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Gambit is one of Marvel's X men. I grew up with the 90's animated series and even as a youngster, I adored Gambit. The Ragin' Cajun is a popular, if divisive character. A highly skilled thief, he was often not trusted by his teammates, but eventually gained their trust. His mutant powers include being able to manipulate kinetic energy and creating explosions. A fond gambler, he usually charges playing cards to throw at opponents. It was his personality that made me such a huge fan though; Remy LeBeau AKA Gambit is charming, cheeky, narcissistic, loyal, loving and extremely badass.
The front is clear so you can see the figure. In a corner on the cardboard there are charged cards, Gambit's trademark weapon. On the side of the box, there's a picture of Gambit. The back has a photo of the figure stood in the 'Danger Room' set you get with it, illustrating what it looks like. There's a brief history of Gambit before he joined the x-men and smaller pictures, including pictures of the figures of Deadpool and Cyclops; the latter having the same base as Gambit. I imagine Cyclops' base fits with Gambit's in some way, should you want to collect them. There's also a little pic of the variant Gambit you can also buy - the only difference is the variant has longer locks. Seriously, that's it; a different hair do. Tempting as it is, I'm not that much of a nerd. Opening it up, (for I could contain myself no longer) there are pictures of Gambit from the comics, all in the same pink colour that surrounds anything he charges. I was reluctant to ruin the pretty packaging, but I wanted to play with him! Underneath the packaging there is a bright white explosion surrounded by the pictures. The level of detail just gone into the packaging is impressive, and I was a little sad to ruin it.
The Figure:-
The danger room base for Gambit to stand in is a cute idea, but it was quite difficult to clip it together initially. It's composed of 3 parts - two walls creating a corner, and the floor. As for Gambit himself, he has 16 points of articulation, which makes him even more fun to play with. My Barbie's were never this flexible. Just ask Ken. Gambit clearly likes to accessorise; he has his bo staff, two spare hands, two identical sets of charged cards, and one singular charged card. The detail in these items is pretty impressive. The staff is basically just a silver stick but the cards look incredible. They're surrounded by the pink charge with flames coming off the ends. Male fans probably wouldn't agree, but the charged cards look so pretty! The spare hands are both for his right hand. One is slightly more closed than the one already on the figure, and the other is open completely, to be able to hold the 3 charged cards. All of the hands have Gambit's trademark fingerless gloves.
Now, onto the important part - Gambit! Gambit's had a few costume changes over the years. Blissfully, the costume is the original outfit and probably his most iconic. He's wearing tight trousers over rippling thighs, black with pink stripes. He's also got his silver boots and pink top (real men wear pink). Not the most inconspicuous outfit for a thief, perhaps Gambit likes the challenge. Or pink. His face is framed by his black cowl and he has his ever present trench coat. Let me talk about that trench coat. Like Gambit's muscles, it's rippling. Gambit's trench coat is the one thing that has stuck with his many costume changes; it's instantly recognisable and quintessentially Gambit. So it's a real joy that the sculptor has taken such great care with it. It's the tiny details that really make it. The wee silver buttons on the cuffs, the rippling leather look, the fact that it actually looks worn in - it's a joy. You can't take the coat off, but it ripples nicely when you touch it. Much like its wearer, the coat is damn cool.
Gambit has a lovely face, there's no argument about that. Like his coat, his hair looks windswept; I really don't think Lego hair would suit him anyway. His distinctive eyes are done well here, with the red on black being particularly striking, and with his face in that frown, he looks rather menacing. Yes indeed - he has been given creases in his forehead to show him frown. This is clearly Gambit mid-fight. Topped off with his ever present stubble, the detail is marvellous.
I am so impressed with this, as I'm sure my gushing has made obvious. It's just so beautifully put together. It's not perfect however. Getting Gambit to stand up without falling can prove rather annoying. It's easier to stand him on a wooden surface than it is to stand on the base, which is a bit shiny. The biggest problem with the figure is that it isn't six feet tall and real. If you're not as childish as me but a Gambit fan, I say get it. You might not play with it and make it speak bad French in a terrible Cajun accent, but it looks really, really cool and close inspection holds up very well indeed.
Price and Availability:-
Nice and easy to get hold of on the net, I got mine from ebay but it's available from Play.com for £16.99 with free P&P. It would make a great gift for a nerdy loved one, trust me.


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Our friends at American Muscle like to have fun in parking lots too. Just not surrounded by people like that guy at Tx2k12. Instead, they prefer to do burnouts surrounded by other Mustangs… doing burnouts.
I think I know which I prefer too.
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School board cuts $6.8 million from schools budget
The Beaufort County Board of Education voted Friday to cut $6.8 million from next year's schools operating budget by increasing class size by one student in grades kindergarten through 12, reducing 17 math and science coordinator positions and taking the number of literacy coaches from 30 to 16. They also voted to eliminate six career development facilitator positions, three school-to-work and three special education coordinator positions, and reduced the $2,000 local supplement to all current and future Nationally Board Certified Teachers by one-third. The board also froze step increases for administrators. Spared were the district's pre-kindergarten program, which serves more than 900 at-risk 4 year-olds, and athletic insurance and the strings programs -- all of which were eyed for cuts. Read more in Saturday's Bluffton Today.


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Today is the final day of the NAS's write-your-own-trigger-warning contest! Submissions must be received by midnight (12:00AM EST Friday, June 6) to be considered. The top three will be announced tomorrow and their authors will receive a free copy of Peter Wood's book A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.
Here's more about the contest from Ashley Thorne's blog on Minding the Campus yesterday:
What do you wish you knew about a book before you were traumatized by it? How would you warn future readers of say, Pride and Prejudice, The House at Pooh Corner, and How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Don't worry too much about giving away the ending. As Oberlin College wrote in its proposed guidelines for faculty members, "even if a trigger warning does contain a spoiler, experiencing a trigger is always, always worse than experiencing a spoiler."
You can submit your trigger warnings on Twitter with the hashtag #triggerwarningfail and NAS's handle @NASorg, or you can post them to NAS's Facebook page or in the comments below.
See NAS's Facebook page and our original announcement for examples of the kinds of trigger warnings we are looking for.
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Etowah County has been chosen to receive funding from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area.
The selection was made by a national board that is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Council of Jewish Federations, Catholic Charities USA, National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and United Way of America, which will provide the administrative staff and function as fiscal agent.
The board was charged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country.
United Way of Etowah County will convene the local board, which will be comprised of representatives of local governments, and various social service agencies will determine how the funds awarded to Etowah County are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service organizations in the area. The local board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds available under this phase of the program.
Under the terms of the grant from the national board, local governmental or private voluntary organizations chosen to receive funds must: be non-profit; have an accounting system and conduct an annual audit; practice nondiscrimination; have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs; and, if they are a private voluntary organization, they must have a voluntary board. Qualifying organizations are urged to apply.
Etowah County distributed more than $41,433 in Emergency Food and Shelter funds last year through participating human services organizations such as the Love Center, the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Etowah Community Food Bank, Metro Area Noon Nutrition Association, Etowah Community Services and the Catholic Center of Concern. These agencies were responsible for providing more than 20,500 meals and 613 nights of emergency shelter, as well as utility and rent assistance to others in need.
Agencies requesting funding must call Pat Presley at United Way of Etowah County, 547-2581, for an application with requested documentation of nonprofit status.
A letter of request and the application must be received no later than Friday. It should be addressed to: Emergency Food & Shelter Program, PHASE 27, United Way of Etowah County, P.O. Box 1175, Gadsden, AL 35902.
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Etowah County has been chosen to receive funding from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area.


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UA-Based Start-Up Wins $25K to Further Develop Green Pest Control Method
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Growers and consumers of apples stand to be among the beneficiaries of a University of Alabama start-up company's $25,000 winnings in a state-wide business competition.
Sutterlin Technologies won the money for its third place finish in Alabama Launchpad, an annual competitive vetting process to evaluate high growth start-ups and provide seed funding in the form of cash prizes to the top three.
Led by Dr. Rusty Sutterlin and incubating within UA's Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs, or AIME, Building, Sutterlin Technologies won for its business plan of using an environmentally friendly, patent-pending biodegradable technology to target the brown codling moth. The most is a pest to farmers, including commercial apple growers.
The technology, licensed from UA, works by disrupting the insects' mating patterns through the use of insect pheromones – chemical sex attractants which the tiny creatures emit to entice and locate mates. The company's new biodegradable approach centers around the use of pectin, a complex carbohydrate naturally occurring in fruits, including apples, and some vegetables.
Pectin, Sutterlin said, is adept at binding with the pheromones and releasing them it as it degrades harmlessly in the fields. Laboratory test results show the technique is promising, and field trials are needed, Sutterlin says. The winnings will help the company develop the trials.
Sutterlin Technologies, whose team includes Chris Cater, a UA graduate now pursuing an MBA/JD at the University, Cory Blanchard, a UA undergraduate majoring in chemical engineering, and Ben Miller, a senior management major, has a board of advisers including representatives from both UA and the University of Missouri.
The technology licensed to Sutterlin's company through UA's Office for Technology Transfer was developed by Dr. Scott Spear, a research scientist in AIME, and his colleagues.
For more on the company, see http://uanews.ua.edu/2010/04/busting-bug-love-ua-based-company-uses-green-technology-to-counter-crop-pest/
Alabama Launchpad is a partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, the business community and seven public universities in the state. This was the competition's fourth year. For more information, visit www.alabamalaunchpad.com
SLP Diagnostics, affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville, won first place in the competition, and Swift Biotechnology, affiliated with the University of South Alabama, won second place.
HydrogeNow, also affiliated with UA, was one of nine teams chosen from among the 45 who originally began the competition to make the Alabama Launchpad's April 16 finals. The teams competed for $175,000 in funding.
The University of Alabama, a student-centered research university, is experiencing significant growth in both enrollment and academic quality. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.
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SOUTHAMPTON Airport's largest carrier Flybe enjoyed a nine per cent share bounce this morning despite slumping to a full-year loss.
The regional airline racked up losses in the UK of £2.2 million for the year to the end of March, compared to profits of £5.7 million the previous year, as it battled a five per cent decline in the domestic market and high fuel prices.
But the carrier grew its share of its domestic market to 28 per cent after passenger numbers lifted two per cent to 7.3 million and analysts said it is set to benefit from recent falls in oil prices.
Shares in Flybe, which floated on the stock exchange 18 month ago, rose 5.5p to 67.5p.
Flybe Finland, the company's joint venture with Finnair started nearly a year ago, already operates 25 routes in six countries and has scope for further expansion amid consolidation in the industry.
Losses for the group were £7.1 million, compared to a £22.3 million profit in the previous year.
Chief executive Jim French said: ''We remain in a challenging environment. However, Flybe today is a business of real scale and substance and one which has again demonstrated its resilience.''
Andrew Fitchie, an analyst at Investec, said the company's drive to contain costs while investing in its fleet and expand overseas will ''pay off handsomely'' given time.
He revised up his forecasts, saying he expects the airline to return to profit in the current year, with a £500,000 surplus compared to his previous estimate of a £1.3 million loss.


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SourcesThe list below is a starting point for research funding. Please contact ARLO to clarify application dates and requirements, and so we can help ensure you submit your best application. Thanks!
For a good overview, please check External Research Funding Opportunities for BCIT Researchers.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)NSERC supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes and supports discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging Canadian companies to participate and invest in post-secondary research projects in the natural sciences and engineering. BCIT is eligible to apply for grants directly to NSERC as a university or as co-applicants. We can also be the university partner with colleges and industry in the CU-I2I program.
Collaborative Research and Development (CRD)
CRD Grants support well-defined projects undertaken by university researchers and their private-sector partners. CRD awards cover up to half of the total eligible direct project costs, with the industrial partner(s) providing the balance in cash and in kind.
Deadline: Anytime
College-University Ideas to Innovation (CU-I2I)
CU-I2I Grants are intended to support college and university participation in the improvement or extension of existing company technology or commercial products, processes and/or services.
Deadline: Oct 1
CREATE (Collaborative Research and Training Experience)
Supports the training of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs.
Deadline:May 15 (Intent)
Deadline:Sep 22
Discovery Grant (DG)
Support ongoing programs of research (with long-term goals) rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects.
Deadline: Aug 1 (Intent)
Deadline: Oct 1 (Application)
Engage Grants
Support new research partnerships between researchers and companies for short-term R&D projects that solve a company specific problem.
Deadline: Anytime
Engage Plus Grants
To further developments from an ongoing or recently completed Engage Grant project, or to continue the project while seeking longer-term support, applicants may apply for a subsequent Engage Plus Grant to support a project for an additional six months.
Deadline: Anytime
Interaction Grants
Support meetings with Canadian based companies to identify a company specific problem to be solved in a subsequent newly established research partnership.
Deadline: Anytime
Idea to Innovation (I2I)
Provides funding for research and development activities leading to technology transfer to a new or established Canadian company.
Value: up to 12 months, maximum $125,000.
Deadlines: Jan 11, Apr 6, Jul 5, Sep 27
NSERC's PromoScience program offers financial support for organizations working with young Canadians to promote an understanding of science and engineering.
Deadline: Sep 15
Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) Program
One-year awards that assist in buying or developing research equipment that costs more than $7,000.
Deadline: Oct 25
Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks
The objective of the Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks (SNG) Program is to increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada's economy, society and/or environment within the next 10 years. Funding requests are in the $0.5m to $1.0m range.
Deadline: Apr 1 (preliminary application)
Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects
The objective of the Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects (SPG) Program is to increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly influence Canada's economy, society and/or environment within the next 10 years. Funding requests are in the $0.5m to $1.0m range.
Deadline: Apr 1 (preliminary application)
Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)
Students gain research work experience to complements their studies. Applications are coordinated with the research supervisor (faculty). BCIT's allocation of USRAs is four (4). Detailed information on application procedures is posted at : http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/UG-PC/USRA-BRPC_eng.asp .
Student applicants must make sure they are eligible to apply and supervisors must make sure that they are eligible to supervise - normally, supervisors must hold NSERC funding, however, supervision of faculty members without NSERC funding may be considered.
Deadline: March / April (internal BCIT deadline)
BC Innovation Council
Supports applied and innovative research and commercialization of science and technology to support economic development in British Columbia.
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
BCKDF funding is institutional, providing provincial matching funds for applications to the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund, including CRC applications. Please refer to the BCKDF Guidelines for further information on the British Columbia strategic research priorities and for details about the application and review process. BCKDF applications are due one month following the CFI deadline for a competition.
Canada Foundation for Innovation
The CFI is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. Funding programs available to BCIT researchers include:
Canada Research Chairs
The Canada Research Chairs program (CRC) is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development. It is a permanent program to establish 2000 research professorships—Canada Research Chairs—in eligible degree-granting institutions across the country. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. Its mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system.
70 per cent of research funding is investigator-driven while 30 per cent is reserved for strategic initiatives. Investigator research regular competition cycle is September, January and March; while strategic is December and June.
- Health Research Roadmap: Creating innovative research for better health and health care
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The IRB Policy provides the framework for using federal defence procurement to lever long-term industrial and regional development within Canada. It was created in 1986 to ensure that Canadian companies can derive benefits from procurements, such as new business or investments in new technologies. BCIT's CUBE 3D Simulation project received IRB funding.
Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF)
Offers a wide range of funding programs designed to assist the agriculture and food processing industries in BC.
The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research leads, partners and serves as a catalyst to build British Columbia's capacity for excellence in clinical, biomedical, health services and population health research.
NRC-IRAP (National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Program)
NRC-IRAP provides non-repayable contributions to Canadian SMEs interested in growing by using technology to commercialize services, products and processes in Canadian and international markets. IRAP funding helps companies access business services or technical assistance at Canada's learning institutions and publicly-funded research organizations to bring bigger and better innovations to market faster. Programs available to BCIT researchers' partner companies include:
The Research Support Fund (formerly known as the Indirect Costs Program) assists Canadian post-secondary institutions with the indirect costs associated with managing their research enterprise, helping them maintain a world-class research environment. Grants can be used to pay expenditures in the following five categories:
- Research facilities (maintain modern labs and equipment);
- Research resources (provide access to up-to-date knowledge resources);
- Management and administration of an institution's research enterprise;
- Regulatory requirements and accreditation (meet regulatory and ethical standards); or
- Intellectual property (transfer knowledge from academia to the private, public and not-for-profit sectors).
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports postsecondary-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. By focusing on developing Talent, generating Insights and forging Connections across campuses and communities, SSHRC strategically supports world-leading initiatives. BCIT is fully eligible to apply for SSHRC funding.
Western Economic Diversification Canada
WD administers programs and services that advance innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable communities. In all their activities they use innovative partnerships with public and private sectors, other levels of government, academic and financial institutions, and research centres to make the most of the investment in Western Canada.
- Western Diversification Program
WDP invests in projects that support WD's activities of innovation, business development, community economic development and policy, advocacy and coordination, including a number of partnership programs undertaken with other levels of government.
United States
Grants.gov contains information on 26 federal grant-making agencies and over 900 individual grant programs in the United States that award over $350 billion in grants each year. The grant community includes: state, local and tribal governments, academia and research institutions, and not-for-profits.


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DIPP secretary Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery, a 1977-batch IAS officer, has been appointed as Haryana chief secretary. Rahul Khullar is a 1975-batch IAS officer.
The competent authority has approved the assignment of additional charge of the post of DIPP secretary to Rahul Khullar, secretary, department of commerce, for a period of three months with immediate effect or until further orders, whichever is earlier, an official statement said.


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Georgina Ramsbottom says she usually picks up on what is going on at Risby Preschool and Childcare Services but staff and children managed to keep secret surprises they were arranging to mark her 20 years there.
The children made a 'birthday' cake and gifts while staff past and present organised a surprise evening meal.
Georgina began by doing one day a week when the preschool was in the village hall and now does five days as a pre school and child care practitioner at the purpose-built venue it moved to two years ago.
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Pink Floyd's entire catalog remastered
If you happen to be a fan of Pink Floyd, and I know there are a lot of you, I have some terrific news.
On Tuesday, Sept. 27, Capitol Records rereleased the entire recently remastered Pink Floyd catalog from "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" released in 1967 to its last album, 1995's "Pulse."
This is from pinkfloydonline.com: "These remasters are based on the original master tapes, and were done by James. They generally represent a higher level of quality than the previous Harvest discs (which in turn were generally superior to the Capitol and CBS discs sold in the US). The remastered editions feature expanded booklets with new artwork and lyrics and the discs themselves are all picture discs."
Pink Floyd was one of, if not the original, "space" and/or "acid" rock bands of the late 1960s and has remained one of the most popular classic rock bands in history.
What set it apart was the way Pink Floyd presented its music. It mixed rock 'n' roll, blues and jazz with classical and operatic overtones and put them into a vast and trippy psychedelic sonic soundscape that transfixed the listener, especially under an altered state of consciousness.
In eight years, 1971 to 1979, Pink Floyd released "Meddle," "Dark Side Of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," "Animals" and "The Wall," all considered classics with "Dark Side" being the most popular by a wide margin.
My personal favorite is "Wish You Were Here," a recording that was somewhat based on the life of former bandmate and founding member, the late Syd Barrett.
Each one of Pink Floyds 16 releases are available individually or as a 14-CD box set.
In the case of the two-CD set, "The Wall," not only is it remastered but the price dropped by $10. "Dark Side of the Moon" received special treatment as it is available in three different ways.
The original single CD issue featuring the recent remastered disc is the basic release. There is also a two CD set which adds the complete "Dark Side Of the Moon" album recorded live from Wembly in 1974.
Finally, there is the three-CD, three-DVD Immersion version that has too much music to list here.
Features of the set include several different mixes of "Dark Side Of The Moon" including Alan Parsons Quad mix from 1973 in standard resolution audio all at 448 and 640 kbps.
There is an audio visual DVD and Blue Ray featuring "Live In Brighton 1972," "Careful With That Axe," "Eugene," "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun," "The Dark Side Of The Moon," 2003 documentary as well as concert Screen Films from the British Tour 1974, French Tour 1974, North American Tour 1975, Screen Films play in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound. There is also a disc of previously unreleased tracks.
And then, there's a 40-page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson, an exclusive photo book edited by Jill Furmanovsky, a Storm Thorgerson art print, five collectors cards with art and comments by Thorgerson, a replica of The Dark Side Of The Moon Tour Ticket, a replica of The Dark Side Of The Moon Backstage Pass, a scarf, three black marbles, coasters (unique to this box) featuring an early Thorgerson design sketches and a 12-page credits booklet.
(You can take a big breath, now.)
"Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall" will get the "Immersion" treatment later this year.


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The Toy Poodle is indeed just a tiny version of the Standard Poodle and shares its extreme intelligence and willingness to please. Toy Poodles are excellent dogs for those who live in small or large quarters alike, as their small stature takes up very little space, but they are also willing to run the farm with the big dogs given their hunting heritage. The hunting drive is strong in most Poodles, and even a Toy Poodle will "point" at game if given the opportunity.
Toy Poodles are great companions for children, as they are both patient and gentle, though children must be taught the proper way to handle such a small playmate. Since they shed less than other breeds, Toy Poodles may help lessen the allergic potential in those owners with hypersensitivities to pet hair and dander.
Although small in stature, Toy Poodles are still prone to a number of hereditary and congenital conditions that can adversely affect their health and put a big dent in your pocketbook. Some of the conditions and illnesses Toy Poodles are prone to include knee problems such as patellar luxation; developmental problems such as cryptorchidism; hearing issues such as deafness; eye problems such as glaucoma; and degenerative diseases such as Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.
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Here's the place to share your meal ideas for the evening, post where you bought the ingredients frugally and even share a recipe if you would like. If you need some inspiration for your own dinner tonight, this may give you some helpful ideas.
What's on your menu tonight?
On our menu this week we are having:
Stir-fry tofu and veggies including asparagus, mushrooms and onions served on brown rice (Monday's dinner)
Breakfast for dinner with French toast, turkey bacon, fruit salad
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More than 180,000 people were evacuated from their homes in northern California after engineers worried the emergency spillway for the already-overflowing Lake Oroville would collapse. Continue reading
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders dueled for support ahead of California's presidential primary on Tuesday as the Vermont senator showed few signs of backing off. Continue reading
The southeastern quadrant of Sacramento is an industrial community that has seen many industries come through: mining, truck farming, recycling. Now, a group that advocates for the community has decided to re-brand it by asking artists to paint dumpsters. Continue reading
Sacramento photographer Justin Majeczky has a knack for capturing beautiful scenes in and around his city. Continue reading
The San Joaquin delta is a merging spot of rivers, sloughs, and canals, where water and snow from the Sierra Nevada Mountains flows to the Pacific Ocean. But there are some residents, especially farmers, who worry that thirsty interests will divert more of their water and ruin their livelihoods. Spencer Michels reports. Continue reading
Artist Gong Yuebin grew up during China's Cultural Revolution and it shows. His piece "Site 2801," on display at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., reflects a re-imagined terra cotta army — 200 warriors interspersed with 10 modern-looking soldiers, symbolizing an unchanged feeling of militarism. Spencer Michels reports. Continue reading
Local governments across the Golden State are beginning to feel the impact of the $4 billion in budget cuts made by lawmakers in the state's general assembly earlier this year. Spencer Michels explores the impact on California cities and counties. Continue reading
The California Assembly approved the state's long-awaited budget, sending the package to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after several all-night sessions and political concessions. Continue reading


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Commentary / World | THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK Apr 29, 2015
Anti-abolitionist sentiments are alive and well
Why haven't black civil rights leaders demanded that the American national anthem be changed?
A Japan Times columnist since 2000, Hiroaki Sato has won prizes for his translation of poetry (PEN American Center, Japan-US Friendship Commission). A paperback edition of his "Legends of the Samurai" has recently appeared. He is now working on a second collection of samurai tales with their origins.
For Hiroaki Sato's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Why haven't black civil rights leaders demanded that the American national anthem be changed?
Recently I was asked to translate into English a short story that the Taiwanese writer Chou Chin-bo wrote in Japanese back in 1941. I was happy with this request. I was born in Taipei in 1942, but ever since my family was forced out ...
Many U.S. commentators' assumption that Japan is beyond redemption because it is a "war-crime nation" appears to have taken off at the trial of Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was convicted after the Pacific War in Manila for failure to exert "command responsibility" over every action ...
When a dispute arises between the South Korea and Japan, such as the "comfort women" controversy, the South Koreans who most fiercely criticize Japan are "liberals" while the Japanese who criticize South Korea are "conservative rightists."
Perhaps the wartime existence of "comfort women" owes its notoriety in recent years to Japan's retroactive bad conscience, South Korean politics and the unwarranted U.S. propensity to be a moral scold.
When Toho Studios wanted to turn "The Life of an Alluring Woman" into a film, U.S. censors stepped in multiple times to demand script revisions.
One of the Japanese stories sometimes mentioned in the "comfort women" controversy was written by the late Taijiro Tamura in the spring of 1947. It depicted Korean "comfort women," but the U.S. Occupation "suppressed" it.
Were "comfort women" sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in World War II? If you recognize that prostitution is largely a form of physical bondage, they were. But forcibly rounding up women for the work would be a different matter. Recently the testimony of a ...
Imagine Boston, including its coast, hemmed in by a relentlessly hostile superior power ready to attack it anytime from air, land and sea. Boston is about a third of the Gaza Strip in land area, but the same in population density.
Japanese researchers of fauna and flora are becoming more like their U.S. counterparts inasmuch as they talk about the environment, ecology and biodiversity to disguise their anthropocentric expediency.


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Wisconsin Obesity Rate Higher than Previously Thought
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH, associate dean for public health and professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, explains to Wisconsin Public Radio listeners why SHOW's latest surverying methods resulted in a higher, but more accurate, picture of obesity in the state. Listen to his interview on Central Time.
Amy Schultz Recognized for Research on Effects of Industrial Dairy Farms on Health
Amy Schultz, a graduate student working at the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), received a student achievement award at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting. Her poster, about the effects of industrial dairy operations on respiratory health, was a top-10 submission for student abstracts in the Environmental Health section. Learn more
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"Neighborhoods and communities we live in can have profound effects on our overall well-being, particularly in promoting mental health ..." - Dr. Kristen Malecki, co-director, Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
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Jason Priestley's children, daughter Ava and son Dashiell, already have their Halloween costumes picked out and luckily their list doesn't include Miley Cyrus.
The "Call Me Fitz" star stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Monday, where he weighed in on Miley Cyrus and explained how he would handle his 6-year-old daughter wanting to dress up like the headline-making 20-year-old.
"I'd be a little torn on that," he told Kit Hoover and Shaun Robinson when asked if he'd let Ava sport a Miley costume.
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"Like if she wanted to go as Hannah Montana, I'd say, 'Sure,'" he explained. "But to go as Miley Cyrus that would be indicative of… Umm yeah, I'd have a problem with that."
Luckily, the actor's daughter is planning on going as a "zombie bunny" for the spooky holiday.
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Jason, who rocketed to fame at 21, explained that he understands how many young stars use their image and sexuality to get attention, but warned that looking back on those choices can be difficult.
"When you're 20, 21 years old you think you've got it all figured out. You think you're an adult," he said, referring to Miley. "She's pushing the envelope a little bit in order to get column inches [in magazines] and that's exactly what she's getting."
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A major theme here at Supercomputing 2012 is the use of Hadoop for big data analytics. In partnership with Hortonworks, Panasas is demonstrating Hadoop running on our recently announced Panasas ActiveStor 14 parallel storage system at Supercomputing 2012, booth 3421.
The technology requirements of big data applications vary dramatically for legacy storage and compute technologies. Big data workloads strain traditional storage architectures in three key ways: scale, bandwidth, and volume and variety of unstructured data. Under the mantle of HPC, a new ecosystem had to be developed to extract value from all the unstructured data being generated by sensors, satellite images, simulations, video and email, to name a few. Panasas originally developed its PanFS parallel file system to address the needs of big data workloads in design and discover environments, long before the advent of big data analytics.
On a parallel path (forgive the pun) the Google File System (GFS) was designed to be a highly scalable architecture, utilizing low cost storage and parallel processing to economically extract value from all the data out on the Internet. In building its storage file system, Google leveraged core research done by Panasas founder, Dr. Garth Gibson, at the Carnegie Mellon Parallel Data Lab, in Pittsburgh. Since then, the open-source Hadoop platform, modeled on GFS, has allowed many other companies to enter the big data analytics market, including LinkedIn and Facebook.
The Panasas file system shares a common heritage with modern file systems such as the Hadoop File System (HDFS), and its back-end storage platform is designed to support a highly distributed, scalable parallel file system. ActiveStor appliances can support a Hadoop workload through HDFS, or directly through PanFS. Running a Hadoop workload on an existing Linux cluster with Panasas ActiveStor appliances only requires some configuration changes at startup. The Panasas implementation does not require any proprietary software plug-ins and will work with any version of HDFS. There is no need to purchase additional compute or storage hardware to run Hadoop workloads, and the data is preserved in a trusted enterprise-class storage platform. Finally, there is no performance penalty for using the Panasas scale-out NAS solution. On internal benchmarks, utilizing the TeraSort benchmark suite of tests, ActiveStor 14T was actually 30% faster than a local disk solution.
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Raymond Buckland
Written and compiled by George Knowles
Raymond Buckland, Englishman, prolific Author and Witch. He is probably best known as an agent of Gerald B. Gardner. It was Buckland who was responsible for introducing Gardnerian Witchcraft into America in 1964. He is also the founder of his own tradition of Witchcraft called Seax-Wica, and for a time operated his own Museum of Witchcraft in America. He has been a leading spokesman for the Craft in America for more than five decades.
Buckland was born in London, England, on the 31st August 1934, the second of two sons (his brother Gerard was 2 years older) borne to Stanley Thomas Buckland and his wife Eileen Lizzie nee Wells. Stanley his father was a full-blood Romany Gypsy and a highly regarded Executive Officer in the British Ministry of Health. In his spare time he freelanced as a writer of plays, short stories, poetry and music, talents he encouraged his sons to work on. In 1939 with the outbreak of war, the family moved to Nottingham to escape the bombing raids on London. There the two boys attended Waverly School, a private school, to continue their early education.
Gerard - (Buckland Major) and Ray - (Buckland Minor) in school uniform circa 1940's
As a child Buckland was brought up in the Church of England, but had no particular interest in religion. When he was 12 years old his father's brother "uncle" George, a practising Spiritualist, introduced him to Spiritualism and sparked his life long interest in all things occult. By this time Buckland was already an avid reader, and started to read all he could find on alternative religions, and such related subjects as: Ghosts, ESP, Magick, Voodoo and Witchcraft. After the war had passed, Buckland became interested in acting and soon became involved with the theatre. He regularly performed at the People's Theatre in Nottingham and the Nottingham Repertory Theatre. In 1951 the family moved back to London, where Buckland studied first at King's College School in Wimbledon, before gaining a doctorate degree in anthropology from Brantridge Forest College, in Sussex.
After leaving college he worked as a draftsman for an engineering firm, and in 1955 met and married his first wife Rosemary nee Moss. Together they had two sons Robert and Regnauld. In 1957 he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) but only served a short term leaving in 1959. After leaving the RAF, he worked for two years as a retail manager in a London publishing firm, during which time he taught himself to play the trombone and joined a Dixieland-style jazz band called "Count Rudolph's Syncopated Jazz Men". In their spare time during evening and weekends, they played regularly at the Piccadilly Jazz Club, the Baker Street Jazz Club and other like venues.
Buckland and Rosemary
In February of 1962, Buckland with his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brentwood, Long Island, New York. For the next ten years he worked for British Airways (then known as BOAC), which enabled him to travel extensively. Buckland's interest in Spiritualism and the occult had continued to this time, but he was still without a religion and felt there was something missing. Shortly after his arrival in the States two books came into his possession that would greatly influence his life and beliefs, The Witch-Cult In Western Europe by Margaret A. Murray (1921), and Witchcraft Today by Gerald B. Gardner (1954).
Until reading these two books, Buckland had never looked upon Witchcraft as a religion, but now he realized he had found what he felt was missing, an old but new religion that appealed to his own beliefs and sense of history, "Wicca". For more information about Wicca, he contacted Gerald Gardner in the Isle of Man, and soon began a long-distance mail and telephone friendship with him. As their friendship matured Buckland became Gardner's spokesman in the United States, and whenever Gardner received a query from the U.S., it was forwarded to and answered by Buckland.
In 1963 Buckland and his wife Rosemary flew back to the UK to be initiated and raised in Perth, Scotland by Gardner's main High Priestess 'Monique Wilson'. Gardner joined them for the initiation ceremony, during which Buckland was given a craft name "Robat" and Rosemary named "Lady Rowen". This was the first and only physical meeting between Buckland and Gardner, for shortly after Gardner left the UK to vacation the winter months in the Lebanon. There on the 12th February 1964 while returning on board The Scottish Prince, Gardner suffered a fatal heart attack and was buried on shore in Tunis the following day.
In America interest in Witchcraft was catching on quickly, but Buckland built his coven (The New York Coven in Bay Shore, Long Island) slowly and with caution sticking to the traditional intensive screening program and "year-and-a-day" probationary period before accepting new initiates. However, there were many people that wanted to become Gardnerian Witches who felt that Buckland was being over cautious, those who didn't want to wait for initiation simply went away and started their own covens. Buckland persisted; he wanted only those with a genuine interest in the craft as a religion. Initially Buckland was secretive, and kept his name and address from the press, but eventually it was published by journalist Lisa Hoffman in the New York Sunday News, which focused attention on him as a leading authority and spokesman of the craft. On the other hand it also led to a deal of negative persecution on himself, his wife and two children.
Buckland and Rosemary
In imitation of Gardner's Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in the Isle of Man and perhaps inspired by it, Buckland began to collect artifacts and pieces for his own museum. He called it the First Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in the United States, and was formally opened to view (by appointment only) in 1968. His collection started in a bookcase, and then as it grew it took over the basement of their house, eventually it grew so large in 1973 it was moved into an old Victorian house in Bay Shore. The museum proved a popular success and was featured in numerous national magazine and newspaper articles; it was also the subject of a television documentary. At various other times a selection of artifacts was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to other museums.
Buckland had started to write about witchcraft in 1968, and in 1969 published his first book A Pocket Guide to the Supernatural. He followed this in 1970 with Witchcraft Ancient and Modern and Practical Candleburning Rituals. That same year he wrote his first novel Mu Revealed under the pseudonym "Tony Earll", an anagram for – not really. Writing became a passion for Buckland and he wanted more time to devote to it. By 1973 when his collection of artifacts had grown large enough for him to occupy a rented building in Bay Shore. He quit his job with BOAC and opened the museum to the public, running it himself while at the same time writing. Since then Buckland has managed an average of one book a year.
That same year his marriage to Rosemary broke up and they handed leadership of their Long Island coven over to "Lady Theos and Phoenix (Judy and Tom Kneitel)", who became the High Priest and Priestess of the first and original Gardnerian coven in America. Since its inception in 1964 other covens had hived off the original and slowly but surely began to spread the Gardnerian tradition of Witchcraft all across America. As other traditions began to appear with their own varying styles of practice, so the craft became a viable alternative religion in America with legal status.
After the break up of his marriage, Buckland moved to Weirs Beach in New Hampshire, reopened his museum in a new building and continued with his writing. In the following year 1974, he remarried to Joan Helen Taylor. At about this time he decided to leave the Gardnerian tradition altogether feeling it no longer met his religious needs, he was also fed-up with the egotism and power trips exhibited by others within the craft. To fill the gap he developed and founded a new tradition called Seax-Wica, which he based on a Saxon theme. Leaving behind the degree system of Gardnerian witchcraft, he made Seax-Wica more open and democratic, and published its rituals in: The Tree: Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft (1974). Today the Seax-Wica tradition is practiced worldwide.
Buckland moved again in 1978, this time to Virginia Beach in Virginia where he became the Educational Director of the Poseidia Institute, but sadly without suitable premises to house the museum he was forced to place all his artifacts into storage. While still in Virginia, Buckland started a Seax-Wica correspondence course, which soon grew to over 1,000 students worldwide. Initially they had plans to build a campus for it and turn it into a physical school, but these fell flat due to a lack of sufficient funds.
Into the early 1980's he and his second wife Joan began to drift apart and were divorced in 1982. Just a year later he married again to his third and current wife Tara Cochran of Cleveland. They lived for a couple of years in Charlottesville, Virginia, before moving to San Diego, California. There they re-established the correspondence course and also set up a publishing company called "Taray Publications" using it to published the Seax-Wica Voys, a Wiccan magazine. Eventually running the correspondence course took to much time away from his writing, so Buckland decided to close it down and phased it out. By this time however the Seax-Wica tradition was well established worldwide.
Ray with his brother Gerard circa 1982. Sadly he died in 2002.
Over the next few years while he continued to write, Buckland rekindled his teenage passion for acting and theatre, and went to work for a theatrical and film casting company in San Diego. During this period he became a close friend of the character actor John Carradine, and worked with him through the last few years of his life. He also worked with Orson Welles, as the Technical Consultant on his film "Necromancy", and the director of such hit movies as: "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist", William Friedkin. As well as meeting with some of the movie industries elite director and actors, Buckland played some minor character parts, such like the crazy psychiatrist in the cult movie Mutants in Paradise.
In 1992 after more than a quarter of a century working in and leading the craft in America, Buckland decided to retire from active participation. He moved his family to a small farmstead in north central Ohio. There except for occasional public appearances, lectures, workshops and book signings, he is content to concentrate on his writing and works with his wife Tara as solitaries. His leisure interests include flying ultra-light aircraft and building unusual automobiles.
Buckland was a much sort-after authority on the occult, magic and the supernatural. He was and continues to be a prolific and diverse writer, covering such subjects as mystery and fantasy fiction, screenplays, divination systems, spiritualism and metaphysical non-fiction. He has averaged more than one book a year over the last forty years. He has also written numerous magazine and newspaper articles, television scripts for the ITV's The Army Game, a pilot script for the BBC's Sly Digs, and for a short time was the personal scriptwriter for the English comedian "Ted Lane".
As well as writing, Buckland his appeared in public promoting the craft all across America, he has been seen on BBC-TV in England, the RAI-TV in Italy, and the CBC-TV in Canada. As a distinguished teacher on craft and occult subjects, he has taught courses at New York State University, Hofstra University, New Hampshire Technical Collage and for Hampton, Virginia City Council.
Buckland still working and presenting circa July 2011
In 2015 it was reported that Buckland had suffered a massive life threatening heart attack brought on by a bad case of pneumonia. This necessitated him being airlifted to hospital and placed on a ventilator for more than several days, greatly debilitating the then 81 year old. Since then he is reported as making slow but steady progress back to health through physical therapy and states: "I am now walking two miles every morning and spending an hour on exercises every afternoon. I no longer will travel any great distances, don't do public appearances, and keep pretty low key with my writing (all fiction these days). But on the bright side, I feel so much better and am keeping very active locally, though not in any way pagan-oriented."
Buckland Museum Collection
Buckland's contribution to the revival of Witchcraft in America is perhaps without equal, but "What happened to his Museum of Witchcraft and Magic"??? The last I had heard after more than twenty years in storage gathering dust, it was to be moved and relocated in New Orleans at 523 Dumaine St., situated in the French Quarter (this just before the floods hit). In 2001 I personally visited New Orleans in search of it, but was told he had ran out of funds and it wouldn't be opening?? Disappointed and curious, I wondered what had become of it?? Further research has revealed what happened.
Unable to take timeout from his busy writing schedule, and as book promotions and lectures increasingly demanded more of his time, rather than allow his collection to languish forever unseen in storage, Buckland sold the collection to a Gardnerian High Priest and Priestess in Houma, near New Orleans in April 1999. Monte Plaisance and his wife Tolia-Ann (aka Kirios Museos and Kiria Gypsy) were founders of the "Church of Thessaly" (a Graeco-Roman Coven) and organizers of a "WitchFest", an annual gathering of witches in New Orleans. Together they owned and ran a metaphysical store called "Crossroads", which also served as "The Buckland Museum Collection", as well as the base for their Church of Thessaly.
The "Collection", comprising of over 500 artefacts from broomsticks to torture devices is said to demonstrate the growth of Ceremonial Magic as well as the History of Witchcraft. Among the items are a 200-year-old mandrake root used in magic to bring wealth, love and fertility, a broom (circa 1850) used to sweep away misfortune and bad luck, a herb collection and many aged bottles said to be used by witches for the making of spells. The past fear and hatred of witches is evident in some of the European torture devices it contains, such as nail pullers, thumbscrews and tongue extractors, all used to force confessions out of witches. Historical documentation also sheds light on the "burning times" when women were burned at the stake for being suspected of witchcraft. The Collection also includes items affiliated with Christianity, an ivory-covered Bible from the mid-1800s, a travelling communion kit and a vial of incense said to be from a monk in France. These are just a few of the items to be found in the Collection.
Since I last reviewed it, it appears that the ownership and operating deal Buckland had agreed to with Monte Plaisance had turned sour, and in 2008/2009 he was forced to take legal action to have the Collection return to him. However there is still some controversy as to whether the contents of the Collection had been returned in its entirety?? Since then Arch Priestess the Rev. Velvet Rieth of "The Covenant of the Pentacle Wiccan Church" (CPWC) based in New Orleans, was appointed as the next owner/curator of the Collection, and tasked with returning it to its originally intended purpose – that of being viewed as a historical representation and teaching tool, for and about Witchcraft and Magic. Sadly however in 2015, Velvet Rieth became so ill she could no longer manage and continue the task, and so once again the Collection was returned to Buckland.
By this time, after years of having been stored, then packed-up, boxed and shipped to several locations across the country, many important artefacts in the Collection were beginning to show signs of disrepair and was badly in need of restoration. Undaunted Buckland began looking for another owner/curator, and eventually found two well-known friends in Ohio willing to take on the task. They are Kat Tigner and Toni Rotonda, owners of The Cat & The Cauldron, a Witchy Shop in Columbus, Ohio.
and Toni with Oberon Zell-Ravenheart who has donated items to the Collection
Buckland was delighted and is quoted as saying: "These two ladies have taken on a formidable task but are doing wonderfully well with it. I have absolute trust in them and am extremely grateful to them for taking this on." Meanwhile as the work of restoring the Collection is ongoing, ideas for opening a new Museum to house it are still being planned and discussed. For more about their future plans, on the 17th July 2016, Kat and Toni gave a detailed interview to The Wild Hunt, which is well worth reading (see links below).
A Pocket Guide to the Supernatural (Ace Books, NY 1969)
Practical Candleburning Rituals (Llewellyn Publications, MN 1970)
Witchcraft Ancient and Modern (House of Collectibles, NY 1970)
Mu Revealed – using the pseudonym Tony Earll (Warner Paperback Library, NY 1970)
Witchcraft from the Inside (Llewellyn, MN 1971)
Amazing Secrets of the Psychic World - with Hereward Carrington (Parker/Prentice Hall, NJ 1975)
The Tree: Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft (Samuel Weiser, ME 1974)
Here is the Occult (House of Collectibles, NY 1974)
Anatomy of the Occult (Samual Weiser, ME 1977)
The Magic of Chant-O-Matics (Parker/Prentice Hall, NJ 1978)
Practical Color Magick (Llewellyn, MN 1983)
Color Magick: Unleash Your Inner Powers (Llewellyn, MN 2nd edition 2002)
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft (Llewellyn, MN 1986)
Secrets of Gypsy Fortunetelling (Llewellyn, MN 1988)
Buckland Gypsy Fortunetelling Deck (Llewellyn, MN 1989)
Gypsy Fortunetelling Layout Sheet (Llewellyn, MN 1989)
Secrets of Gypsy Love Magick (Llewellyn, MN 1990)
Secrets of Gypsy Dream Reading (Llewellyn, MN 1990)
Witchcraft Yesterday and Today – video (Llewellyn, MN 1990)
Scottish Witchcraft (Llewellyn, MN 1991)
The Book of African Divination - with Kathleen Binger (Inner Traditions, VT 1992)
Doors to other Worlds (Llewellyn, MN 1993)
The Committee – novel (Llewellyn, MN 1993)
The truth about spirit Communication (Llewellyn, MN 1995)
Ray Buckland's Magic Cauldron (Galde Press, MN 1995)
Buckland Gypsies Domino Divination Cards (Llewellyn, MN 1995)
Cardinal's Sin – novel (Llewellyn, MN 1996)
Advanced Candle Magic (Llewellyn, MN 1996)
Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot Kit (Llewellyn, MN 1998)
Gypsy Witchcraft and Magic (Llewellyn, MN 1998)
Gypsy Dream Dictionary (Llewellyn. MN 1999)
Coin Divination (Llewellyn. MN 2000)
Buckland Romani Tarot Deck & Book (Llewellyn. MN 2001)
Wicca for Life – Hardcover (Citadel, New York 2001)
The Witch Book (Visible Ink Press, New York 2001)
The Fortune-telling Book (Visible Ink Press 2003)
Signs, Symbols and Omens (Llewellyn 2003)
Cards of Alchemy (Llewellyn 2003)
Wicca for One (Citadel 2004)
Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications (Llewellyn 2004)
The Spirit Book (Visible Ink Press 2005)
Witchcraft - Rebirth of the Old Religion – DVD (Llewellyn 2005)
Mediumship and Spirit Communication (Buckland Books 2005)
Face to Face with God? (Buckland Books 2006)
Death, where is thy Sting? (Buckland Books 2006)
Dragons, Shamans & Spiritualishs (Buckland Books 2007)
Buckland's Doorway to Candle Magic (Buckland Books. 2007)
The Torque of Kernow (a novel - Galde Press/Buckland Books. 2008)
The Weiser's Field Guide to Ghosts (Red Wheel/Weiser. 2009)
Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic (Red Wheel/Weiser. 2010)
The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-paganism - By Shelley Rabinovitch
The Encyclopedia of Witches &Witchcraft - by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft - By Raymond Buckland
The Witch Book - By Raymond Buckland
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-paganism - By Raymond Buckland
Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft - By Raven Grimassi
Drawing Down the Moon by Adler, Margot
A Tapestry of Witches by Aidan A. Kelly
First published on the 23rd May 2001 © George Knowles
on the 03rd June 2007 © George Knowles
on the 02nd September 2016
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Stefano Infessura
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The Waldenses
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The Hussites / The
Native American Sun Dance
/ Shielding (Occult
and Psychic Protection) /
History of Thanksgiving / Auras - Part
1 and Part 2 /
Valiente Witch" (A Book Review) /
The History of Thanksgiving / Auras - Part 1 and Part 2 / "Doreen Valiente Witch" (A Book Review) /
Sabbats and Festivals:
The Sabbats in History and Mythology / Samhain (October 31st) / Yule (December 21st) / Imbolc (February 2nd) / Ostara (March 21st) / Beltane (April 30th) / Litha (June 21st) / Lammas/Lughnasadh (August 1st) / Mabon (September 21st)
Rituals contributed by Crone:
Samhain / Yule / Imbolc / Ostara / Beltane / Litha / Lammas / Mabon
Tools of a Witch / The Besom (Broom) / Poppets and Dolls / Pendulums / Cauldron Magick / Mirror Gazing
Animals in Witchcraft (The Witches Familiar) / Antelope / Bats / Crow / Fox / Frog and Toads / Goat / Honeybee / Kangaroo / Lion / Owl / Phoenix / Rabbits and Hares / Raven / Robin Redbreast / Sheep / Spider / Squirrel / Swans / Wild Boar / Wolf / Serpent / Pig / Stag / Horse / Mouse / Cat
In Worship of Trees - Myths, Lore and the Celtic Tree Calendar. For descriptions and correspondences of the thirteen sacred trees of Wicca/Witchcraft see the following: Birch / Rowan / Ash / Alder / Willow / Hawthorn / Oak / Holly / Hazel / Vine / Ivy / Reed / Elder
Sacred Sites:
Mystical Sacred Sites - Stonehenge / Glastonbury Tor / Malta - The Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni / Avebury / Cerne Abbas - The Chalk Giant / Ireland - Newgrange /
Rocks and Stones:
Stones - History, Myths and Lore
Articles contributed by Patricia Jean Martin:
Apophyllite / Amber / Amethyst / Aquamarine / Aragonite / Aventurine / Black Tourmaline / Bloodstone / Calcite / Carnelian / Celestite / Citrine / Chrysanthemum Stone / Diamond / Emerald / Fluorite / Garnet / Hematite / Herkimer Diamond / Labradorite / Lapis Lazuli / Malachite / Moonstone / Obsidian / Opal / Pyrite / Quartz (Rock Crystal) / Rose Quartz / Ruby / Selenite / Seraphinite / Silver and Gold / Smoky Quartz / Sodalite / Sunstone / Thunderegg / Tree Agate / Zebra Marble
Wisdom and Inspiration:
Knowledge vs Wisdom by Ardriana Cahill / I Talk to the Trees / Awakening / The Witch in You / A Tale of the Woods / I have a Dream by Martin Luther King /
Articles and Stories about Witchcraft:
Murdered by Witchcraft / The Fairy Witch of Clonmel / A Battleship, U-boat, and a Witch / The Troll-Tear (A story for Children) / Goody Hawkins - The Wise Goodwife / The Story of Jack-O-Lantern / The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost / Josephine Gray (The Infamous Black Widow) / The Two Brothers - Light and Dark
Old Masters of Academia:
Pliny the Elder / Hesiod / Pythagoras
Witches, Pagans and other associated People
(Ancient, Past and Present)
(Departed Pagan Pioneers, Founders, Elders and Others)
Abramelin the Mage / Agrippa / Aidan A Kelly / Albertus Magnus - "Albert the Great" / Aleister Crowley - "The Great Beast" / Alex Sanders - "King of the Witches" / Alison Harlow / Amber K / Anna Franklin / Anodea Judith / Anton Szandor LaVey / Arnold Crowther / Arthur Edward Waite / Austin Osman Spare / Biddy Early / Bridget Cleary - The Fairy Witch of Clonmel / Carl " Llewellyn" Weschcke / Cecil Hugh Williamson / Charles Godfrey Leland / Charles Henry Allan Bennett - the Ven. Ananda Metteyya / Charles Walton / Christina Oakley Harrington / Damh the Bard - "Dave Smith" / Dion Fortune / Dolores Aschroft-Nowicki / Doreen Valiente / Dorothy Morrison / Dr. John Dee & Edward Kelly / Dr. Leo Louis Martello / Edward Fitch / Eleanor Ray Bone - "Matriarch of British Witchcraft" / Eliphas Levi / Ernest Thompson Seton / Ernest Westlake / Fiona Horne / Frederick McLaren Adams - Feraferia / Friedrich von Spee / Francis Barrett / Gavin and Yvonne Frost and the School and Church of Wicca / Gerald B. Gardner - The father of contemporary Witchcraft / Gwydion Pendderwen / Hans Holzer / Helen Duncan / Herman Slater - Horrible Herman / Isaac Bonewits / Israel Regardie / Jack Whiteside Parsons - Rocket Science and Magick / James "Cunning" Murrell - The Master of Witches / Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone / Jessie Wicker Bell - "Lady Sheba" / Johannes Junius - "The Burgomaster of Bamberg" / John Belham-Payne / John George Hohman - "Pow-wow" / John Gerard / John Gordon Hargrave and the Kibbo Kith Kindred / John Michael Greer / John Score / Joseph John Campbell / Karl von Eckartshausen / Lady Gwen Thompson - and "The Rede of the Wiccae" / Laurie Cabot - "the Official Witch of Salem" / Lewis Spence / Margaret Alice Murray / Margot Adler / Marie Laveau - " the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans" / Marion Weinstein / Matthew Hopkins - "The Witch-Finder General" / Max Ehrmann and the "Desiderata" / Michael A. Aquino - and The Temple of Set / Monique Wilson / Montague Summers / Nicholas Culpeper / Nicholas Remy / M. R. Sellars / Mrs. Maud Grieve - "A Modern Herbal" / Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Morning Glory / Old Dorothy Clutterbuck / Old George Pickingill / Olivia Durdin-Robertson - co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis / Paddy Slade / Pamela Colman-Smith / Paracelsus / Patricia Crowther / Patricia Monaghan / Patricia "Trish" Telesco / Philip Heselton / Raymond Buckland / Reginald Scot / Robert Cochrane / Robert 'von Ranke' Graves and the "The White Goddess" / Rosaleen Norton - "The Witch of Kings Cross" / Ross Nichols and the " Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids" (OBOD) / Rudolf Steiner / Sabrina Underwood - "The Ink Witch" / Scott Cunningham / Selena Fox - founder of "Circle Sanctuary" / Silver Ravenwolf / Sir Francis Dashwood / Sir James George Frazer and the " The Golden Bough" / S.L. MacGregor Mathers and the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn" / Starhawk / Stewart Farrar / Sybil Leek / Ted Andrews / The Mather Family - (includes: Richard Mather, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather ) / Thomas Ady / T. Thorn Coyle / Vera Chapman / Victor & Cora Anderson and the " Feri Tradition" / Vivianne Crowley / Walter Brown Gibson / Walter Ernest Butler / William Butler Yeats / Zsuzsanna Budapest /
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TAMPA — After months of investigating, police say they tracked down an armed robbery suspect in Georgia and caught him with a stolen gun.
The robbery happened about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at 9505 N Florida Ave. Police say three men armed with handguns confronted several people and took money and a cell phone.
As the robbers ran away, they dropped another cell phone, a handgun and a hat. Police said the number for the dropped phone indicated it was from Georgia.
Police got a tip that led them to the stolen phone, found near Fletcher Avenue and Interstate 275, next to the Days Inn Hotel. The hotel's registration log showed that someone from Georgia rented a room there the previous day.
Detectives searched the property and found gun-packaging material that matched the dropped handgun. Police said a forensic investigator examined the material and traced it to Kenneth Washington, 27, a felon from Columbus, Ga.
Police issued a warrant for Washington's arrest. Two Tampa detectives went to Georgia and tracked down Washington on April 12.
Columbus police conducted a traffic stop after spotting Washington's Ford Excursion and searched his car. They found a stolen handgun under Washington's driving seat and took him into custody, authorities said.
Police said Washington denied committing the Tampa robbery and handling the gun or packaging material. He was charged with the robbery anyway, in addition to being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft by receiving stolen property in Georgia.
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Guerlain Jeu d'Ombrelles Eyeshadow Quad Review, Photos, Swatches
The many shades of purple… Guerlain Jeu d'Ombrelles Eyeshadow Quad
Guerlain Jeu d'Ombrelles Eyeshadow Quad ($59.00) is the other new product featured in Guerlain's Cherry Blossom Collection. You can expect to see the eyeshadow quad hitting counters in the next two weeks or so.
Guerlain describes the four shades as: pink and white tones with violet and mauve. For some reason, I was surprised with how the colors actually swatched — this just didn't strike me as a definitively cool-toned, purple-inspired kind of quad, but that is very much what it is. In order to swatch with meaning, I pretty much wiped off the overlay prior to actually doing swatches. The results are an icy white-pink with soft shimmery sheen, a deepened eggplant plum with a matte finish, a fresh, medium pink with subtle shimmer/sheen, and a matte cool-toned medium purple.
The shades don't immediately say "unique, buy me!" but I don't think I have exact dupes in my collection. If I had to list MAC dupes for these shades, I'd suggest Crystal Avalanche, Shadowy Lady, Sweet Lust, and Fig. 1/Satellite Dreams — none of which would be that close. It's just one of those situations where the shades don't look particularly original and yet somehow they're not exactly repeated shades either.
All four eyeshadows swatched smoothly, felt like silk, and were decently pigmented. Both the matte shades felt soft to the touch and didn't feel or look chalky. The other two shades are noticeably shimmery, but they didn't feel frosty on me. (They may appear frostier on darker skin tones, though.)
Like the Cherry Blush Blush, it's housed in an elegant black lacquered compact. The total eyeshadow weight is 0.20 oz. (0.05 oz. per shade), which means you are getting a good amount of product per shade. The compact also includes two double-sided sponge applicators, but I only found them useful for swatching and wouldn't use them for actual eyeshadow application myself (I'm a brush snob, what can I say?).
Bottom Line: I like this eyeshadow quad, but I'm not quite in love with it yet. It's very soft, pretty, and certainly reminiscent of spring. The more I use it, though, the more I appreciate it for its subtly and how easy it is to use (all four shades coordinate really well with each other, since they all lean a little purple).
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- Product: 27/30
- Value: 8/10
- Ease of Use: 4/5
- Packaging: 5/5
Recommendation: If you like purple eyeshadow, this just might be a match for you.
Availability: January 2010
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I have a vegetarian centric group that I want to prepare some cakes/desserts for. I don't have a "clear" understanding about what it is (besides the obvious "vegetables"). What can or can't you use in a vegetarian centric diet? Can anyone give me some recipes?
I've been vegetarian for 30 years. Generally, vegetarians eat eggs and dairy, so desserts are really not a problem.
Some people who call themselves vegetarian also eat fish and seafood. In recent years they've become known as pescatarian.
I've even met vegetarians over the years who eat eggs, dairy, fish, seafood and chicken, but not pork or red meat.
It's a term that does have some individual meaning to the individuals who choose it.
ASK the people in this particular group if you need specifics.
I think it's better you ask your group. The ingredient that can be found in desserts that would bother a vegetarian would be gelatin. So piping gels, some home made fondant recipes etc.


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God of War: Ghost of Sparta Review
The star of Sony's God of War franchise, the perpetually pissed off Spartan warrior Kratos, has, in just a few short years, attained respect and name recognition that is comparable to gaming's biggest stars, Mario, Master Chief, Sonic, etc. So when the warrior was finally laid to rest in God of War 3, his fitting, inescapable end was accepted by fans with one caveat: Will we ever see Kratos again? Almost immediately after that game's release, a website appeared that seemed to only be showing rain on a slick surface. In an ingenious move, Sony tied the site to players who went above and beyond, those who managed to get the game's coveted platinum trophy. The more trophies that were earned by players worldwide, the clearer the cryptic website became. Eventually, enough gamers had reached the platinum milestone and the website's image and purpose became clear: Kratos was coming back for his second outing on the PSP. After nearly six months of agonizing wait time, God of War: Ghost of Sparta is here, and I just finished it up last night. So, how did Kratos' new adventure pan out? Keep reading.
For the purposes of this review, I'm going to assume you have at least some knowledge of the God of War storyline. Ghost of Sparta takes place immediately following the end of God of War, but before God of War 2's opening. Kratos has killed Ares and taken on the role of the god of war (duh). A vision spurs the anti-hero to go back to what he does best, killing everything that so much as moves, and things quickly boil down to a search for the new god's brother, Deimos. I won't go any further into the story than that, but I will say the plot is easily the weakest found in the entire series. The mysterious vision is resolved almost immediately, and the rest of the game devolves into Kratos doing his best Harrison Ford impression, "Where is my brother? Give me back my brother! I must find my brother!!!" It also reminded me of the Mexican brothers running the drug cartel in season 3 of 24, but the "Hector! My brother!" reference was a little too vague. Jokes aside, the story here just isn't very strong.
Lets talk presentation next. You've probably heard by now that Ghost of Sparta is one of the best-looking PSP titles yet, and that is a mostly fair and accurate statement. The game does look and sound great, with amazing cutscenes and lots going on at once. The enemies look as good or better than those found in the PS2 God of War titles, and the two main bosses are especially impressive. The sound is also extremely well done, with the series trademark excellent voice acting and immersive score. I can here you thinking, "Ok, but…" Yes, there is a "but." The environments in Ghost of Sparta are 100 percent completely devoid of any personality whatsoever. You run from burning city to burning volcano to burning cliffs to the burning underworld. Everything in the game seems to be on fire at some point or another, and there are zero memorable areas or encounters. Remember the temple on the back of the titan in the first game? Remember the giant winged horse and chariot from part two? Remember fighting Poseidon's giant water horses on the climb to Mt. Olympus in the third title? Of course you do; they were amazing sequences. You won't find anything like that in Ghost of Sparta. Instead, the camera will occasionally zoom out to show… not much, and when you finish the game, you won't be able to name a single location you've just run through. The lack of setpiece moments and running from bland environment to bland environment does hurt the overall game, even if it does sound a little nitpicky on paper.


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Algebra of Communicating Processes: Proceedings of ACP94, the First Workshop on the Algebra of Communicating Processes, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 16 17 May 1994 (Workshops in Computing)
ACP, the Algebra of Communicating Processes, is an algebraic approach to the study of concurrent processes, initiated by Jan Bergstra and Jan Will em Klop in the early eighties. These proceedings comprise the contributions to ACP94, the first workshop devoted to ACP. The work shop was held at Utrecht University, 16-17 May 1994. These proceedings are meant to provide an overview of current research in the area of ACP. They contain fifteen contributions. The first one is a classical paper on ACP by J.A. Bergstra and J.W. Klop: The Algebra of Recursively Defined Processes and the Algebra of Regular Processes, Report IW 235/83, Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, 1983. It serves as an introduction to the remainder of the proceedings and, indeed, as a general introduction to ACP. An extended abstract of this paper is published under the same title in the ICALP' 84 proceedings. Of the re maining contributions, three were submitted by the invited speakers and the others were selected by the programme committee. As for the presentations, Jos Baeten, Rob van Glabbeek, Jan Friso Groote, and Frits Vaandrager were each invited to deliver a lecture. A paper relating to Frits Vaandrager's lecture has already been submitted for publication elsewhere and is not, therefore, included in these pro ceedings. Gabriel Ciobanu, one of our guests, gave an impression of his work in an extra lecture. Furthermore, ten presentations were given on the basis of selected papers.
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