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Moving Blog December 17, 2009
To my stillborn brother (a poem for rylee & Jayden) November 22, 2009
To my stillborn brother:
18w5d :: Amnio Results November 18, 2009
Well, I know I have been absolutely horrible. You would think that being on bedrest would allow me more time to blog but I have found myself being completely exhausted with no energy to even type on the computer. But I'm back in action, kind of, for today that is! (more…)
16 weeks October 28, 2009
Okay, yes I have been way to lazy and have not blogged that much. But here I am. Things are going good minus the pain, it's not as bad as it was but it's not 100% better either. But as long as I have a healthy baby I suppose I can deal with a little bit of pain! (more…)
15 weeks * It's a…. October 22, 2009
I have been having some pain, sort of like my ovaries are going to explode so I finally called the doctor and she got me in to see the nurse practitioner to get checked out. No bleeding and cervix is high and closed tight. But she said just to be on the safe side, she wanted to do an ultrasound and make sure there were no cysts. (more…)
14 weeks October 15, 2009
14 weeks down! Only…. 24 weeks to go! Baby is doing wonderful! I had my "fetal heartbeat tone" check on monday. Heartbeat was about an inch-inch and a half under my belly button! S/he is growing wonderfully. The Heartbeat was 157 beats per minute! Mom went with me since JB couldn't make it. (THANKS MOM!) And I'm doing pretty good too. (more…)
13 weeks!! October 8, 2009
Yup another week down!! A week or so ago my OB had trouble finding the heartbeat and had to push in and it was way down by my pubic bone. Yesterday I got out my doppler and I found the heartbeat immediately and I also got it one inch below my belly button! (more…)


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Anal cancer is cancer that starts in the anus. It's a canal at the end of the colon. The sphincter is a muscular ring that allows for bowel movements.
Cancer is when cells in the body split without control or order. These cells go on to form a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to harmful growths. These growths attack nearby tissues. They also spread to other parts of the body. It's not clear exactly what causes these problems. It's likely a mix of genes and the environment.
Anal cancer is linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
Risk Factors
Your chances of anal cancer are higher for:
- Anal intraepithelial neoplasia—precancerous changes in cells
- HIV infection
- Having many sex partners
- Receiving anal sex
- Smoking
- Genital warts
- Immune system problems because of the medicines you take
- Cervical dysplasia or cervical cancer
You may not notice any symptoms at first. When present, anal cancer may cause:
- Passing of blood or mucus
- Pain or pressure
- Feeling of a mass
- Itching
- Change in bowel habits
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and health history. You may also have:
- Blood tests
- Anoscopy
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Imaging tests such as:
- Biopsy —a sample of anal tissue is tested in a lab
The exam and your test results will help find out the stage of cancer you have. Staging guides your treatment. Anal cancer is staged from 0-4. Stage 0 is a very localized cancer. Stage 4 is a spread to other parts of the body.
Anal cancer is treated with more than one method. Sometimes they're combined. This may include:
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. It may given by mouth, shots, or IV. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. It may be given at the same time as chemotherapy. This may help avoid surgery.
Scar tissue may form in the anus, keeping the anal sphincter from working properly. In addition, damage may occur that results in chronic rectal bleeding.
Local resection allows for the removal of small, localized cancers. A small border of healthy tissue around the cancer will also be removed. Local resection preserves anal function.
An abdominoperineal resection (APR) is a surgery to remove the anus and rectum. It's an option if the cancer cannot be treated or returns. APR results in the need for a colostomy . A path for solid waste to pass from the body is made through the belly wall. A special bag is needed to collect the waste.
To lower your chances of anal cancer:
- Talk to your doctor about the HPV vaccine .
- Practice safe sex to lower your chances of HPV or HIV infection.
- See your doctor if you have any problems or notice any changes in your anus.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP
- Review Date: 05/2018 -
- Update Date: 07/26/2018 -

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Monty was very thorough and called out some issues that other inspectors might have let go. I don't believe that a house built in 1966 should be inspected with 2019 building codes though, and of course it would depend on the issue. Just an opinion, ultimately doesn't mean much.
Monty, is very thorough and great with my clients.
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Monte always does a super professional job and always gets it done in a very timely manner
I like Monty! He is detailed, yet does not scare our clients away. I would recommend him to buyers & sellers.


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Anchor Hocking 77886 Fire King Deep Pie Baking Dish, 9.5-Inch. Package Quantity:1. Clear, Glass Deep Pie Dish from Anchor Hocking makes a 9′ diameter pie that is 1.75′ deep. Perfect for heavier pies, quiches or tarts. Constructed of clear, durable, heat-resistant glass which is microwave, oven and dishwasher safe. Measures 10′ diameter x 1.75′ deep. Anchor Hocking-made in the USA.


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USN-643-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
11 September 2008
freetype vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software Description
- freetype
Multiple flaws were discovered in the PFB and TTF font handling code in freetype. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges or cause the application linked against freetype to crash, leading to a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- libfreetype6 - 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.1
- Ubuntu 7.10
- libfreetype6 - 2.3.5-1ubuntu188.8.131.52
- Ubuntu 7.04
- libfreetype6 - 2.2.1-5ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- libfreetype6 - 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.


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VW - GTi Bannerbahn
For this online Facebook and banner campaign, we went to the circuit and sampled the hell out of the new Volkswagen GTi. With great pleasure (and fear), we drove the GTi to the max, while recording it with 6 mics on the inside and outside of the car, then went back to the studio for some serious post-production. It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it…
Bannerbahn Teaser Video
Vincent created a original soundtrack for the Teaser Movie and Ad did some great sound design magic to it.
Bannerbahn - Racereport
@ The circuit
Concept and design: Achtung!
Technical implementation: Thispagecannotbefound
Music: Vincent de Koning
Sound design: Ad van Dongen
Sound recording: Diederik Rijpstra and Marten Negenman


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Spoilers for American Idol's results show coming up:
Having expended its judges' save on Casey Abrams last week, American Idol had to eject two contestants this time out. And I am happy/sad to say that my guess was right, as we said goodbye to…
…Thia and Naima. Thia, I think, was a case of a singer who had nothing wrong with her, but simply not enough right with her. She had a sweetness and a lovely tone of voice, but she performed an a pretty familiar Idol genre—girl ballads, to be blunt—and there was nothing much to distinguish her from all the Jasmine Triases, et al., who've gone that route before. What's more, that slot is more or less occupied this season—but with more power and hotness—by Pia Toscano, so I think there just wasn't much room for Thia.
You can't say there was anyone else this season, or many other seasons, like Naima, and so she ended up ousted by the opposite problem. She was always arresting on stage, sonically, dynamically and visually—the reggae, the dancing, the colorful outfits—but very different means very polarizing, and to succeed at something like that on Idol, you need to be near flawless. Naima wasn't, and this week she fell outside her tight margin of error. She got past her early pitch problems in recent weeks, but I think song choice killed her this week; I'm just not sure "I'm Still Standing" was the right choice to reggae up, as it left her with a kind of singsongy arrangement that she couldn't shine on. I don't think Naima was ever going to win Idol, but I hope she showed off enough to help her launch a career.
Speaking of launching a career, last night Fantasia Barrino came back on the show, looking more zaftig than in her contestant years (a little Aretha-y, actually, and reportedly Ms. Franklin has endorsed the idea of Fantasia playing her in a biopic), but as fiery, raw and vocally thrilling as ever. I still think she's the best out-and-out singer Idol has ever produced ("Hood Boy" is one of the few post-Idol singles I listen to by choice). She's not the most successful, though, and while she hasn't exactly disappeared, her personal problems since Idol have been well-documented. So it was a little bittersweet to see Ryan Seacrest hit her up for advice to the finalists, and hear her tell them to be careful of the people they place around them.
I hope Fantasia has more success ahead of her, and let's hope the finalists remember that winning (or losing) Idol is just the first step in a long race.
As for this season's race, I was a little surprised—but not, I'll be honest, unhappy—to see Paul has some vulnerability. But I also think that Casey needs to get back to wowing us if he doesn't want to return to the bottom three without a save to back him up. Who looks vulnerable to you now?


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Following is your web-based orientation. All new faculty, staff and students are requested to stop by the library as soon as possible for a physical orientation, as well, to become acquainted with library staff, collection layout and equipment. Specific subject interests and customized library services can be discussed at that time. UCD library cards are not needed for use of information resources within the Cadet Hand Library. However, it is strongly recommended that all BML personnel maintain active UCD library registration in order to qualify for campus library services.
Integrity Statement
It is understood that all conduct and activity regarding the Cadet Hand Library, as part of UC Davis, adheres to the Principles of Community, to copyright guidlelines, and to computing acceptable use policy. The BML director, head of information technology and library staff will be happy to answer questions about these policies. The BML library is staffed on a less than full-time basis, and operates on the honor system.
What's here?
This is a specialized, departmental library, reflecting current and past BML research and educational programs. Assets include:
- Dissertations representing local research by graduate students (alphabetical by author)
- Student reports representing research conducted by undergraduate classes (by course)
- Books which can be checked out (LC call number order)
- Class reserve books and readings (dedicated shelf)
- Reference books and field guides (reference section)
- Current and back journals in hard copy, (alphabetical order, north end of library)
- A field guide section for local species information
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Forgive them … For they know not what they do…
How To Forgive
As we know, everything begins with a thought and many of the behaviors we have built up over lifetimes become an automatic defense mechanism which can weigh us down with guilt, sadness, anger and frustration, leading us away from the freedom and love our souls are striving for, and placing us in our own self-created prison.
Making a decision is what makes us human. As intelligent beings, we have the freedom of choice and we live with the consequences of these choices. Most people don't realize that they are 100% responsible for their lives – the good the bad and the ugly. As one of my beloved teachers would often say "Life is a choice. You can choose to be in the box or on the box. Slavery or Freedom!"
One of the hardest decision that we ever have to make as intelligent human beings is the decision to forgive. You see, we have a lot invested in holding grudges or blaming somebody else for our messed up lives – let alone forgiving ourselves for what we have created. That would mean admitting that all those dramatic poor-me stories that you have gotten so much mileage from over the years will have to go – And what do you replace them with if you have closed down your heart?
The Victim and the Martyr at the root of generations
Has filtered through the ages and has spread throughout the nations.
To violate what we create with our imaginations
And cause confusion to be joined
With anger and frustrations. – Jyoti Eagles.
In fact, our world economy relies heavily on this victim mindset. Insurance companies, Lawyers, Doctors, the drug companies, religions, police and the defence forces and of course our beloved governments. It is the mesh of the matrix. And the media helps spread this epidemic by encouraging revenge and retaliation and separateness.
We put our children in front of movies, computer games and even cartoons to fire up this desire for retribution and retaliation. Kill or be killed. Dog eat a dog. Their little imaginations run rampant with this stuff, programming them with fear and murderous thoughts and the feeling that they are not safe in this world. Every now and then our children let off steam by slamming doors, breaking things, rebelling. As adults, we smash each other or the more sensitive ones turn to drugs and violence and a criminal lifestyle.
We are taught that forgiveness and compassion are signs of weakness and we guard our victim hood with utter determination. If we lose it what do we have left?. How do we justify our righteous anger? Our entire lives in some cases? We mistake the adrenaline buzz that being a victim induces as power, and better to blame somebody else or something else for our circumstances rather than take responsibility.
I'm not saying that there aren't some genuine victims out there. Just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time people fall victim to circumstantial and natural disasters and their suffering is enormous. And I'm not negating the real suffering of people who are abused and violated in unthinkable ways, but our refusal to forgive is a second injury that we do to ourselves after the first wound.
Our refusal to forgive hurts us, not them. Why give them that power?
Forgiveness has become a lost art, a philosophical abstraction. It is something we must beg for and the perpetrator must pay for with endless suffering and retribution. Not forgiving also has consequences – it is what has led us to our current victim consciousness and prolonged suffering. It is also the root of future wrongdoings. Forgiveness breaks the chain of abuse. It is not only a kindness that you give to yourself, it is a gift to the next generation who don't need to suffer because of our lack of insight or maturity. © Jyoti Eagles


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Love raunchy, juicy chick lit? Then start your week off with this X-rated extract from one of our favourite women writers, Tilly Bagshawe, and her saucy new book, "Flawless".
"Jake, be careful! You'll lose the stones!"
The panic in Julia Brookstein's voice was unmistakable as she reached down the side of the bed, her long fingers searching blindly through the cream shag-pile carpeting for a missing pink diamond.
"Sweetheart," Jake Meyer's gravelly, infinitely sexy North London accent whispered in her ear. "I carried these stones across three continents. I ran checkpoints full of armed police in Chechnya, saw off bandits in the hills of Kazakhstan, and even made it through a knife fight with some particularly tricky Triads in dear old London before I got them this far. Trust me, I'm not going to lose the finest natural pinks I ever laid eyes on under a bed in Beverly Hills. Now come here."
Pinning both her arms above her head in the soft, marshmallow mound of pillows behind them – how the **** did she and Al sleep on so many pillows? The must get terrible neck ache – he ran his tongue slowly along the length of her collar bone, the stubble on his chin barely grazing the tops of her massive, perfectly spherical breasts. Scattered across the black satin counterpane were more glittering diamonds, each the same translucent pink of guava flesh. Scooping some up with his left hand, Jake began dropping them carelessly onto her naked body, smiling with satisfaction at the way they glowed against the smooth, bronzed skin of her belly and thighs.
"Oh, Jake!" she gasped, clutching wildly at his blonde hair as his tongue moved tantalizingly lower. Her legs had begun to twitch with excitement, and he could feel her toes stiffen and arch beneath him, a sure sign that she was close to a climax. "Put one inside me! Please. I want to feel it inside me!"
Jake Meyer had slept with a lot of rich, married women like Julia. They were his bread and butter as a diamond dealer in Beverly Hills, and seducing them sexually went hand in hand with the job of seducing them with the gems he brought back from Russia and Africa. Or in this case, from a little known facility in New Jersey that made some of the best simulants – fake diamonds – in the world. The little pink stones that Julia had so admired were in fact man-made garnets and were almost completely worthless. But they looked the part.
Sliding further down the bed until his feet touched the padded satin footboard and his head was positioned perfectly above Julia's billiard ball-smooth waxed pussy, he slipped the largest of the pink stones in his mouth. Grinning as her butterscotch thighs parted like the Red Sea to receive him, he gently pulled apart her glistening pink labia and, using his tongue, pushed the 'diamond' high up into the hot, wet tunnel of her vagina.
"Hmmm." She moaned with pleasure, clamping her legs tightly around him, and he glanced up just long enough to see the lust dilating her pupils and her lips open expectantly before returning his attention to her clitoris. Flicking his tongue across it as lightly as a dying butterfly fluttering its wings, he mentally counted to three. Right on cue Julia came, stifling her cries with a pillow as her body shuddered with spasm after spasm of pure ecstasy. With each wave of orgasm, the stone slipped lower and lower, until eventually it oozed out of her body back on to the bed, dewy-wet and shining with her juices.
"Beautiful. Like watching an oyster giving up its pearl," sighed Jake.
This is an edited extract from "Flawless" by Tilly Bagshawe (Orion, June 2009, $32.99)


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The ammonias found in urine and manure act like acid on fabric, greatly reducing the strength and life of the garment. Before you store your blankets for the summer, please contact us to clean them first! The worst thing that you can do is store dirty blankets for the summer. The sun and heat will bake all those ammonias into the fabric leaving permanent stains and weakening the fabric.
At Ultimate Gear Wash, our Esporta® Wash System will disinfect and break down the blood and urine as well as eliminate bacteria and other harmful contaminates present in the garment. We can clean, disinfect, and freshen the following equestrian items:
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Off-Campus Library Services
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Login here for off-campus access to the library's subscription resources
Online and Distance students have access to all of OLLU's online resources. Please email the library or call us at 210-431-5575 or 1-800-846-4085 if you have difficulty accessing the library's databases or other online resources.
Access our online Troubleshooting Guide
Getting Digital Materials
Online and Distance students have access to all of OLLU's online resources. Please email the library or call us at 210-431-5575 or 1-800-846-4085 if you have difficulty accessing OLLU's databases or other online resources.
The complete list of the library's databases, all of which can be accessed online or from off-campus. Search by subject, or search the title if you already know which database you need.
Here you will find the library's collection of nearly 50,000 Ebsco eBooks. You can't "check out" eBooks, but you can read them right from your browser.
All of the journals that the library has access to, either in print or online, can be searched or browsed here. For journals only available in print, submit a Get It 4 Me request and we'll send you a copy of the article you need.
Online access to all of our electronic course reserves. Search by course, department or instructor.
Getting Physical Materials
Online and Distance students at OLLU have access to the same research materials that students on campus have access to. In addition to Get It 4 Me and TexShare, the OLLU library will mail books to your home for FREE along with pre-paid return postage. You just mail them back to us when you're done!
If you find a book in our catalog, or an article that we have in print, we will send them to you for FREE! We will mail print books to your home along with pre-paid return postage, which you can keep for up to one month with renewals. Or we will scan a copy of a print article and send it to your email.
To request a print book or article, just log in to Get It 4 Me. Fill in the required information and we will send you what you need.
Online and Distance students can also request items the OLLU library doesn't have, by submitting a Get It 4 Me request. If you find a book or article that you need but OLLU doesn't have a copy, just fill out the request in Get It 4 Me, our Interlibrary Loan system, and we'll find a library that has a copy and get it for you! We will mail books to your home, or send a scanned PDF copy of an article to your email.
OLLU students, including Online and Distance students, can also borrow books from other libraries. With the TexShare Program you can get a library card that will allow you to borrow books from other libraries throughout Texas. Email the library to find out how to get your TexShare card.
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Even if you're taking classes online or at one of our satellite campuses, we are still here to help you with anything you need. Email the library at email@example.com or call us at 210-431-5575 or 1-800-846-4085, or use one of the options below.
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By Rebecca Tischler, Reference Department
Originally published on April 17, 2015
A few days ago, I was having a relaxing night watching the Fellowship of the Rings and eating dinner, when I had a sudden revelation about the beginning of the movie. When (spoiler alert!) Gandalf realizes that the Ring left to Frodo might be a dangerous and evil object, what's the first thing he does? He rides through the night, straight to the LIBRARY! Gandalf went to the library to save the world and fight evil. I know, technically, he went to an archive where they preserve all of the important historical documents, but it's still a library.
In all these wonderful fictional stories, I know that information from a library has saved the world, but that made me start wondering, what about the librarians who saved the world (because we all know that real librarians are awesome every day, right?). So in honor of National Library Week, here are six librarians who saved the world, and just so you know, past this point are a lot of spoilers. BEWARE!
For those of you who are familiar with one of the longest running sci-fi series, Doctor Who, Zoe was one of the companions to the Second Doctor from 1968-1969. She is first introduced to the Doctor while working as a librarian on a 21st century space station. She had a photographic memory and was incredibly smart, especially in mathematics, so basically she's a complex human calculator. On her most intense adventure with the Doctor, her skills and intellect are instrumental in calculating an explosive chain reaction to destroy enemy ships to stop the Cybermen invasion.
Rex is the main character in a science fiction/humor comic book. Everyone knows him as the head Librarian at the Middleton Public Library, but what they don't know is that he is actually over a thousand years old and was the original librarian at the Library of Alexandria. As a member of the Ordo Biblioteca (a secret international society of librarians), and with the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, Rex travels to the farthest reaches to fight the powers of darkness and ignorance, as well as to collect late book fees.
4. EVELYN (Evie) CARNAHAN
Evie could read and write Ancient Egyptian, decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic, and was the only person within a thousand miles who could properly code and catalog the library where she worked. Although she was surrounded by more action inclined individuals (an adventurer mother, an explorer father, a treasure-hunting brother, married to a gunslinger and close friends with a Medjai warrior), she was proud to be a librarian. And rightly so, because the first time she encountered a resurrected mummy, it was her knowledge and research ability that allowed her to strip the cursed mummy of his supernatural abilities.
3. RUPERT (Ripper) GILES
Buffy the vampire slayer's long-suffering mentor may have seemed like a mild mannered librarian when first introduced. However, as the series continued, it was revealed that he was a wild and dangerous teenager who ended up knee-deep in dark magic, and that magical dabbling ended up costing a friend's life. While he helped save the world many times with his reference and research skills, he would show that his dark past left him capable of making difficult and morally-questionably decisions to protect not only the world, but those that he loves.
Barbara Gordon was a librarian at the Gotham Public Library, and you might also know her as BATGIRL, or ORACLE. As a crime fighter information was her true weapon, along with her ability to kick butt. She had a near flawless memory and was a computer expert, and after her spine was broken, she continued to fight crime by acting as a information broker for superheroes (and later operates as the leader of a full team of female crimefighters). And as all librarians know, the librarian's special power is finding and organizing information. She had no superpowers, like Batman himself, and yet she was able to protect others and defeat villains who were powered.
The main reason I gave Flynn the top spot is because his title is The Librarian. Flynn is the guardian of a secret collection of magical artifacts at the Metropolitan Public Library. Originally he was a somewhat lost but insanely intelligent individual (by the time he was 31 he had 22 academic degrees) and it wasn't until one of his professors kicked him out of college that he stumbled on his librarian career. Unlike most librarians, however, he travels the world searching for dangerous artifacts like the Judas Chalice, the Spear of Destiny, and King Solomon's Mines and defeating those who would use those artifacts to harm others. He saved the world with his intellect, knowledge, research skills, and the fencing skills he learned from the sword Excalibur. Also, he had apprentice librarians who had their own TV series and saved the world on a weekly basis.


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A while ago, a friend gave me a couple of Japanese pull saw blades.
I made a maple handle for one of them.
First of all I made a couple of templates for the handle, out of a piece of cardboard.
This is not a traditional Japanese design. I wanted to combine a few Greek tradition elements in it.
I then cut a piece of maple in half on my table saw. I completed the cut with two passes.
I cleaned up the saw marks with a hand plane.
I then traced the template on one piece. I used the router with a straight bit to make the female part of the handle, that receives the blade.
I then cut both pieces of the handle with my jigsaw.
I drilled two holes that would receive bamboo pins. The pins prevented the pieces from moving around during the glue up process.
I then glued everything up, using two part epoxy glue.
I used a flush trim saw to cut the pins flush.
I shaped the handle using a spokeshave, cylindrical rasps, triangular rasp and flat rasps.
I removed as much material as I could with the spokeshave. This tool is really fast and leaves an awesome surface behind, but I could not reach all the areas with it.
Before shaping I used a pencil to mark the areas from where I would remove material. I begun by removing much material with the rasp and then removed the rasp's marks with a finer file. I finished shaping with sand paper. I used 100 to 320 grit.
I finished the handle with two coats of clear water based varnish while sanding between coats.
At this point the handle was ready and I am really happy with the way it came out!


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Laura Reeves is administrator of the HIV/AIDS Section in the Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Florida Department of Health. As administrator, she is responsible for policy development; program direction and implementation; program evaluation and improvement; and staff development.
Ms. Reeves has twenty-four years in public health, with experience spanning program and organizational strategic planning, performance management, and quality improvement initiatives, policy development, public health accreditation, customer service, employee satisfaction and collaboration with local, state and national partners. Ms. Reeves worked in the HIV/AIDS Program from 1992-2003; the Office of Performance & Quality Improvement from 2003-2014; and was most recently the Section Administrator for the Tuberculosis Control Program from 2014-2016.
Ms. Reeves received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Florida State University and is a Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence by the American Society for Quality.
Joseph May is a graduate of the University of Florida and began his career with the state in 1987 with the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. He worked as a public assistance specialist assisting clients with accessing AID to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) services as well as Medicaid. Mr. May then moved to the Office of Child Support Enforcement where he assisted with the enforcement of child support orders and later worked with the courts to establish both paternity and support orders.
In 1990, Joe experienced his first exposure to public health when he accepted a position with the Leon County Health Department. While primarily being a contract manager, he also learned a lot about health department operations and acted as a back-up to a variety of staff. After a couple of years, Mr. May accepted a position with Developmental Services as district contract manager.
In 1994, Joe joined the HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Program and has worked with all of the Patient Care programs during his tenure here. For most of the time, he was the AIDS Drug Assistance Program Manager and in 2005 he became the administrator over the Patient Care Section.
Mara Michniewicz has been working in the public health arena since 2004, beginning her public health career as a Research Assistant with the Addictive and Health Behaviors Institute in Jacksonville, FL, developing substance abuse prevention interventions for adolescents. Ms. Michniewicz has a BS in Biology/Chemistry from Florida State University, a master's degree in public health from the University of North Florida and is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Mara began her career with the Florida Department of Health in 2006 as a Prevention and Training Consultant in Volusia County, providing HIV education, outreach, counseling, testing and linkage services, in addition to providing case management/care coordination through the ARTAS program. In addition to working for the health department, she also taught HIV/AIDS education courses as an adjunct professor with the Daytona Beach Community College.
Ms. Michniewicz joined the HIV/AIDS Section in late 2007 as the Interventions Team Leader within the Prevention Program. As the Interventions Team Leader, she had oversight of evidence-based behavioral interventions, statewide capacity building assistance and training, high-impact prevention interventions within community-based organizations and local health departments, condom distribution, prevention and training consultants in the field, prevention contracts and the statewide educational materials review panel. Mara became the HIV Prevention Director for the HIV/AIDS Section in late 2014 and manages the program's wide array of initiatives, activities and strategies. Florida's high-impact prevention program is multi-faceted and includes HIV testing and linkage, comprehensive prevention with positives, partner services, condom distribution, outreach, policy initiatives, corrections initiatives within jails and prisons, perinatal prevention efforts, community planning, prevention for high-risk negatives, social marketing, media and mobilization, faith and business partnerships, and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)/Non-Occupational Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP).
Dr. Jeffrey Beal is the Medical Director of the Bureau of HIV/AIDS for the Florida Department of Health. Dr. Beal received his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and his medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He completed an internship in Family Practice and Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Medical College. He completed the Internal Medicine Residency program and a fourth-year fellowship in Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma and then stayed on the faculty, where he developed and ran a specialized clinic for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. After 20 years in an academic, clinical research, and private practice setting in Oklahoma, he relocated to Florida where he continues working in the field of HIV/AIDS focused in an administrative and educational capacity. He continues seeing patients in primarily rural health department settings where the need is greatest.
Dr. Beal has volunteered in Central America for the past 20 years on various medical missions. At present he serves as Medical Consultant to JustHope, Inc., an organization that provides base community support, including health care services to residents of Chacraseca, Nicaragua.
Dr. Emma Spencer is a graduate of Aberdeen University, U.K., where she obtained her PhD in Environmental Science in 2007. A research scientist by trade, Emma has over ten years' experience conducting large scale research programs, handling complex data analysis, and producing reports and papers to disseminate across a wide audience base. Her research has naturally progressed and moved her from the environmental field to study impacts upon human health.
In 2015, Emma undertook an MPH at Florida State University and has since expanded her research to include various human health related studies. Additionally, she focused her Capstone projects upon HIV/AIDS in the United States, and garnered a great interest in understanding and eliminating the disease.
In May 2016, she accepted the position as the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Program Manager with a commitment to accurately track and report cases of HIV/AIDS in Florida, and work closely with other programs to effectively combat the disease.


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Most people are aware of the infamous Abu Ghbraib prison, which is known for its extreme brutalities of Muslims during the American occupation of Iraq, but I was just made aware of an even more notorious prison: Camp Bucca. Also deemed "Camp Hell" by the prisoners that were locked up there, this prison may have been the spawning point for ISIS within Iraq. During the American occupation of Iraq, US soldiers were having a difficult time distinguishing extremist Muslims and moderate Muslims, resulting in mass incarceration of these people throughout the war. Not a surprise, immense resentment for the US developed because of their abrupt invasion of Iraq and the mass incarceration of Iraqi citizens that ensued. This is where the Islamic State comes into play.
According to Vice News, 17 of the Islamic State's top 25 senior leaders were housed at Camp Bucca during the war. Whether or not these people were already extremists at the time is up for debate, but there is no question that Camp Bucca made them more extreme. The group's leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, was even an inmate at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq.
Obviously, much like most of the US government's foreign policy goals, this all started out with good intentions. What the US did not account for when housing all of these alleged extremists together was some of them coordinating in furtherance of a much bigger goal. Since the US was very cognitive of the fact that Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims could not be housed together because they have historically fought against each other, Camp Bucca was divided into separate compounds containing specific sub-groups of Muslims. Additionally, the inmates were not just separated along Sunni-Shiite lines, but along ideological lines as well; moderate Muslims and extremist Muslims were also quickly housed separately. Thus, all extremist Muslims were housed in the same compound. The coordination between extremists got so bad in Camp Bucca that some decided to let themselves be caught in hopes of being incarcerated with their colleagues.
Marine Major General Doug Stone was put in charge of the camp in 2007 and said of the coordination between extremists that, "They showed up knowing about our intake process" and subsequently stated, "They would come in and say, "I believe this and such and therefore I'd like to get into Compound 34". He also added: "These guys were using detention for their own purposes".
In a Vice News interview with a former detainee of Camp Bucca, the former inmate suggested the prison camp was much like a school for radicalization. This sets up a direct link between the US and the spawning point of the most feared terrorist group in the world. As mentioned above, the group's current leader was housed in Camp Bucca, although he was released in 10 short months on the basis of good behavior and not being considered a significant threat. Other eventual senior leaders of ISIS that were taken to Camp Bucca include Abu Ahmed and Haji Bakr, whom some say was the real mastermind behind the Islamic State's structure and early success.
Despite the fact I had some beliefs that the US was the reason that ISIS rose up in the first place, I never thought I would have stumbled upon such concrete evidence like this. Now, it is important to ask the question: Could this have been avoided? To be honest, I am not completely sure of that. Overall, if the US did not invade Iraq through the government's belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, one could conclude that ISIS would never have surfaced. However, it is extremely hard to say that the spawning of ISIS could have been avoided even though the US invaded. There is no argument against the fact that the US military made some regrettable mistakes as it pertains to the way that Camp Bucca was run, but could it have been avoided? No one knows for sure. I will say that I believe the invasion of Iraq was an enormous foreign policy blunder that will go down in history as one of the worst decisions the US government has made. Iraq is not in any better condition since we decided to "spread democracy" to the country. Countless lives and funds have been spent on the war in Iraq, which continues today, and a lot of it can be attributed to the mistakes that were made at Camp Bucca.
–Here is the link to the Vice News coverage on this: Islamic State in Iraq
–Contributed by R.A.


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South Shields 204
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|Weymann H29/26R
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The South Shields trolleybus system was inaugurated on 12 October 1936 when four Karrier E4 trolleybuses with Weymann H56R bodywork entered service between Market Place and Freemantle Road. The trolleybus service proved extremely popular and a further four similar vehicles were purchased in 1937 to replace trams on the Stanhope Road service, of which 204 was the first of the second batch of vehicles. The only difference was that the second batch of vehicles had one less seat on the upper deck than the original four.
204 entered service on 30 April 1937. In 1950 a route number box was provided alongside the front ultimate destination indicator, ready for the introduction of route numbers. Other than that 204 had a remarkably uneventful 26 years in service.
The Reading Transport Society had made enquiries regarding the purchase of 200 for preservation. The South Shields Transport Committee agreed to make a gift of the vehicle to the Society. Unfortunately 200 was damaged in an accident inside Chichester depot and 204, withdrawn in February 1963, was provided as a substitute vehicle.
204 was kept in outside storage in Reading during the early years and like Reading 113 the bodywork deteriorated badly. Following its transfer to Sandtoft in 1970, 204 has been kept under cover waiting patiently for her turn to be restored. A major body rebuild costing lots of money commenced in 2001 and a thoroughly professional job was carried out at Sandtoft by a team led by Brian Maguire - click here to see some photographs of 204's restoration. Much of the money to finance the rebuild came from the BTS membership following a number of appeals.
In May 2005, 204 entered service at Sandtoft looking absolutely magnificent. 204 is the only Karrier E4 and also the only South Shields trolleybus in preservation.


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The Jackson family arrived safely back in Long Beach yesterday morning to an empty, echoey house. We setup a few mattresses on the floor and huddled together, because this weather is absolutely freezing! I haven't felt the lick of seventy degrees in ten months, and let me tell you, after living under a ripe sun and rice-cooking humidity, this is a bit of culture shock. Not to mention the fact that now the world outside our doors is in English, and white people dominate the calles. Today we are unpacking our two-hundred something boxes of items we stored in the motherland so we can downsize the excess of our lives to- hopefully- less than thirty bags. The life of an expat is the life for me!
Being back in Los Estados Unidos is a mixed bag. Cruising down the eight lane highways with (oh, dear Lord) traffico, all I am able to see is the flashes of the caratera in Playa del Carmen: snug in our gold beater van that may break down at any moment on the two lane road, flanked on either side by encroaching jungle. It is October and the clouds in the thick, black sky are wrenching out their soaked laundry, so our windows our obscured by fat droplets of water. Then I see all the roadsigns are in English with names like Highway 405 and Huntington Beach instead of Muyil and Puerto Morelos, and I am jolted back to reality. I am ecstatic for the upcoming adventures, but my year in Playa has shaped me in a way that not even my months of blogging could completely reveal.
One way Playa has changed me is as an artist. Although I was experimenting with spray paint long before moving to Mexico was even a thought, I have become more mature in my art and have developed more skills, as time always allows, so I am excited to turn back to my primal instinct of street art and whip out some awesome pieces! Here are some of the best pieces and throw ups I documented from the street art culture of Playa. All pictures are taken by me. Gracias a https://www.facebook.com/pages/SENKOE/131113663632752 y http://www.fotolog.com/graffiteik/most_viewed/ for your work. Enjoy!


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Tips for Visiting the Inipi (Sweat Lodge of the Lakota People)
The Sacred Fire
The women go in first, then the men, then the fire keepers. (Traditionally, sweat lodge ceremonies of the Lakota people (Inipi) are only for men, but today half of the participants are female, including me, which I consider progress.)
The first 7 stones are placed in the center of the lodge, the door closes tightly, and the First Round of the Inipi begins. Everyone sits in a circle around the hot stones. The number of stones increases as the ceremony goes on. By the time it's Round Three, it feels like I'm inhaling fire.
It has gotten so hot that the only way I can breathe is through a towel. The medicine man sings prayers in Lakota language and splashes water over the pile of hot stones. The water evaporates instantly and new waves of heat overwhelm all senses. Some people around me are screaming, crying or chanting, but I can't see them—the darkness blots out everything. The smoke from the burning sage and the steam from the stones make the air thick, heavy with vapors. Something is crawling up my leg. I don't know how much longer I can last.
Tips for Visiting a Lakota Sweat Lodge
- Make sure to drink plenty of water.
- Choose your sweat lodge guide wisely.
- Don't be afraid of looking silly.
- Look around before entering the lodge.
- Bring organic tobacco as a gift.
Tip #1: Make Sure to Drink Plenty of Water.
Make sure to drink plenty of water before and after the ceremony to avoid severe dehydration and aid the detoxification process.
My torrid brain keeps reminding me of the medical conditions associated with prolonged heat exposure - nausea, headache, increased respiration, delirium… My God, I think I have all of them.
Then it gets existential: my mortality is suddenly both real and terrifying. For a second there I'm thinking: this may be it… my last moments… I'm going to have a heart attack (or worse - pass out) right here in this pitch-black hut with 15 strangers, and no one will even notice.
My paranoia isn't entirely unfounded: three people died in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony conducted by another new age guru with "the secret": spirituality as a financial strategy. Participants paid 10 thousand dollars to go on a retreat, at the end of which they were packed into a waist-high hut until they started gasping for air and showed other signs of serious physical distress. At least I know I'm getting the real deal - an authentic Lakota spiritual guide named Hawk Moon.
Moon is a jovial silver-haired man with a loud rumbling laughter. He is a force. He leads the ceremony with a steady experienced hand, and I feel I can trust him. Before we begin he says:
"There will be times when you'll feel you can't go on. If that is the case, you can leave the lodge at any time, but I encourage you to stay and breathe through the heat. The more heat you feel, the more impurities you are burning away."
Tip #2: Choose Your Sweat Lodge Guide Wisely.
On the verge of being defeated by the heat I remember Moon's words and concentrate on the breathing, and nothing else. I let the heat in, I'm not fighting it anymore. Soon my discomfort and fears somehow become hazy, abstract, insignificant... I observe myself and everyone inside the lodge as if from a distance. I breathe in the hot air, and it burns away all the impurities in my body. I exhale slowly, and I let go. The darkness, frightening at first, becomes a soothing warm blanket covering my naked soul. People screaming and crying don't bother me anymore: they are letting their pain out, and it is beautiful.
Tip #3: Don't Be Afraid of Looking Silly.
Don't be afraid of looking silly. Feel your repressed emotions, really go for it. Scream or cry if you need to, allow the Spirit to take over.
Suddenly I'm crying too. The sorrow that lived inside me burst like a water-filled balloon, and I'm allowing myself to be sad about whatever it is I am sad about.
The Rounds
Although there is no uniform sweat lodge ritual, the whole process is modeled after the Native American Medicine Wheel, which represents the archetypal journey each of us takes in life. This journey has four stages or rounds, each associated with a cardinal direction and a color.
- Round One (East, Yellow) is of mild intensity, and is for getting used to the heat, the darkness, the enclosed space and anything else that might take some getting used to. Associated with the Visionary archetype: the path of the highest good.
Round Two (South, Red) is moderately hot, and is about "the others": people, relationships and unresolved conflicts. The idea is that you are willing to care for someone else before you care for yourself. Associated with the Teacher archetype: helping others to reach their full potential.
- Round Three (West, Black) is for forgiving, embracing and nurturing your inner Self, and is the hottest round of all four. In many ways it is the toughest round: not only temperature-wise, but for the way we tend to avoid our own demons. Associated with the Healer archetype: ability to manifest healing for oneself and/or others.
Round Four (North, White) is dedicated entirely to that evasive "I'm glad to be alive" feeling and giving thanks: to the Earth Mother, the Universe, and the spirits of ancestors. Associated with the Warrior archetype: strength of spirit, taking control of one's life.
Tip #4: Look Around Before Entering the Lodge.
Take a moment to look around before entering the lodge. After the ceremony you won't see the world the same way.
The sweat lodge also symbolizes a mother's womb, or the Universe. We humbly enter the lodge on our knees, and by entering it we are allowing ourselves to become vulnerable and open like a child. Because only by becoming open again can we let go of emotional traumas, fears and self-inflicted limitations. Upon exiting the lodge we kneel again, thanking the Earth Mother and the medicine man for the healing.
Tip #5: Bring Organic Tobacco as a Gift.
Bring a bag of organic tobacco as a gift to the Medicine Man/guide. It's typically given before or during the ceremony to be smoked after.
As I crawled out of the lodge, I felt an incredible sense of freedom and lightness, like I've lost a couple hundred pounds. After the darkness, the harsh heat and the purging my eyes opened to the sight of smoky-blue mountains of Southern California, the sun setting below and the sound of ravens croaking in the distance. Early evening air felt exhilarating.
"You look so much clearer," someone says to me almost immediately. I say "thank you" and wonder what the hell I looked like before. But I feel clearer.
After the ceremony everyone is hugging each other as is - in sweat-drenched clothes, with towels hung around the necks and smudged dirt on smiling faces. Lots of smiling and hugging, which is a sharp contrast to a group of random strangers I've met with in the morning.
Hawk Moon instructs us to greet one another as if meeting for the first time, since we are different people now. It sounds odd but it made complete sense, and it strengthened the impression that we emerged from the lodge much like a newborn emerges from a mother's womb. We were transformed and reborn. Out of the darkness came the new beginning, and without a doubt, we all felt a little closer to the Spirit that dwells within each of us.
The Symbolism
As the brightest of you have deduced, I've made it out alive. Yet some sort of death did occur because I felt different, and what is death if not a symbol for a personal transformation.
It's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.— Cornel West
The idea of rebirth is essential to the sweat lodge tradition. To go through an intense spiritual purification is to transform the self: to let an old self die so it can be reborn. The word "Inipi" literally means "to live again".
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This article is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.
Questions & Answers
I participated in a sweat that I requested to assist me in seeking forgiveness from my spouse for a wrong I committed. I wanted her to know how remorseful I was and how badly I wanted her forgiveness. During ceremony I sent my spirit animal to her and asked it to help her. I know it went because she told me she saw it at her shoulder and he growled (wolf). The problem is.. I don't think he came back. Is it possible to bring him back? I have felt an absence ever since. I have attended 4 sweats. 2 of them were very spiritual with audible and visual spiritual events. In my first sweat, I was given a spirit name which also names my spirit animal. I am of Metis heritage (ojibwe-french) and I had such a feeling of deja vu that it shook me. I felt like I could almost sing the song being sung by the singers.
Something happened. I felt a surge of energy that apparently passed through the lodge. The singers simultaneously changed the song they were singing and after the first round they all collapsed at the same time. I felt more invigorated. The heat refreshed me. The elder said "someone's spirit is very strong". During the second round, I heard a large bird hover over my head beating its wings. I am not sure what type of bird it was but it sounded large. Hawk sized. When it was all done the elder spoke. He said that the song changed to the "Wolf song" and the drummer and singers were all compelled to sing it at the same time.
He singled me out. He told me my spirit had made itself known to all in the lodge. He gave me my spirit name on the spot. "Ma'iingan".
Wolf. The most humbling moment in my life. I was deeply moved and honored. Am I still Ma'iingan? I have to seek another elder and find out. Does anyone know if it is possible to call your spirit animal back to you if you sent it away? I only sent it to help, I didn't mean for him to leave me for good.
I have seen snippets of a starry sky, floating green & violet shapes, flying eagle, ocean, & faces of my loved ones. The Native American sweat lodge ceremonies have helped me to achieve balance in my life at age 52. To release all the stuck emotions/traumas & toxic behaviors, letting go of ego, self-love, self-forgiveness. It has increased my gratitude and compassion for others. I feel connected to nature, and truly appreciate all living things now. I'm so happy to have finally found a way of life that resonates with me. Respect. Nature. Simple. Joy. Gratitude.
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Did anyone see anything in the sweat lodge?
Well written. I am going to a traditional Lakota lodge this Sunday. First one in 5 yes. Used to go to Maidu lodge in Oroville CA.
I attended the lakota inipi every friday and sunday for about 3 years. I did in fact change me. It changed my body and mind. My heart and spirit. It even changed my internal temperature gauge. I learned who I truly was and who I could become. I have not been now for 20 plus years. I am due!
Looking forward to trying one out . Any times and adress of the next one
Women being asked into the lodge is a break with tradition, Dakota/Lakota tradition, but is not reflective of a value system that held women as "lower" or "less". Inipi is Dakota, I would suggest that you should refrain from entering, even when invited, a traditional Dakota/Lakota sweat, unless you are, of course, a relative of the Inipi leader, who is Native, and having ceremony at home. Otherwise do what you do, with and how you choose, but it is not inipi, and it should NOT be appropriated. Thank you for considering this, and best wishes to you and your family.
I am looking for a sweatlodge (lakota) in Colorado. I read your article and it sounds like a beautiful experience. If you have any recommendations I would greatly appreciate it.
Lana ZK. IF YOU ARE TRULY LOOKING FOR LODGE THAT IS BEING POURED JUST FOR THE GOODNESS OF POURING I HAVE A LODGE BEHIND MY HOUSE. IT IS IN IDAHO. BUT IF YOU EVER GET THIS WAY IT IS AT 5705 AIRPORT RD. NAMPA IDAHO. WE DONT HAVE REGULARLY SCHEDULED SWEATS. WE HAVE THEM WHEN SOMEONE ASKS AND OFFERS TOBACCO. THERE IS NEVER ANY CHARGE. ONLY THE PERSON CALLING FOR THE SWEAT MAKES AN OFFERING OF TOBACCO. Wupulla ( the meal after ceremony is pot luck) but you dont have to bring anything... The pourers are myself, woody, crow mark, lakota mark, these are traditional lakota sweats. When Crow mark pours he seats you in the crow way. Hope this helps on your journey of the red. Road... With love and support standing hawk. From the red hands lodge..
Hey Lana -
Just moved to the San Diego area - interested in attending a sweat - do you have the where & when info?
I love this story thank you
Great article. Women didn't traditionally participate in the sweat simply because they didn't need to. Women purify themselves naturally every month...
Can you tell me when the next sweat lodge ceremony will be happening and how to sign up? I tried to look on the website you suggested but they list only retreats. Was your experience a part of a retreat?
Hau Lana
I do appreciate the humility and respect that you display in your post, and without trying to be condescending in any way, I would like to point out a few things that I find to be objectionable and, quite frankly, Cultural and Spiritual misappropriation.
As someone who has been Lakota Red Road for over 24 years, I have NEVER paid an "admission" fee to Pray in Inipi. I have been Pouring for almost 10 years, and I NEVER charge anything (other than a pouch of Tobacco if people can afford it), and we have Ceremony at least once a month. People who come to pray here at Chanku Luta Inipi have offered me money, but I will not accept it, and instead ask them to bring Sage, Sweetgrass, Cedar, Inyans (Stones), some wood, or anything else that they can that we use in Inipi. Inipi does not belong to anyone, so how can you charge for something that already belongs to the Oyate (People)? When the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the Seven Sacred Rites, of which Inipi is one, to the Lakota Oyate, she did not attach a bill to them. I see no difference between paying james ray $10,000 for a "spiritual warrior" sweat lodge and paying Hawk Moon $60.00 ($900.00 if there were 15 people, which is about what I spend on wood in 2 years). This is something that is non-negotiable with all the Lakota Oyate and others I have Prayed with, at Wounded Knee, Denver, and Boulder. The amount is not what is in question; the paying of any sum for someone to Pour for you is, and it is a great honor and responsibility to be asked to do this for the Oyate, and money should never be involved.
Having said that, I am NOT saying that this is not a Spiritual endeavor for you and all the others that Pray with Hawk Moon. I am simply saying that it is not Inipi, in the Traditional sense, but a sweat lodge. All Inipi's are Sweat Lodges; not all sweat lodges are Inipi. The distinction might be a matter of semantics to some, or nuance or subtlety to others, but to all the Wichasa and Winyan Wakhan (Medicine Men and Women) that Pour, it is one of great importance. There are too many people who make up an Indian sounding name, learn a few things about whatever Nation they intend to steal from, and proceed to make a living selling spirituality, but for me and my tiyospaye (extended family) who walk the Lakota Red Road, true Spiritually can not be purchased; it must be attained through sincere practice and acquiring the knowledge of whatever Spiritual Path you choose, or that has been chosen for you.
I say all this with no animosity towards Hawk Moon, as I have never met him and don't know his motivation for doing what he does, and certainly with none towards you, as you do seem sincere in your quest. I have often said to my tiyospaye that people who pay to pray can still get whatever it is that they are seeking, and it is the person who is charging for their enlightenment who is the one that is suffering. I hope that you'll get the opportunity to experience Inipi with someone who Pours for the goodness of Pouring and the altruism that entails, but I also Pray that you'll find what you are looking for with Hawk Moon. It's all Prayer, after all, and Spirit looks into the hearts of those Praying and knows what is true. Wicozani.
Mitakuye Oyasin
Please be careful of the words you choose in the future. Just because one POURS a lodge does NOT make them a Medicine Man. In the Lakota Nation there are currently only 5 recognized Medicine Men at present. All of which are in the ND/SD areas. While Hawk Moon may indeed be a Spiritual Leader, he is NOT one of the 5. It is very important to know these things, especially when you are sharing it to the world. Additionally, there are things that are not "true to the teachings" in your article I am sad to say. Yes Inipi's are powerful, but it is important they are true to the teachings - so it is much more than just Knowing who is pouring. Mitakuye Oyasin.
I would like information on the next sweat lodge please. email email@example.com thank you!
I appreciate you sharing your experience and the facts as well. I thought you might like to know that I was not frightened but excited to get to go in for the first time.
Just participated in Inipi Sweat Lodge in Blue Mountains, Australia with Native American Initiate Blue Lynx this past weekend. Loved your writing and the familiarity to my experience. Was a profound and transformational experience. Aho!
Hi! I'm looking for a new sweat lodge community. Is there one this month in San Diego? Can you please help me to find information about it? Aho!
Hi, is there any upcoming event?
I wonder what made the ancient people develop such rituals, you know, going about their brutal business day to day, hunting, crafting, surviving season to season - then the visionary idea - life is built from within, from the spirit/soul - that we are all wonders - not merely flesh and bone, though that helps - but in need of spiritual cleansing now and again?
I enjoyed your graphic writing. You went through and crossed the threshold and came out drenched, reborn almost into the light. And your dreams? Caught within the rays between the words.
Please I need information about the next sweat lodge this is my email adress firstname.lastname@example.com thank you.
Will there be an event on 11/15/14? I'm interested in participating.
Refreshing to hear ....those talk of the path of the REDEAST...
I participated in a ceremony in North Dakota about twenty years ago...it was everything you said here and much more. I highly recommend this to anyone who feels the need to "cleanse." Nicely written.
this event still goes down every 3rd Saturday of the month unless rain at top of madre grande monastery in dulzura and there is a small donation asked for so bring money and please bring food for pot luck. Starts at 10 a.m. indian time.
I will keep this short. Been there, done that, and it is truly a mystical experience that could benefit everyone. :) Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
i just got done with my first sundance- I'm looking for a sweatlodge- i am here in san diego this week. Is there one happening any time soon?
Queman tikonitas tonatiuh
Ica mollolo shiompaki
Macehual ompa, ompa niyetos ihuan totahtzin, cualtzin tlawilli nimitmacas pejuta wichasha.
Three cheers for the Lakota sweat lodge!!
It sounds deeply cleansing.
Also, I gotta say, your writing has a powerful, simple luminous quality. Reminds me of Dostoevsky.


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An-Noor Academy
May 6, 2015
Dear Brother/Sister in Islam,
As Salam 'Alaykum Wa Rahmatulahi Wa Barakatahu,
Subject: Appointment of Dr. Hassan Elannani as New Principal of An-Noor Academy
All praises be to Allah Subḥānahu Wa Ta'āla, the most gracious and the most merciful, and we always seek His guidance and blessings in all our affairs, at the individual and collective level. Peace and blessings be on the Prophet Mohammed Sallahu Alahi Wa Sallam, who was sent as a blessing to the mankind. We pray to Allah Subḥānahu Wa Ta'āla that this letter reaches you at the highest level of Imaan and good health.
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Enclosed please find a letter from Dr. Hassan Elannani introducing himself and opening a new chapter at An-Noor Academy. We strongly believe that with the help of Allah Subḥānahu Wa Ta'āla and your continued support we can make An-Noor Academy an outstanding place for our students to learn and grow, and play a positive role as a Muslim in this country. Dr. Hassan will be joining the school after Ramadhan, InshaAllah.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our Interim Principal Sr. Samina Rathore for her contributions and leadership. We would also like to extend our thanks to all the members of SEC for sharing additional responsibility in time of need.
Board of Directors
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Fax: (732) 410-7857
A Video Message from Dr. Hassan Elannani, An-Noor Academy's New Principal - May, 2015
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Inappropriate elimination can make any cat owner's life a true nightmare, especially when it involves faeces. Cats instinctively choose soft, grainy materials in out-of-the-way places to do their business, mimicking the ground dirt their ancestors once used on the African plains. But your house is not an African plain, and you need your cat to do his dirty work in the litter box. With a few simple tips, your cat will be on the way to good bathroom behaviour.
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- "The Cat Behavior Answer Book:" Practical Insights & Proven Solutions for Your Feline Questions; Arden Moore; 2007
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