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Charlottesville Breaking News
Crunching numbers: City omits short sales, foreclosures in averages
In a recent press release, the City of Charlottesville reported that 2012 assessments are down 1.22 percent overall, with existing residential properties declining an average of 3.08 percent. So how do we square this the city data to the Nest Realty 4th Quarter Market Report for 2011, which shows the average list price of a single-family home in the Charlottesville area decreasing 32.1 percent year-over-year?
Assessments, which are used by local governmentsto establish tax value, provide snapshots of property values as of January 1st. And tax value, a fixed figure unaffected by changes in interest rates or inventory, is determined in part by examining sales that have occurred within the market area.
A reporter decided to make a random sampling of 20 sales taken from the multiple listing system (MLS) for the period of May-October 2011, and the result reveals some intriguing information.
Seven of the MLS transactions reflect sales prices in excess of the current assessments, while the remaining 13 transactions show sales that occurred below the assessed values, all of them larger than the 3.08 percent government-noted residential decline.
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Tritium leak: Post-quake radiation plume stokes concern
When the 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Louisa County last August, with its epicenter just 11 miles from the North Anna nuclear generating plant, environmental groups warned that radioactive leaks were likely. It turns out that they were right.
Dominion Virginia Power has revealed that an elevated level of a radioactive substance called tritium has been found in groundwater near the plant, and the discovery has nuclear watchdogs scoffing at the company's efforts to downplay potential danger to the public.
"Tritium is highly mobile," says Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, a Maryland-based nonprofit which has long expressed concern about the integrity of miles of underground pipes carrying radioactive water at North Anna.
"I don't think that 100 aftershocks have helped the integrity of all this buried pipe," says Gunter. "It only increases our concern since very likely there will continue to be aftershocks and perhaps more big ones."
The impending one-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami which resulted in catastrophic radiation release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has raised concerns that U.S. plants could be similarly vulnerable, and Gunter asserts that nuclear energy companies and government agencies haven't made necessary changes in the wake of that March 11, 2010 international...
No Bull: Secrets of the veggie burger sisterhood
"We've been eating these our wholes lives," says Elizabeth Raymond, talking about her mother's veggie burgers in the small commercial kitchen on East Market Street. "And we've talked about doing this for a long time."
Last year, Raymond's mother, Crissanne, a local caterer for many years, recruited Elizabeth and her sister Heather to launch No Bull Burger. Using a recipe inspired by the memory of her own mother's lentil soup to make the patties, Raymond and her girls began shopping the veggie burgers around to local restaurants and chefs they knew. The idea of a full-time family business, however, took some time to take root as both daughters had already embarked on their own careers– Heather has a thriving massage therapy practice, and Elizabeth had just completed her master's in education and planned on being a teacher.
But the family legend of those veggie burgers that they'd loved since childhood, and hearing praise from friends and relatives, made them question those career plans.
"I kept thinking,'what if we didn't do this?" says Elizabeth. "We might miss out on a big adventure." She flashes a big smile. "So far, so good."
"The Farmer's Market got us started," says Heather. "We started selling them there and people went crazy."
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Since chef/owner Harrison Keevil opened Brookville Restaurant on the Downtown Mall, his personal, experimental "We-have-no-boundaries" style of cooking may not have pleased everyone who has sat down there. But that's okay. And actually, Keevil is okay with that. Paying $22 for a hamburger requires a certain suspension of disbelief, not to mention the commitment, but you can be sure that Keevil, like any true artist, has put his heart and soul in it. In this profile shot by videographer Anwar Allen, you'll get a glimpse of what makes Keevil and Brookville click. Enjoy!
Pigged out: How Paulie started small... and smoky
There's a new barbecue place on the way to Wintergreen– new, that is, compared to the one that's been pleasing palates for over 20 years. The venerable one, of course, is the Blue Ridge Pig, and the newbie is Paulie's Pig-Out, located on Route 151 across from the new elementary school. Truth be told, the Pig-Out opened two and a half years ago, August of 2009 to be more precise.
"I couldn't find a job," says self-effacing owner Paul Matheny, "so I opened this little place."
Little indeed, as this take-out-only restaurant is, as Matheny puts it, a "hole in the wall." But like the original McDonald's in Southern California, it offers a menu elegant in its simplicity: ribs, chicken, pork barbecue, and catfish.
And like that original McDonald's, it's fast. An unannounced reporter's visit required no more than two minutes for two barbecue sandwiches.
It turns out that Matheny used to work with the dean of Charlottesville barbecue scene, Jinx Kern, when the two were making upscale food at the Gaslight Restaurant in the 1980s. Jinx concedes that he hasn't yet sampled Paulie's fare, but he holds warm memories.
"He's a good kid, and he made me laugh," remembers Kern, owner of Jinx's Pits-Top near downtown.
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Inflation may have taken a break in the U.S., but the country hardly seems perched to be the next Japan.
Data from August suggest flatlining price pressure in a year that has seen inflation fall well below the mid-2 percent range that some on Wall Street had expected in 2014. So-called core inflation, which strips out food and energy costs, was flat for the first time in nearly four years, and the consumer price index more broadly indicated just a 1.7 percent annualized increase. Prices actually declined 0.2 percent including food and energy.
"The widespread softening in core prices in recent months leaves us with no choice but to conclude that underlying price pressures are weaker than we thought they would be," Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.
It's a trend that, extrapolated just a bit, might suggest the U.S., rather than witnessing inflation that goes with economic growth, actually could be closer to Japan-style deflation that has haunted the country for the past two decades.
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Who doesn't know this problem. The PC is messed up and you really could need a quick tool to get it working again. Or you are with a poor soul using Windows and you want to show what better OS the life has to offer. Or you just need to reinstall a PC with the matching OS right now. Of course you could haul around with you tons of CDs and DVDs but not only is this impractical it is also environmental pollution throwing away CDs en-masse whenever a new version of a distribution comes out. You could create a boot-stick out of distros but then you need one stick for every distro. Not any less cumbersome to haul around. Why not have the ultimate boot stick? Why not have one USB stick hosting all kinds of repair, demo and install Linux distributions? Why not have an ultimate boot stick for all situations in life?
This article shows you how to create your very own ultimate boot stick... your swiss army knife at the size of a thumb.
The Prerequisites
To create such a boot stick you don't need lots of tools. Actually all you need is a Linux system, a 16GB (or larger) USB stick and a fat Internet connection to download as many Linux ISOs as you desire. To make sure all works make sure you have the following tools installed (emerge, apt-get or yum them if required):
- unetbootin (you need this to install ISOs onto your boot stick)
- grub 1 or 2 (1 is enough but 2 gives you more spiffy splash image)
- fdisk (or any partition editor you want)
Now you only need a 16GB or larger USB stick to get rolling.
Preparation Work
First we need to partition the USB stick to fit our purpose. By default USB sticks are formatted as one partition of VFAT type. For our purpose we want an own partition for each ISO we want to use as well as some helper partitions. The best way is to create the base partitions first. From there on you can later on add more partitions out of the remaining free space if you want to add more ISOs to your boot stick.
The most simple way is using fdisk which is included out of the box in any sane Linux distribution. If you are running KDE or Gnome you find there also graphical partition managers if you don't like a console tool. I'll stick to the console for this howto since with graphical partition managers the process is similar. Look on the net for how fdisk or the KDE partition manager works as I'm not going to explain this here.
Start by firing up the partition manager of your choice. Make sure you pick the right device. A run of the mill USB stick shows only a single VFAT entry. If this is the case you are on the right device.
Create first an empty partition table (or delete the one and only partition). Add now a windows partition of small size. This is required to keep windows happy as it expects USB sticks to have one VFAT partition usually ignoring anything afterwards. Add a partition with the following properties:
Type: Primary Partition
Size: 300MB
File System: FAT32
This partition you can use also to store files while doing recovery work or storing other stuff you need also for example on a windows system. 300MB is a good size but you can choose whatever you want.
Now we can add the actual important partitions. Add a second partition with the following parameters:
Type: Primary Partition
Size: 50MB
File System: EXT2
This will be our boot partition. To start various ISO we need this entry point partition hosting a boot manager we can use to dispatch booting to whatever ISO we like. GRUB is going to do this job for us.
Now you can add as many partitions as you want one for each ISO you wish to install on your USB stick. All these partitions well be now of type "Extended Partition" as partition tables allow only 4 primary partitions but any number of extended partitions. As file system use also EXT2. The following table lists partition size required for typical ISOs to install. In fact you can simply use the ISO size and add a few MBs to be sure it fits in.
- Ubuntu (including all derivates): 800MB
- Knoppix: 1.5GB
- GenToo: 400MB
- Finnix: 150MB (better 200MB as new versions tend to slightly grow)
In the end you end up with something like this (my layout, I'm using quite a bunch of ISOs):
Now you have your partitions ready. Format all of them with the appropriate file format and you are ready to add content to your USB Stick.
Make the USB Stick Bootable
As mentioned on the previous step we need a boot manager on the USB stick to deal with the booting the various ISOs. The main problem with booting from USB is that ISOs are typically created for CD/DVD booting and this is not compatible with USB booting (which works like PC HD booting). Linux CD ISOs can though be booted with GRUB easily since they are designed to dispatch to a GRUB stored on the CD. We add here a master GRUB installation though since you can't boot GRUB from GRUB. For this we need a console and a Linux PC on which GRUB is installed. Mount the GRUB partition of your USB stick (the second partition you created). Enter the following
grub-install --root-directory=/media/disk /dev/sdb
and press ENTER. Replace first /media/disk with the path to your USB stick GRUB partition (file managers show you the name to use instead of "disk" typically) and /dev/sdb with the device of your USB stick. This one is the same as you used to partition in the previous step.
Final step is editing the file "device.map" in the "grub" directory. This file defines which devices exist. After the setup your HD is typically set as hd0 and the USB stick as hd1. We need it though the other way round. Make sure the file contains only this line:
(hd0) /dev/sda
If all works you have now GRUB installed on your USB stick partition and the USB stick is bootable. Now we can install the ISOs to the USB stick.
Install ISOs
Download an ISO of your choice, for example a Kubuntu ISO. Run unetbootin. You will be asked for your root password. This is required by UNetBootIn to function properly.
Click on "Disk Image" and click on "..." to select your ISO file. For Ubuntu type distributions you can optionally set some persistent space on the ISO partition. This way you can keep certain configurations across multiple boots of your USB stick. Something like 20-50MB should be enough if you wish to use this feature. Now select the USB device and the partition to install to. If you kept a list of the partitions you made the first ISO partition is number 5 with all other ISO partitions afterwards (6, 7 and so forth). It is important that the USB partition is mounted before you continue at this point or the install fails. Press "OK" to get started. Just wait for the process to finish and your ISO is installed. UNetBootIn actually extracts the ISO content to the ISO partition. Once finished press "Exit" as you don't want to reboot your PC.
Repeat this step for every ISO you want to install on your USB stick. The nice feature here is that once a new revision of a Linux distribution arrives you can simply format the ISO partition on your USB stick and repeat the UNetBootIn step to add the new revision to your USB stick.
Once you are done you need to configure GRUB to make it know how to launch your ISOs.
Configurating GRUB
The installed GRUB does not yet know about your ISO partitions and thus won't be of much use until you teach it where is what. You have to do this step only the first time or when you add new partitions. You usually do not have to do this step if you simply update an ISO on your USB stick with a new revision.
Mount your GRUB partition if not done already. In there you find a directory "grub". Everything related to GRUB is located there. Find in there the file "menu.lst". This is the configuration file of GRUB defining all menu entries in the boot menu. Open it with a Text Editor. Basically you want it to read like this:
default 0
title=My ISO to Boot
root (hd0,4)
kernel /ubnkern root=/dev/sdb5 file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash
initrd /ubninit
The first 2 lines stay always the same. Afterwards you add blocks like the following 4 lines to define each of the installed ISO. The title is the text you see in the boot menu. Root defines the partition your ISO has been installed to. The 0 after the HD has to stay as 0 refers to your USB stick once you use it. The 4 after the comma is the partition number minus one. GRUB starts counting at 0 not 1 as Linux does hence if you installed for example to /dev/sdb5 the number to use in GRUB is actually 4 not 5. Hence (hd0,4) refers to the first extended partition with the number 5 on the USB stick.
The last two lines are the boot lines. The best way is to obtain them from the installation UNetBootIn created from the ISO files. Mount the ISO partition and look for a file "syslinux.cfg". In there you find entries similar to this one here (example from Kubuntu):
label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash --
UNetBootIn creates a bunch of example entries but the important one is the first called "unetbootindefault". We are interested in the last two lines minus the trailing -- at the end. We have to copy the two lines but edit them somewhat to make them work for GRUB. Take first the entire kernel line. For Ubuntu it might be necessary to append "root=/dev/sdb5" to it where /dev/sdb5 is again the ISO partition (attention! not minus one here as this is a Linux partition string not a GRUB partition string). To be safe I add it always for Ubuntu. Now append from the content from the append line to starting after the initrd part not including the trailing -- at the end. The kernel line is not finished. For the initrd line afterwards simply copy the initrd part we skipped. Done so we end up with the example above in the GRUB file. To make it a bit easier here some typical examples to copy paste:
title=Kubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /ubnkern root=/dev/sdb5 file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash
initrd /ubninit
title=GenToo 11.2
root (hd0,4)
kernel /ubnkern root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot vga=791
initrd /ubninit
KNOPPIX (two entries useful since KNOPPIX has a fail safe mode):
title=KNOPPIX 6.7
root (hd0,4)
kernel /ubnkern ramdisk_size=100000 lang=sg vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 tz=localtime
initrd /ubninit
title=KNOPPIX 6.7 (Failsafe)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux ramdisk_size=100000 lang=sg vt.default_utf8=0 vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic nolapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 nonetwork nodhcp xmodule=vesa
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
title=Finnix 103
root (hd0,4)
kernel /ubnkern vga=791 quiet
initrd /ubninit
Keep in mind to change the (hd0,4) parameter and root=/dev/sdb5 where used.
After you have done this your GRUB configuration is complete unless you want to spicy it up a bit.
GRUB Splash Image
GRUB shows a splash image by default as the background. You can change this splash image to have your personal USB boot stick. The image has to be 640x480 in size and 16 or 256 colors depending if you use GRUB 1 or GRUB 2. Most of the time though you have GRUB 1 hence using 16 colors is safer. Once created you have to safe your image as "splash.xpm" (GIMP knows this format well) and GZip it into "splash.xpm.gz". Replace the file in the GRUB directory with your new creation. That's all you need. Here is my GIMP file and Splash image I used for my USB boot stick. The splash.xpm.gz file is already usable (16 colors).
One last step we need. UNetBootIn has a little nasty "side-effect". It sets the partition bootable it just installed an ISO into. This is a problem though since the GRUB partition has to be bootable. To fix this fire up your partition manager pointing it at your USB stick. Make sure only the GRUB partition (second partition) is bootable and no other. It's possible this is not enough. If the USB Stick is still not bootable after you added an ISO repeat the "Make the USB Stick Bootable" step. This works for sure. This step you have to do unfortunately every time you install ISOs onto your USB stick.
That's it. You can now unmount all of your USB sick partitions and be proud owner of an Ultimate Boot Stick. Whack it into a PC to repair broken PCs, show why Linux is kicking like nothing else or install any Linux distro off the bat.
Final Words
My personal USB Boot Stick contains Kubuntu, Xubuntu, GenToo, KNOPPIX and Finnix each x68 and amd64 version. This fits nicely on a 16GB USB stick. What are these all for you might ask? Well here is a quick summary for you:
Live system useful to show others why Linux rocks. Plug it in, boot up and show what it has without altering the PC. And if required you can install right away. Also useful at the company if you need to reinstall a machine because somebody managed to mess it up big time. Kubuntu and Xubuntu are different flavors I keep around for stronger or weaker computers. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE while Xubuntu is Ubuntu with XFCE. Later one is better suited for weaker computers.
Source based Linux distribution. I use this for servers or my own computer. Useful since you get precisely what you want and no other bloat other distribution install because it is "convenient".
Repair distribution. KNOPPIX is a live distribution you can boot up packed full with various tools a system administrator needs to fix a broken machine. First step if a computer is busted and in need of repair. Just whip out the USB stick and get KNOPPIX going to get the machine working again. KNOPPIX is the largest of all distributions as it comes on a DVD.
Repair distribution for the hard case. In contrary to KNOPPIX this is console mode only and with a more specific set of administration tools. This one is the last resort if KNOPPIX can't help anymore and you need to get that PC fixed. This is the smallest of all distributions.
If you have question let it rip. I'll try to help you as good as possible.


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This pack adds recreations of two pinball tables to Pinball Arcade.
Attack From Mars was released in 1995 by Bally and has an alien invasion theme. The playfield includes a moving flying saucer which must be shot down by the player, after destroying it's force field by hitting the three targets protecting it. The Martians are attacking five famous monuments around the world, including the Eiffel Tower, the Tower of Pisa and the Statue of Liberty. The overall goal is to complete six different objectives, to enable Rule the Universe mode.
Genie was released in 1979 by Gottlieb and features a fantasy 'genie in the bottle' theme with terrific artwork. The table features five flippers on the playfield, including two in the top left which create a mini-playfield. As with many tables of this era, a key way of scoring points is to increase the Bonus and the Multiplier, which are scored when the ball drains. Gaining extra balls allows the Bonus to be scored more times, but on this table it is also possible to score the Bonus earlier by building the Bonus over a certain level and hitting the Kickout Hole in the top right corner.


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The Safety 1st Swing tray booster seat features a swing tray with integrated cup holder for moving your child in and out easily and comfortably. Built-in adjustable chair straps are used to secure the booster seat onto a dining room chair and rubber grippers on the underside of the seat ensure better stability. The height of the booster seat can be adjusted at 3 levels.
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While the European chemicals Agency considers that glyphosate is not the designation "carcinogen" deserves, a recent UN study, unmercifully for the producers: the world does not need any pesticides. For Muriel de Pauw, responsible for the landbouwcampagne at Greenpeace Belgium, it is as plain as a pikestaff: pesticides are out.
A few months earlier than expected, the European chemicals Agency (ECHA) his light shine on glyphosate, the most widely used weed killer in the world. Despite scientific evidence, see ECHA's no link between this substance and cancer. For whom the saga has not followed: this intervention was at the request of the European Commission, so the path would pave to a new admission by the end of 2017. Last year that failed because of the division among the states was too great. Glyphosate was exceptionally a temporary extension of 18 months.
Meanwhile, the resistance. In his new report for the human rights Council was the special rapporteur on the right to food to the UN extraordinarily hard for the industry. Voedingspecialist Hilal Elver is candid. "Pesticides have a disastrous impact on the environment, the health and the society as a whole". The producers get the accusation that they are "systematically the adverse effects of pesticides, deny" and "aggressive and unethical marketing techniques".
Will the European Commission to its citizens to listen and glyphosate ban, or take precedence over the financial interests of large industrial groups?
There is for them a market of almost 50 billion euros on the game. On the other side of the coin, there are each year, the 200,000 deaths from direct to pesticides linked to poisoning, we read in the report. And more than ever there's not more on pesticides to escape: everyone is there to expose via the air, water and our food. No one knows what these chemicals will exactly do in our body.
Citizens ' initiative
It is precisely because they are dangerous for the health, the soil depleted and farmers dependent on the agro-industry would soon be done with certain products, such as glyphosate. In any case it is the desire of many Europeans. Almost half a million of them have a European citizens ' initiative, signed a sort of petition that not even two months ago was launched.
These citizens require the use of glyphosate completely be forbidden in Europe. But also that the authorisation of such harmful substances are more transparent to expire. As for their opinions based agencies such as ECHA, among other things, on unpublished studies directly financed by industry. In addition, in the opinion of independent kankerexperts of the world health organization standing tall: glyphosate is probably carcinogenic. Monsanto must with dismay how the Us state of California, the packaging of RoundUp tag with a clear warning.
Will the European Commission to its citizens to listen, or yet again just go to the financial interests of large industrial groups? Outside of this last feast almost no pesticides. The above-mentioned UN report speaks of a myth that pesticides would be necessary to feed the world. The agro-ecology proves that it is perfectly without can.
Agro-ecology is the model of agriculture where Greenpeace advocates, because the man (farmers and eaters) again a central place in the food system, and agriculture with respect for nature happens. We want the political decision-makers to take the necessary measures to this model as the starting point in the drafting of the common agricultural policy for Europe.
The European Commission has adopted the precautionary principle is already enough ammunition to be the most widely used herbicide to eliminate by the admission of glyphosate not to renew. That is, the direction that we, along with hundreds of thousands of citizens want to go out. Then we would have the glass raise: your health. And long live the nature!
Muriel de Pauw, responsible for the landbouwcampagne at Greenpeace Belgium


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Woman ensures mother's killer stays behind bars
Mohammad Umar Hafij will have to spend the rest of his life in jail for killing a woman in 1995, thanks to the testimony given by the woman's daughter, who was only eight years old then.mumbai Updated: Oct 10, 2010 00:58 IST
Mohammad Umar Hafij will have to spend the rest of his life in jail for killing a woman in 1995, thanks to the testimony given by the woman's daughter, who was only eight years old then.
The Bombay High Court upheld the life sentence awarded to Hafij relying on the testimony given by Shabnam, who had witnessed the murder.
Additional public prosecutor, Hitendra Dedhia, told the court that on August 26, 1995, Hafij had imputed that Shabnam's mother, Najmunissa, was a woman of bad character, which led to a heated argument between them.
The next day, Hafij attacked Najmunissa with a knife when she was on her way to Taloja to meet her mother.
Shabnam, who was walking at a distance behind her mother saw Hafij stab her and informed her uncle. They rushed Najmunissa to a nearby hospital but she succumbed to her injuries.
Hafij, who was absconding, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh in 2001.
Six years after her mother's murder, Shabnam identified Hafij and narrated the entire incident to the court.
Hafij was her father's friend, who lived in the neighbourhood, and used to often visit them.
Based on Shabnam's testimony, the sessions court sentenced Hafij to life imprisonment.
He challenged the conviction before the high court which was rejected after relying on Shabnam's testimony.
Appreciating Shabnam's courage, a division bench of Justice DD Sinha and Justice AP Bhangale observed: "The witness, eight years old at the time of incident, gave intelligent and rational answers and stood firm in the cross-examination… She had witnessed… the murder of her mother. We have scrutinised her evidence and found it convincing."
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I find this interesting because I use to unconsciously project. It became such a problem that I actually placed wards around my bed to keep me "in" rather than keeping other things out.
mucgwyrt, you're probably right. I'm probably thinking about it so much that it's keeping me partially awake! CFS = Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Wouldn't that make you sleep deeply? In any case, I think it was Rudas who earlier explained that being very sleepy and fatigued can sometimes aid in astral traveling. So that's interesting to note.
latin_baller: How did they claim to have known in order to write about it?
gurlygurl2004: I know dreams about falling are quite common, and can make your body jerk. Another thing that can make your body jerk is that when you start falling into a pretty deep sleep quickly, your heart rate drops rapidly and makes your brain think the body's dying. So the brain sends a signal to the body telling it to jerk, and that's why when you're extra tired, sometimes your whole body'll jerk when you're falling asleep, or a leg'll twitch or something. It may be astral travel, but I'd think you'd remember since astral travel puts you in a lucid state. And I mean ultra lucid -- more lucid and clear minded than you are awake!
I find this interesting because I use to unconsciously project. It became such a problem that I actually placed wards around my bed to keep me "in" rather than keeping other things out.
We are quicksilver, a fleeting shadow, a distant sound. Our home has no boundaries beyond which we cannot pass. We live in music, in a flash of color. We live on the wind, and in the sparkle of a star.
""And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, an eerie tale to tell, At the end of every seven years, We pay a tithe to Hell,
I am so fair and full of flesh,
I feared it be myself." "
The Ballad of Tam Lin
"Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered in one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you damned it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge."
Terry Pratchet
I can't pretend to have all the answers, but the first thing I would say to you is this:
Banish (cleanse & clear)
Being 'pulled out' of your body is not a good thing no matter who or what might be doing it. It is possible for something else to get in and once it's in, it will not be easy to evict it. For one thing, while there are loads of people willing to jump in and take action, there are few people who have any real training in how to do that safely and ethically. So my first advice to you would be:
Clear and cleanse your own aura from the centre out (I call this banishing, because the intent is to clear unwanted energies)
Ground your energy (meaning root your energy deeply in the earth)
Shield yourself (create an energetic barrier to other beings or entities getting in)
I would suggest doing this in the morning as part of your shower routine, and again just before going to sleep. You can use whatever methods work best for you. You are right to be concerned. It is vital that what we do we do by our own free will and not because someone or something else is forcing us. In most cases, the above procedure will stop the problem.
However, if this keeps happening after you are established in your Banish-Ground-Shield routine then (assuming you have done your work properly) the problem is likely not originating from outside of you. In that case I would suggest asking yourself whether you like being in your body.
I know that sounds silly, but I have known quite a few people who actually disliked or feared being in their bodies and spent most of their time finding ways to 'get out'. Whatever the reason, you will need to find it out and deal with it before the problem will stop.
That'sabout the limit of my advice. I hope it is helpful to you and wish you the best in resolving this issue!
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* Three first parts of Understanding: An Eye to see what is; A Heart to feel what is; and a Boldness that dares to follow them. *
I eventually began wearing an amulet to bed. I would project and go to the exact same spot every time. Eventually I had unwanted attention drawn to that area and had some really unpleasant things happen.
I would ask in prayer that you want to be the one that decides when you project.
~Look Beneath the Skin~
Just a little update, months later.
I'm doing better regarding my mom's death. I'm in therapy (for her death, not the crazy crap I'm about to talk about, I swear! I'm sane!), group therapy and even started going to AA occasionally because I realized I was drinking to cope with my problems. I feel like my life's getting back on track.
Since this thread, my astral projection problem's gotten a LOT better. I mean, with the exception of a few incidents. It happens occasionally, but it also seems easier to make it stop. I don't fight with it ALL NIGHT when it happens now. I've noticed that not feeling fear and being calm about it has really helped. Then, once I can move again, I stay awake for a few minutes before trying to go back to sleep. I've even calmly allowed my astral-body to hover mostly-inside-but-a-teeny-bit-outside over my physical-body and just calmly stated that it wasn't my will and that seemed to work better. I mean, maybe it's just not as stressful because I'm not fighting it. It can still take a while, but definitely a lot better.
I don't know if my emotions are directly causing it, but I do think they affect it. My personal belief is that something is making me do this against my will, not God, and that it has an easier time preying on me during horrible times in my life.
You all are going to think I'm insane, but I have been possessed before. I was exorcised by Bob Larson. My mom and I went to see him as a form of entertainment, to be honest. We were giggling beforehand and expecting to see some awesome and kind of funny stuff. And it was definitely funny... for about two seconds until I was reacting like some people in the audience and getting really angry and sobbing uncontrollably. Next thing I know, people come over to me, I black out but hear someone screaming, realize *I'm* the one screaming and saying weird stuff, then I wake up being helped up off the floor. What on earth?! Yeah, definitely interesting. I had a splitting headache for days. Why? Holy oil and a Bible were on my head. Seriously, it was like a movie.
He said after it happened, people would walk out with different lives. I did. I ditched all my bad friends and started talking to my now-husband. It changed my whole life immediately.
I believe that since I was little, bad spirits have been trying to get me. I used to see "angels" when I was very tiny that would scare me, they were bad angels. I feel like it's a constant battle, like some battle I'm not seeing, but only see the effects of occasionally. I think trying to get me to astral project is a part of this.
On Coast to Coast am, back when it was hosted by Art Bell, a priest was often on, who ended up being killed or something later. He cautioned against astral projection, saying it was a way for demons to possess you. Now I wonder. It really made sense to me, from my experience. Although I don't believe I was possessed because of the OBEs, I think I brought it on by making bad decisions, being really depressed and hanging out with bad people.
Also, just to make you all question my sanity even further, I'd like to tell you that I was recently awoken with sleep paralysis, you know, usual deal. I was like, "Oh great, going to try to stay in my body now," waiting for it to start happening. But no. Instead, a bright light and aliens standing around me. I literally LAUGHED. I cracked up. In my head, I said, "You have got to be kidding me. You really expect me to believe that I'm being abducted by aliens?"
Now, this was a strange reaction because I watch UFO stories on TV and become terrified. TERRIFIED! My dad used to tell me he got abducted by aliens (he was just a coke head, in reality), and he'd scare the crap out of me with his stories when I was a toddler. I am SCARED of aliens! And I don't even know if they're real! But in this case, it was laughable to me. It was clear they were demons that wanted me to think they were aliens, and it was hilarious. Like, "What a stupid trick."
So anyway, I started praying and telling them to leave in Jesus' name, etc etc. They started backing away and then bam, gone.
Yeah, SO. I know, I know, I'm insane. Actually, I assure you that I'm a normal 22-year-old girl! I'm not a hippie or extremist or anything! But it really happened. And further, I didn't "wake up" from it. I was awake when it ended and couldn't go back to sleep.
So anyway, that solidified that something was trying to do something to me. Since that, it's gotten a lot better too.
Also, I don't think leaving my body has to do with my having had no real desire to be in my body or on earth. I actually have TRIED to die that way, during a suicidal period. No dice. In fact, I couldn't astral project at all when I tried to do that. Quite frustrating. And when I started later and thought, "I just won't go back to my body," suddenly I was just floating in my body and couldn't get beyond it. So it seems that lack of desire to live actually does the opposite.
You are lucky. I've been trying for near 10 years to astral project and still haven't succeeded. The closest I've come is astral paralisys, where I am half in and out of my body, and have absolute no control of anything.
"I have a deep fondness for all paranormal......."
"magick is the sweetest nectar of life................"
"As above...So below...."
And, I am sorry for your loss. I can't imagine losing a parent. My condolences......
"I have a deep fondness for all paranormal......."
"magick is the sweetest nectar of life................"
"As above...So below...."
Lady Snake, thank you for your kind words. My mom was my best friend and sister, basically, and missing her is a pain like I've never known -- BUT! I know she'll be the first person to greet me after I'm gone. I'm pretty excited to see her again. I might even get a visit with her before I die <fingers crossed>
As far as astral projection, I think as soon as you decide to do it and you *do* do it, you'll have control over it. I think when I did it my first time it unlocked something, and then I just couldn't stop it. It's like instinctive or intuitive to your body/soul. It's very natural.
The way I did it the first time was I looked it up. Also, I was VERY excited, so there was no fear, and I think that helped a lot. I was just dumb and curious. I think I pumped myself up. I wasn't sure if other people would see the way I was dressed or if my hair could get in my face, so I got into my cutest, comfiest pajamas and braided my hair. I think that helped because I felt "suited up" and ready. I think it's just all very mental.
What I read online was very simple. First, you wear very comfortable clothes, and make sure the temperature isn't too cold or too warm. Then, when you go to sleep, do so with your arm held up. You rest your elbow against the bed, but you keep your arm up. This way, every time you start to fall asleep, your arm will fall. You focus on what you want to do, but you let thoughts float in and out of your mind. If your mind wanders, gently push the thoughts out and bring your focus back, like your thoughts are floating on water. Then, I think it said to imagine a vertical line over your body, imagine it at the ceiling, then imagine floating up towards it. Anyway, at some point during all of this, you'll vibrate, and that's good. And then, your "eyes" will open.
Weirdest thing was that my first time, I realized my eyes were open and I was looking at the ceiling and could look around the room. And I thought, "crap, I ruined the whole thing, I'm going to have to start over." I tried closing my eyes several times before I realized they WERE closed and I was just squinting them down harder. I could SEE through my eyelids! Then I was just like, "I want to astral project" and stating it made it happen, just like if you're out and you say "I want to be back in my body" or "I want to go home" you'll just whiz right back in.
Also, at some point, when you realize your body's vibrating and your mind's very alert and you feel it beginning, you can gently put your arm down. Often my mom and I would keep ours up, but you don't have to. It's just very easy to basically meditate, relax yourself and fall asleep when you do this.
I'm not sure if any of that helps, but that's how I did it, and it worked the very first time and I never had problems ever again. But that could also be because I was 13 and didn't know anyone had a hard time with it. I just thought most people didn't know about it. I think the mentality of "This'll be easy and exciting and I'm all dressed and ready" is the most important thing. Any bit of urgency or fear won't allow you to do it.


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Caramel Coconut Cake w/Brown Butter Caramel Icing
Coconut and caramel cake with caramel syrup and a brown butter caramel icing...this dessert is so rich and yummy, especially from the brown butter...I love brown butter...it just makes everything so much better! Be sure to watch the video on how to make the caramel disc that tops the cake.
2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon table salt
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup Caramel Syrup (recipe to follow)
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 cup pecans, toasted and chopped
Brown Butter Caramel Icing (recipe to follow)
2 cups macadamia nuts or pecans, toasted and chopped
1 cup unsweetened coconut, toasted
Caramel Syrup
** you will not use up the entire recipe
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water, plus 1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
Brown Butter Caramel Icing
12 tablespoons ( 6 ounces) unsalted butter
1 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
1 pound confectioner's sugar, sifted
6 tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons dark rum
4 tablespoons caramel syrup
1. Set oven rack in middle position and preheat to 350?. Butter two 6-by-2-inch round cake pans and set aside.
2.Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl, set aside.
3. In a stand mixer, using a paddle attachment cream butter and sugars on medium high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.
4. On medium-low speed, slowly pour room temperature caramel syrup into bowl. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition Add vanilla until combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
5. With mixer running on low speed, add dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with coconut milk (in 2 additions), beginning and ending with dry ingredients, and beating in each addition until barely combined. Remove bowl from stand mixer.
6. Fold in pecans by hand with rubber spatula, scraping bottom and sides of bowl.
7. Divide batter evenly between prepared cake pans; spread batter to edges of pans with rubber spatula and smooth surfaces.
8. Place cake pan on 1/2 sheet pan. Bake cakes until toothpick inserted into center of cakes comes out clean, about 40-45 minutes, rotate sheet pan half way through. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then invert cakes onto wire rack. Cool cakes completely, about 1 hour.
Caramel Syrup
1. Combine sugar and 1/4 cup water in a stainless steel saucepan, stir until mixture feels like wet sand. Set pan over medium heat and cook until amber color, about 20 minutes. Brush down side of pan with wet pastry brush if necessary to prevent crystallization.
2. Remove pan from heat, slowly pour in one cup of water, caramel will sputter. Stir until the sputtering subsides, add salt and stir to combine. Pour in heat proof bowl and let cool completely.
Brown Butter Caramel Icing
1. Add butter to a saucepan over medium heat and cook until brown, about 8-10 minutes (Keep a close eye, butter goes from brown to black quickly). Pour through a fine meshed sieve into a the mixing bowl of a stand mixer. Add sea salt and stir to combine. Set aside to cool.
2. In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, add confectioner's sugar to the cool butter, a little at a time. When mixture looks too chunky to take any more, add a bit of cream and or caramel syrup. Repeat until mixture looks smooth and all confectioner's sugar has been incorporated. Add salt to taste.
1. Trim each cake horizontally to level off the surface. Place one cake layer on serving platter or cardboard round. Spread 3/4 cup icing over cake layer evenly and top with 2nd layer (upside down). Spread remaining icing evenly over top and sides of cake.
2. Sprinkle toasted pecans evenly on the side of cake, pressing lightly to adhere. Sprinkle unsweetened coconut on top. Decorated with caramel discs.
Caramel Discs: Watch video for demonstration
Put 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in smal pot/pan. Turn heat to med high and swirl pan around to melt sugar. Allow sugar to boil, then swirl pan around until the liquid turns to a deep amber color. Be sure to swirl pot to mix and do not use a spoon to stir.
Allow to cool for 1 minute...you can place bottom of pan in cool water for a few seconds to assist the cooling process, but not too long. Prepare a cold cookie sheet that has been either wiped with vegetable oil or sprayed with cooking spray. Then just scoop some of the mixture from the pot and slowly move it around the cookie sheet to form your disc....make any shape you want.


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COSTA MESA, Calif. (KABC) --A former Taft High School football player is trying to make the Los Angeles Chargers team.
Mike Bercovici is trying to win a backup quarterback job with the team. The 24-year-old says the first NFL game he ever went to was the Chargers versus the Raiders in San Diego.
He grew up a college football fan idolizing USC and UCLA.


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Mass Protests Mount in Syria
Protests break out in Damascus for the first time in four weeks of unrest as amateur video also shows protests in several other cities on Friday. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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Bilawal's link unearthed after attacking PTI rally
Butt was wielding a baton and leading the PML-N activists in face off with the PTI workers.
Another 'Gullu Butt' was seen at the protest site near Clock Tower who was carrying a gun amid presence of police and confronting with the PTI activists.
At least two PTI workers have died and several injured in a clash with PML-N activists and police contingent.
PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi slammed the use of force and goons by the PML-N against 'unarmed' PTI activists.


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|Seeking a more logical cosmology.
I've been involved in a lot of discussions lately about the existence of God or, conversely, the folly of faith. Mostly these have been fairly civil dialogues on Soul Pancake or The Great Silent Majority page on Facebook. I recommend either or both to your attention if you think it's fun to think and write about life's great questions with people who are willing to listen politely, even to those they consider to be idiots. I've distilled much of what I've posted elsewhere into this little treatise on why I believe in God and why I do not think this is lunacy.
Atheists like to assert that there is no evidence to support the existence of God. Believers then are held to be an ignorant and superstitious lot who need religion as a crutch to face the crushing realities of a meaningless existence. Or, as comedian, Bill Maher, quipped:
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
Maher is a funny person and a bonafide wit, but he has no more philosophical leg to stand on here than Dr. Stephen Hawking who has suggested that the laws of nature prove that there is no God. According to Hawking the universe 'popped' into existence, in accordance with the rules of quantum physics, as an 'infinitesimally small, infinitesimally dense' proton—so small and so dense that it could not admit time. There was therefore no time for a creator to have acted, and, indeed, no need of a creator except to explain all these things before we had quantum physics to take over the task.
For Hawking, Maher, and all the rest whose understanding of our existence is rooted in the physical sciences, God is a construct. They believe that men invented gods to explain the mysteries of the universe. Presumably they believe that, in modern times, Yawheh, Allah, and the Father of Jesus, all the same God, are just more complex and fully realized versions of the same superstitious hokum.
The Big Bang is a theory whose purpose is to explain the existence of the universe without God, and its proponents have made good on its promise. Of course this is rather easier when the theoretical construct was made without any reference to God. When it comes to accepting theory as scientific fact though, in the absence of any as yet complete proof, a certain amount of faith is required even though those who advance the theory would probably deny it.
On the other hand, be He construct or reality, God has always required faith. The faithful already know this—the ones who actually think about it at any rate. There is no conclusive proof of the existence of God. I will submit that there is a lot of evidence, but there is no proof. I'm talking about objective, scientific proof—the kind that can be tested and verified by repeatable experimentation. There will always be some theological wankers about who will quote the Bible as an authority in an argument with an atheist as if Scripture carries any weight with a non-believer. Most of us realize that this is not just an exercise in futility. It is stupid. The Bible does not prove that God exists with any authority except to those who already accept it. This won't work to bridge the chasm between objective reality and the metaphysical plane. For that we need faith.
|Faith is bigger than certainty,
but it may still require
heavy equipment.
For the intelligent believer, faith must necessarily contain an element of doubt else it isn't faith at all but certain knowledge. Certain knowledge does not move mountains. Certain knowledge does not even build churches. Certain knowledge is not spiritual, religious, holy, nor full of grace. Certain knowledge, or at least the requirement for it, is the necessary fundamental limitation of the physical sciences. Science requires proof to keep it honest. When science makes an assertion that is not backed up by proof, it is required to keep looking.
Doubt, on the other hand, is the liberating principle of faith and the ultimate foundation of metaphysics. A metaphysical philosopher must ask a question of the discipline that no self-respecting physicist ever would or could ask about physics, and that is, 'Is metaphysics even possible?' Asking this question makes metaphysics at once more honest and analytical than physics will ever be. Why? For the simple reason that it forces the philosopher to consider, with humility, that he might be wrong.
As I've already said, atheists believe that God, or the gods, are a construct of the human imagination designed to explain the mysteries of the universe. I believe that this human ability to conceive of a creator god is the best evidence we have that one actually exists. Here's why.
If you subscribe to Stephen Hawking's idea of the Big Bang—that a prototypical, protean proton 'popped' into existence and exploded, and that all of the untold trillions of selective events that happened between then and now, leading to our current state of evolution and development, were completely natural and godless and random, then what in our experience of this process would lead us to conceive of a creator cause?
Someone once said, 'all art is derivative.' (I've been trying for several days now to find out just who said it first, but it's all over the internet without any attribution. If anyone knows who said this first, please let me know.) What this means is that, even in the arts - presumably mankind's most creative endeavors - nothing is truly original. Everything is built on something that went before. I submit that this is true of everything that men do.
There is nothing man has accomplished that is not rooted in something else that already existed. To be sure there are materials that exist today that did not exist at the dawn of time, but every one of them is comprised of stuff that did. There are concepts and designs and theories that seem new and wondrous, but all of them are derived from and built on the foundations of the past. Even at the height of its power, humanity is not capable of producing anything from nothing. Everything humanity has done is derivative. Science does not beget; it discovers. Or, as Ecclesiastes has it:
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
|Beatific vision or
atmospheric pollutants?
If we are nothing more than the sum total of all the random electro-chemical responses that have flowed into our genetic makeup, how did any of us come to conceive of a creator at all? If there is no God then there could be nothing in our naturally-selected history upon which we could begin to assemble this concept. If God doesn't exist, we couldn't possibly have made Him up. What I think instead - no, what I choose to believe - is that we are predisposed to believe in God because we were imbued with a spark of divinity by the creator.
I believe this because it has been given to me to do so. I am not a fool, and I am not insane. I know full well that I had to make a choice to get to this state—a choice that is not supported by any objective, scientific logic, but one that nevertheless makes perfect sense to me.
There is a word in ancient Hebrew, 'ruach.' It is usually translated as breath or spirit. We first encounter it in the Genesis account of creation. I am not offering this as any kind of proof. I am offering it as an explanation as to why I believe what I believe. I am not getting into an argument of Genesis vs. evolution. I believe in evolution, and I accept science, as far as it goes, as demonstrably true. I also believe Genesis—not as a literal account of creation, but as a lovely, poetic allegory for the metaphysical reality of man's place in it.
There are famously two accounts of creation in Genesis. They are different from one another, our first clue that the Bible, even for believers, is not meant to be taken literally. As to the origins of man, the thing I mean to consider here, Genesis 1:27 says, 'God created man in His image, in the divine image He created him, male and female He created them.' In Genesis 2:7 it says, 'the Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.'
These two accounts are different, but they are meant to be taken together. They are two different ways of looking at the same thing. The Aramaic word for 'breath of life' in chapter 2 is 'ruach.' Its parallel in chapter 1 is 'the divine image.' God breathed His divine self-image into mankind, male and female, and made of us something entirely new. This is the only reason I can fathom that we are even able to conceive of things beyond our knowing.
|Pondering imponderables.
Were it not for this ruach, we would not be able to ponder infinity. We would not be able to embrace divinity. We would not be able to approach holiness. We would instead be imprisoned by our mere chemistry. Without the breath of divine life we would be incapable of bridging the gap between the physical and the metaphysical. We would be the pinnacle of mammalian existence, but we would be incapable of imagining anything else.
This for me is the best evidence that God exists. It doesn't have to be in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition. Virtually every religious tradition has its own creation narrative, and they all presuppose some sort of relationship between mankind and the divine. My point is that, no matter the faith tradition, somewhere, somehow God has enabled us to know something of Him, and had He not done so, had He not intervened in our evolution, we would not be able to think Him up on our own. Of course I rely on my faith to tell me this...so I could be wrong.


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"Savor the moment."
Sunnyside School Superintendent Dr. Rick Cole repeated that mantra a half dozen times during his commencement speech to the Sunnyside High School Class of 2006 Friday night.
There was plenty to savor.
The rainy skies cleared and the clouds parted Friday night, just in time for the 273 graduates to conclude their high school careers.
The celebratory mood continued as co-salutatorian Talia Spini told her classmates, "We are bound together by the fact we are graduates of the class of 2006!" She added, "Relish that these are our last moments together in high school."
Paul Paulakis of Sunnyside was among those enjoying the moment. Paulakis was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1945 but, as Principal Brian Hart put it, "traded school for patriotism" to fight in World War II.
Under the federal Operation Recognition for World War II veterans, Paulakis received his diploma 61 years later with the class of 2006.
Co-salutatorian Jaime Lopez, Jr. encouraged his classmates to push themselves by attending a college or technical school. "Don't be afraid to ask for help," he added.
Class valedictorian Christy Linde continued the tone, noting that graduation is an "opportunity to leave here and be better people."
Linde challenged her classmates not to rest on their accomplishments in high school.
"The best is ahead of us," she said. "The four years in high school may seem like the best years of your lives right now, but I hope 20 years from now you have a different answer."
Marah Traub was selected by the class as the faculty speaker for Friday's commencement service.
Calling commencement a new start, Traub told the graduates the moment was an opportunity to "celebrate your new beginning."
Continuing Linde's theme of looking forward to better times ahead, Traub said, "Your best chapters have yet to be written."
Noting the advice provided once by an Eastern European philosopher, Traub told the class to "shine your light." She added, "You are wonderfully and fearfully made. The world is a dark place, it needs your light."
By the time senior Class President Jesus Alquicira and CaSandra Romero were announced the outstanding boy and girl for the Class of 2006, there were indeed lights shining on Clem Senn Field as field lights lit up the ceremony to fend off coming darkness.
Shining lights which reflected a moment commemorated by graduates, who had colored their hair, decorated their caps and were ready to celebrate with family.
At the ceremony's conclusion, some let fly into the night air with their caps.
Others held on to their ceremonial mortar board, as if they wanted to hold on a little longer, to indeed "savor the moment."
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On the other hand this weather has made my courgettes romp away I have had my first pickings today and can't wait to eat them tonight.
The strawberries are still going strong and have had another good picking today, may get one more next week if I am lucky.
My raspberries have done really well this year; they were planted last autumn and won't really get the best from them until next year but I did get a few from my summer raspberries and going to knock up a raspberry crème brulee tonight for dinner:
The recipe I am going to use is:600ml double cream
50g golden caster sugar
1 vanilla pod stripped
8 egg yolks
They are really easy to make simply bring the cream and sugar to a slow boil then whisk the egg yolks together then pour the hot mixture over the eggs and whisk then add the vanilla pod.
Place the raspberries in the bottom of your ramekins then top up with the mixture bake in the oven in a water bath (a roasting tray with water in it) this will stop them from burning or splitting they will take about 20 minutes to set. Remove from oven and allow to cool, and go cold. Cover the top with icing sugar and place under a grill to caramelise the top and give a crunchy top.
Hope you enjoy it if you chose to make it………
Let's hope this weather improves sometime soon.
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Nikki Palmer can look at her past this week, if she so chooses. She can relish in her present, which she no doubt chooses. And she can bask in what promises to be a rich future.
A rich postseason future, if the present is any indication.
Palmer, the second-year softball coach at UC Riverside, has the Highlanders in their first Division I postseason: the National Invitational Softball Championships. That begins Wednesday in Las Vegas, with UCR opening the double-elimination tournament against Nevada. It will be the first time the two have met since 2006.
Now in its second year, the NISC is a 17-team, four-region tournament that features some of the up-and-coming programs in the nation. It features eight teams that have won 30 or more games and six teams that either won their conferences or were the runners-up.
UCR (33-22) is in the West Region, joining Nevada (25-25), Palmer's former team, Utah Valley (21-29), Weber State (27-24) and host UNLV (31-18). That is the lone five-team region.
"This postseason opportunity means a lot to our team. It helps establish a culture of postseason play for the future, and after the record-breaking year that we had it comes as no surprise," Palmer said. "We are looking forward to continuing this strong tradition of winning and and competing at a high level this week and in the years to come."
Given Palmer's track record, this should be a given. Before coming to UCR, the Temecula native and UC San Diego graduate spent three seasons building Utah Valley's program into the WAC champions and into the NCAA Tournament. That was Utah Valley's first postseason berth in any sport in its NCAA existence and it came in Palmer's first year (2014).
This year, Palmer not only picked up her 100th career victory (66 and counting at UCR), but watched seven school records broken by her players. Pitcher Tayler Misfelt now owns the all-time wins (54) and strikeouts (383) marks, while outfielder Jenna Curtan is the school career leader in hits (232), runs (145) and doubles (38), and outfielder Seanna Garewal collected the Division I single-season triples record (five) and career hit-by-pitch record (24).
Curtan has drawn plenty of attention this season. The senior leads UCR in hitting .379, slugging (.515), on-base percentage (.490), hits (64), doubles (15), runs (47) and total bases (87). On the other end of the experience spectrum, freshman pitcher Hailey Dolcini is 14-9 with a 1.86 ERA and a no-hitter against Cal State Northridge on the resume.
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How can Cal Baptist University say goodbye to Azusa Pacific if the college baseball playoff gods won't let them leave?
For the second consecutive year, and the third time in four years, CBU and APU will meet in the NCAA Division II West Regionals, this time in Thursday's regional opener at APU. The six regional berths were split evenly between the CCAA's Cal State Monterey Bay (No. 1 seed), UC San Diego (No. 3) and Chico St. (No. 6) and the PacWest's APU (No. 2), Point Loma (No. 4) and CBU (No. 5).
The Lancers, who won 15 of their last 19 to give head coach Gary Adcock his 14th postseason berth in his 15 years, took three of four from APU this year. And all four featured video-game offense, with CBU losing the first game 17-4 before winning the next three, 13-2, 13-2 and 7-2.
It's been a while for us
While CBU and APU tread familiar territory, the University of Redlands baseball team heads to Spokane for its first NCAA baseball foray since 2011. The second-seeded Bulldogs open the Division III regional against No. 5 University of Texas-Dallas on Thursday at AVISTA Stadium in Spokane.
The surroundings may not be familiar, but two of the opponents are: top-seeded Chapman University, which captured the SCIAC's automatic berth by beating Redlands twice in the SCIAC Tournament, and UT-Dallas, a team Redlands beat 9-8 in 10 innings at the Cactus Classic in Tucson, Ariz. in February.
Redlands (33-11) split its six games with Chapman (34-11).
Tying a bow on a fine career
It wasn't quite the way she imagined going out, especially given what transpired in her third round, but Redlands' golfer Caroline Ordian can take solace in wrapping up a record-breaking career with four top-20 finishes in four NCAA tournament appearances.
Ordian finished 17th at last week's Division III women's championships, a respectable placing, but one she knows could have been a lot better. Tied for third at the midway point after rounds of 78-75 at the Mission Hill Resort & Club in Florida, Ordian unraveled with a third-round 88 that dropped her into a tie for 26th entering last Friday's final round.
Her 77, punctuated by opening birdies on her first two holes, brought her up nine places on the par-73 course. And Ordian can take solace in the fact only six players bettered her 77 — a total that did not include one of her rivals: Margaret Loncki of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Loncki survived a final-round 79 to capture the individual title and pace the Athenas to the team title.
Ordian can also take solace in ending her career as the most decorated golfer in Bulldogs history. Along with being the 2016 Division III national champion, she was a four-time Women's Golf Coaches Assn. First-Team All-American, four-time All-SCIAC First-Team selection, three-tie SCIAC Athlete of the Year and the 2018 Frank Serrao Senior Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Keep an eye on
— UCR golfers Brandon Tsujimoto and Tyler Moore, who earned berths on the All-Big West golf teams. Tsujimoto, a senior who finished with a team-best 73.82 scoring average, was a second-team selection. Moore, a sophomore who finished right behind Tsujimoto with a 73.93 average, was an honorable-mention choice.
— Redlands third baseman Brendan Gardiner, who was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 Baseball Team. Gardiner, one of 11 players selected throughout the West, set the school single-season hits record with 69 (and counting) to go with a team-high .418 batting average, .529 on-base percentage and .642 slugging percentage.
— CBU baseball players Dylan Stowell and Ryan Williams, who earned the same Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 honor at Gardiner did, only on the Division II level. Williams, an All-Pac West and West Regional All-Tournament pick, was the first 30-30 career player in CBU baseball history, amassing 32 home runs and 33 stolen bases entering this week's NCAA Regional. He batted .314 and slugged .562 with 25 of his 58 hits going for extra bases, including 10 home runs. Stowell went 6-2 with a 2.48 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 76-1/3 innings.


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The fruit of the Spirit joy. Joy is one of those traits we all want to emulate but often rarely do. We are so impacted by our circumstances that choosing joy often isn't even a forethought in our minds.
Here's the biblical definition of joy:
Joy is a cheerful, calm delight and rejoicing in a particular circumstance.
When we are faced with difficult circumstances that we don't enjoy our natural tendency is to think the worst. We think the worst of the people involved, we think the worst of the what-if outcomes and we often think the worst of ourselves.
However, if we are spirit-led we realize that God intends each circumstance to be for our good.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Once we realize this, our response changes to calm and delight in our less than enjoyable situation.
But like I said, our flesh often chooses the opposite of joy, frustration. Frustration is the rejection or unhappy refusal in the circumstances of life.
Satan leads us to express unhappy feelings toward or even reject these same unenjoyable circumstances.
We complain, get depressed and even get angry when these times come into our lives.
We are being led by our emotions instead of being Spirit-led. Our emotions are not reliable, are they? They often lead us astray. they often change from hour to hour, am I right?
Why then are we so dependent upon something that changes so wildly?
I love the book of Philippians, it is my favorite book of the Bible. It is all about joy! Paul encourages us to have joy in each and every circumstance life throws at us. Does it come naturally? No! Joy is a learned behavior! Paul had to learn it and so do we.
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Sometimes there are going to be things in our lives that cause us so much pain that we can't help but cry buckets of tears. God gave us our emotions, so they aren't a bad thing in and of themselves. It's when we let them control our responses is when we've gone off track. We will react with emotion but we can channel our response. What about when your adult child has chosen what the world has to offer? Or when your parents keep refusing the gospel and you know their time here on earth is soon ending? Those are times where our hearts are so heavy that we can't hold back the tears. How they do we have joy?
Psalm 126: 5-6 can shed some light on this:
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
When you care for souls and are busy witnessing and doing things for Christ, you will receive joy from Him for your tears and effort. God sees our pain, He hears our cry and He will bless us for our faithfulness to Him. He will give you joy when you feel it's impossible.
What brings the greatest joy? When we are walking in truth. It brings God joy, our family joy and even ourselves joy.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
John is referring to the church walking in truth and often times we like to claim this verse as mothers. If nothing would bring us more joy than to know that our children are walking in truth, how much more is the heavenly Father filled with joy when His children (us) are walking in truth?
So how do you get joy? How do you choose joy?
You walk in the truth. You let Him direct your path and trust Him completely. Remember that you won't find joy in this present world (read 1 John chapter 2!). You deny your emotions when they want to control you and chose joy over frustration knowing that God has it all under His control.
Since I just love Young Living and the fact that they have an oil for everything (!!!) I thought it would be fun to give you an oil suggestion for each of the fruits of the Spirit. While we work towards changing our hearts to be aligned with God's will and commands, there is an oil to help you move closer to that goal. Joy is an oil that will support you in experiencing more joy in your life, no matter the circumstance you're in. Send me an email to get yourself a bottle!


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Philly Local Philes: Hot Guts' "Da'rat Hessla"
The long Halloween weekend left me craving some noise rock nihilism this morning. Enter Philly misanthropes Hot Guts. You might have caught their intense set opening for The Breeders at the First Unitarian Church back in September. Or perhaps you just heard us spin their Bauhaus-ish doom jam "Did You Not Go To The Dance Alone?" on Y-Rock. The four-piece has a new offering out on local label Badmaster Records, a split 7" with like-minded New Yorkers Pop. 1280; the Hot Guts side is somehow punchier and more paranoid than we've heard from them in the past. "Da'rat Hessla" has the pulse of Suicide's "Ghost Rider," the sonic girt of Cabaret Voltaire, and anguished vocals that will haunt you for days. U-City's punk fraternity Pi Lam hosts both bands for the single's release show on Sunday, Nov. 7; Soars from the Lehigh Valley (also favorites of The Key) round out the bill.


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INGREDIENTS Topping 2 tablespoons coconut oil or extra-virgin olive oil 1 cup panko bread crumbs Cheeze Sauce DIRECTIONS Sriracha-Cauliflower Mac To make the topping, melt the coconut oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Gently stir in the panko, then turn off the heat and let the bread crumbs absorb the oil. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly spritz a 2-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray. Make the Sauce
To assemble the dish, put 1/2 inch of water in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Add the cauliflower and season lightly with salt and pepper. Cover and cook until just tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Drain well, then pat dry with a clean kitchen towel or paper towels.
Transfer to the prepared casserole dish. Pour the sauce over the cauliflower and top with the panko. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the topping is golden brown and the sauce is bubbling. Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes so the molten cheeze lava can cool just a touch. Portion, plate, and serve garnished with parsley. To make gluten-free For the topping, substitute 2 cups of rice squares cereal (such as Rice Chex) for the panko. Put the cereal in a large ziplock bag and gently roll over it with a rolling pin until the cereal is coarsely crushed into bits, resembling panko in texture. For the cheese sauce, simply substitute gluten-free flour for the all-purpose flour.


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And over at Domestic Issue . . .
Sor María Antonia de la Purísima Concepcíon. 18th century. Ex Convento de Culhuacán (some pictures here and here), Mexico City. Click on the image to enlarge. The caption records her parents' names, her birthdate, and the date and place she took the habit for the first time.
Some of you have been kindly indulgent of my relatively frequent posts on Mexican colonial Catholicism--in particular, the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe--and casta painting (most recently, this one). Over at Domestic Issue, I have a new post on this subject that, finally, feels close to right.
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What? I'm actually posting a recipe again?!? Yes, finally. Unfortunately this does not mean that I'm back to cooking very much {it's so hard with a newborn, right?!} but I have made a few crock pot recipes that have been yummy and easy!
Buffalo Chicken Wing Soup
*makes about 8 servings
What you Need:
6 C milk
3 10 3/4oz cans condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
3 C cooked chicken, shredded
1 C sour cream (I used fat free)
1-8 tbsp. hot pepper sauce (I gave a hearty couple of shakes, and then let us put the rest in our bowls as needed - hubby likes it hot!)
How to Make:
1. Combine milk and soups in slow cooker until smooth
2. Stir in cooked chicken
3. Cover and cook on Low for 3-4 hours
4. Fifteen minutes BEFORE serving, stir in sour cream and hot sauce
5. Cover and continue cooking until just bubbly
*make sure to use a Slow Cooker Liner to make this even easier to clean up! I love those things! I served sweet potato fries with this because we were just getting that craving! But I think this soup would be fine to eat just by itself!
Enjoy! :)
Friday, December 9
Buffalo Chicken Wing Soup {crock pot recipe}
Posted by Blissfully Burton at 12/09/2011
Labels: Recipes, Yummy Meals
2 comments:
Yummy! Would love for you to link up @ Find Your Craft Friday! :)ReplyDelete
- Beth MorganDecember 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Sounds so good but I can't eat hot foods right now, makes my mouth hurt! :(ReplyDelete
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By Fatemeh Khatibloo
In the face of all these changes – and the panoply of changes yet to come – a new model of consumer data management is necessary. Some advocacy groups and academics are calling for a concept called Vendor Relationship Management (VRM). Think of this as CRM turned on its ear: traditional push models of marketing go away entirely as consumers manage the relationship with vendors and marketers. But advertising is a $300B business in the US—the global market is even greater—and it's not feasible for that entire industry to simply disappear overnight.
A model is needed that is mutually beneficial for both marketers and consumers, and we think we've identified it. We call it Personal Identity Management (PIDM) and define it as:
The rules, standards and processes by which individuals and organizations manage, use, and share personal data and identity with other individuals and organizations.
With PIDM, consumers decide what data they're willing to share and with whom. Marketers who want access will need to a) explain in clear, straightforward language what they're going to do with consumers' data, b) protect, be accountable for, and be respectful of that data, and most importantly c) provide value and/or convenience for consumers who agree to share data.
I encourage you to read my recent report, Personal Identity Management: Preparing for a World of Consumer-Managed Data, and weigh into the discussion either here or on our message boards. PIDM represents a seminal change in how marketers and consumers build relationships and communicate with one another, and I look forward to hearing your opinions.
Fatemeh Khatibloo is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research serving Customer Intelligence professionals. Follow her on Twitter at @fatemehx2.


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The Great American Seafood Cook-Off III America's finest chefs showcase their seafood-preparation skills in THE GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOK-OFF III. In 2010, 14 accomplished and up-and-coming chefs from throughout the United States gathered in New Orleans to compete in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off. The event emphasizes the importance of cooking with local, domestic seafood and encourages the use of products from sustainable fisheries. D
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Art of the Western World "High Renaissance" Part I: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael displayed extraordinary talent working in a variety of media and elevated the status of the artist in Italian society. Part II: Venetians like Titian, Tintoretto, and Palladio readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish. D


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PostEurop is an active member of the Print Power, a pan-European organisation dedicated to promoting print media and its role in modern integrated marketing programmes and campaigns. This organisation comprises a wide range of companies representing the entire print media value chain—production, distribution, printing, content and delivery.
As an organisation, Print Power consists of two brands: Print Power, the Effectiveness Campaign, and Two Sides, the Sustainability Initiative. Each brand has a distinct purpose and message.
The message of the Effectiveness Campaign concerns the way in which print media can serve as an effective marketing and advertising tool, while the Two Sides message is about informing consumers and the international media community about the positive environmental aspects of print and paper and to unveil the myths which surround the industry and setting out the facts. Using credible and authoritative research and information, the initiative ensures that paper and print are seen as sustainable media.
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The Mission Position is a popular independent comedy showcase, hosted by five of San Francisco's most acclaimed comedians — Matt Lieb, Kate Willett, Jessica Sele, Richard Toomer and Torio Van Grol. Every Thursday, audiences fill Lost Weekend Video's famous CineCave comedy den, for a show that provides club-level talent without irritating drink minimums or filler comics. The Mission Position welcomes a new lineup of special guests every week that include SF's brightest comics alongside nationally touring headliners from NBC, TBS, E! and Comedy Central.
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27 August 2009
Ja Rule clears Australian immigration, but still faces trouble
After months of battling immigration officials for an Australian visa permitting him to enter Australia, US rapper Ja Rule flew into Sydney and landed straight into trouble.
The rapper was due to arrive in Australia in July but faced long delays gaining an Australian visa, believed in relation to an arrest for gun possession in 2007.
But just after arriving with his entourage in Sydney, the successful rap artist hopped in a car, terrifying motorists by driving on the wrong side of the road.
"I think he was more interested in looking at the view of Sydney than he was keeping his eyes on the road," publicist Adam Cubito said.
Ja Rule, real name is Jeffrey Atkins, made an appearance for a programme at radio station Nova 969 to promote his show at the Big Top event at Luna Park on August 29.
After chatting about cars, radio host Kate Ritchie offered the rapper a drive in her mum's Toyota Seca, which she had driven to work that morning.
"He powered out into Pyrmont with Kate in the front and the show's other hosts Merrick and Rosso in the car and onto the wrong side of the road," Cubito said.
"They were all shouting at him to get back on the right side. I think there were a few people ducking out of the way.
"He obviously thought he was still in America. Luckily there was no damage."
The Pyrmont episode was recorded by Nova 969 and was played on air today.
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It's been a while since I just sat down and wrote something. I always get a little discombobulated during the summer, figuring out new routines while the kids are out of school, doing job searches and overhauling our finances.
As far as writing news, How Ninja Brush Their Teeth is now free everywhere. Downloads of the free book have been meager but steady, resulting in a few downloads of the second story in that series: Rock Pirate Ninja.
I've been debating whether to write a third installment or move on to another project. I have a napkin scratch idea of a plot for a third book – most likely a full length novel and would love to explore more of these characters I've grown to love – namely Chuck and T.B's back stories and sub-plots. I have a lot of background for them that never made it into the first two books. I thought it would be interesting to explore the martial art Kajukenbo, the style that Chuck and the gang are students of. Originally, the Rogue Ninja Series was meant to explore the dynamic personalities of three martial arts and how they played off each other. Ninjitsu (Tetsuo), Systema (Vasha) and Kajukenbo (Chuck).
So, what's holding me back? Money. The money I make from selling the books isn't enough to cover a cup of coffee once a month let alone the editing and cover costs for a full length novel. Not to mention the time, blood, sweat and tears that go into making a book readable.
What changes my mind? Readers. Even readers of the free stuff. The thrill of knowing someone read something I wrote and liked it is a thrill hard to match. I know the likelihood of making any kind of profit from this series is virtually nil – I just wish I could make enough to cover production costs.
It's frustrating! I wish I was better at marketing! I swear, if a young person ever comes up to me and asks what classes I should take to become a better writer I would tell them to take a class in sales and marketing and go to the library for the rest. Ha!
Anyway, that's what's happening these days. If I sound discouraged with writing, it's because I am. It happens. And it usually goes away in a couple of days, or if I'm in a hurry – after a couple of drinks. 😛


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Cinnamon Apple Cake..
It's fall and we went apple picking...and I made my favorite apple apple dessert
Cinnamon Apple Cake
This cake is super moist and super delicious!
I'm not a cake person, but this is something else.
Cinnamon Apple Cake
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup sugar - keep separate
6 ounces block style fat free cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter or stick margarine, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of cinnamon - mix with 1/4 cup sugar above
3 cups of chopped apples - about 2 large ( I used 3)
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Beat 1 1/2 cups of sugar, cream cheese, butter, vanilla at medium speed.
For about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mix well.
Add flour, baking powder, and salt, mix.
Put apples in a separate bowl and add 2 tablespoon cinnamon mixture.
Stir apple mixture into batter.
Pour batter into a 8 inch springform pan covered with cooking spray, sprinkle with the rest of the cinnamon mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until cake pulls away from sides of pan.
Cool cake completely on a wire rack.
From Cooking Light
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