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The Week in Review
Best High School Championship Week: As the weather heats up and the school year winds down, the VHSL state playoffs are loaded with Charlottesville-Albemarle area high schools battling the best teams in state playoffs.
The Western Albemarle Lady Warriors track team concluded an outstanding season by taking runner-up honors at the AA meet at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Saturday, June 4. In just three years of coaching at her alma matter, Carin Ward has racked up championships rivaling those of many Central Virginia teams.
The WAHS lacrosse teams have also elevated their game in the playoffs. The boys' team was the biggest surprise, knocking off a Loudoun Valley team that had won two of the last three state titles and was undefeated in 36 games until the Warriors scored a 10-8 triumph in the Region II championship game Thursday, June 2. The undefeated WAHS girls' team, meanwhile, fell just one goal shy of ultimate glory in a classic showdown with the Rockbridge Wildcats, losing 9-8, Friday, June 3.
On the other side of town, the Albemarle Patriots have maintained their lacrosse dominance as both the boys' and girls' teams won the Northwest Region Championship and earned a shot at a state championship next week. The boys made it look easy, cruising past Woodbridge 16-1 to secure their eighth straight regional championship Saturday, June 4. The Lady Patriots delivered plenty of drama in the final seconds to pull out a 10-9 victory and capture their fourth consecutive regional crown and a trip to the championships.
Finally, on the baseball diamond, the Monticello Mustangs battled through the Region II playoffs to clinch a berth in the state quarterfinals before advancing to the regional championship game and falling to Turner Ashby 12-7, Saturday, June 4.
Worst West Coast Trip: For the second straight year, the UVA baseball team qualified for an NCAA tournament slot with dreams of the College World Series in Omaha. Unlike last season, however, the Wahoos weren't able to host the tournament's opening regional rounds, but had to do battle at Oregon State in Corvallis. Second-seeded UVA (41-20) left everything they had on the field, but unfortunately ended up on the short end of two hotly contested games. Both St. John's and Ohio State managed to come through with key tie-breaking hits and bury the Cavs in a 5-3 loss Friday, June 2 and a 2-1 elimination heartbreaker on Saturday.
Most Determined Champion: Trailing by two shots early in Sunday's final round at Farmington's Kenridge Invitational Golf Tournament, experienced Martinsville amateur champion Keith Decker rallied to overtake the defending tournament champion Steve Liebler (Columbia, SC) and win his 5th Kenridge title in the past 15 years. ÅgI do like the scrapping and fighting, and I love the competition," the 45-year-old All-American Elon alum told The Daily Progress. ÅgI like it in business. I like it in golf. That's the way I was made, I guess.Åh
The Week Ahead
Washigton Nationals Baseball (31-26)
vs. Seattle Mariners (24-31)
June 10 & 11 @ 7:05pm, and June 12 @ 1:05pm
Baltimore Orioles Baseball (34-22)
vs. Houston Astros (21-35)
June 13 & 14, and June 15 @ 7:35pm
The boys of summer are out in force as the Nationals and Orioles both stand as division leaders who could make a strong claim for the title of most surprising teams in baseball so far this season. Tickets available through both clubs' ticket offices.


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SKF inch roller bearing units are intended for grease lubrication.
Initial grease fill
SKF inch roller bearing units are filled with a mineral oil based lithium grease that contains EP additives. The initial grease fill at the factory fills the bearing completely and 40 to 50% of the free space in the housing. The technical specifications of the grease are provided in table 1. The grease provides reliable performance when operating between 95 and 230 °F. During start-up, temperatures down to –5 °F are permissible. For short periods, temperatures above 230 °F can be tolerated.
For additional information about permissible temperatures of rolling bearing greases, refer to Temperature range – the SKF traffic light concept.
SKF inch roller bearing units are typically relubricated in order to realize maximum service life. All bearing units except those in the FYRP series have a lubrication hole with a 1/8-27 NPSF thread. They are provided standard with a grease fitting AH 1/8-27 PTF. Units in the FYRP series have a 1/4-28 UNF straight thread, and are provided with a grease fitting 1/4-28 UNF.
Relubrication intervals
To calculate the relubrication intervals, refer to Relubrication intervals for metric roller bearing units. The relevant calculation factors for SKF inch roller bearing units are provided in table 2 and table 3.
Relubrication procedure
Before relubricating, the grease fitting and the area surrounding it should be cleaned. High-pressure cleaning equipment should be avoided. During relubrication, grease should be introduced via the grease fitting while the shaft is rotating slowly. Excessive pressure and over-greasing should be avoided, otherwise the seals may be damaged.
Relubrication quantity
The appropriate quantity of grease for relubrication of SKF inch roller bearing units is provided in table 4.
Greases for relubrication
To relubricate SKF inch roller bearing units, SKF recommends using SKF LGEP 2 grease, which is fully compatible with the original grease introduced at the factory. Other compatible greases such as SKF's multi-purpose LGMT 2 and LGMT 3 greases can also be used.

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One of President Obama's most depressing failures is the way he has dealt with Wall Street.
When Obama came to office in January 2009, he had the opportunity to radically change the Wall Street status quo:
- reversing the "bailout doctrine" of the Bush administration,
- seizing and restructuring zombie banks like Citi and Bank of America,
- increasing capital requirements, and
- reinstating the Glass Steagall separation of commercial and investment banking so the 2008-2009 financial crisis could never happen again.
But, instead, President Obama hired the same ex-Wall Street team that had implemented Bush's Bailout Doctrine, most notably Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
Under the logic of "we simply don't have a choice," Geithner then proceeded to alienate most of mainstream America by arguing that the Wall Street status quo had to be preserved or society would collapse.
Meanwhile, stung by criticism that he was being too soft on the banks, Obama then compounded the mistake by portraying bankers as greedy "fat cats"—thus alienating Wall Street, too.
And so, three years later, we're left with the same unrestructured zombie banks, the same Too Big To Fail policies (unofficial, of course), the same ongoing bailouts, the same popular hatred of Wall Street—which appears, to mainstream America, to have escaped the crisis unscathed—and the same "talk tough but do nothing" approach that makes both Wall Street and Main Street seethe about the Obama Administration's approach to the banks.
Earlier this week, for example, Obama pandered to Main Street by blasting Bank of America for its debit-card fee, while saying nothing about the ongoing Bush-era bailout policies that continue to reward banks just for being banks (The Federal Reserve continues to pay BOFA and other banks "interest on excess reserves," for example, and helps them replenish their balance sheets by perpetuating zero percent interest rates.) And yesterday Tim Geithner told Erin Burnett that the Administration will "prevail" over Wall Street on the Dodd Frank regulation...even as bank stocks hit new lows, Geithner begs Europe to clone the US bailout, and the talk begins again about the need for another round of US bailouts.
Of course, aggressively addressing capital requirements and restructuring zombie banks three years ago would have turned Wall Street against Obama—but Wall Street's now against Obama anyway. Meanwhile, blaming Wall Street for its contribution to the country's problems—and actually backing up the talk with action—would have won over the rest of the business community and Main Street.
Instead, Obama has infuriated both sides for his ineffectiveness on this issue—and Wall Street remains unchanged.
SEE ALSO: The Wall Street Protests: What They're Really Like
Get the latest Bank of America stock price here.


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The Immune System
Your immune system is the network of cells and tissues throughout your body that work together to defend you from invasion and infection. You can think of it as having two parts: the acquired and the innate immune systems.
The acquired (or adaptive) immune system develops as a person grows. It "remembers" invaders so that it can fight them if they come back. When the immune system is working properly, foreign invaders provoke the body to activate immune cells against the invaders and to produce proteins called antibodies that attach to the invaders so that they can be recognized and destroyed. The more primitive innate (or inborn) immune system activates white blood cells to destroy invaders, without using antibodies.
Autoimmune diseases refer to problems with the acquired immune system's reactions. In an autoimmune reaction, antibodies and immune cells target the body's own healthy tissues by mistake, signaling the body to attack them.
Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases can affect almost any part of the body, including the heart, brain, nerves, muscles, skin, eyes, joints, lungs, kidneys, glands, the digestive tract, and blood vessels.
The classic sign of an autoimmune disease is inflammation, which can cause redness, heat, pain, and swelling. How an autoimmune disease affects you depends on what part of the body is targeted. If the disease affects the joints, as in rheumatoid arthritis, you might have joint pain, stiffness, and loss of function. If it affects the thyroid, as in Graves' disease and thyroiditis, it might cause tiredness, weight gain, and muscle aches. If it attacks the skin, as it does in scleroderma/systemic sclerosis, vitiligo, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), it can cause rashes, blisters, and color changes.
Many autoimmune diseases don't restrict themselves to one part of the body. For example, SLE can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, heart, nerves, blood vessels, and more. Type 1 diabetes can affect your glands, eyes, kidneys, muscles, and more.
No one is sure what causes autoimmune diseases. In most cases, a combination of factors is probably at work. For example, you might have a genetic tendency to develop a disease and then, under the right conditions, an outside invader like a virus might trigger it.
The list of diseases that fall into the autoimmune category includes
- alopecia areata
- autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- autoimmune hepatitis
- dermatomyositis
- diabetes (type 1)
- some forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- glomerulonephritis
- Graves' disease
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
- myasthenia gravis
- some forms of myocarditis
- multiple sclerosis
- pemphigus/pemphigoid
- pernicious anemia
- polyarteritis nodosa
- polymyositis
- primary biliary cirrhosis
- psoriasis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- scleroderma/systemic sclerosis
- Sjögren's syndrome
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- some forms of thyroiditis
- some forms of uveitis
- vitiligo
- granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)
The treatment depends on the disease, but in most cases one important goal is to reduce inflammation. Sometimes doctors prescribe corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs.
Progress and Promise
Further research should continue to enhance the understanding of the genetics and causes of autoimmune disorders and result in improvements in diagnosing and treating these diseases. For information on autoimmune disease research that is supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, visit www.niams.nih.gov/Research/default.asp. For a listing of federally and privately supported clinical trials for a variety of autoimmune disorders, visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.
Key Words
Acquired immune system. The part of the immune system that develops as a person grows. It employs antibodies and immune cells to fight harmful substances.
Antibody. A special protein produced by the body's immune system that recognizes and helps fight infectious agents and other foreign substances that invade the body.
Antigen. A foreign substance that triggers the production of antibodies when it is introduced into the body.
Autoimmune disease. A disease that results when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissues.
Corticosteroids. Potent anti-inflammatory hormones that are made naturally in the body or synthetically (man-made) for use as drugs. They are also called glucocorticoids. The most commonly prescribed drug of this type is prednisone.
Diabetes, type 1. A condition in which the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, making it impossible for the body to use glucose (blood sugar) for energy. Type 1 diabetes usually occurs in children and young adults.
Graves' disease. An autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland that results in the overproduction of thyroid hormone. This causes such symptoms as nervousness, heat intolerance, heart palpitations, and unexplained weight loss.
Immune system. A complex network of specialized cells and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by foreign invaders, such as bacteria and viruses.
Immunosuppressive drugs. Drugs that suppress the immune response and can be used to treat autoimmune disease. Unfortunately, because these drugs also suppress normal immunity, they leave the body at risk for infection.
Inflammation. A reaction of body tissues to injury or disease, typically marked by five signs: swelling, redness, heat, pain, and loss of function.
Innate immune system. The part of the immune system that is more primitive. It employs types of white blood cells called granulocytes and monocytes to destroy harmful substances.
Psoriatic arthritis. A type of arthritis associated with psoriasis, a chronic skin disease that occurs when cells in the outer layer of the skin reproduce faster than normal.
Rheumatoid arthritis. A disease in which the immune system attacks the linings of the joints. This results in joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and destruction.
Scleroderma/systemic sclerosis. An autoimmune disease characterized by abnormal growth of connective tissue in the skin and blood vessels. In more severe forms, connective tissue can build up in the kidneys, lungs, heart, and gastrointestinal tract, leading in some cases to organ failure.
Systemic lupus erythematosus. An autoimmune disease affecting primarily young women. Many parts of the body can be affected, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and brain.
Thyroiditis. An inflammation of the thyroid gland that causes the gland to become underactive. This results in symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, weight gain, cold intolerance, and muscle aches.
Vitiligo. A disorder in which the immune system destroys pigment-making cells called melanocytes. This results in white patches of skin on different parts of the body.
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The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. The NIAMS information clearinghouse is a public service sponsored by the NIAMS that provides health information and information sources. Additional information can be found on the NIAMS website at www.niams.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)—The Nation's Medical Research Agency— includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
For Your Information
This publication contains information about medications used to treat the health condition discussed here. When this publication was developed, we included the most up-to-date (accurate) information available. Occasionally, new information on medication is released.
For updates and for any questions about any medications you are taking, please contact
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Zombies At It Again: Old Man Eating Dude For Last Seat On The Subway In China!
And no one stopped? posted by @muhammadsunnah
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Lafayette became the latest community in Boulder County to push for a temporary ban on new permits for oil and gas drilling, as the City Council on Tuesday night, Sept. 4, discussed the controversial process of energy extraction in Colorado.
The city's elected leaders agreed to ask the staff to craft an emergency ordinance that would place a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling in the city, but they didn't set a date for when they might enact the temporary ban.
The vote came after the council met for an extended workshop on the topics of oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The leaders heard from city planning staffers, the city attorney and Thom Kerr, permit manager for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
At the heart of the discussion was what changes might need to be made to Lafayette's regulations on drilling, which haven't been revised since 1994. The council decided Tuesday to begin the process of revising those regulations.
Several residents who spoke at the meeting urged the council to pursue an immediate moratorium, even though the city hasn't seen a new well drilled in 18 years.
Sandy Hockenbury, who has lived in Lafayette for four years, said right now the system essentially allows the industry to self-regulate because there are only 18 inspectors for 48,000 active wells in the state.
Lafayette has 14 active wells, all drilled between 1981 and 1994.
"These regulations are just pie-in-the-sky," Hockenbury said. "These are big industrial sites, and there are smells, there are air-quality concerns, and there are thousands of documented instances of air and water contamination."
Merrily Mazza, an Indian Peaks resident for a little more than a year, said her reason for supporting a moratorium comes down to maintaining property values.
"This is a residential neighborhood," she said. "I bought here because there are walking trails; I bought here because there is a golf course."
Lafayette is just the latest in a series of communities throughout Colorado that has sought to tighten regulations on the oil and gas industry. The industry has countered that it is already heavily regulated and that there has been no scientific proof that drilling causes health problems.
City Attorney David Williamson told the council that a moratorium is an option for the city to pursue but warned that trouble could come during the rule-making phase. He warned that court rulings have made it clear that natural resource extraction is the purview of the state, and not municipalities.
"If we push too hard, we are likely to see a challenge from the state or the operators," he said. "The trick is finding out which areas have been pre-empted by the state."
Williamson pointed out that the state filed suit against Longmont after the city passed regulations this summer that banned hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in residential areas. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission claimed that Longmont overstepped its bounds.
The attorney also said Lafayette might consider doing what Erie did last week, when the town signed agreements with two oil and gas operators that bind the companies to abide by more stringent rules than what the state requires.
Erie, through that vote, allowed its six-month moratorium on issuing new drilling permits to expire Monday.
Council members peppered Kerr with questions about water quality, air quality and safety at well sites. Councilwoman Alexandra Lynch asked about the billions of gallons of water that are required to extract oil and gas and whether, once it is used, it can be returned to the hydrological cycle.
Kerr responded that in some cases, municipalities sell water to oil and gas operators and in turn benefit from those revenues.


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Google free proxy!
Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.
Contributed by: bigthistle
A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspired me for this hack. That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage, using Google translator, to access it even if restricted.
It worked fine but something else was needed... why translate?!
Ok, let's start from the beginning. We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. Google is now also a free proxy service. Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.
What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the "black list"). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!
You just need to type the following URL: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com (www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to...)
What you'll get is the translation (english to english!) of the page you want to see... your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won't be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what's the content.
Notice that the URL has been a little hacked because the parameter "langpair"(1) is set to "en|en" (english/english) so the page is processed by Google but you can keep the original language of the page (no need to translate!). If you need another language (e.g. french) you just need to set the parameter langpair to "fr|fr" and you'll be able to read french pages in french!
A couple of examples:
english... http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=hacks.oreilly.com
italian (my own homepage!)...
Last but not least: if you use this trick, you're not sure to protect your privacy, this kind of connection lets you see blacklisted pages but doesn't hide your IP address. Just go to http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.whatismyip.com to see your IP is not hidden


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A few more for Hugh
A few more drawings completed for Hugh on topping trees and the root pruning one is finished. These diagrams are for a scientific journal, and so need to be more sciencey than arty... hence why they don't look too pretty!
Root pruning
Root pruning - something we need to do if the roots have been crushed or damaged by pollution, trenching, compaction or changes in soil level. This treatment probably wouldn't have been used much in the past, but in the last century trees - especially urban ones - have been damaged a lot by trenching to put in cables and drains. You know if a tree's roots have been damaged if it's leaves start to go yellow after local disturbance, or if the tips of the branches become bare of leaves. I noticed when at the Olympic Park at the start of the month that many of the new trees they had planted from Hillers looked very stressed in this way. I am guessing that it was related to their root systems being damaged upon transplantation. This is why it is so important to water newly planted trees regularly during the dry months of the first year of being in their new home.
Topping trees is a BIG no-no. It really damages them. They can get rot in the heart wood and a tree's response to having their tops cut off is to grow lots of week branches from the callus. These wispy branches with poor attachment to the main body can actually be quite dangerous. If a tree is too big you can use some of the other methods I have illustrated - crown lift, crown thinning or crown reduction, or you can do what Hugh is currently writing about (I'll blog on this as soon as I have done the piccies).
Caroline, my coffee tree has been moved outside today because it is lovely and sunny! Now we are fast approaching the autumn equinox she's starting to struggle with the lack of light in my north facing room. I am not sure what to do other than move. Caroline used to live in the sitting room, but my landlady has transformed our old south facing sitting room into an en suite bedroom this summer and so Caroline was evicted. She was quite happy in my room this summer and she is still growing her coffee bean, but I can sense a recent struggle as her leaves reach for light. We all know what that's like (especially us Brits)! So I am starting to think it might be time for a new home.Will keep you posted.


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Methods for Determining your Lag, Ping/Tracert instructions, By Zarquon (AE Developer)
When posting about launcher issues, please include your OPERATING SYSTEM
Methods for Determining your Lag, Ping/Tracert instructions, By Zarquon (AE Developer)
Apr 22 2008, 09:28 AM
Post #1
Marketing Manager
Group: Pixel Mine
Posts: 1,000,002,022
Joined: 18-November 07
From: Austin, Texas
Member No.: 17
You are lagging. Let's first determine if its graphics lag, memory caching, or internet lag.
First, when in Ashen Empires, type /debug two times in the chat window. This will return your FPS in the upper left corner of your screen and three red columns that show your memory usage.
Graphics Lag
If your FPS is less than, let's say 20 fps, when you are moving around, then you might want to upgrade your video card.
Memory Caching Lag
If you are greater than 20 fps, next focus your eyes on the 3 columns in the center of the screen...sprite memory, paperdoll memory, and string memory. If those numbers are changing a lot, that means you are low on memory and cycling objects in and out of memory...possibly time to upgrade the RAM.
Another solution is for you to modify your paperdoll cache size and/or your sprite cache size in the ashenempires.ini file located in the directory [install directory]/ashen empires (ex: C:\Program Files\Iron Will Games\Ashen Empires\ashenempires.ini)
There are two lines in that file that you can modify:
PaperDollCacheSize = "128" (32-128 meg is default, depending on current memory size)
SpriteCacheSize = "128" (32-128 meg is default, depending on current memory size)
Internet Lag
If the first 2 tests didn't help, we can now look at the internet as a possible cause.
First, if you are on dialup, you will have to learn to live with it. Second, if you are on dialup and in India, you will have to learn to live with it.
Next, let's see how your connection is doing to the AE servers.
Go to start / run and type cmd (windows 98 and earlier, type command) and hit <enter>. At the command prompt, type "ping ping.pixelminegames.com" (no quotes). You should get something like the following..
C:\Documents and Settings\username>ping ping.pixelminegames.com
Pinging ping.pixelminegames.com [220.127.116.11] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 184.108.40.206: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=255
Reply from 22.214.171.124: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=255
Reply from 184.108.40.206: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=255
Reply from 18.104.22.168: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 188.8.131.52:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 5ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms
You need to look at the time=XXms. If that is greater than or near 300, you might have an issue with your provider or somewhere in the connection to our servers.
Next you should type the following at the command prompt:
C:\Documents and Settings\username>tracert ping.pixelminegames.com
This will return something like:
"Tracing route to ping.pixelminegames.com [220.127.116.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.1.1
2 11 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.39.224.1
3 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms gig2-1.limaoh1-rtr2.woh.rr.com [22.214.171.124]
4 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms son3-0-2.mtgmoh1-rtr0.columbus.rr.com [126.96.36.199]
5 21 ms 21 ms 19 ms ae-4-0.cr0.chi30.tbone.rr.com [188.8.131.52]
6 44 ms 45 ms 45 ms ae-2-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [184.108.40.206]
7 47 ms 46 ms 46 ms 184.108.40.206
8 45 ms 45 ms 44 ms gig1-3.dllatxl3-p-rtr01.texas.rr.com [22.214.171.124]
9 51 ms 53 ms 51 ms gig2-0-0.wacotxmhe-pe-rtr01.texas.rr.com [188.8.131.52]
10 51 ms 51 ms 52 ms gig3-0-0.wacotxmhe-p-rtr01.texas.rr.com [220.127.116.11]
11 49 ms 55 ms 51 ms gig2-0-0.austtxa-pe-rtr01.texas.rr.com [188.8.131.52]
12 63 ms 68 ms 53 ms rrcs-71-41-150-33.sw.biz.rr.com [188.8.131.52]
Trace complete."
If the IP begins with 192.x.x.x. or begins with 10.x.x.x, that is your internal network, this should always be <10ms. A tracert will ping each router that it goes through three times and display the results.
If you see one of the ping times in a router in the list jump drastically, that is where the problem currently is located. If you see the jump near the end of the list, it could be our problem. At that point, we would like to see your tracert. (email to support @ ashenempires.com with subject line "TRACERT")
You can copy and paste this information out of the command prompt window (push alt-spacebar, choose edit, choose mark and highlight by left click+drag what you want to copy and press enter...this will copy it to the clipboard and you can paste it in an email).
If support needs to see your ping/tracert information or you would like to send yours in, you can create a file with the info by doing the following:
Ping Information
Type ping ping.pixelminegames.com > c:\ping.txt. This will create a notepad file in your C directory which you can then save and email.
Tracert Information
You can do the same with the tracert: tracert ping.pixelminegames.com > c:\tracert.txt.
Other Methods to try
1) Defrag your hard drive, fragmentation could slow down the fetching of assets for the game.
2) If you do not force sync before you play, you might consider it, as the game will pause when it requests and transmits a file from the patch server.
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Apr 16 2012, 07:36 PM
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ping.pixelminegames.com can not be found. Is 22.214.171.124 still correct?
Apr 26 2012, 08:41 PM
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Group: Members
Posts: 3,807
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From: Ontario, Canada
Member No.: 299
It's just pixelminegames.com now that you type in which is using IP 126.96.36.199 since the server move, not 220.127.116.11 anymore
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There are no barriers with Chris Kaz, nothing too personal for him to share, and no emotion he doesn't feel comfortable expressing through his music. Whether he's composing for himself, as his dance alter ego "Boofi", or producing for other people.
Kaz's self-titled debut album is made up of ten tracks that push the boundaries of typical electronic music. Chris' album is a logical extension of everything else he has done up to this point. While he has successfully released dance music under the alias Boofi (slang for boy toy), working with Ministry of Sound amongst others, he has saved his more personal work for his own nomenclature.
"Every artist has two faces. Chris Kaz, to me, is deeper than Boofi, and more how I am feeling today. Boofi is fluffy, crazy, sexy dance music. The music I am making as Chris Kaz is totally different."
Listening to artists such as Skinny, Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, The XX, Fink, Jai Paul, Nicolas Jaar and others has informed the direction of Kaz's music. Emotional, relationship-based, and full of self-disclosure, Chris says the overwhelming theme of this debut release is love – being in love, yearning for love, running from love, obsessing about love.
"The tracks come from a place of love. It's very deep and sincere to me. I have waited a long time to release this album, and feel that, as an artist, I've been building up to it."
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Decorations, salutations and cards present a potential minefield for businesses trying to decide whether "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" is the best greeting for the season.
Decorations, salutations and cards present a potential minefield for businesses trying to decide whether "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" is the best greeting for the season.
According to a 2007 survey by Rasmussen Reports, two-thirds of Americans preferred "Merry Christmas," and one in four people prefer "Happy Holidays."
Public opinion polls aside, the best policies for how companies handle it internally come when management lets the staff do the talking.
"In most cases, it really depends on the corporate culture of the organization and the diversity of the work force," said Christina Kamer, a Rockford-based HR consultant. "My experience has been that employees will express their preference. If it's an open culture, one that embraces diversity, employees will feel comfortable expressing their opinions about how they would like to celebrate.
"Some companies completely ignore the holidays, and it's business as usual. Organizations that are more progressive will either delegate the employee events to a committee, and the committee will discuss what's best and submit recommendations."
SwedishAmerican Health System doesn't have a written policy, but employees are asked to be sensitive to co-workers and patients who may have different beliefs.
"We have 3,000-plus employees, and we have such a diversification in our work force," said Harvey Lightbody, vice president of human resources. "When we put our patients in the mix, that's a huge, diverse population. We request our employees to say 'Happy Holidays.'"
Although the hospital has a holiday party, it has Christmas trees up and hosts a breakfast with Santa for its employees' families. Each medical group and doctor's office is free to decorate their areas as they wish.
"I think people just respect each others' view on this," he said. "Someone could say 'Merry Christmas,' and we don't instruct our employees not to say 'Merry Christmas' back."
Dan Arnold, president of Road Ranger, said his company has two policies: Official company greetings and expressions are "Merry Christmas," but individual employees can use whatever they feel is appropriate.
"If a clerk feels more comfortable saying 'Happy Holidays' or our signature 'I appreciate your business,' either one is more than acceptable to us. There's no service requirement, but we are keenly aware of the explosiveness of this issue on a corporate policy level."
Arnold said the policy was an understood one, but not official, until 2005. That's when Fox News brought Christmas vs. Holidays to the forefront.
"When it became an issue, we had to stop and ask ourselves what our policy was," he said. "At that time, we clarified it so there would be no mistake. The last thing anyone would want to do is lose a customer. This seems a logical compromise. We would never require, nor could we, an employee to make a greeting they thought was inappropriate to their own faith."
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The Maryland Transit Administration is unveiling its new fleet of mobility vehicles to serve riders with disabilities.
The transit agency is replacing its fleet of sedans and cut-away buses with new vehicles designed specifically for people in wheelchairs. They are called MV-1s.
The first 10 MV-1 vehicles are now in service, and 30 more will be put into service over the next two months under a $2 million contract. The new vehicles are expected to get better gas mileage and save the MTA about $75,000 a month, or $900,000 a year once most of the fleet is converted.
The agency's long-term goal is to replace all 120 sedans and have MV-1s represent 70 percent of its fleet by 2017.
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Micayla Gatto (Commencal-Marzocchi) and Steve Smith (Cove Bikes) proved once again that they are Canada's top downhillers by taking the leader's jerseys in the opening round of the Canada Cup in Bromont, Quebec on Sunday. Gatto won the women's race, while Smith finished second to American Geritt Beytagh (Morewood Bikes) after crashing in the lower part of the course while holding a commanding lead. As the top Canadian man, he takes the leader's jersey.
The course won praise from all riders, with Smith calling it "sick, just sick".
The weather also cooperated, with the dark clouds of the evening before giving way sun and a slight breeze, which kept the black flies off the spectators in the woods.
Danice Uyesugi (Pinkbike.com), in her first eastern Canada Cup, was the first woman out of the gate, and set the fast time of 3:15.172, which stood up until Gatto came down last, and obliterated it with a 3:06.155 . Miranda Miller (Mad March Racing) finished two and a half seconds behind Uyesugi for third. Miller also won the Junior Expert women's category, ahead of Anne Laplante (Equipe Grounded).
"It was a great run," said Gatto. "My new Commencal bike was perfect, and I had no problems on the way down. I just wanted to put together a clean run and hopefully take the leader's jersey, so everything was good."
U.S. rider Trevyn Newpher (Snowshoe/Marin/MMR) set the first fast time for the Elite men at 2:50.264, which ended up being good enough for a very respectable 15th. Twenty two riders later, another American - Curtis Keene (Specialized) - knocked nearly six seconds off of Newpher's time, and that time would hold up for nearly 50 riders to cut the electronic finish line.
Beytagh then took the time way down - over seven seconds faster than Keene. Keene eventually took fourth, less than a second behind Charles-Alexandre Dube (Intersport/DHRacer), who finally put Canada in the medals, with a time of 2:43.707 .
However, there was Canada's best and brightest hope still to come - Steve Smith. Smith was clearly on a superb run, completely jumping rocky wood sections that other riders were bouncing through. It was after all of the technical stuff was finished, and Smith was heading down the fast finishing section that disaster struck.
"There was a section in the swoopy turns with a couple of bumps that you jumped," Smith explained. "I went too far and my front wheel went into a hole. I slammed into the bars with my chest, and then over and landed on my head, it was totally my mistake."
Despite the crash, Smith finished a little over three seconds behind Beytagh.
Yann Gauvin (Mathieu Performance/R-Solution) was the top Junior Expert man, finishing a strong ninth among the Elite riders.
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When Old is New: Craft Distilling Comes Full Circle
The stories and history surrounding what we sip.
The first thing I thought when I saw Corsair Distillery's Quinoa Whiskey was how great it is that hippie health food nuts now have their own spirit. The second was that it's refreshing to see that kind of experimentation emerging from today's craft distilling scene. American whiskey has been devoted to the holy trinity of corn/rye/malted barley for years, and vanguard efforts by many new craft distilleries to incorporate alternative grains and ingredients like hops have created a kind of American whiskey Jazz Age, full of improvisation and new thinking.
But as it turns out, these efforts are an echo of the past as much as they're a bold new sound, and have deep roots in the very earliest years of America's distilling landscape. If there's one longstanding tradition of America's food scene, it's to break with longstanding tradition, which ironically is something that today's craft upstarts have more in common with their distilling forefathers than many might assume. Just like that kid we all knew in high school who would smoke anything on a dare, America's early nineteenth century distillers were up for distilling pretty much anything. Turnips? Yep. Carrots? Sure. Fermented maple sap? Done. Whortleberries? Check.
I can only imagine how some of these concoctions would have tasted—turnip spirits sound like a hobo's idea of a salad, while distilled carrots make me think of Bugs Bunny passed out in a gutter. Nevertheless, distilling manuals from the early nineteenth century offer a surprising amount of advice for long-forgotten ingredients currently being reintroduced by today's craft distilleries, including hops, buckwheat, and oats.
The yellowed pages of manuals written by Harrison Hall, Michael Krafft, and Samuel M'Harry—all published before 1820—regularly feature advice and recipes for a variety of concoctions lost during centuries of industry conglomeration. Flipping through them recently, I realized that I had forgotten that it's 2013, and everything has been done before, for better or worse.
One of my favorite new craft gins of recent years is New Columbia's Green Hat, which emphasizes cardamom in its mix of botanicals. It's a flavor I have always loved, and wondered why it wasn't featured more prominently in gin. Enter Krafft, who in 1804 beat us all to the punch, featuring a cardamom-heavy gin recipe. What were some other featured gin flavors? Saffron, cinnamon, sage, and bergamot.
Krafft and the others also offer advice on hopped whiskey, which occupies one of the more interesting corners of today's craft distilling scene. Most whiskey is distilled from a beer-like mixture absent of hops, but Corsair , New Holland Brewing , and Charbay have all recently offered whiskies reintroducing the ingredient. Of the three, Corsair's Citra Double IPA has the most obvious hop flavor, and is the most likely to appeal to drinkers looking for a bolder taste. Charbay is the best and most nuanced of the three. The whiskey on the palate is a bit young, but the finish is excellent—long and lilting with a subtle hop flavor that finally peeks out and then gets stronger. New Holland's Hopquila is an entirely different beast—it has a more floral hop flavor than the others and reminded me of a muscatel wine more than a hopped beer.
What we today might consider "alternative" grains also featured prominently in the old manuals, although many early creations didn't become standards for a variety of reasons. While taste was certainly a factor, other logistical problems and cost issues were usually the main deterrents. Today we know how nice wheated bourbon and wheat whiskies can taste. Hall agreed that wheat was flavorful, but it was expensive, and he advised distillers to steer clear for that reason alone.
The same was true for oats, which today are making a comeback with unaged spirits offered by High West and Koval. Hall was also a fan of oats, finding that, when mixed with corn, they imparted a "peculiar flavor, which I think preferable to that given by rye." However, they were dangerous to work with if not fermented fully, and could easily choke up a still and cause it to explode. It's no wonder they fell by the wayside.
But if oats were difficult, working with buckwheat was a nightmare. Ancient distillers write about it the way ancient mariners write of sea monsters. Buckwheat apparently yielded good flavor, but was difficult to ferment and offered slim profit margins. Monte Sachs of Catskill Distilling Company is one of the few craft distillers using it today to produce a spirit called The One and Only Buckwheat. Sachs confirms his forebears' opinion about Buckwheat. "It has a mind of its own," he told me. "Every phase is difficult," from early fermentation to distilling. It took him six months to fully clean the black husks out of his still after his initial attempts to use buckwheat.
The resurrection of dead spirits is one of the most exciting aspects of modern craft distilling, and the old manuals offer plenty of ideas yet to be reinvestigated. It's almost like a challenge whispered from the grave: "Hey guys, throw a mixture of fermented cowslip flowers and pawpaw into your still. See what happens."
Fortunately, many are accepting that challenge. Stepping into the abyss of the unknown is probably the best chance at survival for most of today's emerging craft outfits. Many are at a disadvantage matching the efforts of larger brands making traditional expressions of spirits. The many rules surrounding bourbon, for example, and the economies of scale enjoyed by the big brands mean big hurdles for newbies entering the ring. It's hard for them to match the quality and value of products that already exist, so why not experiment with things the established brands aren't touching?
This is the opinion of industry legend Dave Pickerell, former master distiller at Maker's Mark, who now advises numerous new craft operations. He once told me that going different is the best way to stand out in an increasingly crowded environment where established brands are already making very good products. Sure, there will be plenty of failures, but the successes will be worth it. He calls it the "spaghetti against the wall approach," meaning "throw it against the wall and see what sticks."
It seems that that approach was also the path to success for many distillers 200 years ago. Odd as it may seem today, corn scored surprisingly high on the "crazy test" of stuff people were throwing into stills. Europeans were sometimes critical of corn, some even calling it a grain fit only for beasts. Many Americans on the East Coast, already comfortable distilling rye and barley, were also skeptical. By the early 1800s, the bias needed to be addressed, and the early manuals defend the innovative combination of corn, rye, and barley that would eventually morph into bourbon. Hall wrote that the "Kentucky whiskey" appearing in the east "is a powerful argument against the common prejudice against using corn, as the western whiskey is chiefly made of that grain."
M'Harry agreed, writing that, although some preferred the Old World's way of doing things, "Genius has already figured in our hemisphere."
It's difficult today to think of ordinary corn constituting some radical move, but it did. Even after distillers accepted corn, it still took over a century of evolution, innovation, lobbying, and marketing for bourbon to elbow aside other popular whiskies and lodge itself in the nation's collective conscience as a unique American icon. It's exciting to think of some future classic following a similar path. Today that spirit is just a glimmer in the eye of a budding craft distiller, perhaps drawing his or her inspiration from the past.
About the Author: Reid Mitenbuler is a Washington, DC-based writer. He is currently writing a book about bourbon for Viking/Penguin. Find him online at The Bourbon Empire and on Twitter @ReidMitenbuler.
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M81 Hand Polish, M16 Professional Paste Wax and D114 Rinse-Free Express Wash.
M81's gloss is easily on that level of Ultimate Polish or Menzerna's SF3500/SF3800. I will use it again soon as the last product before protection step. I must thank Mike Stoops again for that product as he was my mentor in that direction. Thanks, Mike, it keeps on shinning.
I sadly only have two cans of M16 left, as it is a part of my winter protection combo: Ultimate Paste Wax/M16. Now we have Ultimate Fast Finish which may be used on top for this extra time.
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The picture above clearly shows how the first bottle's liquid is much darker.
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NISE Net is the new grey goo!
"The Network is going to grow. I don't think you can stop it or control it even if you wanted to." So said, Cal Tech nano researcher Mamadou Diallo, a member of the NISE Net's NSF review panel at a meeting about nano education at the University of Southern California on April 27. Didn't Michael Crichton predict a similar thing in his novel Prey? NISE Net Program Manager Vrylena Olney saw the similarity. In Prey out-of-control self-replicating nano-sized robots wipe out everything else on earth resulting in grey goo, a term originally coined by Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation.
Well it wasn't grey goo, but NISE Net green was all over this conference at USC. The NanoDays banner was hanging on the registration table for the conference and all the badges and program material bore graphics from the NISE Net NanoDays kit. It wasn't NanoDays at USC but the NanoDays graphics had mutated to become the graphics for this nano education conference.
Beyond the graphics, parts of the NanoDays kit were on display and there was a lot of interest in the NISE Net. Julie Dillemuth of UC Santa Barbara said she wanted to share the materials they've developed with the NISE Net, and Courtney Corda of Science Buddies, a science fair project website with 10,000,000 users, was looking for ideas for nano science fair projects. Aldrin Sweeney of the University of Central Florida reconfirmed his interest in creating an informal education issue of the new Journal of Nano Education.
Building links between the various educational groups involved in nano education was a key focus of the conference on Partnership for Nanotechnology Education at USC. The NISE Net's emerging hub-and-spoke network structure provides opportunities for linking the NISE Net with others kinds of educational groups at the local level and at the Network level. We are currently proposing a budget to NSF that will allow us to direct funds in years 6-10 to take advantage of opportunities that arise along the way.
We don't really want to eat up everything else, like the fictitious self-replicating robots in Prey, but infecting folks with an interest in nano education is right in line with the NISE Net's mission.


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Excitement grows for teens because proms and graduation celebrations are coming. I remember being eager to dress up with all of the extras and spend nights with my friends.
Excitement grows for teens because proms and graduation celebrations are coming. I remember being eager to dress up with all of the extras and spend nights with my friends.
Teens are bombarded with warnings not to drink and drive. Listen to a victim this time:
When I was 16 and a junior at Tracy High in April 1992, a drunken driver hit me head-on.
Medi-Flight flew me to St. Joseph's Medical Center. I spent weeks in a coma, and had paralysis with multiple broken and dislocated bones.
Dances, talking with friends and playing sports obviously ended.
Clinics, hospitals, surgeries and therapy became my teenage life.
I lost my driving ability, and my brain injury damaged my hearing capabilities and speech. This affects me daily.
A drunken driver changed my life, and one can change yours.
For almost 10 years, the California Highway Patrol and I notify teens what a drunken driver can do. I also write letters in local newspapers stating the importance of driving sober.
My goal is making sure teens end prom and parties responsibly to save lives on the roads. This benefits all.
I guarantee you a "good time" definitely does not come if you drive after drinking. A drunken driver can kill or hurt themselves and others. My scars, hearing difficulty and speech definitely show that.
Have a sober driver after prom and parties so they will be times to remember for all the right reasons.
Lori Martin
Last week my husband and I attended the opening night of the University of the Pacific's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto Nicolai and Hermann von Mosenthal featuring the University Symphony Orchestra.
If you love opera, good music sung in perfect pitch, and a great symphony, this performance at the Faye Spanos Concert Hall was a credit to Pacific. The costumes and sets were so professional.
Congratulations to James Haffner, stage director, and Nicolas Waldvogel, conductor.
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There are a lot of people who are going to make a bunch of money by destroying the Delta. California water officials last week released the first part of a $23 billion plan to restore and protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem.
The best way to protect the Delta is to stop taking the water. It doesn't seem to me that the best way to protect the Delta is by plundering it.
The Delta Mendota Canal, built in 1951, and the California Aqueduct, completed in 1997, move 17,600 cubic feet of water per second. That's a lot of water from the Central Valley, but it's not enough for the huge corporations to the south.
Los Angles needs water and they have the populace to see that they get it. Where did the Delta California water officials come from? Are the cards being stacked against the Valley?
It seems officials and water contractors, Gov. Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama each have their own reason the tunnels should be built, and it isn't to protect the Delta.
This is going to happen whether or not we like it.
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A's catcher rises from spring DFA to clutch playoff performer
OAKLAND -- As players and members of the media poured into the A's clubhouse following Saturday night's 1-0 walk-off win over the Tigers in Game 2 of the American League Division Series, general manager Billy Beane was walking out.
Leading the charge were his 4-year-old twins, Brayden and Tinsley -- his "rally twins" -- who kept him company in skipper Bob Melvin's office when Stephen Vogt knocked a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth to tie the series 1-1 as the A's head to Detroit.
Melvin no doubt would, especially considering Beane's acquirement of Vogt -- a 28-year-old rookie who joined the A's on April 6 after going hitless in 32 at-bats last year with the Rays -- for next to nothing, yet he's started the first two games of the ALDS.
The A's didn't even surrender any players in return for Vogt. They purchased the left-handed-hitting backstop for $125,000 after Vogt was designated for assignment in Tampa Bay on March 31, at which he point he considered putting an end to what had been a largely fruitless professional career.
"It's our free agency," Beane said of the midseason acquisition. "It's when I get to be Steinbrenner."
And still, not even Beane -- perhaps the most famous GM in sports for his "Moneyball" acclaim -- could have predicted that Vogt would produce so greatly in the A's most important game of the season. Not only did Vogt account for Oakland's lone run of the night; he caught rookie phenom Sonny Gray's masterful eight-inning performance and threw out Jose Iglesias following Gray's strikeout of Austin Jackson with runners at the corners in the fifth inning to end the Tigers' biggest threat of the night.
"That is a huge play in the game," Melvin said. "Now it gets forgot about a little bit based on the fact that the game went so long and there were zeros. But at the time, that's as big of a play as ultimately the hit he got."
Vogt, currently in his second Major League stint, began the season with Triple-A Sacramento. The first pitcher he caught as a member of the A's organization was Gray, who said his rapport with Vogt provided a calming affect in his first postseason start.
"He just knows my strengths," Gray said. "He knows what I do well, and that's why he throws the fingers he throws down."
Vogt helped Gray become just the second pitcher in A's postseason history with at least eight scoreless innings pitched, nine strikeouts and four or fewer hits -- a feat that was previously achieved by Chief Bender on Oct. 10, 1905.
While Vogt and Gray qualify as rookies, their journeys are far from mirror images. Gray pitched in the College World Series with Vanderbilt and was the A's first-round pick in the 2011 First-Year Players Draft. Vogt, meanwhile, was wandering around a mall in Durham, N.C., with his wife and daughter when he got the call from the A's, not even shopping, but "trying to take my mind off the designated-for-assignment limbo."
In an $8 billion dollar industry, Vogt's $125,000 saved the A's from a near loss in what numerous players in the A's clubhouse called a "must-win" game.
"You just kind of wonder what's going to happen," Vogt said, a trace of game-winning pie lingering below his right eye. "It was at 6 p.m. and I had to be on a flight at 5 in the morning. My life was packed up and we got ready to go."
"What a great story," reliever Sean Doolittle said. "A 28-year-old rookie who more than put in his time and more than paid his dues. For him to have that night on both sides, offensively and defensively, that was awesome."
With the Tigers slated to only start right-handers the rest of the way, Vogt is expected to continue getting the nod from Melvin. The A's boarded a flight for Detroit immediately following their postgame obligations Saturday. They'll arrive in Detroit a little after 6 a.m. ET, a quick turnaround for sure.
But at least for Vogt, who made a similar flight not too long ago in April, the travel won't seem too strenuous.
"I didn't feel anything," Vogt said, reflecting on the moment. "So much emotion and so much feeling. I blacked out for a second.
"It's going to be a happy flight to Detroit tonight."


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Apr 23, 2010, 02:48 PM »
Hi Everyone,
I'm sorry to post this personal request here, but I'm not sure where else to turn. I'm wondering if there's anyone who'd be willing to look at the timing of a flight I'll be on in mid-June (I'm making a major life move at that time). I'm a little freaked that the plane might crash (Jupiter/Uranus conjunction opposed Saturn) and haven't been able to find anyone to look at this for me. Just send me a personal message if you're willing.
Thanks, and again, sorry to post this here.
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Apr 24, 2010, 03:16 PM »
Hi Everyone,
Forgot to say that I'm more than willing to pay whatever fee you normally charge for this service!
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Apr 25, 2010, 07:52 AM »
Hi Ellen,
I just want to say, that quite frequently when we make major changes all our fears rush to the surface, because shaking the roots of what is secure to us is scary!! You probably feel very vulnerable right now...and that is normal. That oppoistion you point out Jupiter/Uranus opp Saturn is eaxctly that kind of transit. Most of the time when we make big changes, it is our soul prompting us to do so and answering the souls call can feel threatening to our 'small' selves. Your energy is better spent praying/talking to the universe asking for clarity and support during your transition...
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Apr 25, 2010, 08:50 AM »
hi Ellen
Adding to what Patricia said, no astrologer who knows what they are doing will predict that based on symbols in a chart your plane will crash. Nothing in astrology is that specific. Archetypes are symbols. Symbols manifest symbolically, not literally. There are thousands of ways that a Jupiter/Uranus conjunction opposed Saturn could manifest. That is why specific predictions are wrong 90% of the time.
A good way to approach this is to remember that your motivation and desire is to follow your Soul's intentions. Thus, anything that happens, including a plane crash, is part of your Soul's intentions, and ultimately brings you closer to God/Goddess. So there is nothing to fear, including death. You will not die until you are intended to die, and you are not going to avoid dying when it is your moment to die no matter what you do. Those are the parameters we live in while encased in human form, like it or not. Accepting them makes the whole process smoother.
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Apr 25, 2010, 02:42 PM »
Hi Patricia & Steve,
Thank you so much for your responses. Yes, I understand. I am letting my fear get the better of me. And I will continue to pray for guidance. However, I do have a question in response to something Steve wrote, so I hope you will bear with me and respond if you are able.
You said that I won't avoid death when it is my time. My concern is that I might be choosing death when it is NOT my time - flying vs. greyhound. My fear of flying is so great, I cannot tell if my "intuition" is indeed intuition or just reaction to my fear. So, do I face my fear of flying and just fly. Or do I trust my "intuition" (which may just be fear) and take Greyhound. Or does it matter - if it's my time to die, it'll happen regardless. If it's not my time, it won't happen regardless. Is this latter statement correct?
Sorry to trouble you with this. But I appreciate your willingness to respond.
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Apr 26, 2010, 03:05 AM »
Do you have Mercury, Neptune in Scorpioin H9 or Mercury, Neptune in H8,
with a Jupiter Rx, with some Virgo flavor --or a SN in Scorpio, or even a Saturn in pisces tagging along? or any combonation of something like this?
Because I do ... and even if you don't,
... boy oh boy, this sure sounds just like a very very familiar "round and round" no answer enigma puzzle, like mine. I have spent countless moments, days, months, years of my life with this very kind of thing, just going on and on in circles... and ended up making me physically sick.
..and btw, I have not died yet on the plane to NYC when I went, and in the 80's I never did get AIDS, and my twins daughters were not born with defects or down syndrome, and my son did not get in that bike accident and die around the time I joined this MB to find out of he was gonna die soon, nor did he drowned at my sisters cabin, and when I was 8 years old, my mother did make it home from work that night even though I thought she should not go, etc etc etc.
And I am not saying this flippantly, bc I KNOW the pain in that confusion of not knowing if this is your true intuition, and how this feels to ponder --honestly, I REALLY DO!
When I read this just a second ago, I said to myself "oh my god, that is me!"
Well, I had found, in most cases, neither voice was accurate-- neither was really that SOUL contented space, that speaks without words, and guides naturally, without error.
but a distraction from that actually. But I bet it will still happen again to me and I won't remember this straight away~ but somehow i know then a light will go on again --soon enough, bc I'm really feeling that I am ready, to know firsthand, what it is like to live trusting the SOUL.
And, I also know if I heard that, or someone told me that ("distraction etc), I got aggravated and felt that "I wasn't being heard", and I probably still will.
Ellen, I can't say this is the same for you, but I just thought I would mention it to you bc it SURE SOUNDED FAMILAR!
ps. and you want to see how even more tenacious this is -- i just had the thought "Dhyana, what if Ellen dies bc you posted this?"
YOU SEE --you see how crazy this can get?!?
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Apr 26, 2010, 09:33 AM »
So beautifully put Dhyana and Steve!! And the truh is Ellen you are going to die.. we all are.. so lets just get that big fear out of the way. Having said that you also have past life selves that may have died tragically...and some of thier fears may be bubbling to the surface...again, changes in our life can trigger in us deep levels of subconcious memories because we are vulebrable and sometimes raw at these junctures. Not to mention the collective transists and global subconscious buzz that we are all swimming in at the moment...'it's the end of the world as we know it"....
Personally, everytime I have moved even though conciously I am excited about the move.. some level of me is usually terrified. For me this is distant past life memories of being driven out of places i loved, loss of homes and immigrant trauma etc.... (Pluto in the 6th sq sag sun in the 9th house)...preety literal!! My philosophy (besides digging into those fears and uprooting them... is to feel the fear and do it anyway)... Having moved almost every two years of my adult life, and travelled the world for work... I would say that attitude has worked for me so far..
I guess what we are all saying is that we know it is HARD to have proper perspective when fear is driving us... but it is also the opportune time to serrender to trust and to deepen ones faith...and be open to let the universe suprise you in a maginificnet way. If you want a life raft to cling to....focus on the fact that JUPITER is part of that trasit you are eyeing.... trust, trust, trust!!! Also note that The saturn/ Uranus opposition is what was happening when Obama was elected... McCain ( Saturn) oppose Obama (Uranus)
old orders clashing with new.. Patricia
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Apr 26, 2010, 09:56 AM »
Hi Ellen
To repeat what I said before, you are not going to die before your time to die, whether you take the bus or the plane.
How often do you hear about the one person who missed the plane that crashed, because of unanticipated traffic or construction? Can you imagine how much swearing they did as they realized they were about to miss their plane? And now they are the only one left alive.
Or the bus breaks down and misses the 100 car pileup down the road.
When you get in the seat, whether on the bus or on the plane, as the plane starts taking off or the bus starts leaving the depot, make some prayers. Surrender your life and your protection and safety to God/Goddess. Then, along the lines of "May God/Goddess's will be done. I know that whatever happens is aligned with the highest intentions for my Soul".
Try to get into an emotional space with that, beyond just mental repetition. Really feel it as deeply as you can. Say it as many times as you need to.
Again, when its your time to die there is no way out of it, and when its not your time to die there is no way you are going to die. The brain is still going to worry and fret. It's not bad or wrong that it does so. Don't try to repress those feelings. Don't judge or chastise yourself. That brain is doing what it's supposed to do. The difference is how you listen to it.
Those places are part of you, and as Patricia said, memories of past traumatic events may be triggering. But the present is not an endless repeat of what has come before (thank God). As best you can, accept all these parts of you. And then offer them up, surrender, to a higher will. You may still feel lots of fear even after surrendering - surrendering does not necessarily mean you will be in complete peace with no more apprehension. The point of surrendering is that you
whatever unknowns, good and bad, may happen. And that includes accepting your fears, not fighting them or pushing them away.
It's all OK. It's really all OK. All of it.
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Apr 26, 2010, 06:58 PM »
Dhyana - THANK YOU! L.O.L.!
Patricia and Steve,
Thank you! Thank you! It IS all ok. That is the lesson. And TRUST GOD. Thank you for bearing with me through this and for being with me. Thank you for your kindness and patience and wise counsel! One thing I've discovered is that I'm actually ok with dying. I really wouldn't mind. But somehow I had the message in me that if I die, it means I've screwed up. Weird. Now I know that's not true. If I die, it means I've learned exactly what I needed to learn! I AM still a little panicky about the flight. But that is the other lesson (thank you, Steve) - to let myself be panicky and not judge myself for it.
Wishing you all well,
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