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Game: Back to the Future: The Game — Episode 1
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They tabled the issue Dec. 17 to get a third opinion on whether the agreement to lease land to a solar power company and buy all of the power for 20 years made business sense.
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The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe.
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November 15, 2012 —
If there was ever a doubt, this past week was proof positive that variety is indeed, the spice of life. As the Upper Delaware Valley began to return to normalcy, our hearts continue to be with those who are still digging out in Sandy's wake. Thrilled to be home, I cleaned up the mess and got back to business, although I still have not found one of my missing shutters.
Traditionally, November ushers in special concerts at the Event Gallery (www.bethelwoods.org) in Bethel, NY and I made plans to check out Rusted Root playing the venue last weekend. The Pittsburgh-based band (www.rustedroot.com) has been around since the early '90s and has toured the world with notable groups, including Santana, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and Dave Matthews Band. Upon arrival, two things immediately struck. The lack of seats (standing room only takes on a whole new meaning) and the plethora of young folks milling about.
I chatted briefly with Matt McNeil, director of event marketing, who was "excited to have youthful energy in the house" and he gave me some (hitherto unknown) background on the band, including the fact that RR has been featured on wildly popular soundtracks for TV and film, which filled in some of the blanks. Not only has the group been heard on shows like "Party of Five," "Charmed" and "Homicide: Life on the Street," but NASA engineers also chose to use their anthem "Send me on my Way" as wake-up music for the Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity." That tidbit, combined with the Roots' contribution to the animated blockbuster "Ice Age" aided in understanding why there were so many teens in the house.
I pulled a few kids aside to inquire about their attendance and was informed that there was a large contingent of students who had arrived by bus from out-of-state. Pointing to their chaperones, I learned that the gang was part of a theatre group from Newburyport, MA and had made the trek to the Catskills to take in the "Woodstock Experience" interactive museum at Bethel Woods. Their teachers, Lisa Zaleski and Stephanie Williams explained, "We're here to give the students an opportunity to immerse themselves in the "counterculture" of the Woodstock Music Festival, as they prepare to perform the 'Tribal Love Rock Musical: Hair' at the high school," Zaleski shared. "Rusted Root was a bonus."


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Posted 15 June 2012 - 06:18 PM
Aight everybody chill the fuck out. Those two accounts are real. One was created by my dad, and the other by one of his fb friends. Check it out. file:///Users/iprilepov/Desktop/Screen%20shot%202012-06-15%20at%2012.40.09%20PM.pngfile:///Users/iprilepov/Desktop/Screen%20shot%202012-06-15%20at%2012.40.09%20PM.png
Homie don't play dat, son.
- Areou and Pickled Beets like this
Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:25 PM
But we all know who the winner is and thats GHProdu, dude has got talent in all aspects!!!
Respect! thats what this comp is all about respect, stay humble! xD
Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:44 PM
busy week but i got to collab with my fellow austinite SG!
really liked the drums he made and this week had some dope flips
apologies for the lack of comments.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:47 PM
DjDantuf yousa filthy mutha... seriously sick scratch-work
AND GHprodu yousa bad mutha Congratulations....by the way Grant, if you were curious Voltaire is a renaissance writer/philosopher during the renaissance period in reference to the my comment on the usage of the harpsichord
Peace and Prosperity
Posted 15 June 2012 - 08:38 PM
Kalva one, MogKRA, DJ Sapien, Ogi, Sugoi,
winner though
I usually try to vote for someone that isn't getting votes. Different voices. However, that shit was incredible.
Posted 15 June 2012 - 09:10 PM
GHprodu(extreme outlier)....but you all killed...on the usual
Posted 15 June 2012 - 09:28 PM
shoutouts to JONDIS for that beat, some spaced out shit i really liked it
my vote though is for
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Problem is at the top
The recent article in The Times Argus by Peter Hirschfeld Increases fuel single-payer debate should call attention to our overly complicated and administratively heavy health care system. Until it is simplified with a universal/single-payer plan for all, health care costs will never be reduced or even contained. It is a systemic problem that incremental reforms such as the Affordable Care Act (Vermont Health Connect) will never fix.
For example: A recent article in the May 17 New York Times titled Medicines top earners are not the M.D.s illustrates that these top earners are health insurance CEOs, hospital CEOs and other hospital administrators. The average health insurance CEO is paid around $544,000, not including bonuses and other incentives. Not so incidentally, a previous CEO at Vermont Blue Cross Blue Shield got a $7million-plus golden parachute when he left.
Other examples focus on health administrative costs per capita for the U.S. compared with other countries.
Some are: U.S. $606; France $277; Germany $237; Canada $148; Norway $35.
In the above article, Rep. Don Turner thinks the way to contain costs is competition from more health insurance companies. In order for this to happen, we would have to return to the days of super-high-deductible junk policies, insurance underwriting or cherry picking the young and healthy only, and using pre-existing conditions to deny coverage or add exclusions to policies. Also such free market competition would do nothing to reduce the above administrative costs.
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Healing Spirit
Thai Spirit's soups offer a booster shot of feel-better food
By Dan O'Heron 01/23/2013
My handkerchief was wet with grief caused by a bad cold. But stuck in the Glendale Galleria at lunchtime, I turned up my red nose at the thought of finding any Jewish mother's chicken soup in a food court.
Hastily, with a pal in tow, I scuttled away to Eagle Rock's Thai Spirit Restaurant for some therapeutic Thai soup that is next of kin to a Jewish's mother's soup, but not a poor relation.
In previous visits here, when healthy and not hurting, my usual order was po tak fisherman's soup. It was comforting and filling.
Something on the order of a French bouillabaisse, though not ladled over a chunk of bread or Italian cioppino and not driven by tomatoes, the spicier po tak broth was bobbing with what the menu identified as shrimp, crab, squid, mussels, white fish, scallops and straw mushrooms (so named because they are grown on straw from a paddy).
Ginger, onion, lime juice and galanga (a snapping, ginger-flavored rootstock) combined to create its distinctive and bracing flavors.
But not hungry on this day, feeling that debugging would require something peppery but lighter, I ordered Tom Yum, a lemongrass soup with broccoli, carrots, mushrooms and other secret morsels — one of which, I suspect, is Chinese cabbage — swimming in a reddened chili and lime juice broth.
After a few sips, sniffling slowed, I felt better. And, at $4.95 for a so-called small bowl, which was much bigger than a cup, my friend would not have to co-pay for my treatment.
He was relishing the peanut oil dressing on a crispy noodle salad, along with a broccoli/carrot beef platter, the meat of which he described as "surprisingly tender."
I wanted to report in painstaking detail how the chefs created such dishes and other delights I've had in the past. But no manager was around, and our waitress indicated that the chefs were unavailable for conversation.
In keeping with Thai traditions, these chefs make judicious use of herbs and spices — the velvety kind to soothe and the sharp ones to spank. But to keep pace with the variations of a moderately priced, giant 150-item menu, including nearly a score of combination lunch specials for $6.95, they combine and recombine seasonings to nuance dishes that yield contrasting tastes: mild, mellow, sweet, sour, bitter, tart and salty
In earlier trips to the restaurant with three or four other guests, we shared most of the seasonings in one meal.
Eight steamed chicken dumplings came with sweet soy sauce. There was yellow bean sauce on slices of fresh ginger, sautéed with black mushrooms, and a dried chili and spicy sauce on kung pao chicken. Bell peppers and pork came with oyster sauce. Signature Thai "chicken on fire" was marinated in garlic, black pepper and cilantro, and shrimp in a basket came with light plum sauce. "Lad Na," pan-fried, wide-bodied rice noodles with beef, was drenched in creamy gravy.
I'm looking forward to tasting the rice powder lime dressing on a $9.95 roast duck salad, the delicate red panang curry sauce on an $11.95 salmon steak, and the garlic ginger sauce on a $12.95 deep-fried whole trout.
To make peace with any of the spicy aftertastes, desserts include green tea ice cream ($2.95), house-made coconut ice cream ($2.95) and fried banana ($4.95). But for a special, seasonal-only climax, now is the time for mango sticky sweet rice ($6.95).
While the menu is huge, the restaurant is not. The exterior of the building looks as though you'd be going into a crannied nook. But the room's designer has made wise use of available space: it accommodates some 50 guests. The seating includes five semi-circle padded banquettes that are intimately set in natural wood frames. These are ideal for couples, but are roomy enough to seat four without diners bumping elbows.
Added to the ambience is a giant mural that depicts village life in Thailand. If you take the time to check it out carefully, you'll come across a naughty amusement.
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Here, positioned to view the game on either two 90-inch HD TVs, or four 80-inch HD sets, one can feast on a sandwich loaded with seven ounces of filet mignon for only $10.95. For others, plump chicken wings and pitchers of beer should make the day. All meat items, including hamburgers, hot dogs and sausages, are smoked on an oak wood fire grill.
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Home List of Titles Mapping the dark side with DEIMOS: globular clusters, x-ray gas, and dark matter in the NGC 1407 group
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/57489
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- Mapping the dark side with DEIMOS: globular clusters, x-ray gas, and dark matter in the NGC 1407 group
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- Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Strader, Jay; Spitler, Lee R.; Johnson, Ria; Brodie, Jean P.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Ponman, Trevor J.
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- NGC 1407 is the central elliptical in a nearby evolved group of galaxies apparently destined to become a galaxy cluster core. We use the kinematics of globular clusters (GCs) to probe the dynamics and mass profile of the group's center, out to a radius of 60 kpc (∼10 galaxy effective radii)—the most extended data set to date around an early-type galaxy. This sample consists of 172 GC line-of-sight velocities, most of them newly obtained using Keck/DEIMOS, with a few additional objects identified as dwarf-globular transition objects or as intragroup GCs. We find weak rotation for the outer parts of the GC system (v/σ ∼ 0.2), with a rotational misalignment between the metal-poor and metal-rich GCs. The velocity dispersion profile declines rapidly to a radius of ∼20 kpc, and then becomes flat or rising to ∼60 kpc. There is evidence that the GC orbits have a tangential bias that is strongest for the metal-poor GCs—in possible contradiction to theoretical expectations. We construct cosmologically motivated galaxy+dark halo dynamical models and infer a total mass within 60 kpc of ∼3×1012 Msun, which extrapolates to a virial mass of ∼6×1013 Msun for a typical lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) halo—in agreement with results from kinematics of the group galaxies.We present an independent Chandra-based analysis, whose relatively high mass at ∼20 kpc disagrees strongly with the GC-based result unless the GCs are assumed to have a peculiar orbit distribution, and we therefore discuss more generally some comparisons between X-ray and optical results. The group's B-band mass-to-light ratio of ∼800 (uncertain by a factor of ∼2) in Solar units is extreme even for a rich galaxy cluster, much less a poor group—placing it among the most dark matter (DM) dominated systems in the universe, and also suggesting a massive reservoir of baryons lurking in an unseen phase, in addition to the nonbaryonic DM. We compare the kinematical and mass properties of the NGC 1407 group to other nearby groups and clusters, and discuss some implications of this system for structure formation.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astronomical Journal, Vol. 137, no. 6 (Jun 2009), pp. 4956-4987
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Cluster galaxies; Dark matter; Digital Sky Survey; Dynamics; Early-type galaxies; Elliptical galaxies; Galactic nucleus feedback; Globular clusters; Halo mass; Interstellar-medium; Kinematics; Lenticular galaxies; Star clusters; To-light ratios; Ultracompact dwarf galaxies; Wide-Field Survey; X-rays
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- Institute of Physics Publishing
- 0004-6256
- Publisher URL
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- Copyright © 2009 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow institutions to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However, you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2088.
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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Special Relativity
Knowledge is a startling thing, and it is easy to forget that without it people can feel many things: angry, frustrated, disillusioned. Those people who are perceived to be more intelligent than others can be bullied for being 'different', but without those people the Universe would really be a staggeringly bland place, if we'd even discovered the fact we were in a Universe at all. Everything is relative, never forget this. You can't simply look at things in isolation, there always has to be the understanding that actually it's an infinite existence and, like it or not, everything is rather inextricably intertwined.
Hence we come to the game, to a comment left by Kurn on my Attunements thread and a series of exchanges on Twitter. @soetzufit this evening asked if people's experiences of the end of Cataclysm were the same as those at the end of Wrath. One of her comments immediately struck a chord:
Let us go back to the days of Vanilla. Depending on your experiences, it was many things. Most people agree that it was something rather special: the beginning of a game that would, one day, become a hugely significant experience for tens of millions of people worldwide. No-one knew that at the time, least of all Blizzard. What was apparent, and it shines through in so many other people's telling of 'their' Vanilla stories, was the way people first met and played together. Without Voice Chat, or addons, and in large groups which would be impossible to organise today. It was that way, of course, because that was the ONLY way. Those friendships that were forged, that (for many people) remain today, came from the those special moments... except they weren't then. Back then, that was the game. There was nothing to compare the experience to, no benchmarks except in other MMO's where nothing quite like this had ever happened. The 'universe' was still just this one small place with nothing else to commend it but the fact that individual experience shaped so much of most people's early history.
The Twitter comment stopped me in my tracks: the game changes, of course it does. It is altered to respond to the demands of those who play it, and wish to continue doing so. Blizzard have bent over backwards to make this happen in Pandaria, but still I see people saying this is not enough, and that we need a return to the days when we all had to learn for the first time. Except those individual perceptions of what made the game great are a long way from what the game has now become. Returning it to the previous state is impossible, because that has passed. History has come and gone. Learning from the past is what keeps Blizzard on top of its game, after all. Reinvention happens every two years or so, much to the annoyance of those people who'd love their game to remain the way they remember it... except that can't really happen. People change. Their priorities shift, their ability to play the game and do everything else... and here we see the bigger issue. The issue of the game's faults, of its failings or strengths, needs to be separated from what the players see as their experience of it. We need to go back to basic scientific principles to consider the real ramifications.
It has to be about facts.
We must put aside our emotional responses. We must forget the anger and the joy, the elation or defeat, even if they are key factors in what makes Warcraft such a significant experience. If you really want to understand why things change, then the basic facts are what we should deal in. Vanilla was clunky, badly made, it took time to do anything of note, and time is a luxury most people can ill afford to waste. When riding became too slow, we got flying mounts. Quests started to give us transport between hubs as standard. No longer did you need to travel to a Meeting Stone, LFG took you there instead. All of the improvements that have occurred are, in essence, quality of life upgrades via time management. If Blizzard want to make a quest line a challenge... it takes longer.
Time is what really matters.
Think back to the last occasion where you saw someone leave the game, and think about why they went. Did they spend too much time playing? Was there not enough time for other things? Did the person feel that the game was taking over parts of their life, or that other things were simply more significant in the overall scheme of things? In the inevitability of linear existence you make choices based on a myriad of different factors but it doesn't stop the clock from ticking. Everything has a relative place in your overall chronology, and the key to you remaining with the game as a part of your life has to be because it is able to fit into your life in a fashion that allows everything else to continue along with it. Blizzard know this, of course they do, and as time becomes ever more precious as you get older, whether it be with kids or life changes or simply just with the fact you are moving forward, the onus becomes not simply what you do, but how long it takes you to complete it.
Blizzard know those who'll farm until their fingers bleed. They know those people who'll log for raids 3 times a week. They know how many people farm herbs in Tol Barad. These facts are the key, the massive amount of data that is the game itself, the numbers and the spreadsheets and the data fields that are their facts, at their disposal. In Pandaria we will see faction rep run in a completely different way as a result. There'll be no need to get reputation for enhancing your gear. If you want to spend all your time wandering the land and finding lore you can do that too and this time you'll be rewarded for it because, I think you'll find, Blizzard worked out a way to make more people happy by spending as much time as they want playing. This could be the biggest masterstroke of all. If you want a Legendary this time, you have to go through to the end. Every patch. No exceptions. Blizzard understand the nature of time only too well, and they fully intend to exploit it.
In order there is always chaos. The idiots and the wasters and the fools remain, slowly being weeded out by bans and group pressure and the same methods of self-policing that have existed since Vanilla. The people who want to cause trouble simply will. Those who don't want to learn won't. Just because they start their journey now doesn't make any real difference: if they are lucky and meet other people who take the time to stop and think, who try to educate, then maybe some of them will be saved. Perhaps their experience will one day be remembered as fondly by them as those who began so long ago... the experiences are totally relative, after all. It depends where you begin the journey. What all of us need to remember is that the only way to really understand why things change and what makes things work is to divorce ourselves from the emotional issues and simply consider the facts. Blizzard has all of those at its disposal. If we think they're reading them wrong we tell them, and in most cases they go away, consider the situation, and realise that maybe they weren't considering everything as well as they could be.
Relative to everything else you could be playing right now, this game still has an awful lot going for it. We just need to remember to look at it in context.
4 comments:
- Navimie said...
Gosh Godmother, what a great post. So true, so insightful! I don't know if I have changed - maybe I have, but I am one of those people who love - no, it's more like IN love with - the game, and I seem to be here no matter what, and look forward to each step forward Blizz taks.
- 2:27 pm
- Laeleiweyn said...
Great post, and I fully agree!
- 9:40 am
Much thought and insight was put into this post...and I enjoyed it from beginning to end!
I change, so why wouldn't the game? If the game were the same as it was when I first started playing (between TBC and Wrath), I probably would not be able to play now. The amount of time and concentration I was able to put into the game a couple years ago is nowhere near what I am able to do now. Hardcore raiding at this point is out of the picture for me. Gone are the 3-4 hours of sitting in front of my computer working on raid bosses 4-5 nights a week. I am just not physically capable of doing it anymore...not without physical consequences.
I can still see content even if it is nerfed quite a bit. I would rather have nerfed content than no content at all. I will be glad the option is there for me.
My oldest son is of the other mind set though. He would rather things be like they were in early Burning Crusade...he thinks the game is too easy. He already knows what I think...and isn't about to grief Mom on her game of choice. ;)
- 11:55 pm
- Juneper said...
Interesting post, and I agree with you. Getting to the 'good stuff' of the game such as gear and mounts and achievements, means investing a lot of time in the game.
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Hartsfield-Jackson Is Top Airport for Wi-FiHartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta was the top airport for wireless, according to the ranking, which included four Asian airports and Heathrow in London.From FloridaToday.com, April 01, 2008
The New York Times: Broadening BroadbandFor people who have been left without Internet service as municipal wireless plans have collapsed there is an all-too-familiar barrier to the information age.
From The New York Times, March 29, 2008
OneCommunity CEO Named ICF Visionary of the YearICF selected Rourke based on his groundbreaking work as a social entrepreneur in Northeast Ohio and his willingness to share hard-won lessons in ICT-based economic development with communities around the world.From Intelligent Community Forum, March 28, 2008
Wireless to Enhance Mining Safety and CommunicationsIn the aftermath of the Sago mine disaster, the US Government set in place a timetable for underground coal mining operations to upgrade procedures, equipment, and technology with the passage of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act in 2006.From Mesh Dynamics, March 28, 2008
Minneapolis Wi-Fi Network at Completion by Month's EndThe installation of Minneapolis' Wi-Fi network will be finished at the end of this month. The system was actually supposed to be finished late last year. But despite some setbacks during the construction process, the Minneapolis network appears to be doing much better than other cities' attempts at wireless broadband internet access.From Minnesota Public Radio, March 28, 2008
Media Have It Wrong on Municipal WirelessThe business model that faltered in 2007 was the "private corporate franchise" model based on the deal that Philadelphia and EarthLink agreed to in 2006. It was, in fact, the free market that failed last year - not governments in their traditional role as the builders and maintainers of critical infrastructure.From Digital Communities, March 28, 2008
Houston Uses Earthlink Cash to Bring Poor Areas OnlineThe long-term possibility, White said, is that the areas between the bubbles could eventually be included, providing access across the city.From Houston Chronicle, March 28, 2008
With Auction Finished, Cox to Offer Wireless Broadband?While Cox hasn't publicly stated what they plan to do with this spectrum, the geographic limitations of the spectrum mirrors their existing cable footprint -- leading to obvious speculation that the company will be offering wireless broadband before too long.From DSL Reports, March 28, 2008
CableCos Join The $3 Billion U.S. WiMAX Rescue ActThe WSJ reports that Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are contemplating investing $1.6 billion in a new company that would be operated by Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire.From GigaOM, March 28, 2008
Gartner: India 6.9 Million Wimax Connections 2011 EndAlthough the Indian government is strongly promoting WiMAX as a technology to connect the country with broadband services, the country-specific mobile broadband framework makes a nationwide rollout of WiMAX cost prohibitiveFrom Cellular-News, March 28, 2008


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David Wise captured the first Olympic gold medal in freestyle skiing halfpipe Tuesday in Sochi.
Wise scored 92.0 out of 100 on the first of his two runs in the final and then fell at the start of his second run after clipping the edge of the pipe. Still his first score stood up enough to give him first place in the event.
Coming in second was Canadian Mike Riddle, with Kevin Rolland of France winning bronze.
The 12 skiers who advanced to the finals each got two runs, with their best score counting toward the medals.
Snow was falling steadily on the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park above Sochi as the skiers went through the final round.
While the event is new to the Olympics, it has been included at the International Ski Federation's Freestyle World Ski Championships since 2005. It has also been contended at the Winter X Games since 2002 as superpipe, which is a large halfpipe used in extreme sports.
Wise, a 23-year-old Reno, Nev., native, has won the superpipe event at the Winter X Games the last three years and is the reigning world champion in halfpipe.
He topped final World Cup standings for the 2011-12 season, but fell to third place last year and finished the 2013-14 season in ninth place, although he won the last of four halfpipe events that made up the season.
Canadian Justin Dorey, who came into the event No. 1 in the 2013-14 World Cup halfpipe standings, fell on both of his runs and finished in 12th place.
Aaron Blunck, the other American in the final and, at 17, the youngest finalist, finished seventh overall. The Crested Butte, Colo., native came into the Olympics right behind Dorey in the World Cup standings.
The other two Americans in the event, Torin Yater-Wallace, 18, of Aspen, Colo., and Lyman Currier, 19, of Boulder, Colo., didn't qualify for the final, finishing in 26th and 28th place overall, respectively.
Currier is following in the footsteps of his father, David Currier, who skied in the 1972 Olympics at age 19.


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The Hierophant is a powerful card in the major Arcana of the Tarot because he is theintellectualizing of intuition and spirit. There becomes a divide in peoples lives where they either 1.) Directly connect to the divine or 2.) Seek a connection through a holy source. There is nothing wrong with learning from a teacher, master, saint or guru… but they all share the same goal of teaching you to trust in your own wisdom.
As an archetype and symbol of spiritual authority and divinity channeled with discipline The Hierophant shows us that life has order and hierarchy. This can be seen in our ideas of age, class, race and religion. But what this card is mostly speaking of is our connection with spiritual and divine authority.
This card offers us a chance to ask: "To what power am I giving my destiny to?"
I want you to take a moment to meditate on this powerful thought, because this is key in becoming the master of your own destiny and learning to consciously manifest. If you are giving your power to a limiting source of "divinity", one that seeks to take control out of your hands, then you will not be manifesting the life that you want.
There is no right or wrong answer to this questions, but what the Hierophant wants you to know is that your divine source is meant to be a co-creator with you, helping you to have the power and vision to create the life you want. Blind faith and static will not achieve what you want out of life. Spirit meets you in the middle.
"I seek the partnership of the Divine (your god-source). I ask to be a co-creator of my destiny. I ask that the pure light of the universe fill my life allowing me to work from my highest good. I seek to live my life by connecting with my inner well of wisdom."
Best Wishes
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Donning dirty footwear isn't likely to get you on any best-dressed lists, and now that it's March, your footwear collection likely bears the marks of common winter hazards. Caked on mud, salt residue and sludge marks take their toll. These three tips will help you quickly reconcile your winter shoe wardrobe. From Flawed to Fabulous 1. Salt Lines and Sludge: Mix equal parts of water and white vinegar. Use the mixture on a cloth and gently dab away the salt rings. Follow up by dabbing the … [Read more...]
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