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Although widely distributed in nature, gold is a rare element. It has been estimated that all of the Earth's gold could be gathered into a single cube measuring only 20 meters on each side. Because of its rarity, gold is considered a precious metal. The largest deposits of gold have been found in South Africa and the former Soviet Union (in the Urals and Siberia). Other large deposits have been found in the western United States and in Canada, Mexico, and Colombia.
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Primary Uses (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
Gold is used in jewelry, decorations, electroplating, and dental materials. Other uses include medicinal compounds for the treatment of arthritis and the use of the Au198 isotope, with a half-life of 2.7 days, for treating some cancers. Since gold is an excellent heat and electrical conductor, and remains inert when exposed to air or moisture, it has also been used in precision scientific and electrical instruments. Specifically, gold has been used to coat space satellites, to transmit infrared signals, and to serve as the contact point for triggering the inflation of protective air bags in some automobiles. Few countries today use gold coinage systems; an exception is the Krugerrand coin of South Africa. Most nations use gold symbolically as a standard of their monetary systems rather than as actual coinage. Similarly, international monetary exchanges remain based on the world market value of gold, but actual exchanges of gold are uncommon.
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Technical Definition (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
Gold is represented by the chemical symbol Au, derived from the Latin word aurum, meaning "shining dawn." The weighted mass average of these isotopes gives gold an atomic mass of 196.9665 atomic mass units. Pure gold is a soft, shiny, and ductile metal with a brilliant yellow luster. Changing from solid to liquid at 1,064° Celsius, gold has a high melting point. To vaporize gold requires an even higher temperature (2,808° Celsius). Highly purified gold has a specific gravity of 19.3 (at 20° Celsius).
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Description, Distribution, and Forms (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
On the periodic table, gold (atomic number 79) is a member of Group IB of transition metals. This group, also known as the coinage metals, includes copper, silver, and gold. Chemically, gold behaves similarly to platinum, although the arrangement of its chemically reactive electrons is similar to that of copper and silver. Both gold and platinum are largely nonreactive metals. Elemental gold exists in eighteen isotopic forms in nature.
Gold is a rare and precious metal. As such, pure gold has been highly valued and coveted by societies over millennia. Because of its nonreactive nature, elemental gold maintains its brilliant yellow luster. Because of this luster, gold is widely considered the most beautiful and unique of all the metals, which typically display colors of gray, red, or white-silver. Gold does not air-oxidize (tarnish) or corrode upon exposure to moisture. Similarly, it does not readily react to common acids or bases. Nonetheless, gold does dissolve in a reagent known as aqua regia, which is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid; alone, neither acid acts upon gold. Aqua regia is a Latin term meaning the "liquid" (aqua) that dissolves the "king" (regia) of all metals. This reagent is used to separate gold from its ores.
Although predominantly inert, gold can be oxidized to form compounds. When it oxidizes, gold atoms may lose either one, two, or three...
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History (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
The Group IB metals, or coinage metals, were the first metals used in primitive cultures. It is believed that elemental metals were easy to find in nature because their bright lusters shone in natural light. Precious metals have been in use since at least seven thousand years ago by civilizations of the Middle East and Afghanistan. Wealthy members of these groups possessed decorative jewels fashioned from gold. The metalworkers of these ancient societies manipulated the gold physically using hammers or other tools to carve or cut the soft metal.
Exploration of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, from the fourteenth century b.c.e., revealed an entry guarded by gold funerary masks inlaid with colorful glass. A gold sarcophagus and gold panel behind the king's throne were also found. Between 4000 and 3500 b.c.e., the Egyptians and Sumerians learned to smelt silver and gold. They were able to generate fires in furnaces that could achieve the extreme temperatures required to melt metals, to cast molten metal into molds, to forge metal, and to make alloys (by blending molten metals). The use of gold for dental fillings among wealthy Egyptians dates back to between 2680 and 2160 b.c.e.
In Mesopotamia, a region that is now part of Iraq, an ornate headdress of Queen Puabi, dated to 2700 b.c.e., was fashioned with gold-carved leaves to adorn her face. Trading and business deals of Mesopotamia involved the exchange of precious metals,...
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Obtaining Gold (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
Gold is separated from rocks, minerals, and alluvial deposits by panning or sluicing methods. The extraction of gold from telluride ores (tetradymite, nagyagite, and sylvanite) requires chemical reactions. The use of cyanide compounds, formation of amalgams, or smelting gold may be necessary to extract the gold from ores. The extracted gold is frequently refined by electrolysis (the use of an electric current). Electrolysis is particularly useful in separating mercury-gold amalgams back into their separate and purified metallic state.
In telluride ores (minerals), gold is not in the free, elemental state; rather, it is in a cationic form. As a metallic cation, each atom of gold carries a positive charge of either +1 or +3. A chemical reaction involving the addition of potassium cyanide to the crushed rocks (covered with water) makes a new compound of gold that dissolves in the water. This layer of water can be collected off the crushed rock, and through electrolysis the gold cations can be converted into gold crystals.
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Uses of Gold (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
As described previously, jewelry and decorative ornaments fashioned from gold are marketed using carats to describe the quantity of gold present. Compounds of gold are used for decorating china or glass items. Gold chloro compounds, containing gold cations having a +3 charge, are mixed with sulfurized terpenes or resins to form a mixture known as "liquid gold," which can be applied directly to glass or china.
Compounds of gold with +1 cations are used in rheumatology as an anti-inflammatory agent for the treatment of active, refractory forms of juvenile and adult rheumatoid arthritis. These biologically active compounds are sodium gold thiomalate and sodium gold (or auro) thioglucose; aurothioglucose seems to be less painful when injected into a muscle near the joint. The gold therapy must be started before permanent changes have occurred in the afflicted joints if it is to benefit the patient. Some of the side effects of these therapies include skin, liver, and kidney changes or damage. Approximately 20 percent of patients who try gold therapy have to discontinue treatment because of these adverse reactions. However, newer anti-inflammatory agents have limited the number of patients who need to try gold therapy for relief.
Finally, gold has been used in an abstract manner as the basis or standard of valuation for currencies and monetary systems throughout the world. The origins of this ancient practice lie in...
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Further Reading (Encyclopedia of Global Resources)
Bernstein, Peter L. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession. New ed. New York: Wiley, 2004.
Boyle, Robert W. Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.
Green, Timothy. The New World of Gold: The Inside Story of the Mines, the Markets, the Politics, the Investors. New York: Walker, 1981.
Greenwood, N. N., and A. Earnshaw. "Copper, Silver, and Gold." In Chemistry of the Elements. 2d ed. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
Macdonald, Eoin H. Handbook of Gold Exploration and Evaluation. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2007.
Marx, Jenifer. The Magic of Gold. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
Pellant, Chris. Rocks and Minerals. 2d American ed. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2002.
Schumann, Walter. Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones. Translated by R. Bradshaw and K. A. G. Mills. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Natural Resources Canada. Canadian Minerals Yearbook, Mineral and Metal Commodity Reviews. http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/mms-smm/busi-indu/cmy-amc/com-eng.htm
U.S. Geological Survey. Gold: Statistics and Information. http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gold/index.html#mcs
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Gold (Chemical Elements)
Gold has been called the most beautiful of all chemical elements. Its beauty has made it desirable for use in jewelry, coins, and artwork for thousands of years. It was one of the first pure metals to be used by humans.
Gold is one of the few elements that can affect politics and economics. Wars have been fought over access to gold. Cities and towns have sprung up and died out as gold was discovered and then mined out. Many nations still count their wealth according to the amount of gold they keep in storage.
Gold lies in the middle of the periodic table. The periodic table is a chart that shows how elements are related to one another. Gold is a heavy metal in a group known as the transition metals. Gold is also known as a precious metal (as are platinum and silver).
Large amounts of gold are still used in the manufacture of coins, medals, jewelry, and art. Gold also has a number of uses in industry, medicine, and other applications. For example, one radioactive isotope of gold is commonly used to treat cancer.
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Gold (How Products are Made)
Gold, recognizable by its yellowish cast, is one of the oldest metals used by humans. As far back as the Neolithic period, humans have collected gold from stream beds, and the actual mining of gold can be traced as far back as 3500 B.C., when early Egyptians (the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia) used mined gold to craft elaborate jewelry, religious artifacts, and utensils such as goblets.
Gold's aesthetic properties combined with its physical properties have long made it a valuable metal. Throughout history, gold has often been the cause of both conflict and adventure: the destruction of both the Aztec and Inca civilizations, for instance, and the early American gold rushes to Georgia, California, and Alaska.
The largest deposit of gold can be found in South Africa in the Precambrian Witwatersrand Conglomerate. This deposit of gold ore is hundreds of miles across and more than two miles deep. It is estimated that two-thirds of the gold mined comes from South Africa. Other major producers of gold include Australia, the former Soviet Union, and the United States (Arizona, Colorado, California, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, and Washington).
About 65 percent of processed gold is used in the arts industry, mainly to make jewelry. Besides jewelry, gold is also used in the electrical, electronic, and ceramics industries. These industrial applications have grown in recent years and now occupy an estimated 25 percent of the gold market. The remaining percentage of mined gold is used to make a type of ruby colored glass called purple of Cassius, which is applied to office building windows to reduce the heat in the summer, and to mirrors used in space and in electroscopy so that they reflect the infrared spectrum.
Physical Characteristics
Gold, whose chemical symbol is Au, is malleable, ductile, and sectile, and its high thermal and electrical conductivity as well as its resistance to oxidation make its uses innumerable. Malleability is the ability of gold and other metals to be pressed or hammered into thin sheets, 10 times as thin as a sheet of paper. These sheets are sometimes evaporated onto glass for infrared reflectivity, molded as fillings for teeth, or used as a coating or plating for parts. Gold's ability to be drawn into thin wire (ductility) enables it to be deposited onto circuits such as transistors and to be used as an industrial solder and brazing alloy. For example, gold wire is often used for integrated circuit electrical connections, for orthodontic and prosthetic appliances, and in jet engine fabrication.
Gold's one drawback for use in industry is that it is a relatively soft metal (sectile). To combat this weakness, gold is usually alloyed with another member of the metal family such as silver, copper, platinum, or nickel. Gold alloys are measured by karats (carats). A karat is a unit equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy. Thus, 24 karat (24K) gold is pure gold, while 18 karat gold is 18 parts pure gold to 6 parts other metal.
Extraction and Refining
Gold is usually found in a pure state; however, it can also be extracted from silver, copper, lead and zinc. Seawater can also contain gold, but in insufficient quantities to
- 1 In lode or vein deposits, the gold is mixed with another mineral, often quartz, in a vein that has filled a split in the surrounding rocks. Gold is obtained from lode deposits by drilling, blasting, or shoveling the surrounding rock.
Lode deposits often run deep underground. To mine underground, miners dig shafts into the ground along the vein. Using picks and small explosives, they then remove the gold ore from the surrounding rock. The gold ore is then gathered up and taken to a mill for refinement.
- 2 Placer deposits contain large pieces of gold ore (nuggets) and grains of gold that have been washed downstream from a lode deposit and that are usually mixed with sand or gravel. The three main methods used to mine placer deposits are hydraulic mining, dredging, and power shoveling. All methods of placer deposit mining use gravity as the basic sorting force.
In the first method, a machine called a "hydraulic giant" uses a high pressure stream of water to knock the gold ore off of banks containing the ore. The gold ore is then washed down into sluices or troughs that have grooves to catch the gold.
Dredging and power shoveling involve the same techniques but work with different size buckets or shovels. In dredging, buckets on a conveyor line scoop sand, gravel, and gold ore from the bottom of streams. In power shoveling, huge machines act like shovels and scoop up large quantities of gold-bearing sand and gravel from stream beds.
Hydraulic mining and dredging are outlawed in many countries because they are environmentally destructive to both land and streams.
- 3 Once the gold ore has been mined, it usually is washed and filtered at the mine as a preliminary refinement technique. It is then shipped to mills, where it is first combined with water and ground into smaller chunks. The resulting mixture is then further ground in a ball mill rotating cylindrical vessel that uses steel balls to pulverize the ore.
Separating the gold from the ore
- 4 The gold is then separated from the ore using one of several methods. Floatation involves the separation of gold from its ore by using certain chemicals and air. The finely ground ore is dumped into a solution
that contains a frothing agent (which causes the water to foam), a collecting agent (which bonds onto the gold, forming an oily film that sticks to air bubbles), and a mixture of organic chemicals (which keep the other contaminants from also bonding to the air bubbles). The solution is then aeratedir bubbles are blown innd the gold attaches to the air bubbles. The bubbles float to the top, and the gold is skimmed off.
Cyanidation also involves using chemicals to separate the gold from its contaminants. In this process, the ground ore is placed in a tank containing a weak solution of cyanide. Next, zinc is added to the tank, causing a chemical reaction in which the end result is the precipitation (separation) of the gold from its ore. The gold precipitate is then separated from the cyanide solution in a filter press. A similar method is amalgamation, which uses the same process with different chemicals. First, a solution carries the ground ore over plates covered with mercury. The mercury attracts the gold, forming an alloy called an amalgam. The amalgam is then heated, causing the mercury to boil off as a gas and leaving behind the gold. The mercury is collected, recycled and used again in the same process.
The carbon-in-pulp method also uses cyanide, but utilizes carbon instead of zinc to precipitate the gold. The first step is to mix the ground ore with water to form a pulp. Next, cyanide is added to dissolve the gold, and then carbon is added to bond with the gold. After the carbon particles are removed from the pulp, they are placed in a hot caustic (corrosive) carbon solution, which separates the gold from the carbon.
- 5 If the gold is still not pure enough, it can be smelted. Smelting involves heating the gold with a chemical substance called flux. The flux bonds with the contaminants and floats on top of the melted gold. The gold is then cooled and allowed to harden in molds, and the flux-contaminant mixture (slag) is hauled away as a solid waste.
The Future
Because gold is a finite resource, its long-term future is limited. In the short term, however, it will continue to find widespread use in jewelry and in industrial applications, especially in the electronics field.
In the last few years, several companies have focused on extracting gold from sulphide ore rather than oxide ore. Previous techniques made such extraction difficult and expensive, but a newer technique called bioleaching has made extraction more feasible. The process involves combining the sulphide ore with special bacteria that "eat" the ore or break it down into a more manageable form.
Where To Learn More
Coombs, Charles. Gold and Other Precious Metals. Morrow Publishing, 1981.
Gasparrini, Claudia. Gold & Other Precious Metals: From Ore to Market. Springer-Verlag, 1993.
Green, Timothy. The World of Gold. Walker Publishing, 1968.
Hawkins, Clint. Gold & Lead. HarperCollins, 1993.
Lye, Keith. Spotlight on Gold. Rourke Enterprises, 1988.
McCracken, Dave. Gold Mining in the Nineteen Nineties: The Complete Book of Modern Gold Mining Procedure. New Era Publications, 1993.
Wise, Edmund, ed. Gold: Recovery, Properties, and Applications. Van Nostrand, 1964.
Abelson, Philip H. "Gold." Science. July 11, 1986, p. 141.
Dworetzky, Tom. "Gold Bugs." Discover, March, 1988, p. 32.
"Some Like It Hot." Economist. June 25, 1988, p.88.
"Mining with Microbes: A Labor of Bug." Science News. April 14, 1990, p. 236.
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By Mayo Clinic staffFitness programs abound, from yoga and Pilates to step aerobics and strength training — either at home or in a gym. So which type of fitness program is right for you? Ask yourself these questions to figure it out.
What is your current fitness level?
You probably have some idea of how fit you are. But assessing and recording baseline fitness scores can help you set your fitness goals and measure your progress. To assess your aerobic and muscular fitness, flexibility, and body composition, consider recording:
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If you are age 50 or older, haven't exercised for some time, or have chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, it's a good idea to to consult your doctor before beginning an exercise program.
It's also good to keep in mind that as you age, impaired balance, decreased elasticity of tendons and other factors can limit your exercise capacity. Injuries also are more frequent, and recovery takes longer. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise or that you won't benefit from it. Just be sure to seek input from your doctor or an exercise therapist about how to create a program that's appropriate for you.
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Keeping your fitness level in mind, think about why you want to start a fitness program. Perhaps your doctor has suggested that you start a fitness program to lose weight. If you're already active, perhaps you want to rev up your fitness program to prepare for a 5K race or get ready for a favorite sport. Having clear goals can help you stay motivated.
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It's truly a thing of beauty. The new X6, BMW's answer to consumers' burgeoning love of crossover utility vehicles (or "sport activity vehicle," as BMW bills it), dresses the part without losing the style and driving dynamics that make it a BMW. As BMW head design honcho Chris Bangle hints, it's higher off the ground but is every bit a sports car as, say, the M3.
Though it's "technically" a concept in this form, we expect to see this in production form as a 2008 model. It is also expected to be BMW's first production hybrid vehicle, upping efficiency by 20% over the gasoline-powered model.
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How could money compare to passion?
Friday, November 14th, 2008Yesterdays news article in Computer Sweden has been a hot topic for Swedish open source-related forums, mailing lists and chatrooms today. Myself I wrote about this news article yesterday, but during the day today I've been thinking more about it and read others, and their co-workers and friends, opinions on this topic.
One of the more interesting opinions I read about was that closed source has better quality but they should use open source to strenghten the code base. Since the most commonly used open source license requires that the code will continue to be open source using it in a closed source application will require it to be released as open source. Poor unenlightened people, isn't that a catch 22?
Closed source applications are produced to gain money for a company and it needs to bring in more money than it costs to develop the application to gain any profit. When a release date is set there is a deadline to keep up to for the sake of the trademark and the profit. As everyone that works with computers know it's always something that delays everything in a project when you're almost there and for the sake of the trademark it's quickfixed, which doesn't really provide any quality to the code. What's even more terrible than the quickfixes is that in most cases they're never fixed since they get the work done.
You may ask yourselves why companies are still using closed source if there's quickfixes that are never fixed and maybe potentional security risks due to lack of time and/or money to keep within the deadlines and budgets, but how would you know that it could have been done better and more secure if you don't know how it's done now? Ofcourse the developers know about it and are able to fix it, but frankly they usually don't bother since noone complains since the application gets the work done and they don't use their own application in a large scale environment so they'll never be affected by it.
Open source on the other hand is mainly developed by people that needs the applications themselves, everyone can correct someone else's code or rewrite a function completely to fit their need better or just improve performance. Everyone I know, including myself, that contributed to open source or even developed their own applications are feeling honoured that others want to use their code. In open source it's not about money or profit, it's all about fast, secure and optimized code, in short good quality code.
There is one simple thing that will give the open source community the strength to defeat closed source, patents and monopoly in the IT-industry, passion!
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Keep NM's permanent fund 'permanent'
The relatively short-term benefits of hundreds of millions of dollars in extra cash aren't worth the costs of making New Mexico's 'permanent' fund anything but.
New Mexico is fortunate to have been born a 'trust fund baby,' admitted to the Union a century ago with a land grant permanent fund that generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year for public schools and other state institutions.
Like many trust fund babies, we must resist the understandable temptation to spend too much of our good fortune now or we will regret the decision in the years to come.
Legislation under consideration in Santa Fe would dramatically and dangerously increase the amount of money we take from the fund each year, threatening the fund's long-term viability and actually reducing the amount of money we can count on in the years to come.
Supporters of the proposal to spend more now make a compelling case, arguing that the extra money is needed to improve our schools and to pay for early childhood programs (Editor's note: See their arguments here and here). But their well-intentioned reasoning is short-sighted, risky and constitutionally questionable.
We've been here before
Distributions from the land grant permanent fund were changed in 1996 to protect the fund from losing value to inflation and to provide public schools and other beneficiaries with a more predictable annual income. Voters that year approved a constitutional amendment to change the distribution from all the fund's annual earnings to a flat 4.7 percent of the short-term value of the fund — a reasonable amount that offset the need for hundreds of millions of dollars each year in extra taxes and that still allowed the fund to grow, provided that it was invested wisely and inflation remained low.
The fund and its beneficiaries did reasonably well under this new distribution formula. Fund managers, freed from the pressure to invest for short-term gains and buoyed by strong financial markets, grew the fund from about $4.6 billion in 1996 to about $6.8 billion in 2003, when the temptation to squeeze more money from the fund proved too great.
It was in that year that the previous governor successfully persuaded New Mexicans to raise the annual distribution from the prudent 4.7 percent of the fund's value to a riskier 5.8 percent. The argument then was much the same as it is now — the money was needed for valuable education reforms and the increase would only be temporary, dropping to 5.5 percent by July 2012 and finally down to 5 percent in 2016.
Well, we're fast approaching July 2012 and we're already being asked to raise the distribution, this time to a whopping 7 percent of the value of the fund annually from fiscal years 2014 through 2023. But don't worry, we're told, the distribution will fall back to less than 5.8 percent after that.
Given this record, it's not hard to imagine that voters in the early 2020s will be asked to maintain or even raise the distribution once again.
Short-term benefits aren't worth the cost
The extra money would be devoted to early childhood education programs and would likely be funneled to private companies that provide those services. This is certainly a worthy cause, but the Office of the Attorney General has raised serious questions about whether this arrangement would be legal under the state Constitution and the federal enabling act that admitted New Mexico to the United States.
The land grant permanent fund is not a savings account or a "rainy day fund" to be tapped when times are tough. The state's general fund reserves serve that purpose. The land grant permanent fund is a trust fund designed to generate steady, annual income for the state, but it can only do that if the amount we take out plus inflation is less than our investment earnings plus new income to the fund.
The current distribution of 5.8 percent pushes that envelope; a distribution of 7 percent would almost certainly shred it, slowly depleting the value of the fund and costing taxpayers more money in the long run.
The relatively short-term benefits of hundreds of millions of dollars in extra cash aren't worth the costs of making New Mexico's "permanent" fund anything but.
Smith, a Democrat, is chair of the Senate Finance Committee and represents the Deming-area Senate District 35.
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I hope you will indulge me today. I'm going to share some details about my recent astral projection. I was asleep in my bed during this astral journey so at first it felt like an ordinary dream but once I entered the doorway of a rather tall elaborate stone building I realized I had just entered the akashic library... this was no dream.
Astral flight might just be the most exhilarating experience you'll ever have. You may not remember having a one, but that doesn't mean you haven't been on any out-of-body journeys. If you have ever been awakened abruptly due to physical jerking sensation it could have been your spirit's re-entry after a dreamtime excursion. Or, perhaps you can recall waking up feeling as if you just lost something precious... if so, I would say without question when that happens you absolutely had a profound astral experience. It can be very emotional coming back from the astral plane... my best description of it would be feeling homesick.
The akashic library resides in the fourth dimension. It is the reference library where life records are stored... past, present, and future. Not everyone has access to the library. You might be given "guest access" for a brief time to look up something in your own lifebook but barred from peeking into other people's business. Other people have earned fuller access. If you have karma involving indiscretion or lack of integrity in a past life (or your current life) you will have your library card revoked, at least until those things have been resolved.
The akashic library is a place for research and learning, as well as reviewing your past lives. As you might imagine, it is a huge place. I had never been in this section of the library before so I was quite impressed. Nor had I ever seen so many people milling about the library halls.
Okay, on to the storytelling. As I said earlier, at first I believed I was adrift in a dream, but my awareness of where I was became heightened once I was inside the building. The decor was quite elaborate with an Asian influence. If I had taken a book from a shelf and opened it up my guess is it would have been written in Chinese. But I wasn't there to do research I was there to take a qigong class so I kept walking further and further into the building looking for the instructor and other students. Several other classes were already in session. Reiki classes, as well as yoga, tai chi, and meditation classes.
In addition to the books the shelves were also adorned with several artifacts and figurines (Buddhas, goddesses, and carved animals). A woman informed me that each student in attendance was to choose an item to hold during their session. I chose a small carved piece that depicted four horses (horses have a personal meaning to me, but not important to the telling of this story). I continued deeper into the library to find my class but soon realized that I was in an area of the library meant for advanced students. I was a bit alarmed by this until a teacher tapped me on the shoulder and told me that I was right where I was suppose to me. Hearing that was so comforting. I found a small nook and proceeded doing my qigong practice by myself.
As I was walking down the various hallways I noticed a friend I know through the Internet who lives in California participating in a meditation and yoga group in a small open space. He didn't notice me but he confirmed with me the next day when I contacted him that he was in astral at the same time and remembered being instructed by "an awakened one" in a combo meditation-yoga class. We were indeed hanging out in astral together!
Later on I noticed several floating open air shuttle buses others were riding on. I hopped on one as well and rode it outside into the pouring rain. The terrain was mountains and there was also a waterway that needed to be crossed to get to a village. I hopped off the shuttle while it was still in motion and made my way across the water by foot, climbing over slippery stones and wading through the water. When I had journeyed halfway across the water I looked farther up and saw where the shuttle I had been riding on had stopped. Everyone from the shuttle was being loaded onto a ferry that would carry them safely across the water.
Upon returning to the physical I had to laugh, I had certainly missed the boat (the ferry). Yet another lesson for me not to be so impatient, if I had not jumped off the astral shuttle I would have been escorted home by ferry rather than wading knee deep in water during a downpour. Of course, I love water and didn't really mind finding my own way.
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No scrubs (hangin out the passenger side of his best friends ride, trying to holla at me!)
People were whining about T-55/T34 rushes before, other units buffed, meta game changes, nobody does this anymore due to heavy tanks being useful.
VSTI Spam - again heavy tanks stopped this in its tracks, though they're still great support units.
VABs + Chasseurs, Skots + Strelci? rushes - Still prevalent - always beatable. (not so much skots anymore)
VAB speed and cheap price still makes it hugely deadly though when carrying 10 french psychopaths.
Current meta seems to be for nato, (granted I dont play nato in ranked)
4 leo start + mephistos, a dash of infantry to taste, a couple of rolands or a vetted out chap, obviously luchs as recon, gazelle recon and a few AML mortars.
2 leo start + more of the above but with patton rise in there too.
2 leo start + a horde of VABs + Chasseurs.
Sometimes some special forces (deltas are rare, fernspaher/green jackets are the usual suspects) for rooting out command vehicles and AA.
Notice a lack of helicopters.
Notice a lack of long range artillery (until mid-late game when the aufs come out, but usually mortars are good enough) definitely no MRLOLS
Notice no ATGM infantry.
Zippos are map/situation dependent but generally pretty rare because they are so painfully slow.
Now I can't really speak for the pact side's meta as I dont play against them in ranked - but my deck usually consists of:
4 Strops in 2 groups
2 LAAD Igla
4 Empty bmp1ps
8 Motostrelki in Bmp1ps
at least 1 PT- armoured recon
This is usually good enough to stand up to whatever doctrine the nato players throw against me but as you can see from my rank and elo, im far from a top end player (although I have beaten a few of the top 10)
As the map progresses I'll usually bring out vpzu/spets if I cant get eyes on their units easily enough
Akatsiyas as cheap impromtu mortars because of their excellent minimum and maximum range - plus they are relatively cheap, if they dig in with zippo lolfortresses, its time for a buratino.
A lack of helicopters
A lack of ATGM infantry
A lack of rocket arty (Again the previous doctrine of SPAM ALL THE SMERCHES, has been largely phased out)
What do we take from this? AA is overpowered? Of course it isnt - if it was less powerful then chopper rushes (another thing of the past, but this isnt balance, its the playerbase getting better) would be prevalent
Are ATGM infantry useless? Yes - overpriced. nobody uses these in ranked. They use the quicker vab mephiso or Itow jeep. (I just use the bmp1s or maybe T62M's if the mood strikes me) They are also too easy to see. I dont have a clue how this could be balanced, maybe make them cheaper, I dont think they'd be spammable because they cant unload and dump alpha strikes like chasseurs/strelki can.
Is rocket arty useless? I dont think it is - it has its place in 3v3 and 4v4 lolfests and lets face it, 4 MRLS or Smerch firing a huge arc of rockets over your force and into the forests ahead of you looks pretty badass.
Are heavy tanks OP? (leo2 T80V)
I wouldnt say so because they are still vulnerable - side hits, ambushes, ATGM volleys and their price and availability even it out. Medium tanks though, they dont seem to have a role short of Patton Rises as leo screens and T62M as utility ATGM carriers.
Lighter tanks dont seem to have a role either again short of giving heavy tanks too many units to shoot at.
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I actually didn't think about that but I still think if her next album flops then it could damage her career and be harder for her to get up (although she will get up when she's on a decent label)
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I actually didn't think about that but I still think if her next album flops then it could damage her career and be harder for her to get up (although she will get up when she's on a decent label)
I would really love if album #5 has a mixture of Let Go, The Best Damn Thing (we want some punk songs, dont we ) and Goodbye Lullaby and I do really miss her rock/pop songs
I dont believe she s gonna do urban dance,
However I heard that she had A LOT of problems with her producers from album -Let Go- and I just want her to be happy with what she s doing, coz she s always gonna have loyal fans, right guys?
The 5th Album will be like The Best Damn Thing with a mix of Goodbye Lullaby, I think she will release this Album ASAP as she will just use off cuts from GL so not much time write ect will need to be done, she will then release a Greatest Hits album with the enevitible non hit single so fans like us will buy it for the one song and remix of Girlfriend or whatever. many people are asking why arent old fans coming back, well WTH was used to promote this album! thats sounds even more pop than Girlfriend. when i ask friends if they listen to it or heard it half say it was rubbish and others dont know about WTH and Smile only got 178 in the UK chart and she performed it on Britains got talent where usually any old artist performs on that show and the following week its no.1. on T4 she performed Push and a few of my friends said they loved it, so she should have released an acoustic song to get the flocks back ( Everybody Hurts would have been perfect)
anyway trailed off there lol, she'll leave RCA and i think she'll set up her own record label seeing as she has her own : Fashion Label, Charity, Fragrances (even though the fragrances are more commercial), she then can have full control where she can release hopefully more heavy rock music similar too Pretty Reckless or even going into more neich markets and sounding like Janis Joplin which would be more true to herself. and she wont care about sales as she has already made a bucket load of money from Let Go and commercials.
Hey guys!!!! I think this is one of the instrumentals that are gonna be on her new album on her new album, I found it on youtube!!! check it out:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7kVjRTV30&feature=related]Avril Lavigne CANDY new song instrumental - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miuJsZkiNg0&NR=1]avril lavigne- Complete Me New Song - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXYFDsKNtA]Avril Lavigne "Gone" Instrumental - YouTube[/ame]
Old news. Everyone knows about it, thx for posting though!
I think she'll use the Alex Da Kid songs because she did say she wanted to (it should please the label too) and the songs that got cut from GL for the Max Martin ones. The label shouldn't min if there's just a few of them.
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Ok, so as we know Avril is in LA, has about another month before her tour starts off again, and is is most likely shooting her music video during this short break. Do you think its possible Avril could be re-recording and/or song-writing around now?? I mean she's in LA, has a full month off (besides the time it takes for the music video). Why not start re-recording some of her songs (from GL) and/or start writing new ones for album 5?
^ sounds plausible. The video will only take a couple of days at the most and she'll probably have a few days off here and there or half days. There'll be Abbey Dawn stuff to deal with no doubt but with a whole month off it'd be sensible to get in the studio and re-record things she needs to.
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Sounds good to me!
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Do you think she could re-record all 8 songs in one month? That would be nice because she could take a 1, maybe 2, month vacation and still have the album out by July/August 2012 (hopefully ) But Avril did say it would be out earlier then expected... I wonder what her definition of 'earlier then expected' is...
She only said she would re-record a song which might be the first single for her next album, not that she would re-record a lot of songs. She won't re-record the 8 songs she already has, ready to be included on the next album. She might work on some new stuff alone or with Evan (I don't know his schedule) or another co-writer/producer, or by herself. It wouldn't be the first time she writes songs between tour legs, so perhaps. Maybe two weeks or so for that, because she will need to rehearse some days for her Euro tour.
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If WYWH comes out soon and then she gets a 4th single around january then the next album might be out by next summer, just over a year after GL. That could happen since the album hasn't been super successful so she probably won't tour it for as long.
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Q: Since Killian's Bagel Bakery & Deli Cafe closed, where can I find a real Jewish deli in Fayetteville? - J.P., Fayetteville
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The nearest Jewish deli that we're aware of is in an area that hasn't been annexed by Fayetteville - because it's part of north Raleigh. Oh well. If you feel like making a 70-mile drive, it's called Weinberg's and it's at 6016 Falls of Neuse Road.
David Sax, author of a 2010 book about Jewish delis called "Save the Deli," has said that a true Jewish deli "should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods - the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food, and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen."
Though Weinberg's includes hamburgers and ham sandwiches on its menu, the bulk of its menu is firmly rooted in Jewish deli cuisine, from appetizers like chopped liver, cheese blintzes and whitefish salad, to chicken soup with matzo ball or kreplach (or matzo ballandkreplach), to platters of lox or whitefish or sandwiches made with such meats as corned beef, pastrami or liverwurst. Naturally, it has bagels.
So you might check it out. For more info, check weinbergsthedeli.com or call 919-873-2222.
A "Bon Appetit" story said Jewish deli food is rooted in the 19th century when poor Jewish families had to make meals using thrift, resourcefulness and what was in season - tomatoes in summer, for example, and beets in winter. Every part of the animal was used and traditionally contained lots of salt from the preservation process and fat.
"I can assure you, my cardiologist doesn't like it," joked Rabbi Steven Rosenberg of Beth Israel Congregation in Fayetteville.
But Rosenberg loves it. He grew up eating dishes like chicken in the pot, in which the whole chicken was cooked in the pot.
"It's an amazing tradition when it comes to these foods," he said. "They were peasant foods. They lived in places that were very harsh and they were very poor and had to make do."
Some of his favorite Jewish deli foods include pastrami on crusty rye bread and lox with real boiled bagels.
He said if you're craving Jewish deli food, you could probably get some shipped from New York, the cradle of Jewish delis.
Or save up for a trip up there.
Or get someone to open a real Jewish deli here. "I would encourage someone to do that," Rosenberg said.
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