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Jupiter and Semele, c.1760
Jean-Baptiste Deshays de CollevilleFrench, 1729-1765
Oil on canvas
62-3/4 x 66-3/8 in. (159.4 x 168.6 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
© The Norton Simon Foundation
Not on view
Jean-Baptiste Deshays was born near Rouen. He trained at Paris's finest academies, spent four years studying in Rome and earned a reputation as one of France's outstanding religious painters. This painting is one of his few mythological subjects. Until recently, it had been attributed to François Boucher, whose studio produced some of the most tantalizing mythological paintings of the 18th century. Though Deshays married Boucher's daughter in 1758, and his father-in-law's influence is evident in both his small pastoral paintings and his later drawings, the figures in this composition exhibit a monumental, sculptural sensibility that is characteristic of the younger artist. This painting is considered to be a fragment, as the object of the three women's attention, which would have extended to the left, is no longer apparent. The painting appears to depict the penultimate moment in the affair between the god Jupiter and the mortal Sémélé, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Having discovered her husband Jupiter's infidelity, a jealous Juno disguises herself as Sémélé's nurse and persuades her to ask her lover to show himself in his godly form on their next rendezvous. On Jupiter's next visit, Sémélé is consumed by the brilliant lightning and thunder of his true presence.
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Notes from an "alternate universe". Introduction to a new way of thinking.
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Just checking in to say hi to everyone!Quoting: Ambra 30351928
I've been offline for a long while. It's been very dreamlike lately... having to perceive the illness, agony and final departure of a friend's father, offering help to ease the situation, and at the same time learning to ride horses in a nearby ranch.
I've missed being on this thread and you Chaol, though I've often seen the white dot in the corner of my eye (that you mentioned a while back, as I recall...).
My first Genius symbol keeps working, even if it fell apart and sits quietly in my bag now.
Lots of pages to catch up on, I guess... It feels great to be back, and the dream goes on :)
Take care, then :)
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Quoting: Chaol
In my dream last night I knew exactly how to assign value to things to make it useful to my experience. When I woke up I could not remember how I did it.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1460969
Try writing it down next time (in the dream) ;)
Do you have any suggestions as to how to be more aware in dreams? We call it lucid dreaming and there are all kinds of software and devices to help us achieve it.
Edit: Ha! Just posted this question and look what I found:
With the 8-Coil Shakti, you can activate your brain, one part at a time. If you like the altered state a particular session brings up, you can repeat it (with specific schedules) often enough that your brain 'learns' to access the effects on it's own. If you don't like the effects of a particular session, don't repeat it.
[link to altered-states.net]
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"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka
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With "the Genius" what techniques should one use to properly assign the meaning to the symbol? By what steps do we come to focus the logic and possibility space effectively enough to come to experience that which the symbol represents. It seems to me that my genius models have been entirely effective yet my ability to determine exactly what it is I'd like to experience via the genius is somehow off.Quoting: Jesse Sovoda
I used a genius symbol a while back to "expand my awareness". While considering the symbol I had considered "expand my awareness" to mean something far different from what I intended. My experience with the "expansion of awareness" seems to be of limited scope.
What is the right way to wish to the genie?
Is it by not wishing and instead intending with focus?
Is "the genius" a tool customized to focus our intent on a specific experience? If so, how is it that we come to obtain proper focus? Is that the purpose of ecsys? The words and symbols we've been using have infected us and although they work within the framework of the environment that supposedly generated them, they also limit us to it. By convincing ourselves that all that we perceive is represented by a rule set with the opportunity to explore the rules, we provide us an alternate way to define our frame of reference and in turn we experience an alternate frame of reference.
The Genius is a tool of perspective, not so much a specific experience.
If your intention is to "expand my awareness" then discover what it means to you. What might it be like in your perspective if your awareness is expanded?
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Quoting: Jesse Sovoda
@ Jesse [MM] and MarshwiggleQuoting: Ambra 30351928
I understand where you're coming from. What I am looking to grasp is how is it that I come to properly define my initial intent for the symbol. Most of the time, it seems what we want and what we intend are out of synch. It's been (for me) that when considering my symbol for a genius, I find myself not really being clearly aware of what I want. As I see it, what I intend on experiencing is so vague because I am not really provided a frame of reference for what I intend. I've come to the conclusion that representing what I'd imagined was a desired experience comes tainted by my lack of focus.
I suppose (you're right) it's the whole "what's next is what takes the least amount of energy to come next" thing. The symbol (and associated experience) would likely evolve further as my "true" intent becomes more logical.
Jesse, I don't know if this helps, but I notice you said the following:
"I am not really provided a frame of reference for what I intend."
You used the word provided. Are you expecting the frame of reference to come from somewhere besides yourself? I am having a hard time seeing how you don't feel you know your true intent. To me, I set my true intent. I am not having any trouble with that part. The only part I have trouble with is understanding how I already do this naturally.
Yes, I do genuinely have the "feeling" that I am "provided" an experience from somewhere beyond my ability to perceive. I know (intelectually) that it is, as you point out, already within my perspective.
My intent is ambiguous, because I don't (yet) understand the framework to clearly define it. I can use the genius easily (so far) for things that are already relative (also easy to define). Now, the ones that I had perceived as less relative have been more varied and vague (like kinda happening but not quite).
Chaol reminded me to focus on the overall structure of relationships surrounding the desired experience. I suppose I'd forgotten to look at it that way.
For the reallly enterprising mind, imagine this...
Your Genius enters a room full of random letters, words, and phrases and makes sense of them in the order that they're in.
Your waking mind will not make sense of them and just consider them random.
In some world, some possibility, some value of perspective, they make complete and perfect sense.
You can imagine yourself in and of a perspective that is very foreign to your current one. Nevermind how you will get there. Your Genius will figure it out because it can make sense of anything.
It creates the logic. (That is to say, it can illustrate anything logically.)
i.e., it can bring you through a narrative that will make sense to you, one relative step to an other (which is the nature of logic).
So if something that you desire does not make sense to you (meaning, you don't know how to define it) know that it is all ready defined and all ready makes sense to your Genius.
That's the nature of the Genius.
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Quoting: LeKing
But it would be much easier to create the library anew. This wouldn't be the same thing, of course.Quoting: Chaol
Would it be worth creating a new library in ones mind, or visiting the library off to the right inside the Sphinx Hall?
Is there a difference?
The library is a representation of what you'd call an internal process. There are no actual books. But it seems like there are.
You're reading yourself, so to speak.
What greater knowledge or history is there but that within your own self? Therein is everything.
Also how would you acquire "knowledge" into your new library? I struggle to explain what I'm trying to get across here with words, but hopefully you understand, if not I can expand.Quoting: LeKing
I struggle to connect to the Sphinx Library, if creating a new would be easier, that would greatly benefit my self and others I'm sure.
Whenever someone asks a question I quickly refer to some books in my library and type as fast as I can.Quoting: Chaol
I did't write it. Someone else did.
Is your library the same one you instructed to visit below, or do you use a personal library?
There I was paraphrasing a president.
And kidding about going to a library and typing as fast as I can :)
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Quoting: Jesse Sovoda
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Oh, you tease.
It seems that without some mystery to ponder we may be like a ship too close to a dark foggy shore lacking a lighthouse. If I squint hard enough maybe Ill see it before the crash.
It's your ancient secret ("deep, dark", as it would be said).
It's one of those things that we don't want to think about. As it implies that we would not exist. Indeed, it is the thing we don't want to consider. Only in an abstract way, perhaps.
It's something I've covered at length so the basics are no secret for me. Only the practical applications.
If you cannot perceive of something directly then what are you actually perceiving?
You'd be perceiving an inferential experience?
I think that that inference is made by our intent and is subject to the logic in the system by which we perceive. We are basically choosing what we experience at all times. It's just that on the most basic level we (as we currently can perceive our sense of self) do not exist. Am I off?
No intent is needed.
If we experience what is most relative (or seem to) then what choice is there?
You'd be choosing something that not only all ready exists but does not really exist.
This is a longer discussion, as it gets into questions like "what about decisions?" and such.
If you're up for it, let me know.
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You mean when we dream at night, we are in your world?Quoting: Unit3
The rest is very interesting...I'm thinking about it.
You are all ways dreaming. But for much of the day the experience is [drum roll...] not relevant to you.
You can say that sometimes when you dream you are in my world.
If you've dreamt of an other Earth that is unlike anything you've seen on this one there's a good chance that you're connecting with a part of my world that is like yourself.
It is now and here.
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Quoting: Unit3
Now that we've briefly discussed use of the Genius how about we talk about ways that we use it in our everyday lives, without realizing it?Quoting: Chaol
Take what you know about how to make a Genius model and apply it to the world that is all ready around you.
This is a tricky one but it is the step that leads up to more advanced uses of Ecsys.
I'll start with a hint:
Everything of your perception is a symbol
I think this is a great exercise. I've been trying to figure it out.
Here's what I'll say in answer to your quesiton:
I give meaning to everything I perceive.
As you might be inclined to say, where does this meaning come from?
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Take a look around you.
What symbols do you see?
What logic do those symbols follow?
How are you interacting with those symbols, and how do they interact with your environment?
What space do those symbols rest in?
You are using the Genius at every moment.
You do it to perceive.. and 'get to the next perspective'.
How are you using those symbols to interact with something far more complicated?
Something that, in your current perspective, is not there so much?
If you are, for example, using a mouse how is your mouse a representation interacting with a more complex perspective?
These are things to consider. From it, we can learn how we use the Genius for all things.
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Quoting: Ambra 30479979
Now that we've briefly discussed use of the Genius how about we talk about ways that we use it in our everyday lives, without realizing it?Quoting: Chaol
Take what you know about how to make a Genius model and apply it to the world that is all ready around you.
This is a tricky one but it is the step that leads up to more advanced uses of Ecsys.
I'll start with a hint:
Everything of your perception is a symbol
Entering the dreamworld
Symbol - Queen size bed
Space - Bedroom
Interaction - Trying to gain an inch of mattress and pillow, while cats are faster than me as they jump over
Logic - Turning to left side of body, closing eyes and following colored shapes, until waking consciousness fades away
Yes. And your interacts have an effect on your dreamworld.
Anything you interact with has an effect on what you'd call your past/present/future perspective.
What does your bed represent?
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Quoting: Ambra 30632718
No. I bought it a couple of years ago at a fair market.
My understanding was that we should use any object/symbol already around us (toothbrush, coin, etc.). A different exercise than creating a Genius symbol. Is this correct?
It would be far more effective if it was something unique that you created, with little-to-no inherent meaning.
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Quoting: Chaol
As part of the more advanced uses of Ecsys and neuronics we will learn to make use of the understanding that every experience is one of unique symbols.Quoting: Chaol
The doorknob you touched yesterday is entirely unique from the one today. (One that has of course interacted with other aspects of our perspective that would be called "past" and, thus, seems like the same from yesterday.)
You use the Genius at every moment.
It is what 'creates' the illusion of physically-oriented existence.
I can see this already. What overwhelms is the dialogue that must go along with each of these experiences. I almost think I almost prefer not knowing how I use symbols as I do now.
It seems your life would be non-stop chattering of Ec so as to perceive: a body, feeling the chair you are sitting on while at the computer, listening to the heater and tv from the other room, which you are also 'creating' along with sunlight shining through the window and the smell of lunch wafting by. And at the same time remembering what all you want to experience. Whew!!!
Sounds very busy to me.
It's actually very quiet.
You can sit quietly in your chair now even though there's trillions of processes going on inside of your body.
You can represent many of those trillions by simply breathing.
Everything can be represented.
And there's no need to remember any of it.
(At every moment, it could be said, the entire universe is created anew. And it all makes sense again.)
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Quoting: Unit3
Quoting: Chaol
Quoting: Unit3
I set my electronics free and now they have a mind of their own. They won't post if they don't want to! My Kindle is still cooperating so far.Quoting: 6853315 1298031
I can see there is a definite space thing going on, LOL! Would love to hear more about it but it might be difficult for you right now. I am looking forward to the day when I can interface with electronics organically. Lucky you!
Edit: Btw, did you use a GENIUS to set them free? Also, I think you could use a GENIUS to get them to co-operate with you a little better.
Some may have success is modeling an electronic component in their mind (i.e., in a more relative perspective) and working with it there.
In this way you could, for example, turn on a device from 20 feet away or (as I tend to do) fix something that is broken.
If someone was talking with herself during this process the exchange could go something like this way:
"My laptop is broken. I will make a Genius model of the laptop in my mind because the laptop exists in my perspective. Although it is not as relative as is my hand it is entirely in my perspective and it can be fixed if I change ("fix") my perspective of it. So now I imagine a black box with pictures and other information on it, which will serve as my symbol of it. I need not know how a laptop works but only how perspective works because it exists entirely in my perspective. I imagine it in the palm of my hand. My fingers interact with the pictures and manipulate the information. But wait.. it's breaking. My fingers have much more difficulty in moving the pictures around. I will put my mental laptop down on the floor and crack my fingers and exercise them. I will also blow into the laptop to clear away any defects within the perception. Now I will pick up the laptop and close it and open it again. I will now power on the other aspect of my mental laptop (the more physical laptop that was broken). It works, so now I can use it."
So you don't really need remote control, do you? Heh!
I imagine the inner dialogue is what we are heading to if we are to learn how you function. To me, your results are very similar to what we do here through meditation.
The main difference I see is that 'your' way is more aware of how things work resulting in a completely different experience compared to living life in the astral body.
Sure. I like to push the buttons and sometimes enjoy the frustration of pushing the wrong ones. It's all interaction. And sometimes when something breaks I leave it broken. Unless, of course, fixing it suits a particular intention.
We need not be aware of how anything works. Though we can be aware of the fundamentals of how the illusion works.
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Hello Chaol, thanks again for all your explanations. You are very kind and patient with us. Also thanks to all who contribute to the discussions because without your interactions, there will be nothing for Chaol to respond to.
I have had a lot of success like I said with the genius and would like to get even braver with my future models. My understanding now is that my perspective comprises of symbols that I interact with and this is existence. Even the aspects of it that are not pleasurable are also interactions to get I can go through to get to my "wanted" destination so to speak. I would like to explore how the geometry of relationships can be explored further (lol sorry for the repetition) to gain more understanding of myself and my perspective. Does this mean welcoming and accepting even things I consider "hazardous" or "not so good" as well as "amazing" and "wonderful" things? I feel like although I have changed a lot in the past month of my immediate surroundings, I should be changing more of how I do and view things.
I already see everyone here (Chaol, AC's and named accounts) as values in my perspective and I'm amazed at how "rich" my perspective really is.
Thanks Unit and others for keeping the topic flowing with your questions. It's very helpful and appreciated.
I absolutely cannot wait for 2013 and all the new relationships it brings!
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Quoting: Chaol
You'll often be surprised about how ingenious the path to your desired perspective may be.Quoting: Chaol 20177375
You can also make use of multiple representations simultaneously.
The illusion and the real thing are both representations of the same thing. You just call one illusion real because it's a sibling and the other one not-Real because it's a cousin.
Hope this helps.
Your first statement brings a thought to me. If we are taking symbols to arrange patterns (in our mind) and then letting the Genius do the work, what is the Genius exactly?
Here's what you say on the website:
"Using the Genius you can create a map from one perception to the next. If you can imagine it then you can show yourself how to get there from where you are. The best part about the Genius maps is that we're working with locations in your mind, not physical locations. The steps above should provide the necessary intent to your "subconscious" to make that shift happen"
What do you call the subconscious?
And I can see that I make use of multiple representations simultaneously because look at all that's going on at any time. What I wonder about is how you get any rest knowing how you do this? It seems you would be always conscious of what you are thinking. It doesn't sound restful to me at this point in my understanding.
My personal definition is different than the one I use in these discussions.
When I refer to subconscious I am referring to the non-waking mind that sits closer with the wheel of perception. However, my definition would be something like, "...those values in our perspective that are most related to us without being what we consider ourselves to be."
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what this myth is about? and what purpose does it serve?
Externalizing the desire or want provides us with new perspective. So "wishing" could actually make what we want (or think) more clear.Quoting: Chaol
Sure, but as you said:
It may be difficult to define what it is you actually want.
So, if defining a wish precedes the perspective, and if somebody who doesn't (know how to) wish, stays on his "default" perspective, then it makes me wonder, not only how and by whom the First wish was produced, but also what is the actual wish (which has produced my current perspective) that I am seeking to experience?
It couldn't be from "me" (because if I don't know how now, i couldn't know "back then")
Would that be right?
Why would one want to reach a singular perspective?Quoting: Chaol
Then the experience would be nothing.
I don't know. My post was simply following you on this:
"It's all your perception. If some of your perceptions are good while others are bad, then it is difficult to see your reality as a single perspective."
Not that my following on you was not false (you didn't reply to it anyway)
You are as much a singular perspective now as you will ever be. An "expanded perspective" would entail knowing/understanding/experiencing going from bottle to bottle (rather than not knowing) and doing it consciously. As this is simultaneous you may experience what seems like multiple perspectives at once. However this is still one bottle-perspective in the same way you are experiencing that now with all of the perspectives of your physical body.Quoting: Chaol
Do you identify "singular perspective", "expanded perspective", "experiencing what seems like multiple perspectives at once" with "the experience would be nothing"? Or have I misread you here? Please clarify
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my posts.
know thy word
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I appreciate your patience in answering all my questions. As you can see, I want to leave no stone un-turned. I still don't quite understand how you explain how you allow some things to just happen in your life, since you are conscious of how you explore possibilities.Quoting: Unit3
Are you in some way exploring the possibility of "things just happen"?
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
We have all of the 'answers' all ready but we choose to ignore them.
If we did not pretend that we did not know we would not be able to interact with them.
Finding out and experiencing the same dramas over and over, ad infinitum, makes us feel like we are getting closer and closer to that which is beyond experience.
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What is outside my perspective is now my favorite thought!Quoting: Unit3
So, all these people I think I know who are 'beyond the veil' and united with their 'higher self' is my own perspective!!!!!!!!!
So, now I am looking at how I ended up with this in my perspective. I've always looked for Truth.
So, I ended up with a boyfriend (met him through a girlfriend who highly recommended him) who had a book sitting on his table that I picked up and read.
It had 'new' ideas (to me) which opened the door to exploring this new area of 'Truth' and finding more and more authors and people experiencing it. I even experimented and experienced some of the same things myself. However, I did see that whatever beliefs I held at the time, influenced my understanding of what happened.
So...I still searched for Truth.
I eventually ended up in GLP and eventually saw this thread on the front page of the forum, for about the 1,000th time, heh! I finally decided to see what it's about.
Now, I'm here still searching for Truth!!!!
(I do feel I"m much closer now, heh!)
What was it you said the other day Chaol....everything stays the same, everything changes?
There's no end to the search ;)
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Funny. I don't remember posting that, but I know I've thought about it.Quoting: CatCarel
Chaol, can you explain the meaning behind 'chemtrails' used to 'cover' the sun? What is the purpose of limiting interaction with its perceived energy?
This is more a Western-world thing. There are plenty of places left with blue skies, though it's interesting how many of us don't notice the change.
It's an illustration of the resistance to physical change, with depopulation of weaker (generally older) persons thrown in.
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Quoting: Chaol
A ways back in this thread, there is a discussion regarding oppression. Chaol said something about how "they" enslaved us with the Industrial Revolution and how "they" are now seeking new ways to enslave us.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6853315
Well, since our perception is based on the geometry that occurs between pulses of light, with the frequency determining the possibilities, then "they" could enslave us by controlling light pulses. Thus, there are Lily waves, microwaves, ULF, ELF, VLF (ultra-low, extra-low and very low frequencies), the frequencies emanating from TVs and radios and whatever else "they" have come up with.
The flouride in toothpaste is an electrical conductor. It is in our bodies and acts as a receiver of waves of light pulses. Aluminum is also a type of conductor. The chemtrails are full of aluminum, which are reflecting or conducting pulses, or something like that.
Anyway, it is all based on the frequency of light pulses.
"They" is all ways "you".
So we create these stories to make sense of how we are ignoring other values in our perspective.
It's impossible not to ignore other values so there's nothing wrong with this.
Neither is there anything wrong with whatever story we come up with.
It could be said (though I did not quite imply the content of your first paragraph) that different aspects of your perspective try to overpower it by interacting with more things but it's a natural process. We get caught up in the details and specifics but it's irrelevant. The true value is in the relationships (and the geometry thereof).
Usually we only see (and care about) the story that we've created to make sense of the geometry of relationships. This is how we understand and is valid because it assists in our understanding of this geometry.
We need not understand the geometry (it's kind of boring, anyway) but only need to understand the geometry through the drama of the relationships (much more exciting and human, and leads to the same understanding although in a different way).
That's why I have said that you are as likely to "become enlightened" (or whatever it's called these days) watching a television drama or playing a game or stepping in mud as you are meditating or going to church.
It's about the relationships, not the way we make sense of them.
I can see I've had this backwards. I thought making sense of the relationships was the point. Hmmmmmmmm!
So we are exploring geometrical relationships? And it doesn't make any difference if we understand the geometry. We need only understand that we are using geometry to make relationships and further, to understand how we do this?
And why is this the important thing? What is the bottom line of it all? I thought it was to see that we have a singular perspective but you said in another recent post that's not even important.
The purpose is to interact. It does not matter with whom or what you are interacting.
There's no need to make sense of the relationships, or explore anything, or understand the geometry or anything else.
Actually, we are doing our best to get away from a singular perspective. This goes against our constitution, it could be said.
(We want to feel like we exist, and a singular perspective would mean that we don't.)
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Quoting: Ambra 30667141
You're sweet! I figure if no one else is going to, I sure will hog it, heh!Quoting: Unit3
I admire you for following the thread linearly. I always promise myself I will do so, but it hasn't happened yet! ;o(
But I forgive myself because when Chaol is around & posting, I'd much rather talk to him.
I am curious about your tomorrow too. It sure sounds like it's working well. I can't wait to hear about it.
I hear you. When Chaol is around and posting, one doesn't want to miss the opportunity.
I always promise myself to reread the entire thread from page 1 and take notes, but find myself always catching up with the new pages! Right now, I'm around page 180...
Will let you know how the kabuchu experience will be tomorrow!
OK, looking forward to hearing about the white kitten experiment, heh!
I take notes too. Right now, I'm going back through the thread where I've already read, looking for Chaol's post on the models they use in their world. (He compared it to ours re: going to bed at night!!!)
I break my notes down into subject matter, which makes it linear in the way I like, LOL! You are way better than I am at sticking to it though.
I did just find, back in the thread, where Chaol mentions Tetris in a post. I assume he either has played it or at least likes it because he was going to base an Ec game on it.
I'm always looking for brain games and this might be something I could get into. (The 5D Rubick's cube I posted a couple of days ago is over my head right now.)
So, I did find this online Tetris game which I like because I don't have to download software (seems to always be a problem for me, heh! I'm an artist, not a computer brain.)
All I have to do is figure out the point of it and I"m good.
[link to www.freetetris.org]
The models we use are quite complicated. There's no point in going into them now.
Tetris is fun. The music makes it even more fun. Here's the Ec version: [link to ecsys.org] or [link to ecsys.org]
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As we move to slightly more advanced Ecsys there will be a number of things that I will discuss more.Quoting: Chaol
However, this means that more of us may become uncomfortable with the discussion. It goes with the new territory, I suppose.
Disbelief in something is, indeed, belief in it.
If you truly disbelieved you would not think about it or interact with it.
What you believe in you interact with.
So anything you interact with you believe in. Otherwise you would not set up the framework to interact with it. It would simply be irrelevant.
I should also add, what you disbelieve you also interact with.
(There is no disbelief. Only belief or irrelevance.)
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Quoting: Unit3
Quoting: Chaol
It's okay, Jesse...I'm so used to being freaked out these days, it's my new normal, heh!!!Quoting: Unit3
But I do kind of disbelieve in the illusion. I've poked so many holes in it and tested it and experimented until I know I have something to do with it. Iow, what meets the eyes, senses, etc: comes from me.
Jesse said: "Even your perception of who and what you are is a symbol interacting within your perspective."
The bold sentence above bugs the hell outta me! Who am I? I always thought spirit. I even sometimes feel I can tell the difference in "my" spirit and the rest of "me." Then Chaol comes along and I'm trying to throw all of it out the window....and be a tabula rasa.
You are until this explanation becomes irrelevant, then there's no need to interact with that particular illusion.
Then you move on to an other illusion ;)
Saying that we are relationships of the values in our perspective may be difficult to understand because we do not have the words-in-context to describe it.
(And, of course, it is difficult to interact with it if we have not represented it somehow.)
Aha! You are indicating we go through a series of illusions, figuring out what each means until we realize it is meaningless. Then, we move on to another and repeat.
I sort of see how I've done this in my life, yet at the same time, there are things that I have taken away from illusions. For example, I've learned forgiveness. I've learned the mind fills in to explain experiences.
Could it be said I already had these things, it just didn't occur to me until I explored the relationships that provided the illusion so I could see it?
You all ready have everything. So, yes.
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...Quoting: Jesse Sovoda
Chaol has said that he prefers to avoid this topic. Apparently it makes him uncomfortable. Im too lazy to scan for quotes... Lol.
But kind-of disbelief is still kind-of belief, so its all good.
Interesting. Well, when Chaol gets back, it's going to be great to see what he says about our discussions, that's for sure.
After all, isn't he creating 2 different worlds merging in his perspective? heh!
And here we go...
(again, some of us may be uncomfortable with the expanded content of this disussion)
It is impossible to create something. We can only perceive the value "created" when representations (illusions, all of them) interact.
More accurately, we can only (seem to) be that interaction.
When two representations interact you are the 'result'. We call this perspective and that's about right.
But it is more accurate to say that not only is it perspective it is what we are (that illusion that most seems to be).
Because we don't realize we exist, until we interact with the representation we have, from utilizing symbols?
Edit: Iow, nothing exists (including me) until it is observed!!!!!!!
I would add that nothing needs to exist.
Or, nothing exists.
Double entendres, of course.
As one cannot observe of something directly the existence is an illusion.
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But how would you acquire "knowledge" into your new library/language? again I struggle to explain what I'm trying to get across here with words.
When we create our new language or in EC if you made a neuronicon for "a book of this worlds true history" how would you access it?
Or even a neuronicon for "a full length feature visualization with full control to perceive this worlds true history"
A book wouldn't be as fun for comparison.
Inside the Sphinx's library I have seen others reports of books and "movie" things.
You access it by perceiving it.
Each time it is created anew.
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(Non-existence is so.. boring and is the most-resisted idea there is because it implies no relationship with anything.)
We are looking for a way to relate to something. It does not matter how
If we are incapable of not forming relations with anything because we are perspective, how are we capable to fear it (resist it)? How do we know it is boring, since nothing has ever been (because it can't, by default) in that state?
Is it boredom that prevents us from being there or impossibility?
Why do we need this most resisted idea to perform that which we are incapable of not performing it, anyway?
Hi. Thanks =D
We are all ready in the state of nothingness (if it could be called a state).
It is resisted because here we are, apparently something when we are not actually.
We are, in effect, bored of nothing. We need to feel like we exist. To have meaning even if arbitrary and entirely made up.
Going around in circles ("...to perform that which we are incapable of not performing...") is at least the appearance of something and keeps us busy forever.
Also, in a different note, would you say that I live in a "with my Genius" state, when I think and act on the first thing that comes to my mind at all times (not necessarily coinciding with "reflex")?Quoting: panoukos
Edit: I wrote the above before I read your answers to my previous posts.
You are your Genius, though I suppose you could say that it is with you since in experience it is relative to you.
When you think and act on the first thing that comes to your mind that is still your mind.
Intuition is interpreting geometries and is something our physical senses do and is closely related to our Genius, though I would not say that our interpretations are more accurate than not.
To connect more with your Genius, consider the values that are generally ignored in your perspective and interact with them. The Genius loves being tickled!
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Hi.Quoting: Chaol
Death, to the few who really subscribe to X in my world, is more of a myth. It seems real when you see or know of others 'tune out' but we also know that the experience of it is different from what it appears to be.
We're sad to see people go, of course. And in a way it's the end of that person's life (or relevance in the world) so they are missed.
Do you have any immortals there?
We reportedly have some here and I know of a couple of the ways reported of how they attained it.
Also, there is a lot of talk here that immortality is just about possible now, with all the innovations in medicine.
Almost every body part can be replaced in some way and with the additional use of robotics, it's looking like we could establish it as the norm.
In the sense of the physical body living forever? Not that I know of.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do that, though.
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Btw, does anyone know what Chaol meant by 'GLP is not on the internet'?Quoting: CatCarel
Will add a link to the post; forget which thread it was.
Anyone remember Chaol saying we'd probably not be using the internet by last december?
Yes. And in late October of that year, SOPA was introduced.
This website was one of many on 'the list' to be taken offline.
Some changes have been made since then and now your internet is safe and sound.
Thank you. ;o)
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Commercials aren't meant to be complicated. Say a little about what your product can do, slip in a little joke or talking gecko to keep things memorable and get out of there before you piss anyone off. And because they're so brief and don't have time for complexity, commercials often have to rely on shortcuts, especially when depicting characters. Archetypes and stereotypes are common: We know that when we see a fireman in an ad, we're dealing with a tough hero sort; that when we see someone wearing a lab coat, we should trust them implicitly; and that when we see a cartoon rabbit, we're dealing with a serial cereal thief.
A very common stock character who's attracted a bit of attention lately is the "dumb dad." You may already know what I'm talking about, but if you've been skipping television ads for the last several years using the Power of Technology, I'll explain. These ads typically feature a dad or husband figure blundering around the house, seeming baffled by basic human activities. Here's a typical example, where some idiot gets confused by the idea of flavored yogurt:
Here's another one, where some guy comes up with an innovative solution to the problem of socks. You didn't know there was a problem with socks? Well then, feast on this, and return here when you're done picking the truth nuggets from your teeth:
Individually, these ads are pretty harmless, even vaguely funny. It's just a depiction of a single idiot, not a commentary on all men everywhere, right? But in aggregate, when taking all the "dumb dad" ads that air every day into consideration, it becomes harder to ignore. Because make no mistake, this trope is incredibly common, and in its worst forms can get pretty insulting.
Earlier this year, Huggies released a series of ads that essentially stated that their diapers were so reliable, you could put them on a baby and leave them alone with dad for a few hours, and shit wouldn't spray out everywhere. "The Ultimate Test for Diapers: Negligent Dads."
So what's going on here? How did we get to a point where this kind of casual, low-level dad-mocking became the industry standard for certain types of ads? I've come up with four possible reasons below:
4Women Are the Target Audience
The women in these commercials are almost always portrayed as competent and wise, ideal stand-ins for the largely female audiences these products are marketed at. Apparently, about 75 percent of all diaper purchases are made by women. It is totally reasonable to target ads toward a specific audience, and if you're confident your target audience will empathize with having doofus men bumbling around in their homes, then why not throw an idiot into your ad?
"Don't you hate it when your husband accidentally gets poop in the dishwasher? Am I right, ladies?"
Well, I'll tell you why not. First, because it limits your commercial's appeal to just your target audience, and can alienate all the idiot men. Maybe men aren't buying your flavored yogurt or your socks right now, but maybe you should be trying to change that? Appealing to the people who don't buy your products? Just as an example, Nintendo made an enormous amount of money by marketing the Wii to people who traditionally had little interest in video games: families, bowling enthusiasts and the old.
"These videoed games are fun, Derek, but I don't see why you would choose this over getting a girlfriend."
There's another, deeper issue here, especially when depicting a dumb dad in an ad for a product geared for housecleaning or raising children. These depictions can reinforce the idea that men actually are useless tits around the home. Real men will act down to the expectation, and protest that they shouldn't be left in charge of babies or mops. And as much as I think the idea of raising a baby using only a mop is funny (I think it's very funny), these lowered expectations for men are probably something we should be moving away from.
3Ad Writers Are Lazy Hacks
Thanks to Mad Men, we all assume advertisers are handsome, adulterating geniuses, constantly spinning up brilliant new campaigns for the iconic products of our time. When, in reality, they are sad, sad people, trying to drum up some sort of excitement for another goddamned type of soap.
"We'll get some footage of a 20-year-old's flawless model ass in the shower, with a voice-over claiming we have more ... some sciencey bullshit ... than our competitors. Soapatons? Perfect! We're done. Let's do some fucking cocaine."
Thousands of new ads have to be produced every year, about basically the same products each year, and there's only so many Don Drapers out there. Which means everyone else is simply relying on whatever formulas worked in the past. If a dude having trouble with flavored yogurt worked once in an ad, then yeah, lets have a dude straight-up drinking from an enema bottle. That's hilarious. Why would you even hesitate?


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Johnson, V. K. (2003). Linking changes in whole family functioning and children's externalizing behavior across the elementary school years. Journal of Family Psychology, 17. 499-509.
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Sometimes ideas are so incongruous that they appear laughable. The response to my recent and obviously hyperbolic suggestion that Albert Pujols would look good in a Tigers' uniform is a perfect example.
However, sometimes seemingly incompatible ideas come together in almost awe-inspiring collisions. For instance, why would a famous Scotsman ever shill for a low to medium range American whiskey? The idea is laughable, right? I mean, he's Scottish. They have Scotch. Right?
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I hope everyone likes it shaken, not stirred. The 70s were insane dude, guys driving, cruising around suckin down an Old Milwaukee or a Balentine Beer in plain sight, everyone on TV had a cigarette in one hand and a stiff drink in the other. Every movie was an excersize in futility trying to see through the thick haze of pot smokers. And Lillian Carter, Pres. Jimmy Carter's mom smokin pot in Studoi54 too. Sean was 'Thunderballing' the 70s like a drunken sailer on pay day.
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Mary Elizabeth Hall, age 83, died Thursday, February 7, 2013, at Rutland Regional Medical Center.
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In her earlier years, she had worked for Ma Bell in the Bronx.
On January 6, 1951, she married George W. Junior Hall in the Bronx. She and her husband made their home in Rutland until moving to Lake Wales, FL, in 1976. They returned to Rutland in 1984. Mr. Hall predeceased her on May 31, 1988.
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Greatest Scrum Half ?
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Anyway here's a walk down memory lane.
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He loved giving them hospital passes , Rich
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King I'm surprised you didn't choose Nicky Dobson or Johan Windley! Was your hero Jermaine Coleman a stand off or a scrum half?!
I've never quite worked out if Latham was the real deal or if he was just a good player in a great team rather than a great player in a great team??
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mycoe, i well remember seeing jymel coleman in the reserves about 4/5 seasons and saying the kid had a lot of talent, the same lad who had a good season for keighley last year and dewsbury are pinning their hopes on this year.I thought jermaine was similar but lacked pace, for older readers i can go back as far as Jeff Stevenson ( a GB scrum half ) Alan Marchant, Cliff Williams, a very clever french/african Bak Diabira, Allan Agar, and the excellant Tony Dean.Before my time we even had a GB Captain scrum half!! His name was Dickie Williams and i beleive he captained the GB Tourists to Australia in 1952. Beat that !
Dickie Williams was stand off! Alf Burnell was same era and Gt britain scrum half.
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So Three Olives has this new vodka called Loopy that tastes just like Fruit Loops! It was the colorful Fruit Loop like bottle that drew me in. Liquor that tastes like one of my favorite childhood cereals!? Where could this go wrong, right? They had some recipes with the bottle that were just weird to me, one involved milk and it freaked me out. I just decided to go with a standard vodka and soda.
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When I followed my nose it smelled just like Fruit Loops! My first impression was you could probably mix this with almost anything and it would be delicious! I thought I would be getting day drunk drinking this all day long. Boy was I wrong! After a short while the novelty of it all wore off and in the end it was just too fruity for me. I normally don't mind fruity drinks but this ended up being overkill. I would prefer to have this as a shot. I think it's a great conversation starter and fun to introduce people to but I could never stick to this all night long. Kudos to Three Olives for making their new vodka smell and taste like the real deal!


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I know how it is! I wanted to quit so many times!
Early on, I had made a pact with myself... any time I wanted to quit, I gave myself 3 days. If I still wanted to quit three days later, I would. I ended up nursing and pumping until my DD was a week shy of 1 year. And now as I expecting my second child, I have the pump all ready to go!
I found that my pumping frustrations usually stemmed from feeling like I couldn't pump enough milk and from not having time to pump. By waiting a small amount of time for those things to right themselves, I kept myself from making a decision that I would have probably regretted.
Yes, I enjoyed nursing her when we were together, but all in all, I look at my pumping experience as being one of the most self-less things I have ever done.


text: My DS (6 months old) has been exclusively bf until about a three weeks ago when we started cereal with him. For the past few days, every time he feeds he chokes! I have a strong let down, but it has never bothered him before, in fact he always used it to his advantage to get fed quickly. These choking sessions are really scary. I feel like after choking a couple of times that he gives up and doesn't want to nurse any more. He will not take a bottle very easily, in fact rarely so I can't even pump for him to get it that way. Any advice as to why this is happening. I also feel that he is teething as an fyi.


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Wisconsin agriculture officials say corn herbicides containing isoxaflutole can't be sold or used in Wisconsin.
Lori Bowman is director of the Bureau of Agrichemical Management. She says there's been some recent misinformation that led agribusinesses and farmers to believe otherwise. Bowman says "Balance", "Corvus", and other products with this active ingredient are not registered for sale or use in Wisconsin.
Isoxaflutole containing pesticides were originally registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the early 2000s for use in some states. But, Wisconsin was not one of the states because of concerns about surface and groundwater contamination and potential effects on other crops, including vegetables.
The company that makes the products, Bayer CropScience, recently withdrew its application to register the products in Wisconsin.
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ERIN BURNETT: The fear is that Washington's new spirit of cooperation is already gone. Now, sit down. Prepare yourself. You see this, "My Bipartisan Stimulus"? This was written by Rush Limbaugh making a bid to keep bipartisanship alive. That's the op-ed he wrote this morning. He joins us on the news line. Rush, a lot of people are skeptical with a headline from you: "My Bipartisan Stimulus."
RUSH: Why skeptical? I'm just trying to build bridges and roads to the administration for genuine bipartisanship and cooperation and fairness. The president says that he still wants to work with Republicans.
MARK HAINES: (snorting)
RUSH: Here I am. We can work together and do what's best for the American people.
BURNETT: And you call --
HAINES: (interrupting) I -- I -- I'm sorry, but, ah, wait a minute! A week after the inauguration you said you hope he fails. Are -- are you now admitting that that was a stupid and mean-spirited thing to say?
RUSH: No, it was an accurate thing to say. It was an honest thing to say, and it came --
HAINES: Then how is that bipartisan!
RUSH: Well, if you'll let me explain...
HAINES: (snorts) Well, so far you haven't.
RUSH: (laughing) You're being contentious with no reason. It came after a thorough explanation of my belief that liberalism, which is what Obama represents --
HAINES: Aw jeeeeez!
RUSH: -- destroys the free market, destroys capitalism. I think this stimulus plan with about re-FDRing America, the New New Deal, and as a conservative I want liberalism to fail. I want the country to succeed, and that's what I meant, and that's what I said over and over again. You've gotta stop reading these left-wing liberal sites that take me out of context.
HAINES: I -- I -- I just listen to you, Rush. I don't read anybody! I listen to you, and what I hear is hypocrisy.
RUSH: You hear hypocrisy?
HAINES: Yeah! I hear hypocrisy. You're saying in this -- in this piece, you say, uh, you know, "our economy doesn't know the difference...this is about jobs now...leave politics aside," and yet the first thing out of your mouth is politics! About liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat!
RUSH: Exactly. But I am trying to show this. You know, this vote that happened in the House yesterday is actually a failure. The bipartisan vote was the defeat: 11 Democrats joining Republicans. The partisan vote was all Democrats. This is going to have trouble. You know, he wants Republicans on the bill, Mark, because he knows this isn't gonna work. He wants Republicans so that he has cover so that they can't run for reelection saying they opposed this debacle. I'm trying to propose something here that will work with the best interests of the country at heart.
HAINES: (clearing throat)
RUSH: How can that possibly be hypocritical?
BURNETT: All right. Rush, let me just get in. I want to give people a chance to understand your plan. You're calling it the Obama-Limbaugh plan, and you took the vote that the country voted for Obama, who voted for him and who didn't, and that's how you broke it down, right?
RUSH: Yeah.
BURNETT: So his share of it goes to spending, and the other share goes to tax cuts, right?
RUSH: Exactly, and he gets to choose how he wants to spend it with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, and the Republicans and me get to determine the tax cuts.
BURNETT: And you're going to cut the corporate tax rate in half, right?
RUSH: Precisely, and we'll suspend the capital gains tax to incentivize new investment for a full year and then reestablish and re-implement it at 10% -- and probably some tax cuts in the area of real estate, too. That's an area that needs to come back. See, I don't... Obama said yesterday -- I don't know if you guys were still on the air or not, but he had a meeting at the White House with the CEOs, and he came out and he sounded like Ronald Reagan. He was talking about how it's the people who make the country work; it's the people out there who are going to revive the economy. And twenty days ago, he said government is the only entity -- there's your hypocrisy, Mark -- that can revive this economy. Yesterday what he said is exactly right, and I totally support that when he sounds like Ronald Reagan.
BURNETT: So, Rush, it sounds like what you're saying, 'cause -- and Mark's picking up on something, as you know, that got a lot of coverage -- that you said, "I would be honored if I was headlined all day long 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.'" What you meant to say there was, "I hope liberalism fails, and if he is going to emblematic of that, I hope he fails."
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
BURNETT: But as Obama, you're not trying to hope he fails, right?
RUSH: No, I support the president. I just don't support his policies.
HAINES: (snickering)
RUSH: Erin, I said --
BURNETT: Yes, Rush?
RUSH: I said that on purpose, because everybody was falling in line behind this plan like a bunch of lemmings, and the media wasn't even examining the specifics. Somebody had to get somebody's attention on this, 'cause it's a debacle.
HAINES: Here's -- here's -- here's something I find interesting, Rush. Ah, you -- you talk about the vote being roughly -- you know, you -- you do a little fiddling to -- to even up -- the vote was roughly 54-46 in favor of, uh, Obama, so therefore divide the stimulus plan 54-46. I -- I find that a -- a refreshing breath of air from you because when the vote was 51-49 in favor of Republicans, I don't remember you being this concerned about bipartisanship.
RUSH: I think bipartisanship's a joke, as it's defined. Bipartisanship --
BURNETT: (laughing)
HAINES: (shouting) I don't remember you proposing that any program be split reflecting that vote!
RUSH: We've got limited seconds here, and I want to get to this answer. Bipartisanship, as it's defined in Washington, is Republicans caving to what Democrats want. That's what bipartisanship is; that's what they wanted yesterday. My column in the Journal today is truly bipartisan; and I'm willing, if that's the definition of it, full speed ahead for bipartisanship.
BURNETT: Bottom line, Rush. You're saying as an individual, you hope Barack Obama succeeds, right? He's your president, too?
RUSH: Yeah. I want him to succeed in bringing the country around, but the policies he's announced are not going to do it. I want the policies to fail; I want America to succeed. I love the country.
BURNETT: Thank you very much, Rush Limbaugh.
RUSH: It's an honor.
BURNETT: A lot of people saying your bipartisanship here, this plan makes some sense. Mark, there's some things in this plan that make a lot of sense, that corporate tax cut.
HAINES: Oh, yeah.
BURNETT: Yeah.


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|This mod will allow you to adopt a child from the Honorhall Orphanage in riften. To adopt the child simply talk to the constance Mitchel in Riften. Pay the One time Adoption Fee and You are ready to adopt the child. Take a child with you in your adventure or simply ask them to go to your house. They can stay at any place. If you keep them happy they even play games with you. Fully Compatible with killable Children Mod. Fully Compatible with EFF Mod. Fully Compatible with Killable Children...
Armies Mod
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|This mod allows the AI generals in the game and, bandit "Captains" (will come with the mod), to assemble armies from the games generic NPC populace(Meaning it doesn't use named or important characters), but will give captains names(Like "Captain Cornelius or Thorgir One-Eye Etc.) But the faction generals also require food and money to sustain their armies, so if you take over their farms and steal their gold they'll lose troops pretty quick.
Dragon wings
|Jan 24, 2012
|A armor that have two dragon wings.
I Wash - New Skin for Skyrim
|Nov 15, 2011
|"I Wash" Skyrim Skin Mod by Blocky (Aed) Description Gets rid of 90% of the dirt, moles, zits, bruises, insects, and ingrown hairs on all male characters in the game. A similar mod by another author already exists for females. Installation: 1. Extract the "textures" folder and put it in your Skyrim/Data/ folder. 2. There is no second step. Grats your character washes! User Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KvngfbiRh6o @1:16 by MMOxReview
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Races with Weapons And Armor
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|Mirrors : Skyrim Nexus (Requested) Steam Workshop (Original) Bug Reporting : - Bug Reporting ======= ChangeLog - Fixed Health Regen while flying. - Attempted to Fix the Rune Bug. - Fixed Other Bugs. Important Notes And Controls (You Should Read It Before Commenting) - Save Before Getting the Curse (Sometimes the updates will make the spell disapear.)(And you wont be able to get it again, unless you load this save). - To Fly, save while transformed into a dragon and load that save. (Else Game...
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Wolf Race
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Hi - I posted a grave photo for Charles Casey and sent you an edit for Section & Lot #. If you repost his photo as a person photo, not a grave photo, it should go the the top of the photos. Thanks, Karen
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My Great Aunt had a very large family, if you need any more info, please let me know.
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I moved from Somerville Mass to Marietta Ga in 1977, since then i have lost many many family members, they are all in Boston Area.
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Thom thanks for the transfer. I do have more Crowel/Crowell relation buried in Falmouth and Chatham if you would like to transfer. I can give you numbers/names. thank you, Larry
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You had left flowers on the memorial for Frederick Cummings, buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lambertville, NJ. I recently photographed his obituary from the Lambertville Beacon from January 24, 1935. Would you be interested in receiving this obituary photo for your records? Just let me know. Thanks, Rhonda
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Makeover: Dining Nook Fixes
In this kitchen makeover video from EVERY DAY WITH RACHAEL RAY magazine, watch Rachael Ray's design buddy Evette Rios make over a dining nook on a budget, creating lots of hidden storage.
So, this is a really cool area of their kitchen. This is the breakfast nook and I love it because it's light and it's bright. They added yellow color, it's maybe a little too sunny, so we're gonna tone that down with paint that makes it real consistent with the rest of the kitchen. And then here, we've got a little bit of an issue, the chairs when you pull them out, they bump up against the wall, so we're gonna add a banquette that will go all the way across this wall, and it will have storage Underneath for paper towels, paper plates, whatever linens. It's a great, great feature. This breakfast nook got so much cozier with the edition of this banquette. I just love this and it's got storage underneath for all their hard to store items. We've added a magazine rack so you can always have your favorite magazine at your fingertips. This is a really cool edition, it's a centerpiece but it also helps Heather and Marty go green with cloth napkins. So now, it looks beautiful and it's really functional. I hung their Tiffany style lamp here. I think the color works so well in this kitchen. We added some new track lights, took away the old, put pendant lights and then with CFLs which is in keeping with their green theme. We also added crown molding which helped us resolved a little drywall issue but it added a great accent. And check this out, fresh herbs at their fingertips while they're cooking, they've always got them in arm's reach. This is my favorite part of the kitchen. I love it.


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March 6, 2013 —
A new sporting event will unfold in the Town of Bethel and surrounding areas this year. At the Bethel town meeting on February 27, an event organizer named Doug Rice went before the town board to explain the Woodstock Triathlon Festival, which will be held on May 4.
Rice said the event would kick off with the swimming section, which would be held in Lake Superior at the state park in Bethel. He said one concern is that early in the season the water temperature might still be pretty cold. But he said he has held events with water temperatures in the 50s, and most of the entrants wear wet suits, so it might not be a problem.
After the swim, entrants will take part in a 26-mile bike race, which will go down Crystal Lake Road, up State Route 97, out State Route 52, onto County Route 115, then onto Route 17B and to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Following that will come a 6.2-mile run starting and ending at Bethel Woods.
Rice said he expects the event will draw about 150 people the first year but, in subsequent years, he believes it could grow significantly.
Zoning change
In other business, Eric Francis, from Bethel Woods, addressed the board about the center's desire to change the zoning of two parcels of land, across the street from the center. The parcels would be changed from the Agricultural District to the Performing Arts District.
One of the parcels contains an empty house, and the center intends to use that for its growing educational program that involves children and music. Francis said there would be three such programs this year: one involving jazz, one involving Broadway shows, and another called Exploring the Arts. He said there would be 50 children involved in the activities, and there would be a culminating performance in the Event Gallery.
The board began the process of passing a local law to enact the zoning change.
Sewer system addition
The board also voted to spend $252,000 for the construction of a septage receiving station for the Kauneonga Lake Sewer System. This will allow the system to once again accept septage from outside vendors. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation asked the town to stop accepting septage last year because of deficiencies in the system.
Those deficiencies will be alleviated with the dredging of the pond at a cost of $104,000, and the addition of an aeration system for about $100,000. Because it stopped accepting outside septage, the sewer system has been deprived of about $30,000 per year in payments.
With the upgrades and the installation of the septage receiving station, the system will be able to collect about $40,000 to $60,000 per year in additional revenue.
The station will be paid for, in part, with a $30,000 engineering grant and what supervisor Dan Sturm said was "$137,000 in left-over grant money" from the Environmental Protection Agency, which was awarded to help pay for the sewer extension to Bethel Woods.


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Hi ladies, sorry I've been MIA for awhile. I was actually able to coax DD back into taking both breasts after WEEKS of refusal on the right side...and mommy depression. :cry
I took some time off from researching and chatting to regroup myself in case it was actually weaning. And surprise! After I accepted the situation and my stress levels went down...guess who went back to nursing full time? :D
ANYWAY..on to the next adventure! NOW this past week she's all of a sudden turned into Mr. Hyde! Completely different baby...frustration tantrums left and right...endless energy...and *sigh*...the biting has started. I'm REALLY hoping it's just another phase. Heck, after all the "phases" we've been through...I'm sure we can pull through this one too. I was reading some older posts about biting/twisting; face scratching; etc.. looking for some advice.
Her nursing has decreased again. As soon as she latches on or maybe 1-2 minutes in, she starts to nip at it. Or twist it. Or tries to scratch my face or kick me. And then laughs hysterically. I've tried immediately saying "no biting mommy" and placing her on the floor and she will run around the corner and pout. But the hardest part is, alot of the times she'll start playing with a toy in the room. I guess my question is (after all this writing, lol) how to teach her that nursing time is quiet time, not play time. Because after she starts with the biting, and I put her down on the floor...she gets excited/worked up and runs around the room playing. I want her to know that I'm not putting her down because nursing is over and she's free to go play...I'm putting her down because she's biting and it's a quick "time out" before we try again. I've even tried putting her in the crib for a few minutes to chill out, but she goes into jumping on the mattress, laughing, carrying on...and I just can't get her to focus on nursing anymore. So I feel like my days are exhausting and long with trying to get her to "settle down and focus". She's just not taking in nearly as much milk as she was. So what do you think...passing phase (common at this age)? Time to instill manners? What's the best way to get her to focus? Hoping it's not weaning! Thanks for reading :hug


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The timely reporting of a hooking by a local fisherman may help to save the life of a Hawaiian monk seal known as RL06 that frequents the Olowalu area on the island of Maui.
RL06 is a female and was born last July at Kalaupapa.
"I would like to commend this fisherman for calling in the incident. This is exactly the type of cooperation we need from the community. I applaud his leadership," said William J. Aila, Jr., chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
While ulua fishing from shore in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 11, a local fisherman caught on his line what he believed to be a very large ulua. As the catch got closer to shore, a head popped out of the water and the fisherman realized he had unintentionally hooked a Hawaiian monk seal instead of the intended ulua.
Unfortunately, the line broke and the monk seal fled before the fisherman could call authorities to remove the hook.
The fisherman called in the incident on Monday to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary office in Kihei. The Sanctuary is co-managed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
"In addition, several watchful tour boats were also extremely helpful in calling reports of this hooked seal. We now need the community to help us locate this seal so we can send a response team out to assess if the seal is still hooked. A quick report with its current location is the best thing that can happen at this point," said Aila.
Failure to report monk seal hookings or distressed seals have proven devastating for the endangered animals in past months. In January, delayed response to a hooking resulted in the death of a young seal on Hawaii Island. Last year, another seal was severely injured from a hooking; her injuries were exacerbated because her condition was not reported when she first became distressed.
"NOAA Fisheries has received reports of this seal being fed by humans and interacting with them. These interactions may have predisposed it to becoming hooked," explained David Schofield of NOAA Fisheries. "The public is encouraged not to feed or interact with monk seals to prevent situations like this one from happening."
"Community leadership is critical, not only for monk seal issues but for conservation issues in Hawaii," explains Trisha Kehaulani Watson of Honua Consulting who represents Marine Conservation Institute in Hawaii. "We want fishermen and ocean users to see that their fears about reporting interactions are unfounded. We hope that people hear about this fisherman stepping forward and realize that reporting hookings and other monk seal interactions is the best way to ensure that both monk seals and community livelihoods are protected."
From the fisherman's report, the seal was hooked with a 2.5-inch barbed circle hook, up to 5 feet of wire and some fishing line. A commercial scuba videographer took a photo of the seal and hook on Saturday at Olowalu and sent the photo to NMFS.
Anyone who sees this seal should immediately contact Nicole Davis from the National Marine Fisheries Stranding Program at (808) 292-2372 or call the Monk Seal Hotline at 1-888-256-9840.
State officials are also looking for an emaciated seal on Molokai. Please call the Monk Seal Hotline at 1-888-256-9840 if you see this animal.


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New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the ten major Hollywood movie studios. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. which is a subsidiary of Time Warner. The current co-chairmen and co-CEOs are founder Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne.
The Lord of the Rings (film series) has New Line Cinema to thank for funding them, something which other film companies were afraid to do.


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For Immediate Release
November 21, 2010
Burr Ridge School Board President named recipient of the 2010 Thomas Lay Burroughs Award
Illinois State Board of Education honors 7-year district school board member
Burr Ridge – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) presented Paula Dupont, president of the Burr Ridge School Board with the 2010 Burroughs Award Sunday during an annual state education conference in Chicago.
"Paula Dupont's laser sharp focus on serving all children in her district serves as an example for school board members across the state," said Jesse H. Ruiz, Chairman of the State Board of Education. "Under Paula's leadership, this district has passed a successful referendum and improved academic achievement even as the percent of low-income children in the district more than doubled. Changing student demographics and these tough economic times did not stop Dupont from trying to ensure that all children get the best academic services and support available."
Dupont has stressed educational excellence for all students in Burr Ridge Community Consolidated School District 180's two schools, one of which sits among million dollar homes and another bordered by a large low-income subsidized apartment complex. Since becoming board president in 2006, Dupont has helped the district pursue and win a tax rate referendum even as the district's student enrollment demographics dramatically shifted from 35 percent low income to 75 percent.
"Under less courageous leadership, this difference in demographics could lead to an openly divisive community with each segment of the district attempting to put its needs ahead of the other," said District 180 Superintendent Tom Schneider. "However, Board President Paula Dupont has refused to let that happen. Under her leadership the board has continued to emphasize educational excellence for all students."
An unsuccessful referendum for a tax rate increase in 2008 resulted in cuts to the district staff and educational programs but the outcome did not deter Dupont from leading the board in asking for a second referendum. A persuasive information campaign led to voters' approval in 2009 and restored educational services.
"I think everyone is entitled to a good education, whether they can pay for it or not," Dupont said. "One of my biggest pleasures is when I follow the kids via the local paper to the high school and I see them being successful."
Under Dupont's tenure, the district has emphasized providing supplemental assistance to those who need it with the addition of both summer and after school programs, along with opportunities for eighth grade students who excel to attend advanced classes at the high school. During her tenure, the district has enhanced the gifted and talented program, re-instated a full-day kindergarten program, revived the middle school musical and football programs, and pushed for an increase of technology use in the curriculum.
In addition, the district has established a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program and a Character Counts program that has created positive changes in student attitudes and behavior, including a drop in suspensions. During Dupont's tenure, both schools have been recognized for their implementation of these programs and have received DuPage County's Outstanding School Culture Awards for 2009.
Dupont and her husband, Mike, have two daughters, a high school sophomore who attended the district's schools and an eighth grader who is currently at the Burr Ridge Middle School.
Dupont received the Thomas Lay Burroughs Award Sunday during the joint annual conference of the Illinois Association of School Boards, the Illinois Association of School Administrators and Illinois Association of School Business Officials in Chicago.
ISBE created the award in 1991 to honor Thomas Lay Burroughs who served as chairman of the State Board of Education and the Board of Education for the Collinsville School District. The award recognizes extraordinary educational leadership at the local level, including leadership:
- on behalf of improved student learning and educational excellence;
- in resolving a crisis or major difficulty; and
- On behalf of equal education opportunities.


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Normalized Claw Hammer - Wooden Handle - 20 oz. (566.99 g)
Head Weight:
20 oz. (566.99 g)
Overall Length:
14'' (356 mm)
2.00 lbs. (0.9 kg)
Wear safety goggles. Strike squarely - avoid glancing blows.
This tool can be made to chip if struck against another tool or other hard object, resulting in possible eye or other injury.