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Mindfulness Meditation – How to Navigate Through Your Own Personal Minefield
Posted by Stephen Robinson in General, Health, Meditation, Mediumship, Philosophy, Psychic, Self Improvement, Spiritual on Oct 20, 2012
Bad experiences sometimes leave deep wounds on our psyche – scars that take a long time to heal. While time generally does heal most wounds, we don't do ourselves any favors by going back and picking at them. In fact, replaying bad experiences over again in your mind is a recipe for disaster, for the negative thoughts and emotions that were buried can be brought back to life with explosively destructive force, just like a landmine buried long ago in a forgotten war. The cultivation of greater mindfulness, however, can help us navigate through this personal minefield, alerting us whenever we get too close to danger.
Some of us do a better job than others of just going with the flow of life, and not spending too much time looking back with regret, recrimination, or guilt, to name just a few of the toxic emotions that can accompany our memories. But for almost all of us, there have been some particularly painful moments along the way, and these are the landmines that we must map out and stay away from, lest we unleash a damaging flow of thoughts and emotions. The emotions associated with past traumas don't just make us miserable; they also have creative (which in this case means destructive) potential, transforming the events that transpire in our outer reality as well as the inner landscape which can often be bad enough by itself.
What sort of events have you buried?
- An argument with a co-worker or family member?
- An accident that you caused?
- The death of a loved one or pet?
- Rejection by an object of your affection?
- Getting fired from a job?
- Failing a test at school?
- Saying something that hurt someone else's feelings?
- Betraying a friend's confidence?
- A period of severe poverty and insecurity?
- The time other people abused you verbally or physically?
Obviously, the list is endless. There's a pretty good chance that you're working on something in your own list right now. Our inherent "negativity bias" is almost irresistible, constantly drawing us back to the worst memories and the most negative expectations for the future. That sort of thinking once made sense in an earlier evolutionary environment, where the avoidance of real threats to our survival was paramount, but in today's generally much safer world, this default "doom and gloom" setting does us no favors at all.
Awareness of the Danger Will Protect You
While conventional mindfulness practices, which teach us to be aware of what we're doing, moment-to-moment, with our minds, can tell us when we're dwelling on negative memories, they don't do nearly enough to inform us about the very real danger of this type of thinking. Buddhist mindfulness does not embrace the much more modern New Age concept that we create our physical realities with our thoughts and emotions, and simply confines itself to inner reality.
While there is undoubtedly real benefit to be derived from a more harmonious inner life, the real danger we must avoid is the physical manifestation of our negative thoughts and feelings. This danger is very real, and the power of our most upsetting memories is particularly likely to expose us to harmful manifestations. For unlike the positive manifestation goals so beloved of self-help authors like Rhonda Byrne, we know exactly what these bad experiences feel like and we can remember every little painful detail in technicolor glory. In short, it's much, much easier to create bad realities than good ones, and we have to police ourselves constantly to protect ourselves from these self-inflicted wounds.
So the next time you catch yourself dwelling upon the worst events of your past, just stop. No matter how justified you feel you are in rehashing that event, you must remind yourself of the power of your thoughts and emotions. A simple way to manage yourself is to ask whether you want to relive that experience – or something very similar to it – again. Because if you don't watch out, that is exactly what will happen.
When replaying past events, one of the most damaging thought patterns we must avoid is that of self-blame. Critics of the New Age use that issue as an argument against the reality-creation principle, but it is – ironically – a strong argument in favor of New Age ideas. To see why, visit this thoughtful Meditation Blog.
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My History with Anger and How I Finally Decided To Let Go of My Anger, Part 1: Growing Up in a Household of Anger
Posted by Stephen Robinson in Family, Health, Relationships, Self Improvement, Society on Oct 19, 2012
This is part 1 of a new series on my history with anger, how I have consciously decided to let go of it, along with a guide on how to start healing from a life of anger.
Anger. What a self-destructive emotion.
Yet, many of us seem to carry anger with us like it's a part of our identity. Many of us seem to wear anger like it's a self-enhancing booster, an accolade of superiority, and a natural part of being human (it isn't).
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Recovering our True Self: The Journey Out of Our Negative States
Posted by Stephen Robinson in Family, Health, Meditation, Philosophy, Relationships, Self Improvement, Society, Spiritual on Sep 2, 2012
Down through the centuries, spiritual teachers of all traditions have differentiated between our mundane, invented personality so filled with stress, and our true identity characterized by serenity, constancy, and wisdom. They urge us to discover our inner depths and that vaster Self which enables right action in the world. Everyone of us is meant to live with joy and compassionate outreach to the people around us. We are designed to be masters of our selves, capable of overcoming all the difficulties of life. This is our birthright, but in order to experience it, we must recognize how far we are from living in this manner, why this is so, and what efforts we must make to live in such a way. This new awareness and these efforts are the process that leads us out of our negative emotional habits in order to enter into the depths of our spiritual nature.
To recover from our ingrained habits and our subconscious imitations of parents and peers is truly spiritual warfare. It is the narrow way that few want to travel as it requires going against the grain of our own behavior. It is making the hard choices rather than taking the easy way as we always have. This process takes place in the trenches of our most ordinary interactions with the world. Authentic spiritual development takes place in that moment of irritation, that moment of unkindness, that moment of selfishness that we encounter the heat of the battle. This inner battle determines who we are and how we live this life during our brief journey through time.
Here then are some specific methods for recovering from those toxic habits:
The first and most fundamental effort is the objective study of ourselves. Why? Because nothing real can take place until we know what we are dealing with. We cannot take for granted that we know how or why we function the way we do. If you want to operate a computer, you have to learn the software. Human beings are complex software indeed and are rarely user friendly. So tryobserving yourself from a completely neutral standpoint. Do not judge what you see. Just see it. Observe your reactions, your attitudes, your moods and the many aspects of yourself that take charge from moment to moment. If you do this with sincerity and courage, not justifying every action and passing thought, you will begin to see yourself more objectively and initiate the awareness of the Observing Self who will be the key to your recovery.
This simple effort begins the process of creating a space within you that is not completely hypnotized by external events. Though you still react to external circumstances through ingrained habit, there is now this sliver of your Self that is not pulled out of you. A new space of inner freedom is being created along with a new sense of a deeper identity than the surface personality.
Another critical aspect of this observation is the study of our negative states. You will be amazed at how much of our time is spent under the dominance of these dark moods and thoughts. You will catch yourself grumbling about other people, feeling dejected over this or that event, complaining about the weather, resenting something somebody said. Nothing healthy can grow under the constant downpour of this acid rain within you. Eventually, you will discover that you can free yourself from such unpleasant behavior and states of mind. Step one is to turn off the leaking faucet: stop expressing negative emotions.
This effort is the beginning of separating yourself from them. You don't have to accept living in those dark states. You are not them. They are bad habits acquired over a lifetime. If you want healing and joy in your life, you must stop the momentum of negativity. One of the important things to observe about negative states is how much energy they take away from us. If you are aware of yourself before and after a moment of rage, you will see very clearly how much energy has been lost in that brief moment. We only have so much energy available to us each day, and we can use it to be healed and renewed, or we can squander it thoughtlessly.
So notice your thoughts before they plant themselves in your feelings and eventually manifest in your actions. Anger at a colleague or spouse can be caught before it has caused internal and external damage. In that more rational, detached place before the feeling has caught you by the throat, you can notice why you are angry. What is it in you that is reacting that way? What is it in your colleague that has caused his or her behavior which is so disturbing? Anger can then turn into compassion, or at least into a new insight about yourself or another.
After self-observation and separation from negative states comes the next all-important practice: becoming present to the moment. Experience the moment as it is, for what it is. Becoming present grounds you in reality here and now and takes you out of the tempests of imagination and inner talking that fill the mind with so much noise. Become present not only to your surroundings, but to your body. Relax the tensions that you haven't even noticed before: In the shoulders, in the jaws, in the stomach. Begin to experience the revitalizing peace of being alive in this moment. Those of you familiar with meditation know how helpful it is to regulate one's breathing in order to center oneself. Just breathing in and out slowly to ease the inner tensions is a powerful tool for nourishing your spirit in the moment. Learn to sit quietly for awhile. This is no luxury or idle behavior. We are so wracked with stress and worry that we cannot recover enough to get back in touch with ourselves until we are released from the grip of our anxieties. We rob ourselves of the very joy of living when we let ourselves fall into endless worry and nervous tension. Take time to let go of all that.
This daily effort teaches us to stop or at least to step back from the constant flow of thoughts that creates reality for us. This means that most of our worrying and anxious considerations fall by the wayside and we are able to rise above the clouds of our immediate concerns to the larger picture of our existence as a whole. Sometimes, however, the flood of thoughts refuses to slow no matter what we do. Our nerves are so frayed that we cannot achieve the simple peace of looking out the window and enjoying the view without anything coming to mind. That's when you might employ the stop exercise. In the midst of a thought or daydream, tell yourself to stop and abruptly cut short what is going on in your mind. Then relax your body and look around you, just seeing what is there. Take a vacation from the inner turmoil.
So our daily practice for recovering from a life polluted with negative emotional habits includes: objective observation of our selves, separation from negative states, quieting the mind, and becoming present to the moment. You will notice how these practices begin to take us out of our usual nervous tension and keep us from mindlessly responding to everything around us by turning a portion of our attention inward and by expanding our perspective in the moment. We then become more than our self-centered, habitual mass of reactions.
If you apply these techniques regularly, you will soon find yourself living more frequently in that space of peace, of centeredness, of recovery from being victims of automatic reactions. Then you will find that you become capable of a serenity and acceptance of what is, of a surrender of selfishness that empowers you to help others as well as yourself.
Such a journey of emotional and psychological recovery offers us a new spiritual empowerment which enables us to accept life as it comes, even with all its complications and the capacity to act rightly in any given situation. This developing inner power creates a free human being who is no longer entangled in his or her selfishness and constant stream of fears and desires. Such a person can journey through life in peace, with wisdom and compassion. Such a person makes the world a better place.
About the Author
Ted Nottingham is the author and translator of a dozen books, the producer of numerous televised programs, and the pastor of Northwood Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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How to recognise negative energy
Posted by Stephen Robinson in General, Health, Philosophy, Psychic, Relationships, Self Improvement, Society, Spiritual on Aug 19, 2012
Many of us know the harmful effect of negativity. Napolean Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich says; "There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it's positive or negative."
It is probably easier to be negative than positive. It is easy to slide into a blaming culture, the poor little old me mindset. We all know the importance of being positive and usually more effort is needed to a maintain positivity as it is easy to slide into negativity.
However, you can avoid negativity and disallow it to ruin your life by recognising them. Negative energy in our life can be ourselves and the people around us.
Personal negativity could come in the form of suspicion, mistrust and self doubt. Very often many of us allow negativity to invade our thoughts, for example, doubting the possibility that things are going smoothly, believing that there is a catch somewhere, always wary about being taken for a ride and being jealous of another person's achievements. As we are the master of our own destiny and our thoughts can make or break us, such negativity will hinder our progress and even destroy something that is going well.
Negativity energy could also come from people could be our colleagues, our friends and family. When you are around people who say things to cast doubts in your mind, complained about almost everything and whatever other people are doing, it can have a negative effect on your emotions and behaviour. These people live in fear and worry. They can't control their emotions and they are frequently angry. Being around negative people can drain your energy. Their negativity can lead you to making wrong judgement and decisions.
Sometimes, it may not be possible to stay away from negative people especially if they are family members. However, it is possible to walk away from a negative conversation. Stay away from people who make you doubt yourself or your progress
You know you are becoming a negative person when your venture start failing and your progress get stifled. You will notice that positive people stay away from you and you are surrounded by people who are constantly negative. Eventually, you will become an angry and depressed person.
Remember, nothing gets solved being negative and it will only make worsened our life. Recognise the negative energy, stay away from it and make a conscious effort to be positive.
"Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out." – Norman Vincent Peale
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- Citizen-Soldiers in the Northeast were assisting state authorities Feb. 9 in the aftermath of Nemo, the giant snowstorm that killed at least five people, left 650,000 without power and resulted in the cancellation of about 5,300 flights. As of Saturday morning, National Guard troops had been activated in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. By nightfall, the total number of responding Soldiers was 2,295. "Our states and communities are again calling and counting on our National Guard to save lives and preserve property as we recover from this storm," Gen. Frank J. Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said Saturday night. "As I watch our Guard members again step up as they've always done for 376 plus years in peacetime and war, one of my greatest concerns is about the effects sequestration will have on our nation's outstanding National Guardsmen, as well as on our ability to respond to the governors' needs and our federal mission readiness," he said.
"I pledge to every member of the National Guard to work with our DOD partners and our government's executive and legislative branches to preserve resources and structure, to maintain a National Guard that is 'Always Ready, Always There,'" Grass continued. According to the Associated Press, the blizzard wasn't as dire as the storm of 1978, which longtime New Englanders use as the benchmark for dreadful winter weather. That was little consolation to the thousands of motorists trapped all night in ice-covered vehicles, awaiting rescue after the snow stopped. "It's quite an honor to be living in the community, to be part of the community and serve the community," Maj. Gen. L. Scott Rice, the Massachusetts adjutant general, said in an interview with Boston station WHDH-TV. Rice noted that the storm coincided with a regular drill weekend for his state's troops, so up to 6,000 Soldiers would be available for storm assistance if needed. Throughout the region, powerful winds were blowing fluffy snow into drifts far deeper than the original 18-24 inches that reportedly fell. Governors of affected states urged, and in some cases, mandated, that roads be free of civilian traffic so emergency responders and plows could perform their duties unhampered. Officials lifted those restrictions at 4 p.m., Saturday. "Most of our best resilience in our communities is your own resilience and the fact that you think about how you prepare and prepare yourself for what could happen," Rice said in the interview conducted from the state's emergency management bunker in Framingham, Mass. A summary of Guard assignments included: -- Connecticut: Conducting roadway support, health and wellness checks and emergency transportation throughout the state.
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HAWKING, the first-ever autobiographical documentary about physicist Stephen Hawking, offers rare insights into Hawking's life, past and present, aided by a cast of stellar contributors and Hawking fans, including astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., actors Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch, mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.
HAWKING tracks the physicist's life story, told largely in his own words. It includes dramatic accounts of his life from childhood through university; intimate footage of Hawking today, including his home routine and his work life at the University of Cambridge; archival footage; and candid comments from family members, friends and colleagues. Computer-generated imagery illustrates some of Hawking's remarkable discoveries, such as the nature of black holes and the so-called "Big Bang" theory that explains the origins of the universe.
"This film is a personal journey through my life, told in my own words, that shows the story of how I became who I am today. It has been a lot of fun and also very strange to see myself depicted in so many ways," said Hawking. "I think it is important to realize we only have a very short time alive and should make the best of it. Despite my disabilities, I will always keep wondering about the mysteries of the universe."
In addition to photos and archival footage of his childhood, the film also depicts the difficult aspects of his life, especially his battle to communicate through his computer, a process about which he meets regularly with technology experts. In addition to the A-list contributors who are also his fans, interviewees include Hawking's ex-wife Jane, past and current students and graduate assistants, nurses and his literary agent, among others.
Stephen Hawking became paralyzed due to motor neuron disease, but his intellectual brilliance, his refusal to quit and his trademark dry wit — all showcased in HAWKING — have propelled him to international fame and celebrity. He has sold more than 10 million copies of his groundbreaking book A Brief History of Time, spoken before thousands of people at sell-out live shows and appeared on iconic TV shows such as "The Simpsons" and "Star Trek." He counts as friends many of the most famous people on the planet. He has met with the pope, experienced zero gravity, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and much more.
"We are thrilled to bring this exclusive program about Stephen Hawking to PBS as part of our science and natural history Wednesday night programming," said Beth Hoppe, Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming, PBS. "HAWKING opens up a new window into his life and achievements as never before and we're proud to be a co-producer of this film."
"Through Hawking's own words, as well as those closest to him, PBS viewers have an opportunity to get a fresh perspective on one of the greatest scientists of our time," added Ben Bowie, Executive Producer. "We are honored to have had the opportunity to film and capture the most intimate details of Stephen Hawking's life."


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After 12 years, Pixar's "Monsters, Inc" is releasing its prequel, "Monsters University." Billy Crystal and John Goodman return to play Mike and Sulley, telling the story of how they became friends back in university days, that is, after an intense rivalry.
"Monsters University" was released in the U.S. last week, and in addition to the new batch of young fans, this movie hopes young adults will take their Mike and Sulley paraphernalia out from their closets to see the light of day again. The new director of the Monster legacy, Dan Scanlon, and producer Kori Rae join AirTalk to give an insider's look into the making of "Monsters University," the history of Pixar and the dynamics between Crystal and Goodman.
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By David King Dunaway
In the late 1950s, Dave Van Ronk was walking through Washington Square Park in New York's Greenwich Village on a Sunday afternoon. This Trotskyist-leaning jazz enthusiast from Queens thought the crowds huddled around guitars and banjos "irredeemably square."
"We thought of it as 'hillbilly shit,' a bunch of guys who didn't even know how to play their instruments and just got by with 'cowboy chords.' The little I heard while passing through the Square on Sundays confirmed my new-found snobbishness. It was essentially summer camp music, songs those kids learned at progressive camps that I think of generically as Camp Gulag on the Hudson.
"The sight and sound of all those happily howling petit-bourgeois Stalinists offended my assiduously nurtured self-image as a hipster….So for a couple of years I avoided the place like a plague, for fear of contamination. If I had to pass anywhere in the vicinity, I would walk through as quickly as possible, obviating any possibility that I might get sucked in by something like 'Blue Tail Fly' and shortly find myself dancing the Hora around the fountain and singing 'Hey, Lolly, Lolly, Lo.'"
—Dave Van Ronk, The Mayor of MacDougal Street
By the time Inside Llewyn Davis begins in 1961, the film's putative hero, Dave Van Ronk, was "King of the Street in Greenwich Village. He ruled supreme," according to Bob Dylan. The film's protagonist, on the other hand, hopes to break in, one of the many ways the film removes historical reality. Now moving from its Academy-qualifying run to theaters nationwide, the movie illustrates the fascinating question of what happens in historical fiction, when you separate the surroundings from the characters, the stage from the actors.
Inside Llewyn Davis challenges historians. Though musically adept, if not authentic, the film portrays the circumstances of the second folk music revival in the United States, that of the 1960s. Yet its lead character, aside from his hirsute looks, has very little in common with Dave Van Ronk, whose life the film closely follows.
There's a joke on one of David Bromberg's albums: the story of how he propositioned the right woman at the right time in the wrong place, after which her husband, the bartender…. With Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers have the right man in the right place, but in entirely in the wrong mood. Robert Cantwell's analysis of the 60s revival, When We Were Good, is a lot closer.
The film tells the story of a young guitarist who sings folk tunes (drawn almost entirely from Van Ronk's repertoire) who struggles to play his music, sleeping on couches wherever he can. But the number of living rooms open to him shrinks by the day, because of his boorishness. He continues to sing his soft, intense songs, as his world unravels about him.
Reviewers have been generally indulgent, calling it "a well-crafted look at the American folk music scene of the early 1960's of sometimes hilarious dry comedy" (United Press). "If you love the Coens or follow folk music or hold fast to this period of history and that patch of New York, then the film can hardly help striking a chord" (The New Yorker). Slate called it "a dark Valentine to both its hero and his milieu."
As one of those Washington Square kids gawking at the real Dave Van Ronk, one leg lifted to support his oversized guitar (a Gibson J-45, as opposed to the film's diminutive instrument), I watched Dave hypnotize audiences with his soft, jazzy changes in "Cocaine" or a Reverend Gary Davis song.
Van Ronk was a big man with a big guitar and a big voice. Llewyn Davis is small, with small ambitions, a small guitar, and a small repertoire. Yes, he shipped out with the merchant marine, as Van Ronk did; yes, he sings Van Ronk's songs in Dave's precise arrangements. Yes he hangs out at Reggio's and the Gaslight; and yes, the character and Von Ronk show a temper and a dry wit. Somehow the filmmakers have captured Van Ronk's bad habits and repertoire, without his trademark growl, stature, or socialist politics.
Otherwise, the work includes actual personalities: Moe Asch at Folkways Records and his assistant, Marian Distler (an apparently accurate cameo, taken—as many as the details of the film are—from Van Ronk's memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street). Folk groups like Jim and Jean, Albert Grossman, Jean Richie, Gordon Lightfoot, the Chieftains, Peter, Paul and Mary, and even the newly arrived Bob Dylan are either named or ruthlessly parodied. The interior of the Gaslight Café is spot-on. The camera is positioned as if the viewer sits in the coffee house, sipping then-exotic cappuccino. This setting becomes the origin of countless stereotypes of the urban folk singer—bearded, with scruffy, restless hair, a lone figure on an odyssey with a guitar or friendless at the bus-stop. This was where Beat met Hip in the early Sixties.
But actually, it was the Van Ronks, Dave and his wife Terri, who were the hospitable ones, putting up local couch-surfers such as Bob Dylan. And Van Ronk was actually a Left intellectual; he's is known as co-author of the anti-Communist Bosses Songbook: Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent.
At the end, Llewyn Davis comes to the same conclusion Van Ronk does in his memoir: "After a few days of aimlessly banging around the Village, spending money like a drunken sailor (apt metaphor that) I decided I had no place here anymore, that there was a big world waiting for me, and that as soon as my money ran low I would ship out again. After all, what kind of future could I expect from music? I had been hacking away at it for three years and all I had to show for my trouble was a taste for Irish Whisky and a borderline case of malnutrition."
David King Dunaway is the author and editor of eight volumes of history including Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals and How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger. His numerous honors include the 2010 Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi award from the Oral History Association. He serves as professor of English at the University of New Mexico and distinguished professor of broadcasting at San Francisco State University.
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Nabucco pipeline turns corner but needs gas
Things are finally looking up for the Nabucco pipeline.
After years of setbacks and wrangling, the prospect of building a supply route for Caspian natural gas across Turkey to central Europe, by-passing energy giant Russia, took a big step forward on Monday when five nations signed a transit agreement.
Getting Turkey on board was crucial, at a time of uncertainty in its negotiations to join the European Union.
What the 7.9 billion euro project most needs now is gas. Key potential suppliers Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan face pressure from Moscow to send all their output north, through the Russian pipeline network, rather than west.
China is meanwhile racing to build pipelines that will vie to take Caspian and central Asian gas to the Far East. Iran and Iraq are also potential suppliers to Nabucco but there are political obstacles in both cases.
The European Union, backed by the United States, will need to show unwavering commitment to get Nabucco built and filled. Moscow will try hard to thwart it.
Given their scale and cross-border reach, all big pipeline projects are political. The EU-sponsored Nabucco is just as geopolitically driven as the U.S.-backed Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline was in the late 1990s.
Washington's determination to create an energy corridor from Azerbaijan across Georgia to Turkey, cutting out Iran and Russia, convinced sceptical oil majors to invest. The fact that BTC was built despite an oil price slump was a triumph of geopolitics over commercial considerations. The rise in prices by the time it opened in 2005 vindicated the investment.
Sceptics say Nabucco, due to be operational by 2014 with a capacity of 31 billion cubic metres a year, will not be built until there is enough signed-up gas to fill it. There is none so far. But the BTC precedent suggests that building it is the key to filling it.
The European Union is weaker and less united than the United States, and Moscow is pressing ahead with a rival South Stream project to pipe gas under the Black Sea to southeastern Europe.
Suppliers will only sign up if they feel confident that the West is fully behind Nabucco, and willing to stand up to Russia.
Last year's Georgia war and repeated gas crises between Moscow and Ukraine have spurred Europe's drive to diversify energy sources but made Caucasian and Central Asian governments more wary of the risks of incurring the Kremlin's wrath.
The EU's decision to provide 200 million euros in start-up funding for Nabucco is encouraging. But given the credit squeeze, European governments may have to do more to guarantee finance for the project.
The pipeline is only one piece in the puzzle of European energy security, and arguably not the most important.
Creating a single European Union energy market by connecting member states' pipelines and power grids is the most urgent and practical way to reduce dependency on Moscow.
Developing liquefied natural gas supplies and terminals is another relatively quick way to diversify suppliers and routes.
Reducing fossil fuel consumption through efficiency savings and by developing renewable sources will also help.
But the lengths to which Russia has gone to try to kill off Nabucco highlight the importance of the project.


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by Elise Seyfried
Feeling somewhat Oreland-bound this afternoon…you know, the feeling that you are stuck in your little corner of America, making an endless loop of work, grocery store and home — with a trip to the mall a wild-and-crazy adventure. Been a while since I've left the greater Philly area. Been a while since I've had my passport stamped.
Our five children all own passports with multiple stamps. They have been to France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, Hungary, Czech Republic, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Brazil, Uruguay, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Though these travels were completely self-funded, the kids know they are still lucky to have had these chances to see so much of the world at such young ages. They may hail from Oreland, just a few minutes from Chestnut Hill, but they have never been Oreland-bound.
Seyfried Passport Follies include several stories of loss. My son Sheridan used his passport as basic ID for years (he is still driver's license-less) without incident. Now he has a photo ID, but a few months ago he lost that precious travel book. Luckily he discovered this early enough to re-apply before he and his wife Ya-Jhu were due to take off for their meet-the-relatives trip to Taiwan.
When daughter Rose spent a year in Thailand, she put her passport in a wooden box for safe keeping. MUCH to her dismay, when she opened the box, she discovered that the passport had been a snack for hungry Thai termites! My son Evan was on vacation in South America and left his passport in a taxicab in Montevideo. God and the taxi driver were good, however, and man and book were swiftly reunited.
PJ is eagerly anticipating his semester abroad next year in Marburg, Germany. Julie, my youngest child and a recent high school graduate, has spent many months working, saving and plotting a grand adventure for the fall. She hopes to go everywhere from Turkey to Finland, visiting international friends along the way. She's planning to travel light, but she knows to hold onto that all-important passport for dear life.
I didn't own a passport until I was 43. I'd seen a decent amount of my own country but none of others (except pre-passport Canada). When I was a child, I'd longed to see the world. An early career ambition of mine had been to become a foreign correspondent for a big city newspaper. But it was, it seemed, not meant to be. No flitting from Paris to Rome getting scoops for me! Instead, my life came to center around my big family, and "travel" became a constant parade of trips to the Acme.
Over time, I convinced myself that I didn't care. My world was pretty small; what of it? After a while, I even started to become fearful of venturing far away from home. I focused on any disturbing news coming from overseas and mentally circled the wagons. Besides, even if I did go, I would be an easy target for the armies of pickpockets I imagined were everywhere; my every word and gesture would shriek "tourist!" Why take a chance? So there I was, mom the Stick-in-the-Mud, constantly waving goodbye as my children embarked on so many wonderful trips.
Ultimately, my curiosity trumped my qualms, and the passport was purchased. The travel ground was broken at last by my time in Jamaica in 2000 with daughter Rose and sister Carolyn. We were only there four days, but it whetted my appetite for more exotic excursions. Not long after that, I went on several mission trips to Central America. My worldview has expanded drastically. I've seen how other folks live, seen some incredible natural wonders and have been the recipient of warm hospitality wherever I've gone. Nary a pickpocket so far! I still would love to go to Europe, Asia and Africa…and now I dare to hope I will live to accomplish my goals.
My advice to the passport-less? Invest in one if you can! The world is out there to be experienced, and it is a crime to be forever Oreland-bound (or its equivalent). You truly never know what opportunities may open up for you to travel far, and it's smart to be prepared. My husband Steve is applying for his first passport soon, and I think it's a wonderful statement of optimism.
This late spring afternoon, I pull out my passport and dream of journeys yet to come, future stamps from Spain and Scotland, Tanzania and Vietnam. I feel hopeful and excited, and a whole lot less Oreland-bound. This afternoon, I wish you the same hope and excitement. Send me a postcard, if you think of it.
Elise Seyfried is Director of Spiritual Formation at Christ's Lutheran Church in Oreland. She is also an actress, wife, mother of five and co-author (with husband, Steve) of 15 plays for children. She is the author of a recently self-published book, "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life," a collection of essays, humorous but with a spiritual focus. The book can be purchased for $15 plus shipping through www.eliseseyfried.com. (Also from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, although they add an extra charge.)


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ST. PAUL-Tobacco use among Minnesota high school students increased for the first time in 17 years and state health officials attribute the rise to the popularity of e-cigarettes.
The Minnesota Department of Health has now issued a health advisory regarding the latest evidence that early nicotine use increases the risks of addiction for youth now and later in life.
In 2017, Minnesota high-school tobacco use spiked to 26 percent with e-cigarette use by those in that age range increasing by 50 percent in the last three years, the health department said in a Wednesday, Sept. 12, news release.
The health department said 19 percent of high school students use e-cigarettes.
"Given the alarming spike in e-cigarette use among Minnesota youth, we need a full-court press to prevent another generation from getting hooked on nicotine," said Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm in the release. "We need to do everything we can to address this escalating risk of addiction for youth, but we can't do this alone. This work requires the participation of parents, educators, health care providers, retailers and policy makers."
Nearly all e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and research shows that young adults who smoke or who use e-cigarettes are much more likely to binge drink than nonsmokers, the health department said. Recent studies have identified similar patterns between use of nicotine and use of other drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines.
Multiple studies have showed e-cig users are twice as likely to become cigarette smokers, the health department said.
"Far too many teens are being introduced at an early age to e-cigarettes," said Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius in the release. "Nicotine negatively impacts learning, memory, and attention. As students start their new school year, I encourage educators, parents, and health care providers to come together and raise awareness about the dangers of e-cigarettes on our youth, so we can quickly address these troubling trends and put a full-stop to them."
State health department officials continue to be worried about JUUL, a device that looks like a flash drive, which they say dominates more than 70 percent of the e-cigarette market. JUUL pods, which can be bought in fruit or candy flavors, contain the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes.
All tobacco use, including e-cigarette use and vaping, are prohibited by state law in public schools. It is also illegal for retail merchants to sell e-cigarette products to youth under age 18.
In April, the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Education sent a joint letter and toolkit to school districts across the state, warning them of the dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping products and providing them with resources for addressing the issue in schools.


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(CBS News) Multiple New York City police officers took part in a motorcycle ride in New York this week that led to a violent road-rage incident that saw a gang of motorcyclists attack a motorist with his wife and child in the car, CBS News' John Miller reports.
According to New York Police Department sources, whether either of the two new officers to step forward witnessed Sunday's incidents remains unclear, Miller reported Saturday afternoon. All three officers who have said that they took part in the motorcycle ride were off-duty.
Earlier, on "CBS This Morning: Saturday," CBS News reported that an undercover detective was riding with the group of bikers. Sources say he did not take part in the altercation with Alexian Lien and his wife, but he did not step in to stop the attack either, reportedly because he did not want to blow his cover.
The detective, who has not been identified, was not investigating the motorcycle group. He has retained a lawyer and is not talking to police.
Police are, however, questioning two suspects and trying to determine what charges, if any, will be brought against them.
Reginald Chance surrendered late Friday. The NYPD says he's the man seen on video hitting the SUV with his helmet.
Chance joins Robert Sims, who turned himself in earlier in the day. He's allegedly the man who was seen on video trying to open the door of the Range Rover after it slowed on the highway.
At that point, a series of 911 calls had already been made to police. The first was at 1:52 p.m., when Lien's wife told police that there was a large group of motorcycles driving recklessly.
In a second call at 1:53, she reported that their car was being hit by the bikers. She said she was in the car with her husband and 2-year-old daughter.
At 1:55, Lien himself called and gave police his current location. This is near where the door was pulled open.
At 2 p.m., the wife told 911 the windows were being smashed and her husband was being assaulted.
On Friday, the Range Rover was moved to the police precinct. Tires on the SUV were slashed. The driver's-side window was completely busted out. The passenger and rear windows were smashed.
Meanwhile, one of the bikers hit by the SUV continues to recuperate in the hospital.
On Friday, Edwin Mieses Jr. emerged from a coma and opened his eyes. His family held a press conference led by their attorney, Gloria Allred. She insists Mieses is an innocent victim who was trying to help.
"I know my son, and I know he is always ready to try to help people," Edwin Mieses Sr. told reporters. "Emotions got the best of several people last Sunday."
On Saturday morning, the NYPD announced that they were looking for at least one more suspect. Meanwhile, charges for the two men currently in custody are expected to be filed once they determine what specific roles those men had in the altercation.
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Exposing Yourself: Do You Write For Free?
Time to jump all the way toward the other end of the spectrum — yesterday, I yammered on about what to eat before you write, and today I'll blather on about the payment (or non-payment) that comes after you write. It's not inappropriate, since a lot of a writer's work is work that circumnavigates the actual writing but is not the actual writing.
Let's talk ch-ching. The bling. The cash. The money.
So, over at Do Some Damage, the inimitable Steve Weddle talked up flash fiction and pondered why it was so bloody awesome. In there, however, was some discussion about publishing in places that don't pay you. They pay you in exposure, that pay you in attention. But you don't get pennies on the word. Hell, you don't get pennies at all.
Is that reasonable?
Should you write without getting paid?
Writing Is Work
It's like this: writing is work. It's a job. A career. Abstractly, it's no different than swinging a hammer or replacing an alternator under the hood of a car. Now, in practical terms, writing is a whole big bag of different, but I don't want to stray too far from the idea that writing is work, and work is something that ideally pays you. There exists a dirty connotation between "art" and "payday," which is why I continually assert that writing ain't art. It's a craft. I build a chair, I want to sell the chair. I write material, I want to sell that material. Nothing dirty about this particular act of capitalism: I need to feed my kids (thatdontexist), I need to pay my mortgage, I need to pay off my bookies, I need to afford my habit of rectally-inserted powdered rhino gall. I need money, motherfucker.
If you don't care to write professionally or be paid for your writing work, more power to you. Are you really a writer, then? Well, that's an argument for an earlier time.
Further Comparison
An easy and dumb comparison would be, would you work a week at a company without pay just to show them that you can do the job? Unless you were desperate, you probably wouldn't. (Er, unless you're one of those creatures known as "interns," though then that's part of your "education.") Would you work a week at McDonald's for free? Would you slaughter cows for free? Would you work at a call center? A help desk? A brothel? A meth lab? For free? Really? Probably not.
A less dumb comparison might be: let's say you're starting your own business. Costs go in, but they don't necessarily come out right away. On paper, this is worse than free: you're actually paying into something without the promise of reward. Is there a parallel here? Maybe. You could argue that writing for free is an investment in the same way that paying the costs to open your own… I dunno, Ye Olde Dildo Shoppe.
Difference there is, you're paying into your own business. If I allow a site or journal to post my work for free, I'm largely paying into someone else's business. Right? Assuming my work is any good at all, I'm putting shiny goods in their storefront, not my own.
Is it fair then to go back to the "intern" comparison? Is getting work up for free with a third party comparable to interning? Maybe. The deviation here is that interning is meant to teach you the ways of a business. It's a modern version of the apprenticeship. Getting published for free teaches you very little. It doesn't teach you process. The process is the same submitting material to a paying site or journal as it is to submit to a non-paying one.
Attention And Exposure As Currency
Let's tackle the notion that paying attention is useful — meaning, they're offering you a place to showcase your work, to give you a credit and to earn you readers. Does it work?
For new writers, maybe it's not the worst path. I guess the worst path would be "I published this on my mother's fridge!" But is it the best path? The wisest?
Let's say you're a new writer. Let's say you've written a story that doesn't suck, and that in fact people have told you it's "pretty dang special."
Assuming they're right, do you really want to just give it away?
Dirty secret time: sites and journals that do not pay the writers are clogged with shit. Sorry. It's true. Just to confirm, I went through a half-dozen or so (I won't name names), and you know what I found? A tide pool of aggregate garbage floating on scum-topped waters with the occasional gem glittering beneath the murky surface. The unspoken shhh here is that people who are willing to get published without payment either have a low estimation of their work or instead have a perfectly adequate estimation of their work and in fact realize that the only people who will publish their material are the ones who pay in imaginary chits and ducats.
Yes, you can really find some gems in there. Not all the material is junk.
But my question is: why wasn't that material in a paying journal? Why did I have to wade through sewage to find a delicious sandwich? Is that really the exposure that Quality Writer hoped for? To be King Fuck of Sucktown? To be the edible peanut in the turd? To be the flower in the Frankenstein Monster's hand?
That writer probably could've gotten some coin for that story.
And therein lies the truth: if your story is any good, you'll probably find both exposure and some pennies-per-word for it. No, it won't happen overnight. You have to have persistence in this industry and not go for the easy path (the free path) every time. I wrote a story when I was 18, and I submitted it and workshopped it and in fact did quite a lot of work on it. I did so much work that I decided I didn't want to submit it to any of the "for the love" zines or journals, and instead went for Not One of Us. The editor saw some potential, we workshopped the story, and then — holy crap! They paid me.
Your first publication should also be called something else:
Your first sale.
Hop The Fence
Okay, no, I'm not giving much lip service to the people who actually run these sites. I don't believe that these people are selfish jackholes trying to milk talent from writers in return for not paying them. Well, I'm sure some are (you occasionally come across a for-the-love we-don't-pay-shit website that's truly gorgeous and looks professionally crafted, which tells me they can afford to pay the goddamn writers), but you can tell that a lot of these people are doing it because they love it, not because it's a business. No advertising. A crappy web-host. And so on and so forth.
And I'm not saying these are universally bad. Some sites are challenge driven or offer social networks of writers. Some offer peer review above attention and exposure. Those can be valuable, as it gets you in with other writers more than it does readers, and it helps you hone your craft. Good. Great. Like that.
If the site's doing it for the love, isn't that good enough?
Maybe. That's a call you have to make.
For me, I dunno. See, I'm not doing this for the love. Love is one part of it, yes. I do love it. I love it dearly. But to be able to do it and do it well, I set the bar pretty high. That bar includes dollar signs. Not a lot of dollar signs, mind — I'm realistic enough to know that selling a short story isn't going to pay my (notactuallyreal) kid's way through college.
Further, let's break my own rule and say you're an artist. Let's say I love art, and I set up a gallery — for the love — in my garage. I can't afford much space or decor or even heat, but fuck it, I love love love me some art art art. So I open up "The Wendighaus Gallery Of Velvet Beauty" and I select artists to showcase their work, even though I can't pay them.
Are they really getting a lot of traffic in my driveway? Is my garage earning them a look? In fact, aren't the truly-talented artists finding real galleries to display their work? I'm probably getting a quality of art to hang that's on par with "4-year-old draws giraffe with wings on top of what might be a house or might be a spaceship oh who the fuck really knows."
Yes, I'm being harsh. Yes, I'm painting with a broad brush. No, not every "for the love" site is on equal footing.
It does mean you need to scrutinize. You need to measure things honestly and take an unpolluted look.
Because really, you're in this for you. You have to be.
Do You Control The Source?
If you're going to be exposed, then expose yourself.
I'll wait for you kids in the back row to stop sniggering.
Yes, ha ha ha, MY PENIS. Get over it. It's not that impressive. Just because it has a face and looks like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin (and yet sings like Lady GaGa!) doesn't mean I'm some kind of freakshow.
See, I hear what you're saying. And you're right. "But Chuck! Magic Talking Beardhead! Herr Doktor Wendig! Don't you post things free to the web! What about Jet Pack? What about Shadowstories? What about this dumb-ass blog of yours?"
Touche, I say.
Except — psych! No touche! Suck it! *motions toward crotch*
Oof. Sorry. Got a little childish there.
See, outside of working with peer review or sites that challenge you or connect you with other writers, another way of "putting work out there for free" is by controlling it yourself. What that means for me is, I'm genuinely trying to build attention and exposure by directing it back toward me. Not someone else. Me. (Or, in the case of something like Jet Pack, me and two awesome-ass cohorts. In fact, may I refer you to The Distant Hindmarch's "Dirty Model?" And no, the dirty model is not Kate Moss.)
Might I note that Do Some Damage is just the sort of author collective that I think has value? I like what I read there. I pay attention. I note names and ideas. They're in it as peers, not as a "subject to submission" process.
If I put work elsewhere for free, I'm mostly directing work to someone else. Yes, it might come back to me, but it also might not. Remember how I said I read a few gems mixed in with the waves of trash? I don't remember who wrote that stuff. I wish I did. But I don't. I have a brain like a sieve. The Internet only makes that worse. The more clicks I have to make, the less likely I am to make those clicks or remember why I wanted to click in the first damn place. Internet-born ADHD takes over.
To go back to our "opening your own business" metaphor, that's what this is — it's investment in your own space, your own place. If I invest in someone else's place, I'm basically cooking up awesome burgers or making awesome products that end up in someone else's storefront. My name might be on them, but they may never get back to my place. And worse, I didn't get paid dick in that situation.
You want to build your audience, not someone else's.
Then Again…
Hey, the floor is long gone from the short story market. You won't make what Hemingway made. Rates pay less now than what the pulps paid in the 1930s. Stephen King now probably doesn't make what Stephen King 15 years ago made. You won't get paid much from short story sales — a pittance, really. You might say, "Well, fuck it, I'll just throw some shit at the wall and see if it sticks," and that's viable and I wouldn't fault you for it. A "for the love" journal is a credit on your CV, though an astute editor or agent might note that "Jim Bob's Unicorn Hut" is not really an esteemed journal. Further, I'd point out that the process of submitting to a Paying Journal and submitting to Jim Bob's is likely the same effort, work-wise.
As such, do me a favor —
Aim high at first.
Try it. Go top down. Start with the pro markets. Try five of 'em.
They come back rejections, go semi-pro. Try another five.
That doesn't work — well, fine. Try five "for the love" markets. Make sure first though that the reason you're being rejected isn't because the story needs work. It damn well might, which means that, if the "for the love" market accepts it, you might have a sub par story posted publicly.
But it is possible that the paying markets just didn't have a taste for your work.
Do what you need to do and are most comfortable doing.
The Broad Brush Is Unmerciful And Also A Jerk
I get it. I'm being a bit of a jerk here.
But I'm trying to help you.
I'm trying to help you realize that You're Awesome, and you should aim for Awesome.
I'm trying to tell you that you should be in control of your work.
I'm trying to say, "Don't sell yourself short."
No, not every site applies here. And who knows? An editor or agent might tell you differently. I'm not working off of fact, just opinion, and that opinion is: "What you do has value, so claim value for what you do."
Of course, Harlan Ellison says it more directly:
"Pay the writer."


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Aussie slang for Young Offensive Bloke. Generally uncouth, prone to swearing and constant use of Aussie vernacular. A Yobbo is a heavy drinker, who places mateship above all else and lives for those wild memorable moments that are unforgettable. Global counterparts are English Chavs and American Rednecks. A breed unto themselves.
"Take a look at the guy in the ute, doin' burnouts and carryin' on like a pork chop. What a fuckin' Yobbo...!"
by AERO_HDT September 27, 2012
a stereotypical aussie. beer in one hand, meat pie in the other.generally drive crappy old holdens and have a dozen mullet clad kids following them. by-products of alcoholic fathers.
"i'm a bloke, im a yobbo, me best mates name is robbo, winfield is me cigarette, i dress in flanalette"
by brokenfridgehinge May 02, 2006
A loud, inconsiderate person, usually found in groups for self preservation. Sometimes prone to violence,always found with beer and cheap smokes. Usually smell.
by jamesbrown April 22, 2003
An Australian lout, the close cousin of the bogan. Much like American white trash or lummox. Their habitats usually are with female yobbos, known as Shelias and large canines usually a bull terrier breed. Often has autmated transport of a ute kind
by Reponel Man In A Can April 21, 2003
A true-blue bloody australian. One who sits on his arse and drinks a stubby while watching the footy and eating a beef pie (eg. four n twenty) Also a close relative of the "westy" or "wu-tanger", although more proud of their aussie heritage
"oi bruz, look at that cunt walking round in his nike tracks and his trademark hat, there's a bloody yobbo"
by mc_sayn May 18, 2006
A person with no class,no fashion sense eg wear thongs,cheap t-shirts etc,stink like shit,loud,swears alot & usually drives crappy old modelled fords and holdens.
Thats my definition of a yobbo. Don't flame.
by imblunt March 05, 2007
'That Russell Crowe is a right yobbo'
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For the last 49 years, starting with the 1966 FIFA World Cup England™, the FIFA Technical Study Group (TSG) has monitored matches at international tournaments and identified the latest footballing trends. Naturally, this will also be the case at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017.
"Our main goal is continual improvement of the game," explains Jean-Paul Brigger, head of FIFA's technical division and himself a former Swiss international who scored four goals in 35 appearances for his country. Brigger, a Swiss championship and five-time Swiss Cup winner, was named player of the season in 1992 with FC Sion, and coach of the year in 1995.
The TSG comprises experts with extensive past experience at the highest level of international football, generally as national coaches or players. Their role is by no means confined to observing individual matches and training sessions at a tournament, as they also consult national coaches to discuss certain aspects of team preparation and training, for example, and to ascertain each team's expectations of the tournament at hand. The information TSG members gather is then evaluated in a series of in-depth discussions involving a wide-ranging exchange of views. Later, this is summarised in the official tactical and technical analysis of the tournament.
The analysis and the information gained is collated into a report for distribution to FIFA member associations as a tool for education and training. Video material to illustrate the report and provide practical assistance for the practice ground is supplied on DVD. The materials are intended to support, encourage and inspire daily training, specifically aiming at raising the general level of play and promoting player development.
FIFA Technical Study Group at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017:
Wim Koevermans (Netherlands)
Jean-Paul Brigger (Switzerland)
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Law Exim
Law Exim was established in the year, 1988, and is located in the heart of the country, i.e. Delhi. Mr. B. D. Malhotra owns and manages all the operations of the firm and under his proficient management skills we have grown through leaps and bounds in the industry. With his experience of more than two decades we are actively involved in providing Foreign Trade Services to the clients.
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We're pretty low-tech, so it was a relief when they shielded us from all the technical details and just made sure we were designing a site that looks and works amazing. Super hands on throughout the entire process, they never once made us feel like we were competing for their attention. All this and they still found the time to serve us a piping hot French press of perfectly brewed coffee at almost every meeting. Just when we thought they had outdone themselves, they took the courtesy of using different shots of Tom Select as placeholders for our staff photos in the mock ups, and mine had a nice patch of chest hair peaking out. Yep, they're the best.
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So last year, a few of us got our hands on AirMech, and thought it was pretty special. It's like classic action/strategy game Herzog Zwei got into Macross cosplay in a big way.
The version we played, though, was a very early alpha, which while immensely promising was also a little thin. Months later and the game's ready to be shown off again, this time with more meat on its bones.
AirMech will be on show at PAX East if you're going. And if you're going, you should check out AirMech.


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SRD:Ring of Epic Wizardry
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Ring of Epic Wizardry
Like the ring of wizardry, this ring comes in a variety of types useful only to arcane spellcasters. The wearer's arcane spells per day are doubled for one particular spell level. An epic ring of wizardry V doubles 5th-level spells, an epic ring of wizardry VI doubles 6th-level spells, an epic ring of wizardry VII doubles 7th-level spells, an epic ring of wizardry VIII doubles 8th-level spells, and an epic ring of wizardry IX doubles 9th-level spells. Bonus spells from high ability scores, school specialization, or any other source are not doubled.
Caster Level: 23rd (epic wizardry V), 26th (epic wizardry VI), 29th (epic wizardry VII), 32nd (epic wizardry VIII), 35th (epic wizardry IX); Prerequisites: Forge Ring, Forge Epic Ring, wish; Market Price: 250,000 gp (epic wizardry V), 360,000 gp (epic wizardry VI), 490,000 gp (epic wizardry VII), 640,000 gp (epic wizardry VIII), 810,000 gp (epic wizardry IX).
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Football Gambling Behavior of Undergraduate Students: The Cass Study of an Institution in Khon Kaen Province
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The purpose of this study is to study the behaviors of undergraduate students in an institution in Khon Kaen province. The results showed that students began to gamble since they were at the secondary school. The causes ...


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Friday, 27 January 2012
Week 3 in Classdigitools
Sunday, 22 January 2012
My 2012 Birthday Special
Thursday, 19 January 2012
A Five Card Story - The Wall
In Classdigitools we are doing tools for writing. Our task was to choose one tool and review it. I chose Five Card Stories. My intention was just to review it, but as I chose my pictures, I knew I had to write the story. The story was screaming to be told. So, here it is:
Five Card Story: The Wall
a Five Card Flickr story created by Natasa Bozic Grojic
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Mike was waiting patiently as his son Tom took photo after photo of the same brick wall. Earlier that day his son had given him a small sea-urchin that he had brought back from the sea-side. Mike felt the urchin's tiny needles press into his palm, the bittersweet reminder that the two of them were soon to part. On his way back home, Mike was thinking about his last conversation with his son. Mike had tried to explain to Tom that the fact that he was divorcing his mom didn't mean that he would disappear from Tom's life. Daddy still loved him. Yet, he couldn't forget the expression on Tom's face as he turned away to go. "You have betrayed me", the boy's eyes were saying. "You have abandoned me."
Then Five Card Stories offered me the option of telling a different story with the same set of pictures. I couldn't resist:
Tom never forgot that day. His father had given him a brand new camera and he still remembered how he kept taking picture after picture of the same stupid brick wall. He had given his father a sea-urchin earlier that day. The needles pricked him, but he was a big boy now, he could handle it. His father kept talking to him for a long time. He couldn't understand a word, except that his father was going to leave him. He wanted to shout out" "You have betrayed me. You have abandoned me. I don't want your stupid camera and I am too big to keep taking photos of this stupid wall." He wanted to shout that out, but he didn't. He didn't say a word.
I really like this tool. The way you 'draw' your pictures is fun. I tried it a couple of times more and each time I had a story in my head. As students are often reluctant writers, having something inspiring to get them writing is great help.
You can embed your story, link to it, or tweet it. It would be interesting to give the same set of pictures to several pairs of students and see what they come up with.
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Rocketing Into 2012


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I'm having trouble using VS2005 projects in windows vista, that were created on winXP Home.
The program that was created on winXP works perfectly, but when i open the same project the program runs, but when i do, for example, a delete user, the program crashes.
Does anyone have or had this experience?
- Windows Vista x64
- MS Visual Studio 2005 SP1


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About Viveks
Vivek Limited is a professionally managed public Limited company carrying three retail brands – viveks, Jainsons, adding to the formidable strength of 1000 employees. Vivek Ltd is one of the most leading and respected consumer electronics and home appliances retail chain in India.
Vivek popularized several brands by creating visibility and has the distinction of being a market leader and trendsetter with continuous support from the principal companies. Reliable services are ensured through cordial customer relationships. CII and Mickinsey raved about the Viveks brand as "more trusted than the brands it sells".
The story of Viveks
B.A Lakshmi Narayana Setty influenced by the ideals of Swami Vivekananda set up a small shop of 200Sq.ft., at Mylapore Chennai, with an investment of only Rs.10,000 ( USD 230) to sell electrical fitting and folding chairs. Added slowly radios, fans, mixers, irons, heaters and other household equipments. He named his business Viveks & Co inspired by his Guru Swami Vivekananda. B.A Kodandaraman took over his reins of Viveks after the demise of his brother B.A Lakshmi Narayana Shetty and increased the turnover of Rs. 1.65 lakhs ( USD 3,840) in the first year to a stunning figure of 28 cores (643680) by 1980.
During the initial stages the consumer durable electronics were consolidated luxury to make them reach the mass middle class families. Viveks started an in-house easy monthly installments scheme. This also helped the company to increase its business and gain new customers.
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At Plonk! Beer and Wine Bistro, we bring together the right elements for a great time, right here in beautiful Oak Forest. A casual, friendly bar environment that boasts a chef-created, seasonal food menu, Plonk! is a place where a serious craft beer selection coexists with an approachable but eclectic wine list that is always served at the ideal temperature. This neighborhood hangout is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about drinking and dining destinations in Houston, so come join us to see what kind of fun Team Plonk! is putting together now!
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/ Friday, May 21, 2010 / 6 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Breads and Bakes , Italian , Vegetables
Pizza Margherita
I used ready made pizza crust and prepared tomato sauce to make this simple and yet delicious Pizza Margherita as an after school snack for my kids recently. I used fresh mozzarella and added a few slices of fresh sweet heirloom tomatoes to the pizza. These fresh ingredients made all the difference here, what do you think? It certainly made this express pizza look and taste better I think. Try it, your kids will love it! :-)
Pizza Margherita
(Printable Recipe)
1 (9 inches) Pizza Crust
5 Tbsp Prepared Italian Plum Tomato Sauce
4 (Medium Size) Fresh Mozzarella, sliced thickly
1 Heirloom Tomato, sliced
5 Fresh Basil Leaves, torn or shreds
1 tsp Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Sea Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
Preheat oven to 425˚F.
Spread the tomato sauce evenly on the pizza crust.
Arrange mozzarella slices on top of the sauce. Then arrange the tomato slices on top of the mozzarella. Drizzle the olive oil and scatter some basil leaves. Sprinkle some sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Bake the pizza for about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and scatter extra basil leaves over the pizza. Serve warm.
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Just bumped into your blog and liked it so much. Nice collection of recipes. Would surely visit again :)ReplyDelete
We make pretty much the same pizza all of the time except we use olive oil in place of the tomato sauce. Just brush a light coating over the crust before adding the toppings. Yum!ReplyDelete
I'm glad your kids enjoyed it but it isn't a traditional Margherita Pizza. No sauce, the tomatoes are the sauce. 3 ingredients (the colors of the Italian flag) fresh tomato (red) fresh mozzarella, and I mean fresh (white), and basil leaves (green) anything else is just a pizza.ReplyDelete
I always place the sliced mozzarella in between some paper towels and put some weight on top to squeeze out the water. Otherwise, you get a soupy pizza. After I've removed most of the water, it's ready for the pizza, but don't bake it until you've sprinkled some kosher salt on each slice.ReplyDelete
@bouche: Great tips! Thanks.ReplyDelete
Hello! I came across your blog to invite you to join me a pizza margherita cook-along! Your picture is mouth-watering. Please stop by!ReplyDelete


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Ok, still feeling lazy...
(I moved my sister today, so maybe that has something to do with it...)
but here goes....
I saw a great show yesterday that I had heard nothing about,
just stumbled upon it (that would make a great name for a website....),
I love when that happens.
it is at the Nicholas Robinson Gallery and celebrates the art that Donald Judd lived with
and promoted from his building at 101 Spring Street.
The building will be closed for the next 3 years for a major renovation
and this is an exhibition celebrating that.
Why not?
Anyway, great art, great space, and a great job Mr. Robinson,
Coo Coo Ca Choo to you!
David Novoros
Untitled, 1969
Judd's work/drafting table from 101 Spring.
There were great vintage color prints of the Spring Street space
interspersed throughout the exhibition.
Loved that.
The Man.
John Chamberlain
Fun, 1978
All of these works were for sale btw.
Carl "I threw my wife out the window to her death" Andre
Not a fan.
Geeze, let's move on Carl. It's the 21st century
and you are still alive for Christ's sake.
H.C. Westermann
Lily Bolero, 1967
This is actually better in person.
More vintage 101 power....
Claes Oldenburg
Typewriter Eraser, 1977
This looked like it had been made yesterday.
It was kinda weird, NOS C. Oldenburg.
Hans Arp
Owner of the Heidelberg Cask, 1962
I wanted to take this home BAD!
Marcel Duchamp
With Hidden Noise, 1916/1964
I could live with one of the 4 made....
Dan Flavin
Untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) 1d. 1990
Dan, guess what?
That's not "untitled"....
Dan Flavin
Untitled (NOT!) (In Honor of Harold Joachim) 2, 1977
This was really beautiful.
Hense the HUGE picture for your viewing pleasure,
too bad it is a shitty iphone pic yet again!
Another shot of 101, blurry, but still beautiful.
How'd you like to go to sleep there every night?
Looks like home to me....
Getting jealous of a dead man right about now....
Jealousy rising....
Look at those sweet early Rietveld chairs!
101 Spring outside.
101 Spring, collage of inside, floor by floor.
Night night.................


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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:46 am
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After reading Michael's comments about
measuring wheat flour
accurately, it inspired me to do some testing myself.
Michael notes in his article that you have to be careful with your method of measuring flour for baking recipes, because some recipes call for flour measurements by weight in grams or ounces, while others require volume measurements. In my kitchen, I use three different methods for grinding my own whole wheat berries into flour. Sometimes my bread is a little "heavy", so I'm very interested in knowing how the density of the flour varies with each machine. This is especially important when baking larger batches, since any measurement error will be multiplied by the number of cups of flour I use. In other words, frustration mounts and the resulting product might double as a door stop. Not good. So, I asked myself, "How does the ground density vary among the more popular methods for grinding your own whole wheat at home?" Let's compare...
I currently have three very different machines for grinding wheat: the
Blendtec Total Blender
, the
Country Living Grain Mill
, and the
. The results of this test are surprising, because my initial hypothesis was that the Country Living Grain Mill would produce flour with the highest density. However, I based that hypothesis on the
of the flour, not the actual measured density.
In order to realize accurate results, I attempted to keep these variables constant during the test:
wheat type:
whole white wheat
measurement method:
fluff the flour by scooping and dumping it back into the bin before measuring the final scoop
using a straight edged knife to level the flour in the measuring cup
The only variable that changed intentionally was the grinding machine.
Determine if the different machines produce a significantly different flour density.
Density of the whole unground white wheat berries = 209 grams/cup or 0.89 grams/mL
Blendtec Total Blender
Country Living Mill
Density Test 1
0.67 g/mL
0.56 g/mL
0.52 g/mL
Density Test 2
0.70 g/mL
0.57 g/mL
0.51 g/mL
grams/cup Test 1
grams/cup Test 2
Average, grams/cup
One other item to note is the significantly different grinding temperature of the three machines. I didn't try to measure this, but based on touch alone the Blendtec and Nutrimill both produce warmer flour. Per the manufacturer's website, the Nutrimill grinds at less than 118°F, which is still considered low enough to maintain nutrients.
Each of the three machines use different technology for grinding and, therefore, each possesses different inherent benefits. The Country Living Mill grinds the wheat by hand cranking one rotating plate against one stationary plate at approximately 60 rpm depending completely on the strength and stamina of the person cranking the handle. The Blendtec and Nutrimill are state of art modern machines utilizing AC electric motors and the high-speed impact of the rotating blades to explode the grains into flour vs. physical grinding.
The result? The Country Living Mill doesn't warm the flour because of the much slower grinding speed. If losing nutrients is a concern for you, you may want to keep this in mind.
O.K. Enough about temperature. Let's get back to the density variation...
My Conclusion
The Nutrimill performed best by producing flour with the expected density of 125 grams/cup for most recipes. If you use a machine at home to grind wheat, it's worthwhile to take some measurements in order to determine the density produced by your combination of machine type and measurement technique - i.e. sifted or not sifted, compacted or not compacted.
If you're getting frustrated with your baking results, the variation in your measurement technique and grinding method may explain some of the variation in your recipes. Do you use sifted, unsifted or compacted flour when measuring? Or, do you stress over measurement at all? Do you simply "eyeball" the appearance and texture of the flour as it mixes in order to determine if you need to add more? You get the idea... and here is my video of a bread recipe that uses the 'eyeball' method to determine when enough flour has been added.
So, that's it! I hope these test results give you something to consider the next time you grind your own wheat flour.
Good luck and happy baking!
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:58 am
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Can I grind wheat in my Vitamix or do I need special blades or a special carafe?
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:48 am
Post subject: Vitamix Wet/Dry Blade Container Differences
As you probably know, Vitamix offer's both a wet blade and a dry blade container (the dry blade container retails for $144.00) . The dry blade has a different blade configuration which Vitamix recommends for grinding dry grains, rice and beans.
I haven't tested the two containers, but found several videos demonstrating there is no visible difference between flour produced using the dry blade. If you check the measured density you may find some variation between the two.
Therefore, you can save some money and grind your wheat with the standard wet blade container. Beware ... grinding dry grains will cause your container to become frosted in the bottom third due to the grains scratching the container. But I would not expect any issues with using the wet blade to grind wheat. I have ground many pounds of wheat in my Blendtec with no issues other than a frosted container.
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maureen jaeckel
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:27 pm
Post subject: wheat grinder
I have a Thermomix and also grind my wheat. Was thinking of freezing the grain and get a lighter grind. Any suggestions
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:44 am
Post subject: Wheat temp
Freeze your wheat berries prior to milling in the NutriMill. You'll notice a significant temp reduction in the finished flour.
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:12 am
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Do you find you prefer the bread made from the Nutrimill or Country Living Mill more? Or are they similar? I'm trying to determine if one of the mills can grind more finely than the other.
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 5:28 pm
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I use a Komo PK 1.
You can adjust the flour from fine to coarse.
You do have the added benefit of stone grinding.
It costs a bit more, but the results are worth it.
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The Food Charter Working Group* is developing a Food Charter for York Region! A food charter is a document that outlines the values and beliefs about food that a community considers most important. This public document can be used by community organizations, municipalities and many others in the community, to guide policies, programs, and projects to build a healthy local food system. This system includes food production, processing, distribution, access, transportation, marketing, education, consumption and waste management.
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Mar 2, 2010
CTYIP honors Whitehead as YIP of the Year
MASHANTUCKET, CONN.-Julius Whitehead, PHM, CISR, of Guilford, Conn. received the Connecticut Young Insurance Professional of the Year award at the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.s Annual Convention today at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Conn. CTYIP, an affiliate of PIACT, promotes the professional and personal growth of those new to the insurance field by providing education and networking opportunities. Whitehead is an underwriter for Housing Authority Insurance Group in Cheshire, Conn.
This award is presented by CTYIP to honor an individual who has exemplified a commitment to professionalism, networking and service and whose efforts have enhanced PIACTs Young Insurance Professionals organization.
"Julius is an effective and respected individual," said Angela Brunetti, CISR, CIC, president of CTYIP. "His dedication and loyalty to CTYIP and its members is to be admired.
An active member of CTYIP, Whitehead served as president of the association for 2006-07, president-elect in 2005-06 and as vice president from 2004-05. He currently is a member of the CTYIPs Nominations and Programs Committees.
In 2005, Whitehead was awarded CTYIPs Director of the Year. This award is given to a young insurance professional to honor his or her hard work and dedication as a member of the associations board of directors, who also has contributed a great deal of time and talent to help support the association and its programs.
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William! If some of these look familiar, it's because I've kinda done polls for this episode in the past. I'm a fan of recycling...but there's new people and maybe your opinion's changed! Also, new questions! Have at it! Seriously, I had to stop myself. I was coming up with far too many questions. It's not fair to the other episodes.
Let's do this!
1. After Buffy is stabbed by a vampire, Riley offers to patrol. Buffy insists that he take the Scoobies along with him. Reasonable?
2. So...Cecily?
3. Did William actually go back and drive railroad spikes through those party-goers' heads after he was turned?
4. So did Drusilla actually use her super-seer sense to realize how fantastic Spike would be when she turned William?
5. Do all Slayers have a death wish?
6. Does Buffy have a death wish?
7. Does Buffy want to dance?
8. Buffy shoved Spike to the ground, threw money at him, then gave him the ultimate put down.
9. The Chinese Slayer or the Subway Slayer?
10. If Buffy hadn't been crying - and assuming his chip wouldn't disable him - would Spike have shot and killed Buffy?
11. Did Spike tell Buffy the truth about his past as a bloody awful poet and his rejection by Cecily?
12. Which flashback did you like best?
13. Pretend you're a movie reviewer and give this episode a star rating: