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Step 1 – Read these instructions.
(See? Totally easy! Just like the title says!)
Step 2 – Think about what you want.
Think of the resolution to a challenge you're facing. Or some kind of expansion you're intending in your life. Or some area of your life that could use a little energy, light, abundance, peace, or healing.
Step 3 – Write your intention as powerfully as you can.
"I intend success and prosperity as I begin a new exciting path in my life." = more powerful.
"I am jobless and feeling insane for quitting to start a business. Please help me not be a loser." = less powerful.
For some, it might feel terrifying to write a powerful intention, especially if you're scared or hurting. That's okay.
But just try to remember this: the more of your own affirming mindset that you can conjure up, the better it is for you. If you can't conjure that up – then read on. Cuz we'll do it for you!
Step 4 – Comment below.
State your intention or request in the comment box below. (Note: I can no longer take these by email. The last two times I had hundreds of emails — which makes it hard to print out and take them with me!)
Step 5 – Let go.
Waste no time wondering if you did it right. Or if this stuff even works. Or if you look stupid. Or if you asked for the perfect thing when you need so many things. Or if your boss will know that's you in the comments asking for a different job. Or if you should have figured all this stuff out by now.
Let go means let go. Take a breath and let go.
Step 6 – Be grateful.
At some point today, write down or say out loud ten things for which you are grateful in your life. Be grateful that you are learning the lesson that this challenge is offering. Be grateful that you have friends, a roof over your head, a job. Just be grateful for as much as you can. Gratitude is the ultimate bringer of more. It is the ultimate releaser of drama.
"You're right. That was easy. But I don't get it."
Well, this coming weekend is the third of five 2008 Great Big Dreams Retreats.
At every retreat, I open the weekend with silence and intent. At that time I take the names of everyone who has emailed or commented to this post – along with all of their intentions and requests – and I include them in our circle and in our own prayers and affirmations.
I call it our "Great Big Prayer List."
It's a powerful part of the retreats. In fact I've received many emails saying that lots of things changed in their lives after they did this – and that they could actually feel themselves as part of the circle.
Maybe it's just hooey.
Maybe it's totally real.
Who cares?
If nothing else, you'll just get some good mojo going on!
You've got nothing to lose. Let us help you get what you want!
***Extra Credit*** Step 7 – Join us.
On Friday afternoon at 2pm EST, join us. Light a candle. Say, "I'm in." Nod to the clouds. In what ever way works for you, join our circle with your intent. We welcome you!
I intend to be as happy as I can possibly be.
I Intend to success and develop a great professional career starting this coming Monday on my new job, it will start a new path in my life and I will take it as a blessing.
I intend to forgive myself for past, present and future actions.
I intend to let go of bad feelings and aprehend good ones
I intend to help as much ppl as I can
I intend to do my best in everything I do, from now on.
I intend to be myself and enjoy it
thank you, christine.
i intend to live my life as a loving, powerful, energetic and courageous woman. in real life translating to 1-being present for my husband, 3 children, extended family and friends/community 2-sharing my creations, be they in my music, photography, writing and painting 3-choosing to live from love rather than fear. blessings, too, to my dear friend allison tyler, from showing me YOU. xox,cK.,toronto.
Thanks for this opportunity.
I'm expanding. I am getting a gallery/workshop type shop. I've applied, set the financial side in motion, and have it planned. Now I'm wasting nervous energy waiting to see if the landlords accept my proposal. Now I can let it go knowing it's in safe hands and get on with painting. 🙂 Besides, if I don't get it that means my structure is ready and in place in order to just find another unit. Thanks!
I intend to find inner peace, joy, and authenticity within myself. I intend to enjoy intimacy, understanding, shared communication and love with my husband. I intend to employ compassion, empathy, an open heart, and the energy to lead by example for my children. I intend expansion, peace, happiness, abundance and wealth in my business. I intend to have a spiritual awakening in my life.
With gratitude,
Thank you so much Christine! I found your website through Romanlily's site and you are such a guiding light!
My intention is to lessen the judgement towards myself and others, to forgive myself and to welcome myself wholy into my heart. I intent to move forward – facing my fears and embracing the world.
I am grateful for so much – from the many messages out there on how to live more spiritually, to all the compassion that is present around me and to this beautiful, magical, miraculous world that we live in.
Many blessings!
I intend to solve the problems of my relationship with my husband Tom by being totally willing to embrace and go to the fearful places, with the resolve and intent of a Bodhisattva warrior, facing my fears with grace and becoming enlightened.
I intend on doing loving kindness meditation and Tonglen on a daily basis with the intent to 'wake up' this year.
I intend to find my true purpose in life and to serve, heal and inspire others.
I intent to find a new career path that opens my creativity and shares my skills with the intent to serve others and lift them up, inspire them, and heal them, and allowing me to provide for my animals and home without worry.
Christine, I've been loving your blog! Have a wonderful Great Big Dreams Retreat!
My intent: to be enjoying, and easily afford upgraded tools for my freelance work, including a faster stable Mac computer, and high speed internet connection brought to my beautiful rural location, so that I can continue creative supportive work without commuting. In addition, my intent is to be enjoying perfect dental health and to keep all of my teeth. 🙂
I am grateful for the beautiful woods, fun and loving family, wonderful kind and generous friends, delightful home, fulfilling and creative work, ability to travel, inspiring bloggers and friends, beloved pets, health, creativity.
Thank you Christine and all folks here for your positive energy,
Thank you Christine.
I intend to be kinder to my body, to feed myself consciously with good food. To look at exercise as indulgence. To take better care of myself by eating, exercising and sleeping well.
I also intend to be kinder to those around me. To always have a kind word instead of a critical one.
I intend to create abundance in my life and my love. To be positive and affirming and welcoming.
Most of all I intend to be kind.
Thanks again Christine.
christine —
thanks so much for the offer to open the circle to all of us.
i intend wellness on all fronts – physical, emotional, spiritual – as i continue on this new journey to live my best, most authentic life.
i intend to experience work that is both fulfilling and prosperous, relationships with family and friends that are stronger than ever before, and unbridled love with my yet-to-be-identified partner!
1) I intend to have my idea come to fruition and bring financial security, while helping mothers connect with their children, children connect with each other and women connect and enjoy the time spent together.
2) I intend to continue my path toward wellness and a less stressful life while recognizing daily the many blessings I have with my husband, children and extended family and friends.
I know I'm too late but… my intention:
To live a live more passionate, more filled with wonder, more connected to nature, closer to pelicans, more willing to help others, more grateful, more curious, more independent, with less stuff and more contentment. And to find the courage to make the changes I need.
i intend to serve as a vessel of source's light. i intend to release my attachment to "my will" and work in loving partnership with spirit and allow for spirit to live and breathe through me. i intend to live in spirited and faith*full partnership with my life partner and children, creating life, love and home for our family, tribe and community.
thank you *all for this space to name and speak this.
Hey Christine,
I was in a mountain biking accident on September 6 and I am still healing. I would like to request intentions for physical healing as well as for emotional and financial healing. I have been unable to play guitar or drums since the accident, and playing music was my primary outlet for creating, relaxing, socializing, and making money.
I am grateful for all the help I've received from family, friends, and even strangers. I'm also grateful for your "Poison Ivy" post. As I lay on the ground after the accident, the second thing that came to mind (after a significant string of expletives) was "my body knows exactly what to do." I've been trying to repeat that as often as I can.
Thanks a bunch. I will be intending good things for all of you on the retreat this weekend.
Thank you for this blessing Christine.
I intend to not let fear get in the way of my true path. I intend to effortlessly create wealth, and receive it with ease, while continuing to build my authentic life. I intend a new source of work that brings abundance, growth, a healthy life and positive energy – doing what I love & helping others, while feeling confident, supported, and safe.
I intend to be in a loving, committed relationship with someone who is honest, trustworthy, and emotionally supportive. I intend love in every part of my life – work, family, friends, intimate relationship, God and myself.
I intend to allow abundance to come to me through many channels.
May the weekend bring joy and healing to everyone!
I intend to become financially secure.
I intend pure, unconditional love for myself.
I intend success on my new path.
I intend unwavering happiness in myself, no matter where I am or what I am doing.
I intend self-confidence that stems from a place of experience and gratitude.
Thank you, Christine, and thank you, Circle of Lovely Beings.
Thank you, Christine, for opening the circle to us all.
I intend to create a life of spiritual, social, and financial abundance and glowing good health for myself and my family; to surround ourselves with people who love and honor us; and who we love and honor.
I intend to move forward with my goals, and to release old patterns of fear and lack, and let go of people who do not honor us; allowing them to find their own happiness.
I am SO grateful for the Internet; it allows me to learn from, attract, interact and grow with the best and brightest minds out there (yes, that's YOU Christine); which helps keep me whole, focused and moving forward.
Have a great retreat!
I step boldly and confidently into my new projects and buisness endeavors, knowing that every step towards my goal is a step towards a life of freedom in my career and my creative life. Every action brings me into closer alignment with my "mission statement".
I intend, no matter the outcome, to go part time at my "day job" by December 1st and to quit the call center job altogether by February 1st 2009. I will achieve my goal as a cartoonist and an illustrator, not as a "technical support agent". I'm capable of achieving far to much to be afraid of taking the jump off of the cliff into unemployment and not realizing the steps will appear, the path will be shown, and(one way or another) the bills will get paid. My life will grow in abundance with each step of faith.
Christine, what a cool posting. Thanks inviting us aboard the intention train 😀
I intend to create a loving harmonious enjoyable relationship with a man who is open, honest, fun and creative in a way that supports my creativity.
I intend amazing sucess in my new business venture.
I am grateful for the support of my siblings, my virtual pen pals, and my parents. I'm grateful for the opportunities that have been presenting themselves to me. I'm grateful for the healing that I've been experiencing.
Hi Christine,
I have recently stumbled upon your blog through the "Creating College" article, and have been a subscriber to your articles ever since. Your articles have been a source of inspiration and strength for me. I think this along with the 'power words' are excellent ideas, and I thank you for your kindness in providing this opportunity.
So here's my intention:
I intend to be fearless and persistent to find a job that is enriching and fulfilling. I intend to reinvent myself and boldly begin a new path in my life. I will not settle for less.
Thank you so much!
I intend to open my combo expressive arts therapy center and mini art gallery which is the fruition of many years of work and formal and informal education and dreaming. I and it will be successful, prosperous, an important part of the micro and macro community and will help others by bringing clarity to their lives and/or beautiful, original artwork into their lives created by valuable, soulful artists.
——–Christine, thank you for this. and thank you for sharing and being.———–
I am grateful for my friends, family, and life. I intend to continue to find challenges and growth in my chosen career. I intend to be open to find love…true and deep with someone who shares my hopes and dreams. I intend to be a mother. I intend to follow my heart and do one thing each day that scares me.
Christine, I am a new reader of your blog and love it. I intend to get through filing my taxes on October 15 and being able to pay them and without worry. I intend to find love that is worthy of me and to always be grateful for what I have. I intend to continue on my path to lose weight and become healthy. I intend to enjoy my own company, reading a book, watching a movie, doing cross stitch. I intend to become a better person through just letting go.
I intend to continue, with an open heart, on my path of personal value, growth, self-care, and inner peace.
I am grateful for ever increasing abundance and financial wealth. I am open to new sources of wealth created effortlessly.
I flow easily and without fear into the next phase of my life with a loving, respectful, sensitive, kind, honest, emotinally supportive, and wonderful man.
I intend happiness, joy, and laughter for myself, friends, and family.
Will be with you, lighting a candle on Friday, thank you for this opportunity, your retreats are on my list.
I intend to win the grand prize in the staples/bed, bath & beyond 'smart for 2' sweepstakes drawn on or about oct 15th. I intend to upgrade my daughters room into a peaceful sanctuary for her, my office an organized coordinated space for me, and use one of the smartcoupes for gas-efficient transportation to and from the kids school and errands and work. I intend to use the money from the sale of the other smartcoupe for joyfully paying taxes and reducing our consumer debt. I intend my life is abundant now in money, love and joy. I intend to share this life with people that recognize their own power and freely share it. thank you God! thank you Christine! thank you everyone in this co-creative circle. Knowing it is ALL already complete in the mind of the divine universe, I say..And so it is!
I intend to be confident and to have faith in my ability to work effectively with others who's behaviour I feel challenged by and, in doing so, to command their respect and attention to my views; that my perspective has value to them.
I intend to be in a relationship with a man who sees my needs in the relationship as just as important as his; one where we both follow through for each other.
I intend to prioritise practices of self-care (yoga, meditation, reiki, journaling, practices that nurture the soul) so that I can manifest a strong inner sense of security when I go out into the world which, in turn, will support me in my interactions with others.
Thanks for providing this opportunity and space to think about intentions Christine – I really am grateful for it. Have a wonderful retreat.
Career–I am so grateful that I am a teacher/coach/guide working three days a week with women as my clients.
Family–I am grateful that my son is a successful musician and has reached his financial goals.
I am grateful that the new business that my husband has built is up and running and bringing in the clients that want and need his services.
I intend to continue to be open to the Universe and embrace all that is available to me.
Hi Christine!
I always look forward to the times just before your retreats for this very reason and always love the extra juju. So that is the first thing on my list of 10 that I am grateful for!
I intend…
…success, prosperity, ease and flow as I step into the wonderful new life path of being an Intuitive Guide & Teacher
…a full classroom of eager and open participants at my first workshop on October 12th who co-create with me a lot of fun, learning and growth
…a stronger and conscious relationship with the Great Spirit which brings me joy, peace and surrender!
Thank you so much,
I daydream about going on one of your retreats – but for now – this is close and good enough for me! Thank you so much.
I intend greater and greater momentum and imaginative clarity in working on my novel,
yet more pleasure in taking control of my life and purpose,
the deepening of friendships,
a stronger connection with my spirit guides,
powerful movement towards financial independence,
and a stable, loving relationship with a wonderful man.
I am open to spirit, to wash away what does not serve me; to strengthen me, give focus, clarity and confidence in my intuition to act when called upon.
In my physical body, I am open to receive and release all blocks.
In my emotional body, I am open to to feel joy, love, bliss and gratitude fully, thankful to be washed of all fear!
In my spirit body, I ask to feel spiritual strength and guidance clearly, strongly, lovingly.
In my mental body, I ask for a calm mind, clarity of thought, mental strength, focus, expansive attention span and listening skills.
I ask for financial and work success that has motion of giving and receiving.
I am always fully in the flow of the powerful loving energy that is all around and in us. I ask for this clearly, with force!
In Gratitude,
Many thanks for inviting us all to join you and your retreaters in this, Christine!
I intend that I am present in my life and I choose my reactions to the world and to my own thoughts. I intend that I live in ever-expanding joy and abundance and growth, and that I may share this with my boyfriend, my friends and family, and all those I come into contact with each day.
I will be with you on Friday. Just as soon as I work out how to convert EST to GMT…
i love that you do this! i will be there 'in spirit' this weekend.
sending all the brave and beautiful souls in your 'great BIG dreams' retreat
nothing but rest and fulfillment of their dreams.
as for me
i intend:
to receive more love and help in my life.
to embrace prosperity, both creatively and financially.
to let fear and courage coexist
to allow and learn from lifes' paradox
to work at not fearing money
lighting a candle for you all~~
Thanks for this beautiful opportunity to combine our collective energy with that of Spirit for the highest good of everyone's intentions.
I intend to have an effortless, successful, peaceful, positive experience throughout my Radiation Treatment and safe travel to and from these treatments. I intend wonderful opportunities to create financial abundance through creative and fulfilling work that I truly enjoy and am appreciated for. I intend new friendships collaborations with like minded creative folks. I intend perfect health, joy, songwriting, music, travel, love and deepened connection with my amazingly wonderful boyfriend. I am filled with GRATITUDE to God for my TOTAL HEALING from breast cancer and for my wonderful community of supporters, their prayers,love and encouragement.
Blessings to all for light, love, joy and enlightenment! Believe & recieve!
I intend for energy and peace of mind to come into my life. I intend for my energy and peace to flow to my sister so that she will get healthy, find happiness, and feel cared for and loved. Most important, I intend that she will feel and believe she is worth it. In that, I intend for my energy to carry her and help her get well, find peace, and live with peace of mind. I intend for my energy and peace of mind to be with me when challenges present. I intend to let someone new feel that I am open to a new relationship with him.
I will be with you on Friday. Writing this brought me peace. I intend for you to feel it, too.
I intend to fully RELAX and to continue to open to all the love and support and goodness that is already there in my life. I intend to trust: in my body, in spirit, in life itself. I intend to let go, to remember that it is not up to me, to stop trying so hard, to laugh and play and be goofy, more and more and more. I intend to lay down at the foot of the goddess, my worry, my guilt and my shame, and to allow joy and peace and pleasure to wash over and through me. I intend to be a creative light for myself and for those around me.
Thanks for this wonderful opportunity.
Hope that you have a FABULOUS retreat!!!
I intend to be true to myself and to trust and follow my own heart; to act in compassionate and gentle ways; to do what I came here to do, be who I came here to be and love who and how I came here to love.
Blessings to you all. Thank you for adding your own exquisite specialness to this world. Every single one of you makes this planet a better place to be.
love, love, love,
I intend to discover my own artistic style during the month of October 2008 and to create paintings that will speak to women on an intuitive level. I blissfully create many original paintings each week and make a wonderful income from my work. I love creating my paintings and feel energized while working. My paintings are in high demand and many doors of opportunity are opening to me.
I will be lighting a candle on Friday at 2:00 p.m. and joining in this circle. Thank you so much, Christine, for extending this opportunity to us. I know we are going to experience amazing results from this.
Kim Fyler
I'm so happy you're doing this again. I missed out on the last one. Can't wait until the '09 events are planned. I won't be missing any deadlines this time around 😉
I intend to claim my worth and accept abundance and prosperity both in my business and my personal life, for the good of all involved.
I intend to be the best mother and wife I can be to my happy, healthy family and to create a wonderful, calming, comfortable home for them and a welcoming place for the many new friends I intend to have!
I also intend to have a successful, creative, new career which will allow me to grow in confidence and to work from home.
Many, many thanks.
WOW. To exponential power! Thank you Christine!
I intend to teach and reap happiness through the indulgent and whimsy creation of a succulent and inspiring book.
And, I intend to be wealthy. Really wealthy. Wealthy in abundant time to do as I wish; abundant money to do what ever I wish; and abundant love to shower over my family and friends – the ones who surpass even my wildest wishes and dreams and take my breath away.
Chloe, I am borrowing your intention because it pretty much perfectly states what I want to say and is simple enough for me to easily memorize. Thank you for your words!
"I intend a new source of work that brings abundance, growth and positive energy."
I am setting a reminder in my work calendar for Friday.
I intend to be prosperous in both health and finances and I intend that this be extended to my tribe. I intend to live and work where I feel fulfilled and at deep peace, embracing my authenticity, continuing my spiritual growth, developing my talents, growing my confidence and realizing my dreams. I intend to be close to home, fully present and available for my daughter, surrounded by like-minded individuals and with realization of pecuniary freedom. I intend to receive all of these things gracefully and with my heart and arms wide open.
I intend to have major breakthroughs in the following areas of my life:
1) career— line up (or i guess be hired for) several HIGH PAID creative projects (either short term or longer term) allowing me financially security to work and thrive as a creative producer/writer/humorist full time. To have these projects be things that I am excited to do that will further my career and allow me to expand the people i reach through my work. These opportunities are bigger and better than anything I could have ever imagined for myself when I began my career.
2) family —- have things take a positive turn in life for both my dad and my brother. It's time for things to get better for them.
3) body/self image — make huge headway on everything i need to do to heal years of abuse i inflicted upon my body and spirit. to release not only pain and habits that do not serve me anymore but to release pounds of weight as well. to treat myself better in the way i feed, move, clothe, and take care of my body. to finally see myself as growing healthier and more beautiful and to have others see that beauty too. to stop hiding in my clothes.
4) to have my new and old friendships grow stronger. to grow closer again with my roommates. maybe even open myself up to meeting and dating romantically again (as long as that person would be a positive addition to my life)
5) to practice integrity everyday. to be not only more productive but to be productive on the things that i need to do the most. to live up to my word.
6) manifest a way to afford and have the time to take dance classes 4-5 times a week and make significant progress there.
boy that's a lot! maybe i need to light two candles on Friday:)
Whew ok, here goes.
1. I intend to create a business for myself that will inspire me and my creativity as well as inspiring others, this business will provide for me, my animals, more toys to create with and all the adventures I want to have.
2. My husband's business loan will go through.
Thank you all for the opportunity and I'm pulling for everyone!
I intend to see God in all of my 7th grade students. I know that He has placed the light of His grace in each one of them, even the ornery or hateful ones. I intend to receive strength and peace to get my physical/mental house in order to receive the blessings awaiting me. I especially intend to find creative ways to publish my writing while staying in this day job. I speak good things into the universe that I will one day be able to retire with a sound mind, good insurance, and a good, solid income–able to enjoy the benefits of new adventures with my Sweet Husband.
I intend amazing and delightful opportunities in the next chapter of my creative leap. I intend powerful, creative and successful collaborations with amazing and wonderful colleagues. I intend the most joyous revision process for my novel. I intend soulful, powerful health and happiness for me now and in the next chapter. I intend a lot of fun, connection, laughter and love, coming from me and to me.
Thanks Christine! Have a fabulous retreat and give Alyson and Jamie an extra squeeze for me.
Thank you so much, Christine.
I intend to replace my fear of change with determination to find a more prosperous job in order to provide more stability and wealth for my children and myself. My intention is to ease all of our financial burdens and be able to live a more open and meaningful life so that we all have room to grow in a loving and peaceful environment.
Thank you for the help, and I'll be in that circle with you…
~Stacy 🙂
This is so cool!! Here are my intentions for this month…:)
1. I intend to be in a loving, committed relationship with someone who is honest, trustworthy, and emotionally supportive. I intend for us to be devoted to one another, always aiming to meet one another's needs and to keep each other happy.
2. I intend to be very comfortable in my career while feeling confident, supported, and safe. I intend to be very productive and meet all of my deadlines at least a day early!
Awesome idea… gave me shivers just thinking about the possibilities:
My intention is:
I intend to find the opportunities in the challenges I am faced with; to show myself a responsible steward for great abundance and prosperity, and to easily sustain the focus and discipline it takes to continue to grow my new business.
Thank you! Blessings to you all…
Well, I think this is a pretty awesome idea Christine – thank you!
Talking about silence, I attended a retreat a couple of years ago. We began the retreat with silence in the evening, and continued it until breakfast the next morning. In a very sacred place. Powerful experience for me. The silence, combined with the location – it really became a life-altering moment. So, I think what you do is great – and can have such positive affects.
OK, back to the task at hand.
My intention is: That I continue to travel on this journey I'm on with not only open eyes, but an open heart and mind. I intend to not let fear get in the way of true and really meaningful success. Success in what defines me at my soul.
This is my third time around and I am grateful for this opportunity.
I am very happy and blessed in my life. A wonderful husband and friend, two gorgeous, healthy boys, a great flexible job with money, a house in the country. What else could I wish for? Just that it continues that way 🙂
Thanks and have a great retreat.
Hi Christine!
I am making a some changes in my life and am open to receiving clear guidance as to the best and highest path/subject/area which I should focus on. And I am grateful for all the success and prosperity I have and continue to receive in all endeavors and every area of my life.
Thanks for this wonderful opportunity.
What a wonderful offer, Christine – thank you! Here's mine:
I intend increased energy, new and wonderful homies and effortless prosperity as I make my business more web and writing-based.
I'll be with you on Friday – it's in my calendar. I think I'll play my frame drum during that time.
You're my hero(ine).


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To be certified in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a home or building is rated on sustainability, energy efficiency and "green" building. Rating points are based on design, location, sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor air quality, and awareness and education. Platinum is the highest score, thus being most sustainable.
DiMaccio, who is dedicated to creating ecologically sustainable architecture, designed Ling and Song's "green" home using 100% of their old house, with no materials going to landfill. "Old roofing material is toxic," said DiMaccio, "and most people rip it off and throw it in landfill. We send roofing materials off to be pulverized and repurposed. In this instance we took lumber from the old roof, resurfaced it, and used it as hardwood floor on the entire second floor."
Extra lumber not used for rebuilding homes can also be recycled and used in parking lots and walkways, or donated to other projects. "The lumber we didn't use was sent to Mexico to be used for low-income housing, while other items not recycled were given to Habitat for Humanity," DiMaccio noted.
"He's the most creative person we've ever known," Ling stated when talking about her home and her experience working with DiMaccio. "Marco DiMaccio's design has made a goal for energy independence into a home we have dreamed of."
Ling, Executive Producer and Host of "Our America" on OWN, is perhaps best known for her role as Co-Host of "The View" and as a special correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show," but now she and her husband are in the spotlight for reducing their carbon footprint.
The couple's energy-efficient 4,300 square-foot home has a bold yet playful exterior consisting of a rock garden, indigenous plants and a sunken grass amphitheater lined with artificial turf. A 5,000 gallon underground rainwater tank sits in front of the home and harvests the rainwater from the roof. The 9-foot-wide, very red front door leads to a spacious open floor plan with a powder room, dining and living room, entertainment room and kitchen, displaying greys, whites, blacks and a hint of red!
The kitchen and bathrooms were surfaced using Silestone® by Cosentino. Their ECO line consists of surfaces made with recycled mirrors, glass and porcelain. Remnants from the Silestone® can be found in the pinstripe wall of one of the upstairs guest bathrooms.
Kohler plumbing products made a statement throughout the house. The Numi toilet, with unparalleled water efficiency, offers more than design and comfort. It has a touch screen remote for heating and lighting, as well as an eco flush, dryer and even music for your derriere. The bathrooms, complete with built-in speakers, offer a multitude of functionalities including iPod and mp3 player compatibility that may keep you from exploring the rest of the home!
The outdoor dining area is complimented with a BBQ and gardens on either side. Further back, through their very large open doorway, there is a spacious yet intimate outdoor living area complete with a saltwater pool and projection screen, which also doubles as a privacy wall.
Plugged into the garage juice bar charge was the couple's electric BMW ActiveE. It's similar in design to the BMW 1 Series Coupe and sports a silver-blue trim signifying the vehicle is free of emissions. With a full battery charge it drives approximately 100 miles.
The second floor, with its panoramic view of the downstairs, includes three guest bedrooms. Outside, DiMaccio has an array of over 60 solar panels which supply electricity for hot water and radiant floor heating, as well as heating to the swimming pool and energy to the home and electric cars. The Global Energy Storage System (GESS) works concurrently with the solar array allowing it to provide electricity at night, or when the power is not in use. Strategically placed, the solar panels sit above the faux grass balcony and lead the way to Ling and Song's master bedroom.
A waterless urinal, which according to Kohler "can save up to 40,000 gallons of water per fixture every year," was installed in the master bath at Song's request. A steam generator, touchless hybrid faucet and shower locker are a few other amenities they share…as well as a whirlpool bath for two which includes water cascading from the ceiling!
Although a huge expense to design an energy-efficient home, the payoff has more people looking to go "green." Last month, Ling and Song's water bill was just over a dollar. In addition to ultra low bills, improved comfort, reliability, security and environmental sustainability are a few more reasons to leave an eco-friendly footprint.


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Leighton Meester looks like the all-American girl while filming Gossip Girl in NYC yesterday. While I really like her cute red, white and blue outfit (oh those shoes!), I'm particularly taken with her navy and white oversized handbag. I love the stark two-tone color scheme and the structured shape.
There's something pleasingly preppy about this look, and I have a few similar favorites that I'd love to carry around this summer:
First and foremost, this Hermes toile and barenia leather Birkin is at the top of my list. Impossibly chic and absolutely perfect for the warmer months. While it's not as stark, I also like the similar lines of this Louis Vuitton canvas and leather Sac de Nuit. Want a pop of color? Try this generously sized Lambertson Truex toile and red leather single flap tote.
Check out more images of Leighton and her tote right here.
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The Altitude Festival, which has become a popular event in Meribel over the past few seasons, is moving to Mayrhofen after losing support from the resort's tourist office.
The organisers of the festival are disappointed as the event, which started three years ago, had grown from a small scale comedy week to hosting the likes of Al Murray, Andrew Maxwell and Four Poofs & a Piano.
According to PlanetSKI the organisers said "There has been a reduction in support from the tourist office and an insistence that we do not offer live music in our programme (despite a third of the company being owned by one of Britain's largest independent music festivals). These decisions have left it impossible to continue the Altitude Festival here... I have been trying to salvage a smaller event to stay here which would be in keeping with the tourist office budget and restrictions but unfortunately this project will not come to fruition either."
Last season the Meribel Tourist Board chose to support a new music festival in resort which may explain the decision to discourage the organisers of Altitude Festival from adding a musical line-up to this years event. The new festival, also taking place in March, is the organised by pop band The Feeling, who, before their climb to stardom, spent five seasons in Meribel playing as cover band Superfly, and have had a huge following in Meribel ever since. The Little World Festival is due to take place from March 12th - 19th and will feature the band.
The Altitude Festival's new home will be the Austrian resort of Mayrhofen and will take place during the same week as the hedonistic Snowbombing Festival. This year's festival will be on a smaller scale, similar to its first season, and runs from the 4th - 9th April.
Some may feel Meribel is losing out to Mayrhofen in all this but you can never underestimate the pull of local(ish) talent. Let's hope both festivals go down a storm.
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Explainer: The 2012 Weird Science Awards
Our annual Weird Science Awards pay tribute to the strangest scientific tales of the past year, and you just know the 2012 edition had to be a doozy. While we're waiting for the Maya apocalypse — and we may be waiting a long, long time — let's count down the top 10 Weird Science stories, as determined by an ironically unscientific Live Poll.
No. 10 is the discovery that having a painful need to urinate can impair your judgment. "When people reach a point when they are in so much pain they just can't stand it anymore, it was like being drunk," says Brown University neurologist Peter Snyder. "The ability to hold information was really impaired." To say nothing of the ability to hold water.
The research won Snyder and his colleagues a share in one of 2011's Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. Watch Snyder explain the study in this YouTube video, then click the "Next" button for more laugh-provoking science — or scroll quickly all the way down to the bottom if you have a painful need to go.
— Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor
9. Flies hooked on meth ... and sugar
When researchers noticed that meth addicts often take in large amounts of sugary drinks, they decided to do a little experiment: First, they got fruit flies hooked on methamphetamine. Then the scientists fed some of the flies a diet heavy on trehalose, an insect blood sugar. They found that the sugar-gobbling flies outlived the flies who didn't get the sweet stuff. Maybe sugar metabolism plays a role in meth's toxic effects. "Hopefully, some of these insights might lead to opportunities to deal with the problems associated with the drug," says University of Illinois toxicologist Barry Pittendrigh. But more research is required to trace the effects on mammals. In the meantime, watch out for those meth-head fruit flies.
8. Monster pictures make a splash
2011 saw a double-header (so to speak) in the marine-monster category. The most popular Loch Ness monster-like picture came from Alaska, where Andy Hillstrand of the "Deadliest Catch" TV show captured the footage for the Discovery Channel. Some might suggest that the creature is an eel, or a fish, or even a trick of light on the water. Not Hillstrand. "I've never seen anything like it," he told Discovery News. He suspects that the picture shows a Cadborosaurus, a legendary beast that has long been said to frequent Alaska's waters. Meanwhile, another picture purporting to show a creature that's been nicknamed "Bownessie" made waves in England.
7. Glowing dog has an on-off switch
In past years, our Weird Science Award winners have included glow-in-the-dark kitties and glow-in-the-dark puppies. How could scientists possibly top that? Would you believe a dog with a gene that turns the fluorescence under UV light on or off, depending on whether a particular drug is added to its food? That's exactly the kind of dog that South Korean scientists produced in 2011. Why, you ask? Well, the ultimate aim of these glow-in-the-dark exercises is to splice in genes that can help treat diseases — and having an on-off switch would give physicians more control over the treatment. That feat would make other researchers turn green ... with envy.
6. Just this once, Samoa skips a Friday
For more than a century, Samoa was on one side of the International Date Line, and Australia and New Zealand were on the other. When the Samoans were at Sunday church, the Aussies were starting their business week on Monday. And when Samoa was trying to finish up its own business week, the Kiwis were settling into the weekend. To remedy that, the Samoans switched over to the Australia-New Zealand side in 2011, going directly from Thursday, Dec. 29, to Saturday, Dec. 31. To top it all off, workers were paid for the non-existent Friday. If only we could all get to the weekend that quickly ... and spend it on a tropical island.
5. Pole shift forces airport makeover
Might as well face reality: Shift happens. Earth's shifting magnetic poles are not a sign of the apocalypse. They're just a fact of life on our dynamic planet. We do have to cope to the shift that life throws at us, though. For example, in early 2011, Tampa's airport had to repaint the numbers on its runways to reflect their shifting orientation with respect to magnetic north. The good news is that even dramatic changes in the poles' position would have no effect on life on Earth, despite what the doomsday prophets say.
4. Corpse-dissolving machine invented
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." Does that old saying apply to building a better corpse-dissolving machine as well? Resomation Ltd. hopes so. The Scottish company installed its machine in a St. Petersburg, Fla., funeral home and hopes the system will be legalized in other jurisdictions. The alkaline hydrolysis unit liquefies a body's soft tissues and flushes the sterile liquid into the municipal water system. The bones and other hard parts are left behind to be crushed. Company founder Sandy Sullivan says the machine lets people express their environmental concerns "in a very positive and I think personal way." Sounds good, as long as they don't put a Soylent Green factory next door.
3. Preacher gets doomsday wrong ... twice!
First, figure out exactly when Noah's Ark was floated by the Flood, and exactly when Jesus was crucified. Then come up with an arcane biblical numerology to add 7,000 years to the former, and 722,500 days to the latter. That was California preacher Harold Camping's formula for determining that May 21 was the date for the beginning of an apocalyptic Rapture. When May 21 didn't work out, he said Oct. 21 was the fallback date for the end of the world. And when that didn't work out ... well, now Camping says he's rethinking this whole doomsday business. But what about the 2012 apocalypse? That's too kooky, even for Camping. "Mr. Camping does not believe the Mayan calendar holds any significance at all," a spokeswoman says. Camping's mathematical acumen earned him a share in one of 2011's Ig Nobel Prizes.
2. 'Aflockalypse' is for the birds
The year 2011 was rung in with a series of reports about mass die-offs, involving blackbirds (the so-called "Aflockalypse" in Arkansas), fish, crabs and other creatures. Some wondered whether a global environmental crisis was in the offing, but experts said the Aflockalypse was simply a case of people connecting the dots between unrelated events, facilitated by global communication systems. Die-offs can happen for a variety of reasons. The Arkansas blackbird deaths, for example, took place after the birds were spooked by New Year's Eve fireworks. And wouldn't you know it? The Aflockalypse happened again to kick off 2012.
1. Fungus turns ants into zombies
If books like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and video games like "Resident Evil" can generate billions of dollars in sales, it shouldn't be surprising that the top Weird Science honors go to a story about zombie ants being taken over by a brain-controlling fungus. The fungus apparently uses temperature cues to decide when to have the ant clamp down on a cool leaf with a death grip. Pennsylvania State University's David Hughes speculates that the fungus does its thing to ensure it "has a long cool night ahead of it, during which time it can literally burst out of the ant's head to begin the growth of the spore-releasing stalk." It's the perfect plot for a horror movie directed by one mean mother: Mother Nature.
Honorable (?) mention
Other weird tales that almost made the top 10:
Does 13th zodiac sign mean your horoscope is wrong?
Was the Shroud of Turin created in a blinding flash?
Science reveals how to win at 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'
Previous Weird Science winners:
Cricket testicles and 2011's other Weirdies
2,700-year-old marijuana and other 2009 Weirdies
Glow-in-the-dark kitties and other Weirdies from 2008


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"Downton Abbey" has become a regular Airbnb vacation home.
"Downton Abbey" has become a regular Airbnb vacation home.
It was announced Friday by the show's makers — Masterpiece on PBS and Carnival Films — that three new cast members are joining the show in Season 5.
British actor Richard E. Grant will join the cast as Simon Bricker, who visits the wavering estate as a guest of the Crawleys. It's a world Grant is quite familiar with, demonstrating his footman skills in 2001's "Gosford Park," which was penned by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes. Perhaps Fellowes got the hint from Grant's 2012 interview with the Independent?
"I know Julian," Grant said then. "But I was never asked, I've never been up for it. Maybe next series."
Also getting in the upstairs / downstairs mix are Anna Chancellor ("The Hour," "Four Weddings and a Funeral"), who joins in a guest role as Lady Anstruther, as well as Rade Sherbedgia ("Eyes Wide Shut," "24"), who will play a Russian refugee.
Those behind the show are skimpy on details of the characters. But executive producer Gareth Neame, in a canned statement, offered this vote of confidence: "We are delighted to welcome these talented actors to the world of Downton. The characters they play are set to bring yet more excitement and intrigue to the show."
The fourth season of "Downton Abbey" is currently airing and concludes Feb. 23. Its two-hour season opener brought in 10.2 million viewers.
The new season is set to follow the same hair-pulling rollout schedule: a British launch in the fall, followed by a winter debut in the U.S.


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Your love is a symphony
All around me, running through me
Your love is a melody
Underneath me, running to me
~Switchfoot, Your Love Is a Song
My friend JoyMama has a darling daughter Joy who is Rhema's "sister across the way." Both our girls are window-dancers and are usually up to the same antics. They are the same age, and both have autism and epilepsy issues. Months ago JoyMama sent me a piece about the comorbidity of autism and epilepsy. According to the article, roughly one third of individuals with autism also have seizures.
JoyMama pulled the following quote:
"During development, the brain is trying to set up all these connections," notes Ann Berg, research professor of biology at Northern Illinois University. "You've got these little neurons trying to sing to each other and then this crashing cacophony comes down over them."
Then JoyMama wrote something that made my eyes smart and gave me goosebumps:
"Blessings on our beautiful girls and their hard-won songs…"
I've written about it many times here. Rhema. Her language, her life is a song. Hope calls it "talking with music." We don't know or understand the words, but her serenade is ever present. Like a long musical, she intones her heart-thoughts; she sings every emotion. It seems to be a melody for her, for us, for the morning and night, for toilet paper and rain and air and macaroni and blades of grass; she hums to the world.
And when I think about it, it kills me and inspires me that she keeps singing.
To date, Rhema's epileptic condition has proven untreatable. She must endure several EEGs a year, and for a child with autism and the communication paralysis and anxiety and all the sensory sensitivities that tag along, the EEG hookup can be sheer agony. So it was yesterday, and I'm convinced she fought harder than she ever has.
Can I say? I wish we didn't have to keep doing this.
For 24 hours a device in her backpack will record every spike and wave, every electrical blast in her brain. Just a few months ago the EEG revealed that the "crashing cacophany" occurs on average 58 times a minute for my girl.
She repeatedly takes my hand and puts it on her head. It's her way of pleading with me to take those awful leads off her head.
"I'm so sorry, sweet girl. We have to keep it on."
This is the face of autism and epilepsy.
And this is the face of a brave little soprano opening her mouth,
and singing through the storm her hard-won song.


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Scoliosis is where the spine twists and curves to the side.
It can affect people of any age, from babies to adults, but most often starts in children aged 10 to 15.
Scoliosis doesn't normally improve without treatment, but it isn't usually a sign of anything serious and treatment isn't always needed if it's mild.
Symptoms of scoliosis
Signs of scoliosis include:
- a visibly curved spine
- leaning to one side
- uneven shoulders
- one shoulder or hip sticking out
- the ribs sticking out on one side
- clothes not fitting well
Some people with scoliosis may also have back pain ↗. This tends to be more common in adults with the condition.
When to see your GP
See your GP if you think you or your child has scoliosis. It's unlikely that there's anything seriously wrong, but it's best to get checked out.
Your GP will examine your back and can refer you to a hospital doctor for help with diagnosis if they suspect scoliosis.
An X-ray ↗ of your back will be carried out in hospital to check whether your spine is curved and how severe the curve is.
If you're diagnosed with scoliosis, you should see a specialist to discuss treatment options.
Treatments for scoliosis
Treatment for scoliosis depends on your age, how severe the curve is, and whether it's likely to get worse with time.
Many people won't need any treatment and only a small number will need to have surgery on their spine.
- Babies and toddlers may not need treatment as the curve might improve over time. A plaster cast or plastic brace may be fitted to their back to stop the curve getting worse as they grow.
- Older children may wear a back brace to stop the curve getting worse until they stop growing. Sometimes surgery may be needed to control the growth of the spine until an operation to straighten it can be done when they stop growing.
- Adults may need treatment to relieve pain, such as painkillers, spinal injections and, very occasionally, surgery.
It's not clear whether back exercises help improve scoliosis, but general exercise ↗ is good for overall health and shouldn't be avoided unless advised by your doctor.
Read more about treatments for scoliosis in children ↗ and treatments for scoliosis in adults ↗.
Living with scoliosis
Most people with scoliosis are able to live normal lives and can do most activities, including exercise and sports.
The condition doesn't usually cause significant pain or any other health problems, and tends to stay the same after you stop growing – see your GP if it gets any worse.
Having scoliosis or wearing a back brace can be tough and may cause problems with body image and self-esteem, particularly for children and teenagers.
You may find it useful to contact a support group, such as Scoliosis Association UK ↗.
These groups are a good source of information and support, and they may be able to put you in touch with other people in a similar situation to you.
Read more advice from Scoliosis Association UK about coping with scoliosis ↗ and scoliosis support ↗.
Causes of scoliosis
In around 8 in every 10 cases, the cause of scoliosis is unknown. This is called idiopathic scoliosis.
Idiopathic scoliosis can't be prevented and isn't thought to be linked to things such as bad posture, exercise or diet.
Your genes may make you more likely to get it, though, as it sometimes runs in families.
Less commonly, scoliosis may be caused by:
- the bones in the spine not forming properly in the womb – this is called congenital scoliosis and is present from birth
- an underlying nerve or muscle condition, such as cerebral palsy ↗ or muscular dystrophy ↗ – this is called neuromuscular scoliosis
- wear and tear of the spine with age – this is called degenerative scoliosis, which affects older adults
Scoliosis Association UK has more information about the different types of scoliosis ↗.


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Bloop and beep in the holidays with 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer's It's a Chiptune Holiday, an album filled with traditional holiday favorites, only better.
8 Bit Weapon is one of my favorite chiptune bands, using their arsenal of old computers, consoles, handhelds, and various electronic toys to craft some very impressive tunes. Their holiday release, It's a Chiptune Holiday, is an exquisite example of what traditional music can become in the hands of capable 8-bit artists.
The album features 8 tracks perfect for replacing your family's traditional holiday music, at least until they figure out what you've done. You'll probably get away with "Ave Maria," "O Christmas Tree," and possibly "Joy to the World," but the beats in "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle Bells" will be a dead giveaway, and that's only if they manage to miss the electronic voices.
And yes, they've got Hanukka in there as well.
It's a Chiptune Holiday is currently on sale at both 8 Bit Weapon and ComputerHer's websites for $9.95, with each CD shipped in case handcrafted from a 5.25" floppy diskette.
It's the perfect way to remind your family that you're the odd, video-game loving member of your household.


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Autumn Piller
Marketing Director
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
We hosted a nutrition outreach program called "Are you beach-body ready?" The program offered educational information and health assessments. Students could sign up for individual nutritional analysis to learn about how to get their bodies in shape for the beach. To help students realize what a healthy meal looks like, models of correct food portions were on display.


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In this review we want to tell you about the Mitsubishi Pajero 1985. See photos and video of Mitsubishi Pajero 1985, leave your comments about this car.
History and interesting facts about the Mitsubishi
The origin of the Mitsubishi goes way back to 1870 when founder Yataro Iwasaki begun a shipping company with three old steamships. The company was later expanded by his brother, son and nephew during their respective terms as president. They were the ones responsible for setting the foundation for Mitsubishi firms. Later after WWI the Mitsubishi organization became Mitsubishi companies up to this day.
In 1917, Mitsubishi A-Model took its place in Japanese history as the first of mass production in passenger Mitsubishi cars. However it was not until the early 1970s that the motor giant begun building a reputation in the United States after launching the Colt under the nameplate Dodge. In 1972 Mitsubishi entered the Colt F2000 racecar and won a highly competitive open wheel grand prix.
Today Mitsubishi takes pride in being one of the biggest motor companies in the world. Among the technological milestones they've set themselves apart include: All-Wheel Control (AWC), Super Wheel Control(S-AWC), MIVEC Engine Control (MIVEC) and many more.


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Worshippers came by the hundreds to pray at a non-denominational church service honoring the victims of a Central Texas fertilizer plant blast.
Several hundred people on Thursday night packed St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in downtown West.
A victim relief services chaplain says the prayers and hymns honor the first responders who rushed toward the danger of the plant fire that led to the blast - and those who were simply too close to the site when the blast erupted.
Hundreds of white candles were distributed in the pews for a candlelight tribute.
Initial reports put the fatalities in the Wednesday blast as high as 15, but later Thursday authorities backed away from any estimate and refused to elaborate. More than 160 people were hurt.


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Slaveholders created the Confederate States of America to secure the ownership of human property. Free of the non-slaveholding states of the North, they believed, slavery's future would be assured and the peculiar institution able to expand and prosper. Looking back at developments in August and early September 1861, it was clear secession was beginning to have exactly opposite the intended effect.
To be fair to the Confederates, their reasoning must have assumed that either the northern states would let them leave in peace or they would quickly win a war of independence against the United States. With the arrival though of the Union army in southern territory in the late spring and summer of 1861, slavery began to crumble. First, the slaveholders did not reckon with the slaves' determination to be free. Second, they did not anticipate that northern authorities, both officers in the field and the politicians in Washington, D.C., would for reasons of military self-interest give escaped slaves sanctuary.
For the Confederates, the problem of escaped slaves in late summer 1861 was still limited compared to what it would become. The biggest trouble spot was in Virginia around Fortress Monroe, where Gen. Benjamin Butler had taken in "contrabands" since late May and by the end of August the total number must have exceeded 1,000 or was approaching it. Slaves also were beginning to escape in other places. As readers will recall, the July 15 edition of Civil War Emancipation featured a small party of slaves risking the ocean's fury to seek freedom aboard a U.S. Navy blockader stationed at the mouth of Virginia's Rappahannock River. As Union forces invaded coastal North Carolina in early September 1861, slaves also appeared happy with their arrival. On September 5, John P. Gillis in commander of the steamer Monticello reported:
SIR: Previous to our leaving Hatteras Inlet with the Harriet Lane in convoy we had cruised along and off the coast to the southward; ran close in to Ocracoke Inlet several times. The fort near the beacon-house had apparently no guns mounted, and there was no evidence of its being occupied. In Portsmouth, a small town near by to the southward, a white flag was hoisted on one of the houses, and a number of negroes came down to the beach waving another. Some two or three small schooners were seen in the sound. They left for the interior.
The Richmond government was aware during Summer 1861 of the problem of slaves escaping to Union lines, but powerless to do much about it. On August 30, 1861, the Confederacy enacted a law to facilitate the creation of official legal documentation of the loss of slave property to press claims for compensation presumably when it entered into negotiations with the United States at the end of a successful war. Still, the Confederate Congress was careful to slip language into the law stating, "That the provisions of this act shall not be construed as implying that the Confederates States are in any way liable to make compensation for any of the property to which it refers."
It was not merely the loss of slaves escaping to Union lines that became a concern in the Confederacy in Summer 1861, but the slaves that remained in their possession. If secession was supposed to calm the fears of slave revolt during the secession winter and spring, it proved a failure as the people of the South continued to fear their human property–even after the stunning Confederate victories in Summer 1861 at Bull Run/Manassas in Virginia and Wilson's Creek in Missouri. A correspondent of the New York Tribune traveling through North Carolina in late July reported to his paper (which was later reprinted in the Liberator):
The intelligence from North Carolina is of a rather exciting nature. In addition to the general and growing popular discontent at the miserable mismanagement of affairs since the State was plunged into Secession, the most alarming apprehension are indulged, of a fearful and bloody outbreak of the slaves. For months, this class of the population have been betraying great uneasiness, occasioned doubtless, by the unusual, and to them rather inexplicable military movements about them, and which they not very strangely suppose in some way to concern themselves. There are numerous rumors afloat to the effect that in some of the middle counties, servants have risen on their masters, and that whole families have been brutally butchered at midnight. To these reports, however, I am slow to give credence; I believe they are mostly the creations of imaginations always lively to the latent perils of slaveholding society, and now especially distempered by the aggravated dangers of the times. But "where there is so much smoke there must be some fire;" and it may turn out that the facts have not been exaggerated, and that North Carolina, and perhaps the whole South, is on the eve of a most sanguinary and desolating servile insurrection. That such a calamity is intelligently feared is certain; and its horrors may startle humanity at any moment. It is stated that such is the refractory disposition of the colored people of late, in the more largely slaveholding section of the State, and so manifest are the symptoms of contemplated and preconcerted mischief, that an earnest requisition has been made upon Western Carolinians, for the immediate moving to the disaffected quarter of Home Guards, (who, by the way, are nearly all strong Union men,) to the amount of two or three regiments, for the prompt suppression of the anticipated uprisal.
So clearly, white Southerners in the Confederacy did not find much comfort in their new nationhood in Summer 1861 when it came to slavery, which had principally motivated the nation's creation in the first place. Their worries certainly had a basis in fact, as slaves were beginning to flee to the Union outposts cropping up in Confederate territory that summer and finding sanctuary as federal authorities decided it was in their military interest not to return them. Still, the worries also were a product of the paranoia of slaveholders fearful of slaves they were convinced had only a patina of civilization and when given the slightest opportunity would rise in acts of barbaric violence. They actually had little to worry about as the slaves were more apt to flee as Union forces appeared than revolt, and the number of slaves fleeing would only grow in the months and years that followed.
Sources: 1) http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S1-V04-C013R.html; 2) http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/19conf/19conf.html#p207; 3) http://www.rmlonline.org/civil%20war%20news/Aug11-17-1861.htm.


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(WEAU) - While more deer hunters bought licenses this year versus last year, the DNR says hunting has been on a steady decline here and across the nation.
The DNR says there's more competition for people's free time and the biggest decline in hunting is happening in the 35 to 55 year old age range. The DNR says those hunters are weighing the costs versus benefits, is it worth their time?
The DNR says with the huge spike in bow hunters and increase in predators, there's more competition for the deer as well.
DNR Spokesman Ed Culhane says "the deer are being hunted all the time, so they're not stupid. They learn to pattern human movement so the deer being hunted today are harder to hunt."
The DNR estimates by the year 2030, it could lose 1/3 of its hunters.


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If you were to ask any critic, working at any time in history, to rate the health of the current cinema, most would say not so good (though a few smart ones, circa 1972, might know otherwise). The reason for this is that critics see just about everything, but the history of an era is not determined by everything, any more than the history of Willie Mays is determined by how many times he struck out. History is determined by the overarching trend, a tendency either toward the best or toward the worst, and the ability to see those trends while in the midst of them is rare — and probably more a matter of lucky guesses in the best of cases.
This brings us to his week. Two excellent movies: THE EAST and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, both low budget films. THE EAST, a thriller, was co-written by Brit Marling, a 30-year-old actress who might be the American cinema's best news since the emergence of Jessica Chastain. You can read my review HERE. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is Joss Whedon's modern-dress version of the Shakespeare play, which will probably introduce more people to the joys of Shakespeare than anything since the First Folio in 1623. You can read my review of Whedon's film HERE.
Are they the delightful exception? Or do they constitute the hidden trend that will be discerned only later? Could all these horrible blockbusters and dead-empty comedies, such as THE INTERNSHIP (sure go ahead and read my review of it HERE), could they be mere distractions from the main event — from the things people will value in the future? This presupposes not only a future but people with values, with some kind of aesthetic, who haven't fed their minds to the maw of nothingness. For the sake of argument I will assume this.
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On Feb. 8th, Sony is launching the System Firmware Ver. 1.60 for the Vita. Here is some of what this update contains: a new Map application, video recording, and Mac OS support.
The new map application will allow the user to locate his current location, search for specific addresses, and set destinations. The application can show both map and a sateliate view of the area.
The camera can now record videos. It can be activated while in camera mode.
Until this update, the PS Vita could only transfer data between the PS3 and Windows PC. Now the Contents Manager for PlayStation also supports Mac OS. You can upload videos, music, and pictures on the Mac to your PS Vita and vice versa. Saving backup files onto your Mac will be possible as well.
In addition to all these new functions, the PS button will now light differently according to what state the Vita is in. When turned on or when resumed from standby mode, the PS button will light up in blue. When put into standby mode, the PS button will blink in blue.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), BRIK Toy Company of Houston, TX is voluntarily recalling approximately 50,000 "3-in-1 Construction Tables" model 3630 (3-in-1 Construction Table only) and model 3632 (3-in-1 Construction Table with two chairs). The tables under recall may have red or black vinyl plastic caps under the table frame to hold the legs in place while being shipped or stored. During CPSC testing, the caps separated from the tables presenting a potential choking hazard to young children.
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The 3-in-1 Construction Table is a yellow plastic child's table with a red insert for the top. The table is supported by four removable plastic legs. The table measures 17 inches by 20 inches wide and is 19-1/2 inches tall. The name "BRIK" is embossed on the table's edge. The label on the box in which the table was sold reads in part: "3-in-1 Construction Table" and "Manufactured by BRIK Toy Company Houston, Texas 77057."
The tables under recall were distributed nationwide between August 1, 1992 and November 2, 1992 to retail chains, discount, hardware and toy stores. The models sold for between $40.00 and $60.00 each.
Consumers are urged to take the tables away from young children immediately and examine the tables to determine whether their units have the red or black vinyl plastic caps, and if so, to remove the vinyl caps at once and call BRIK Toy Company at 1-800-438-2745 to receive a free replacement frame that will permit the legs to be stored underneath the table. The table may be used by children without the caps. Tables currently in stock at retail stores and all tables manufactured after November 2, 1992 have been redesigned with no vinyl plastic caps under the table frame. Consumers who have returned a registration card from the table they purchased will be contacted by letter from BRIK Toy Company. For more information about this recall, consumers may call BRIK Toy Company at 1-800-438-2745 or may write to the company at 2630 Fountain View #218, Houston, TX 77057.
CPSC is announcing this recall as part of its mission to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury and death associated with consumer products. The Commission's objective is to reduce the estimated 28.6 million injuries and 21,700 deaths associated each year with the 15,000 different types of consumer products under CPSC's jurisdicition.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Make the javascript system global?
I was doing a little work building a new addition for some user .js for people to use. But since it's one with a little wiki involvement I was wondering if you guys wanted me to make it a global thing instead of something just for random users to drop into their user .js.
If you want to try it out go to your monobook.js on the Animepedia and add this code to it (You'll half to refresh, reload, clear your cache or whatever you need to do.):
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.anime.wikia.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Dantman/searchswitch.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
The basic system is one which adds a extra box above the search box in the sidebar. This box modifies the search box to whatever you pick. There's still the normal Search listed there. But there are a number of other options to.
- Article: This works a little like a creationbox. You can type in an article name and then hit view to go to that page, or you can hit edit to go strait to the editpage for that article.
- Editcount: Plain and simply this is like going to Special:Editcount just enter a username in the box and hit go, you'll then be sent to the editcount for the person.
- Prefixindex: This works just like Special:Prefixindex. The nice thing about it is you can use the dropdown box to select a namespace such as the main namespace and then hitting submit gives you a list of all the articles in that namespace.
- Listusers: Listusers works just like going to Special:Listusers. You can just submit for a list of all users (A new feature is also in place so that now only active users are listed there.) You can enter in a username to get information on a user such as what status tags such as Jonin they may have. Or you can use the dropdown box to find a list of all the Jonin(sysop), Kage(bureaucrat), or Tokubetsu Jonin(rollback) there are on the wiki.
- Contribs: Simply enter a username here and you will be sent to the contribs page of a user. Works similar to Editcount.
~Dantman(talk) Mar 21, 2007 @ 14:47 (UTC)
- I've already made it global now as a demonstration. If you guys like it we'll keep it. If not it can be moved back to useronly. ~Dantman(talk) current discussion Mar 23, 2007 @ 04:22 (UTC)
- Sounds like fun... But how do we get to there. By the way...I looked under Specail:Listusers We only have 20 registered users and most of them aren't daily editors.... Is that the word?LoneWolf 5 23:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)LoneWolf 5
- You used to half to use Special:Activeusers to find out who actually edited hee. But yes Special:Listusers has been upgraded to show only people who've edited. Don't think of that to badly. It's actually true that a number of other Wikia which may be more active than us apparently have a very small amount of users who actually contributed. You shouldn't half to go anywhere. The system is setup to work here. Unless you're on a browser which I guess I may have failed to get to work (I've only tested this in Firefox and Opera) then above the Search box in the Sidebar you should see a Switch box. I'll add the new tag to make it easy. Oh, a new note; One of the features added during the update is that images can now be made to be able to be undeleted. So unlike before where if an image was deleted, it would half to be re-uploaded now, instead I can delete an image and it can be un-deleted. Because of this, all the images I've tagged for future deletion will be deleted now. ~Dantman(talk) current discussion Mar 24, 2007 @ 01:33 (UTC)
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Today, people are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, wearing new clothes and possibly a special bonnet, eating colored eggs and attending sunrise services. Where do the Easter traditions originate and how did they become intermixed with the resurrection holiday? Area church representatives give their views.
If Easter is a celebration of Jesus Christ�s resurrection, how did the Easter bunny and other traditions get involved?
The name Easter, itself, is thought to have originated from the Anglo-Saxon spring goddess Eostre or possibly Astarte, the Phoenician fertility goddess, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The name is not found in the Christian bible.
�There is no doubt that the Church in its early days adopted the old pagan customs and gave a Christian meaning to them,� The American Book of Days states. �As the festival of Eostre was in celebration of the renewal of life in the spring it was easy to make it a celebration of the resurrection from the dead of Jesus, whose gospel they preached.�
Easter traditions date back to the Chaldeans, or Babylonians � long before Jesus walked the earth.
�Modern-day Easter is derived from two ancient traditions: one Judeo-Christian and the other Pagan,� according to consultants at religioustolerance.org. �Both Christians and Pagans have celebrated death and resurrection themes following the Spring Equinox for millennia.�
The celebrated day was selected to follow along with the Northern Hemisphere�s vernal equinox, which occurs generally on March 20, depending on the year, and marks the beginning of spring.
But the date was long-disputed in the Middle Ages and the Eastern church still follows the Julian calendar, The Oxford Companion to British History states.
The traditions associated with Easter include bunnies, colored eggs, grass-filled baskets, hot cross buns, new clothing and sunrise services.
Rabbits are well-known symbols of fertility because of their rapid procreativity � hence the saying, �multiplying like rabbits.� Symbols of hares were used in ancient European and Middle Eastern pagan spring festivals, Britannica states.
Eggs were also used in fertility rites and decorated eggs were thought to bring happiness, prosperity, health and protection, according to Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia.
In Europe, children would build nests and whistle or use charms to attract rabbits, said to lay eggs, according to The Oxford Companion to British History.
Even the wearing of a new Easter outfit stems from cult beliefs. �The Giant Book of Superstitions� brings out it is bad luck not to greet Eastre, a Scandinavian goddess, in new attire.
Sunrise services date back to the ancient rite of welcoming the sun and its power to bring about new life, according to The Complete Book of American Holidays.
A cross or a stake?
�The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch (Passover) or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now,� the book �The Two Babylons� states.
The cross on the bun symbolizes the cross upon what many religions say Jesus died. But its origins, like the name Easter, go back well before the resurrection.
�The cross was a pagan symbol long before it acquired everlasting significance from the events of the first Good Friday, and bread and cakes were sometimes marked with it in pre-Christian times,� states the book �Easter and Its Customs.�
The variations of the symbol of the cross date back to ancient times. One form that later was used in the Coptic Church can be found in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a T-shaped symbol was used in Babylonto represent the god, Tammuz.
�In spite of the overwhelming symbolism of the cross, the precise shape of the object on which Jesus was crucified cannot be proven explicitly from the Bible,� says gotquestions.org.
Christendom adopted the symbol, according to �Curiosities of Popular Customs,� as religious leaders could not rid the church of pagan symbols. It was an easy mingling of spiritual beliefs to celebrate the rising of the sun with the rising of the son.
The Greek word translated as cross is stauros. Vine�s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words states the word �denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.�
In the 1896 book �The Non-Christian Cross,� John Denham Parsons explains there is no evidence in the Greek scriptures, or New Testament, to indicate the stauros was made of two pieces of timber, nor was a cross the primary meaning for stauros in the apostles� day.
Another Greek word used in the bible is xylon, which translates as stake or tree. In fact, the King James Version, as well as other versions, translates xylon as reading in Acts 5:30 as, �The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.�
The Companion Bible says, �The evidence is thus complete, that the Lord was put to death upon an upright stake, and not on two pieces of timber placed at any angle.�
The two became one
�By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D.,� the Greek scholar W.E. Vine states, �the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols.�
There is no mention in the bible or historic artifacts of first-century Christians venerating or owning symbols of the cross. Neither does the bible declare the celebration of the resurrection as a holiday for Christians.
It does, however, command Christians to memorialize the death of Jesus on the Passover, said Andrew Foster, an elder at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah�s Witnesses in Snow Hill.
According to the gospels of the bible, the Christ gave bread and wine to his disciples on the Jewish Passover day, made a covenant with them to be in his kingdom and said, �Do this in remembrance of me.�
That day is memorialized annually on Nisan 14 according to the Jewish calendar, Foster said.
Why the traditions continue
�The history of the church, you know, Christianity,� Wanda Neely, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, said, �has always had traditions.�
Neely, who had been putting up Easter paraphernalia in the church earlier this month, said palm branches were a symbol of victory and triumph, which evolved into a symbol of peace. Eventually, Jesus being greeted with palm branches as he rode on a colt into Jerusalem became a symbol of peace, she said.
�Many of the symbols and traditions,� Neely said, �that are used around the holy days and our celebrations came from secular culture.�
She said there is a link between the divine and the secular world, and she believes God appears on earth every day amongst the secular world.
�It�s pretty incredible,� she said, �God came in human form, conquered death and came back to here.�
Patricia Keesee, office manager at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, said her church puts on an Easter egg hunt and displays Easter lilies and candles.
She acknowledged Easter eggs as originated from pagan customs, but said the candles represent the light of Christ and the lilies as new birth.
�We really don�t discuss that in mass,� Keesee said when asked how the church explains the use of pagan customs with the worship of God. �We have (the egg hunt) because the children have grown accustomed to it.�
She said the children, however, are taught the �true meaning of Easter � the resurrection of Jesus Christ.�
Jehovah�s Witnesses use no pagan symbols in their worship, Foster said.
�That�s kind of worshiping the creation instead of the Creator,� he said. �� I guess the world will find any way to celebrate that they can, whether it�s Easter eggs, bonnets, chickens, bunnies, which really have nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus.�
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