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This term takes place on the online game known as Runescape, at the Fist of Guthix minigame. This is the term for people who are too big of cowards to face the hunter, so instead of standing in the middle getting charges, they run into the houses and just hop around them. They also get out of the house and just run around it getting 3 charges every 2 seconeds, then when the hunter gets close enough to them, they just get back into the house and teleport to a different portal.
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hunter: Omg what a portal hugger!
*Lvl 110 gets inside house and hides for 5 minutes*
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I am off tonight, taking care of family business. So, to that last poster, my thumb is elsewhere.
On thing about tonight, is that the Mets need to start playing better at Shea. Only 7-7 playing beneath the roar of the planes. It will be an interesting weekend because the Mets are playing a good team using the back end of their rotation.
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Not That - A Meditation on HallucinationsPosted by Paul Devereux at 02:12, 15 Jan 2013
I've been reading Oliver Sacks' recent book, Hallucinations, and it is jaw-dropping to learn what incredible sights and sounds (not to mention touch and smell) the human brain (or is it mind?) can conjure up.
In 2010, I suffered a mild stroke, and was rushed to hospital. While I was there I began to notice something weird happening with the walls. I would look at a light-coloured, plain surface and watch in fascination as a beautiful and complex reddish-brown arabesque design would softly emerge as if out it until it was as clear and strong as a printed wallpaper pattern. I figured the design originated from the architecture of the blood capillaries in my eyes, but had become somehow greatly embellished into this marvellous arabesque. (There's more of an artist in me than I realised!) What really got me was that the pattern was not simply projected generally in front of my eyes but appeared stuck precisely on the surface I was looking at and nowhere else, so its distance away from me seemed to vary with how far I happened to be from the wall or cupboard door I was staring at. When I looked away, it disappeared. This hallucinatory phenomenon occurred for over two days when I looked for it. On one occasion, I peered out of the hospital ward's window at the tarmac-surfaced pavement three storeys below. Sure enough, the red-brown arabesque patterning emerged on the tarmac, contained within the path's edges.
Another visual phenomenon that appeared over the same period of time was truly bizarre. When I closed my eyes I could somehow (don't ask me how) focus inwardly on my veins – I assume eye capillaries – and observe blood sluicing through them exactly as if I was looking through a microscope. I was amazed at how fast blood moves around the body. There were tangles of these fine capillaries with blood rushing around within them like traffic at a busy and complex highway interchange. The imagery was vivid, full-colour, and in extreme high definition. Now, hallucinations are supposed to be pseudo-perceptions, sensory perceptions of things that are not really there, but I have absolutely no doubt that what I was watching was actual activity within my body. Of course, I would have enjoyed all these effects – patterns and microscopic vision – a lot more were I not concerned that I might have a major stroke at any moment and drop dead!
Way back in the 1980s, I experienced a more dramatic hallucinatory episode. It was at a bad time in my personal life and friends had come to visit me in my Welsh cottage to help me through it, and they thoughtfully brought large amounts of dope, cannabis, with them. Late in the evening, I lay down on the floor near the open fireplace. The log fire had burned down into bright embers and I stared into their comforting and warming glow. As I gazed at a coruscation of gleaming points of firelight along the edge of one ember, I was suddenly presented with a gold-orange landscape spread out before me. Now, please understand me: we all readily see faces, castles and other forms in glowing embers, but this was something markedly different. As I looked, I saw trees and fields and a country lane. A cottage stood alongside the lane; I saw its door open and an elderly man come out and walk to the garden gate, open it, and start walking up the lane. Apart from the fact that the scene was in reds, oranges, yellows and golds, it was clear and distinct in the most minute, precise detail. It was like a miniature 3D movie, and it was becoming more intensely "real" all the time. Realising I was pretty high, I pulled away from the fireplace and went up to my bedroom where I sprawled on the bed. I lay there and heard the rain falling against the window pane, a sound that transformed into the flawless rendition of singing angelic voices. My entire sensory apparatus was in freeform, and I drifted off into sleep to the sound of a heavenly choir.
Well before this episode I'd become acutely aware that the human mind-brain could mould perceptions in any way it liked. This epiphany had dawned on me almost twenty years previously, when, during an LSD session, someone had brought out a handkerchief which I immediately saw as a dead dove. The person was holding it by the corner and I saw in totally accurate and convincing detail, down to its feathers, the bird being held by its beak. Somehow, the creative elements of my visual faculty had transformed the already suggestive folds of the handkerchief. I understood from that point on that perception is a moveable feast.
But what does this mean? Can we really know the real? As Sacks points out in passing, our perception of normal everyday reality is a hugely complex affair. Many processes have to be brought seamlessly together from various parts of the brain to give us a stable view of the world (a view that is heavily moderated by the worldview of the culture we are in). All the time, every single moment of perception, except in dreams and hallucinations when our sensory faculties are let off the leash. The same brain processes within the darkness of our skulls that are used to create our view of consensus reality are involved in the creation of dreams (especially lucid dreams) and, more so, hallucinations. Let's take one step further: could our consensus reality be our culture's shared hallucination?
Some philosophers have suggested that culture could be seen as a hallucination, and at a basic level, physicists now debate whether or not matter is linked to and affected by consciousness in some mysterious way – the "observer effect" for instance – and there are various scientific notions flying around that question the nature and status of matter and our perception of it. Much earlier, the poet Coleridge said: "For all we see, hear, feel and touch, the substance is and must be in ourselves". We have the modern movie myth of the Matrix, in which the protagonists are entrapped in a virtual reality – even the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom reckons there is a twenty-percent chance that we are in a computerised world created by other entities, perhaps post-humans living in the future.
A number of anthropologists have reported witnessing things when in the field with other societies that would be considered impossible psi phenomena in their home, western cultures. A particularly famous (or infamous) encounter with other worldview reality involved anthropologist Edith Turner, the widow of the eminent anthropologist Victor Turner and editor of the academic journal, Anthropology and Humanism. In 1985, she was invited by the Ndembu people of Zambia to participate in a healing ritual under the leadership of a tribal healer known as Singleton. At the climax of the somewhat dramatic ritual, Singleton's patient was healed – suddenly, with an entranced expression on her face, she raised her arm. "I saw with my own eyes a giant thing emerging out of the flesh of her back," Turner reported. "It was a large gray blob about six inches across, opaque and something between solid and smoke. The gray thing was actually out there, visible, and you could see Singleton's hands working and scrabbling on the [patient's] back." The spirit causing the woman's illness had been exorcised. "It was a small experience, but one which demanded a reorganization of the way I did anthropology," Turner later wrote.
Are psi phenomena glitches in the otherwise convincing illusion of our westernised culture's understanding of consensus reality? Blips in the picture, so to speak? In daylight and perfect health, without any form of intoxication, I have seen two apparitions close up, in absolute three-dimensional detail. Were they hallucinations, in the sense of being pseudo-perceptions? I don't think so. In one of them, someone with me saw the apparition as well. The fact is that many people, a large minority, in our culture have experienced at least one psi event in their lives – be it telepathy, precognition, seeing a ghost, or suchlike – yet because of the power of the hallucination we are embedded within they tend to push it to the back of their minds, telling only a few friends at best, knowing they will not be believed, and even ridiculed, by mainstream society. It is why parapsychology has such a struggle to be accepted by "serious" science, and why it is so poorly resourced.
Reading Sack's book, I couldn't help but feel that with the way things are seemingly going in the world right now, maybe it is time for a change in our hallucination.
Daily Grail Publishing has published two books by Paul Devereux, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia and Lucid Dreaming: Accessing Your Inner Virtual Realities (with Charla Devereux). He is currently rewriting his early classic book, Places of Power, for Daily Grail Publishing. His author page on Amazon is at https://www.amazon.com/author/devereux-books and his website is www.pauldevereux.co.uk.
1. My formal review of this book is slated to appear on the Reality Sandwich website: http://www.realitysandwich.com/reality_sandwich_reviews_home
2 . http://www.simulation-argument.com/
3. Turner, E. (1994), "A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia", in Being Changed, David E. Young and Jean-Guy Goulet (eds.). Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press.
4. Kensinger, K. (1973), "Banisteriopsis Usage among the Peruvian Cashinahua", in Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Michael J. Harner (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Over several years now, I've recounted numerous such examples in various lectures and writings. For example: "The Moveable Feast", in Mind Before Matter (eds. Pfeiffer, Mack and Devereux), O Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84694-057-6.
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for this article. My girlfriend's mother gave me a copy of Hallucinations for Christmas and it has - so far - been collecting dust. Your review just gave me the motivation to read it. Thanks!
"The yard looks smaller without leaves." -Calvin Jarrett, Ordinary People
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Whoah Paul I'm so glad you're putting stuff like this out and not just because anyone who's started having or's about to start having such experiences'll feel less insane or isolated.
But also because even old hands like myself can experience relief finding out someone else's undergone similar stuff especially if they're at the young kids stage because during the Nineties I was endlessly terrified mine'd walk in on me during my latest visit from 'Death' because each time it'd happen I'd never really be sure whether THIS time I really WAS dead and therefore REALLY as flat as a pancake so flat in fact my rib cage'd feel like a collapsed deckchair hence my ransacking medical text books for indications of something like a cartiligeous structure at each side of the rib cage which could be made to act like collapsible hinges under certain extreme conditions.
Saying that there were definitely certain parts of my 'Death' visitation phase which I actually enjoyed because on some occasions all'd seemed left of me was my skeleton every bone of which'd feel somehow conscious and vibrantly alive so even though my body'd actually appear completely normal to my eyes my hands'd only be able to feel bone and if I bumped into anything or someone slammed a cardoor outside I'd resonate like a very expensively made acoustic guitar.
One thing I never got used to tough was the back of my skull feeling like an oppresively tight crash helmet haphazardly made of 'interlaced strips' of this sort of weird plaited plastic wood like substance but amazingly given it's sinister reputation I absolutely adored my rictus smile because it seemed to fill me with this amazing vibrant radiant invincible optimism I could handle or endure ANYTHING.
And then there were times like yourself when I'd be seemingly seeing inside my body and my consciousness'd suddenly switch into my blood stream but unlike the illustrations used in TV adverts my blood cells wouldn't chaotically swirl all over the place like jelly jots but'd be this incredibly drilled and martialled army like force filled with this heartbreaking almost unbearable joy at simply endlessly marching two steps forward then one step back all the time bombarded on all sides by this monumental yet soothing fugue like roar composed of countless tones produced by billions of cells simultaneously marching in and out differently widthed passages pitches rising as passages narrowed or descending as passages widened.
And as you say these experiences're incredibly vivid and enormously detailed reflecting in the bodily ones at least our normal moment by moment existence during our early life yet where do such things fit in or indeed tell us about current ideas on Evolution?
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I've had some hallucinations over the years; mushrooms, LSD, Ayahuasca and sleep deprivation.
All of them have given me completely different experiences and all have been very enjoyable.
The hallucinations from sleep deprivation were interesting. I'd been awake for about 48hrs and noticed it was getting light outside. I turned to look out the window and a cloud in the sky morphed into this giant lizard thing that came swimming towards me. That was pretty cool and I got on with some work. A couple of hours later I was standing outside in the garden and I looked up into the sky again, and another cloud morphed into another weird lizard beast, this time with long spiky claws that kept stabbing out at me.
Mushrooms can be very expanding; my tobacco turned into little wriggling worms as I rolled a smoke!
Ayahuasca (Jurema) is incredible; the patterns you see are amazing and it becomes immediately clear where the Mayans, Incas and the like got their inspiration. Jurema gives you a 'loved-up' feeling, similar to ecstacy/MDMA, but it's much more intense.
I found it very hard to concentrate on anything with LSD; I tried eating a plate of food, which seemed to be glowing, but I just couldn't focus to eat anything.
I've also had a variety of paranormal experiences, from the ghost of a young boy who liked playing on the beach to a personal message from a Grandmother I never met. All of them, for me, have been real.
One thing I want to experience more is Lucid Dreaming. I've had a couple; one where I didn't realise at the time that it was a lucid dream and another where I was able to speed things up so that I could escape from the people who were chasing me. That was fun.
The Pineal Gland is a wonderful thing, which we need to learn more about; especially how to consciously control the release of DMT!
Just as a side point about DMT: if you were able to extract the DMT produced by the body, a day's worth would be enough to land you a prison sentence under the Mis-Use of Drugs Act!
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Great post! I always appreciate personal experiences of others. The "hallucinations" bring to mind the meaning and definition of reality - as you state mystics say reality is all an illusion. The fact our perception of the world is a construct of our mind/brain, means that all reality is a hallucination of sorts. So long as our consensus reality agrees we are considered normal or sane. Once outside the consensus, trouble ensues and yet...? What is true reality - if it can even be defined?
Ghosts, angels, clairvoyance, visions, etc...same as trees, birds, apples, cars, etc…they all are manifestations of the mind simply because we can never directly experience the outside world. Sensory input is translated by our brain with the image, taste, smell, color, size, etc... all interpreted and created within our heads, not necessarily an accurate representation of our external reality - that whatever that is "out there". So who's to say what is a hallucination and what is representational? So long as one continues to function, is non-violent, and not destructive then who is anyone to define another's reality as not real.
Open-mindedness in these matters as in most matters is key to seeking and finding the truth, at least to the limits it can be found.
Greg H.
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You have strayed far afield from Dr.Sacks' book, which is concerned with neurological conditions. What's informative in this book is Sacks' description of hallucinations as fully realized, 3-dimensional animate entities, whether groups of people who interact with the person hallucinating in a completely realistic manner, or tiny humans leading 6-inch high donkeys!
The realistic nature of hallucinations, which convince those who see them of their solid existence in the outside world, along with Dr Sacks' explanation that they are often experienced by people who are completely sober and sane, throws new light on close encounter and abduction experiences, as well as other sightings of nature sprites, faery-folk and such, which may be hallucinations. MRI and CAT scans can diagnose brain tumors and other brain disorders that may be causing these or other experiences.
Anyone truly interested in critical thinking will factor in this new neurological information when researching claims of paranormal experiences.
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A lot of us here are quite capable of keeping a foot in both realizations. It is just that too many of us have been in on multiple witness simultaneous "hallucinations." Sacks is great at interesting anecdotes and making complicated science intelligible to the lay person, but most of us here are fully aware of the neurological mechanism of hallucinations already. I have been a Sacks fan for years, but I can't say he shifts my own experiences with the so called paranormal. The better paranormal TV shows these days always first look for neurophysical causes of "haunting" for instance, so it is not like the paranormal world is unfamiliar with what Sacks is talking about.
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I think it is worth noting that 'being convinced' is itself describable in this 'hallucinatory metaphoric' manner.
What I mean by this is that it seems that an activity in the brain/mind has to occur for us to be convinced of anything. The fact that every night we have bonkers dreams where our mother might turn into a rabbit and proceed to play volleyball without even a bat of a single eyelid by our reality filtering system deeply suggests to me that more is going on here.
Perhaps we are convinced by hallucinations in the same manner we fail to spot the non-reality of the dream while we are in it. I have read reasons why this might be the case based around the brains limited processing power, i.e to simulate reality would require more processing power than the brain is capable of, so we experience this limitation by the limitation of the dream - it literally cannot be modelled in enough detail to allow us to walk around and do whatever we want so we follow a line through it with our reality filtering turned off. That way the brain only has to model one possibility instead of the billions of possibilities if we actually had freedom within the dream/hallucination.
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Hi Greg,
It seems to me that selection pressures on animals during their evolution place no particular pressure on creating a perfect model of their environment - just one close enough to survive. We might even argue that a) perfection is a philosophical entity that does not really exist, b) a mechanical system made of neurons could not achieve perfection anyway, c) energy conservation by the brain results in shortcuts and reductions in processing that attempt to not process the environment perfectly, but instead take shortcuts that result in the odd mistake in our perceptions happening.
No matter what reality ends up being I would suspect that the above occur to us all.
I'd also be willing to bet that since evolution can only act on what is there if entire realities exist outside of its domain then selective pressures will not have created perceptive systems designed to do much. The nature of our abilities with regard to realities outside of evolutions abilities to touch will be pretty poor unless something else has given us abilities in them. Given our relationship with biology arguments surrounding this have remained diverse and passionate since before the work of Descarte, who tried so hard to provide illumination with regard to dualism.
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"The "why" of ESP seems simple enough. Evolutionarily speaking, people who could perceive or foresee bad events like predator attacks or earthquakes (and thus avoid them), or sense lucky breaks like clean food or water (and thus seek them out) would be more likely to survive and pass their genes on to the next generation than those who could not. Having access to information beyond the limits of the basic human senses must have been a real survival advantage."
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Yep, indeed. I can see how that would work. This would well and truly bring this into the physical world though if genes are capable of selecting for it. It would be fascinating.
For those who like to argue that it is entirely separate from the physical and not even mediated by the physical then it is also food for thought. Evolutionary arguments are more difficult in that context.
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Most of us still live under the intellectually and socially exerted illusion that there is some kind of demarcation between mind and the physical world. It is a trite observation for me to make, but it is very obvious. Arguments often begin with this premise and on behalf of people who think they are freethinkers.
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There are so many ways in which the question "what is reality" is raised. Several quick anectdotes from my own experiences...
Ate mushrooms 4 times in life - one time felt connected to everything everyone. Felt and knew what girlfriend would say - subjective. Then felt connected to pinball game, could not lose, went on forever, won numerous games, when suddently connection severed like something internally shut off. Then immediately lost ball after ball. Not subjective, verifiable by girlfriend and any observer. In holographic universe model and most eastern phiolosophies, everything is connected with shared consciousness...if only can resonate with or access it.
Middle of 8 week europe back pack trip, completely relaxed on Santorini for 2 weeks. State of nirvana so to speak. Played gin rummy for weeks, suddenly for 3-4 days during my nirvana, every hand dealt to me was perfect. No matter how shuffled, who shuffled, could not avoid receiving perfect hands on deal. Discard needed card, next won drawn would be perfect. Not subjective, but 3rd party verifiable. Beyond coincidence. Are we partners in creation? Are we a holomovement fabricating reality at will?
Panic attacks as 18 year old over fear of ultimate death and deleting out. Prayed to God (universal consciousness? The implicate?) for a sign. Follwing day first I was approached by a stanger who point blank told me God sent them to me and gave me tiny booklet on being saved through Christ. Later on returning to my locked car from only minutes inside a bank, another booklet materialized on my driver's seat. That evening a member of the club I worked at on leaving slapped a 3rd booklet into my hand on his way out without word. Did an independent God send these messages? Did I cause this to happen as a partner in creation? Mere coincidence? Not hallucinations as 3rd party verifiable.
I've experienced vibrations since childhood that I learned precede out of body travel - the separating of physical from the astral? Stifled them for many years. Finally accepted them and rolled out of body, falling, materialized in a room. Surprisingly could not press hand through wall solid. Saw reflection in mirror -surrounded by shimmeriing flourescent energy. As I approached wife sitting in bed studying, suddenly two unseen powerful entitities restrained me from either side and I immediately blacked out. Woke next morning. Have not had vibrations since - though I had them for close to 30 years prior off and on. Lucid dream? I had those all through my teens - this was different and I never fell asleep first...
and on and on... Brain is indeed limited. I ascribe to concept it is a receiver. Mind is independent and more than we phathom. Amazing how similar Cayce's 100 year old readings agree with Bohm's theory of the implicate and consciousness and generally elements of quantum theory.
Greg H.
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I have spent great lengths of time, as a young man, under altered states of consciousness, and have had so many meaningful experiences...
I was introduced to LSD right out of high school and had a "steady" (if ever there is such a thing in the chemical world) supply of un-perforated white blotter before I was even 18 years old. That summer was one of experiencing things which awakened me in ways that took me years to fully understand.
I have had group hallucinations, as well as hallucinations shared by a tripping partner.... explain that one.
Anyway, lets just say that I explored the upper limits of tolerance with aforementioned white blotter.... and learned more about myself and my psyche exploring the world under altered perceptions, than i could have ever imagined possible.
Its' just too bad that our culture has created this war on drugs (really a war on personal liberty) and sick police state... because I spent much of my 20's trying to find other avenues of reaching those places I had been before, and hard drugs do not take you there.... they ruin your life and take you to prison.
Looking back, I can say that my entire philosophy for living was very meaningfully molded by my experiences, and I wouldn't change it for anything. Abandoning religion for reason and empirical evidence and logic, yet still finding significant experiences under altered consciousness...
If only we could walk into a shop and purchase 2C-E as easily as we can purchase a pack of smokes... I imagine the society I would wish for is a minarchists dream which is a long ways off... but I will LOVE altered perception until I lose my corporeal existence... whatever that means.
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You don't know how much of a relief it is to find out I'm not the only one who has this happening 24/7. Everything you describe about the arabesque pattern and the colors and landscapes - I see this constantly in front of me. I read Hallucinations and the closest I can match my experience to is "visual migraines." That makes sense, because it started after a decade of mind-splitting migraines that made me sometimes want to kill myself to stop the pain. Then as suddenly as they started, they stopped, and then the hallucinations started soon after.
There is an important difference in my experience, and I wondered if you might have left this part out (because it is too weird for some people to accept). The "stuff" I see is always moving, and will attach to my finger if I put my hand up. Then it forms into a spring-like strand and drills into my finger. I can feel and see it drilling in. I can touch the gold lattice or springs, manipulate them in the air, or pull on it to wrap around my hand, run it through my palm, just about anything you would be able to do with, say, cobwebs. Everything about it obeys the laws of physics except that it's not real in the first place. I can even pull a strand in front of a mirror and I can see it in the mirror (rather than looking directly at it). It's everywhere, like a coppery fine netting or lattice, and it is responsive. This has been going on for 5 years so I'm used to it. It is considerably active when I look at the ceiling and walls when I go to bed. There's so much of it I have to pull it aside to look up at my clock. I can grab it, pull it apart, and see clearly beyond it. Then I let go of it and it joins together again and the walls and ceiling are wavy again, like an upside down pond.
I also hear the angelic chorus you described, but sometimes it's an orchestra, patrioic music, or even a rock band, and it's always on. In the 5 years this has been going on I haven't "seen God" or heard voices telling me what to do, etc., so I don't think it's psychological but more likely brain damage from the migraines, or a filter is broken that usually weeds out this "noise."
There's more but I fear describing any farther because it gets freakier, and so far no doctor has been able to figure out what's going on, after MRIs, psychological tests, etc. I just have to live with it. But it's not a bad thing to have to live with. ALL of it is so beautiful it takes my breath away. I wish everyone could have this hallucination. If the air is really full of this stuff, then it is easy to see how "everything is connected."
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This reminds me of a story a friend told me about an LSD session he had with two other friends back in the late 60's. At one point my friend was suddenly inspired to see if he could make himself visually disappear. He then entered a state in which he felt he had accomplished that, but the catch was that his two friends also swore he had indeed disappeared for about 10 seconds. So was this a "shared hallucination" or did he actually alter his native frequency such that it exceeded the speed of light for a brief moment? Or did he via the power of suggestion alter the perceptions of his fellow trippers? If physical reality is entirely a matter of frequency and vibration then how do we sort all of this out? Was this a sort of "noise cancellation" phenomenon?
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I'm having a lot of trouble with Sacks since he cites the utterly vile Elizabeth Loftus (the least of her transgressions includes testifying FOR THE DEFENSE in serial killer Ted Bundy's trial) and the pedophile-enabling "false memory" hoax.
A five-second Google search would reveal that not only is Ramblin' Randi on the FMSF board but so are a host of MK Ultra veterans and the late CSICOP director on human sexuality- and very outspoken and very radical pedophilia advocate- Vern Bulloughs.
FMSF was founded by a Lutheran minister with ties to the pedophile underground who declared in Paedika that pedophilia was "God's will." Its cofounder was himself accused of molesting his daughter, who is now a prominent university professor. One of the false memory's crowd biggest supporters is the Vatican, but the entire argument was shot down by the Massachussetts Supreme Court when they tried the hoax in NAMBLA co-founder Paul Shanley's appeal.
This shows either a troubling bias or an unscholarly lack of discernment on Sacks' part. I sincerely hope it's the latter.
Also, hallucinations are by their very nature non-empirical so I don't see how you can possibly devise a science around nothing but testimony.
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I bumped into "Mauri" during the Sandy Hook debacle which inspired some research on my part and found her web site fascinating. What is the scuttlebutt on her? She has an intelligent blog. The above link deals somewhat with the "agents" within the psychiatric profession in southern California.
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I'm having a lot of trouble with Sacks since he cites the utterly vile Elizabeth Loftus (the least of her transgressions includes testifying FOR THE DEFENSE in serial killer Ted Bundy's trial) and the pedophile-enabling "false memory" hoax.
Two Bizarre segues in one post..
Bundy...like anyone..was entitled to a legal defence.
There have been over 70 years of papers/articles/court cases/books etc pointing out the bleeding obvious problems of relying on trance states and"memories"/malleability of memory and iatrogenic artifacts etc etc..
Yet in this day and age of easy information availability you managed to miss them all.
How is that possible.?????
To suggest that her work was "pedophile-enabling" implies living in some form of restricted information bubble.
Perhaps a deeply religious indoctrination might explain that.??
Some of the induced FAKE memory memes were based on the the rotten edifice created by Freud.
Even a cursory reading of books like "unauthorized freud"/"why freud was wrong" etc shows the basis of some aspects of modern psychology to be built on sand.
It was "pedophile-enabling" in that investigations into real pedophiles were side tracked by the mass hysteria of the time.
"Satanic ritual abuse" came from the same mad morass as well which many of the "all memories are real man" advocates dont mention.
And there is a reason for that isnt there.????
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MONTREAL -- Younger Canadians spend more on luxury travel and fashion than any other demographic, but selectively choose what they splurge on, says American Express Canada.
Generation Y -- which include those born after 1983 -- had an 89 per cent increase in luxury travel spending and a 13 per cent increase in luxury fashion spending in 2012 compared with 2011, say data from the credit card company.
They could be spending more money because they are just starting their careers, but they target their luxury spending, said Jennifer Hawkins, vice-president and general manger for merchant services with the company.
"For example, they may choose to fly economy, but when they arrive at a holiday destination they really put money aside for things such as fine dining or a fantastic hotel experience," she said.
The credit card company looked at members' spending on luxury fashion, travel and lodging, ranging from purchases of designer clothing to vehicles.
According to the data, seniors -- those over 60 -- increased their spending on luxury travel by 52 per cent in 2012.
While luxury travel is growing faster than luxury fashion and lodging, Hawkins said all age groups were selectively spending on luxury purchases that are "meaningful" to them.
American Express Canada said luxury spending is expected to continue to grow in Canada, helped by the arrival of luxury U.S. retailers such as Saks. It expects online spending in general to double by 2015 to $12.5 billion.
A recent online poll by the Bank of Montreal found Canadians were planning to save almost $10,000 this year, but 66 per cent said they were tucking the money away for vacations, luxury items and entertainment.
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"I don't like doctors; I didn't want to go," says Michelle Rheams, a 45-year-old mother of three from Aspen Hill, explaining why she waited nearly six months after discovering a lump on her breast to see a doctor. "I should have gone the moment I thought something was wrong, but I was scared. I knew it wouldn't be good."
On Nov. 10, 2010, Cynthia Plate, M.D., a breast surgeon at Washington Adventist Hospital, diagnosed Rheams with breast cancer. Further tests confirmed it was Stage IV.
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Defense attorneys will call their first witnesses Friday in the trial of Abdulhakim Muhammad. The 26-year-old is charged with capital murder for killing Pvt. William Andrew Long and attempted capital murder for wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula.
His videotaped confession was played for jurors Thursday. In one recording, Muhammad says the 2009 shootings were justified by Islam, the religion he converted to in college. Muhammad was born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn.
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Masters of self-deprecatory humor themselves, Poles get offended at hearing Polish jokes from foreign lips. They're not as sensitive when it comes to other nations' feelings. Take recent radio and TV commercials from alternative telephone operator Netia, which features a man talking fake Russian. Sadly, fake Russian is considered to be a hilarious gag in Poland. Seen from a distance, it appears moronic.
Netia's ad campaign is made to look and sound like old broadcasts of Anatoly Kashpirovsky, a controversial Russian psychic healer. Mr. Kashpirovsky gained enormous popularity in the Soviet Union's final years thanks to his televised healing sessions for the masses. In Poland, where available television programming was still minimal, Mr. Kashpirovsky entranced many viewers.
For the part, Netia's ad men found an actor, Tomasz Kot, who's resemblance to Mr. Kashpirovsky is remote and who attempts to speak a kind of broken Russified-Polish gibberish no Russian would recognize as their native tongue. It's supposed to be hysterically funny as he hypnotically counts from one to eight while delivering Netia's promotional message. It's not.
It's just annoying as hell. Imagine a German commercial starring someone speaking pseudo-Polish. Some political parties in Poland would be willing to go to war over such an insult to Poland's honor.


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Johannesburg - Former National Youth Development Agency head Andile Lungisa appeared in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Friday for alleged fraud and money-laundering.
He appeared with Thabo Shogolo, Xolisile Guquza, and Ursula Sali for allegedly accepting and sharing among themselves R2.5 million paid by the arts and culture department for the Nelson Mandela Sports Day concert.
They allegedly promised that US singer R Kelly would perform at the concert, but he did not.
Lungisa and the other three were arrested after handing themselves over to the Hawks on Friday.
In their court appearance later in the day, Lungisa and Shogolo were granted bail of R10 000 each, Guquza was granted bail of R5 000, and Sali was released on a warning. They were instructed to surrender their passports to the investigating officer, and not to make contact with the State witnesses.
The case was postponed until October 30.
At the time of the concert, the department said it had entered into negotiations with the promoter of Kelly's recent tour to South Africa.
It was subsequently announced that the star was on the bill for a music concert that would follow the Nelson Mandela Day's sporting events.
However, it was discovered that R Kelly's management had been unaware of the agreement, and that he had left the country as planned.
Speaking outside court on Friday, Lungisa's lawyer Thabo Kwinana claimed there had been political interference in the case.
"All that I'm saying is that pressure has been put to bear on the police and 1/8the National Prosecuting Authority 3/8 to act against the accused in a civil matter and which has been turned to become a criminal matter," he said.
He said a government minister, whom he refused to name, had sent reporters text messages informing them to be in court for the hearing.
"One national minister has tipped off the media to come to the hearing and the people who have been tipped off know who that minister is.
"So, what is his motives, motivation I don't have a clue, and I don't like to speculate. Let's hope they will become clear as this thing unfolds or crumbles," he said.
Lungisa named the politician as Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, and accused him of instructing the prosecution to oppose bail.
He claimed Mbalula was waging an old vendetta against him arising from his opposition to Mbalula's nomination as African National Congress secretary general at the party's elective conference in Mangaung last year.
Lungisa claimed that since then, Mbalula had, among other things, ensured his removal as ANC Youth League deputy president.
He said he hoped the case would proceed smoothly, without any more of this kind of interference.
Mbalula's office had not heard of the allegations, but encouraged Lungisa to focus on the case and not drag people's name through the mud.
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The message from today's readings, especially the first two readings, is very clear. God wants us to be joyful, to be filled with joy, and not a joy that's just a passing emotion that comes and goes in a few moments or so, but a joy that is deep, a joy that is lasting and that settles into our spirit. It might seem almost impossible that we could experience such joy, and yet if we listen to those lessons, it's clear that that is what God is telling us -- to be joyful.
If you remember the circumstances in which these words were proclaimed -- first by the prophet Zephaniah in a time when he must have been experiencing great frustration. He lived at the same time as the prophet Jeremiah and both of them were so aware of the corruption within the religious leadership and within the rulers of the Chosen People, and they could see calamity coming. No one would listen and so then the people were invaded, the Temple was destroyed, they were driven off into exile and it's in the midst of that exile, where everything seems lost, that Zephaniah says, "Cry out with joy, O daughter of Zion! Rejoice, O people of Israel! Sing joyfully with all your heart!"
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Then St. Paul also -- his circumstances were very desperate. At the time he was writing this letter to his community at Philippi, a community that he loved very much, Paul was in jail. If you've experience any jail situation, visited someone in jail, you know no jail is an easy place to be and certainly the dungeon, the kind of jail that Paul was in then, was harsh. The circumstances were very distressing, I'm sure -- almost overwhelming. And yet in the midst of that suffering, Paul said, "Rejoice in the Lord always! I say it again. Rejoice!" See, no matter what the circumstances, even terrible circumstances that you think would be just totally overwhelming, both Paul and Zephaniah are calling for a joyful spirit and they could not be asking others to be filled with joy if they did not themselves know joy in their hearts.
How is that possible then? Well, Zephaniah and Paul both remark on what is happening to them, "Do not be afraid nor let your hands tremble for Yahweh your God is within you. Yahweh is within you. God will jump for joy on seeing you for God has revived God's love." And Paul says the same thing, "Rejoice because the Lord is near, even in your hearts." This is what we need to deepen if we are going to be able to experience a joy that no one can take away from us. We need to deepen our awareness that God is with us, God is in our midst.
It's interesting that those words of Zephaniah are actually the words that Luke uses when it is announced to Mary that she is to be the mother of God. "Do not be afraid, Mary. The Lord is with you, in your midst." And the word is really the word for womb. God is deeply present within Mary. Zephaniah is saying God is deeply present within the people. Paul is saying God is near, God is always with us. So if we can have that experience -- come to know more deeply that God is with us, God is in us, God is in our midst -- nothing else, in a sense, will matter and we will know a deep sense of joyfulness.
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What is the basis of the hope of a person like Baruch? I believe that it's probably a prayer-life -- a life of prayer where he, or anyone like this, would begin to try to remember all that God has already done. And this is especially true within the Jewish tradition. Their remembering of how God had delivered them from slavery, from oppression, brought them through the desert to the Promised Land, made them God's special people. That was an experience that was deeply imbedded in their spirit-life, in their minds and hearts. They would always remember that. "If God can act like that in the past, surely God can bring new life, even in the midst of our terrible situation."
St. Paul, in writing to the Philippians, has such powerful and great confidence. "The good work God has begun in you, God will bring to fulfillment." Why did Paul know that? Because even though he was in prison and had been treated harshly and kept in chains (the prison where he was was a dungeon -- it was very harsh), because Paul had experienced God coming upon him powerfully when he was first converted, he could always remember and with confidence say, "What God has begun, God will bring to completion."
We need to pray during the season of Advent that we can have that kind of a solid hope, remembering all the good that God has already brought into our lives and confident that God who has brought this goodness into our lives will bring it to completion, to fullness. So we have hope, or we pray that we will have hope, during this season of Advent that this new coming of Jesus will bring about change in our world, bring about the Reign of God in a fuller way than has been present before.
But we not only need to have hope that we learn from Paul and Baruch. We must also listen to John the Baptist, the one sent by God to prepare the way for Jesus. John comes into our midst proclaiming, "Yes, Jesus is coming! The Reign of God is about to break forth into our world." But we must begin to change our lives -- to live according to the ways of the Reign of God. And it's for this world, it's for this time, it's for now, not some future time in the afterlife. No, it's right now that Jesus asks us, "Change your lives." John says he's preaching for repentance to bring about the forgiveness of sins. What he means by that repentance is a change in our lives.
Next Sunday we'll be celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and we've prepared for that and will be preparing for that during this week. I'm sure that for many of us that means, as we begin to prepare for the sacrament, to think about individual sins we've committed and how we have to try to be better and so on. And then we think that our repentance is trying not to do those things again. Well it should be deeper than that -- not just a listing of sins. We should be looking deeply into our lives. How closely do we follow the way of Jesus in this world, at this time? Are we really open to being changed?
There are two values of Jesus that if we take them seriously will dramatically change our lives. And they're very challenging; it's very hard for us in the world in which we live to open ourselves to this kind of conversion. The first that I think of is because of the country in which we live -- page through your newspaper and see how many pages of ads
When I reflect on these lessons, I think about the world in which we live. It's a world in which we, too, can become very discouraged and we can feel a sense of loss at times. Someone very close to us dies. Or if you think beyond yourself, in a sense, and think of what's going on in the world around us -- people in exile. Just the people in Iraq for example -- 1.6 million of them in internal exile. They've had to flee their homes, leaving everything behind. 1.8 million external exiles have fled the country. 1,000 flee every week. We must pray for them and keep them close in our hearts so that even in the midst of that terrible experience they can know that God is near so they can continue to know a deep sense of serenity, of peace, even joy.
This is a far cry, in a sense, from what is happening to people in Iraq or other parts of the world, but I also think of these lessons in terms of what is happening to us. We can't exactly call it an exile, but I'm being told I must leave here. That will happen quite soon really and many people have expressed to me great dismay, sadness, anger. Sometimes I feel those things myself and yet I must believe -- and I hope you will too -- and must come to know that God is near, God is in our midst, God is in our hearts, God is with us. And so even out of this God can bring something good, something better and we can continue to have a spirit of serenity and peace and joy even as this happens.
It won't automatically happen that we will have that deeper sense of God being present to us. That happens when we do as we have been trying to do during this season of Advent -- everyday spend those six minutes of prayer using the Blue Book or some other guide and enter into a prayerful spirit with God. If you've been doing that, I'm sure you have a deeper sense that God is present, God is with us, God is in us.
But then we also have to try to do what John the Baptist said when he said, "God is going to be near. Jesus is coming." The people asked, "What must we do?" He began to tell them, "Change your lives." Now he doesn't ask them to do it as dramatically and as drastically as Jesus does, but he's getting them ready for the call of Jesus to "change your lives dramatically." He tells those who have two coats -- more than you need -- "Give one away. You will be bringing God's goodness to another person. You will know God's goodness yourself, if you begin to be more generous." Live your life with a greater sense of integrity -- that's what John was telling the tax collectors. You know that that system meant that they could increase the tax any amount that they wanted -- they only had to give a certain amount to the authorities. John says, "No. Make your life honest. Only take the designated amount and then you, too, will know God being present to you." Even the soldiers. It's interesting that John didn't tell them to leave the military. Later on, Jesus doesn't tell them that immediately. "But don't bully anyone. Don't be threatening." In other words -- it seems a contradiction -- be a peaceful soldier. Bringing peace, not violence. Those are the kinds of things that we have to do in order to make God present to others and experience God's presence within ourselves.
In a few moments, we will be celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation and so this is a time when we can look into our hearts and try to discover how faithfully we are following Jesus. Maybe we haven't made the radical change in our life that Jesus seems to ask for when he tells us that we must leave everything and follow him, but at least we are making a step, step-by-step, and we can examine ourselves in this sacrament and God will bring healing to us -- another way that we will experience God being present to us. Through prayer, through our good works, through a sacrament like this Sacrament of Reconciliation, we will know deeply God is near, God is in our midst, God is within us and then we will know that deep sense of joy that no one can take from us.
Or if you put it into the words of Paul, "Then the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will fill your hearts and minds as you know Christ Jesus deeply in your heart." Each of us can leave here today with a spirit of joy, a spirit of peace, a spirit of hope that no one can take away from us.
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I'm furious that a statewide Earth Day poster contest is sponsored by the Salt Lake petroleum section of Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Utah state government's Division of Oil, Gas and Mining.
At my son's elementary school, students were provided instructions, which included: "Show where we would be without ... oil, gas, and mined minerals. For instance: Coal, oil and natural gas provide most of the energy we use for heat, light, and electricity. We use mined materials and petroleum products every day in gasoline, cars, computers, skateboards, home-building materials, and tools." Posters will be judged on their "demonstration of how products from mining and oil and gas extraction are essential to our daily lives."
Why is the state backing an "Earth Day" contest that celebrates fossil fuels, while completely ignoring the adverse effects that their use and extraction can too often have on our air quality, water quality, public lands and the other organisms we share the world with? Shouldn't Earth Day be about championing things that can help reverse the negative impact of our dependence on fossil fuels?


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GLENN Maxwell will spend next week shuttling between Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne after a compromise was made over his maiden Test call-up and his clashing Big Bash League duties.
Victorian Maxwell, 24, will spend the first half of Thursday as part of Australia's Test squad at the SCG. Should no injuries occur before the match the all-rounder's 12th-man duties will be temporarily suspended so he can fly to Brisbane for Melbourne Stars' match away to the Heat.
Once the Stars-Heat match concludes the Test aspirant will return to Sydney to gain experience around the Australian squad for days two and three of the Test. He will then return to Melbourne for Sunday's finals-shaping BBL derby between the Stars and the Renegades.
Maxwell's return will provide a significant boost for the Stars, who are bracing to lose several key players to national duty when the one-day international series against Sri Lanka begins on January 11, just before the BBL finals.
■Unconventional leg-spinner Ajantha Mendis is set to play in Australia for the first time after being named in Sri Lanka's 16-man squad for the looming limited-overs series.
With Kumar Sangakkara unavailable due to finger surgery selectors have chosen an uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman, 22-year-old Kushal Perera, to provide another gloveman option behind Dinesh Chandimal.
Nine of the 16 players for the five ODIs and two Twenty20s are already in Australia, as part of Sri Lanka's Test squad.
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High school roundup: Upper St. Clair tops rival Mt. Lebanon on 3-pointer in overtime
Joel Klein drained a 3-pointer with five seconds left in overtime to give Upper St. Clair a 51-50 win over Mt. Lebanon in Section 4-AAAA on Tuesday night.
Klein and teammate Jordan Grabowski each scored 18 points for the Panthers (10-3, 6-1). Tyler Roth scored 19 for Mt. Lebanon (6-9, 3-4), and Matt Hoffman and Jonny David each had 11.
New Castle 75, Hampton 54 — Malik Hooker scored 24 points, and Shawn Anderson added 22 for Class AAAA No. 1 New Castle (14-0, 7-0) in its Section 3 rout. Ryan Luther led Hampton (11-3, 4-3) with a game-high 30 points.
North Allegheny 73, North Hills 59 — Five players were in double figures as No. 4 North Allegheny won in Section 3-AAAA. Sean Hennigan and Joe Mancini had 14 points for the Tigers (12-1, 6-1).
Shaler 66, Pine-Richland 60 — Penn State recruit Geno Thorpe scored a game-high 30 points to lead Shaler (7-7, 1-6) in Section 3-AAAA.
Central Catholic 67, Fox Chapel 62 — David Urso scored a game-high 21 points, including four 3-pointers, for Central Catholic (9-5, 5-2) in its Section 2-AAAA win. Nate Huwar led Fox Chapel (10-4, 5-2) with 19 points.
Bethel Park 63, Baldwin 48 — Joey Mascaro scored 14 points, and Wyatt Hagerty had 12 for Class AAAA No. 3 Bethel Park (12-1, 7-0) in its Section 4 win. A.J. Greco led Baldwin (4-10, 1-6) with 19 points, and Jake Michaels added 18.
Blackhawk 44, Beaver 42 — Chase Migliore hit the game-winning layup with two seconds left as Blackhawk (6-7, 4-2) upset Class AAA No. 1 Beaver (12-1, 5-1) in Section 2.
Chartiers Valley 50, South Fayette 46 — Spencer Casson scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead Class AAA No. 3 Chartiers Valley (12-1, 6-0) to a Section 5 win. C.J. Rudisill led South Fayette (9-3, 5-1) with 15.
Thomas Jefferson 52, West Mifflin 47 — Ryan Maha scored 27 points for Class AAA No. 5 West Mifflin (9-3, 5-1), but it was not enough as Thomas Jefferson (10-3, 6-0) won in Section 4.
Greensburg Central Catholic 65, Jeannette 61 — Zach Herman scored 26 points and Christian Hyland hit a go-ahead 3-point shot with 45 seconds left to lift No. 3 Greensburg Central Catholic (14-1, 6-0) to a victory over No. 2 Jeannette (12-2, 5-1) in a battle of Section 3-AA leaders.
Vincentian 81, Sewickley Academy 55 — Class A No. 1 Vincentian outscored Sewickley Academy, 18-6, in the fourth quarter en route to its Section 2-A win. Ryan Wolf led Vincentian (12-1, 4-0) with 18 points.
Lincoln Park 85, Union 57 — Elijah Minnie scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed 20 rebounds as Class A No. 3 Lincoln Park (9-4, 4-0) won in Section 1.
North Catholic 62, Quigley 61 — Dan Savulchak scored 19 of his game-high 22 points in the second half as Class A No. 4 North Catholic (9-5, 3-1) won in Section 2. Nate Lieb led Quigley (7-8, 1-3) with 22 points with 16 coming in the second half.
Girls basketball
Chartiers Valley 46, Fox Chapel 30 — Mariah Wells scored 13 points, and Jenna Devinney added 12, all on 3-pointers, to lead Class AAAA No. 3 Chartiers Valley (9-4) to a nonsection victory.
• George Smith appears to be in line to return to his former post as the head football coach at McKeesport.
Smith, who spent 28 years coaching the Tigers before suddenly resigning in 2010, is likely to be hired at the school board's Jan. 23 meeting.
School board member Chris Halaszynski posted on his Facebook page Monday: "Restoring Tiger Pride Back to McKeesport High School. Welcome Back Coach Smith!!!"
Smith won 197 games, two WPIAL and two state titles.
• Deer Lakes hired T.J. Wiley as its head football coach Tuesday night. Wiley spent the last two seasons as head coach at Northgate, where the Flames went 10-9. He also was the head coach at Penn-Trafford for one season (2009) before resigning.
• North Allegheny coach Art Walker was named the National High School Football Coach of the Year by National Sports News Service. Walker led the Tigers to a 16-0 record this season, which included WPIAL and PIAA championships in Class AAAA.
• South Allegheny senior lineman Ryan Bednar made a verbal commitment to The Citadel.


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Pennsylvania American Water plans to replace 11 miles of water mains in the southern areas of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County starting this summer as part of a $19 million project to increase capacity and fix aging pipes.
Work will be performed in Baldwin Borough, Baldwin Township, Bethel Park, Brentwood, Bridgeville, Carnegie, Castle Shannon, Collier, Crafton, Dravosburg, Jefferson Hills, Green Tree, Mt. Lebanon, Mt. Oliver Borough, Munhall, Peters, Pleasant Hills, Scott, South Fayette, West Homestead, West Mifflin, Whitaker and Whitehall.
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The company will do work in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Beechview, Brookline, Carrick, Crafton Heights, Lincoln Place, New Homestead, Overbrook, Sheraden and Westwood.
The company determined which water mains to replace using data about leaks, breaks, low-pressure areas and the age of pipes, as well as customer surveys, Lobaugh said.
During construction, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year if weather allows it, customers might experience temporary service interruptions, discolored water or low water pressure, along with temporary road restrictions as workers unearth and replace pipes.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials in a small city in eastern Kentucky are disciplining a couple of workers after two disabled gay men were told to leave a public pool.
The city of Hazard said Saturday one worker had been suspended for a week without pay. The employee, Kim Haynes, told investigators the couple was engaged in an excessive display of affection while at the pool with the social service group Mending Hearts.
Haynes also acknowledged referencing the Bible in an argument with the leader of the Mending Hearts group, saying the affection wasn't tolerated.
The manager of the Hazard Pavilion also was reprimanded for unbecoming conduct, The Courier-Journal reported.
The city manager says new anti-discrimination signs will be posted at the pool, as well as signs warning against excessive public displays of affection.


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BROOKSVILLE — The same message U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has heard from one end of the state to the other, he heard from Hernando County's elected and business leaders over lunch on Thursday.
"There is a frustration bubbling up, almost anger. It's because people are hurting, hurting financially,'' Nelson told about 40 leaders assembled at the Brooksville Regional Hospital.
For the next hour, Nelson listened to the concerns of locals on issues ranging from the Iraq war and the need for affordable health care to alternative energy sources and economic incentive options.
Their theme too was that people are struggling in the current economic atmosphere, which local real estate agent and planning and zoning commission member Bob DeWitt said "looks like a recession.''
Nelson's visit was one in his series of town hall sessions. Starting in Inverness early Thursday, he also visited Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River, a property proposed for public purchase. Then he flew to Brooksville midday and was slated to be in Sumter County after that.
The week will culminate in a trip back to Washington where Saturday morning he will make a presentation to the Democratic National Committee "to try to get (the Florida) delegation seated,'' Nelson told the Brooksville group, which responded with applause.
When asked about troop withdrawal in Iraq, Nelson took a long pause, mostly to chew his food. He quipped about how important it was in his job that, "When you see food, you better eat it.''
Then he got serious.
"Pay attention to this presidential race,'' he said. "At the end of the day, whoever is elected … what they will do will be pretty close to the same.''
Nelson predicted any of the three major candidates would likely begin a troop withdrawal after the election because all of them can read the handwriting on the wall about public opinion. "You cannot continue a war unless you have the support of the American people,'' he said.
On the painful topic of the soaring price of gasoline, Nelson said that "whoever is president, they're going to have to get serious.''
He spoke about the need to explore alternative fuel sources and require more conservation. Nelson also noted how the various oil crises over time have been cyclical with solutions found in the short term, then things slid back into crisis when people stopped making the issue a priority.
Greed, skittishness about the possibility of the oil supply going away, the value of dollar and even oil futures speculation have all added to the problem, Nelson said.
While he said he held his nose and voted for the economic stimulus package, he supported other ideas that would have put more people to work but the existing one was "an important symbolic thing for people to know that government was trying to do something.''
But he questioned the logic.
"As one person said to me, 'You're going to send checks out to people so they can go down to the Wal-Mart and buy Chinese goods of which, in order to pay for $160-billion stimulus package, you're having to borrow money from China.' ''
Nelson also spoke out against the logic of cutting educational grant money, noting that the United States can only succeed in a global market with a well-educated workforce and the innovations of technology.
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Nelson also thanked the local elected officials for what they do.
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contract or not, it is free to list a business in the yellow pages and they caused tons of damage by putting a disconnected number in there. surely there is some compensation
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My 9-year-old daughter kept asking me for "duck tape." I told her it's called "duct tape." An argument ensued. I googled "duct tape" to prove it. She grabbed the iPad and googled "duck tape" and showed me the results. "Duck tape is cooler, see?" she said.
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At times, the line between winning and losing is miniscule. A single play can be the difference in any given game.
For the Ohio State men's hockey team, that is how it's been this season.
OSU lost 5-3 to then-No. 9 Wisconsin in Madison Jan. 24. It was a game the Buckeyes led at one point, 2-1, but they ultimately gave up three unanswered goals on the way to their third consecutive loss.
But since that game, things have been quite different for OSU (14-9-3, 4-5-3). The Buckeyes haven't lost in their last five games, capped off with two dramatic, come-from-behind shootout victories against Michigan State last weekend. Before that, they swept Penn State at home and beat Wisconsin in the second game in Madison.
OSU coach Steve Rohlik said he believes a combination of the lessons learned during those losses and an increase in confidence has made the difference.
"It's the experience of going through those (close) games and then it's the confidence," Rohlik said Feb. 10. "It's the confidence in each other that we can go out there and finish games and find a way to get points. I think that's been the difference right now."
That confidence was on display Friday when OSU came back from two goals down to tie the game with two seconds left against Michigan State. Junior forward Tanner Fritz scored OSU's first goal, and he said he sees that comeback as the real spark for the rest of the weekend.
"Finding a way to score two goals and earning that point in the shootout (was) just huge for us in the standings," Fritz said. "We definitely built off that Saturday night with another shootout win."
Freshman forward Nick Schilkey clinched the shootout Saturday, and said the team's attitude in games has really changed from earlier in the season.
"I think early in the year, we doubted ourselves at times," Schilkey said. "But I think sticking to the plan has been important. We have some confidence going and just never give up."
OSU has come from behind in four of the five games of this unbeaten run, a quality Fritz said is required to be successful.
"We're growing up as a team and maturing as a team. We're really starting to come together," Fritz said. "There have been a couple games where we've found ourselves down in the third period and we've found a way to get ourselves back into it, and that's all that matters during this time of year."
Whatever the case, the Buckeyes seem to be saving their best hockey for the end of the season, one that has produced a tight Big Ten title race. OSU remains in fourth place in the conference after this weekend's results, five points behind second-place Wisconsin and only three behind Michigan, who sits third. Minnesota leads the conference with 26 points, four ahead of Wisconsin.
Rohlik said the team tries to take its schedule one game at a time, but there is always that recognition of how important each win could be.
"We understand where we're at and we realize how important points are every weekend," Rohlik said. "So when you look at it one game at a time, it kind of blends together with the big picture."
Next up, the Buckeyes are scheduled to take on the last team they lost to, the Badgers, Friday and Saturday at the Schottenstein Center. Puck drop is set for 7:05 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday.


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A patriotic pensioner looks ready for the World Cup as he turns heads in Braintree on his customised mobility scooter.
Vernon "Larry" Lawrence, 80, of High Elms, Braintree, often attracts attention for his scooter decorated with flags and memorabilia from his life.
The widower, who has four children, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren said: "I call it my customised scooter. People say they love it, kids come up and say 'cool mister' and 'awesome mister.'
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Quote:Crabbie, Let me indulge you in the past of Casey. Back when I was your age, I bought a bit of weed from a "friend" of mine. I always bought from people I knew well. That evening I lit up and got in another friend's car (we were heading to her house on the lake). We made a stop to pick up another friend and my stomach started to turn. I get out as fast as I can (keep in mind I'm HIGH as a kite at this point and finding the door handle was a challenge) and threw up everything I had in my stomach and then some. I passed out and to this day I still don't know how I got out of her car or into the house. Later when I was talking to another friend, she told me it sounded like it was laced with heroine. That was the last night I got high and stopped every other drug I was doing. If you don't care about the legal reprocutions, at least think of what possibly could have been done and all the people who have handled it. Any one of them could have done any number of things or a combination of things.Casey
Quote:Quote:It's a 13 page thread I'm sure there will be loads of links to studys.http://www.thctalk.com/cannabis-forum/showthread.php?t=254 I'm assuming this must be a joke.......what point were you trying to make?
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Breezy is wandering aimlessly on the streets, while Bieber is standing tall on the rooftop and kissing his girl at the end of the video.
Chris Brown's much awaited music video in support of Justin Bieber-assisted single "Next 2 You" has gone viral. Directed by Colin Tilley, it features Breezy and Bieber living in a town which turns into a complete chaos. The apocalyptic-themed clip is sealed with a rooftop kiss by Bieber and his on-screen girlfriend.
While the Canadian singer has a happy ending, Breezy joins the confused town residents and wanders aimlessly on the chaotic streets. "I would play it to the actual song, and at one point of the song, there were all these dancers dancing on these street elements like benches and tables and stuff like that," he said.
"From there, it just started to evolve from street elements and this whole underground vibe to just getting crazier and crazier. I wanted to make sure it was really exciting," he added.
"Next 2 You" is a song from Brown's "F.A.M.E." which was released in March this year. The song debuted at No. 10 on the Hot Digital Songs chart and appeared at No. 26 on the Hot 100 chart.


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It's a hit: BlackBerry 10 gets CBS Sports app
0. phoneArena posted on 18 Mar 2013, 14:41
If you're a sports fan with the BlackBerry Z10, you can get up-to-date sports scores, stats and news with the CBS Sports app for BlackBerry 10; the update also includes games in-progress including pitch-by-pitch updates of Major League Baseball and for those Z10 users who have been wanting some more apps like iOS and Android, here is one...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. axllebeer (Posts: 271; Member since: 05 Apr 2011)
Cool. Another app in the mix is always a good thing for BB users.
2. apiskula (banned) (Posts: 578; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
Blackberry sucks. Close the damn doors!
3. janert (Posts: 3; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
I think you suck for thinking so low. No all of us want to use the unsecured android or the ios. By the way, more apps will be coming in. Just a matter of time. Z10 keep moving
4. BillyG (Posts: 305; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
indeed, keep moving BB, to the grave...
btw, BB OS isn't that secure... it's just that no one really interested to 'jailbreak' it... remember those jailbroken Playbook, that guy was crazy enough to jailbreak a playbook for prob. only 100 users... lol... but i guess he did it only to show that he can, and BB is not as secure as people thought...
5. Laura90 (banned) (Posts: 20; Member since: 24 Feb 2013)
I bought Z10, and I currently hate it.
A lot of problems and lagging and errors.
Whatsapp and viber does not work and messy.
The new OS is immature and would be epic fail.
6. slaggyb (Posts: 215; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
@laura90 hater and a big damn liar... Go find somewhere else and continue trolling.
7. realtrevor (Posts: 14; Member since: 13 Dec 2012)
@laura90, that's for the first time to hear that the Z10 is lagging and has errors. My WhatsApp works smoothly on my Z10, its a native App. I don't know who are you trying to impress with your lies.
8. Johnnokia (Posts: 1144; Member since: 27 May 2012)
Just watch the reviews of Whatsapp in the blackberry world.
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Easy to make dress set for 5" Berenguer doll. Instructions are for dress, hat, panties and shoes. Knitted with 2.25mm straight needles and 4 ply yarn. Outfit also uses 4mm buttons to fasten the dress and ribbon for the hat. Uses about 25g of yarn or less.
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