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Let $(V,\mathbb{K})$ be a vector space over some field $\mathbb{K}$ and let $T:\mathbb{K}\rightarrow V$ be a linear map such that $T(1) = 0$. I am trying to figure out whether it is necessarily the case that $T$ is the $0$-map, i.e., the map which sends every element of $\mathbb{K}$ to $0 \in V$. I believe this is true because, since $T(0) = 0$ for any linear map, $$ 0 = T(0) = T(\lambda \cdot 0) = \lambda T(0) = \lambda T(1) = T(\lambda) $$ where $\lambda \in \mathbb{K}$. Since no special conditions were placed on the selection of $\lambda$, $T(\lambda) = 0$ for all $\lambda \in \mathbb{K}$. I believe then that this implies that $T$ is the $0$-transformation.
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College Hockey:Burleigh Backs Miami's Win Over Ohio State
Goaltender Stops 33 Shots, Makes Several Timely Saves
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Derek Edwardson notched the game-winner and added two assists, and Pat Leahy scored two — including the shorthanded empty-net goal — as Miami beat Ohio State 4-1 in their first meeting of the year at Value City Arena.
"I thought David Burleigh was the difference tonight," said Miami head coach Enrico Blasi. "Ohio State really took it to us in the second period. For us, offensively, I would say we were very opportunistic. We had some chances and we made the most of them."
Burleigh made 33 saves on the night, including two timely saves on R.J.
Umberger. The first came with 5.4 seconds to go in the opening stanza, a great, sprawling, mid-air stop on an Umberger rocket from the right circle. Instead of a tie game, Burleigh preserved the lead going into the second.
Burleigh's second show-stopper came with 1:20 left in the second, when Miami was ahead 2-1. Umberger and Paul Caponigri broke in on the RedHawk netminder, two-on-none. Burleigh stopped Umberger's initial blast from the left and gave up so little that Caponigri couldn't make a clean pickup of the rebound.
Again, instead of a tie score at the close of a period, Burleigh helped the RedHawks preserve a one-goal lead, and the momentum led to Miami's third goal less than a minute later.
"That was huge," said Blasi, "and then we scored with 30 seconds left. Whenever you get a goal early in the period or late in the period, it really changes the momentum of the game.
"But I give Ohio State full credit. [Ohio State coach] John [Markell] had his guys come out in the third period and they were doing the same things they did in the second period. Again, David Burleigh was there for us."
The RedHawks dominated the first period, outshooting Ohio State 13-4 and taking a 1-0 lead after one. That first goal couldn't have been much softer — or much luckier, depending on your perspective. Buckeye netminder Mike Betz let A.J. Kratofil's rebound lay in the crease, assuming his defender would sweep it away. Instead, the puck sat there big as the moon for Chris Knupp to coax in under Betz's outstretched right leg.
Dave Steckel tied it up for the Buckeyes at 4:35 in the second, picking up Mike McCormick's quirky rebound that hit both upright posts before bouncing out to the rookie in the left circle. But with two unanswered goals in the second, including the insurance goal at 19:31, the game belonged to Miami.
At 15:29, Mike Kompon swept the puck from behind the net to Derek Edwardson in the right circle. Edwardson's shot went in between Betz's left leg and the pipe to make it 2-1.
A minute after Burleigh stopped Umberger and Caponigri at one end, Betz was caught completely off guard for Pat Leahy's goal at 19:31, diving left across the crease and leaving an empty net for Leahy's eighth goal of the season.
With the scoreless third period nearly spent, the Buckeye had a six-on-four opportunity after Miami's Matt Medvecz went to the box for slashing and Ohio State had pulled Betz in favor of the extra skater. Again, Burleigh came up big as the Buckeyes created several chances in close. In the end, though, it was Leahy who capped the night with the empty-netter at 19:28, racing down the ice and beating J.F. Dufour, a tight, angled shot from the bottom of the right circle.
"I thought we had enough chances to stay in the game," said Markell. "We needed some bounces. I thought Miami played a very good game, nothing that we didn't expect — patient … great goaltending tonight.
"I thought they were physical. I thought they took care of whatever chance we gave them. In the first period, I thought our guys were just a step off a little bit … but I thought we took it right back to them. In the third I thought we had the better part of the play, but you're playing from behind and they can play more patiently, which they did."
Neither team capitalized on the power play in this very clean game. Miami was 0-for-3, while Ohio State went 0-for-4.
Miami improved to 16-11-2 (13-8-1 CCHA), while Ohio State is 14-11-2 (11-8-2 CCHA). The teams meet again Saturday night in Goggin Arena in Oxford, Ohio, and each coach said the same thing about the second match.
"We're going to have to play a very good game tomorrow night in order to get some points out of this series," said Markell.
"We need to be a lot better tomorrow night," said Blasi. "I was really impressed with their team."
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Success in rugs starts with passion
Building on 20 years of rug buying experience for Houston's Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors, Valerie Roberts, founder and owner of Dazzling Décor, has built a "rug store and more," where shoppers can not only see rugs in vignettes with furniture and accessories, but can purchase all the items shown.
Officially open since September 1, 2011, the business is going in the right direction, according to Roberts. "It started as rugs with accent pieces and evolved into complete living rooms. We want to replicate a home setting, but with 4,000 square feet, we don't have enough room to show vignettes for the whole house," she said.
Located at 3003 Fondren Rd., Dazzling Décor is connected to a Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors showroom. "There is a passage way between the two. From Roberts, you can see about 80 rugs on a rack. There are more than 500 rugs in the store with additional samples. Our focus is more on rugs, but we started adding some larger items and now everything in the vignettes is available," Roberts explained.
Getting the word out and becoming a destination has been part of the plan. Dazzling Décor advertises in Houston regional design oriented magazines and offers coupons, according to Roberts. Dazzling Décor is listed under area rugs on the Roberts Carpet web site, robertscarpet.com and has a busy Facebook page, facebook.com/dazzleyourdecor, where photos of the store, promotions and design ideas generate interest and followers.
"We have a lot of designers use the showroom and we have ideas of ways to keep improving. Houston is a large area and we see people from all over," Roberts added.
Success in area rugs is not alchemy. It's about passion and education, according to Roberts. "You have to embrace it. You have to educate yourself and your staff so you can educate the consumer. It's just like selling wood. You have to know your products," she said.
Roberts especially enjoys helping a shopper create a unique look for her home. "We appreciate that everyone has their own style. We listen to our customers and ask questions. Dazzling Décor is staffed entirely by designers, so any of the three full-time sales people can really assist with decorating choices," she added. "The trend today is to use neutrals, but if they (customers) have a rug that's neutral and a neutral sofa that can be very blah. If they choose a rug with a pattern, then we can pull accent colors from the rug and make pillows for them in our custom fabric department. Then we've pulled the room together and created a great color story."
The showroom is known for custom capabilities, Roberts explained. "We offer many custom options on tufted, woven and machine made rugs. We can accommodate special sizes and shapes as well as offer programs with custom colors and/or designs. We can also bind broadloom from any of our Roberts Carpet stores," she said. And the fabric department offers custom pillows and upholstery.
In addition to Dazzling Décor, Roberts Carpet has two other locations with rug galleries. "Between the three locations, there are so many options with rugs," Roberts said. "There's some overlap but a lot of different inventory. We sometimes refer consumers from one store to another. We try to make shopping easy. Customer service is very important. I do focus my selection, on variety of styles, colors, and designs. We have every price point starting at $99 in a 5' x 8' and going all the way up to one of a kind, hand knotted rugs."
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The UCLA track and field team had five more athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., on the final day of competition at the NCAA West Prelims at John McDonnell Field. A total of 11 Bruins will head to the championship, which will begin on June 11 at Hayward Field.
In the span of 10 minutes the Bruins had five qualifiers. The momentum started when both Trinity Wilson and Brea Buchanan placed third in their respective heats to automatically qualify. Wilson ran a wind-aided 13.22 while Buchanan posted a season-best 13.32.
After the hurdle duo qualified, a pair in the men's discus moved on as well. Julian Wruck finished second with a 204-10 and Matt Kosecki placed eighth with a throw of 190-7.
The Bruins were not done as junior Zibby Boyer cleared 5-9.25 in the high jump to advance to the NCAA Championship for the first time in her career.
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Natasha Kolbo – Pole Vault
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Guys, it's not official yet, but it looks like the first day of Dolphins training camp is July 26. Of course, these sessions are open to the public but you better not be on your cell phone giving away strategy or Bill Parcells will be in your face. Just kidding. I think.
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The only Dolphins news expected over the next few weeks is the signings of rookie draft picks – Phillip Merling, Chad Henne and Kendall Langford. Don't expect any holdouts, other than Jason Taylor who still wants to be traded. But Green Bay? C'mon. Get real.
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Kim & Khloe Kardashian "Attacked" Fans By Throwing Pizza Out Window?
HollywoodLife has once again served up bad dish about Kim and Khloe Kardashian.
The webloid accuses the sisters of "attacking fans" by throwing pizza at them from their hotel window high above downtown New York.
Addressing Kim and Khloe directly, the site writes, "Kim and Khloe Kardashian – what are you thinking?" noting that there are "photos of a pizza slice being tossed from the window of your top floor suite at the luxurious Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC Hotel."
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Yes, deliberately throwing pizza would be dangerous and unfriendly; however, the Kardashians did NOT "attack" their fans — or purposely chuck a slice at them.
We're told that while taping their show the two sisters were playing around, with Khloe tickling Kim while she was about to eat a pizza.
"Kim dropped the slice by accident," a Kardashian insider tells Gossip Cop, reiterating it was "a complete accident and someone who was with the girls went down to explain right away."
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Coils thank you. Nice weapon with minimal recoil.
Wonder if that stock folds?
I would love too try one out.
Lot of potential there, on full auto, for Military use.
Not very familiar with suppressors. But I would imagine it would be relatively quiet with the .45 cal.
Oh God I am thinking thinking.
Their is no doubt in my mind. I come home with that and the girl friend sees the sales slip.
She would smash the back of my head in with a Louisville slugger, while I am sitting here on the computer.
The base pistol was $1,200.00 plus the $200.00 stamp and another $100.00 for the stock conversion. So total I have $1,500.00 into the SBR conversion plus the cost of additional 30rd mags and the Trijicon. For some reason it will cost you almost double if you buy an SBR version. The stock does fold but you can get a fixed stock.
Your welcome 4th
Thanks for the info Bulrich, I was thinking they were right around 1500 in the retail market.
I just noticed they offer it in other calibers too, .40 & 9mm. They were first made only in 45 weren't they?
Yes they were only made in .45 but they are supposed to come out with three other models this year 9, 40 and they are working on a 50.
Yes I bought the pistol and added the stock. It was cheaper to do it that way, especially if you want the threaded barrel.
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VERY VERY Nice indeed!
1,500 rpm on full auto. .45 with minimal recoil...
If the reliability is there. I see the Military picking up on that one.
Effective range, I think they said, is 50 yards.
But I would for sure not want too be on the receiving end of that.
bulrich. How difficult was the build on the weapon?
Special tooling or things just snap in there?
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Auditor Edelen has an impressive record of standing up for all Kentuckians by shedding light on the dark places of our politics. He has protected our students through investigations into abuse like my home public school district in Shelby County where his office uncovered details of nearly $600,000 stolen through the former payroll manager.
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are serving our military to preserve our way of life, and yet fewer and fewer of our citizens are participating in our democracy. November 3 is general election day when Kentuckians will be selecting candidates for governor, commissioner of agriculture and other constitutional officers. Members of Henry County Farm Bureau hope every voter will make their voices heard by casting informed votes for our government leaders.
It was announced last week, that the 4th Congressional District, of which Henry County is a part, has become the first congressional district with a Republican majority. People are frustrated with the state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Wow! The news is in! Ag Tag donations were up 9 percent from last year to 25 percent of all the farm tags renewed in this county. The Henry County FFA is so thankful for each one of you that made the choice to donate to support your local and state FFA programs in addition to 4-H and Kentucky Proud.
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Fans probably won't appreciate this thought, but Rick Grimes, Glenn and Maggie, Carol and Daryl and the rest of the telegenic zombie apocalypse survivors are idiots.
I'm not a liberal/progressive democrat, I'm not a republican. My party is the Watchmen Party. Read Ezekiel chapter 33 in the Bible.
It's not about what party you're in. If you are a godly man or woman, one day you will stand before the Lord Jesus and you will have to give an account on what you do or say.
We need to put men or women in office who will stand up for our Christian faith.
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Part 2 of a Series About Bad Dreams and Nightmares
For Part 1 click here
Grantley, I had a discussion yesterday with Rick, a church elder. The subject of unwelcome dreams came up dreaming of doing something sinful that you would certainly say no to in real life.
Rick said he made this suggestion to a group of men:
If you have an unwanted dream, or a nightmare, re-live the dream in your mind but change the outcome.
For instance if you dream you are being chased by a vicious monster, when you are awake, visualize yourself turning the tables on the monster and overpowering him. This message will go down into your subconscious.
If in your dreams you are seduced by a beautiful woman; when you are awake and go over the dream in your mind, visualize yourself as not only resisting her advances; but presenting her with the gospel. This message will go down into your subconscious.
Ricks idea is not new. Many psychologists recommend it because they have found it very effective. I presume the idea has been around for much longer than modern science. More than just a good idea, however, I think it is a God idea. What affirms this to me is the experience of a close friend, Christine, who is frequently harassed by upsetting dreams. No human had mentioned to her the above strategy for responding to unwanted dreams. I respect her ability to hear from God and she is convinced that God personally taught her this approach.
Although I agree with Ricks principle, however, I question the wisdom of daydreaming about spending long witnessing to a seductive person. The danger is that it keeps one thinking of having close interaction with her. Even spending long praying for her salvation has unexpected hazards. Superficially, intercession seems both commendable and safe, but I know of nothing more powerful in eliciting feelings of love towards someone than praying for her.
Nurturing feelings that are the opposite of attraction a degree of disgust towards what you find desirable about her might prove helpful. For example, if you felt physically attracted to her in the dream, visualize in a dreamlike way her appearing without skin. Your motivation in doing this would not be to dishonor the person but to counter lust, since lust is truly dishonoring to both her and to God, and to anyone you or she should be faithful to.
If you are married, another counter measure is to daydream about immediately turning your back on the person and in your fantasy even if it is not practical to do it immediately in reality locating your marriage partner and finding him/her exceedingly desirable.
I suggested that Helen e-mail Christine for her response to Ricks idea. Christine replied:
When dreams freak me out I have learned to tell myself a story, based on elements of the dream, but turning it into something positive. Sometimes I look to God and actually go back to sleep and re-dream what I had just dreamt but this time with a comforting or uplifting outcome. Other times I remain awake but craft an appropriate daydream. I let myself feel the fear or pain and then I win over it. Sometimes I need Jesus help (he is an awesome storyteller, by the way) in creating the best storyline for my imagination to follow.
Sometimes in my counter-dream God rescues me. Sometimes I switch the whole dream around so that I am no longer chased but Im helping someone else who is being chased. I become the hero instead of the victim.
I learned this approach from God. It is part of taking back what the enemy tried to take or has stolen from me.
Helen replied:
Thank you for explaining this, Christine. What frustrates me most is when I wake up able only to recall one element of the dream. I am aware of my emotional reaction to the dream, but I have no idea of the theme of the dream. I cant process the dream because I havent got enough information.
Heres a recent example. A beautiful woman, wearing an evening gown was sitting down, facing away from me. Thats all I remember. But I was left with a feeling of deep sadness. The word rejection comes to mind. Even as I write this, tears are welling up. The woman does not remind me of anyone I know.
Helen could imagine the woman turning around and greeting Helen warmly, praising her, embracing her, proudly introducing her to other people, and so on.
However, re-scripting does not lower the immense value of dream interpretation. A Christian friend of Helen, gave her this interpretation:
That beautiful woman in the evening gown is you!
You are seeing the back of yourself (the past behind you) as you once were in your younger years those days gone by. There is definitely a sorrow (and a sense of grieving or grief at times) associated with moving into our Golden Years, making many necessary changes, adjustments, health concerns and limitations, and so on, as we go from what used to be, to accepting what is today.
You certainly are still that very beautiful woman in the evening gown in spirit, even today. If the word rejection comes to mind, then perhaps you are rejecting some facet of aging when awake. Remember that with each passing year, we gain more wisdom in life. We sure didnt have much wisdom when we were wearing evening gowns in our youth!
With this interpretation, re-scripting is still worthwhile because Helen needs to embrace both the past and the present. But what if we can recall nothing of the dream, but only the emotion? Certainly we should pray about it and ask for revelation but Christine explained to Helen how we can still apply re-scripting:
You can use the feeling as the basis for reversing any negative effect a dream may have. Fear is my big one. I wake up with it screaming at me. So I tell myself a story involving a scary situation. Im trapped with other hostages. How do I fight? Do I use a gun and kill the enemy? I run different schemes through my mind.
Then I pray. Doing so makes me superior to the enemy. Through prayer I have hidden power. Jesus and I conspire. He whispers to me, Not the gun. Use your faith. Miraculously, there is a plane. Could I fly it and get the hostages out? No. Yes. No. The drama goes wild. I find myself on the edge, excited to know how this will unfold.
Then I connect with the Holy Spirit. Ah Ha! The Holy Spirit is the Master Source of knowledge. He and I team up. While the enemy isnt looking, we slip out. He gives me calm assurance and helps me fly the plane.
My real life challenges are not as daunting as this situation that Jesus and I just won over. Hey, every situation or feeling is smaller than God and as long as it is smaller than God, I win.
Sometimes I release the feelings that haunt me. As a child I was frequently beaten without reason. The accumulated emotional damage was so great that I am still healing from it. Once, I re-lived the feelings of being beaten but in my fantasy I was beaten for something that I chose to be whipped for, such as not denying God or not revealing my best friends secret. I cried as I re-lived the pain, but this time I had chosen it. Instead of being overwhelmed by bewildered shame, there was purpose in the pain. In fact, it was heroic. This empowered me to own the feelings and thus empowered I could hand them to God. Maybe this is just a mind game, but it has been a huge help to me.
I suggest that as soon as you become conscious of your dream, invite God into it. Ask him what it means, ask him to guide its outcome or guide the re-dreaming. Timing this as early as you can might possibly help train yourself to eventually invite God into your dream while you are still dreaming. This might allow you to experience divine intervention in your dream before it turns nasty. (I recall hearing of one scientific study of dreams in which it was demonstrated that unpleasant dreams usually begin mild and become increasingly disturbing.)
I cannot say with certainty, but I suspect that the closer we are to being in a dream state when having the counter-dream, the more effectively it might speak to our subconscious, the deepest, least accessible part of us. Christine mentioned that she actually sometimes goes back to sleep soon after her dream, asking God to help her re-dream it positively, and he does. Even if it is the next night or even later, if you think it likely that a dream will recur, I suggest you rehearse a good outcome to the dream just before you drift off to sleep. Try to imagine it vividly and especially focus on the feelings of triumph and empowerment that the good ending generates. That should increase the likelihood that the good ending will be incorporated into the dream when you sleep.
If you have a different dream, however, in which God gives you a revelation, it is important to force yourself awake and record the dream. Most people find that if they do not do this, the revelation is lost, despite them at the time feeling convinced that the dream is so memorable that they could never forget it.
My infamous common sense otherwise known as lazy presumptions not based on biblical revelation tells me that if a dream is from God he would not let us forget it. But Im wrong again. It is a divine principle taught in so many Scriptures that the person to whom much is given, much is required. This also applies to the person to whom revelation is given. God expects us to treasure and nurture every speck of revelation that he gives us and the more faithfully we do this, the more he will entrust further revelation to us.
Proverbs 6:9-11 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
This divine principle applies not to just to material poverty but to spiritual poverty, and it applies literally to sleep if we are lazy about recording (by voice or writing) the contents of a dream from God. It has been suggested that recording dreams in the present tense aids recall. Remaining still after waking is also thought to help recall. Perhaps as soon as possible recall the details of the dream while not moving and try to impress it upon your mind, then immediately roll over to grab your means of recording the dream. Use of a radio alarm is not recommended as the distraction of the voice or song would tend to push away the memory of the dream.
When pondering the symbolism of dreams, few of us stop to consider that what terrifies us in a dream might represent something good. It is tragically common for people to live miserable, impoverished or shallow lives because they fear change or fear failure or even fear success. We can fear witnessing, fear a doctrine that is actually liberating, or reject a call of God on our lives because of fear of public speaking. Some people fear dentists or medical examinations when caving into that fear could greatly increase their suffering. Fear of exams can give students bad grades. Lovers can miss lifelong happiness because of fear of commitment or fear of rejection. A fear of job interviews can damn someone to wasting his life in a low-paid, unfulfilling job. I could go on but hopefully this is enough to prove that in some area of our lives most of us are probably running in fear from something that if embraced would be a great blessing.
So if something terrorizes us in a dream, lets not be too hasty to send it fleeing. Certainly, turn on it and take control. Command it to freeze. But lest you be turning away a blessing, ask God to reveal its identity before deciding whether to chase it off or embrace it.
If it is an enemy, we must affirm our full authority. Think twice, however, before getting brutal. Most of us are far too conditioned by worldly rage. Consider whether it would be better for your long-term serenity, self-control and Christlikeness to choose a non-violent means of banishing your foe.
A friend of mine has mastered what I used to think was impossible: the ability to abort unwanted sexual dreams by rebuking spiritual attack while still asleep. He reached this point only through much time and effort and by refusing to give up despite many failures. For him, the key elements were prayer, purity and practicing the presence of God. He persisted in daily specific prayer against unwanted dreams. He kept resisting lust during his waking hours. He did his utmost to maintain uninterrupted fellowship with God throughout the day and kept impressing upon his mind the intensity of Gods love for him and the power that the Christ resident within him has over any evil he might encounter. For relevant Scriptures, see Our Power Over Demons.
Prayer was obviously significant, but my friends disciplined efforts while awake were also critical, because our habitual thought life ends up influencing both our dreams and our immediate, unthinking reaction to crises. For a little more detail about his experience, see How I Learnt to Resist Sin and Evil in My Dreams.
Lucid dreaming is simply dreaming while you are aware that it is merely a dream. In occult practice this can be exploited to take the dream into ungodly realms but as Christians we can use it to rebuke evil and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5) even while we sleep.
Speaking, walking, toilet training, and so very many other abilities that as adults we take for granted, originally took us enormous effort to master. The same is true for spiritual things such as faith, self-control and practicing Gods presence. As my friend discovered, gaining control of ones dreams while asleep is no exception. We want everything to be as easy as a lazy prayer but reality is such that almost everything in the Christian life takes much effort and persistence despite many failures before we get good at it. This is our opportunity to express our love for God. Yes, occasionally God gives us an instant, miraculous breakthrough, but that will always be the exception. If it wasnt easy for Jesus in Gethsemane sweating over doing Gods will, it wont be easy for us who must take up our cross and follow him.
We have noted that recording dreams as soon as possible after waking (even in the middle of the night) is of immense value to anyone taking seriously the Bible fact that God can sometimes speak to us through dreams that could easily be dismissed as being natural. Fortuitously, keeping a dream journal is also considered by many advocates of lucid dreaming to be a significant first step towards exerting conscious control over ones dreams.
They also suggest that as one is drifting off to sleep to focus on a determined resolve to recognize when one is dreaming.
Pinch me to see if Im awake, is a common saying. Occasionally, pinching oneself when asleep can feel normal, but there are forms of reality testing that can help people recognize that they are actually in a dream. For ones own safety, it is not recommended that one use something potentially dangerous to test reality, such as stepping in font of a speeding car! For reality testing to become habitual during sleep, it is believed best to get into the habit of doing it regularly when awake. A common method is to regularly check your watch to see if time is progressing normally. Some people read a line or so from a book, look away and then re-examine the book to see if the text has changed. What works best will differ from person to person, and praying about it is sure to help.
If you discover you can defy gravity, move through solid objects, or breathe through your nose when youve pinched it closed with your fingers, its pretty safe to assume you are dreaming. Likewise, if a movie star starts flirting to you.
A possibility to be alert to is thinking that you have awakened when you have merely dreamt that you have woken up. This could lead, for example, to someone supposing they are in seeing a demon in real life when they are merely dreaming they are seeing one. On the other hand, one might have awoken and unable to move and think this is the influence of a demon when it is just a natural phenomenon known as sleep paralysis. When dreaming, a part of the brain prevents the body from responding to signals from the brain. This is necessary to prevent actual bodily moments corresponding to what you are doing in your dream. Sometimes this mechanism can be triggered when a person is awake especially if one has just woken thus causing bodily paralysis as if the person were dreaming. Since sleep paralysis most affects the major muscles, it is suggested helpful in breaking the paralysis to start by moving minor muscles such as swallowing or wriggling ones toes.
In the hands of the indescribably good Lord who always leads us in triumph, could bad dreams turn out to be a precious blessing for which we will be forever grateful?
Disgusting dreams are no exception to the astounding fact that God is so good and powerful that he works all things even the most vicious satanic plots against him and us together for the good of those who love him (Romans 8:28). A careful reading of Scripture reveals that trials achieve so much in us and for us that we should not merely rejoice in spite of trials but rejoice because of trials (Scriptures). The fearsomely powerful Lord is so able to outwit evil that, when handled Gods way, even such ugly spiritual attacks as severe temptation end up proving surprisingly beneficial to us (for more, see The Unique Value of Trials and Temptation).
A friend of mine who, while asleep, has suffered a vast number of demonic attacks and has also had victories over them says that he always claims protection over himself through the blood of Christ before he sleeps. He adds, however, that he thinks God sometimes allows us to experience demonic attacks so that we can know how important our service to him is to the spirit world.
Christians have always had the Bible and always had a supernatural God who reveals himself and his secrets, and yet the great tragedy is that most Christians follow the non-Christian world so closely that we tend to fall into whatever blindness and prejudices afflict the rest of society. Valuable knowledge has at times been attained and then lost again to most of humanity. For example, the ancient Greeks knew that the world was round and even calculated earths circumference but this knowledge was largely lost for centuries. Something similar applies to understanding dreams. Not only the Bibles faith heroes, but even their pagan contemporaries, such as idol-worshipping foreign kings, recognized dreams as a most valuable source of wisdom. Many centuries later the value of dreams became underrated when secular society foolishly began to limit itself almost exclusively to what could be examined by the physical sciences. Gradually, the number of non-Christians discovering the value of dreams is again increasing, but it at first seems unbelievable that praying, Bible-reading Christians should have ever missed it.
Further thought reveals the obvious reason. Consider the massive chunk of our lives devoted to secular education and secular entertainment, and the much smaller portion devoted to time with God and his Word. Even the Christian teaching we receive (including my teaching) is from people who have likewise been profoundly influenced by worldly views.
An upsetting dream is like an open wound that makes us tender and vulnerable. How we treat it will inflame it or soothe it; infect it or speed its healing. To focus too much on merely eliminating unpleasant dreams, however, is to be like someone who would rather pop pain pills than do anything to check if his appendix is about to burst.
An alarming dream is literally an alarm. Alarms are designed to be annoyingly unpleasant simply to get our attention and impress upon us that things are not as okay as we suppose and that if we do not attend to something or seek help, things will get seriously worse.
Alarms are never pleasant or convenient but if you heed them they could spare you enormous problems, perhaps even save your life. So when you have a disturbing dream, courageously seek God, not just so that you get a pleasant sleep but so that the cause can be fully dealt with and your entire life can be taken to a new level.
We began this series of webpages by noting that almost all dreams recorded in Scripture had an unpleasant side to them. So rather than pray that we never have unpleasant dreams, it would seem wiser to pray that Christ rule in our sleep as well as when we are awake, and that he cause us to receive maximum revelation and benefit from our dreams. By regularly praying this way we are refusing to leave to chance or evil spirits what enters into our dreams. We are using spiritual weapons to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).
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Demons: A Sane Look at a Perplexing Subject
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When I was a young punk going for broke in a small town on the outskirts of the armpit of America, one of my favorite pastimes was getting stoned with the old timers in the neighborhood, and then kicking back while those crazy bastards told me stories from back in the day and tuned me on to music from their vinyl collections.
One guy in particular, he was probably one of the most die-hard music fiends I have ever met, not to mention a member of the Hell Angels, and an extremely well-disciplined alcoholic that would suck down a fifth of Jack Daniels every night, but he'd never take a single drink or even smoke a bowl, until after 4pm. That is what he said separated the degenerates from the true professionals, and oddly enough, his philosophies are still burned into my lunatic brain to this day -- especially when it comes to music.
Those stoner afternoons helped to transform me into a vicious music critic, one that has gone so far as to actually shun certain individuals because they may have mentioned at one time or another that they enjoyed the music of Kid Rock.
Therefore, when the editors at HIGH TIMES asked me to write a few musical recommendations for the young stoner nation, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to finally spread the word about some important music, rather than leave the job up to some clueless intern that would surely screw it up by making the piece about jam bands.
Here are five records that will undoubtedly take your toking to the next level…and perhaps even fry your brain:
Fantomas, Delirium Cordia
This record is certainly not recommended for the first time marijuana user on a personal journey to discover some level of spiritual revelation in between smoke and song. Delirium Cordia is the truest Mike Patton masterpiece: it is a psychotic, mind-altering offering of sonic paranoia that can only be found in the harshest realm of the beast, one that is best described as a rotten trip into the cutthroat intellect of Jack the Ripper.
Yet, for a nation of stoned youth, a cult of weed whippersnappers searching for something cool to get high to: this record may be too intense for you to handle on even the weakest pot.
Nevertheless, we encourage you to try it anyway.
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Jazz legend Miles Davis may have been destitute and strung out on brown dope for the majority of his music career, but that in no way stopped him from composing some of the finest interpretations of American stoner sounds ever to be recorded.
Bitches Brew (The Complete Brew Sessions) is over four hours of what is often described as electric jazz, and is reportedly the end result of Davis locking himself away in his apartment for months, strung out on heroin, and channeling inspiration from the music of Jimi Hendrix.
Now, this is another one of those recordings that is bound to inflict a nasty bout of cold sweats and hot flashes on the pothead wannabe. The horns hit pitches that have the capacity to collapse the spinal column and render a large majority of a person's involuntary reflexes incapable of function… and that is sans weed.
Again, we highly recommend it.
Mr. Bungle, California
For the stoner that isn't necessarily interested in the possibility of reaching the breaking point of their delicate psyche, but still has a sadistic curiosity to push the limits of their buzz, well, allow us to introduce you to Mr. Bungle.
While the previous two records on this list have the power to trick a person's perception and make them believe they are getting more stoned the more they listen, the California record will actually get you higher. Even though we have not seen any clinical studies that suggest this to be a documented fact, we believe Bungle tunes have a way to infiltrating the mind, and those that listen are as close as anyone has ever come to achieving the eternal buzz.
It also worth mentioning that Bungle's other two records, the self-entitled Mr. Bungle and the cult classic Disco Volante, are worth checking out…both for different mentally unstable reasons.
Be warned: Getting too high and listening to "The Bends" featured on Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante may result in you swallowing your tongue. Trust us, we know a guy!
Pink Floyd, Meddle
It might seem cliché to include a Pink Floyd record on a list aimed at recommending music for stoners, but this mellow masterpiece deserves to be included because it seems that only the true die hards have any knowledge of its existence.
Now, while this record may not have had the commercial success as other popular Floyd classics like Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, this record offers something special for the stoner that their radio hits don't have: a 20-minute epic called "Echoes."
In fact, after you get cartooned faced on the best weed your city has to offer, go ahead and skip ahead to the last track on this record - "Echoes" -- and somewhere around the 11:18 mark, prepare to be catapulted into full-blown sonic schizophrenia.
Side Note: Remember to blink and swallow…very carefully.
The Melvins, Tres Cabrones
The newest record to find its way on this list of stoner hits is the latest from The Melvins called Tres Cabrones, which upon translation we discovered means -- "We are the epitome of stoner rock, if there exists such a ridiculous genre, which there doesn't, so go fuck yourself" -- or "Three Bastards" for short.
Don't worry about finding just the right spot in this record to start feeling the effects of its power, just fire it up and never let the smoke clear.


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umi Bar
Benefiting from a stunning sea view located at the heart of Brighton's busy night life, the umi bar is the perfect place for a pre-clubbing cocktail, an after work pint or a holiday refresher.
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The dainty dishes are complimented by the eccentric interior decoration with exquisite Grecian and Italian art, which creates its own cheerful charm. Moreover the balcony and booth seating provides a distinctive relaxing dining experience. This Little Bay branch is as unique as the others in London and creates a dramatic and theatrical elegance using the funky decor.
Additionally, the price-performance ratio is unbeatable for that high grade of Modern-European cuisine and excellent service in our extravagantly designed restaurant, with many great meal offers. A delicious 3-course meal costs just £ 10.95 between the early-bird hours of noon and 7 pm, increasing slightly after 7 pm. However, there is a special group bonus when you are 10 or more hungry people, with every 3-course meal costing only £10.95 at any time of the day! We present you a great selection of freshly prepared food, for vegetarians as well as for meat and fish lovers. Also, the delicious desserts make every meal one to really look forward to! Exceptional are the numerous opera music events that Little Bay has become renowned for and other entertainment that will make your evening that little more special at Little Bay Brighton.
Our friendly and courteous staff who will make you feel at home, look forward to welcoming you in Little Bay Brighton soon!
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The following areas of focus represent most of our research areas, and also represent great areas of collaboration between our faculty and other researchers. As research is fluid and many projects overlap into multiple areas, many faculty have projects that span multiple areas of focus. Below you will find a short description of each field of study and the names of the faculty that conduct research in that field.
Cardiovascular Medicine
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. The scope and etiology of these diseases are broad; yet, each component affects the cardiovascular system which includes the heart, blood, and blood vessels.
Bradley T. Andresen, Cynthia Jackevicius, Fadi Khasawneh, Steve O'Barr
Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
Diabetics do not produce enough, or any, insulin, which is required for glucose homeostasis, and metabolic syndrome is a constellation of diseases that includes diabetes or insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. Members of this group either directly study diabetes and/or metabolic syndrome or a component of these diseases.
Bradley T. Andresen, Arbi Nazarian, Olivia Phung, Jeffrey Wang
The percentage of western countries elderly population is growing, and Geriatrics is the field dedicated to the health care of the elderly. Specifically examining how to promote health and prevent disease in the elderly population.
Sam Shimomura
Health Economics and Clinical Outcomes
Health Outcomes is applied clinical research that generates knowledge to improve clinical decision-making and health care delivery to optimize patient outcomes. It is the study of the delivery and consequences of health care on outcomes from the perspective of patients, providers, and the health care system. Health Economics examines the costs within our health care system and can be used to determine how to cut costs.
Anandi Law, Quang Le, Olivia Phung
Immunology/Infectious Disease
Immunologists study the immune system in all aspects of disease; whereas, infectious disease studies the organisms that infect humans causing disease as well as how to combat such infections.
Peter Oelschlaeger, Steve O'Barr, David Sanchez, Arezoo Campbell
Neuroscience broadly covers faculty research projects that focus on the nervous system. Members of this group study psychiatry, pain, drugs of abuse, neurological diseases, and behavior.
Arezoo Campbell , Kabirullah Lutfy, Steve O'Barr
Oncology is the study of cancer. This includes how cancers are formed, detecting cancer, as well as prevention and treatment of cancer.
Moses Chow, Ying Huang, Maria Lambros Quang Le, David Sanchez Jeffrey Wang
Pharmacogenomics examines the effect of genetic variation (mutations or polymorphisms) on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of drugs. As genome wide sequencing becomes more of a reality this approach has great promise advance personalized medicine.
Ying Huang
Pharmaceutics is a discipline specific to pharmacy that focuses on making and designing new drugs. Although many chemists design the active drug, pharmaceutics are involved with packaging the drug so that it is bioavailable and can treat the disease in question.
Moses Chow, Maria Lambros, Sunil Prabhu, Jeffrey Wang, Guru Betageri
Toxicology is the study of poisons; it is "the other side of the coin of pharmacology". Toxicologists examine if and how compounds that we are exposed to cause disease.
Arezoo Campbell
Translational Research
Translational research focuses on taking biomedical discoveries from the laboratory bench to the market place to improve human health. Translational research is not specific to any one field of biomedicine.
Moses Chow


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Marauders Three-Quarters by TanciWatch
©2004-2016 Tanci
It took a while to complete this one, mainly because I kept putting it off Anyway, if you can't tell, it's James, Sirius, and Remus when they were teenages at Hogwarts, *bishilized*. Sirius was the hardest to draw for some reason, 'cose I kept screwing up his face, but it's DONE now, and I'm happy.
It's good, but you mixed up Sirius and James's eyes. Sirius is the one with grey eyes and James is the one with hazel eyes. But GREAT JOB!
remus looks like a prince!
they look so happy love them!! <3
OH MY GOD, they look so cute together. D:
...I might have a new OT3 >
why does this pic has to be 2-D???
this pic is awsome!!!!
*Faints* total heart moment, heart it heart it heart it 2 death. *attachs james, sirius and remus*, love it
yaoi love triangle?!?!?!?
How... What... THEY IS SO HOTZ IZ WUT!
i just thought you'd like to know, you've got james and sirius' eye colors switched
Oh wow I love this. You got the young Marauders down pat. I am going to add this to my faves.
Luuuuuvvvvv iiittt, REMUS ROX!
I'm sorry, but it looks like a gay love triangle to me. It's still good though
you made them look hawt!!!
=^.^= love it!
ah yes. the three GOOD marauders.
srry but i hate pettigrew- which is why i love this pic..among other reasons of course xD
ah yes. the three GOOD marauders.
srry but i hate pettigrew- which is why i love this pic..among other reasons of course xD
Very nice! ^^
It's pretty!
It looks great and I noticed there's something blue and glowy in the grass jsut above sirius's hand..what is it?
It looks great and I noticed there's something blue and glowy in the grass jsut above sirius's hand..what is it?
yay!! so awesome!! they're really hot!
aww, their arms are all scrawny, they need big muscle-y arms, lol, i'm kidding. that's a great pic
S'retty! I hate stupid wormtail, so it's always nice to see people leaving him out ^_^ Loverly!
I love it.
It's really nice! I love the pose
-chokes and dies-
Lupin <3<3<3<3<3
Sirius <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
James <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Sirius <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
James <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
I can see these three just suddenly having an orgy. That's what I feel when I look at this picture...
Anyway, very pretty, and it's nicely colored and drawn.
Anyway, very pretty, and it's nicely colored and drawn.
james is way cute ><
wow thats hawt dawg XD <3
One nitpick: James has brown eyes.
remus.. YUMMYSCRUMBOS! also sirius is yummy fav+
Very Fruits Basket...
Ooooo nice, really love their hands; and that grass, so textured.
very nice... adorable
...bishilized...XD...what a word
...bishilized...XD...what a word
They're so shmexy! I love the way you draw their hands. It's a beautiful picture <333
oh wow, beautiful shading job. XD i love it! (Yay for lupin!)
Do they eat? O.o Becouse when I zoomed in they're hands looked ... so..... so old and .... and like my grandma's! @_@ Also, James had hazel, not blue eyes (or I can't read) and I think Remus too.... Well, he surely didn't had purple eyes...
But it's nice. I like shading and background. Sirius' face is great! I see his mischief crawing in it
But it's nice. I like shading and background. Sirius' face is great! I see his mischief crawing in it
They are all so beautiful. *licks computer screen*
awwwwww, goreous ickle boys lol, very nice
AWWW MY GAWD!!!! hey look so cute!!!! me wants them buahaahah, hey you draw really cool ^^
They look soo damn sexy XD
Definately a fav!
Definately a fav!
*blink* .... WONDERFUL!!!! REMUS! He....is.....so...damn....seckzeh....*dr ool*
They look so hot...
This is so great. Sirius' face looks great. . . . you can't tell that you screwed up! It all looks great! I applaud you. Excellent!


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This class is pretty weak at the RB position, and 2009 will be loaded. We can pick one in the middle rounds this year, and take one next year in the 1st round.
Cory Boyd
Benjarvus Green Ellis
Both are somewhat similar to Ahman Green. Similar size 6' 220lbs give or take and similar speed in the 4.5-4.55 area. Boyd has some serious receiving skills and can catch it out of the backfield with the best of them. He really does remind me of Ahman. Benjarvus is a little tougher runner and isnt a big play threat, but he'd be a solid pickup in the 5-6th rounds.
-Darren McFadden
-Jonathon Stewart
-Allen Patrick
-Felix Jones
-Ray Rice
-Ryan Torain
-Mike Hart
-Steve Slaton
yeah that's a pretty weak RB draft pool there..........
I need about three fitty.
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there arent a whole lotta fast backs...and half the guys the guy up there mentioned are juniors. patrick, hart, torain...not 1st rounders. mcfadden and stewart are the only 1st round locks...thats how weak this class is. and plus, these guys arent "slow." they just arent burners. there are very few burners in this class anyways.
I'm with Andre, I want a guy with some speed. Adrian Peterson is doing great this year and has the size/speed combination that makes you drool, but he was a high draft pick. This is something we shouldn't end up having. I have heard sports commentators say that this year's RB class isn't the strongest also. Why not pick a serviceable guy up in the mid to late rounds and really go after a solid running back after next year?
I think our secondary and O-Line needs are just to glaring and that is where we should go in the early rounds.
if we carry three backs next year like this year it should be...
ray rice is not a 1st rounder?
I need about three fitty.
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i dont know that he is. he might not even declare. he's 5'9 195lbs and he runs in the 4.5 area.
here's my reasoning for Cory Boyd. he has size at 6'1 215lbs and he has good hands in the receiving game. he's not going to be a feature back unless he's in the right system, and i don't think we should be looking for a starting RB with green anyways.
next year we'd be with green, boyd, and taylor/gado. then in 2009, when green is in the 3rd year of his 4 year contract, we can draft a guy who has some speed like jamaal charles, felix jones, james davis, brandon ore, ray rice (if he stays), marlon lucky...a bunch of guys.
thats assuming green is on his last legs, which he probably will be. then we'd be with a 1st round RB and Boyd as a the backup and. we could cut green or something, i dunno.
in any case, we aren't going to pick a 1st round RB in 2008. the FS class is just as thin, and has even less depth. Reggie Smith is the 1st round pick in 2008 if he declares, which he probably will because of the lack of talent in this class.
In the 1st round for offense I'd like to see either a RB or a LT.
In the 1st round for defense I'd like to see a FS or a CB. (possibly an OLB)
These, I feel, are our most glaring needs and the potential of having quality players at these positions in the 1st wherever we pick is there.
LT- We are all hoping Spencer comes back 100% and is our franchise LT. A quality LT in both run and pass blocking would really help our team.
RB- Green is only a stop gap but I'm thrilled to have him. A twist of an ankle here or there shows you our non existent depth at RB. Dayne and Gado are both guys I like, but even I will admit its not pretty at all.
Since this thread is about Running Backs I'll expand. I really am not familiar with many of the RB's that may declare...as far as watching them during games. Jonathan Stewart has really impressed me and early indication is he'll go mid first +. Ray Rice is another guy I really want to watch more. Steve Slaton is a popular choice it seems and think he could be an option. The RB from Georgia I saw last weekend (Brown?) I was really impressed with. Apparently he's a 2nd day guy but I thought he was a solid runner with great moves.
I've seen limited amounts of the Nebraska Running backs, and Felix Jones..I want to pay more attention to them too. I see a lot of guys that are interesting and think we'll have plenty of options...especially if we trade down this year!
CB- our #2 spot doesn't look pretty. I really want to give Bennet a chance to earn that spot and think the kid could be it one day. He's not going to come in and dominate this year, but he may down the road...this is why I'm sketchy at cb in the 1st at this point.
FS- yes yes yes. If there is FS available that is darn near BPA I hope we take him. This would help out our cb's sooo much and make Faggins/Bennet look better. A lot of the blown assignements/coverage blamed on faggins is really cc's or hutchins fault.
DL- please not this year although we could be looking for a pass rushing DE.
LB- Willis and Ryans would have been awesome but Okoye is GREAT. If there are not any players in the other positions that grade out to our pick..I would consider a studly OLB. I think we're a lot better at LB depth than in the past but could use a LB thats good in coverage, blitzing, etc.
At the end of the day, we still have a lot of holes to fill, and RB to me is a big one. Will there be a decent guy in the third? maybe...but ray rice, jonathan stewart, and steve slaton are my top RB's as of now- and I will be watching them a lot
Proud adoptee of Jacoby Jones.
anybody watching Boyd on espn? 12 for 50yd and 2 recp for 21 so far
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Millie Piper, center, in 8th grade at Fulda High School, won first place for the second year in a row.
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Some may have forgotten soon-to-be 39-year-old defenseman Hal Gill was still on the Flyers. He has not appeared in a game since December 21st against the Columbus Blue Jackets and only has four total games under his belt all season.
That has not stopped the 6'7" Massachusetts-native from leaving his mark on the Flyers in his first year with the organization. The Philadelphia Daily News' Frank Seravalli noted earlier this week Gill has adopted a mentoring role on the team despite not being on the ice.
Gill, who turns 39 on Sunday, repeatedly stays after practice to work on skating drills with assistant coach Ian Laperriere to stay in game-shape just in case his number is called. In particular, Gill has had an impact on young defenseman Erik Gustafsson, who, like Gill, is also trying to crack the Flyers lineup on a consistent basis.
With all of this in mind, it is certainly no surprise that the Flyers announced Gill is their nominee for the Masterton Trophy which is awarded to the player who exemplifies "perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey."
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Even with another (this time peaceful) protest under their belt, more is starting to come out about Calgary's anti-Israel movement, including its leader, Saima Jamal.
Jamal is an employee of the University of Calgary. She's the program director for Peace Studies. Which is rather ironic, considering how quickly her anti-Israel protest turned to violence as soon as some pro-Israel protesters turned up.
Since then, Jamal has offered an apology for the incident. But her group does not seem to have made any effort to help bring the perpetrators of the violence to justice.
Which is strange. Because according to the following interaction on the event page for this past Friday's anti-Israel protest (now featuring anti-racism) it turns out that Jamal herself may know who the perpetrators are:
Afg Pari: "Lol, it does break ur fast, but who cares wat they say, let them bark. this rally was awesome! Started off bad but ended well. Next time we should try to calm our boys a little cuz this was supposed to be peaceful, even though it was the Israelis who started it. Good job, proud of who ever arranged all this.
Don't understand why that girl was crying on the news, no one was targeting her, then what was her problem?
...is it true that the guy from our side (with the hat and black t-shirt) was an Israeli pretending to be a Palestinian and had planned to start this fight?"
Yasser Safa Katib: "Afg, where'd you hear that from? It'd be pretty sick of them to do so."
Afg Pari: "Yasser I heard that a few ppl had claimed that on Facebook that they knew him, I'm not sure tho, lets hope its not true or one of their BS to make our own ppl not trust each other."
Yasser Safa Katib: "That's pretty messed up. but I think Saima found him on Facebook and private messaged him."
If this is true, then Saima Jamal (the program director for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary) has a very real obligation to bring this man -- or two men, as this description actually fits that of two men involved in the violence -- to justice.
And if she does know who these thugs are and hasn't identified them to police, it's one of several reasons to doubt the sincerity of Jamal's vaunted apology.
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Silicon Valley Half Marathon 2008 Completed - best time so far
By arungupta on Oct 26, 2008
I completed Silicon Valley Half Marathon yesterday. Although I missed my target of 8 min/mile by 4 seconds but still improved my personal best by 3 min and 8 secs. Here are my official results:
A summary of half-marathoners:
And the top 5 finishers:
And then the complete results.
Even though the number of 1/2 marathoners were much smaller (957 instead of 6679) than my previous marathon but I still enjoyed the run. Going through familiar streets and neighborhood was the best part :)
Here is a short video at the start:
And another one at the finish line in Los Gatos High School:
No marathon can ever be completed without family support. All the practice takes a significant amount of time away from family. And it's certainly exciting when they accompany you, early in the morning, for the actual race. Many thanks to my family for helping in my marathons all through out these years :) Here are couple of pictures:
The massage at the end of the race by National Holistic Institute was certainly relaxing!
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In late January, as the bankruptcy case of convicted Iranian-Jewish businessman Ezri Namvar was coming to a close, a federal court judge granted approximately $65 million in fees to the trustees handling the case. According to reports filed by those trustees with the court, the...
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Gardening Articles: Care :: Soil, Water, & Fertilizer
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Planting Wide Rows
After you've prepared and fertilized your soil on planting day, follow these easy steps to plant your wide rows of greens and salad crops: Mark the wide row. Stretch a string between two stakes close to the ground for the length of row you want.
Smooth the planting bed. With an iron garden rake, smooth the soil along one side of the string. The rake will mark the width of the row. Don't pack the seedbed down by stepping on it. Always do your work from the side of the row.
Sprinkle the seeds onto the seedbed. Roll seeds off the ends of your fingers with your thumb. Try to scatter them across the seedbed as evenly as you can. The spacing of crops will vary a bit. Lettuce seeds can be planted much thicker than kale or collard seeds, for example. Don't worry if you plant too thickly, thinning will correct that. To give you an idea of how much seed you need, the average packet of lettuce seed will cover three to six feet of a row that's 15 inches wide.
Sprinkle in a few radish seeds. After you've broadcast the main crop, sprinkle some radish seeds down the row. They'll come up quickly and mark the row. Use about five percent as much radish seed as the main seed. You can either pull up the radishes while they're small or harvest them after you pick your crop of greens.
Firm the seeds into the soil with a hoe, so the seeds make good contact with the earth.
Cover the seeds with soil from the sides of the row, pulling it up with your rake. The rule of thumb for the amount of soil to cover seeds is two to four times the diameter of the seed. So for most seeds in the greens group, that's about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of soil. In midsummer or late-summer plantings, an extra 1/4 inch of soil will help keep the seeds from drying out.
Finally, firm the soil once more with the back of a hoe and water gently if the soil is dry.
Single-Row Planting
Use a string to plant a single row, too. Rake the seedbed smooth right over the string and with the handle end of your rake, make a shallow furrow or planting line along the string.
Sprinkle the seeds in the shallow furrow, and walk by a second time and drop radish seeds every five or six inches. After firming the seeds into the soil, cover them with 1/4 to 1/2 inch of soil and firm down gently again. Mark the row with the seed packet or a small sign, remove stakes and string and proceed to the next row to be planted.


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Sham Ibrahim is known among many Hollywood elite for his amazing and thought provoking pop art. Examiner had a chance to speak with Sham about art and what inspires his creations. He also spilled the beans on his upcoming art show at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery in Hollywood in a Wednesday press release. Check out what Sham had to say about his art, his experiences in Hollywood and more. Check out the interview and many pieces of art that Sham was kind enough to share.
SF: You remind me of the Andy Warhol of this generation. How do you feel when people make that comparison?
SI: I'm more than grateful and more than happy that Hollywood has been so responsive. Truthfully, the art galleries in the "real" world of art have not been that responsive. They think I'm a kind of a big joke.
SF: Why do you think that is?
SI: I think because there aren't a lot of gimmicks in my artwork. I think in the art world it's all about gimmicks. I guess giving the paintings to the celebrities is kind of a gimmick. My work is very blatant and straightforward and it is what it is. I gravitate to pop culture and that's not really something the galleries are interested in.
SF: Some of your art is pretty controversial. Isn't that a gimmick in itself?
SI: Right and I'm perfectly fine with gimmicks. I don't really attach deep meaning to my art. Like when people ask me what the meaning was in my painting of Rihanna people ask me what is the meaning. Well there is no meaning. I saw that image plastered across every tabloid and magazine in America, I thought well if it's so important that we should put it on every magazine, then why not hang it on your wall. That was sort of my attitude so there wasn't really some deep thought that I was making a statement against it or for it. I saw it so much that I thought it should be art. Some people thought I was glorifying domestic violence and that is not at all what I was doing. There was so much controversy behind it and I felt like I was misunderstood. So because of that, I ended up donating the money that I sold the portrait for to a domestic violence shelter.
SF: Your artwork is really affordable and that's something that a lot of people don't know. Why do you refuse to inflate your prices?
SI: I refuse to mark up the price of my art. The whole point of my art is so that someone who has a minimum wage job can afford my art. I'd rather sell a million of my pieces for a reasonable price and let everyone enjoy my art than to mark up the price so that only one person can enjoy it.
SF: How do you decide what to paint or what inspires you?
SI: The way that I see pop culture, tabloids and media for example...I just painted a picture of Paula Deen and Donald Sterling as African American slaves. What happened to their reputation and their image overshadows anything they've ever done. That is because of media and our media driven culture. That is the art I focus on because some events like that happen in our history should be captured in art.
SF: With so much going on in the media, how do you decide what gets painted and what doesn't?
SI: To be an honest artist I think you have to comment on your era and the time that you're living in. As an artist, that is what I try to do as best I can. Whenever an event gets a lot of media play, that's when I feel like it needs to be on canvas. Lately I have been trying to gravitate more toward the political. Right now I'm working on a canvas of 9/11 because I just feel like how could I be doing all these pop culture things and not give any attention to an event that has changed our American history and shaped us so much.
SF: You remind me of a NYC Club Kid, tell me about your look.
SI: I left home young and moved to San Francisco when I was 17. I was adopted by a family of drag queens and club kids. That's how I developed my look. I was in art school but because of my look I always got called to do things in front of the camera. I started out as a go go dancer and that led to small parts in music videos. From there I joined the union and started doing legitimate acting work. I wasn't really pursuing a career as an actor but when someone approaches you and tells you we're going to pay you X amount of dollars to basically stand around and they're going to give you free food too, it's hard to say no as a starving artist.
SF: You have painted and then gifted a lot of paintings to a lot of famous people. Tell me how you got started doing that.
SI: Acting was a segway to meet celebrities and to start giving them portraits. Whenever I was on a movie set and saw someone I liked, I would start to befriend them and then give them a portrait. Everybody was really supportive and responsive. These people that I watched on television would tell me that the work is so great and that they love it. Then they would hang it in their home.
Sham Ibrahim has painted many celebrities including Lisa Vanderpump, Lance Bass, RuPaul, Boy George, Michael Jackson and more. He may be Hollywood's favorite pop artist but he is truly one of the most grateful and humble people in the business. Sham has an upcoming art show where many of his amazing art pieces will be up for sale. Each piece will be printed on canvas and there will only be 10 prints per run. The show is going to be held at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery on Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m. Those in the Los Angeles/Hollywood area should certainly plan to attend this star-studded event.


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Marketing, this was the class I was waiting for. For me this is the bread and butter of how to kick start & sell your business. We started out by looking at our products / services and seeing what makes us stand our from our competitors. The exercises were tough and although we all have great idea's that sound fantastic in our own minds and to the immediate audience, it was time to cut to the chase:
Do people need it?
Due to the climate that we are in, it is not enough anymore to suggest that the people that want your product / service will make your business sustainable, want may or may not pay the bills, the people that need it will.
One thing more evident recently is that the service quality in general is on the increase, as people need the business. An important thing to note aswell is that you don't have to have a ground breaking idea, you can always take an existing idea and put your own unique twist on it and do it better than the existing project. Do I hear you mentioning Apple Ipod?
Online marketing was impressed upon us as the key to successful promotion. Promoting yourself on Twitter, Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogging, create your own website & other web based mediums gets yourself and your business well known. This is where I felt that the course lacked some detail.
How should you promote yourself on these mediums? Create a Facebook application? Launch a campaign in Bebo? Affiliate yourself with certain groups in LinkedIn? None of these were explained. If even to say that you should start a blog about your business would be putting people on the right track.
It was suggested that everyone look to Damien Mulley who is recogised as one of them most knowledgeable online marketers in Ireland . If I was to recommend anyone that I feel has the key to promoting themselves online and selling their service it would be Niall Harbison.
A couple of questions were posed about google ad words and increasing your hits in google and basically getting your business to the mecca of the top ranking site for certain keywords etc sadly the lecturer struggled a little with these questions…
There were more exercises to take home with us and hopefully the second talk on marketing will be more detailed.