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I used a yellow, pink and red nail varnish. After applying two coats of yellow I used a small sponge to sponge on the pink and then later, the red. I also sprinkled a tiny bit of gold glitter on top.
Monday, 30 July 2012
Ooh not Ouch! Sunburnt Nails!
One of my favourite, but slightly sad, things to do is to sit down with a good film and a lot of nail varnish and spend ages messing around with my nails. Not only is it fun, but stops me from eating in front of the telly! So, quite proud, I thought I would show you the outcome of this weekends Nail/Film marathon. I did take these photos a couple days after, hence the massive smudge on my index finger.
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text: Mike LaFontaine: "I don't know if you're familiar with a book about a pirate captain, his name is Moby Dick? He was chasing some big whale. And he had a catch phrase he'd always yell out, "There she blows!" So I thought, If you could do that, we'd have someone off-stage drench the whole group with water. And you could look at the camera and say, "Hey, wha' happened?". And every time, another thing of water... And by then you're all soaked, even the ladies... (He whispers something into Terry's ear.) And at the end of the song you turn the guitars and all upside down and water splashes out. Kerplunk! It's just a thought."

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The spearheads of research at the Meilahti Campus include clinical research, cancer, inflammation, genetic research, and research on the mind.
Research profile
Centres of Excellence
In 2018‒2025 the Faculty of Medicine hosts three Centres of Excellence:
Aaltonen, Lauri: Centre of Excellence in Tumor Genetics Research
Katajisto, Pekka: Centre of Excellence in Stem Cell Metabolism, coordinated by Institute of Biotechnology
Ripatti, Samuli: Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics
In 2014‒2019 the Faculty of Medicine hosts three Centres of Excellence:
Alitalo, Kari: Centre of Excellence in Translational Cancer Biology
Ikonen, Elina: Centre of Excellence in Biomembrane Research
Jacobs, Howard: Centre of Excellence in Research on Mitochondria, Metabolism and Disease (FinMIT), coordinated by the University of Tampere
In 2012‒2017 the Faculty of Medicine hosts two Centres of Excellence:
Aaltonen, Lauri: The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Cancer Genetics Research
Knip, Mikael: Centre of Excellence in Molecular Systems Immunology and Physiology Research
Centres of Excellence in University of Helsinki
Academy professorships
Aaltonen, Lauri 1 January 2008 ‒ 31 December 2012 and 1 January 2013 ‒ 31 December 2017
Cancer Genetics
The mission of the research group is to improve the treatment and prevention of cancer.
Alitalo, Kari 1 August 1998 ‒ 31 July 2000 and as of 1 August 2000 permanently
Translational Cancer Biology
The research group examines the operation of cancer genes in intercellular communication, particularly the role of blood vessels in malignant tumours.
Ikonen, Elina 1 January 2010 ‒ 31 December 2014 and 1 January 2015 ‒ 31 December 2019
Cellular and developmental biology
The research project investigates how cholesterol behaves in cell membranes in both normal circumstances and in human cholesterol-related disorders.
Kaprio, Jaakko 1 January 2013 ‒ 31 December 2017
Genetic epidemiology
The research group investigates tobacco addiction and its significance to public health.
Räikkönen-Talvitie, Katri 1 January 2015 ‒ 31 December 2019
Developmental psychology
The research group investigates the effects of the fetal environment on the individual's subsequent life outcomes.
Wartiovaara, Anu 1 January 2017 ‒ 31 December 2021
Clinical medicine
The research group focuses on mitochondrial diseases.
FiDiPro professorship
The Finland Distinguished Professor Programme (FiDiPro) is a funding programme jointly launched by the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes) for recruiting international or Finnish top-level researchers with extensive international experience and the qualifications of a professor to Finland on a fixed-term basis.
Further information can be found on the FiDiPro website.
Vladislav V. Verkhusha
Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, USA
Recruited in 2012, funding period approximately five years (Academy of Finland)
Verkhusha is the leading expert in the development of fluorescent proteins; he develops red fluorescent proteins and proteins whose fluorescence can be switched on or off in a controlled manner. These have many applications.
Finnish host: Academy Professor Elina Ikonen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki.
The research programs coordinated by the Faculty's Research Programs Unit are selected on the basis of an external assessment for a period of six years. An international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), the members of which include distinguished international researchers, has been appointed for this purpose.
The research programs for the period 2013‒2018 include the following: Diabetes and Obesity, Genome-Scale Biology, Immunobiology, Translational Cancer Biology, and Molecular Neurology.
The Faculty of Medicine is a nationally and internationally renowned research and teaching unit and partner that takes into consideration both societal needs and the changing array of diseases. The quality of Faculty operations is maintained, developed and assessed with a quality assurance system that covers all areas and is based on the quality policy of the University of Helsinki. The Faculty trains a wide range of health care professionals and experts, aiming for optimal treatment and diagnostic quality.
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Food for ThoughtPoints of View GalleryGroup show
Points of View Artists open their 2017 season with Food for Thought. The show includes artwork that reflects our relationship with that most basic of needs: food. But it also displays work that makes us pause...and think about what we see.
20% of sales will be donated to the MidCoast Hunger Prevention Project. There will also be a drawing at the end of the reception for an piece of art donated by one of the artists. To enter the drawing, bring canned or dry goods to contribute to a collection for the pantry at MCHPP.
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14kt Gold, Citrine, Emerald, and Seed Pearl Necklace and Earrings
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14kt Gold, Citrine, Emerald, and Seed Pearl Necklace and Earrings, designed as seed pearl and enamel serpents, with bezel-set pear-shape citrines, lg. 17 and 2 3/4 in.
Estimate $800-1,200
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What Does It Mean to be In Shape?
I think that for most people, that means being in the shape they'd like to be in -- which is self-evidently looking to be in fantastic condition -- and not simply having low cholesterol, excellent aerobic capacity, while weighing 1,000 pounds. That's the obvious one -- but less obvious are those at ideal weight and heart rate function, whose bodies are not in the shape they want it to be in. And the secret is that the existent muscle one presently has, can be trained to put one into the shape one wants to be in.
That difference is illustrated best by those who train in gyms to be strong or just to look strong; the advantage of the latter is that if one looks strong, that is a deterrent to others to find out if one actually is strong. If a person is strong but doesn't look like it, the chances of being picked on and having to prove that strength each time to every newcomer, can be a great drain of energy.
Fortunately in nature and reality, what looks strong generally is strong -- and so those looking for easy prey move on. Most criminals and other opportunists operate in that manner -- looking for the easiest prey, and passing on those who seem to have a greater possibility of having an advantage. That's why a lot of people like to pick on children -- and even many teachers choose that occupation so they can be the smartest person in the room, and maybe the strongest too. Bullying and intimidation are unfortunately great motivations for some people -- but if one proceeds too far down that path, one eventually runs into those who cannot be dominated in that way, which can crush one's confidence.
Confidence is a large part of the shape one wants to be in. Before the popularity of exercise in the 1950s, that actually was the major component for "conditioning" exercises -- to give one that look of confidence and poise. So ingénues walked with books on their heads to develop grace, balance, ease of movement. The unfortunate advice of the '70s, was to make every movement as difficult as possible -- that somehow, the surest road to anything, was to produce its opposite, in the misunderstanding that action produced a reaction. A lot of drugs were even designed along that premise -- producing immunities and antibodies, or in the case of the NSAIDs discussed previously, to create a sense of urgency and agitation, that can wear on the body over time, causing it to lose that response.
That is a very common psychological ploy -- that is not a very far-sighted one, and that is to create a false emergency to motivate another, or even oneself. After a while, one loses his credibility with others -- as well as himself. A lot of the conditioning programs are this kind of false emergencies -- that may work initially by fooling oneself into thinking a response is necessary, but eventually leads one to ignoring all the signals entirely.
Conditioning by fooling the body in this manner, eventually leads to ignoring all the signals from the body -- because there is no longer credibility and integrity in that body. But if one conditions himself to be keenly aware -- then his responses will be acute, precise, appropriate, and convey that level of functioning. The optimization of (well)-being, has to begin with the obvious and self-evident to anyone, and not just the secret knowledge of the experts who claim to know better.
One should begin with the obvious, self-evident, clearly visible -- instead of being conditioned to ignore those factors in favor of theories and explanations on what health is, and what one is trying to accomplish. The unfortunate consequence of competing against oneself, is that one simply adopts self-defeating behaviors and attitudes.


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Candied Sweet Potatoes
These classic sticky-sweet potatoes cook slowly in a syrup that gets its flavor from the sweet potatoes and a splash of apple cider vinegar. Adapted from a recipe in "Sweet Potatoes" by April McGreger, part of UNC Press' Savor the South cookbook series.
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MOSCOW, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced in absentia Director General of the Hermitage Capital Management Foundation, British national William Browder to nine years in prison for tax evasion at the tune of over 522 million roubles. According to the court verdict, Browder was also deprived of the right to engage in business activity for two years
On Thursday, Federal Judge Igor Alisov found guilty Browder and auditor of the foundation Sergei Magnitsky of the incriminated crime. According to the court verdict, Magnitsky acted in the interests of Browder, masterminding "a massive tax evasion scheme in a preliminary conspiracy with a group of people."
The court relieved Magnitsky of punishment over his death and terminated the criminal case against him.
According to the court verdict, Magnitsky acted in the interests of Browder. "Magnitsky masterminded a massive tax evasion scheme in a preliminary conspiracy with a group of people," Judge Igor Alisov said in the court verdict.
According the court verdict, Browder's fly-by-night companies Dalnaya Step (far steppe) and Saturn Investments, which are based in Kalmykia, illegally used additional benefits on the income that was confirmed by the witnesses in their testimony, the results of the expertises and written evidence.
So, in 2001 the income tax was regulated by the special law and made 35%, which were distributed to the budget of three levels: local budget - five percent, regional budget - 19% and federal budget - 11%. Meanwhile, Kalmykia envisaged the benefits on the income tax in some conditions. One of conditions is the investments by the organization in the republican economy. In this respect, Magnitsky has developed an illegally tax evasion scheme for Browder. Browder has set up Kalmykia's Business Centre for investments that permitted him to get an additional benefit. However, a real sum of his investment has made 1,000 roubles that cannot be considered as investment.
Meanwhile, Browder has set up an organization, which consists of three people - Browder himself and two disabled people, which were employed only formally, but also provided the benefit on the income tax. The defendants also falsified the documents, which were produced in the taxation service.
So, the court verdict reads that both companies of Browder paid 5.5% each instead of 35% of income tax.
"As a result of a scheme for the falsification of tax declarations that Magnitsky has developed for Browder and illegal use of benefits the actions of the defendants inflicted the damages to the budget at all its levels - federal, regional and local, where hundreds of millions of roubles were underpaid," the court verdict runs.
Meanwhile, "Magnitsky was aware of false declared information" and realized the unlawfulness of his actions, the judge noted.
During the court hearings the prosecutor asked to sentence Browder to nine years in prison and relieve Magnitsky from punishment over his death and terminate the criminal case against him.


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IZT Provides Virtualization for DAB Mux Encoders
LOS ANGELES � We�ve previously covered virtualization of DAB mux encoders. A recent article from worlddabeureka.org has provided a little more detail, which should be of interest to those of us in the U.S. as well. Let�s take a look at it.
According to VMware, �Virtualization is the process of creating a software-based (or virtual) representation of something rather than a physical one.� Virtual machines, which run on a larger server, provide the functionality that was previously provided by a physical computer.
As an example, the IZT DAB ContentServer is based on standard server hardware and can be cost-effectively operated in virtual machines.
�Traditional DAB head-ends were designed using several dedicated devices for different purposes. In contrast, now we can incorporate audio encoding, data service handling and multiplexing in one entity � including configuration and monitoring capabilities. The software system is installed on a standard IT server, saving rack-space and energy costs as well as facilitating the replacement of defective or obsolescent hardware. The use of standard hardware and integrated audio encoding bring the benefits of lower hardware costs, cost-efficient maintenance and a significantly lower risk of failure,� according to the same article.�
IZT recommends using VMware ESXi as hypervisor for the set up a virtualized DAB head-end. Each DAB service or ensemble multiplexer requires a separate ContentServer instance; the ContentServer software system includes and integrates an operating system (Linux Ubuntu-based). Additional virtual machines can also be installed--for example, software to analyze the EDI output streams of the multiplexers, which ultimately reach the actual MUX transmitters.
Use of VMware ESXi allows for configuration of physical and virtual network interfaces via a web interface. Each multiplexer system in the setup can be accessed via its primary IP address; however, each multiplexer can also be accessed via different VLAN interfaces, such as those transporting Audio over IP (AoIP) from different service providers, and outbound links to transmitter sites. The host system and VMs can be monitored using SNMP.
�Broadcasters and network operators can benefit from building DAB head-ends based on virtualization � especially in case of complex setups, such as multi-regional DAB networks. However, virtualization requires careful system planning and monitoring. Accordingly, a system supplier should involve the operator�s technical experts and system architects for the integration of the system into the IT infrastructure,� according to the same article.��


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The Law Officer's Pocket Manual - Bloomberg BNA
This handy 4" x 6" spiral-bound manual offers examples showing how rules are...
Corporal Tyler Kinney, a 12-year veteran of the Colchester, Vermont, Police Department, is on unpaid leave from the force, following his arrest on suspicion of stealing drug and gun evidence from the department's evidence room. Colchester Police Chief Jennifer Morrison made the announcement Tuesday.
"Today is the darkest day in the history of the Colchester Police Department," Morrison told reporters, reading a prepared statement in a somber tone. "In my 24 years in law enforcement, I have never been so disappointed."
Morrison said Kinney, 38, of Jericho, Vermont, was in charge of evidence handling. She said she expects Kinney to face federal charges of drug sales and gun trafficking on Wednesday. Morrison explained the alleged crimes came to light when the Burlington Police Department seized a gun as part of one of its investigations that was supposed to be locked up in Colchester, NECN.com reports.
The investigation is still ongoing, Morrison noted, adding that the department is fully cooperating with federal authorities, including the FBI. Morrison said the amount of drugs diverted from the evidence locker is still undetermined.
Ima Leprechaun @ 11/14/2014 4:01 AM
Unfortunately thefts from evidence room's is very common in Law Enforcement. Most major crimes committed by Officers stem from evidence theft. Evidence management is the most important job within any Law Enforcement Agency and many agencies treat evidence management like a joke. Some agencies use this position as punishment for bad officers, which Evidence Management is the last place to put a bad officer. Evidence Management is not glamorous but it is extremely important for proper case management and convictions.
Paul Mulhern @ 11/16/2014 7:54 PM
whats new about this, I have known several Officers from 10 different city's that steal drugs or other things, there will always someone at a department that steals drugs or other evidence. The blue line covers up for them.


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Have you ever been to an unclaimed baggage store? It is an interesting experience. And it is remarkable the things that people have left behind. Some things are mere trinkets, others are more costly items that most probably were precious to the person who lost them.
Have you ever thought about the lost promises of God? Have you ever considered if there might be unclaimed promises of God with your name on them?
I truly believe that most Christians live meager spiritual lives and limp by with such a weak faith because they have not received, claimed or held onto the promises of God.
Let me share just a few promises of God that have YOUR name on them, that perhaps you have lost and left behind on your journey:
- Lo, I am with you always, to the very end of the earth (see Matt 28:20)
- I will never leave you, nor forsake you (see Deut 31:6)
- The same power that rose Jesus from the grave is in you (see Eph 1:18-20)
- No temptation has seized you except…God will give you a way out (see 1 Cor 10:13)
- God will give you the peace of God which will guard your heart and mind (see Php 4:7)
- God is faithful and will forgive and cleanse you (see 1 Jn 1:9)
- God's grace is sufficient for you and your need (see 2 Cor 12:9)
- I am the Lord your healer (see Ex 15:26)
These are only a few of the great and precious promises of our Lord! He gives us promise upon promise, grace upon grace and mercy upon mercy.
Much of the time these promises, like so many others are left on the shelf. They are collecting dust as they stay as words on the pages of an unread Bible instead of words of life burned into the heart of the believer. They remain unheard words of truth which might be whispered directly into the heart of a believer who would spend time with the Lord in prayer. The promises of God often are discarded at the feet of disappointing circumstances, bitter and unforgiving hearts and unfulfilled dreams.
I can assure you that the promises are real. The power of God is still present for us to receive His promises and for them to bring hope and transformation in our hearts and in the world.
There is one condition however. The condition for us to receive the promises of God is that we listen. If we don't listen we don't hear His promises. If we don't listen we don't have the opportunity to believe what God speaks. If we don't listen we won't know which personal choices are working against the promises of God in our lives.
So listen up!
God is speaking to you.
He is speaking His promises of love and sanctifying power.
And if you will listen. And believe. And receive.
Your life will be changed by the power of God at work within!
2 Peter 1:3-4 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.


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The Impact of Abortion
Abortion. Just the very word stirs up emotions and opinions about the issue. Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, we all, for the most part, have strong beliefs about the topic. Usually the debate focuses on the legality of abortion and if there needs to be more restrictions or whether it is morally right or wrong for a woman to get an abortion. There are so many different areas of debate that arises with this topic and the debate is far from over as each side fights for what they believe is the right decision concerning abortion rights.
A couple of years ago, I had no opinion about abortion. I never researched it or knew any facts about what happens during the procedure. I figured that abortion has never impacted me or any woman that I knew, so I didn't concern myself with the facts. Despite being nonchalant about abortion, I did believe that it should always be allowed because it was a woman's choice to decide what was best for her life. No one should interfere with her decision to terminate the pregnancy. Above all, I believed that abortion had no negative effects or any impact whatsoever. I suppose I believed it was a standard medical procedure that some women may need. That changed when I found out that two women in my family have gotten abortions.The first woman actually had several abortions throughout her life. There was nothing medically wrong with the fetus, it was just her choice that she did not want to have another child at the point of her life. Also, abortion was essentially used as birth control and was easily accessible and legal. I did not have a strong opinion about this when I first found out about it, I just thought it was a shame that she had to resort to abortion, but it did not bother me because I did not recognize the fetus as a developing human being. I truly believed in the narrative about the fetus being a "blob of flesh and tissue".
Several years after finding out about abortion in my family and being exposed to more debates about abortion, I decided to do some research about what actually happens during the procedure. What I found out horrified me and left me in shambles. Simply reading the technical, medical procedure about how the fetus is aborted was not sufficient enough to fully understand the topic, so I looked up pictures and videos. I understand that graphic images are heavily contested by the pro-choice movement as being fake and unrealistic, but I accessed photographs and videos that were posted by medical professionals. They admitted to the reality of the procedure and confirmed that this was something they performed on a daily basis. I was in disbelief that I was not aware whatsoever of the reality of abortion and how invasive, violent, and brutal it is to both the woman and the baby inside of her. The worst part was the realization of how disposable the fetus is and how detached one has to be in order to examine the lifeless body of the "product of conception". I wished for a long time that I could forget what I saw, but my opinion was forever changed by what I witnessed and I could no longer support abortion.
With this realization about the reality of abortion, I remembered the decision my family member made to abort. The best way to describe that moment is a slap in the face because I realized how many members of my family were suddenly missing because of her decision to abort them. I come from a very small family, and I cannot express how many times I wished there was more of us. I realized the harsh reality and the impact of abortion. I realized how the babies that were taken away by abortion could have played a very important part in my life had they gotten a chance to live. They are my family that I never got to meet. I feel their absence so deeply in my soul. It's an indescribable pain that I have had to learn to cope with.
A couple of months ago, I found out that another member of my family also got an abortion. The main factor in her decision was again not health related, but because she was pressured to go through with it. She felt like she had no other choice. She feels deep regret and so does the person that pressured her. When she told me, we were in a public place and I had to hold back my tears. Once again, realizing that there was another member of my family missing because of abortion brought back the pain I learned to cope with throughout the years. Now a fresh wound has been opened and only God can heal the brokenness.
Although this is just my personal story, I hope that it helps whoever reads it, no matter what your stance, to fully realize the impact of abortion and its consequences. We can no longer comfortably say that abortion is only a woman's choice when we step back and realize the bigger picture of how just one decision can impact several lives.
If you are pregnant and in need of assistance, please contact Vita Centre or the Sisters of Life. You are not alone in this. And please know that you are in our prayers.


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Most of the time the only thing you'll see is a small icon that sits in your Windows system tray
. Once configured, Spam Sleuth monitors your e-mail accounts and removes spam before you or your e-mail program sees it.
If you right-click on this icon
, you get a menu.
Lets you view spam messages in the
Mail Jail
with a safe Spam Viewer.
- Brings up the configuration dialog so you can tailor Spam Sleuth to meet your needs.
E-mail account list
Choosing an e-mail account will cause Spam Sleuth to scan that account for spam.
Email Client
Launches your default e-mail program.
<e-mail address>
- Check that account only.
Check All Accounts
Scans all active e-mail accounts for spam.
Exits the program. Using this Exit will completely shut down the program and Spam Sleuth will not be able to prevent spam from getting into your e-mail program unless it is running.


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Swiss authorities have expanded a criminal probe related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) to include two former Abu Dhabi officials involved in dealings with the Malaysian state investment fund.
The former officials are suspected of fraud, criminal mismanagement, forgery, bribery, misconduct in public office and money laundering in connection with a 1MDB financing deal for power plants that was to be guaranteed by an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Swiss attorney general's office was quoted as saying that it has reason to believe that payments made to guarantee the financing were diverted from the sovereign-wealth fund and went instead to "the public officials concerned as well as a company related to the motion-picture industry".
The disclosure comes in the wake of a Journal report about the possible diversion of funds from 1MDB to movie production company Red Granite Pictures, which was co-founded by Riza Aziz.
Aziz is the stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who established 1MDB in 2009.
The new Swiss statement comes shortly after the International Petroleum Investment Co., an Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund, disclosed that it didn't receive payments from 1MDB which the Malaysian fund had previously claimed it sent.
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Twin Peaks set to Sonic Youth's Superstar cover
cool! every time im reminded that this show is coming back my palms gets sweaty and I feel a need to shit. like cocaine.
but, man that second season really sucked but was worth it of the good stuff.
Agree. Lots of crap in season 2. Ok in long run because of the brilliant stuff that was also in season 2, but I can't pretend there wasn't some bullshit to slog through when I rewatched the series last spring.
First I thought this was going to be about that vaguely old school indie-type band Twin Peaks (ballsy name... ballsy). Thank goodness it's not. Their not terrible, but for a group named after a Lynch creation, they have a surprising lack of teeth.
Fire Walk with Me.
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The sun is about to rise, the birds are about to sing, my heart says wish you a happy morning. Good morning
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Sun is bright; Sky is blue; Lets fight with kite me and you. Making a rainbow like colors while the sky is blue. Happy Kite Festival Sankranti!
Wishing for the first light of SUN entering into Makar fall on you bless you with all the things you are waiting for. Happy Makar Sankranti!
Sankranti; the festival of the Sun is here! May it bring you greater knowledge and wisdom and light up your life for the entire new year. Happy Sankranti!
Women should not be the Moon which everyone can see uncoverd; But Women should be the SUN which makes eyes bow down before seeing it!


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Saturday 21 Oct, 1.30 – 4.30pm
Create a collective map of your community in Point Cook. Our artist in residence, I-Yen Chen welcomes you to join a mapping ceramic workshop for all ages – especially children!
With the changes in Point Cook's urban landscape – the workshop will introduce ceramic mapping that will capture memories and dreams, the richness and complexity of the neighbourhood.
Every participant will get a map of Point Cook to reference as participants share their stories of moving to and living in Point Cook. Following a rich conversation, people will be asked to draw from their memory a map of their local community. We will be working with clay – creating textural effects on the clay to reflect our personal maps. What you create will be included in I-Yen Chen's ceramic installation to be exhibited in February 2018 at Saltwater Community Centre.
What you will learn:
- Mapping processes and tools
- Handbuilding ceramic slap
- Using under glaze and tools to decorate the clay and create effects
- Participating in the process of creating a collective sculpture with an artist
What you will get:
- A ceramic clay map
- Basic skills in handbuilding with clay
- A pleasurable time hanging out with neighbours and making art with everyone's kids
If you have any questions, email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Haagen Dasz is known around the world, but in Japan they take things one step further. All year round you will find limited editions or seasonal items. When I visited this month there was a so-called salted butter biscuit ice-cream. I can assure you there was no hesitation this time.
It was love at first bite. The ice-cream was rich and creamy, but more pleasantly tasted exactly like a butter cookie. It is so rare to find a mass produced food item that doesn't taste like it is laced with chemicals, but the good people of Haagen Dasz managed to pull one out of the bag. There were also some pieces of actual butter cookie mixed throughout for an extra dimension. The only reason I'm not giving this a ten is that there wasn't really any evident saltiness.
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The Brussels Attacks – Looking Forward
This past week there has been a build up of stagnant energy hanging around the city of Brussels, like a fog of fear following the terrible cluster of attacks and associated arrests across Europe. A BBC journalist asked Belgians to express how they feel about the attacks in five words and compiled a short video. I found it really moving to hear so many of the people suggest that although feeling sad and afraid, they also hold hope and happiness for a brighter future.
It is so important for us all to collectively focus on visualising more positive and peaceful times ahead. Quantum physics proves that we are all energy and our thoughts affect our energetic vibration or frequency. We are also energetically connected to each other and the vibrations of our thoughts affect others around us. The events of the world are like a huge mirror reflecting back at us our collective thoughts. To improve our collective experiences we need to clear and release heavy feelings, like fear or hatred, in order to raise our vibration and align with lighter vibrations of happiness, love and peace.
There are many psychotherapeutic, coaching, yoga, martial arts and meditation-based exercises and actions that you can use to help you discharge negative energy and reconnect with a sense of calm and raise your vibration to a higher frequency. In my book Burnout to Brilliance: Strategies for Sustainable Success I include several guided meditations that can help you re-energise.
An Exercise to Clear Fear, Recharge and Send Healing
-Stand with your feet shoulder width apart.
-Turn your focus to your breath.
-Take a deep breath in.
-Fill your lungs completely.
-Set an intention to breathe out and release any fear based thoughts or feelings that you are holding in your body.
-As you breathe out push your hands (palms open facing away from you) outward from your body, in a strong movement.
-Repeat until you feel a sense of calm return to your body and mind.
-Imagine roots from your feet growing down into Mother Earth.
-Imagine connecting to Earth energy through these roots and drawing it up through your feet.
-Recharge your body with this energy.
-Imagine your arms like branches growing up to the sun.
-Imagine the sun shining down on you and re-energising you.
-Feel the warmth of the sun on the top of your head and across your forehead and allow that energy to soak in through your skin and nourish you.
-With each next breath, breathe in peace.
-Breathe out any remaining fear or tension held in your body.
-Turn your focus now to your heart.
-Breathe into your heart and connect with a feeling of love and warmth there.
-Imagine extending that feeling of love from your heart out to all of the people of the world currently overshadowed by fear.
-Set an intention for them to reconnect with the light within them, to feel it and allow it to shine and guide them to also release fear.
-Now turn your attention to the area beneath your rib cage, your solar plexis, the centre of your inner power.
-Imagine filling it up with this wonderful energy of love.
-Really strengthen it. Feel and see it shining brightly from within you.
-Now imagine yourself standing inside a ball of light.
-Protect this ball of light with whatever colour you feel represents protection.
-Know that this intention to protect your energy will keep you safe and shield you from any further fear.
-You can return to this exercise at any time when you feel depleted or knocked off and need to recharge.
-Take three more breaths.
-Breathe in peace.
-Breathe out tension.


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10 Worst Parents On Dance Moms
"Dance Moms" is a reality TV series that follows a group of young dancers who are instructed by the fiery coach, Abby Lee Miller. With their parents by their sides every step of the way, viewers get a behind the scenes peek at all the drama, the tantrums, the laughs, and the meltdowns. And a lot of these emotions are displayed by none other than the moms on the show. We're going to take a look at some of the worst parents on "Dance Moms," so if you're a fan of the show, you don't want to miss this video!
We've seen some pretty appalling behavior on the show, but nothing beats the antics thrown by Christi Lukasiak. Although she tries her hardest to steer clear of all the drama, she can't help but get sucked into it. We'll show you what happened when Christi made a group of the dancers burst into tears!
Kelly Hyland is another parent who received a lot of backlash on the series when she was shown lunging at Miller and pulling out a clump of her hair! Leslie Ackerman is another mom who got into a physical altercation with one of the other parents. You'll have to watch our video to see the brawl that went down in the streets of New Orleans!
Stay tuned to hear even more stories about the worst parents on "Dance Moms," including Jamie Caes, Tami Adamson, Ashlee Allen, Melissa Ziegler-Gisoni, Christy Hunt, Jill Vertes, and Cathy Nesbitt-Stein. Be sure to let us know in the comments which of these parents' behavior shocked you the most!


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Is there anything more American than grilled sausage in the summertime?
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- Pasta Salad
But we don't mean just any pasta salad. The good stuff shouldn't be drowned in dressing (and it shouldn't contain mayo.) We love a fresh-mix of chopped cucumbers, olives, tomatoes, and noodles, tossed with torn herbs like basil and thyme. Drizzle with an oil-and-vinegar mix while warm, then chill until serving for a pasta salad that's more like, well, salad.
- Peppers & Onions
Does it get any more classic? Whether you're serving your sausages sandwich-style or solo, sautéed onions and peppers are always a welcome treat. We love using bell peppers in several colors for a visual punch and the sweetest onions we can find. Take it up a notch by grilling your onions and peppers for a little extra char.
- German Potato Salad
German potato salad is a little less rich than traditional American potato salad which is why it balances sausage nicely. Instead of a mayo-based sauce, use ground mustard; the extra zing perks up the palette. We like ours with potatoes, chives, celery, and maybe a little bacon.
- Orange Salad
In some parts of the country you'll find versions of Orange Salad known as "ambrosia," but our take is less dessert and more side dish. Simply combine a few peeled, sliced oranges with lemon juice, anise seed, olive oil, and black pepper, then serve alongside your favorite Papa Cantella's sausage. The citrus of the oranges provides a nice contrast to the hearty sausage.
- Cole Slaw
There are dozens of variations on coleslaw, from creamy to tangy! It's an economical dish that holds up well when made beforehand – just be careful not to overdress. We like our slaw with purple cabbage and an apple cider vinegar base, but feel free to make yours your own. You really can't make slaw incorrectly.
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Powerful winds and pounding rain raked San Luis Obispo County on Friday, leaving one woman dead, prompting the rescue of a Coast Guard lifeboat, causing widespread power outages and felling dozens of trees across the region.The surviving sailboater was wearing a life jacket. The Coasties wouldn't talk to the press following the case (likely too shook-up).
The Coast Guard's lifeboat also ran into trouble. While responding to help the couple, the lifeboat was hit by heavy waves and lost power moments before it rolled onto the rocks on its side, then righted itself and slid back into the ocean, said Saindon. Afterward, one of its two engines failed to start.
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Another great fundraiser organised by Knowle and Dorridge Lions saw nearly 700 cyclists set off from Packwood House last Sunday to wind their ways around the lanes of Warwickshire all in aid of charity.
"We were delighted to welcome so many riders again for the Heart of England Bike Ride on Sunday 16 July", said organising Lion Paul Wheatley. "Last year the event raised over £20,000 for BHF and local charities, and we hope to get close to that figure again, when all the sponsorship has been received. As well as thanking all the riders and helpers I now have to thank the generous sponsors who enabled the Lions to tell riders that all their entry fees will go to the charity – BHF and Lions locally determined causes"
Cyclists had a choice of 12, 18, 30 or 60 miles with the dry weather encouraging many to tackle the 30 & 60 miles this year
Donna Stokes, BHF Fundraising Manager said: "It was great to see so many people on Sunday, enjoying themselves and returning safely and happy, having completed their personal challenges. We spoke to lots of people, some having personal reasons for supporting the charity and some just entering the event for the fun of it. We would like to thank them all for their support and hope to see them again next year.
I would also like to thank the Lions for successfully organising another event and all the volunteers who helped to make this event such a great experience for all. We could not put on events like this and raise funds for the charity without their support."
If you missed out this year the Lions are already planning next July's ride and would welcome anyone who would like to support their team, please contact Paul now
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Goals for the New Year
Having checked in a few moments ago on my goals for LAST year, I feel a bit humbled.
As in I have the same goals. Pretty much. Sort of.
So ditto, fate. Take that, providence. You big lugs. These are my goals and I'm sticking to them.
1) Try to get to High School Weight. HAHAHAHA--is anybody buying this? My body has decided that we are enemies. I hate being enemies. It refuses to give up any of itself and I in turn refuse to give it what it wants: Doritos 24/7, hopefully with some kind of accompanying mayo-based substance, not hot sauce. Every morning I get on the scale and hold my breath. Actually I don't hold my breath because that could add to the total. Sometimes I let my toes hang off the scale too (toes weigh something). And every morning it's the same thing. I have weighed just about the same thing this whole year, varying by about a pound and a half.
You know what? I think that's okay. So let's move on.
2) Continue strange and eccentric exercise habits. Can you imagine wearing this outfit? I don't think there is a single adjective that can be worn across the ass that wouldn't elicit smirks or outright guffaws. Let's try some:
Ill advised
We could go through the dictionary from front to back and have hours of mirth on this. Nouns would be perplexing, I fear.
I wouldn't actually mind wearing analysis. My girlfriend says she wouldn't mind wearing cabernet savignon (she says she has room for it). I have room for mushy zucchini. What a great way to honor my favorite food!!!\
I think I'm getting off track. Maybe a wet suit is the way to go. I bet I'd be really warm outside, but of course my new technique is indoor running around the upstairs of my house, interspersed with jumping jacks. It's working too because recently at my brother's house I was able to power walk up and down his hills without gasping and collapsing.
3) Write my nun book. Make it funny and suspenseful, with each plot line expertly woven into the next. I think I can do it. Confidence is everything for me.
7) And finally, GET RID OF THIS CHRISTMAS CRAP. Yes, dear reader, it's that endless winter season where even after you have scoured the house for every holiday candle and doobiewickie, every Feliz Navidad towel hanging on the fridge door, and every tiny needle embedding itself in the carpet, YOU CAN'T GET RID OF IT.
I'm going to try my best, though, starting today. Sputter. Cough.
8) And finally, FINALLY, I want--as I said last year--to be happy and have a twinkle in my eye. I want to rip sadness out of my heart. I choose this for myself.
Incidentally, Mystery Gift Giver--who are you? I'd say thank you but the anonymity bothers me.
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Staying ahead of the game with revolutionary designs.
You probably already know that MPC manufactures world renowned, premium recreational products, including a variety of popular patented high-end in-line, skateboard, and other recreational wheels. But, it might surprise you to learn that we also make shock absorbers for bicycles, couplings for stationary bikes, and wheels for rowing machines. We even make the track shoe bottoms that help Olympic track stars run circles around their competition. Every day we find new and exciting applications for urethane that help weekend warriors get in the game and professional athletes boost their performance and break records.
In fact, you'll find our wheels on the most notable roller hockey brand skates, trademarked as Rink Rat Hockey Wheels. MPC Speed Wheels (Street Fight and Black Track) are found on the top of podiums at all major international and world championships.
MPC's proprietary multi-layer wheel technology, called Mtech®, features what we call a "Soft Heart, Hard Body." Mtech wheels are comprised of two layers: a soft (62A shore hardness) highly resilient inner layer, not unlike a super ball, that acts as a pneumatic tire; and a durable (80+A shore hardness) outer layer of long wearing, surface-hugging urethane. The result is wheels with the largest footprint (ultimate grip), highest rebound (fastest) and firmest outer tread (best wear) available. To learn more about MPC's championship wheel technology, please visit cadomotus.com.
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In some historic footage Superman makes his big screen appearance, we also meet the early Betty Boop.
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Give blood and change your life in the new year
Jon Latham, Assistant Director, Marketing and Donor Contact Service, NHS Blood and Transplant
Many people in West Yorkshire will be considering giving things up for the New Year, like unhealthy food or alcohol.
But you can change your life by choosing to give.
Giving blood is amazing – you can save or improve the lives of up to three people each time you donate.
We always need new donors to ensure we have the right mix of blood groups among our donors to meet patient needs in future and to replace those people who can no longer donate.
We need more than 6,000 people to donate blood every day to meet the needs of desperately ill hospital patients.
Blood and platelets are not just used after accidents. They are used for patients with cancer, anaemia, childbirth complications, and in a wide variety of life-saving procedures.
Less than three per cent of people aged 17-70 donated blood last year. Thank you to everybody who donated and helped save lives – we look forward to seeing you again in 2016.
If you've never given blood before, register to donate blood and book an appointment to donate in West Yorkshire at www.blood.co.uk. Donating only takes an hour of your time.
So please start this year by changing not just your life, but someone else's life too, by giving blood.
Economic woes started with joining EU
Derek Barker, Moortown
On reading the contribution by Alain Fissore (YEP December 24) I could not agree more with his assessment of the economic circumstances surrounding the closure of Kellingley Colliery, though I feel that he has missed the crucial point that the start of the economic misfortunes of this country coincide exactly with our joining the EU.
From the late 70s to the late 80s literally thousands of companies in this country whose existence relied on their ability to export their manufactured goods to countries outside the EU, had their export licences withdrawn by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher to comply with our EU membership. Throwing millions of people out of work on top of the many tens of thousands of miners and steelworkers who had already been thrown to the wall.
No doubt the pro EU lobby in the upcoming referendum will be relying on the younger generation to vote to stay in the EU because they don't know any better. Unlike those of my generation who can remember being able to walk out of one job one day and walk into another job that paid more money the next day, or for a young married couple to pick up the keys for their council house of flat within six months of putting their names down on the housing list, or for the young marrieds who could afford it getting a mortgage to buy a house with a minimal deposit.
Or being able to send your children to your nearest school knowing that they would receive the same education as any other child at any other school, or being able to walk into your local doctors surgery without an appointment and being seen on the same day, and not having to pay VAT on anything because VAT did not exist, and for voting for a political party that actually did what they said they would do after they were voted into government.
Career politicians in my view are nothing but Civil Service and global capitalist puppets who can't see beyond their own egos and bank balances.
The signs are obvious
Ernest Lundy, by email
Having read the comments of contributor, Alain Fissore, Co-ordinator of Italy's Partito Communista in Britain (YEP December 24) I must say I agree with much of what he says.
However, as for his views on socialist-communism being the only hope for the future of Britain, I have to disagree. Communism has had its chance and is not the answer.
But at the other end of the spectrum neither is the unacceptable face of extreme capitalism.
As he said in his letter. therein lie the problems from which we are now suffering, and have been for almost a decade.
The faults lie with the big conglomerates, bankers and other money making institutions who are constantly in the hunt for higher profits and ever more acquisitions of land and properties. They never seem to have enough.
Somewhere in between the two extremes there has to be a norm! Where employers, bankers and the rest of those seeking ever higher returns, settle for less and in so doing distribute some of their wealth and profits among their employees; the source of their wealth.
As things are today the constant drive for more, and still more can only result in a complete collapse of values and the true worth of commodities when higher profits lead to a constant demand for higher wages to keep pace.
If nothing changes, the constant pursuit for the rewards of the god Mammon will lead to a complete meltdown of the financial market in the end. The signs are patently obvious.


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Pseudo Lateration: Millimeter-Wave Localization Using a Single Infrastructure Anchor
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While radio-based indoor localization schemes achieve decimeter-scale accuracy, they typically require precise reference measurements or multiple infrastructure nodes with redundant localization anchors. In this paper, we propose Pseudo LATeration (PLAT), an indoor localization protocol that requires only a single infrastructure anchor and does not require prior knowledge of the environment. PLAT leverages the directionality and propagation characteristics of millimeter-wave transmissions to relax the requirement of multiple infrastructure anchors and constructs virtual anchors for multilateration from reflected signal paths. By combining these virtual anchors with time-of-flight measurements for distance estimation, PLAT can localize user devices in indoor environments with only a single infrastructure node. Our evaluation reveals centimeter scale location accuracy for typical office environments. In testbed measurements and simulations, localization errors are below 10 cm for distances up to 1.5 m and beamwidths below 10 degrees. Although accuracy decreases with distance, we show that multiple reflection paths can mitigate this effect.
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Take on one of the UK's most scenic half marathons, running through many of London's beautiful royal parks.
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This newer home is situated on 10 acres and features a five-stall horse barn with two loft areas. The 2,776-square-foot house has four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. French doors open to the living and dining rooms, as well as a deck. The family room has a large fireplace. The kitchen includes an island and dinette area. All new carpet is being installed.
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So if you post a comment, you will get a vote for your blog and your search engine rankings and traffic will increase.
To get good rankings in Google and other search engines, one of the most important aspect is how many people link to your blog,
But because of the nofollow tag the vote does not gets counted as practiced in most of the blogging platforms...
Example of a no-follow link-
< href= "www.techpogo.com" rel="nofollow"> Link here < / a>
This code does create a link but as the rel attribute is set to nofollow the vote does not get counted
< href= "www.techpogo.com" rel="nofollow"> Link here < / a>
Why to get incoming links ?
Most people want to have more incoming links to their site to increase their Page Rank in google, yahoo, msn and other search engines. This gives their site more weightage and traffic.
How much value do links from dofollow blogs add?
Depends primarily on the pagerank of blog where you are posting a comment, also the number of links the blog is sending out, more the numbers lesser the value.
Other good source of dofollow blogs
Nickooshare List


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PEDRO CRISPIM, 37 years. One of the biggest Portuguese professionals in the fashion area, with an enviable track record, worked as a model, he had an experience in television and image consulting, already had a blog, but it's like Stylist and Image Consultant that he currently works, which owns a service and formations company.
When you think of Pedro Crispim, also think of someone sincere and without fear of exposing their opinions on social networks. And this is something that captivates people. Whether or we are of the same opinion or not. Pedro is an example as a person and professional.
I had the pleasure to meet in person one day, and I saw and felt his humility. I like it, it is impossible not to like him after the meeting. I had to invite Pedro to this category because it made sense. He is an inspiration without a doubt, and inspiring people are part of our world: the ISM. – Ivânia
Today, Pedro Crispim, shares with us a little more about him and his work – in the first person. Be inspired!
Available in Portuguese (PT) / Disponível em Português – HERE
I started my modeling career in 1997, I worked all over the world and quickly fell in love by the backstage scenes, I believe the magic is there, after several formations in and outside the country is there that work today and where I feel comfortable and realized, having opened my services and training company, Atelier Styling Project, and in 2013 launched the Styling Project Mag, a digital magazine.
How is your work routine:
I try to be organized and work on priorities, but to give in crazy because I have many commitments.
How do you deal with your time? Work hard or smart?
In an area so irregular and asymmetrical in timetables, If I have a full day, and since work by my own I have to organize my schedule, I start my day very early, and order just the gym and personal affairs before 09:30, after the office, because I have to prepare items, writing articles for several publications and make shopping for productions, and of course have meetings during the day, then I teach until 22:00.


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Hi there and Happy Holidays.
I am currently looking for recommendations of good books or good reads on the net about the history of magical practices in Iceland, Scotland, and Germany. Since this is my bloodline, I'm wanting to investigate.
Thanks for your help! X-posted.
I've not posted here for a long while but I really need some kindly advice but the issue is painful and dark so I'm not sure if this is dyne right place. Please, if this isn't appropriate, Mods, delete it.
About four months ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I've had the surgery: they got it all but it had already spread. Radiotherapy is too dangerous in my case so I'm up for six months of chemotherapy, which is making me very I'll indeed. I'm working through it, though, and generally OK with it from a psychological point of view.
But it hit me really hard today, what with being too Ill to have Christmas with my family and all, and I started thinking about why this had happened to me. I was raised to believe that one's sin found one out and punished you. Later I believed in the Rule Of Three so I've been searching my memory and my conscience To try and figure out what I could have done to have brought this on myself. I can't learn anything from this if I don't know what I did to create this situation.
Next month's moon phases. You can change the URL to any month/year you need:
So, I'm really wanting to try to incorporate my religion a bit more into my life. It's something that is important to me. But I was wondering about daily devotionals. It's something I'd really like to do as I like the idea of doing something every day to honor my goddess, but I'm unsure what to do.
I know the most obvious thing is to meditate or recite some piece of poetry or something like that. But...I absolutely suck at meditation. I've tried it--several times--and it just doesn't work for me. At least not in the traditional sense (I use freewriting as my meditation, but my home computer is currently on the fritz thanks to a blown fuse a few days back). And after awhile, the poem can lose it's meaning or importance if it's said to much--at least to me. Simply reciting something after a time doesn't require that much focus (for example, we can all recite the ABC's without thinking too much about it). So, barring meditation, what are some other ideas of things I could do? What do you all do for daily practice (if that's something you can and feel comfortable sharing)?
If it helps to know, my goddess is Brighid.
(Also, I realize that I could just simply light a candle for Her each day, but I was wanting something a bit more...in depth? Not something where I just light a candle and go about doing other things. Lighting a candle is fine, I would just want to be doing something else devotional related while it's burning.)
First I want to state that I did get this promotion oked by one of the mods :) Thanks to witchchild for letting me do this. I think this will help out a lot!
This is geared towards the Pagans (any form/any beliefs welcome) of Iowa City, IA and Coralville, IA. A group on facebook has been created specifically for those who identify as Pagan who are living in the Iowa City/Coralville area. We want to create a sense of community, the Pagan community in this area isn't very outspoken but I do know that there are plenty of us living here.
It is my goal to get as many people connected within this area. Potentially for gatherings and events but mostly because it would be really great to have some sense of a Pagan community here. It would be so fantastic to make some Pagan friends who actually live very close and within the same community that I live in. The other mod of this group has the same hopes. We're just trying to get everyone together.
If you're interested in joining and meeting fellow Iowa City Pagans then please go to the following link:
Iowa City Area Pagans on Facebook
Thanks for reading :)
Again, I really appreciate being allowed to post this.
Back story: So something moved into our apartment and has been hanging around since May. Being that the vale is growing thin, whatever it is seems to be a bit more active. I hesitate to call it a ghost due to I don't get that vibe from him/her/it. Nor do I think it is in anyway malicious. Whatever it is just seems to be hanging out and ignoring us for the most part. The problem is that my wife is really sensitive to energies and while this one is not exactly threatening, it's is effecting her. We have some basic protection up but it's not doing much good. I'm hesitant to do anything major until I'm able to actually tell what it is.
So here is the question. Does anyone have any website resources for pagan dealing with ghost, spirits or faeries? Again, I'm not really sure what it is and all the literature that I've been able to dig up isn't helping much. Any info would awesome! Thank you!
The West Memphis 3
A Tweet from Natalia Maines, I hope someone follows up on it. "All 3 boys will be set free today and all 3 are completely innocent. They must plead guilty as a technicality so they can't sue AK for $$."
This may be a bit of a two-part question...
For the past 7-8 mos. I've been repeating this same spell during the waxing moon. Once the spell-casting has been finished, I take down all the components and put them neatly away. Not a big deal to take it all down and set it all back up once a month, but... would it hurt (by hurt I mean, 'to lessen or interrupt') the energy of the cast spell in any way to leave the tools used in the spell up all month long?
And (possible 2nd part of Q), in so doing, would that not in a way turn the set-up into an altar?
Also, in the past and here recently I've been reading about visualizing what it is you're wanting and while working your spell believing that it is already your's or soon will be.
-When trying to visualize a person...if you can't seem to accurately picture their face...does that hurt the visualization any? As long as you're aware of who the person is and can mostly visualize (accurately) their body and body-movements, could that be enough combined with your will and desire?
Thank you so much in advance for your help/suggestions.
X-posted to Non-Fluffy Pagans and _Wicca_.
I've been doing a honey-jar spell for the past 7mos. now, burning candles atop it once a month as we near the Full moon. Up 'till May I'd only ever dressed the candles in oils and then burned them...this last burning I dressed the candles in oils and then rolled them in ground up dried rose petals, then affixed them to the top of the jar as usual... well, usually when I burn my oiled up candles they burn pretty much like a regular candle and the wax drips down over the jar as well as builds up on the lid. This time the flames shot up pretty high -a good 6-7 inches tall, and melted away all of the accumulated wax on top of the lid. It was pretty messy and somewhat alarming...
Is this usual to have so much of a reaction with the addition of ground-up herbs to oiled candles?
I had read somewhere of adding herbs to an oiled candle for a spell and I really liked the idea, but I didn't expect the flames to shoot up that high nor for it melt all of the wax from the top of the honey-jar.
-I ended up having to blow out the flames (the candles had already totally melted away, so I assume it was the remnants of the rose petals that was still burning)....I became concerned that the heat might cause my honey-jar to crack.:( Thankfully, it didn't.
Further....my honey jar was sitting in an aluminum pie-pan in a stainless steel sink (for fire-safety concerns at the behest of my house-mate)....this may be a ridiculous question, but would the energy/magic of the spell be in any way hindered by the presence of the aluminum and stainless steel all around it? Or does that not even matter?
Thank you so much.:)
My mother's husband has recently passed, she's (of course) not doing well with the loss....and one thing bothering her is that she was having a couple dreams with her departed husband in them, but she could never fully remember the dream or even most of it. I'm still recovering from a bad break-up after a 10yrs. relationship and somewhat frequently will have dreams with my ex in them...but I don't always remember alot of these dreams.
So, in an effort to try to rectify this, I picked up some mugwort (which I've read is supposed to help you to have more vivid dreams as well as, to help you actually remember them better) in the form of a smudge stick from my local metaphysical shop... I made a small satchel for each my mother and myself in which I added lavender, pieces from the mugwort smudge stick, dried rose petals, chopped up mandrake root(for protection while dreaming), and a small chunk of a Apophyllite crystal. Then we each placed our little satchel into our pillow cases where it would be closer to our faces than from under our pillows.
-Oddly....now neither one of us remembers a single thing from our dreams upon waking.:/
Could I be doing something wrong? I understand that everyone has different physiological reactions to certain herbs and other things, not sure if that could be playing into this or what...
I haven't burned the mugwort-smudge bundle at all, so I haven't inhaled it directly.
Any suggestions or recommendations?
Thank you so much.:)


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Verizon Wireless Recognized As The Network Quality Leader In West Region In Latest J.D. Power And Associates Study
DENVER, CO — Verizon Wireless ranked highest among all other national wireless providers in the West Region in the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Wireless Network Quality Performance Study℠, Volume 1, issued today. The West Region includes the mountain states of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, among others.
The J.D. Power and Associates study measured network quality among U.S. wireless service providers. More than 27,000 wireless subscribers were surveyed by J.D. Power and Associates between July and December 2011 about their experiences with wireless voice, text messaging and data usage. Based on their responses, Verizon Wireless performed above the regional average in all six regions and ranked highest among national wireless companies in five regions, including the West.
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Verizon Wireless aggressively invests on average more than $6 billion annually in its network to stay ahead of the growing demand for the company's voice and data services. Verizon Wireless' ongoing network investment totals more than $2.3 billion in the Mountain Region and more than $70 billion nationally since the company was formed, which includes the introduction and expansion of 4G LTE.
Since its launch on Dec. 5, 2010, Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network has won numerous technology and consumer choice awards, including being named the nation's "Fastest 4G Network Yet" by Popular Science's 2011 Best of What's New Awards and ranking No. 1 on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2011. As of Feb. 16, 2012, Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network is available in 196 markets across the country and supports a wide variety of 4G LTE devices, including the DROID 4 by Motorola and the DROID RAZR™ MAXX™ by Motorola.
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Moka Bros Solana, together with their branches in Chengdu and Hangzhou, are inviting families to a kids' Christmas tree decorating event on Dec 16 (Saturday). The kids will be creating their own baubles, to bring on the coolest Christmas vibe ever!
Aside from the bauble making, kids will also have the chance to decorate gingerbread men, drink lots of hot chocolate overloaded with cream (and a shot of Baileys for the parents!), and dance around to holiday music like there's no tomorrow. Our friends at Moka Bros say they aim to give everyone a relaxed, cozy, and family-oriented day. And by that, they mean unlimited Santa hats and glitter to make the decorations twinkle.
Get in the Christmas Spirit with Moka Bros: Free Christmas Tree Decorating Event, Dec 16
All ages. The free Christmas tree decorating activity starts from 2pm. Decorating materials and DIY baubles, as well as gingerbread men are available from 2pm until all are gone. RMB 40 per child, which is the cost for the gingerbread men and bauble decorating materials. Get all these for free when you buy a kids meal. Moka Bros Solana Mall. For more information about the event, contact Tory Benyon (186 1408 4591, WeChat ID: torybenyon)
Photos: holiho via Pixabay, Courtesy of Tory Benton/Moka Bros


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Books: The Dip
Movies: The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Other: The Book of Mormon [12/10/15 performance, Austin]
The Dip by Seth Godin
This is a business self-help book about knowing when to quit projects and when to continue them.
Someday I will learn to stop reading business self-help books. As a general rule, each such book has maybe three good ideas in it, and then the whole thing is padded out to its unearned page count with pablum that's written at an eighth-grade level -- and written, specifically, for quiet, boring eighth-graders who want, at all costs, to avoid prose that might surprise, delight, or amuse them.
As for The Dip, I don't know if it even has *one* idea in it. The slugline I listed at the beginning is pretty much the whole book: it has nothing to say about the topic beyond "yup, you should know when to quit projects and know when to continue them." How do you know which case is which? Well, you know, you make sure you have enough resources to finish the project, and that it's interesting, and other such pronouncements from the Department of the Blindingly Obvious.[1] Mind you, in a culture (particularly a business culture) that makes such a pointless fetish out of "winners never quit, and quitters never win", there is some usefulness to pointing out, "Hey, sometimes it's awesome to quit and cut your losses." But that's basically a tweet. Even at a mere 96 pages, this book feels bloated.
But really, that's on me for reading a business self-help book. Useless books about thinking for an audience that likes neither books nor thought.
The Big Lebowski
This is the 1998 Coen Brothers comedy about a middle-aged, unemployed, bowling-obsessed stoner who gets dragged into a complicated, high-ransom kidnapping case.
Of all the Coen Brothers movies, this is the only one that has a festival devoted to it. And that's probably for the best, come to think of it -- one shudders to think of what, say, "Fargo Fest" might be like, or a "Barton Fink Hotel Weekend'o'Fun". But The Big Lebowski is different -- yes, there's a crime story, and it's as convoluted (and, commendably, as clearly-presented) as the one in Fargo, and yes, there's violence -- but at its core, The Big Lebowski is basically a "hangout comedy", where we get to spend a couple of hours with well-drawn characters whose company we enjoy.
And that makes sense, given the origin of the film -- which seems to have been, more or less, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if our friend Jeff Dowd were the detective in a Raymond Chandler mystery? And if John Milius were his Vietnam-obsessed sidekick?" And so the characters are as sharp as any they've ever written -- which, for the Coen Brothers, is really saying something -- to the point that, as with a good TV comedy, you're up for watching these people forever, as they get into one situation after another and just react. The affection fans have for it feels analogous to fandoms for sitcoms like The Office and Parks and Recreation.
In spite of the movie's lukewarm box-office and (at the time) critical response, the current consensus is that the Coens were firing on all cylinders at this point. They've got the twisty crime plot that's been their stock-in-trade up to this point in every film except (possibly) Barton Fink. They've got an amazing command of their color pallette, a quality that kicked in with Miller's Crossing and would reach its apotheosis in O Brother, Where Art Thou? They're playing with heightened characters like they had used in Raising Arizona and Barton Fink. And this was where they started including T. Bone Burnett in their scoring, expertly deploying pop songs that supplemented the latest Carter Burwell score.
And it's also amusing to see the Coen Brothers continue varying their films from one to the next. In the same way that the terrifying crime story of Blood Simple was followed up with the light, breezy Raising Arizona, they're chasing the bleak, frigid nightmare of Fargo with something loose, and warm, and convivial. But, as with the earlier pair, you can see a lot of commonality between Fargo and Lebowski -- the same convoluted-but-clear scheme for a rich old man's money, and the same progression of mounting mistakes sending a simple plan further and further out-of-whack. It's the same, only opposite.
I doubt that Lebowski will ever be my favorite Coen picture. Fargo is a thing of horrifying beauty, and I'm enough of a contrarian to doggedly hold The Hudsucker Proxy quite close to my heart. And I suspect that I'm just not quite old enough or mellow enough to really connect with the Dude, and that keeps me at something of an emotional distance. But it's still a virtuosic film that deserves the massive cult following it's accrued.
Man, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski add up to a hell of a run.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
This is the 2000 Coen Brothers comedy about a trio of escaped convicts fleeing across Mississippi in 1933.
Watching this got me thinking about the TV adaptation of Fargo. (Bear with me a moment.) Like pretty much everyone, I was puzzled when that project was first announced, not least because Fargo feels so hermetically sealed: it's a story about this one group of people, and it's almost relentless in the way the story stays focused exclusively on them, as the plot keeps circling around to those same few people and inflicting more damage on each pass. I (and many fans) couldn't work out how Noah Hawley would build up new material in that world.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? feels like the opposite of that. Where Fargo is turned inward, O Brother aims outward, its shaggy-dog story spinning through new groups of characters every ten or fiften minutes, and the world spilling out into some new direction with every plot twist. More than any other Coen Brothers film, this one is airy and expansive, with the feeling that they've built up a whole world, and the movie is just one single plot-line that happens to wander through it. Of course, there's no O Brother TV show -- and a tragic but predictable paucity of fanfic -- but this is the movie where it feels like there are other stories out there, in that same world, in that same stylized (and sanitized) take on the Depression-era Deep South.
Then again, it may be that the film only plays like that to me. I grew up in a small town in Kentucky, and perhaps because of that, my brain sort of naturally connects magical realism with the South (and vice versa). So this movie is going to feel somehow natural and 'right' to me, as it turns my home's past into something heightened and mythical. Of course, the reality of that time and place was also impoverished, racist, anti-intellectual, and sexist, so perhaps it's a good thing that O Brother *didn't* kick off some idealized-South fantasy genre. I'm in the tank for this film as much as anybody, and even I feel a bit queasy that, historically, we're talking about a time and place that was damn brutal to anybody who wasn't a straight white dude.
All of this says very little about the film itself, but again, I feel like this movie isn't really *about* what it's about, but rather it's about that world. It's about the sepia-toned landscapes[2], and the quirky, one-off characters, and the sense that everything stops just short of straight-up magical sorcery. The protagonists are a great trio of cartoonish, Coen-Brothers-style losers, with George Clooney turning in his first such performance for these filmmakers. But even then, the characters don't have much of an arc -- they just go on their journey, exploring one part of this illusory south after another, and finally turning out okay.
The Book of Mormon [12/10/15 performance, Austin]
This is the Tony-Award-winning musical from the South Park guys (and one of the Frozen writers) about two Mormon missionaries who are dispatched to an impoverished Ugandan village.
I felt ambivalent about this.
On the one hand, musical theater is brain-breakingly impossible, and I have nothing but respect for it. That somebody can dance full-out while managing to sing on-key is just a stunning physical feat, like some intricate and spine-endangering longboard trick. And the level of flawless professionalism that the cast and crew displayed in this show was literally awe-inspiring. And this production's Elder Cunningham was a real standout, playing his character's enthusiastic incompetence so delightfully that even lines that weren't jokes were still really damn funny.
But still, the show left me feeling a little empty.
The songs, while well-performed, were unmemorable. The story was a bit too winking-at-the-audience and silly to really move me in any way. And that pretty much leaves the satire as the only thing to hold on to. And honestly, I don't think I much appreciate Parker and Stone's satire these days. Most people I talk to tell me, about anything those two do, "It's great! It's like they take down *everybody!*" But it always strikes me as odd that anyone would say, "I love that satire! It was so *evenhanded*!" Satire is not a kindergarten sports contest. It's not a thing where everyone gets a trophy. It's not an art form where we have to be equally mean to everybody, because otherwise somebody might feel picked on and therefore get hurt in their feelings.
Good satire bites. It hurts people. It is rage channeled through jokes. It has emotions behind it, and unless you happen to feel equal exasperated fury towards everybody on earth (hint: even if you're that special misanthropic snowflake that nobody *understands*... no, you don't), satire is going to be aimed in a direction. Even if you're saying something everyone agrees with, it has emotional weight, like that last, crushing "God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept" from that Onion article.
Parker and Stone occasionally reach that point, but most of their work just feels like two guys idly taking potshots at things because making fun of stuff is a nice way to pass the time. And that's valid, but it's not emotionally involving. It means that what they do had better be really damn funny, or there's just no reason to show up. And they have their moments -- oddly enough, I think their Mormon episode of South Park was a high point -- but the rest of the time, their work can feel kind of smug and ignorable. And so it is with The Book of Mormon -- it's got the usual view-from-nowhere satire that makes fun of everyone involved. It tries really hard to be outré, which usually means rolling around in racist stereotypes about Africa.[3] It's not satire, it's just snarky.
That said, I can't be a total spoilsport about this production. The fact is, some of outré, shock-the-audience stuff is fun, in an "I can't believe this is in a big-budget musical" kind of way.[4] The "I've got maggots in my scro-tuuuum!" runner was, for me, hilarious, just because it became this persistent, unwelcome leitmotif that wormed (sorry) its way into one group number after another, no matter how vigilantly the characters struggled to keep it at bay. Cunningham's complete misrepresentation of the Book of Mormon, as told by the villagers, is hilarious and delightful. Even if, in the main, I didn't feel much from the show, there were lots of little moments that made me smile.
But still... this won a Tony? This was all the rage on Broadway? Looks like Hamilton has arrived not a moment too soon.
For next week: I'm watching season 3 of Good Eats and season 2 of Last Week Tonight while exercising. I've also been watching Fullmetal Alchemist. And I'm sure I'll write about more Coen Brothers movies, a book about the Coens, and more Conan stories in due time.
[1] There's nothing so innovative or interesting as, say, "imagine it's five years later and this project has been an unmitigated disaster -- and tell the story of how that happened," a method listed in (IIRC) Thinking, Fast and Slow.
[2] Fun fact: O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first feature film to use digital color correction -- the footage they shot had lush green foliage everywhere, and Roger Deakins needed to make that look dry and dusty. So, in a way, we have O Brother to blame for the current teal-and-orange nightmare.
[3] The most ironic bit of "aren't Africans dumb?" was the runner where Nabulungi assumes her old-timey typewriter is used for texting. Buuut generally Africa has leapfrogged the developed world, skipping landline networks entirely and building huge networks of cheap cell phones. Africa, drawn apparently without reference, I suppose.
[4] See also: Meet the Feebles. (If you dare.)
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Mr Brooks
Kevin Costner has come over all Jekyll and Hyde in a preposterously enjoyable thriller. Lead us into temptation
Mr Brooks is a film about a divided man that leaves you feeling somewhat divided. As you sit and watch it, the thinking you says, "This is preposter-ous!" To which the pleasure-loving you replies, "Shut up! I'm enjoying this." Directed and co-written by Bruce A Evans (co-writer of Stand by Me), this is a character-driven thriller that gets hold of you and won't let go. Actually, it's a divided-character-driven thriller.
Mr Brooks (Kevin Costner) is a respectable businessman, a good husband and a loving father to his daughter. Then there is the other Mr Brooks, the man who says he is addicted to murder. For the past two years, he has controlled his addiction. When we meet him, his old longing has returned and he…