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To be capable or not – by Andreas N. Bjørndal
What are you able to, what can you do? We have all been in situations we felt were too much, or that we could not handle and later looking back we wonder how easy it went. Let us explore what happened.
Your abilities can be looked at in many ways; physical skills, will power, emotional, mental or spiritual skills. (In my column this issue about the Spleen and Worry you can read more about how to cultivate them).
What you are capable of or what you are holding is a combination of inheritance and acquired skills. To acquire something new you need to get the idea; be aware of it, desire it and practice.
Practice 10,000 hours
It is said you can be good at almost anything if you invest 10,000 hours of practice.
If you practice 10 hours a week, 40 weeks a year, it will take you twenty five years, but if you practice about 8 hours every day it will be between three to four years. It is more likely that a full dedication over a five year period with 5,5 hours a day will be more feasible.
It could be sports, art, mathematics or a language. As long as you practice enough, you can become one of the best in your area, in your country or the world. It is like climbing your personal peak. On the top of a peak, it is never crowded.
That said, you should not start too late. Many physical skills have an age limit. The ability to learn new things is strongest the first part of life. Ask yourself what skills that are the most important in life?
Skills of the soul
The important skills or abilities in the long run, are the skills of the soul and spirit. The spiritual skills are the only skills that never can be taken from you, they are the diplomas of the soul, the treasures you can take with you after death. They are the skills it is really worth investing in. Let me explain the difference between soul and spirit in this context. You can be smart and learn math or have experienced challenging family situations that makes you good at coping in inter-human situations. Your heart and mind have developed skills. But in the journey of your soul, if you believe it goes on, will you remember those skills?
The virtues of the soul on the other side, are the gems from the spirit, they stay. Your degree of acquired wisdom, love, justice, virtue, goodness, purity or truth are there forever; they are the gold of the soul.
The practice of these skills of the soul is something we all do, regardless of us being aware of it or not, this is life. It is in the most difficult times of life that these skills are cultivated fastest. When your soul is in pain, when you suffer, you feel your soul growing. It is like your muscles aching from exercise. If somebody gives you pain and suffering you could learn to be considerate. If you are neglected, you could learn to appreciate the care of others. If you feel hatred from others it could be you learn to cultivate love. This is because hate is the lack of love. Love is the only real thing, like light. You can turn the light on, not the darkness. Darkness is lack of light. So is hatred, the lack of love. If you always end up in a dark place, you will long for light, you will want to bring it with you, in you. The same goes for love to conquer hate.
Worlds of Kabbalah
According to the Kabbalah there are higher worlds, not distant from us, they interact with us on many levels in our daily lives. We do not learn about them in the academic approach to nature. If you explore different initiatic traditions you will be amazed of the similarity between them.
The first world we need to become aware of is called Yesod or foundation. It is a question of starting to feel the energetic nature. To feel the state of your body, the healing energy in your hands, the nice currents from the sun, the atmosphere in a room, the soul-state of people you meet etc. This sensitivity opens up the mind to realize we are in a bigger unity, a group soul, a world of flux, of energy.
The next step, is when you start to see that there are patterns that repeat themselves in everything. A transistor or light cross, a choice or an election are all the same thing. A bed, your childhood, a mother and your ancestors are also the same thing, but a different one than the first. You start to perceive unity more and more rather than fragmented objective "facts". You see the glory behind everything in the universe. This is the world of glory or Hod.
The next is called Netzach and is translated as victory or eternity. And this brings us to the point. When you become aware of this aspect of life, you start to feel the current of time as a river, you get in touch with the future as something flowing towards you, you start to see life as a growth and evolution that is taking you into eternity, where you take victory after victory of the currents that challenge you in life. You start to see all that happens as a growth of your soul. A growth you know is continuous and never stops.
When you struggle, when you feel that there are no solutions, when you feel alone, when you feel stabbed in the back, when you are completely confused, when you feel down and hopeless, when you are afraid or feel you do not have the power to face something, not capable, all these and many more situations, is when you are in the true state of your life, and when your soul is cultivating the most important things for just you. Here you have to conduct yourself like a person in a kajakk going upstream, facing challenge after challenge and taking the best turns.
The world above this is the last we will mention here (You can read about them here). It is called Tipheret or beauty. Here the beauty of your soul is present as the virtues you have gained. You might be full of wisdom, or love, or purity, or justice etc. Each time you have grown the right way in Netzach, flowers bloom in your soul, creating the fruits in Tipheret, the gold of the soul. The gold of the soul are the treasures that no one can take away from you ever. This is what determines on a soul level what you are capable of.
So are you capable to face it? Yes, life is so wise, so full of love and care that it will never give you a challenge you are not capable of. Life is organic, adjustable and in balance, so what you feel is impossible is just the feeling you need to make it possible. In the questions, challenges and difficulties that really matters for you, that are central in your life, you are always capable. They fit you like a hand in a glove. The Magic Happens now!


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Fr Ray Blake has posted a video of a debate between David Berlinski, author of 'The Devil's Delusion' and Christopher Hitchens, author of 'God Is Not Great'. The motion for the debate was, 'Atheism poisons everything', which is a refreshing angle for a debate nowadays.
The need for an educated Laity who can communicate the Catholic Faith has perhaps never been greater. The coming years will without doubt be increasingly difficult. Economic crises, war, terrorism and rising unemployment are not trends that will just disappear. In a World in which nothing is certain and Faith is dwindling, many will have 'itching ears' and it will be all the more easy for opportunistic ideologues to convince populations of their inhuman creeds. Videos such as the atrocious 10:10 climate change awareness campaign, showing 'deniers' being exploded at the touch of a red button, may not be a statement of intent (we can give even those eco-fascists the benefit of the doubt), but they are concerning, underlining a cold, brutal, even heartless, atheistic, scientific rationalism and reductionism, driven by propaganda, designed to frighten populaces of a grave, unseen threat to humanity's future survival.
While we have, in Pope Benedict XVI, a Supreme Pontiff who can communicate the dangers of atheism, warn of the pitfalls of celebrity culture and speak lovingly to the hearts of men and women of the truth that happiness is in serving and loving Our Lord Jesus Christ, drawing vast crowds, we are running short on highly respected, influential, billionnaire celebrities who are widely credited with having invented and established the Internet.
In fact, if you take the 'new atheists' in our country, such as Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins (we can probably add Stephen Hawking) and the like, many of them are exceedingly popular. In the US, the liberal media and luvvie Hollywood world heralded Barack Obama in almost messianic terms even though just a year down the line it is obvious his presidency will be regarded as far less effective than Jimmy Carter's. The shallow, zeitgeist-led, bandwagon-jumping, profound vacuity and even jaw-dropping stupidity of so many celebrities in the US and UK, so often looked up to in a World dominated by them, does not really change the fact that they are often raised to the heights of walking demi-gods. Not only are 'celebrity types' taken in by just about any passing publicity drive which will help to 'heal the World' and boost their egos simulataeneously, but their voices are taken seriously. Their opinions matter.
This is why the above video is concerning. Bill Gates, the multi-billionnaire philanthropist, who most likely has a carbon footprint the length of the Universe, expands upon the 'climate crisis' caused by the nasty virus taking up all the places where forests, rivers and nature reserves should be - human beings. Set in the context of CO2 emissions, Mr Gates argues that...
"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
And that is probably just the start. As the editor of the video above emphasises, these are striking words. How, for instance, do you use a new vaccine to lower global population? Is it a vaccine that sterilises people? How does health care lower the global population? Is it the kind of health care that kills people off? How do 'reproductive health services' reduce the global population without killing vast quantities of unborn children? Is that enforced, mandatory, chosen, promoted? Will Courts of Protection be used to fulfil the 'final solution' to climate change? Is it mere paranoia to imagine that men like Mr Gates dream of a World Government to supervise this 'final solution' to climate change and a World Court to rule upon global 'initiatives' to combat it? Celebrities and influential, admired men and women will be used in a global battle to convince the World of the need for 'de-population' and 'population reduction' with all of the horrors that lurk behind such innocuous sounding rhetoric, promoted by them, but fed by a global elite of very rich, rather wicked, Godless men.
We need an educated and informed Laity, as well as an educated and faithful Bishops' Conference and Priesthood, obviously, to communicate the essential truths of the Catholic Faith with zeal for souls and love for Christ. We will also need every communicator at the Church's disposal to combat the inhuman, cold, brutal, reductivist, heartless, scientific atheistic ideology which already is and will continue to be promoted worldwide, through celebrity culture, through corrupt politicians, through international organisations like the United Nations and Governments, local, national and supra-national, and through the media, because if it goes unchallenged, it could potentially lead to a man-made loss of life and a man-made holocaust unparallelled since even the beginning of the World.
Bill Gates may be absolutely minted. He may be a 'philanthropist'. He may even have established the very forum by which I can attempt to communicate the Gospel to whoever reads this blog. He may be a very clever and well-respected man, but he is not the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth, the Successor of St Peter who happens also to be a man who, having lived through the Nazi period and who rejected and condemned the ideology for the gross evil that it was, warns us against ideologies that serve to undermine human dignity. It is his words, not the words of mega-rich global businessmen, like Bill Gates, which are important for the UK and for the World. Let us hope that it is his words, not those of Mr Gates, that are taken seriously. It has long been alleged, albeit in a wholly exaggerated manner, by detractors of the Faith that the Church did not speak out against Nazism enough. Evidence like that above suggests that even greater pressure will come upon societies to embrace a similar ideology in the future. Let the 20th Century be a warning to those in the Hierarchy of the Church today, never to make that mistake again in the 21st and fail to condemn a Culture of Death, fuelled by atheism, which can so easily descend into a new epoch of Nazism.

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What type of thermal paste does Apple put on the Platform Controller
I have liquid spill damage to my Mac Book Pro. It was about three weeks old when it happend. I am a single parent and really know enough about how to work on a computer to be dangerous. With that said I have replaced my keyboard and purchased a brand new logic board. My problem comes in with thermal paste. The main heat sink that the fans blow through covers the GPU and the Processor. They have the artic silver thermal paste on them. The Platform Controller Hub has a white paste on it. I am trying to find out what it is exactly and where I can purchase some. I have been trying every where I can find to ask what it is. I am wondering if it is a silicone base thermal paste? If anyone has some advise it would be a big Help!
Is this a good question?
Thanks for replying! I thought about using the artic but didn't know if I could. Also I wondered about the over heating if there was a difference in the two. The Platform Controller only has that flat heat sink on it. But I will definately look into the Thermalright Chill Factor3. I will let you know how it comes out.
Thanks again for the info!
Okay I received my logic board from china and installed it went really good. I now have my Mac Book Pro back working. I used the Artic Silver creamique 2 thermal compound on the Platform Controller and on the Thunder Bolt. Both of these had heat sinks but niether shown having one in the teardown guide. I hope that this will Help someone else with a liquid spill. I forgot to mention that I also replaced my keyboard.


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Austria's Dark Spot
In order to set up the biggest military training area of the Third Reich, an entire region of Lower Austria was evacuated
Not far from the Wachau in Lower Austria, considered one of the most beautiful regions in the country, and less than a two-hour drive from Vienna, there is a 157 square kilometer dark spot – about the size of the Principality of Liechtenstein – where visitors are not welcome.
This is the Döllersheimer Ländchen.
A small white sign greets people: Military restricted area - Mortal danger. Taking photographs, filming, and even sketching are prohibited by law, and punishable. This area was once home to about 7,000 natives of Lower Austria, people who would once never have imagined that Adolf Hitler would convert their villages into a military training area. It was the biggest in the Third Reich.
Seventy years ago, on Jun. 21, 1938, just three months after Germany's annexation of Austria, the depopulation of the area around the village of Döllersheim in the Waldviertel began. The process took place in four stages, and, by 1942, left residents of 42 villages homeless. At the beginning, people were compensated for their land, but at later stages, the payments were deposited in blocked accounts that became invalid after the war. After reclaiming its independence in 1955, the Republic of Austria turned down all restitution claims.
On Jan. 25, 1938, people across the Waldviertel were alarmed by the Aurora Borealis, a very rare, although natural phenomenon of polar light that, according to popular belief, was considered a harbinger of momentous events. "On that day, the European northern sky appeared in white-green and red light," remembered Stephanie Wurz of Nondorf an der Wild. "It was an unforgettable spectacle that seemed to scare the entire population."
The mischief was not long in coming.
German troops marched into Austria on Mar. 12, and the country was annexed. At first, Austrians welcomed Hitler, as he had promised to improve the bad economic situation in the country, for which most people held the dictatorial chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg responsible.
"One afternoon, friends of my father visited us, and said 'Der Kurt is furt, jetzt geht's uns guat' (Now that Kurt is gone, everything is going to go well for us again)," related an unidentified interviewee in Manfred Neuwirth's 1988/89 documentary Erinnerungen an ein verlorenes Land (Memories of a Lost Country). "Everybody rejoiced over the arrival of Hitler," a woman added, "but this stopped when the rumors about the displacement spread."
Anna Gruber remembered having mixed feelings:
"There were parades, and people welcomed Hitler like no other political leader before," she said in the same documentary. "Everybody shouted 'Hail Hitler,' but my husband was convinced that this was not good at all."
Because of well-designed propaganda, and perhaps also out of hope for a better future, 99.7% of the 4.5 million person electorate voted in favor of the annexation in the referendum on April 10th. In the 60-house village of Edelbach, for example, only one person dared to tick the "no" box. It was a disastrous vote, as it turned out. Just a few weeks later, on June 21, residents of Edelbach and seven other villages received a letter from the Ostmark (Austria) branch of the German settlement agency: As per order of the Reich, you have to vacate your farm within six weeks.
"We were scared, as we did not know what would happen to us," remembered Augusta Schöller from Edelbach. "Often, I would find my mother crying in her room, muttering that this was the end."
Resistance, however, was futile. People who refused to move were shot, or taken to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. Julius Scheidl, owner of a restaurant in Germanns, was one who expressed his disenchantment with Hitler and the depopulation policy too openly. He was led away by the Gestapo, and died in the gas chamber at Mauthausen without a trial.
The first artillery firing practice took place on 8 August 1938, even before the first eight villages were completely depopulated, and barracks, bunkers, and firing ranges had been built.
"People had to leave fast and unexpectedly because they weren't given enough time to find new property and move there with all their possessions," remembered a man who was among the people forced to leave in 1940. "In Sept. 1938, I went to Großpoppen with my father, and noticed that fields were only partly harvested, and on some, reaping hooks and scythes were still lying around." He knew the abandonment of their fields had been unplanned.
Schools were also evacuated. "Our class in school got smaller and smaller until it was closed down completely," said another man, who was eight at the time. "But the 'catastrophe' was hushed up. It was an odd atmosphere, but we simply tolerated it."
Historians have come up with many explanations for Hitler choosing this area for his undertaking. However, two seem the most plausible.
The first and most common explanation concerns Hitler's family history. His paternal grandmother, Anna Schickelgruber, was a native of Strones close to Döllersheim. Her son Alois, Hitler's father, was born out of wedlock, according to the baptism register, and historians have found proof of him being an illegitimate child of either Leopold Frankenberger, a wealthy Jew from Graz, or Baron Salomon Mayer Rothschild, a wealthy Jew from Vienna. Schickelgruber worked as a maid in both households, and thus, it has been claimed that Hitler wanted to erase all traces that might establish his Jewish ancestry.
The second explanation is that soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire used to train in Germanns and Oberndorf in the Döllersheim region, as did the Austrian Army during the First Republic in Brugg, because of the extraordinary geography of the region. Its hilly land and woods seem to have attracted the soldiers, and might have been one reason for the army to convince the Germans to set up a military training area there.
After the last wave of displacements, the military training area Döllerseim – or Allentsteig as it is called now – was almost 200 square kilometers large, and stretched from Göpfritz an der Wild in the North to Neupölla in the East, the river Kamp in the South, and Zwettl in the West. The army took possession of the area in 1941/42, and all the villages were legally dissolved. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia, a site for the storage of captured goods and a camp for prisoners of war were also constructed. At its height, 30,000 to 35,000 soldiers trained there before going to war. Thus, it was considered the biggest in the Third Reich.
Between 1941 and 1945, the OFLAG XVII A, a camp for imprisoned French generals in Edelbach, was the scene of sports competitions, as well as theater and music performances. Trying to make good use of their time, the generals also published a newspaper, and founded a university, called L'université d'Edelbach.
At first, officers had family members and friends send them books, maps, and apparatuses. Later, no contact to the outside world was permitted, and officers built small tunnels to make contact with the local population and asked them to get materials for them.
The officers held lectures and exams, with enough rigor that after the war, their degrees were officially recognized. This was confirmed by geologist Alexander Tollmann.
"The men collected about 250 different fossils," he remembered, "and the 1.6 square kilometer area of the former camp was the best researched piece of land in all of Austria."
At the end of the war, on May 9, 1945, the Red Army captured the training area, and held the area until 1946. At the same time, the provisional Austrian government made repopulation plans, as most of the houses were still intact, and considered the founding of a European University on the property – a serious enough proposal that it was reported in newspapers. This was not, however, taken seriously by the Soviets, who themselves conducted exercises for some 60,000 soldiers. The former camp for imprisoned French generals was converted into a transit camp for prisoners of war. Some buildings were used for target practice, and most of the rest was torn down by the Austrians themselves, who could "remove as much building material as they wanted, in exchange for two bottles of Vodka," remembered Johannes Muellner, a priest.
"A shot through the lungs, that's my memory of the Russians," said Anna Gruber, who lived on the border of the military training area. While fleeing from the Russians that knocked on her door at night, she was shot in the back. "I fell onto the ground, but I thought to myself 'you are not going to get me,'" she remembered. "So I got up and ran towards a small stream, with my dress full of blood." After a sleepless night, Gruber was able to crawl home. Her family brought her to the Allentsteig hospital in a handcart in the early morning hours, and she survived.
When Austria's independence was restored on May 15, 1955, there was widespread rejoicing because people desperately wanted the occupying Soviet soldiers to leave. The displaced also dreamed of moving back to their hometowns. However, these hopes were soon dashed as the newly created state didn't have the resources for the repopulation of the area.
The 157 square kilometers were handed back over to the Austrian Army on May 9, 1957. The rest was given back to, or bought by, the 300-year old Windhag Endowment, managed by the Lower Austrian government, that awards scholarships to area students. The foundation's income comes mainly from the rent and lease of land.
By 1955, 600 claims had been submitted to the Commission on Restitution, but in the end, Allied forces vetoed them all. This decision was later supported by the 3rd Staatsvertragsdurchfuehrungsgesetz, a law outlining the procedures for enactment of the Austrian Treaty of Independence.
This document stated that restitution laws did not apply as "no laws valid at that time were abused, nor were the people forced to sell their property because of political persecution." In the mid-1990s, the few displaced persons who were still alive got 70,000 Schilling (about 5,000 Euro today). But even these payments were limited to people actually born on the land of today's military training area.
Today, very few people know about the history of the military training area, as it is not included in Austrian school curricula. Not even soldiers regularly training there know this background history, as long-time reserve soldier Hermann Stockinger confirms.
"The soldiers go there, train, and that's it."


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Some ideas for writing a best man speech for a brother include sharing childhood stories, mild-mannered teasing and praising the bride. Additional components to add to a speech include anecdotes about the groom's parents and ending with a positive sentiment.
It is important to start with an introduction and an explanation of the best man's relationship to the groom. The best man can then talk about shared events such as starting school, birthdays, family trips, starting a career or awkward moments as a teenager. Other ideas for stories are haircuts, fashions and learning to drive. It is also possible to reach out to other family members, such as siblings, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins, for their stories to add to the speech.
Humorous stories are appreciated by guests, though stories about ex-girlfriends can be uncomfortable for both the bride and the guests, so it may be wise to avoid them. Stories about sibling rivalry may be another topic to include in the speech.
A nice way to bring the speech to a conclusion is to praise the bride, perhaps noting how lucky the groom is to have found her, and saying something affectionate about the groom. Finally, a good ending comes with a warm thought about what the future might hold for the couple.


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|Awesome sleeves!
Basically I've been a sad panda...and stressed out so cooking is a no-no.
....So, instead of featuring any dishes or recipes, I am going to do a tribute to tattoos....food tattoos, since body art strikes a harmonic cord in my soul and food is saturated into my heart.
And before you go ahead and judge or whatever, just appreciate the artistry of the tattoo, not the who, what, where and why's of the tat. It's art, deal with it.
So here ya go.
|I love this one
|Death before Decaf. True that.
|Breakfast head.
|Ok...not food...but still!


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Intel delivered quarterly earnings and revenue that surpassed analysts' expectations on Tuesday, as PC sales rose about 9 percent from a year ago. Shares rose modestly after the bell.
The tech firm posted third-quarter earnings of 66 cents per share, up 12 percent from 58 cents a share in the year-earlier period. Revenue increased by 8 percent to $14.55 billion from $13.48 billion a year ago. The company said it shipped more than 100 million microprocessors during the the period and repurchased $4.2 billion shares.
Read MoreIntel shares pare gains after false earnings alert
"We achieved our best-ever revenue and strong profits in the third quarter," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said. "There is more to do, but our results give us confidence that we're successfully executing to our strategy of extending our products across a broad range of exciting new markets."
Analysts had expected Intel to post earnings of 65 cents a share on $14.45 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.


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Nas to Pay Kelis $55,000 a Month in Child Support
And the winner is ... Kelis! A judge has ordered her soon-to-be ex-hubby Nas, to pay her $55,000 per month. The 29-year-old who just gave birth to the pair's first child together, Knight Jones, will receive the monthly payment, which will cover both child and spousal support.
Nas, born Nasir Jones, will also foot the bill for his ex's mortgage, prenatal expenses and medical insurance. Additionally he will pay $35,000 to Kelis' lawyer Laura Wesser. A well-known celebrity divorce lawyer, Wesser's previous clients include Angelina Jolie, Stevie Wonder, and Britney Spears.
The estranged couple have been battling it out in court since news of their split broke in April. Kelis claimed that her ex was being stingy with his reported $11 million salary, incurred from his record deal with current label, Def Jam. Nas refuted such claims, noting that he made closer to $4 million from the deal.
Despite the birth of their son, it doesn't look like the two will be reconciling anytime soon. According to reports, Nas was noticeably intoxicated during an impromptu performance in his former Queens, NY, neighborhood. The rapper announced the birth of his son to the crowd but made no mention of Kelis.


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Rawsonville wedding
Engagement Photography – Tinus & Michelle
As murphy would have it, photoshoots don't always go to plan! For the engagement photography session that we planned, we wanted to do some landscape panoramic images over the Slanghoek Valley in Rawsonville. We had a sunlight mountain in mind in the background, but...The morning of the shoot was some of the thickest fog I have ever seen in our valley. As I always say, roll with the punches! I honestly think that the job description next to the profession of photographer in the dictionary MUST be A Problem Solver because that is what we do 90% of the time. Well, we got some amazing shots in the fog, it just adds another element to the images, one tat you dont see often. Let me know what you think, and feel free to share.
Worcester Engagement Shoot – Matthew & Megan
I met Matthew and Megan while I was in Yzerfontein to photograph Brent and Genna's wedding at Die Strandkombuis. The have booked the venue and came in for a meeting and bumped into me. Details was exchanged and as they say, the rest is history. We had their Worcester Engagement Shoot at the stunning Die Eike venue in Rawsonville. It was such a stunning day with stunning light. I am really looking forward to this wedding as I think its going to be a big one! Please feel free to like, comment or share this post.
Rawsonville Wedding – Ben-Herman & Adri
This was my second last wedding for 2014! Man the time flew by, 2014 is basically just a blur. Well this was a good one for the second last wedding of 2014. A Rawsonville wedding is always special, especially of it is at a stunning venue like Die Eike! Ben-Herman and Adri chose this stunning wedding and got married under the massive old Oak trees. The setting was just perfect. And while I was shooting the ceremony, I could see this was going to be a great crowd! The band they had was simply amazing! It was one of the weddings with the best entertainment I have ever been to! Simply outstanding! Well, lets get on with the images. Please feel free to like, comment and share with friends!
Opstal Wedding – Rawsonville – Cameron & Kerry-Ann
Finally I can upload the images of this awesome couple. Cameron and Kerry-Ann decided that they don't want to do the big glamorous wedding, they wanted it more intimate with close family and friends, so they decided to get married in court. Now, just like the previous wedding, I like different. Different challenges me to shoot something different. On this day, it was one of those typical cold mid September days, but with some lovely breaks in the clouds. They had their small reception at the Opstal Wedding venue just outside Rawsonville and it was just great. Well here is some of the images of their day, please feel free to let me know what you guys think of it.
Die Eike Wedding – Rawsonville – Blom & Janel
This is the last of my weddings that I photographed in the first half of 2014 and it was the wedding of a very good friend of ours. The wedding took place at the brand new and pretty awesome Die Eike wedding venue and guesthouse just outside Rawsonville. Janel is a very talented hair and make up artist here in Worcester and we have worked together on so many shoots and weddings that we have become very good friends. So when she finally asked me to photograph their wedding I just got very excited, as I know Janel and Janel does not do the normal LOL Janel wore this lovely pink wedding dress, something completely different and it looked amazing! Blom was dressed in a tailored suit and together the two of them looked like they stepped out of a leading bridal publication. We only had a short time for formal portraits due to the light leaving us so soon, but the ones we did get is awesome! All in all, a great wedding, at a great venue with great friends! Please feel free to like, comment and share this post.
Merwida Wedding – Rawsonville – Gert & Neleen
I photographed this stunning couple at the end of March at the Merwida Country Manour here in Rawsonville. To work with fun people is always good, lots of laughs and great moments. So lets share some of these great moments with you guys!
Do you want to be an amazeballs dancer? Then you better hire an amazeballs DJ!
Looking for a DJ for your wedding? Want to know what to look for? Then please read the rest of this post, there is some vital info that will help you make the right choice. What is the two VITAL things of a wedding day that your guests will remember?? No 1: The food! If you had great food, that will be the first thing that your guests will brag about, and this is not only for brides, venues and planners, take note, if you serve bad food, you WILL NOT be famous with the guests. Great food will be a hit, time and time again, even I, who have shot at many venues, will tell a bride that the food was great at a certain place. But enough of the food....the other important factor. No 2: The DJ! hell yeah, you want your drunken and not so drunk friends to party just as hard! Man I have seen the greatest parties, and I can name a tiny few that was so awesome that at 22:00 when I was done with the shooting, I actually wanted to pack my gear away and party just as hard with them! 99% of these cases was due to the awesome DJ! That other 1% is the great crowd of guests. Why is the DJ so important, well if the food is being served at 8pm and every one is done by 9pm, its the classic Sunday-afternoon-after-lunch syndrome, tummy full, eyes closed and then you start to see guests slowly filtering away to their rooms, that you don't want, this is a party! Yes some of the older folks will leave early but then I have also seen a grandma or two boogie deep into the night. So...if the DJ has some wicked tracks playing, it will keep your friends in the party spirit, and soon they will forget that their stomaches is full! Along with the dancing and partying the drinks will flow freely, and your party animals start to slowly creep out of the holes that they hide in for their nocturnal life, and that is what we as photographers love!! Party animals is the soul of receptions and they make for some insane shots! Here is a few images of some of my fav animals, some times its also a good thing that I can leave at 10pm as not long after that I also start to creep out of my hiding place and then there will be incriminating pictures taken of me LOL, now that I cant allow! Bad DJ's, man they can kill a party, I have literally seen some DJ's sit there and play for themselves! They are singing and swinging their arms behind their mixer/cd player or what ever it is that some of these guys have, and this all to the tune of Living Next Door To Alice....and with an empty dance floor and the drunk guys in the bar shouting ALICE, ALICE, WHO THE F&%$K IS ALICE after every chorus! Not cool. I have also had a DJ at one wedding where he was also playing more for himself than the guests, so I went up to him and I said, dude, I need to get photos of people dancing! Get them on the floor, play, Shuffle It or Tonights gonna be a good night or just make plan, so 5 minutes later, he did, and guess what, we had about 30 people on the floor! I am a lover of classic golden oldie hits, stuff that will rock the show, but it must be a good mix, if I have to listen to Smokie or Grease Lightning's soundtrack the whole night I will die a slow death, even though I love the songs, the same goes for guys like Eminem or Black Eyed Peas or who ever is playing the latest hit on the radio....Somehow Pockerface just comes to mind, a song that can very quickly be turned into a very rude, below the belt joke by the drunk best man LOL How should brides choose a DJ? Well firstly, YOU need to tell him what music will get your crowd going, house music, classical music, hip hop or what ever, give them a list of your and your friends fav artists and see if he has them and if he doesn't, can het get the music. Then get some references from him, brides who's weddings he did and contact them, hell it can be an expensive mistake to make for your wedding day. They will quickly tell you if he had a good party with said DJ. As the other providers, the photographer, the videographer, the venue and then friends for some recommendations. If there is a name that pops up a couple of times, then you sort of know that guy is good.... Meet the DJ, sort out all monies etc with him beforehand, you don't want a DJ to start putting up a scene later the night as he wants his money now, before the wedding all parties must know exactly how the finance parts of the wedding work. The other option is having a live band! But this could also be risky, don't get an alternative bad for a traditional wedding LOL, that will just be wrong and you might end up getting a rude letter from grandma who will think that you have let the anti Christ loose on them hahahaha. Bands is awesome, there is nothing that will get a crowd going than some really good cover songs like summer of 69 and the likes! Not only should the guys be good performers, but also entertainers. If I could do my wedding over, I would have had a band. For light morning weddings or just some good back ground music during dinner or the service or while everyone is having pre-drinks, get a instrumental group, flutes, pianos, saxophones etc, that is always a good hit and it sets a nice relaxed mood. there is some really talented boys and girls out there that will rock the socks of any wedding. Choosing your DJ is just as important as the right dress/suit/photographer and equally important as the food. We as photographers will gladly share some of our fav contacts as this will just help us get great images! Let me know what your thoughts is, always great to hear what others think, and feel free to share this with your friends who is looking for a DJ. I hope my pointers was worth it, now everyone should be amazeballs dancers at their weddings LOL


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what makes you say these two things connected?earthling wrote:And cutting down on some retail could provide opportunity for downtown to expand retail.
would a retailer that wants to locate in one of the premier retail centers in the midwest really locate downtown just because there's no space at their center of choice?
there's signs this is the case, look at how many companies waited for space to open on the plaza. The Apple Store was space constrained for years and waited for larger space there before moving and they could have opened a huge store downtown at any rate they wanted to pay
Is it possible that your ideas have a better chance of opening elsewhere nearby and high end retail does so well on the plaza and pays so well there's no reason to support anything else?


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For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to come up with elemental energies - as much to give a peculiar flavor to different magical paths beyond the standards set out by D&D and GURPS as anything else.
There're obviously the two best-known elemental sets… The Western one of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and the Chinese one of Air, Fire, Water, Metal, and Wood. Either one could have energy polarities, or light/shadow, pitched in.
But, O Fellow Denizens of the Citadel, I ask this - what other kinds of unique elements can you come up with?
Additional Ideas (22)
Sabres - Air - Freedom and nobility
Towers - Earth - Vigilance and solidity
Masks - Water - Deception and confuson
Torches - Fire - Violence and destruction
Stars - Light - Wisdom and knowledge
Vaults - Darkness - Seclusion and imprisonment
Not exactly new and original elements, but a world based on suits instead of elements could be interesting...
Light - white - good
Shadow - black - bad
Fire - red - good
Earth - orange - bad
Electricity (energy) - yellow - good
Life - green - bad
Water - blue - good
Air - purple - bad
You could go caveman.
Nothingness - Air and everything you can't see
Everything - All you can see and touch
Darkness - That which is unknown. Counts stuff under the mountain and deep in the water as well as the night.
Concentrate on colors and let them categorize the elements
Red - fire
Blue - water
Green - trees and grass/nature
Brown - dirt and earth
White - clouds/air
Grey - metal and mountains
Found a cool Greek Site that I can't resist adding.
Earth is Dry and Cool
Water Cool and Moist
Air Moist and Warm
Fire Warm and Dry
Quote from: "http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec01.html"
In a seemingly unrelated discovery, Euclid, a Greek mathematician, proved that there are only five solid shapes that can be made from simple polygons (the triangle, square and hexagon). Plato, strongly influenced by this pure mathematical discovery, revised the four element theory with the proposition that there were five elements to the Universe (earth, water, air, fire and quintessence) in correspondence with the five regular solids.
Elements had a natural tendency to separate in space; fire moved outwards, away from the earth, and earth moved inwards, with air and water being intermediate. Thus, each of these five elements occupied a unique place in the heavens (earth elements were heavy and, therefore, low; fire elements were light and located up high).
Ice (bit of a ff fan) frezzing cold to the touch, incase in ice
energy or electricity massive balls of pure energy
crystal element of fragile but unbecoming strength
Binding force- "Wholeness", "holding-together", the element which causes things to be whole, to stick together, to combine, to stay in one place.
Deconstructing force- "Partiality", "falling-away", the element which causes things to be partial, to fall into pieces or crumble, to split away from each other, to repel, and to move.
Increasing force- "Complexity", "extending-outward", the element which causes things to increase in size or number, to grow outward, to move outward (out of itself), to multiply, to enlarge.
Decreasing force- "Simplicity", "shrinking-inward", the element which causes thigns to decrease in size or number, to shrink, to move inward (into itself), to decrease exponentially, to diminish.
Now, I'm not sure how you would implement those, and they cross over in many places... But whatever.
There's a bunch of grey dust. It suddenly flurries together into a grey cube, and it's cracks vanish (binding force). Cracks suddenly develop, and the whole thing crumbles to pieces (deconstructing force). The cube reforms. Now, it begins to grow and spawn smaller cubes and split itself off into a multitude of cubes (increasing force). Then, the cubes begin to shrink and diminish into themselves, some by pieces, others exponentially (decreasing force).
I have no idea how that helps, but...
* Associations: Passive, Positive, Submissive, LAW
* Law/Order-Stagnant (Things to stay the way they are right now)/ Law/Order-Dynamic (Things to become stable and stop chaos)
* Primary Gender: Female
* Element: Luminance/ Spirit- Light, links between things.
* Color: White and Lighter Greys, colors one shade off white.
* Symbol: Equilateral Triangle pointed right
* Profession Prime: Acolyte: Faithful. Desire for faith/ spirit
* Profession Sece': Archpriest: Control. Desire for dominance.
* Cards: Triangle/Temple, Priestess
* Associations: Active, Negative, Dominant, CHAOS
* Chaos Dynamic (Desire for changes to happen)/ Chaos Stagnant (Changes to occur only along current lines. Things to change as they are changing right now.)
* Primary Gender: Male
* Element: Luminance- Darkness, magic and deception/illusion
* Color: Black and Darker Greys. Colors one shade off black.
* Symbol: Equilateral Triangle pointed left
* Profession Prime: Mage- worker of magic. Agent of change.
* Profession Sece': Thief and Actor, workers of mind/illusion.
* Cards: Staves/ Wands, Mage
Remember Light and Darkness are simply different sides of the same thing. They are seperate, yet one.
* Associations: Passive, Negative, Dominant, LAW
* Doer/ Leader / Protector (Aids/ Helps/ Defends those in need)
* Primary Gender: Male
* Element: Metal and Rock, Craft shops
* Color: Brown/ Greys/ Metallics
* Symbol: Equilateral triangle point down with a horizontal slash halfway through.
* Profession Prime: Merchantile/ Transactionsmiths
* Profession Sece': Crafter- Excellence in their craft
* Cards: Shield/ Jewel, King
* Associations: Active, Negative, Submissive, CHAOS
* Thinker (Maker of Knowledge- Gain Wisdom)/ Inventor/ Teacher (User of knowledge and wisdom)
* Primary Gender: Female
* Element: Wind/ Cloud/ Weather Libraries/ Schools
* Color: Blue, White, Silver
* Symbol: Equilateral triangle point up with a horizontal slash halfway through.
* Profession Prime: Teacher - Vessel of knowledge
* Profession Sece': Writer/ Scribe - Recoder of knowledge
* Cards: Disks/ Wheels, Queen
* Associations: Active, Positive, Dominant, CHAOS
* Leaders- (Foresight and charisma. Promotes growth)/ Destroyers (Those who lead people down the wrong path. Promotes destruction, which allows for future growth.)
* Primary Gender: Male
* Element: Fire/ Lightning/ Smoke The Wilds
* Color: Red and yellow, smacks of green
* Symbol: Equilateral triangle point up.
* Profession Prime: Travellers and Wardens (those that live in the wilds)
* Profession Sece': Farmers, Trappers, Loggers (those that use the wilds)
* Cards: Trees/ Swords, Knight
* Associations: Passive, Positive, Submissive, LAW
* Feeling, Caring, Mental balance, Love (All positive or controlled emotions)/ Lover. Passions, Drives, and all emotions imbalanced, out of control, and all negative emotions.
* Primary Gender: Female
* Element: Water, Oceans, Sailing, Healing
* Color: Blue Greens (tiny smacks of pink/red)
* Symbol: Equilateral triangle point down.
* Profession Prime: Art, Artists, Producers of Beauty
* Profession Sece': Courtisan, people who help people, healers, skills and edication to do so.
* Cards: Heart, Rainbow, Princess
Creating and Growing/ Farming.
Kachan (The Stone - Grey): All that is stable. Tangibly this is mostly the solid inanimate/ stones, metal, and soil. This is the element of The Foundation and resistance against the other forces. When The Stone is finally gone, there will be no place left for The Green and The Storm to be.
Builder/ Preserver
Zhoorr (Storm- Blue and White): All that is in motion: This is the air and the water. These things are in motion, eroding the solid, feeding the green, being the origin of all things (from that which is in motion).
Chaos, spuring growth and change.
Aural (The Spirit, things unseeen) - Yellow): These are all the thoughts ideas and feelings in the world. This is where the spirits are, the balance of The Stones. This is the place where things that will be are ... they move from The Aural through the Thayl and Zhoor to the KaChan.
Aural KaChan
The Yod: The active principle. First Force
The He: The passive principle. Receptive Vessel
The Vau: The Child, that principle which is brought forth by the active and the passive.
These three form the first family. Everything can be broken down into triad families.
The 2nd He: This which rises above. The passage from one world/state to the next. That which rises up becomes the Yod of the next cycle.
The five elements are, in ascending order of power, Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void
Chi (Earth) represents the hard, solid objects of the world. The most basic example of Chi is in a stone. Stones are highly resistant to movement or change, as is anything heavily influenced by Chi. In people, the bones, muscles and tissues are represented by Chi. Emotionally, Chi is predominantly associated with stubbornness, stability, physicality, and gravity. In the mind, it is confidence; and emotionally it is a desire to have things remain as they are; a resistance to change. When under the influence of this chi mode or 'mood,' we are aware of our own physicality and sureness of action.
(Note: This is a separate concept from the energy-force, pronounced in Chinese as qi or ch'i and in Japanese as ki, )
Sui (water) represents the fluid, flowing, formless things in the world. Outside of the obvious example of rivers and the like, plants are also categorized under Sui, as they adapt to their environment, growing and changing according to the direction of the sun and the changing seasons. Blood and other bodily fluids are represented by Sui, as are mental or emotional tendencies towards adaptation and change. Sui can be associated with emotion, defensiveness, adaptability, flexibility, suppleness, and magnetism.
Hi (fire) represents the energetic, forceful, moving things in the world. Animals, particularly predators, capable of movement and full of forceful energy, are primary examples of Ka objects. Bodily, Ka represents our metabolism and body heat, and in the mental and emotional realms, it represents drive and passion. Ka can be associated with motivation, desire, intention, and an outgoing spirit.
Fu (Wind) represents those things that, even moreso than Sui objects, grow, expand, and enjoy freedom of movement. Aside from air, smoke, and the like, Fû can in some ways be best represented by the human mind. As we grow physically, we learn and expand mentally as well, in terms of our knowledge, our experiences, and our personalities. Fu represents breathing, and the internal processes associated with respiration. Mentally and emotionally, it represents an 'open-minded' attitude and carefree feeling. It can be associated with will, elusiveness, evasiveness, benevolence, compassion, wisdom, and electricity.
Ku (Void) represents those things beyond our everyday experience, particularly those things composed of pure energy. Atoms, their component particles, and atomic forces fall under this category, as do people in a higher state of consciousness. Bodily, Ku represents spirit, thought, and creative energy. It represents our ability to think and to communicate, as well as our creativity. It can also be associated with power, creativity, spontaneity, inventiveness, nuclear reactions.
Ku is of particular importance as the highest of the elements. In martial arts, particularly in fictional tales where the fighting discipline is blended with magic or the occult, one often invokes the power of the Void to connect to the quintessential creative energy of the world. A warrior properly attuned to the Void can sense his surrounding and act without thinking, and without using his physical senses.
The bagua "eight trigrams" is a fundamental philosophical concept in ancient China. It is an octagonal diagram with eight trigrams on each side. The concept of bagua is applied not only to Chinese Taoist thought and the I Ching, but is also used in other domains of Chinese culture, such as fengshui, martial arts , navigation, etc. If it works for an ancient and philophiocal culture it might work for you.
Qian (Heaven): FORCE
Northwest, grey/ white/ black, Benefactors
Dui (Marsh): OPEN
West, white, metal, family, autumn
Li (Fire): RADIANCE
south, red, fire, fame, summer
Zhen (Thunder): SHAKE
East , green, wood, ancestors, spring
Xun (Wind): GROUND
Southeast, purple, wood, wealth
Kan (Water):GORGE
North, Black, Water, Winter, Craft/ Career
Gen (Mountain): BOUND
Northeast, dark blue, - , earth, self cultivation
Kun (Earth) FIELD
Southwest, pink/ white, earth, marriage
Picture these images going around in a circle, with south and north, being south and north.
In traditional Chinese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Five Elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. These elements were used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena.
The doctrine of five phases describes both a generating cycle and an overcoming or restraining cycle of interactions between the phases. In the generating cycle, wood generates fire; fire generates earth; earth generates metal; metal generates water; water generates wood. In the overcoming cycle, wood overcomes earth; earth overcomes water; water overcomes fire; fire overcomes metal; metal overcomes wood.
north, black, tortise, cold, winter, knowledge
east, green or blue, Dragon, rain, spring, benevolence
south, red, Pheonix, heat, summer, propriety
center, yellow, caldron, wind, between seasons, good will
west, white, tiger, clear, autumn, righteousness
Please keep in mind that this is a cycle, produced by the friction between ying and yang cosmic forces.
Water represents the spirit of life.. all things alive come from water.
They grow, from water, made manifest as wood. Wood represents life.
Life eventually brings fire, which is the passion/ emotion/ flow of life.
Wood burns with fire, eventually producing ash... ash makes the solid world -earth.
Earth solidifies farther making metal. From Earth comes metal. Metal gives us the ability to make tools and control the world around us. Metal is the equivalent of the Western Culture Air, the realm of spirit and mind. It gives shape/ focus to the world.
Eventually metal melts and become water.. the cycle begins again.
Interaction profile:
...I fear if your awareness ever loses self-containment someday. The world would drown beneath ideas and information.
He can barrage the thread leaving nothing else to be said.
I mean that in a good way.
Asian and pacific systems are mostly based on the cyclic flow of cosmic forces. The Chinese Bagua seems the dominant root system, but the Japanese system seems to be a cross between the Euro/ Western Model and the Bagua.
(It should be noted that The Five western Elements and the cycle of elements are complimentry. )
Native American (North) seem to be similar to the Japanese... a cross between the Western and Eastern model.. opposing forces that balance each other in a cyclic dance.
Native American (South) seem to have more in common with the I Ching or 64 paths of cosmic forces than any other elemental system. However our understanding is fairly incomplete, as the Spanish made sure to destroy most religious/ magical texts.
-Rising energy (pulls up- air)
-Descending energy (pulls down- water)
-Central energy (keeps still, keeps together- earth, stone)
-Turning energy (constant motion- can't think of a good example)
-Split energy (when rising or descending pulls on central, it creates split- fire is an example of this)
Building on the western four earth, fire, wind, and water, there are actually a lot of ideas that can be played around with.
Life and Death are elements that are rarely mentioned, however they are fundimentally powerful.
Spirit for another. Spirit can take many forms. It could be considered similar to life and death, but it could also be the principal foundation for mind control and compulsion, and any other mind effecting spells. Also it might be similar in nature to magic, and be the fundimental power involved with antimagic fields and magic enhancing powers. Spirit could also be the thread that allows for sight into the future.
Luck. Luck usually gets overlooked as an element because people do not see how it can be used in a spell or ability, however, even if that were true, it would still be a fundimental element, primary in all things.
Chaos and Order. These could be considered the elemental equivalents to Luck, but they don't have to be. Order could be used for divination (giving one the ability to see the natural order of the world before it happens) or any other form of increased mental function, allowing one's mind to organize itself more efficiently. Chaos is used a lot in literature, allowing the improbable to happen.
Time is a good one. Everybody can see how time is a fundamental element of the world, as well as its usefullness in practical situations.
If you wanted to, you could say that the five senses were the elements of the world. After all, what exists without the fundimental elements of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
Air has sound and touch, but not smell, taste or sight.
Fire has sight, and touch, but not smell, taste or sound.
These are just a few suggestions off of the top of my head, hence the reason that they are not organized or written out very well. I suggest that you play around with them to see what works for you.
Mentally - Joy, happiness, delight, contentment.
Physically - Lust, sensation.
Mentally - Sorrow, anxiety, sadness.
Physically - Agony, hurt.
Mentally - Anger, hate, revulsion.
Physically - Violence, pressure.
Mentally - Calmness, inner peace.
Physically - Steadiness, relaxation.
Journey (Pure Orange)
"The journey of a 1000 ri (each one 1000 paces) starts with one single step." Keys: Motion, Path/ Road, Destination, Arrow (triangle) or Doorway/Archway.
Life is a journey, through time, matter, and spirit. The first and foremost element. It seems to be rushing ahead of all others, but in actuality it is pushing the others along.
Patience (Pure Green)
"The perfect moment makes all the difference"
Keys: Passive, Time, Change (not paradoxical, things change all the time, usually in a rythm), Sphere or Coil (time as viewed from the future towards the past - time goes in a circle and travels forward creating a spring).
Peace (Orange and Green Mottle)
"Like the lake, serene and smooth."
Keys: Calm, Balance, Dance, Water of the Lake or Rain, Peace's Glyph.
Without peace there would be no patience on the journey.
Strength (Orange and Purple Mottle)
"The Will to act will forge the vessel."
Keys: Will, Body, Crafts, Fire of the Forge, Strength's Glyph
Without strength to act upon wisdom there would be no journey.
Wisdom (Pure Purple)
"Life is the journey, not the destination."
Keys: Active, Searching, Solids (Wisdom comes from looking at the solid world and seeing beyond it), Square (for the four sided life Truthfulness, Austerity, Mercy, and Cleanliness -physical/ mental/ spiritual)
And all things come from Spirit (Yellow, Red, and Blue)
Key: The unseen, unfelt, unknown except by inference. Puzzles and interlocking rings. The prime mover, yet the greatest resistance to motion. Water without a vessel. A ball floating in air. Arrow without a bow.
Learning (Purple and Green Mottle)
This is not an elemental force. It is a mental construct, anchoring the elemental forces to the material world... the touchstone between spirit and matter/ body... the mind.
Inspired by a new martial arts T-shirt Line. I added the concepts and quotes.
These are the strange forces that govern the flow of magic, psionics and some say even the fundamental stuff that everything is created of. Most scoff at such notions, but the powers of the rare mages who learn to harness the purified forces of even a single arcane element are enough to leave disbelievers scoffing quietly.
Montez is the arcane force of positive seperation, the force that drives birds into the sky and the clouds to tower above even the mountains. It is not to be confused with ideals such as lift and bouyancy, but these are actually different expressions of Montez.
Eloiv is the seperating force, the thing that forms the boundaries of things, from the often indistinct boundary between water and soil, to the more concrete boundary between flesh and air. Eloiv can be reinforced to make brittle things strong, or to rupture things completely.
Etran is the force of inexplicability, which some foolishly call the power of chaos, though while it is certainly the master of chaos, Etran is also the force that drives emotion, intellectual thought and aspects of the soul and other things that defy any attempt at explanation or prediction.
The arcane force of attraction, this is the force that bonds fire to things that burn and the air to the surface of the water. More mundane aspects of Armech include magnetism, gravity, and inertia.
Ane is the 'good' force, but to call it good, attractive, positive or the like is to only name single facets of its potential. Ane is the force of attraction between base and noble, the difinitor between have and have not, and the name of the boundary between light and shadow, shadow and darkness. There is no corresponding anti-force to Ane, it is, or it is defined by it's absence.
The arcane force of self, Tevat is self definition, mass, ego, and denial. Of the arcane forces Tevat is considered to be the easist to comprehend as many consider creation to be primarily composed of Tevat and given order, purpose, and objective definition by the other arcane forces.
Magic System
-Four forces
-Mages can be balanced, polarized, or specialized
-Warlocks defy Mage rules
-Creative Force
-Can summon creatures, create items and energy, and renew things (healing?)
-Things and creatures brought forth will be 'rough' - creatures will be almost like crude sculptures without the smooth movements of a "true" creature
-Nothing may be directly damaged or destroyed with this force, but indirect damage - calling forth fire beneath an opponent, for example - is possible
-The nature of things cannot be changed with this force.
-Orderly Force
-Can shape and mold things to a more perfect form, whether turning a crude natural bridge into an elegant walkway, forming the 'rough' creations of the Creative into "true" creatures and items, or aiding the labors of a craftsman to turn raw materials into a finished product
-Cannot directly create a finished item, only shape it from raw materials
-Cannot deal damage, but can heal.
-Unable to truly alter something from what it is. A piece of wood shaped to become a sword is still wood, and lead shaped into bars cannot be made gold.
-Destructive Force
-Can break down things, deal direct injury, and banish things.
-Cannot create things except in the crudest way - breaking blocks to make a rough sculpture, or making a tunnel by destroying the earth.
-Cannot be used to shape things save as above; fine control needed to make a finished product is impossible as the energy 'spills over'.
-Cannot change a substance, only destroy it.
-Discordant Force
-Can transform things from one form to another, or one type to another. Shapeshifting and transmutation are quite possible.
-Cannot create things, although previously existing items and creatures can be made into something else
-Cannot make a finished item by turning a crude item into a finished one, but can change the nature of a finished item - lead bars becoming gold bars, but not a wooden staff becoming a metal sword or a frog into a wizard.
-Cannot actually destroy things, only transform them, although the result may fall apart naturally - a castle wall with the bottom row turned to soft mud will naturally fall apart.
-Mages must undergo a test to determine the forces to which they are attuned.
-Balanced mages are uncommon, as they may use all four forces equally but have no special power with any.
-Polarized mages show a measure of attunement to two forces, but not opposed ones. Thus, Creative/Orderly, Orderly/Destructive, Destructive/Disorderly, and Disorderly/Creative are the only four possible Polarizations. Polarized mages are the most common.
-Duality mages specialize in opposed forces - Creative/Destructive and Orderly/Disorderly. Extremely rare, and often more than a bit insane.
-Specialized mages focus solely on a single force, and can wring measures of strength from it that lie beyond other, more generalized mages, at the cost of versatility. These kinds of mages are about as uncommon as balanced mages, and often work in teams with other specialized mages as befits their profession of choice.
-So-called sorcerers exist (sorcerer being the wizardly term; normal non-spellcasters tend to call them warlocks out of a sense of fear at their 'unnatural' magic) who can tap into the various forces without training and in strange ways. They are extremely rare, however.
-Like wizards, most warlocks are Balanced spellworkers. Their inherent grasp of magic and the nature of their gift, however, makes them roughly equivalent in power to a Polarized or Duality mage.
-Polarized warlocks are extremely rare, while duality warlocks tend to be more common and quite thoroughly off their rockers.
-Specialized warlocks achieve heights of power unknown to anyone else, but usually end up destroying themselves by reaching too far.
-Extremely rarely, Warlocks exist who tap three of the four forces, a thing unheard of among Mages. This unorthodox combination is abnormally powerful, as well, but the imbalance tends to rapidly turn them into gibbering lunatics of no importance.
-Rumors exist of warlocks who can tap a 'Fifth Force' of some kind, doing things that leave Mages and other Warlocks alike completely dumbfounded; distortion of space and time are often featured, but discounted as impossible wives' tales.
-Any spellworker may be 'biased' toward a given force over another while still remaining able to tap into the others. Certain forms of magic are only possible for a given force-dominance or force-balance. The animation of golems, as an example, requires a perfect balance of both Creative and Discordant Force, to summon up animating energy and shape both it and the material of the golem's body together.
-If a 'Fifth Force' exists, it would be linked to the energy and structure of the 'barriers' of space, time, and the planes; a Fifth Force Warlock would likely be able to teleport, augment their own speed, and potentially open portals to other planes. However, such a talent would likely be unfathomably rare in this system.
Light, Sound, Substance, Spirit, and Time.
Mist, Steel, Thunder, Dust and Frost.
Earth, Wood, Water, Ice, Air, Lightning, Fire, Metal -> back again to Earth.
Air, Water, Fire, Earth (as in soil, the generative element), Crystal (which includes rock and metal), Aether (light and lightning), Ice, Shadow, Decay (either Death or Transformation) and the Void (a hard-to-pin-down element that involves Time or Destiny).
After reading up on Kitsunes and game magics, I've sorted the elements I know of for certain into the following Elemental Zodiac.
The Four Cores:
--Earth: all stone, sand, ground, rock mineral focuses, and solid structure
--Water: all pure liquids, non-molten fluids, currents, rain, and fluid structure
--Wind/Air: all gases, gales, vortexes, clouds/vapor/steams (when touched with water), free movement structure
Fire: all heat, flames, combustion, active structure
The Four Fusions:
--Wood (Earth + Water): all plants and plant based material and/or organisms
--Ice (Water + Wind/Air): all cold, freezing, and things born from freezing
--Lightning (Wind/Air + Fire): all electricity, storms, and electric based powers/forces
--Metal (Fire + Earth): all ores, metallic materials and/or organisms, and metal focused energy
The Two Influences:
--Light: encompasses glows, beams, stars, suns, Heaven, Healing, Life, Angels, Goodness, etc.
--Dark: encompasses shadow, illusions, voids, space, black-holes, Hell, Pain, Death, Demons/Devils, Evil, Primal, etc.
The Three Lords:
--Sound: covers sounds, all sonic based forces and techniques, on up to Cosmic Harmonics and Dimensional Frequencies
--Spirit: covers ghosts, life-force itself, Ki/chi forces, emotions, the very spark of life itself, and the true soul--the very thing that separates the truly alive from the false imitations.
--Time: The Past/Present/Future, the flow of time, age, youth, speed, the ever moving force that without which everything stops and then shatters.
All the other magical energies and forces I've found since either falls directly under one of these 13, or is born from a minor mix of two of them.
The five elements are Limen, Loam, Caelum, Caementum and Wood.
Limen is the elemental threshold, the thinnest veneer between us and the spiritual realm. This is the way of liquid, the mutable yet tangible. Water, blood , acid , to fire are passive to active Limen manifestations. Emotions are in the realm of Limen, but border of Loam.
Loam is the element of the earth that could grow out of. This would be soil, shifting from silt, sand, to soft rock, to even salt. Fertility and potential are in the realm of Loam.
Caelum/Skyis the element of nothing that exists, the intangibles. This manifests as air, mist, and even fire. It is also the realm of thought.
Caementum/Of Earth is the element of deeper earth. This is the stoic and tangible, the anchors of the world. Clay to Metals. It is the realm of making.
Animus. The elemental profile consists of living things. While it is mostly associated in its raw state with plants, animus with some additional elements will make animals (and spirits).
This is a metaphysical setting element. There are eight elements.
The Court of Light (Expansion, Creation, and Order) the three associated courts
Sun (fire and drive),
Sky (always in motion, always thinking),
Green (Plant/nature/soul - living)
The Court of Darkness (Contraction, Destruction, and the Random) the three associated courts
The Blue (Ocean and emotion),
The Keep (stone/metal),
Winter (frost, cold, stasis)
The associate courts are mostly their prime, but have segments of them in the opposition.
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DAUPHIN COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, PETITIONERv.COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, RESPONDENT
Appeal from the Order of the Department of Public Welfare in the case of Appeal of: W.A.Y., No. 21-85-081.
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Ruth O'Brien, Assistant Counsel, for respondent.
Bruce E. Cooper, for intervenor, W.A.Y.
Judges MacPhail and Colins, and Senior Judge Narick, sitting as a panel of three. Opinion by Senior Judge Narick. Dissenting Opinion by Judge MacPhail.
Author: Narick
[ 117 Pa. Commw. Page 306]
Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth (Children and Youth) has petitioned for review of a final decision and order issued by the Department of Public Welfare (DPW). This order adopted in its entirety the recommendation of the hearing officer which granted the request of W.A.Y. to expunge certain indicated reports of child abuse maintained pursuant to the Child Protective Services Law*fn1 naming W.A.Y. as the perpetrator of the abuse. We affirm.
[ 117 Pa. Commw. Page 307]
W.A.Y. was named in indicated reports*fn2 of sexual child abuse involving his two minor daughters, J.Y. and A.Y.*fn3 Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Law, 11 P.S. § 2215(d), W.A.Y. submitted a request to the Secretary of DPW for expungement of the indicated reports of child abuse.
A brief chronology of events in this matter can be set forth as follows. On July 5, 1984, Children and Youth received a report of incest naming J.Y. as the abused child and W.A.Y. as the perpetrator. On July 6, 1984 and July 13, 1984, J.Y. met with a sexual abuse specialist from Children and Youth. On July 9, 1984, August 27, 1984, November 1, 1984 and November 17, 1984, J.Y. met with Dr. Dorris Tinker, a clinical psychologist. On July 13, 1984, Children and Youth forwarded a report of suspected child abuse to the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office. On August 2, 1984, Children and Youth filed a child protective service investigation report naming J.Y. as the child and W.A.Y. as the perpetrator.
With respect to A.Y., Children and Youth received a report of sexual abuse naming A.Y. as the child and W.A.Y. as the perpetrator on August 8, 1984. A.Y. was interviewed by Dr. Tinker on August 27, 1984. Children and Youth filed a child protective service investigation
[ 117 Pa. Commw. Page 308]
report naming A.Y. as the child and W.A.Y. as the perpetrator on September 5, 1984.*fn4
On October 8, 1985, a hearing was held before a hearing officer and testimony was presented by Children and Youth and W.A.Y. Neither S.Y., the mother of J.Y. and A.Y., nor J.Y. and A.Y. were present at the hearing before the hearing officer. Testifying on behalf of Children and Youth were Alicia Smith, a sexual abuse specialist employed by Children and Youth, and Dr. Tinker. Smith testified that during her interview with J.Y. she utilized anatomically correct dolls. Smith stated that based upon statements made to her by J.Y. as well as J.Y.'s actions toward the male anatomically correct doll that she believed J.Y. had been sexually abused. Smith did not interview A.Y. Dr. Tinker testified that she believed after interviewing J.Y. that J.Y. had been sexually abused. However, as to A.Y.,*fn5 Dr. Tinker admitted that she could not be certain whether A.Y. was just repeating what she overheard J.Y. say or whether an instance of abuse had actually occurred.*fn6
W.A.Y. testified on his own behalf and also presented the testimony of his father, a neighbor, a friend, and his ex-wife. All of W.A.Y.'s witnesses testified that J.Y. and A.Y. seemed happy and comfortable while spending time with their father. W.A.Y.'s ex-wife also testified that W.A.Y. was not an individual who would engage in sexual molestation ...
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Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe
|Also known as
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|R&B, new jack swing, hip hop
|Years active
|MCA, Biv 10, eOne Music
|Associated acts
|New Edition, Boyz II Men, Another Bad Creation, TLC, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant
|Ricky Bell
Michael Bivins
Ronnie DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe, also known as BBD, is an American music group that branched off from New Edition. It consists of three members of New Edition: Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe.
Bell, Bivins, and DeVoe formed the group at the suggestion of producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Upon accepting the idea, MCA records wrote down the name Bell Bivins DeVoe, but Bivins suggested they remove the ins from his name and just call the group Bell Biv DeVoe.[1] With help from Public Enemy producers Eric Sadler , Hank and Keith Shocklee and several others, Bell Biv Devoe released its debut album Poison in 1990, on MCA Records. The album was credited as pioneering the "new jack swing" sound of the early 1990s, combining hip-hop, funk, soul, and pop music.[2] This fusion of styles helped to expose them to a fan base who prefer a harder edged sound.[1] Poison reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and its title track, along with its second single, "Do Me!", both reached number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Shortly thereafter, Richard Wolf and Epic Mazur were responsible for the remix of "Do Me!" (which hit Number Six on the dance charts).[3] Poison also spawned the singles "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?", "When Will I See You Smile Again?" and "She's Dope!"[4] Poison sold over four million copies, and was followed up by a remix album titled WBBD-Bootcity.[5][6] Richard Wolf and Epic Mazur helped create BBD's premiere album, blending rhythm, blues, pop, and rock, and Poison achieve triple Platinum success.[7]
Bell Biv DeVoe went on to release Hootie Mack in 1993 on MCA Records, and the more hardcore rap/R&B influenced BBD in 2001 on Biv 10 Records. Neither album was as successful as Poison; however, Hootie Mack did reach Gold success. Despite the fact that their last album was released in 2001, the members of Bell Biv Devoe continue to perform together as a group.[8] They also participated in several New Edition reunions, and continue to perform with them on tour as part of the group. On May 30, 2013, Bell Biv DeVoe performed their hit song "Poison" for Boston Strong, a benefit concert to raise money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.[9]
In 2016, BBD released their first track in 15 years, "Run", along with an accompanying music video.[10] It was the first single off the album Three Stripes, which was released January 27, 2017. On June 19, 2018, the group performed Poison on Beat Shazam, a show known for picking different topics of music, even decades of music.
Awards and nominations[edit]
In 1991, the group received the award for Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Album of the Year, Group, Band or Duo for Poison at the Soul Train Music Awards.[11]
The group also received an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Band/Duo/Group in 1992.
- Studio albums
- Poison (1990)
- Hootie Mack (1993)
- Three Stripes (2017)
- B.B.D (The Poison Tour) (1990-1991)
- Above the Rim Tour (1994)
- Three Stripes World Tour (2017)
- ^ a b Heyliger, Mike. "Popdose Flashback '90: Bell Biv DeVoe, Poison." Popdose.com. Popdose.com. 11 Mar. 2010. Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
- ^ J.D. Considine. "After a great 1990, Bell Biv DeVoe to ring in new year :[FINAL Edition]." The Sun 28 Dec. 1990, The Sun, Baltimore, ProQuest. Web. 1 Apr. 2010.
- ^ Widran, Jonathan (April 14, 1991). "Producer Crosstalk". Music Connection.
- ^ "Bell Biv DeVoe: Chart History." Billboard.com. Billboard. n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
- ^ Huey, Steve. "Bell Biv DeVoe: Biography." Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
- ^ Henderson, Alex. "WBBD-Bootcity! The Remix Album > Overview." Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2010
- ^ Savona, Anthony (June 1991). "Hot Picks". EQ.
- ^ Gerald M. Gay. "'80s group still has its devotees: Bell Biv DeVoe here for 'Slow Jams Live' gig. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News 19 February 2009 ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 10 Apr. 2010.
- ^ "Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, NKOTB and Others Perform at Boston Strong Benefit Concert". Classichitsandoldies.com. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
- ^ "Bell Biv Devoe Make A Run With Their First New Song In 15 Years (Video)". 2016-09-12. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Special. "Hammer gets rapped at Soul Train awards :[FIN Edition]. " Toronto Star 14 Mar. 1991, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 10 Apr. 2010.


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Change of Pace at Melges 20 Worlds
A lengthy morning postponement gave way to one light air Melges 20 World Championship race, again shuffling the standings with one final day to go
NEWPORT, R.I. (October 6, 2017) - After two days of perfect Southwest Newport breeze, Day Three of the Melges 20 World Championship dawned sunny skies and warm temps, but no wind. As sailors arrived at Sail Newport to begin their preparations, the glassy water was tempting for water skiing. At 09.00, PRO Peter 'Luigi' Reggio announced that the AP would be hoisted and the next announcement would be at 11:30, giving Melges 20 sailors a relaxing morning to check out Newport's best coffee shops.
With the best chance for fair racing being on the outside course due to the light-filling seabreeze and a strong ebb tide, the fleet once again congregated at Course Alpha for a 2:00 p.m. start. The light air was a big change of pace with the World Championship title hanging in the balance, and Day Three proved pivotal in the overall standings. Drew Freides' PACIFIC YANKEE entered the day with a 9-point lead over two-time World Champion John Kilroy on SAMBA PA TI, while several other contenders remained ready to pounce on the smallest opportunity to advance. In essence, Freides and his Pacific Yankees were marked men.
Once to the racing area, Reggio took advantage of the wind on the race course, dropped marks and got the sequence under way. With a port favored line, the pin end was crowded and those that were able to get off the line clean and tack onto port found solid pressure in the middle of the course and made some nice gains. The left looked promising early, but it turned out to be fool's gold as the left side eventually caved hard and the boats on the middle right led at the top mark.
Jason Michas and his MIDNIGHT BLUE team nailed the start close to the pin, flopped onto port and never looked back leading wire-to-wire in challenging, light conditions. Race Six winner Alessandro Rombelli on STIG challenged for the lead and took second, while Vladimir Prosikhin at the helm of NIKA sailed well to grab third in his brand new Melges 20. Michas' win marked the seventh different race winner, showing the depth and balance of the fleet at this World Championship.
Michas commented after his race win, "We tend to like the light stuff, we were able to get off the line nicely and managed to have a couple good upwinds and held our own downwind."
With the win, Michas moved from eleventh overall to seventh, and the fight for the top ten is intense with just 30 points separating fifth from fifteenth. The forecast for the final day is looking raceable and with a 2:00 p.m. final race cut off it will be important to start on time to get in three races for a full series.
CANADIAN CORINTHIAN DOMINATION - Continuing his strong performance in the Corinthian division and overall, Justin Quigg's CHARACTER 2.0 collected another bottle of champagne and looks to close out his Corinthian World title on Saturday. A great Thanksgiving indeed for these Canadian Sailors.
TOP FIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS (PRELIMINARY - After Seven Races, One Discard)
1.) (USA) Drew Freides, PACIFIC YANKEE; 1-2-2-[7]-6-7-5 = 23
2.) (RUS) Vladimir Prosikhin, NIKA; 5-6-[39/DNF]-4-4-12-3 = 34
3.) (USA) Daniel Thielman, KUAI; 9-4-4-1-15-[39/DNF]-6 = 39
4.) (USA) John Kilroy Jr., SAMBA PA TI; 11-3-6-6-1-13-[24] = 40
5.) (ITA) Alessandro Rombelli, STIG; 10-9-11-[12]-9-1-2 = 42
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These things only require a little judgment; but some men, pardi! always are creeping when they should fly, and always are scampering when they should saunter; and then they wonder when they make fiasco!
In matters of this kind, each man should look to his own skin, _pardi!
Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow -- the Scots 'gallipot purveyor -- Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey
Generals and of their principal deeds of arms -- and not their deeds of arms alone, pardi, but their coats of arms too.
'I thought we had in Paris slackened the matrimonial noose tolerably; mais, pardi, ces Anglois veulent toujours être nos maitres.'
'Ah, pardi! as M le Comte exclaims continually, Ah, pardi!