chapter.
Chapter 18
What is our real identity?
Names, titles, and places were a part of your experience, though, weren't they, Jesus?
Part of my illusionary experience, yes, but they didn't reveal my inner journey, or the search for my reality.
Don't we know more about your inner journey through the many stories told?
We know more about the inner journeys of the many different story-tellers, since each had a history of individual clarity.
Can those stories be trusted?
Why must they be? Only the love in those stories makes them relevant to you.
Was there an incident that was especially important to you?
There was one that involved a soldier by the name of Vrotskuv, who entered my life to confirm my faith in goodness.
Did Vrotskuv have any faith in you?
He gained more faith as he sensed my faith in him; he was the soldier responsible for delivering prisoners to the sites of their crucifixions. When the people lined the streets that day in loving support of me, they took up a chant to let me know of their presence. Vrotskuv got uneasy. Rightly or wrongly he saw them a threat. One voice inside his head urged him to hurt the heretic if he wanted to feel in charge. The other voice urged him to feel in charge by honoring the heretic.
Brushing the latter voice aside, he looked for an easy insult to show the crowd that he was the one in charge here. His opportunity came when I stopped to assist a fellow prisoner struggling under the weight of his heavy cross.
In the process of helping him to regain his balance, the robe padding my shoulder fell to the ground. Vrotskuv picked it up and stood there, daring me to defy him. Instead of seeing the anger he expected, he saw only love.
Startled, he couldn't believe the message he was receiving: We are all in charge of ourselves in the love of God forever. Intellectually, it didn't compute; emotionally, it impacted deeply, so deeply that Vrotskuv was determined to feel it again.
Because he wanted to cherish himself or because he wanted to cherish you?
Somehow they seemed like one and the same. Instead of seeing the thief who lived in Vrotskuv, I saw the God who lived in Vrotskuv and, then, he saw it too. That moment was so powerfully felt that it took a burst of chanting to get him back to the task. For the rest of the day, he thought about that encounter. What had he seen in my eyes that had stirred his emotions so deeply? Irritated that he couldn't explain it, he grabbed the robe and set out to give it back, hoping a second encounter would clarify the previous one.
As he laid the robe at the foot of the cross and looked in my eyes again, the feeling returned. It deepened into a vision, revealing to him all that he had lived and all that he could live; an all-inclusive moment, neither human nor ethereal, but a feeling merging the two. Factored in time it equaled seconds; factored in emotion, eons.
It came to him, not as a payback for the past but as a blueprint for the future, whether that future was here or elsewhere, now or later, conscious or unconscious. After the vision ended, no words were shared but the message was clear: Welcome home. From that moment forth, everything Vrotskuv did was to keep that moment alive in whatever else he was doing.
In the weeks that followed, he located many of my friends, hoping that one of them would see him as I had. None did, but inadvertently he discovered why. I had accepted him unconditionally, knowing full well who he was and the job he was there to do. My friends accepted him grudgingly; fearful of what would happen to them if they didn't. But even in the presence of fear and animosity, Vrotskuv courted their acquaintance, willing to endure any rudeness in order to find some answers.
Many introductions later, Vrotskuv convinced Peter to invite him to one of his meetings. It didn't take long for Vrotskuv to notice a theme that kept recurring: We always find ourselves in the people we face. Pondering what that meant in terms of his interaction with me, he concluded that his heart had merged with mine, and to live that merger again, he had to live that merger with others. He found that union by asking how he'd feel if, every time he looked into the eyes of another, he felt my heart again. Naturally, as he told himself that I was in the every heart he faced, he couldn't wait to find me there.
Did Vrotskuv feel terrible after stealing the robe?
He felt terrible when his mirror showed up to remind him of his behavior. He only stopped stealing when he knew himself as the person stolen from.
Would he have stopped stealing had he thought his behavior known?
Had he understood that others reacted accordingly, yes. Vrotskuv wanted honest people in his life. In the end, high-minded motives didn't change his life; his desire to receive the honorable in others did. To stay mindful of his goal, he said to himself as he gave to others, Here is a gift to myself.
When his mirror was insecure, was Vrotskuv insecure?
Until he was honest about it; then honesty replaced insecurity.
Even if that honesty was horrible?
Honesty wasn't horrible or wonderful; honesty simply was.
What did Vrotskuv learn about prosperity in this lifetime?
He learned that prosperity had more to do with abundance within than abundance without. But if Vrotskuv needed funds for his evolution, funds were made available.
Did he do something wrong if funds were not available?
Not if the right in his life was honored.
Did money come when Vrotskuv did what he loved?
Fulfillment came when he did what he loved. Fulfillment didn't have any requisite look, only a requisite feeling.
What incentives did Vrotskuv need in order to live more wisely?
Incentives varied. They were anything from a new friend, to a new day, to a new lifetime, depending on what was needed.


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A name would be helpful... most evergreens are propagated in the fall/winter. some require "special cutting" as with a heel OR from lower branche or the growing tip at the top of the plant or...... |
redshift - evergreens are not all in one 'family' so without knowing what your plants are it is hard to advise. Some evergreens are easy from cuttings and some much more difficult. Some, like camelias or conifers, require fairly fiddly techniques. Whereas box and cherry laurel will root easily. If you can take a photo and post it on the Name that Plant Forum you will almost certainly get a quick id. |
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I just recieved a new coconut palm from online, its been wraped up for 8 days! I recieved it bare rooted (very little soil was at bottom of wrap). Fronds not too badly damaged. I am not sure if it will make it, roots are all black and shallow.It has all mature fronds, and stands a little more than 8ft:) I think it is about 3 years old?I hope that is makes it.
I planted it in a 45 gal container for now and watered well in a shady location.Does it have a good chance of recovering?Does anyone have any tips to help out?I will post pics in an hour or so, my phone doesn't take good pics. Thanks-
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Us marine- off topic i just noticed your birthday is March 27th. Min is also. I'm not sure where you are located but my suggestion would be to give it filtered sun. I think it needs some direct sun but obviously not too much. Keep it moist and hope. 8 days is a long time. Goo luck, I look forward to seeing a picture. |
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First off, I must say that that is one amazing looking palm! Congats!! I think it will survive. These palms survive being knocked over in hurricanes so I think a little shipping damage wont kill it. Still I would keep an eye on it. Dont put it in too much sun yet. Maybe some afternoon shade until it gets established. It might struggle a little this summer, but it should be good next year. I hope it does really well by you! Any plans to put it in the ground or is it too expensive to try it out?? Thanks for sharing the pics! Good luck! -Alex |
I feel having such a large tree as yours with little roots, you may need to stake it. I use strips of rubber from inner tubes for the base of the trees, this helps prevent cutting and adjustable bungee cords. Thats one nice looking tree. Keep us updated. |
I have had bad luck with palms shipped bare rooted, even by reputable places. Nonetheless, it does not look too bad. Time will tell. |
in my experience, and this is a generality, once you get past the seedling stage, barerooted palms do not do well, but some species are far more hardy than others (eg. Barerooted Butias often survive as do some Sabals)... trees that large often do better when shipped without most of their leaves (lose way to much water out their leaves via transpiration, and the now damaged roots are unable to uptake enough water to replace the loss until new roots or rootlets have grown to replace them (can take weeks or months depending on the palm and conditions)). As a result these trees often die from dessication... keep this tree out of the sun if possible and, if also possible, in some humid situation. |
That is a big coconut bare root. I hope it makes it for you but the odds are against you. I would use roots starter immediately. Good luck and keep it moist and in the shade. |
Its looking pretty darn good, considering it took 8 days to ship. I noticed the staking method also (Great Job). When you water I would spray a good 6 foot area around the tree, it may help increase the humidity a bit. |
Can you see any signs of the spear pushing up? |
I have checked the the new spear for growth, but it hasn't grown any. It hasn't pulled either. The opening spear pictured above might still be opening slowly, but I can't tell. The lower fronds are dying, while the 3 newest fronds are still very green. Much of california has been very cool during night and day since spring. The cooler than average night temps is probably slowing the growth alot. My other coconut palms are doing just fine, so I'm sure its probably in shock and trying to acclimatize. If she pulls out of it I won't see any good growth untill after next summer. After that flowers and fruit would be nice :P I know she might not pull out of it, let alone flower, but its worth a try. Thanks for all of your advice- US_Marine |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 2, 10 at 15:53
I think the next frond or 2 will be a little stunted but Coconut palms are stronger than you think and I think it should come back. I was getting worried about mine earlier thie year when the leaves got burned from the sun and I didnt even SEE a spear for almost a month but then a spear did show up and a smaller than usual frond which at least showed it was going to make it. Once yours starts growing again, it will be fine. I think its going to fruit pretty soon if all turns out well this winter. Maybe blooms by this time next summer! Keep us updated!! Im looking forward to finding out how it manages to hold on in a california winter and I think it has a decent chance of surviving the transplanting. Good luck!!! -Alex |
I am going to cut off about 3 fronds that look an unhealthy color, and that seems to be the right thing to do. Thanks tropicalzone7, and good luck to you too:) |
us_marine, its been about a week just wondering how its all going. |
It doesn't look good. The new spear hasn't grown at all. All fronds are slowly dying, except the new spear and a spear that was opening before it was shipped. |
Im sure its is going to have a set back. It maybe a bit early yet. Hang in their. It may pull through yet. |
How warm has it been there? days and nights |
Unusually cool, with days barely in the 90fs, and lows in the low to mid 50fs.Since spring, everything has been much cooler than usual. I think it is linked to the rest of the US having a unusually warm spring and summer? Even so my original coconut is still growing fairly quick.I think it is growing well because it has adapted more to this climate unlike the other two. If I have any coconut palms that will be long term it will be that one. |
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We were hit by a deer again tonight on the way home.
This time it didn't do any damage but still it is still un-nerving. I'm wondering if these deer warning devices actually work. Last time we hit a deer it cost over $2000, paid by insurance.
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A few years back, the Milwaukee Journal ran an article about deer whistles, the ones that depend on the air rushing through the whistle while the vehicle is under way. As I recall, the papar published findings from the Wisc DNR and said they had not found any evidence these whistles work. A human can't tell if the whistles are working because the sound is pitched above our hearing range - maybe the dog could hear it. That would drive your dog crazy if he had to endure the supposedly racket for any length of time. It was not explained how the data was analyzed - maybe by counting the number of deer collisions with vehicles equipped with deer whistles. Vehicle-deer collisions in Wisconsin is a growing problem. |
well Pooh,I travel regularly to the north country where I come from,have been for over 5 years now,and the deer are way too plentiful on the highway. I have the whistles on my van,4 of them in fact,and haven't(knock on wood) had a problem as yet If you can see the deer in the ditch or on the side of the road,you'll see their ears moving back and forth,so obviously they are hearing the whistling of the vehicle coming. I swear by the,wouldnt go up that highway without them,but by all means,to each his own |
In the early 90s I was in the state of Virginia working. And a local news paper ran an article about the deer whistles that you attach to your bumber. The article stated that every state police cruiser in the state of Virginia had these whistles installed. And if I can remember the figures correctly within a one year period there were around 60 cruisers that had come into contact with deer. So I guess the moral of the story is. If you have them installed and you never hit a deer, then they work. But on the other hand if you have them installed and you hit a deer. They don't work. |
I used to use them and in order for them to work properly the vehicle must be going at least 45 mph and the tiny openings in them must be kept clean . They will get the deer's attention , but I've seen them look up after crossing the road and turn around and go back across the road in front of my car . Gets their attention yes , scares them away from your vehicle sometimes - as it's a crapshoot to which way the beasts run after hearing the noise . |
The deer whistles work usually only once. That was another test. Deer are territorial. They hear the whistle and look around. They then get used to it and don't bother with it any more. I live in a very serious deer problem area. I have an electric fence around my garden because of deer. i travel the hyway twice a day 4 in the morning and 6 at night. doing that for 21 years. Never hit a deer yet. Mind you i've come awfull close. Deer usually travel in groups. Mother deer and little ones right behind. I don't have deer whistles. It's easy to avoid deer. Turn your radio down, get off the cell phone. deer are almost always in the same area. When you get there, SLOW DOWN. The first deer impact is an accident. The second impact is your fault. SLOW DOWN. |
Deer have very good hearing, in fact they hear much better than we do. If you ever spent much time in the country, you'd get used to the fact that you can hear cars and trucks that could be miles away depending on the conditions. Since we can hear cars and trucks, deer certainly can, and that noise alone should be enough to scare them off the road. But as Kalinin said, they simply get used to the sounds cars make and since they don't get chased around the woods by motor vehicles, they soon learn to just ignore the sounds made by cars. The whistles, if they actually do make noise would simply be another sound the deer learn to ignore. |
Drove fleet truck in the mountains. Nights. Lots of deer got hit or we had to run over the remains. The yard dog always inspected each truck as it came in and picked off (slurped up) the XS meat. |
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Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like a waste of money. I wish I could find something that works. Can't afford to hit any more deer. Pooh Bear |
I have them, and I think they work....for what it's worth. I think it was $7 well spent, and if I'm wrong; well....they'll get knocked off in the accident! |
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