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This is why most people prefer to follow a sensible diet alone rather than try to lose weight through both diet and exercise. They know they're able to control their hunger and prevent going on binges if they eat a normal diet, avoid snacks, sugary drinks, desserts, fried food and junk food. But others are foodies and/or exercise junkies – they love to eat and they don't mind working out to prevent adding on the pounds. They don't hesitate to run an extra mile or two if they've eaten too much the previous day, and they don't hold back as well when it comes to food.
However, trying to lose weight and control it through only diet or only exercise offers success only in the short term. The drawbacks of adhering to any one include:
- After a point of time, you find you hit a plateau and that it becomes harder to lose weight, or even maintain it.
- When you eschew exercise altogether, your muscles and bones become weaker and your body is not well toned. Also, you find that you don't have enough energy to get through your day and because your fitness level is low, even normal activities like climbing stairs becomes a huff-puff affair.
- Too much exercise, or in other words, an intensive exercise program, causes wear and tear on your joints and puts you at risk for both short term and chronic injuries.
- The right kind and the right amount of exercise boosts not just your physical health but also your mental wellbeing as well.
- A healthy diet provides your body with enough nutrition to help it fight disease and lead a life of quality.
So no matter what you've been doing until now, from today, if you've been working out too much without paying attention to your diet, start according importance to what you eat too; and if you've ignored exercise in favor of a low-calorie diet, at least start walking every day for half an hour or so – it boosts your blood circulation, prevents heart disease, and makes you feel younger.
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I was originally thinking that this end-of-the-year column would be some grand "Year in Review" thing, where I reflected on the big events in the comic book industry and pontificated about what it all means, in the larger scheme of the universe.
But I honestly don't care about doing any of that.
Instead, this is My Year in Comics, Reviewed. My thoughts about what was important, even if sometimes maybe it really isn't. My tour through 2010, comics-experience-wise. I already did my Best of 2010 list, so you know what comics I thought were worth checking out. But what else mattered to me? What else do I have to say about 2010?
The iPad is Kind of a Big Deal, But...I started using an iPad in July, and I have used it every day since. I honestly can't think of a single day when I have left it on the shelf, unused. But I don't love it. And even though I love comics, and love convenience, the iPad is not an optimal comic book reading experience for me.
I use it every day for email, and checking Twitter, and generally wasting time reading things I don't need to read and only find vaguely interesting but someone I know linked to it and so I feel compelled to check it out. You know, the usual internet time-suck stuff. But when it comes to reading comics, I'll take them in almost any form before I will resort to reading them on the iPad. I'll crack open an oversized hardcover or a tiny manga volume. A thin floppy or a beat-up old trade. But the only time I'll read comics on an iPad is when I'm away from home, and I don't have comics in any other form with me.
When I was on vacation this summer, out of desperation, I started reading "Justice League: Generation Lost," and I kind of liked it, with the "Guided View" technology that Comixology uses. But after a week back in the real world, I stopped reading that series. Never bothered to pick up an issue at the shop, and never bothered to download the rest of the (still-running) miniseries. I did the same with "Skullkickers" a couple of weeks ago, when I was at my in-laws' place in New York, and didn't have any comics laying around. I liked "Skullkickers" quite a bit -- it scratches that RPG-as-comic itch that I didn't really know I had, and never wanted -- but will I ever download another issue? I doubt it. I'll just wait for the trade.
The only thing iPad comics are superior than would be comics on the computer screen. I've read probably a hundred comics on my laptop or desktop, between review PDFs and those Marvel DVD-rom collections that they used to put out before they realized that digital comics might be worth more than pennies per copy, and the iPad experience, the comfort of holding the digital comic in your hand, trumps the on-screen computer-reading experience.
But that's it. And I've tried to enjoy them on the iPad, and I use the damned thing, as I said, every day. But, no, iPad comics just aren't for me, unless there's not a single thing to read nearby. The screen is too small, the digital page flipping (or panel shifting) isn't a satisfying experience, and a big part of my reading enjoyment is the sense that I know where I am -- I feel where I am -- in the story. I like to have a sense that I'm halfway through a trade, or that I'm nearing the end of an issue. Even with page numbering, that physical orientation is missing in digital comics. And it suffers without it.
The iPad is a big deal. And it looks like 2011 will be loaded with iPad knock-offs and various tablet PCs. Maybe one of them will be a better fit for comics, but I still don't think they'll convince me that they're a suitable replacement for paper and print.
While I'm in a Naysayin' Mood, How about 3D Movies?I know 2010 wasn't "THE YEAR OF 3D" or anything, but now that everything seems like it has a 3D release, I might as well say it: why do people assume that 3D movies are in any way better than 2D movies? Are dioramas better than paintings or photographs?
2010 Was the Year of No Events, AlmostHey, remember a year or two ago, when we were all full of Event Fatigue, and we didn't want any more Countdowns to anything or Invasions, Secret or otherwise? And we, as readers, complained and complained about how we just wanted to read good stories and let the writers and artists do their thing without having to wedge in some Skrull or some story about how Evil Had Already Won, even if they didn't seem to know what that all meant?
Yeah, it turns out, and the powers-that-be at Marvel and DC already knew this (and said as much in interviews over the years), even if they tried to give us what we said we wanted, that Event Comics drive sales. Readers complain about too many events, but when they put good creators on good comics "Wolverine: Weapon X" or "Thor: Mighty Avenger," and those comics don't tie in to any crossovers, then those comics die. Nobody reads them.
Readers want events. People even bought "Shadowland," which was one of those new-fangled (actually, old-fangled) mini-events that Marvel rolled out to give us a break from Major Events, and "Shadowland" was a terrible comic. It had terrible tie-ins. Embarassingly bad issues, even by Event standards. (And I've read "Atlantis Attacks!") But it still drove sales more effectively than the seemingly-good strategy of a strong creative team on an iconic character.
Same thing with "Blackest Night," which was the last DC event, and, apparently, the lead-in to the next DC event with 2011's "War of the Lanterns." "Blackest Night" was a zillion times better -- it looked better, and it was absurd and goofy in all the right ways, while "Shadowland" was just full of cliches that rolled out laboriously -- and even "Brightest Day," which isn't really an event, so much as an anthology series that uses its quasi-event status to sell more stories about Firestorm and Deadman and Aquaman than any of those characters could sell on their own. It's clearly a shrewdly-conceived plan to give these B-list characters their chance to shine, in a marketplace that cannot sustain a good Thor comic, and it reads like just such a marketing plan. "Hey, let's make Black Manta terrifying, to make Aquaman seem cool." "Hey, if we use the Black Lantern Firestorm as a villain, Firestorm will have a suitable nemesis." "Hey, Martian Manhunter is sad, because his family is dead, but what if we made him sadder, like, a lot?" But "Brightest Day" works, as transparent as its intentions are, because of the skill involved on the creative side. Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi can pull off the populist superhero epic, and the art has been competent-to-outstanding, depending on the penciller.
So, what does it all mean? What does it matter? It means that Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen sound like a pretty great creative team to tackle "Fear Itself," and even if we all moan about Event Comics, we will rush out and buy all the issues of that series, won't we? And they have a decent shot at being compelling, fun reading experiences, in the way that normal, continuity-driven monthly comics so often just aren't.
I guess that's the lesson. Big Superhero Events may rarely create phenomenal comics, but they do make the grand narrative of Marvel and DC more compelling, which raises the interest level, if not the quality, in the mid-list titles. Without Events, you end up with some unreadable "Teen Titans" and "Green Arrow" comics and a stack of "Deadpool Meets Godzilla" issues.
Readers want comics that matter, even if what "matters" is dictated by profit margins. That might sound cynical, but if the comics that sell medium-well don't feel like they matter, and the comics that are actually good don't sell well enough to last, what are you left with? Mainstream superhero comics in 2010, pretty much.
The "First Wave" Line Kind of Failed Already, Didn't It?It may be too late to even bother talking about "First Wave," DC's attempt at bringing the pulp heroes to the 21st century mainstream. The line seems dead in the water, with the main Azzarello/Morales series limping, delayed, to the finish, and creative team changes after the first few months of "The Spirit" and "Doc Savage."
But though the last issue of "First Wave" was the worst so far, the "Doc Savage" series has been revitalized by the arrival of Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein. It's a series worth reading, finally, and I'm sure not enough people have stuck around to see that happen. "The Spirit" is the best of the bunch, and has been since David Hine stepped in as writer. Moritat makes this comic look like no other, and it's the first time we've ever seen Denny Colt involved in multi-issue (pulpy!) stories, as far as I can tell. Will Eisner's best Spirit stories used the character as a device to play around with form, or used him as a supporting character as he examined far more interesting denizens of the city. Darwyn Cooke didn't do Eisner's version, but he did his riff on Eisner's version, with single-issue tales that had some kind of tightrope-walking formalism or some kind of O. Henryish twist in the classic mold. Hine and Moritat turn the Spirit into a two-fisted adventurer in a larger-than-life crime-ridden city. It's almost cracked my Top 10 for Best Comics of the Year.
I can't imagine that the future of the "First Wave" line looks too bright, and that makes me a bit sad, because I'll keep reading "Doc Savage" and "The Spirit" for years, as long as the comics are as good as they are now. And I even heard rumors, earlier this year, of a major new Brian Azzarello series with an amazing artist, set in the "First Wave" world. I hope that series happens, though I suspect that reader apathy toward the line might prevent the launch. For all I know, it's already been abandoned. We'll see.
Scott Snyder's Rise to PowerIn case you've missed it, though I don't know how you could, I've been tracking Scott Snyder's rise to comic book prominence all year. Last March, I posted a "Who is This Guy?" interview with the man. I talked with him again in August and September, about his work on "American Vampire" and "Detective Comics" and our mutual love for Grant Morrison comics.
I suspect his run on "Detective Comics" will be on my shortlist for Best Comics of 2011, and I say that with some knowledge about what's coming up in the next six months.
Though I didn't meet Snyder until the New York Comic Con this summer, I've known him (the way that I've know most of my comic book acquaintances, via email and social networking) for over a year. I got to know him before any of his series, even "Iron Man: Noir," hit the stands. We certainly have a lot in common, and I think he's got the chops to write some phenomenal comics.
It didn't take long for many others to recognize the quality of what he's doing.
He's also approaching it the right way. Beyond getting Stephen King to co-write his Vertigo debut, which is obviously a great way to boost sales from the start, Snyder has also been out hustling and making sure everyone knows that he's writing some damn fine comics. He's posting review links on Twitter, he's emailing comic book journalists, he's personally sending out copies of his comics. Even though he is writing the comic with DC's name in the title, he's still out hustling, trying to get the word out.
And because his comics are good, because his writing is precise and razor-sharp without being overly sensationalistic, and because he's been paired with top-notch artists, his self-promotion has substance to it. He's not out there shouting, "My comics are great!" and then failing to deliver. He's out there shouting, "I'm writing some comics, take a look and see if you like them," and then people can make up their own minds. He draws them in with his enthusiasm, but holds on to them with the quality of the comics themselves.
Scott Snyder may not be writing a ton of comics right now, but between "American Vampire" and "Detective Comics," he's delivering quality stories, twice a month. And I'm sure he's just getting started.
Fusion Comics: "King City," "Orc Stain," and FriendsIn July, Frank Santoro posted a couple of interesting observations and/or notes about what he termed "Fusion Comics." If you don't already know, Santoro is one of the best thinkers in and around comics. He is always worth reading, and his sensibilities run from the outlandishly obscure to the deviously mainstream (he'll ruminate on "The Saga of Crystar: Crystal Warrior" far longer than anyone else you know). Above all, he delights in artistry, and in artists who play with form and color and page layout. He studies it, and he revels in it.
With his observations about Fusion Comics, Santoro attempts to grapple with the idea that there's a crop of comic book writers and artists (and writer/artists) who are filtering their influences in rapid-fire fashion and churning it into something genre-based but outside the mainstream (yet delivered in mainstream-esque packages). It's not quite alt-comics as genre comics, but it kind of is, and Gary Panter is probably the patron saint of the whole thing, even if none of the comics Santoro cites, like "King City," "Orc Stain," "Bulletproof Coffin," or "Lose," owe anything to the Panter look.
But there's something in that Panteresque mash-up of superhero comics iconography, and the rawness of underground art -- or graffiti -- that feeds into the Fusion effect.
Then again, Paul Pope's "THB" would surely be an early, and influential, bit of Fusion, so Fusion isn't anything unique to 2010.
It does seem to make sense to find some sort of category to put these kinds of comics in, because they are more than just alt-genre comics, and they are certainly some of the best comics of the year. The sheer abundance of these kinds of comics (from the examples mentioned above, to new Picturebox releases like "If-n-Oof" and "Powr Mastrs Vol. 3," and even "Prison Pit" #2 and "Dungeon Quest," not to mention the wallowing-in-genre-brutality work of Benjamin Marra) seems to demand that they be recognized, labeled, as something.
I don't have an answer, and "Fusion" seems like as strong a term as anything else. I just wanted to point out that these comics are out there, and growing in number, and that is something we should appreciate. Because they're good.
Better than most. Better than "Shadowland."
In addition to writing reviews and columns for COMIC BOOK RESOURCES, Timothy Callahan is the author of "Grant Morrison: The Early Years" and editor of "Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes" anthology. More of his thoughts on comics can be seen regularly at the Geniusboy Firemelon blog.
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Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement
The High Court of England and Wales ended a five year legal battle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora yesterday. The court ruled in favor of flower delivery network Interflora, concluding that retailer Marks & Spencer breached trademark infringement laws by bidding on the keyword "Interflora" in its Google AdWords campaigns.
In the European Union, Google allows bidding on trademarked keywords except when the ads are deemed to be misleading and "confusing as to the origin of the advertised goods and service." Yesterday's ruling finds Spencer & Marks in breach of that exception.
In the judgment, High Court Justice Arnold said that Marks & Spencer's use of "Interflora" to advertise M&S's own flower and gift website constituted trademark infringement. He said, the M&S text ads "did not enable reasonably well-informed and reasonably attentive internet users" to determine if the ads referred for M&S or Interflora. He further stated, "On the contrary, as at 6 May 2008, a significant proportion of the consumers who searched for 'interflora' and the other signs, and then clicked on M&S's advertisements displayed in response to those searches, were led to believe, incorrectly, that M&S's flower delivery service was part of the Interflora network."
This ruling is the culmination of the judgment passed by the European Union's Court of Justice in 2011.
Both companies have the right to appeal. A spokesperson for Marks & Spencer said, "We are disappointed by today's judgment. As we are considering our position and all options available to us, it will be inappropriate for us to comment any further at this stage."
Rhys Hughes, president of Interflora British Unit, said, "This ruling helps ensure that when consumers search on the internet for "Interflora", they can be confident in knowing that the flowers bought online come from a member of the Interflora network.
The amount Marks & Spencer will be required to pay Interflora in damages and costs is expected to be determined in court later this year.
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The men and women who sleep in the shelters of our city, on slender mattresses and under thin sheets, are turned out onto the streets at 6 a.m.
I have been told that this allows time for the shelters to be cleaned. Oh. I see. We may therefore remain untroubled by the sight of a man or woman on a grate in the early hours, secure in the knowledge that somewhere a mattress is being turned, and sheets are being washed.
But there is one good true thing which rises above the institutional cruelty of the day: the winter breakfast program at St. John the Compassionate, on Broadview a few steps north of Queen, has just started up for the winter; doors open, no surprise, at 6 a.m.
The coffee had been brewed and the smell of it filled the air when I arrived; there were doughnuts on a table, the eggs awaited scrambling, and the frying pans were hot and ready for dollops of pancake batter.
As the men and women came in from the cold with their backpacks, Joanna Dunn watched over them, and while she did she gave me a history lesson.
"Six years ago, the shelter up the street, the people were saying they got kicked out at 6 a.m. I told Father Roberto and he said, 'What do you want to do about it?'"
You put that sort of question to her and you know you'll get results. Joanna said, "It started with coffee and a warm place to be. I don't cook. But we got funding, and the Father got people cooking from the parish." The mission now serves 70 breakfasts every day, Monday to Friday, and the place was packed by 7 a.m.
Joanna said, "I know half the people here. Some of them live in the community, some of them live at Jilly's."
Jilly's is a peeler bar in a handsome old building on Queen at Broadview; rooms for rent on the upper floors.
She said, "Some come from rooming houses, and some are from the shelters." And a handful have addictions, and all of them are hungry. Joanna said, "We stay open until 9 a.m." What happens at 9 a.m.? "That's when the libraries open, and the drop-in at Woodgreen, and maybe the mall."
Warm places, free places.
A woman named Cynthia was greeting people as they came in. She said, "I only do the breakfast program. I volunteer at some other places, too. I like meeting people."
There were some men sitting at a table, so I got coffee and joined them. Sean said, "I'm a volunteer here. I was doing community service."
Pat — and under no circumstances should you ever call her Pattycake — said, "I started years ago, same as him, community service."
Mike said, "I was coming here to eat every day. I heard the word 'volunteer.' All the people, doing different jobs. I'm giving back from what I got."
John said, "I work in the bakery next door. I volunteer here. I'm the door man."
They were keeping track of the number of guests, but they did not bother to tally the cat from the house next door who wandered in to rub up against the legs of the people having breakfast, nice kitty, there's a good kitty.
Joanna said, "You can have the angriest guy, and the cat will come over and cheer him up. The cat has a brother, but his brother snobs us."
Life's like that.
And by the time the libraries and the drop-ins were opening down the street, the kitchen staff had scrambled seven cartons of eggs, 18 eggs to a carton; they had turned two big boxes of mix into pancakes; and the hungry men and women had washed down the doughnuts and bagels with a dozen litres of milk and 125 cups of coffee; get it while it's hot.
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Presenting another bento that's not for the squeamish, my Kare-kare bento. A popular Filipino dish that can be categorized as comfort food, kare-kare is another example of slow-cooking that speaks of home and its familial comforts. It's made with tripe, oxtail, occasionally beef, and veggies in a rich peanut stew. Water that had annato seeds soaked in them is used to give the sauce a rich orange color. Finally, it's served with bagoong, a salty shrimp paste that's used as a dip (for stuff like kare-kare and green mangoes) or as an ingredient for dishes like sauteed veggies.
I can't give a more specific recipe since it's my mom who did the cooking, but I'm sure there are a couple good ones on Pinoy cooking webbies for the interested.
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• Fruit Cocktail: Pineapple, Peaches, Red Papaya, and Nata de Coco
• Kare-kare: this version has tripe, eggplants, string beans, and banana hearts
• Super yummy (haha, I'm my cooking's biggest fan) homemade garlic cream cheese spread and flower-shaped toast circles
• Steamed rice, a Hello Kitty container of bagoong and sliced green mangoes.


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Boudoir Lighting: Simple Techniques for Dramatic Photography
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The most flattering boudoir images are often very nuanced presentations of the subject's sensuality—but that doesn't mean that the lighting has to be extremely complicated. For most of the beautiful images in this well-illustrated book, photographer Robin Owen uses just a single light source. As she shows, the key to getting great results with simple setups is careful planning. From there, careful posing within the light allows you to emphasize your subject's best features and minimize any areas she feels less confident revealing. By observing the delicate balance between lighting and posing, Owens shows you how to create a broad spectrum of looks that will satisfy virtually any boudoir client. As you follow through Owen's detailed descriptions of her work on sixty different sessions, you'll quickly discover that lighting a boudoir portrait doesn't have to be a daunting prospect—with a little creativity and ingenuity, simple can be absolutely beautiful!
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What we're doing to reform Spokane's criminal justice system. And how you can help.
What we're doing to reform Spokane's criminal justice system. And how you can help.
With the centerpiece reform of Proposition 1 in doubt, the Mayor and Police Chief meet with the press. (Includes audio.)
Center will co-host screening of "American Winter" on October 14th at the Bing.
The councilman's "out of excuses" move to implement Prop. 1 is neither rash, nor radical.
Anna Vodicka worked the phones for Referendum 74, and therein lies a story.
Spokane Riverkeeper Bart Mihailovich had a simple question for Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Her answer may shock you. Or not.
Larry Shook comes home.
Opinion by Tim Connor
The Spokesman-Review's Shawn Vestal reflects on the Center for Justice, and the Otto Zehm case.
Steve Brill's master work on injustice in the American health care system.


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Space Celebrity: "Sierra Ops, Rising Angels, Sunrider, WarGirl Games, Project Nimbus, and Resonant Blade in one forum. Don't you love it? I know you do."
I enjoyed reading that. You said you aren't a native english speaker, but your level of written english is pretty good. I mean there's a few bits here and thetr that could do with minor editing and perhaps rearranging of words, but regardless it's really well written.


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Land Councils conclude talks in Canberra
CLC Chair Maurie Ryan meeting with the Prime Minister Tony Abbott
THE executives of the Northern and Central Land Councils have concluded three days of talks in Canberra with federal politicians and officials, and have argued for protection of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
The concerns of both land councils focused on federal government plans to permanently devolve their powers to smaller Aboriginal corporations which might not be democratic or accountable to Traditional Owners, and to create 99-year township leases which would be held by a Commonwealth official.
The land councils want the authority over any leases to remain with the traditional owners.
Meetings were held with Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, and Labor and Greens members.
The land councils also met with Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Council, and welcomed his commitment to work closely with them as elected representatives of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory.
Executive members were among guests hosted by the Prime Minister after his delivery of the latest Closing The Gap report.
The land councils will hold the government to account for its pledge to improve targets, and call on the government to back up its targets with funding commitments.
The executives also met with the National Congress and supported its endeavours to achieve a secure future after the federal government cut its funding.


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Dr. Christoph Bruch is senior advisor for Strategy at Helmholtz Open Access Coordination Office. He studied political sciences at Johan Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Free University Berlin. Before joining Helmholtz Association he held professional positions at the Free University Berlin, the German Institute for Urban Studies, and Max Planck Society. UNESCO appointed him 'lead moderator' for the topic "Preservation of Scientific Data" for the ongoing of the post-summit process of the World Summit on the Information Society. In an honorary capacity he is advocating access to knowledge via his engagement in several NGOs, e.g. Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education in Research", European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science.


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Jesus in the Quran: an Akbari Perspective
Ibn 'Arabi refers to Jesus as" symbol of engendering" (mathalan bi-takwin). It is my intention in this paper to show that, in the metaphysical perspective of Ibn 'Arabi's school, one of the most important principles of which the "Qur'anic" Jesus stands forth as a "symbol", sign, and concrete embodiment, is the following:mercy and compassion are the fruits of the realization of the true Self - or self of the Real, the Nafs al-Haqq, as Ibn 'Arabi calls it. Compassion, in turn, should be understood not only morally but also, and a priori, metaphysically, in terms of the bestowal of life:God gives life to the cosmos out of compassion for His own hidden qualities that long to be known; and man participates in this process both positively - through being compassionate towards his own self, as well as towards others - and inversely, by enlivening his own soul and that of others through the knowledge of God. The Qur'anic narratives concerning Jesus, together with the esoteric interpretations thereof from the Akbari perspective, illuminate these intertwined realities of selfhood and compassion in a particularly fruitful manner. Jesus is described in the Qur'an "as a sign for mankind and a mercy from Us". Ibn 'Arabi draws out, in a most instructive way, how these two aspects of Jesus can be spiritually understood: what Jesus is a sign of, and how this relates to mercy or compassion.
I shall begin this paper by referring to the Qur'anic passages in the Sura Maryam that relate the stories of the births of John and Jesus. For it was reflection upon these passages that formed the starting-point for the series of observations that are the subject of this paper. One observes a number of remarkable similarities in these two passages. There is in both cases - to Zakariah, the father of John, and Mary, mother of Jesus - the apparition of an angel to announce the news of the imminent birth of a son; the words addressed to them by the angel, and the responses given by them are similar; several of the phrases used to describe John and Jesus are identical; a vow of silence is observed by both Zakariah and Mary after their vision of the angel, etc. But there are also notable differences between the two narratives, in particular the following one: whereas it is the angel who describes John, it is Jesus who describes himself, through the miraculous words uttered by him as a baby still in his cradle. Indeed, it is the degree of miraculousness that, in general, distinguishes the two narratives: the birth of Jesus to the Virgin was a more absolute kind of miracle as compared with the lesser prodigy of John's being begotten by Zakariah, though "my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age" (XIX:8). But one should pay particular attention to the words at the end of Jesus' discourse: "Peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die and the day I shall be raised up alive."In the case of John, it is the angel who invokes peace upon him: "Peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies and the day he shall be raised up alive."
The reader is struck by the contrast between the invocation of peace upon oneself and the invoking of peace on another. Furthermore, it is peace with the definite article, al-salam, that Jesus invokes upon himself, whereas it is the indefinite form, salamun, that is invoked by the angel on John. It is as if there is a deliberate juxtaposition here between the the divine attribute of peace, in respect of Jesus, and the general quality of peace - ultimately divine, in its essence, but considered here at the level of its formal manifestation -in regard to John. This contrast might be interpreted as an allusion to the fullness of divine life, and the totality of supreme Self-consciousness that infused the human substance of Christ from his very inception, this substance itself being the very Word of God. In this connection, Ibn 'Arabi alerts our attention to an extremely important analogy. The Qur'an tells us that Jesus was indeed God's word, "cast unto Mary, and a spirit from Him."(IV:171). Ibn 'Arabi comments upon this, saying that Gabriel transmitted this Word to Mary just as a prophet transmits God's word to his community. Ibn 'Arabi thus shows that there is something in the very substance of Jesus that is, in and of itself, a revelation, "a sign for mankind", as the Qur'an says (XIX:21). Such a view of Jesus narrows, in certain respects at least, the gap that separates a Muslim from a Christian conception of the "message" of Christ.
In the Fusûs al-Hikam , we find Ibn 'Arabi commenting on this contrast between the two greetings of peace. In the chapter on John we read:
If the speech were that of the spirit: Peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I shall be raised up alive - that is more complete as regards the reality of union and as regards doctrine, and more lofty in interpretation.
'Abd al-Razzaq Kashani provides just such a "lofty interpretation" with his comment on this invocation of peace upon oneself:
God bestows on Himself the salutation of peace, because of His own Self-determination within the 'Isawi substance; and this also shows the perfection of Jesus' station in the witnessing of this oneness.
In other words, it is God Himself who greets Himself within and through the very form of Jesus. Now this touches on many key themes of Ibn 'Arabi's metaphysics, but let us note the following point: the greeting offered to God by Himself through another can be taken as a symbol of the principle that God reveals Himself through the whole of creation. As we saw earlier, Ibn 'Arabi says that Jesus is a symbol of takwin, of engendering, or of creative activity. This comes in the following poem, which opens the chapter of the Fusus on Jesus:
From the water of Mary or from the breath of Gabriel,
In the form of a mortal fashioned of clay,
The Spirit came to be in an essence
Purified of nature, which you call Sijjin...
A Spirit from God, not from anything else.
Thus he raised up the dead and made birds from clay...
God purified him in body and exalted him in spirit,
And made of him a symbol of engendering.
Let us briefly consider this "symbol of engendering" in four ways. First, the creation of Jesus himself - by means of a breath, a word, a spirit, cast into Mary - is a miraculous sign of God's creativity in general, of the way in which the spirit enlivens matter. Secondly, the creation of Jesus is a recapitulation of the specific miracle of the creation of Adam. Thirdly, at the level of cosmogenesis, the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary expresses the principle by which the cosmos itself is brought into being. According to Ibn 'Arabi, the universe originates in the epiphany of the "Muhammadan Reality" (al-haqiqa al-muhammadiyya), this reality being the most receptive of all realities - contained within the primal "Cloud" - to the creative Light of God. It is by virtue of the Prophet's total receptivity to this Light that his passivity (infi'aliyya) is transformed into activity (fa-iliyya):
Muhammad was created as a slave, in principle; he never raised his head seeking leadership, nay, he ceaselessly prostrated in humility, standing [before his Lord] in his condition of passivity, until God engendered (kawwana) from him all that He engendered, bestowing upon him a rank of activity (fa'iliyya) in the world of Breaths...
One is reminded here of the words addressed to Mary in the Qur'an by the angels:
O Mary, Truly God has chosen you and purified you, and preferred you above all women of creation. O Mary, be obedient to your Lord, prostrate to Him and bow with those who bow (III:42-3).
It is not Jesus alone who was made a"sign" but he and his mother together:
And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign (XXIII:50).
Thus Jesus can be seen as a symbol of the cosmos itself, the "fruit" of the activity that is rooted in total, virgin receptivity to the Word from above, Mary's role here mirroring that of the Muhammadan Reality.
Finally, continuing this process of fa'iliyya, Jesus' own activity positively reflects this divine creativity: his healing of the blind, the leper, his creating a bird from clay, and most importantly, his raising up of the dead. As the Qur'an tells us, Jesus says:
Truly I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Truly, I create for you out of clay the shape of a bird, and I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, by God's permission. I heal him who was born blind and the leper, and I give life to the dead, by God's permission (III:49).
It is very instructive to see how Kashani draws out the esoteric meaning of these miraculous acts. In his Tafsir he gives the following commentary:
Truly I create for you, through spiritual discipline and purification and realized wisdom, from the clay of souls still deficient but nonetheless receptive, the shape of a bird, one that flies to the realm of holiness through the intensity of its longing.Then I breathe into it the breath of divine knowledge and true life, through the influence of my presence and my teaching. And it becomes a bird that is, a living soul, flying with the wings of longing and aspiration towards the Real.I heal the blind, the one who is veiled from the light of the Real, one whose eye of insight had always been closed, and had never seen the sun of the face of the Real, nor its light...and the leper, the one whose soul is disfigured by the disease of vices and corrupt beliefs, blemished by the love of this world and besmirched by the stain of concupiscence. And I give life to the death of ignorance with the life of knowledge.
In the spirit of this kind of commentary, one might venture to add that the words of the Qur'an, by God's permission, which qualify the miraculous acts of Jesus, can be understood, esoterically, as meaning that these acts were performed by Jesus in perfect conformity with his knowledge of who the agent really is; who the true Self is, within him, that is performing these acts. In other words, Jesus was not veiled from the Divine reality by his own performance of these acts: he knew that God was acting through him. The fact that God is the sole agent emerges in the Akbari perspective as an inescapable subjective corollary of the objective oneness of being, or, to use Ibn 'Arabi's own words, of the reality "that there is nothing in Being but He."Ibn'Arabi comments in many places on the ontological implications of the verse in the Qur'an, which states "You did not throw when you threw, but God threw"(VIII:17). The following few instances will suffice for our purposes:
You did not throw, so He negated, when you threw, so He affirmed, but God threw, so He negated the engendered existence (kawn) of Muhammad, and affirmed Himself as identical ('ayn) with Muhammad...
Such ambivalent negations and affirmations give rise to bewilderment:
You are not you when you are you but God is you.
But they reveal the truth that it is God alone who is the agent of all acts, the agent who acts through all the faculties of man. This truth is affirmed by Ibn 'Arabi by reference to the words of the famous hadith qudsi, known as the hadith al-taqarrub, "drawing near", in which God says that when He loves a servant, He is "the hearing with which he hears, the sight by which he sees, the hand with which he strikes and the foot whereon he walks."Ibn 'Arabi draws attention to the important fact that God speaks in the present tense, saying "I am his hearing, his sight, and his hand":
God's words "I am" show that this was already the situation, but the servant was not aware. Hence the generous gift which this nearness gives to him is the unveiling of the knowledge that God is his hearing and his sight.
What this implies is that there is no change of ontological agency: God does not "become" the faculties of the servant after having allowed the servant to enjoy, in his previous condition, the prerogative of autonomous agency. God is, and cannot but be, the true agent of all the servant's actions and perceptions. The only change is in the awareness of the servant, his assimilation of the truth that God's sole reality includes all other agencies and excludes all ontological alterity, a truth from which the servant had been veiled by his own faculties. But it is important to add that, if one must not be veiled by the creature and its activities from true Selfhood, one must also avoid the opposite veil; that is, one must not allow the Real to veil the creature from the property that accompanies him perpetually, the property of slavehood. The relationship between the receptivity of pure slavehood and the activity of engendering was noted above; but at this point, what should be stressed is that one of the fruits of this paradoxical combination of realized Selfhood and immutable slavehood is compassion, as the following lines from the chapter on Jesus tell us:
I worship truly, and God is our Master;
and I am His very identity, so understand.
When I say "man", do not be veiled by man,
for He has given you proof.
So be the Real and be a creature.
You will be, by God, compassionate.
The last line expresses the essence of the argument of this paper: "being" the Real - while remaining a creature - means "being" compassionate, merciful, kind. The one cannot "be" without the other. When Ibn 'Arabi writes takun bi'Llahi rahmanan, this sounds rather like an oath: by God, you will be compassionate - in the measure that you realize the true Self, which is veiled by your outer self, your ego. It should be noted that it is not a question here of realizing "one's true Self ", inasmuch as the Self cannot be the property of any individual;the only thing that the individual can be said to possess is the property of essential poverty. In this perspective, no individual owns anything, on the contrary, all individuals "belong" to the Self. This point emerges clearly from the following ta'wil by Kashani of the verses in the Qur'an in which God addresses Jesus"
O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say unto people: worship me and my mother as two gods beside God? He said: Glory to You, never could I say what I had no right to say...(V:116) Did you invite people to your own soul and to your mother - or to the station of your heart and your soul; for truly he in whom subsists the reality of egoity (ana'iyya) and the residue of the soul and passion, or in whom there takes place the fluctuations of the heart and its manifestation through its quality - such a one invites the creature to the station of his soul or to the station of his heart, not to the Real.He said: Glory to You, never could I say what I had no right to say, for indeed I have no being in reality, nor is it appropriate or correct for me to utter speech which I do not really possess; for truly speech and act, quality and being - all of this belongs to You.
If, then, compassion flows from the creature, this is nothing but the compassion of God, not that of the creature; and this compassion flows all the more strongly in the measure that the creature does not appropriate it to himself. Ibn 'Arabi tells his readers to be the Real and a creature, only then will compassion flow from them; and then, not from them in respect of their own creaturely properties, but from them bi'Llah, by or through God. If the consciousness of being the Real is not balanced by the consciousness that one is a creature, a slave, at the same time and for as long as one persists as an individual, then the result is in fact far from compassion, it is pride, self-delusion, and self-divinization. In other words, humility and compassion are two complementary virtues that flow from a proper awareness of reality: a "proper" awareness being one that puts each thing in its right place, knowing that the creature is nothing but the Real, in respect of ItsSelf-manifestation within and through it, and that the creature is nothing before the Real. In both cases, the individual as such is reduced to nothing: self-effacement is the conditio sine qua non of Self-realization.
If one only has awareness of being a creature, however, with no sense of the inner reality of divine Selfhood , then one's virtues, compassion included, will lack that all-embracing totality and that infinite depth which comes from realized spiritual knowledge. The more one is aware of the sole reality of God as the true ontological agent, the only true Self, the more naturally and spontaneously will compassion flow forth. In other words,the closer the individual comes to the source of compassion, the more fully will compassion be manifested through him; that is, such a one becomes not only a marhum, one upon whom compassion or mercy is bestowed, but also a rahim, one who bestows mercy to others. This is what distinguishes the "veiled ones"(al-mahjubun) from the "folk of unveiling"(ahl al-kashf). As Ibn 'Arabi says:
The veiled ones, in accordance with their belief, ask the Real to have compassion upon them, while the folk of unveiling ask that the compassion of God abide through them. They ask for this with the name Allah, saying"O Allah, have compassion upon us", and He only has compassion upon them by causing compassion to abide through them. Compassion has a property which in reality belongs to the essence of "that which abides through a locus" (al-qa'im bi'l-mahall).
Kashani comments:
The property of compassion rules over them, for that which abides through a locus exercises its ruling property over the receptacle, in accordance with its reality; so He only has compassion upon them by causing compassion to abide through them, thus making them compassionate ones (rahimin)...
Those who have been rendered compassionate in this way are said to find the property of compassion by way of mystical "taste" (dhawqan); their spiritual intuition not only gives then a taste of the essence of compassion, but shows them also that compassion is the very essence of the Real. There are many indications that compassion expresses the fundamental nature of God. The Qur'an tells us that "My compassion encompasses all things" (VII:156). The name of God, al-Rahman, is practically synonymous with Allah: "Call upon Allah or call upon al-Rahman" (XVII:10). Repeatedly in the Qur'an al-Rahman is referred to as the divine creative force from which all things arise. According to Ibn 'Arabi, it was precisely because of His compassion that God created the world: the whole of creation is thus itself amarhum, an object of compassion. Every mawjud is a marhum: every thing that is made existent is an object of compassion. This perspective on creation might be seen as a commentary on one of the most important "explanations" of the reason behind the creation of the world by God. According to a famous holy utterance, a hadith qudsi which Ibn 'Arabi often cites, God says: "I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known, so I created."Here the purpose of creation is explicitly tied to God's desire to be known; He wished to manifest His inner perfections; and this is one way of becoming known, that is, knowing Himself outwardly, as distinct from knowing Himself inwardly. As the opening lines of the chapter on Adam in the Fusûs have it:
The Real willed, by virtue of His Beautiful Names, which are innumerable, to see their identities - if you wish you can say: to see His identity - in a comprehensive engendered being that comprises the entire affair... His mystery is manifest to Himself through it, for the vision a thing has of itself in itself is not like the vision it has of itself in another thing, which will serve as a mirror for it.
One of Ibn 'Arabi's most startling declarations comes, though, when he says that the first object of God's compassion was not in fact the creation, it was God Himself. In other words, God had compassion for His own Names and Qualities that wished to manifest themselves, but were hidden in His own essence. In other words, He had compassion for His own hidden "treasures". As Ibn 'Arabi writes:
Through the breath of the All-Merciful, God gave relief (tanfis) to the divine names... He relieved the divine names of the lack of displaying effects.
So the supreme archetype or model of all compassion, of all love and feeling for the "other", is this love of God's Essence for Its own Self-manifestation, for Its own theophany to an "other", and through the "other": everything is ultimately manifested by compassion, is woven of compassion, and returns to compassion: "My compassion encompasses all things", as we saw earlier. Ibn 'Arabi stresses that everything returns to mercy and compassion, but this does not deny the terrible reality of hell nor does it preclude the wrathful side of God. Ibn 'Arabi often cites the hadith in which it is stated that God's compassion takes precedence over His wrath, but he does not deny the reality of this wrath:he attributes it, though, not to God's intrinsic nature, but to the creature's wilful rejection of the mercy that is being offered to him "ontologically", that is, by virtue of the compassion that is inherent to the very nature of being. As Kashani says, in his commentary on the opening line of the chapter on Zakariah:.
For compassion is of the Essence, as it is generous by nature, overflowing with generosity from the treasure of compassion and bounty. Being is the first effusion of the all-embracing compassion which encompasses everything. But as for wrath, it does not essentially pertain to the Real, rather, it consists in a property of a non-existential nature (hukm 'adami), arising out of the absence of receptivity (ladam qabiliyya), on the part of certain things, to the perfect manifestation of the effects of Being and its properties within them... This absence of the effusion of compassion over a given thing, resulting from its lack of receptivity, is called "wrath" in relation to that thing, in the face of the compassionate one(al-rahim).
Therefore the compassion of being not only takes ontological precedence over the non-existential property of wrath, it also prevails, ultimately over the accidental properties of evil and suffering, the concomitants of non-being: "Everyone will end up with mercy". This truth is grasped in the measure of one's awareness - spiritually and not just notionally - of the absolute and infinite reality of goodness and the relative and limited reality of evil.go to part two


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Wow Frostweave Cloth Farming Guide
This WoW Frostweave Cloth Farming Guide is specifically for farming WoW Frostweave Cloth. If you are looking for where to farm Frostweave Cloth in bulk then you are at the correct place and below is all the information needed.
Tailors - at Tailoring 325 you must complete the quest for Northern Cloth Scavenging. Go to your trainer (a grand master trainer) for the quest and it will enable you to collect extra cloth from Northrend Humanoids.
Pwning Humanoid NPCs by Level for Frostweave Cloth
- Kill or pickpocket NPCs that are level 68 to 81.
- Levels 75 to 79 have the best drop rate percentage.
Where to Farm Frostweave Cloth in Dungeons
- Naxxramas Bats in the Plague Quarter.
- Utgarde Keep - not very consistent but works for Tailors because they get to pick up extra cloth from their Northern Scavenging!
Where to Farm Frostweave Cloth in the World of Warcraft
Icecrown - Best for Tailors with Northern Cloth Scavenging
Onslaught Harbor Humanoids and Converted Heroes Humanoids.
Zul'drak - Best for non-Tailors
The Gundrak Fire-eaters (trolls) drop about 3 each with a 90% drop rate. The Gundrak Savages have about a 50% drop rate. They respawn fast so after going through each building make your way around again.
halls of lightning huh? not a single frostweave.. not one...
Utgrade only gave out 7 pieces, with scavenging. Not worth the time.
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Ezra Klein remarks on our present dilemma:
I think that analytically honest political commentators right now should be struggling with a pretty hard choice: Do you try to maximize the possibility of good, if still insufficient, outcomes? Or do you admit what many people already know and say that our political process has gone into total system failure and the overriding priority is building the long-term case for structural reform of America's lawmaking process? Put another way, can you really solve any of our policy problems until you solve our fundamental political problem? And don't think about it in terms of when your team is in power. Think of it in terms of the next 30 years, and the challenges we face.
I think that this is a bit of a false choice. Normally, procedural and substantive reforms go together. Certainly you saw that the substantive legislation of the Civil Rights and Great Society period were intimately related to reforms of how congress operated. The New Deal required a revamping of Supreme Court constitutional doctrine and the construction of a modern administrative state apparatus. Even in 2009, it's important to recall that the essential backdrop of today's Waxman-Markey vote (substantive) was Henry Waxman's successful challenge to John Dingell to helm the Energy & Commerce Committee.
For Waxman, there was no contradiction between seeking a substantive reform of energy policy and seeking a procedural shakeup. The problem is that very few other senior Democrats seem to be thinking Waxman-style. In particular, almost nobody in the United States Senate seems willing to admit that the Senate's rules are a huge impediment to sound public policy rather than cute and lovable quirks.


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South West Coast Path - Porthleven to The Lizard
An 15 mile walk along the Cornish section of the South West Coast Path between Porthleven and The Lizard
A walk to Britain's most southerly point, The Lizard. There are a few challenging climbs along the route although the path is predominantly across grassy cliff-tops with some fantastic views along the coast. This walk crosses the renowned Loe Bar in front of Loe Pool which is said to have been where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was thrown upon his death.
Porthleven to Lizard Village Walk - Essential Information
Walk Statistics:
- Start point
- Porthleven View in OS Map | View in Google Map
- End Point
- Lizard Village View in OS Map | View in Google Map
- Total Walk distance
- 15 miles
- Walk difficulty
- Not too strenuous, a few climbs
The following maps and services can assist in navigating this route. The links include published hard copy as well as online plots and downloadable GPX route data for importing into navigational software and apps.
- Ordnance Survey Explorer Map
- OS Explorer 103 - The Lizard
- Online Ordnance Survey Route
- Full screen plot of route on an OS map
- Online OpenStreetMap Route
- Full screen plot of route on an OpenStreetMap map
- Online Google Route
- Full screen plot of route on a Google map
- ViewRanger App Route
- ViewRanger Route
- GPX data for route (download)
- Downloadable GPX coordinates of walk
Mill Lane Camping and Caravan Park, PorthlevenView in OS Map | View in Google Map
- Website
- http://caravanandcampingporthleven.com/reservations.html
- Description
- Mill Lane Camping and Caravan Park, Mill lane, Porthleven, Cornwall TR13 9LQ
Details of public transport that is required for the walk
Bus Service
- Service Details
- At the time of walking this route the local 2 bus service was provided by First Kernow and linked Penzance, Helston, Falmouth and Truro. Due to the ever changing landscape of public transport it is advised to use the Traveline website to get the latest timetables and operators
- Timetable
- Traveline Website
First Group - Bus Service
- Service Details
- 37/34 - At the time of walking this route the local 37/34 bus service was provided by First Kernow and linked Helston and The Lizard. Due to the ever changing landscape of public transport it is advised to use the Traveline website to get the latest timetables and operators.
- Timetable
- Traveline Website
Walk Data
- Date of Walk
- 2012-07-01
- Walk Time
- 07:30 to 13:30
- Walkers
- Griffmonster, Kat
- Weather Conditions
- Sunny and warm with cloud bubbling up as the day went on
Walk Notes
This was the eighth day of a two week walking expedition along South Cornwall section of the South West Coast Path.
Choosing the walk for the day
As this expedition along the South West Coast Path was being undertaken as a sectional walk using base-camps and public transport, the direction of travel and the daily sections to walk was dictated by the availability of the local bus services. Being a Sunday, only a few bus services run which means that the sections from Helford to Coverack and Coverack to The Lizard were inaccessible and had to be left for a weekday. The next section along the route is The Lizard to Porthleven, but to give the optimum amount of time to achieve the distance it is beneficial to walk this in the opposite direction from where there are buses back into Helston. I have to admit that ending at The Lizard is a worthy climax to a days walk.
The day started as a fine English summers morning with blue sky and plenty of sunshine. Early morning on a Sunday is such a glorious time to wander through any town or village as it is one of the few times that one can truly appreciate the place without the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Porthleven was just that. A picturesque little Cornish fishing village with an inner and outer harbour. Not a soul about. Tranquil in the morning sunshine, the tide out, leaving numerous little fishing boats beached on the sand of the harbour. Two canons stand on guard on either side of the entrance to the inner harbour. The church tower stands ominously at the head of the harbour looking striking against the deep blue sky.
Churches and Museums
The walking is easy to begin with, over the cliffs to Loe Bar, then across the shingle and over the next stretch of cliffs. Eventually the path leads down to the curious cove known as Church Cove where there is a Church with a detached bell tower built into the surrounding rock. The church is dedicated to St Winwaloe, a little known sixth century saint who was born in Brittany to Cornish parents. The building dates from the 13th Century though there has been a place of worship on the site from the 6th century.
Beyond the church the path crosses the sandy cove where a stream runs down the beach, spreading out in delta fashion as it trickles down to the sea. A makeshift dam sits at the head of the beach made from piles of pebbles and stones, ineffective in holding back the waters but presenting a method to cross the water course without getting ones feet wet. A simple procedure of balancing and pivoting across the stones resulted in a little bit of challenging fun with the chance of missing a footing or treading on a loose pebble and falling in the shallow waters. Kat took the easy approach and hopped and jumped across the many streamlets that the stream fan-tailed out into at the bottom of the beach.
The walking becomes a little more strenuous as the path navigates up and over the cliffs to Poldu Cove where there is the former Marconi radar station, which is now a museum, and a little further on a monument dedicated to Marconi's work. The path then drops down to Polurrian Cove which is the closest it gets to the village of Mullion, a mile inland. Across another cliff-top and the path once again drops to the next cove, Mullion Cove, a little fishing hamlet with a pretty harbour that dates from 1895. Here we found a cafe which was just opening up for business and took time out for a pot of tea and flapjacks and to reflect on the scenes we had witnessed along the route thus far.
The easy way and the hard way to get down to Kynance Cove
Past Rill Point and the cairn known as Apron String the route heads to Kynance Cove. The broad grassy downs on this section have numerous worn tracks where people have trampled over the years and it is not clear what is the official route. On a day such as the glorious Sunday that we were treading our way southwards, there were many people about and it was easy to follow those ahead. In this case, a couple of ladies could be seen some distance in front of us, casually strolling as we slowly caught up with them. The cove lay ahead behind a craggy formation atop the cliff. With the multiple tracks I made a brief consultation with the OS map but this did not offer much of a revelation it only marked the coast path and a route up the valley from the cover. The figures ahead disappeared from view beyond the crag and we headed towards where they were last seen, arriving at the scene to be confronted with these two middle-aged ladies attempting to clamber down a 12 foot near vertical drop of cliff face. One had managed to get herself down and was guiding the second lady. They seemed totally unperturbed by the difficulty this was causing. We gazed on with nervous hesitation as this did not seem right that the coast path should have such a treacherous way to get down to the Cove. I retraced my steps to see if there was any other obvious path but the only other route appeared to be the one that led inland. After several minutes the two ladies had successfully scaled the cliff and I called down to them to ask if this was the correct route in the hope that they knew the area. They were tourists themselves and assumed it must be the coast path as they had seen no other way down. More dubious hesitancy. I called out to the two ladies to be certain that the path continued down to the Cove. I didn't fancy trying to get back up if it led nowhere. They assured us that there was a pathway beyond. I sheepishly edged to the drop and carefully started lowering myself down. There were enough crags on the granite that could be used to step down though it wasn't the easiest of tasks. I do suffer from vertigo but just concentrated on the task in hand and was soon at the base. It did make me wonder how anyone could actually get back up. At least in going down there was the assistance of gravity but going up there was little to assist in leveraging and pulling oneself upwards. It was an effort, but with a little care and time both me and Kat managed to get down. Not frightening but certainly not the thing one expects on the coast path.
The followed the worn track out alongside the crag and onto a flat grassy area atop the cliffs where groups of people stood admiring the scenery. To the left was a trusty coast path waymarker pointing down some craggy stepped stones which zig-zagged to the cove. The other side of the post pointed across the grassy area rather than the route we had just come down. We had taken the wrong route. Looking at where it was pointing revealed several groups of walkers ambling up alongside the cliff edge. The official route hugged the cliff edge and this is where we had gone wrong, taking the broader track which appeared the obvious. Such an easy mistake.
Once on the other side and looking back across the cover we noticed a young chap surveying the same incorrect descent we had negotiated. It appeared that he was having the the same hesitation about the way ahead that we had. Eventually he started lowering himself down. It would appear that this was a common misdirection. Maybe a better waymarker for walkers heading south may resolve this.
The Lizard
It was something of a fulfilment to reach such a renowned endpoint as the Lizard. The sense that a walk was completed, the sense of achievement. The furthest one can walk south in Britain and we were there. No fanfare. No razzmatazz. No accolade. No spectacular monument. Just the rock, the grass, the breeze, the sound of the sea crashing against the rocks and the sense of being somewhere significant. Whether one has walked the 15 miles, 150 miles or 1500 miles it is a sense of completion with only ones own knowledge that the distance is complete. There should be no more than that. A simple plaque declares 'The Lizard' and a small National Trust marker states 'Old Lizard Head'. Thats all one needs to know. Simple. Natural. The way it should be. A group of youngsters sat on the grass atop the highest point of the cliff gazing out at sea. Had they arrived after a journey or were they just day-trippers who had toddled up from the road and wondering what the fuss is about? It didn't matter. Their silhouettes against the blue sky said it all.
After a few moments pause to reflect on the wonders of the natural beauty, we headed off to get onto the lane up to Lizard village. With the lifeboat house and slipway in sight, we passed a group of youths being herded down to the Lizard. About 20 teenage girls and boys who did not seem overawed by the landscape or the prospect of having to walk the coast path to get a view of this so called Lizard. They sluggishly drew up to where one of the leaders had stopped to dish out a few words of advise. A girl spoke up, stating that she was in need of the loo and without any time for an answer she descended to a grassy ledge out of sight of the group, though in full view of the path leading from the lifeboat house, crowded with people. Kids! We were all like that once! Well maybe, I have fond recollections of being led up the mountains of the lake district when I was their age. That was overwhelming. They will learn.
The single track lane down to the lifeboat house was busy with frequent cars heading to a small car park. It made me wonder why people could not just walk down to this point, there was a good well drained path away from the road which led most of the distance from the village to the coast path. On reaching the village of Lizard there were more cars. A sea of motors brashly parked across the village green. Is this what our treasured villages were becoming, nothing more than car parks? Such a shame. After a drink at the Witches Ball we stood alongside the green and waited for the bus to Helston along with a few other people. We watched the scene as more tourists drove into the village. Faces staring from the confines of a car. I'm sorry, but that doesn't appeal to me. You cant admire views from a car. You need to stand in the view. Be part of it. Experience it. More and more tourists arrived in their metal boxes. Carving up the edge of the green as they attempted to deposit their cars so they could spend time wandering around the myriad tourist shops full of mantelpiece clutter. Then armed with their mementos, off they would go. Another location to tick off on their itinerary list of places to visit. IF there was ever a piece of advise to any of them it would be leave your car at home and experience reality. But hey, who am I to judge. Though, I do know we walked to Lizard Point and was rewarded with the beauty of the rock and the grass, the sound of the sea and the sense of achievement and that is pure satisfaction itself.
Follow the well marked South West Coast Path trail which is marked with the usual National Trail Acorn waymarkers.
The walk uses the official route throughout the entire distance from Porthleven to the Lizard. Take the southerly side of Porhleven harbour and follow this down to the church tower. Keep to the road following the coast until there is a path that leads to Loe Bar.
There is little ambiguity from this point as long as one follows the waymarkers which are frequently posted. There is confusion as the path approaches Kynance Cove and the official route keeps close to the cliff edge. Ignore the wide path that heads to the crag as this results in a 12 foot climb down the rocks.
Once again, beyond Kynance Cove the path is simple to follow all the way through to Lizard Point. From here continue as the coast turns eastwards up to the road where the lifeboat station is located. Walk up this road until there is a path on the left which runs parallel to the road all the way into Lizard village. Continue straight through the village and at its northerly end is the village green where the bus service to Helston departs from.
The Witch Ball, Lizard View in OS Map | View in Google Map
- Address
- The Witch Ball, Lizard
- Website
- www.witchball.co.uk/
Although the building dates from the 1400's, it has only been uses as a pub and restaurant for the last 50 years. Before this time it was a farm. The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a stable lad by the name of George who was killed when a horse kicked him in the head in 1710. He is reputed to move things around. Another ghost of a soldier named Ferdinand is also said to haunt the bar. He was said to be a soldier who was washed up on the shore from a Spanish invasion fleet which foundered in a storm in October 1597.
The name of the pub is taken from the hollow spheres of plain or stained glass hung in cottage windows in 18th century England to ward off evil spirits which were known as Witch Balls. It is said that if a visitors reflection could not be seen in the ball then that person was either a witch or was possessed by evil spirits and should not be allowed across the threshold. The pub has an example of such an artifact which hangs in the restaurant window and dates from 1721.
Beer is supplied by the local Cornish Chough brewery as well as Skinners of Truro and St Austells. A simple but mouth watering menu uses locally caught crab and lobster. locally sourced meat and even the bread is baked at Fat Jacks next door.
It was so good to find a pub that offered ales other than St Austells. I have nothing against St Austells and their ales are excellent but when one knows there are other local brews then its so refreshing to actually find them. The Witch Ball had four ales on offer including The Cornish Choughs Lizard Storm which was an amber bitter with a light dry palate and a slight hint of citrus. This was followed by a Ginger Tosser from Skinners Brewery. There is something childishly satisfying in going up to a bar and declaring in a firm stout voice, 'I would like a Ginger Tosser please'. Unfortunately the barmaid did not comprehend the humour. She did not comprehend most things spoken in English and struggled to understand orders and was totally confused when it came to changing a barrel. Poor girl! The place was busy with diners and there was soon a queue for beer caused by an ale running out. A little patience resolved the issue and the Ginger Tosser was a golden hoppy ale with just a hint of ginger to it. Certainly not in your face. Very drinkable.
The Legends and Myths of Loe BarView in OS Map | View in Google Map
Jan Tregeagle
If one walks southwards along the coast from Porthleven they will soon find themselves trudging across the shingle at Loe Bar which separates the sea from the natural freshwater lake known as Loe Pool, part of the old estuary to the River Cober which, it is said, enabled ships to sail up to Helston. Walking on shingle is an almost a Sisyphean task at times, where one step forward seems to be accompanied half a step back. Fortunately this is just a short length of beach walking though it does allow some enlightenment to the misfortunes that came to the departed spirit of one Jan Tregeagle.
In life, Jan Tregeagle was an evil man whose wrong doings and wicked ways amassed him a great deal of wealth. It was said that there was not a single sin that he had not committed in order to add to his gains. But as his life wore on and feeling remorse for his dreadful deeds, and no doubt fearful of his own judgement in the afterlife, he donated vast sums of money to the church in exchange that the clergy would petition for his soul to be saved from the fires of hell and all of its demons. It wasn't long before he passed away, and the priests kept their side of the bargain by undertaking constant vigil of reciting prayers for his departed soul.
This worked, until, one day in a court case the defendant requested to summon up the spirit of Jan Tregeagle in order to prove his innocence. The judge surprisingly agreed and the ghostly haggered figure took his place in court and, with the judge unperturbed by the shocking sight, he was allowed to give evidence. However, being returned to this earthly plain allowed Tregeagle's spirit to be at the mercy of the demons that sought to drag his soul to the fiery pit. To prevent this, the priests decided that as long as he was kept busy until the final day of judgement then the demons would not bother him. For this they needed a timeless task and after much discussion and thought they requested him to empty out the bottomless Dozmary Pool, which is found high on Bodmin Moor. To make the task more difficult he was made to empty the pool with a limpet shell... and the shell had a hole in it. Tregeagle set about the task and worked tirelessly day and night, week after week. Nothing stopped him until a storm blew up that was so ferocious that he was forced to seek shelter, just for a brief moment. But a brief moment that was all it took for the demons to pounce. Luckily, Tregeagle managed to leap across the pool and escape their clutches. He ran all the way to the hermitage on Roche Rocks near St Austell where he sought sanctuary. In his haste to get away he managed to get stuck whilst trying to climb through a window leaving his bottom facing both the elements of the storm and the howling demons.
The holy man of the hermitage, not wanting to have a rogue spirit's bottom hanging out of his window, summoned the priests to deal with the situation. They hastily arrived at the hermitage and managed to free Tregeagle from his wedged position. Another task was called for to keep Tregeagle busy and this time it was to weave a truss of sand and spin a sand rope to bind it with. An impossible task but nonetheless Tregeagle set about it with diligence, spending day and night, week after week attempting to craft the sand into a truss. However, yet another storm soon blew up and completely destroyed his work and once again he had to flee from the clutches of the demons and seek sanctuary.
This time St Petroc himself intervened to set Tregeagle a task. Binding him in chains, he was assigned the burden of carrying all the sand from the beach below Berepper across the estuary of the River Cober and over to Porthleven. This was a futile task since the sand that was placed at Porthleven was then returned to its original place by the tide. No matter how big the sacks of sand carried by Tregeagle, they could not defeat the tide. Even so, he toiled day and night, week after week carrying sacks of sand northwards and trudging back with his empty sack for more. All this time the demons watched and waited for a chance to ensnare Tregeagle and carry him off. So impatient the demons became that eventually one of them tripped Jan Tregeagle up as he crossed the estuary, sack of sand on his back. He fell flat on his face and the hefty sack split as it was tossed to the ground with the sand spilling out asunder. Such was the size of the sack that the sand flowed right across the estuary, blocking up the stream, and separating the waters from the sea. Thus it was that Loe Bar was formed and the lake soon formed behind the dam and it is still there today.
So what became of old Jan Tregeagle? Well, it is said that a final task was set for him and one which he still toils over to this very day. Every day, every month, every year he continues to sweep the sand from Porthcurno Cove near Lands End round to Mill Bay. Locals will tell you that on dark stormy nights you can hear Jan Tregeagle moaning and howling as he attempts to complete his hopeless task. Some say you can hear him all over Cornwall wailing away as he toils incessantly on.
The legend of King Arthur and Excalibur
The lake behind Low Bar is locally known as Loe Pool and this is said to be the very lake that King Arthur had his sword Excalibur tossed in his last moments before death.
King Arthur, having been mortally wounded in battle and knowing death would soon take its place, gave instruction to his favourite knight, Sir Bedivere, to take his sword Excalibur and cast it into the lake at Loe Pool. At first, Sir Bedivere thinking the sword to be too valuable an item to willfully cast away, hid it and returned to Arthur stating that the deed had been done. Arthur, suspecting this not to be the case, asked Sir Bedivere what had happened after he cast the sword to which the knight could offer nothing of interest. Once again Arthur instructed Sir Bedivere to return and throw the sword into the lake without any concern to its value. This time Sir Bedivere took the sword and cast it out to the centre of the lake. As it swirled through the air, a hand rose from the waters and caught the sword in flight before slowly sinking back into the depths.
HMS Anson Monument, CornwallView in OS Map | View in Google Map
The HMS Anson Monument is a white cross located on high ground overlooking Loe Bar and Porthleven Sands to commemorate the lives of 'about 100 officers and men of HMS Anson who were drowned in 1807. A plaque reads 'Sacred to the memory of about 100 officers and men of HMS Anson who were drowned when the ship was wrecked on Loe Bar 29th Dec. 1807. And buried hereabout Henry Trengrouse of Helston was so impressed by this tragedy that he invented the life saving rocket apparatus which has since been instrumental in saving thousands of lives. Erected march 1949'
Marconi MemorialView in OS Map | View in Google Map
On the cliffs beyond Poldhu Cove is a memorial consisting of a square base on which is a slightly tapered shaft surmounted by the emblem of a globe within a double triangular frame. Four plaques are mounted on each side of the plinth to commemorate the work of Guglielmo Marconi and his experiments at the Poldhu Wireless Station between 1900 and 1933. It was from the wireless station that the first signals to be wirelessly transmitted across the Atlantic on September 12 1901. The memorial was erected in 1937
The legend of Apron StringView in OS Map | View in Google Map
On the southern side of the Mullion Cove the path steeply climbs to the Lizard National Nature Reserve presenting a wide and fairly flat grassy area and the going becomes easy as the path navigates across to Lower Predannack Downs and Kynance Cove. At Rill Point the direction of the cliffs and path turn from due south to due west and it is here that one finds a small Cairn of rough stones locally known as the Apron String. They were said to have been put there by an evil spirit who intended to use them to build a bridge across to France for the convenience of smugglers. The spirit carried the stones in an apron but as he got to the cliff edge the apron strings broke and the stones fell to form the cairn. The evil spirit then gave up the idea of building a bridge!
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At the Office 2.0 conference next week, I'll take a close look at the iPhone as a platform for business applications. The conference organizers are giving out iPhones to all paid attendees. So everybody will be asking the question: Is the iPhone ready for business?
My preliminary finding: Not completely. And just for one little reason: The iPhone's onscreen keyboard cannot be called directly by a Web-based application. The keyboard pops up automatically whenever there's a form on the screen that needs keyboard input, which is fine--but if the user is running a Web application that uses a more sophisticated data-entry method, such as an Ajax-based online word processor or spreadsheet, the keyboard doesn't come up. Hard-coded applications like iPhone e-mail don't have this limitation. But there's as yet no easy way for developers to create true applications for the phone, only Web-based services. Developers could write their own onscreen keyboard utilities, but that's overkill, considering that the iPhone has one lurking just under the surface on every browser page.
This is why Zoho's (previous coverage) iPhone suite, iZoho, is pretty, but of only limited usefulness: It's read-only.
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M'sians reject tainted leaders? Bagan Pinang voters appear to think otherwise
Malaysians have made their stand. Results of a new Merdeka Center for Opinion Research poll suggested that the majority of Malaysians reject political leaders who have been tainted by money politics or sex scandals. The poll was a timely gesture as to discover how the majority of Malaysians would react to the numerous scandals and money politics that rocked the nation of late.
The Merdeka Center discovered that a total of 87% of respondents in the poll conducted in Peninsular Malaysia from 29 Sept to 4 Oct did not want leaders who have been involved in money politics to stand for elections. This was evident in the defeat of UMNO's Rohaizat Othman in the Permatang Pasir by-election who was found guilty of swindling a client by the Bar Council.
However, the results of the Merdeka Center poll was not reflected in the results of the Bagan Pinang by-election on October 11. Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad won a landslide victory despite being found guilty of money politics by his party.[Refer to my previous post]
The poll also found that 75% of respondents did not want leaders who were tainted by sex scandals, taking Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek who was involved in a sex tape scandal as an example. At the same time, only 25.2% of respondents said Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat should lead the MCA following the disgraceful handling of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ).
And recently, members of the MCA decided to oust Ong from the party president post in a vote of no confidence. This would mean Ong has to resign as Transport Minister and also party chief, potentially throwing the entire MCA into disarray with the leadership void. However, any decision for Ong, who is currently on a 'leave' to step down, is yet to be made.
Moving on to the MIC, 59% of respondents felt the party is no longer relevant to the Indian community. Only 15% viewed the largest Indian Malaysian party in the Barisan Nasional coalition positively.
In September, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak also saw his popularity fell to 56% from 65% (in June). However, 47% of the people expressed that they were still not convinced of the Pakatan Rakyat as a worthy rival to the Barisan Nasional at the federal level.
Such polls may not be the Malaysian people's true reflection of sentiments. The voting ballots would prove a more effective way for the people to voice their approvals and objection. But from what that has been gathered so far, it is apparent that the Barisan Nasional remains the only entity that is still capable of leading the federal government. The Pakatan Rakyat is simply still too inexperience to do so for now.
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Iris #3 by Mary Beth Brath
8x10" Acrylic on Panel
This is Iris number 3 in my continuing series. This series is purely about lines and patterns. The flower images come from either my own photos or from photos given to me specifically for this series. The backgrounds are decorative and not what I see with my eyes but what I see with my mind.
Over the past 2 years, I have been experimenting in my home studio with abstracts. This has taught me to look at positive and negative shapes. I am now molding something representational into abstract shapes similar to those found in my abstract studies. The style is similar to how I painted when I first gained gallery representation in 2005.
I am really looking forward to plein air painting this spring and furthering my adventure with this idea in mind.


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In 2012 the Trustees of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation agreed to finance a new 6th form music scholarship aimed specifically at musically talented boys from families who cannot afford the school fees and who pass the Eton bursary application process. The Foundation aims to support muscially talented students from families who would not otherwise have the opportunity to further their education without financial assistance.
The first of these Scholarships, which will cover up to 100% of the school fees, was awarded for entry to Eton in September 2012.
The scholarship will be awarded to a boy who has been educated to date in the UK maintained sector and is a musical high-flyer, with the personality to adapt successfully to the life of a boarding community. He will have a track record as an outstanding instrumentalist or singer (as a rough guide - grade 8 or above) and be willing to participate in the musical life of the school by joining instrumental ensembles or choirs.
Scholarship applicants will be required to demonstrate advanced musical ability as well as financial need. Musical ability will determined through a practical audition which will take place in November. The audition will involve:
Financial need is determined by a formal application to the school which ensures candidate families meet the strict eligibility requirements. Please note that candidates who do not meet these requirements may still be eligible for the Sixth Form Scholarship linked to outstanding musical ability.
In addition applicants must be able to meet the school's academic requirements for entry to the sixth form (at least 6 A grades at GCSE or equivalent and be comfortable pursuing academic courses along with their music.
Those wishing to be considered for the scholarship should apply through the normal Sixth Form Scholarship application process, completing the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Scholarship section as part of their application.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Music Scholarship Prospectus and the Sixth Form Scholarship application form Is available to download from early September until the application deadline. For further details please contact the Admissions Office.


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Jacks-of-all-trades, masters-of-none, beware: Companies increasingly require specialized talent, and professionals with niche skills in fast-growing fields are often receiving multiple job offers.
A just-released downloadable white paper from Robert Half, "The Specialist Economy: How Businesses and Professionals Can Prepare for the Trend Toward Specialization," highlights the increasing demand for workers in professions requiring both a college education and specialization in areas such as health care, accounting and finance, information technology, marketing, and law.
"Firms have a critical need for laser-focused professionals who can help them grow their most lucrative service areas and maximize efficiencies," said Max Messmer, chairman and CEO of Robert Half International and author of Human Resources Kit For Dummies®, 3rd Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). "Full-time and temporary workers with education and concentrated knowledge can help a company operate more efficiently and competitively — top priorities in today's business environment."
Messmer added, "Some professionals have specialized skills but fall short when it comes to marketing themselves. Emphasizing specialty areas in application materials and during interviews can help job candidates stand out from their peers."
Robert Half offers six tips to help job seekers succeed in the specialist economy.
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