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Whatever empties, whatever vacates, whatever leaves your waking experience and immediate environment is making space for something new to occupy that emptiness, empty nest, vacated space..and whatever will show up to occupy that opening will be exactly what you need it to be or something even better. Life will never be less than it was a moment ago, just as you will never be less than you were a fraction of a second ago. Trust that what has left, was meant to leave. Trust that what remains absent is meant to remain in the unknown. Trust what's emerging to be exactly what you need to be who you are meant to be.
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Pay attention to whatever it is that you're expressing and extending from yourself. Pay attention to the contents of your own interior, your psychology, your physiology, your brain activity. If you're resorting to emotional manipulations and emotional ultimatums, if you're resorting to trying to control your environment or the people around you in some way, you are playing the game of unconsciousness and disempowerment. To be awake, to be in your full power, to be intentional, to be a deliberate creator, is to fully and completely own every aspect of your experience, from your observations, your interpretations, your reactions to your decisions, your internal narratives, your filters. In awake-ness, in full self-awareness, there is no room for someone or something else to be in charge of why you're generating the psycho-emotional contents you're generating within your own psyche. To own your creative power, you must 0wn all that you are allowing to remain active in your own awareness.
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To make any significant lasting change in your personal experience requires a change in the emotionalized thoughts you keep activated in the matrices of your being. You are constantly encoding your personal energy field with the contents of your mind.
There is no thought that actually belongs to you. Thought arises and then you react to it in the belief that it is yours, that it belongs to you, that it's your thought. Look at this closely. All thoughts belong to the space and field of reality that you have identified with. Recognize the content for what it is and detach from all that does not serve you. It's not yours. So let it go.
Pay attention to the 'I Am' declarations you make moment to moment. You lock yourself into patterns with everything you attach to 'I Am'. Only claim being what you desire to be.
The definitions of 'realness' you impose upon waking experience is part of what creates the illusion that it is unchangeable, fixed, inflexible. Loosen your definitions of what waking experience is. Where does the dream world end and the 'real' world begin? There are no actual lines in the sand. It is all the continuous expanse of consciousness. Drop the boundaries and you will allow yourself more wiggle room to bring about something different.


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In advance of our trip to Italy I thought it might be fun to get back into drinking wine and learning through tasting. We recently bought a cabernet sauvignon made by the Medici estate winery, the "noblest" of Tuscan wines according to the sales woman who wore a straw fedora and spoke with great drama. We let it decant for an hour as per her advice, and enjoyed it with steak for Kev's birthday.
I've wanted to drink more rose recently as well, a perfectly solid category of wine that I'd ignored for a long time because, well, what grown person wants to sip a pink drink? That label, it got me, and the wine was deliciously summery and not too sweet. Sometimes, like on Sundays, you just want easy, you know?


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Planetes was a Japanese hard science fiction manga and anime (26 episodes). The story revolves around a team of space debris collectors based in the debris ship Toy Box in the year 2075.
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Planetes (in Japanese プラネテス Puranetesu, in Ancient Greek Πλανήτης) was written by Makoto Yukimura. It was published in English in North America by Tokyopop.
The series was originally published by Kodansha in the manga magazine Weekly Morning from January 1999 to January 2004 and collected in four tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English in North America by Tokyopop, where it was published in five volumes by splitting the last volume in two parts.
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Planetes is a 26-episode Japanese animated television series based on the manga of the same name. Planetes first aired on NHK on October 2003 with the episode "Outside the Atmosphere", and concluded on April 2004 with the episode "And the Days We Chance Upon…". The story of Planetes follows the crew of the DS-12 "Toy Box" of the ISPV 7 Debris Section, a unit of Technora Corporation. Debris Section's purpose is to prevent the damage or destruction of satellites, space stations and spacecraft from collision with debris in Earth's and the Moon's orbits. They use a number of methods to dispose of the debris (mainly by burning it via atmospheric reentry or through salvage), accomplished through the use of EVA Suits.
The episodes sometimes revolve around debris collection itself, but more often the concept of collecting "trash" in space is merely a storytelling method for building character development. The members of the Debris Section are looked down upon as the lowest members of the company and they must work hard to prove their worth to others and accomplish their dreams.
Ongoing plot elements include an upcoming exploratory mission to Jupiter on the new fusion powered ship, Von Braun, and the lead character's decision to join the mission, no matter the cost. Many other plot threads are also developed throughout the series that help to explain each character's motivations and personalities. The Space Defense Front is a terrorist organization that believes mankind is exploiting space without first curing global problems such as mass famine and the widened socio-economic divide on Earth.


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Some may have wondered if I was going to miss the Brief Blog Review this month. Down to the wire.
It's a somewhat technical blog this time, The Talmud Blog, and it's a somewhat paradoxical blog at that, since no blog can possibly approximate the experience of studying Talmud. I have no formal experience of such study, and only such informal study as my observant Jewish friends undertook with me; but that study is very different from any research I've done by myself. It is one thing to read Jacob Neusner or David Halivni or other scholars, or even primary texts, whether on your own or in a university setting. It is another to study Talmud. When I did this (to the degree that my experience may be called "studying"), I sat with one or a couple of fellow-students, all of whom were absurdly more advanced than I; we would read aloud a portion of a tractate, first the Mishnah and then the Gemara, but usually before we had got even that far, someone would have raised a question -- what does it mean that it says this? Why is such-&-such a scriptural reference deemed relevant? And so on. The conversation goes on from there, everyone teaching everyone else.
It soon becomes apparent that the conversation in the room is echoing a conversation in the pages of the Talmud, much of which reads like stenographer's notes on an ancient symposium on Jewish law. You get the school of Hillel responding to the school of Shammai, and vice-versa; you get later students offering their various rationales for a given ruling; you get objections and rejoinders and "but if that's the case, then -–," and minority opinions that are preserved even if no one else agrees. Crucially, these minority positions can still, like dissenting opinions in American jurisprudence, wind up impacting practical cases much later.
The Talmud Blog is devoted to these ancient documents, compiled (like the Bible itself) over many, many centuries, layers and layers deep, commentaries swathing commentaries, in the living tradition that gave rise to them and still returns to them. It belies the prejudice that texts are inherently unrevisable, that they enshrine and encourage an incorrigible fundamentalism. The Talmud is a concrete illustration of the Latourian claim that a religious tradition is constituted by continually changing its form.
In studying Talmud you can move very rapidly between a practical question like how to compensate your neighbor whose animal has been hurt after wandering onto your land, to abstruse matters of grammar or exegesis, and even spiritual devotion. "What do we learn from this?" and "How do we know this?" are two questions that recur over and over. What emerges from enough of this is not just a competence in Talmudic disquisition, but a sense of what it is like to engage with an open text on multiple and interpenetrating levels. It is not an exaggeration to say that it can change what it means to read.
There is no slavish obeisance to the text in such a setting. My own experience was doubtless unusual in some respects, not least because I was there as a graciously welcomed goy; probably my remedial status slowed things down for everyone. But one thing that was very clear was that the dialogism of the setting came perfectly naturally. The Talmudic term for this is shaqla vetarya, "give and take." In reminded me, oddly, of what the Platonic academy must have been like.
This experience is impossible to enter into without some personal contacts, and while web-based Talmud-study resources have many laudable features, real-time dialogue is almost never one of them. The Talmud Blog can't substitute for that, but it can provide an introduction (albeit very asystematic) into the issues and terms a scholarly engagement with the Talmud will involve. If you are an outsider, this introduction leaves a lot to reader's initiative. You have to be prepared to look up terms like, well, shaqla vetarya, if their meaning doesn't become clear by the third occurrence; you need to read with an awareness that there is a broad context in which the issues addressed are meaningful. If you do this with antennae tuned for these matters, and without pre-judging them, you'll find that this "broad context" becomes more real and more complex to you.


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The Bordellos are prolific post-punk psychedelic heroes and produce too much stuff to release "properly" hence the decision to release extra material from their archives on free EPs of which this is volume 4 and can get downloaded here.
Don't expect the straight forward, instead the mysterious sonic meanderings of "Bring me the disco king" and the acoustic lament-into-thrash of "Punks not dead". Its weird, its brilliant, you'll probably spent half the time wondering what the hell that noise was.


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I've just been setting up new virtual servers at Linode [1] and Slicehost [2]. I have previously written a review of both those services [3], based on that review (and some other discussions) one of my clients now has a policy of setting up pairs of virtual servers for various projects, one server at Linode and one at Slicehost.
Now both virtual hosting providers work very well and I'm generally happy with both of them.
But Linode seems to be a better offering.
Linode has graphs of various types of usage, I can look at graphs of disk IO, CPU use, and network IO for the last 24 hours, 30 days, or for previous months. The three graphs have the same scale of the X axis so I can correlate them. The stats on Slicehost just allow you to get the current raw numbers, which doesn't help if I want to know what happened last night when performance sucked.
When I build a Linode instance I can have multiple filesystems configured (Slicehost can't do any of this). I can use less disk space than is available to reserve space for other filesystems. Separating filesystems makes it easier to track IO performance and also allows some bounds to be set on the amount of disk space used for various tasks. Nowadays the use of multiple partitions is not as popular as it once was, but it's still a real benefit. Of course one of the benefits of this is that I can have two partitions on Linode that are suitable for running as the root filesystem. If an upgrade fails then it would be an option to boot with the other filesystem (I haven't actually done this but it's good to have the option).
I believe that this feature of Linode could do with some improvements. Firstly when creating or resizing filesystem it should be possible to specify the number of Inodes when using Ext3. The fsck time for a large Ext3 filesystem that has the default number of Inodes is quite unreasonable. It would also be good if other filesystems such as XFS were supported, for some use cases XFS can significantly outperform Ext3 – and choice is always good. When BTRFS becomes stable I expect that every hosting provider will be compelled to support it (any provider that wants my continued business will do so).
Now Linode and Slicehost both allow sharing bandwidth allowances between virtual servers. So if you run one server that uses little bandwidth you can run a second server that needs a lot of bandwidth and reduce the potential for excess bandwidth use problems. The next logical extension to this is to allow sharing disk allocation between servers on the same physical system. So for example I might want to run a web server for the purpose of sending out large files, 360M of RAM as provided by the Linode 360 offering would be plenty. But the 128G of storage and 1600GB per month of bandwidth usage that is provided with the Linode 2880 plan would be really useful. At the same time a system that does computationally expensive tasks (such as a build and test server) might require a large amount of RAM such as 2880MB while requiring little disk space or bandwidth. Currently Linode allows sharing bandwidth arbitrarily between the various servers but not disk space or RAM. I don't think that this would be a really difficult feature to implement.
Finally Linode has a "Pending Jobs Queue" that shows the last few requests to the management system and their status. It's not really necessary, but it is handy to see what has been done and it gives the sysadmin a feeling of control over the process.
These management features provide enough value to me that if I was going to use a single virtual hosting provider then I would choose Linode. For certain reliability requirements it simply wouldn't be a responsible decision to trust any single hosting company. In that case I'm happy to recommend both Linode and Slicehost as providers.
(Sorry if this gets posted twice. WordPress was acting funny. And then ate my comment when I hit Back.)
If you have a Linode 360 and a Linode 2880, they *won't* be on the same physical server, since Linode only puts one plan type on each host.
For $800/month, you can get a host to yourself and divide it up however you want, but…
Hi Russell, I also use both Slicehost and Linode and based on my experience with both I also find Linode to be a better value. Thanks for sharing your opinions on the matter.
Thanks for this followup post. I remember reading your first review of Linode and Slicehost a long time ago and actually tried out a Linode myself after reading about your experiences with their services, as well as other reviews I found on the net regarding Xen providers.
Currently, I don't have a server with them anymore, but when I did host with them I thought the Linode Manager and their Lish console were truly amazing. Nobody else could compare to the kind of features those guys could offer for a mere $20 per month. However, I was also starting to run into some IO bottlenecks, and rather than wait for my sites to screech to a halt, I eventually decided to move back to cheap CPanel hosting for now. Yeah, I don't get to play around with the server as much as I'd like to… but then again I'm only paying $10 per month as opposed to $20 =D
Anyway, I'm wondering if you've also tried VPS.net and/or Gandi.net as well. Gandi has been around for a while and would be a great alternative if you're based in Europe. Likewise, I've recently been following the developments over at VPS.net, and one of the things I'm personally excited about (cause I'm in Asia) is their possible expansion into Japan soon (or perhaps Brazil as there's still an ongoing poll asking users on their forum where their servers should go next, although Japan is in the lead).
Interestingly, after shopping around for CPanel VPS hosting, I also found out that Namecheap (the domain registrar) hosts their VPS on Xen servers as well. Most other managed CPanel hosts use Virtuozzo/OpenVZ. Any experience/thoughts on these 3 other providers? Would be interesting to know how each system performs under heavy database load compared to Linode/Slicehost.
Finally, I'd like to ask, based on your current experience with the sites that you manage on Linode/Slicehost, do you think now is a good time to even be switching to a Xen VPS server again, or should I just wait until systems with SSD drives are available in the, hopefully, near future?
(FYI, I don't have heavy traffic on my sites, but I do a lot of application development, so it would be nice if I can try out applications on a semi-dedicated server as opposed to a shared hosting environment like what I currently have… hence the reason why I'm thinking of getting a Xen VPS again.)
Haha… that was a little longer than I thought. I guess I should also just add Amazon into the mix, since they also use Xen! =D
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At twenty-two years old, aspiring musician Sydney Blake has a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her good friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter cheating on her with Tori—and she is left trying to decide what to do next.
Sydney becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor, Ridge Lawson. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening to the daily guitar playing he does out on his balcony. She can feel the harmony and vibrations in his music. And there's something about Sydney that Ridge can't ignore, either: He seems to have finally found his muse. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one…
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance—and the enchanting music that inspires one young woman to put her life back together.
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Beat..beat..pause. Beat..beat..pause . That's my heart beating for both Ridge and Sydney. Oh, and yes, sometimes it beats really fast...then it beats really slow . Erratic . It's been that way ever since I started reading....and specifically , it begun when Ridge and Sydney created music together.
Ridge and Sydney were perfect together . Ridge was music and Sydney, lyrics. I can't count how many times I swooned and keep falling in love with these two! I love Sydney . I love Ridge. Sydney and Ridge...love love love!
I love writing reviews as I love reading, but in this case, I am hesitant to write one. Why? Because I know,what I am about to write won't cover what I really felt inside. I can simply say , "This book was amazing" but it's not all that, it was way beyond. With this, I am compelled to say more. ( with the best possible way I could say!)
If you thought you already read the most angsty book , think again, this one's on my top list. Never have I experienced a book that made me feel all kinds of tensions from the beginning and up to the end. I was surprised I did not burst into a thousand pieces while in the process?! God, if there is one author who can create that layer after layer of angst. Ms. Hoover was on my top list! ( As she's on my top list of favorite authors! ) This woman won't even make me catch my breath.. or relax a bit?! ( And I love you Colleen! ) There's always a story within a story..within a story and it never ends! It was a gradual reveal , keeping me on my toes at the same time making me so restless.
As I go on with the book, I can't help but to think ahead, way ..way ahead ! I was thinking , will it be a happy ending for both Ridge and Sydney? Because I really want to but with the things that's been happening? I really doubt that possibility is going to be bleak. Yes, I was THAT affected. I felt how Ridge and Sydney struggled with that undeniable growing feelings they had. They fought hard for what they thought was the right thing to do... to the point of NOT listening to what their hearts are really saying...
"We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most."
"How ever, I've learned that the heart can't be told when and who and how it should love. The heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our hearts."
There's so much to love in this book. I got my favorites , yes a lot of them! I would enumerate them in the best possible spoiler-free way I could say!
1. That music session , when Ridge was pressed against Sydney ?! Oh, and it's not even sexual! But then, I was breathless the whole time! It was swooniest ( okay , it was kinda sexy! ) moment, and know what scene crossed my mind? Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze 's "pottery session" on Ghost?! And what's Ridge and Sydney doing?! Not even pottery?! It was weird.. or I am weird?!! It was same connection, it was .. it was... what's the word? Intimate. ( and very romantic! )
2. When Ridge just held Sydney...that tight embrace? No words was said, but the emotions are so loud and clear. That.... I was a goner! Again, I can't fight the tears falling. I loved that scene. Be. Still. My. Heart.
3. "Sydney.. " Just a word. One single word , coming from Ridge?! I nearly died?! That. Was. Unexpected. And I was crying! Over a name?!!!! Just a name?!!!!
4. The "Pen thing" . Gawd! That pen! Darn it! Darn it! I have NEVER imagined in my entire existence that a lowly Pen can do the sexiest thing ever?! Now. You. Are . Curious. Clue : You think body painting is sexy?! Think again! ( Oh, now you are imagining! Hah! ) I looooved that scene, I am dying to trade places with Sydney at THAT very moment!! ( Heck! I would want to live in THAT fictional world!) Then.... when Ridge whispered, " Your call.. " Sweet. Baby. Jesus.
Okay, I can go on and on....and on. But I promised a spoiler free review. So, I leave it all up to you. This , I promise you, You'll going to end up "favoriting" everything! Yes. Yes!
Overall, I loved THAT ending. As if Ms. Hoover knew what's inside my heart... THAT was the ending I was hoping ( and pleading?! ) to be! Perfect. Perfect. Prefect!
"I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now."
Overall, I loved THAT ending. As if Ms. Hoover knew what's inside my heart... THAT was the ending I was hoping ( and pleading?! ) to be! Perfect. Perfect. Prefect!
"I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now."
Here's to the amazing Ms. Colleen Hoover :
My Rating:
5 I'll-FALL-OVER-AND-OVER-AGAIN STARS!!!
5 I'll-FALL-OVER-AND-OVER-AGAIN STARS!!!


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What if I tell you, that a lot of the things you blame yourself for, are...NOT entirely Your fault.
Will you believe it? :)
Behind your Conscious Will, is a Powerful and Magical force. And this force is determining your language, your actions and your entire experiences....
And this Force is called Self-image, which has been studied long enough for you and me to no more ignore its significance in Impacting the quality of our life.
But, fear not - this is in fact the beginning of a Great News!
Let today's video reveal to you WHY!
Apparently, I have a lot to say about this :) So I had to split the video into 2!
Video 1 takes you to understand the Ultimate power of Self-image..
Video 2 will show you HOW you can master your self-image.
To make it easier for you, if you are interested in the books I mentioned, here they are:
1. You Are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza
2. Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza
3. Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
I LOVE to hear your thoughts, your experiences on the subject! Share them below!
If there is challenge you want me to address without telling me who you are - I totally understand :) - please feel free to take the survey here & I will share about it in future videos, so that others can benefit from it, Thanks to you! :)
I look forward to supporting you More to create your BEST life!!
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Why its a mistake to give the Catholic Church support via membership or donations
Summary: In séances and invoking the saints you claim the power to make them listen. In séances you hope you can make them listen but in praying to saints they have to listen. That is the bottom line. In séances you deal with the entity as if it were another human being but with saints you do not - you regard them as beings who can get God to do the opposite of what he wants to do. Spiritualism and Catholicism claim to benefit from good entities yet you hear Catholics saying the saints are good and that justifies having a relationship with them beyond the grave. Also nobody claims to know how the entity hears your demand or prayer. Spiritualists and Catholics say it is down to forces that we cannot test or examine or understand so they are unknown. They say all they know is that the forces are not normal or part of everyday existence in the sense that a telephone is. They agree with the occult which says that we know there are forces there and that we seem to be able to harness them but we do not know what they are. It does not follow that if your prayer reaches a saint that even if God does deliver prayers that it was him.
The reasoning behind invoking saints is that God supposedly loves them more than you. The reason Catholicism says Mary is the best person to pray to is for God loves her more than any creature. So he helps you not for your sake but theirs. To be happy with that is to show that you do not care if God values you as a person regardless of what you do. You just care about what you want from him. And how little must God love you before it can for all intents and purposes be called hate? This is definitely all black magic.
If you have a friend and tell that friend you will spend your time with them and you want them only and do not want to meet their family or friends or pets for you want them alone that will be a sign of obsession not friendship.
If you have a friend and tell that friend you will spend your time with them and you want them only and do want to meet their family or friends and pets for you want to express your affection by welcoming and respecting the things that matter to your friend that will be a sign of true friendship.
Catholics say the first is the way Protestants approach Jesus.
Catholics say they do the second thing and boast that
they know what a proper relationship with Jesus means.
Necromancy is calling up the dead or talking to them to get information they have access to. Christianity has always taught that necromancy is a sin and an act of black magic.
Some rituals for necromancy are full of devotion to God. But they are still necromancy. God is only introduced to make the necromancer feel good about the dark deeds he is performing. The Church condemns the rituals. Necromancy is necromancy whether done in the name of God and love or not.
People do believe that God allows contact with the dead such as he allows with the living. That does not make their necromancy in any sense justifiable. But nevertheless, there is a misguided respect for God. There is no respect in the kind of necromancy that calls for prayers to the dead to get them to influence God. The dead can only influence God if they are wiser than he is.
In the contest between Elijah, God's prophet, and the Prophets of Baal, Elijah is vindicated by Yahweh. Baal and Yahweh are tested so Baal is shown to be unable to help. Elijah then murdered the pagan prophets of Baal for worshiping false gods and for giving false messages from the divine. It is pointed out how the Law of God commands that false prophets even among the Jews be slain. Baal in the account reads more like a superhuman saint than a god. The prophet suggests that maybe he is not answering prayer for he is asleep. Pagans talked about gods when they meant saints. The harsh penalty suggests that these gods are in fact in some way very dangerous. Catholics say that the gods are not real but worshipping them still leads to you being manipulated by Satan who is very real!
Baal could have been like other pagan gods and considered
to have been a human being who was deified and given a role in Heaven.
Roman Catholicism accepts necromancy as part of its religious devotion but it refuses to admit that it is necromancy. The give away is how the saint is spoken to as if she or he were in the room and hearing and seeing the person praying. That is pure ghost stuff and magic.
Roman Catholicism teaches that you can pray to the angels
and the saints and get guidance from them. The religion says that sometimes
prayer is easier if we pray to a saint and not directly to God. Clearly, the
Catholic just wants to honour a saint in the place of God and that is why they
find praying to a saint easier. Pagans used the same excuse to avoid praying to
the main god.
The Church says praying to the saints and angels is really praying to God for they have nothing of their own only what they have got from God. But if when Catholics pray to a saint, such as Mary, then why don't they make that clear? They would pray, "Mary I praise what God has made you and in doing so I honour him. You have no power of your own and I ask that God may bless me through your agency." But they do not. Instead they go, "Hail Holy Queen Mother of Mercy. Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope."
The Church lies that it simply asks saints and angels to
pray for it. If it believed in doing that it would pray, "Angels and saints of
God pray for me." Instead it prays to them as if they were gods and could hear
all their problems and understand what to do as if they had the knowledge that
God has about all that is going on.
The angels and saints can pray for you without knowing
you have invoked them. Talking to them as if they can hear every word is really
treating them as if they were the God who knows all secrets.
Spiritualists who are under a good measure of Christian
influence will say that the spirits that guide them and inspire them and to whom
they pray depend entirely on God to do these things so that it is really God who
deserves all the honour. Yet Catholicism condemns them as turning to spirits and
not God. Catholicism has to forbid spiritualism for Catholic tradition and the
Bible do it but then it goes and creates a thinly disguised form of it to
practice itself.
The Catholics say that praying to saints and angels is
not ignoring God or Jesus but rather addressing them through a saint. They say
praying to the saint is honouring God in the saint not the saint himself or
herself so it is another way of praying to God. If that is true then the saint
does not help us at all, its only God who does the helping. They say that if the
saint personally helps you it is because God gave them his power to do it with
so it is really he who is helping. This denies the Catholic doctrine that the
saints help us with their intercession. If God does what a saint asks him to do,
it does not follow that the saint was a cause. God is supreme and so the real
cause was just God's choosing to do it. If God is perfect he will do good if we
ask and will not need a saint to ask as well. Praying to the saints undermines
the goodness of God. To claim you can use a saint maybe to do what God won't do
is in fact to call upon the saint to try out ungodly powers.
As we know, necromancy is calling up the dead or talking
to them to get information they have access to. The appalling book, Born
Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic, accepts Webster's definition of necromancy
as trying to find out about the future from the dead (page 162). This book is
attempting to dispel the Evangelical Christian complaint that Catholics praying
to saints is necromancy. It is trying to dispel it on the basis that the
Catholics are not trying to divine the future by praying to saints. To do that
it uses a false definition of necromancy. But clearly necromancy is not just
calling the dead up so that you might know the future from them but the act of
communicating with the dead itself. That is what is wrong with the practice. It
can't be anything else. The communicating is a bigger element than the wish to
know the future. It is not calling up the dead to learn something that is the
problem - it is the calling up of the dead. If calling on the dead is right,
then it cannot be wrong to call on them to tell you the future for they don't
have to tell you anything.
Christian doctrine says that only God knows the future.
This, in itself, does not forbid you to call up or call on spirits to hear their
predictions for they see things and know things and plans we don't though they
might not know all the future. They invisibly listen in on world events. They
could give you accurate predictions based not on seeing the future but on the
way they see things are headed. God might tell them the future. If God knows
the future, he might tell a spirit all about it and the spirit might then tell
The dead might not be able to tell you what they know. An
evil spirit might pretend to be the dead person you are talking to. You might
want to know something about the past or the present and not the future at all.
All these considerations show that the book is taking us for fools and it gives
the impression that it is okay to call up or call on the dead as long as it is
not about the future which is ludicrous.
No matter what Born Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic
says, about necromancy being bad and calling up the dead to be told the future
it cannot see this as wrong. Would it not be necromancy to go to bed praying
that St Rita will appear in a dream to tell you something about the future?
Calling on the dead to reveal something is as much
necromancy as calling the dead up to visible appearance or whatever. You are
still dealing with the dead. Necromancy can take the form of asking the dead to
appear or asking the dead to speak to you without appearing. Or it can take the
form of asking the dead a question and asking them to give a sign in reply. For
example, "If Charlie loves me let me see two ravens tomorrow." Roman Catholicism
tends to go for the latter kind. Catholics are always asking for signs from
saints. For example, they ask St Anthony to help them find things and they
believe that if he does that then he does it chiefly as an indication of his
kindly power and the effectiveness of invoking the saints.
If it is true that saints are only believed in for the
sake of the miracles they do, then saint worship is not about honouring decency.
Does a saint just exist for doing miracles? The Church has to say yes! The saint
does miracles but must be a miracle of holiness too! The Church says that only
God's grace, his miracle power to heal the heart of natural evil, makes saints.
What could be wrong with necromancy when you want God to send a dead person to tell you things in your dreams? That is not bypassing God but honouring him, it would seem. But nevertheless the Bible - which he wrote according to the Christian faith - sternly forbids necromancy.
Necromancy is forbidden by God and is to be understood as
any attempt to make supernatural contact with a being that is not God. God said
we must love him with all our powers and all our heart and mind so if he has a
supernatural revelation for us he will appear in some form to us himself to keep
things direct and in homage to the commandment banning necromancy. Why not when
he can do it himself? Anything else would be spurious.
The Church says that to honour the saints is to honour God for it is God who has made them saints and the powers they have are his powers. The Hail Holy Queen prayer goes, "Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears." Catholics pray to saints the same way they do to God. But they claim they are really honouring God in doing so for it is God who the prayers and honours are ultimately meant for. If that so, then why do even they frown on somebody who says that masses should be offered to the Blessed Virgin Mary or at least in her name? Why can't the Church say, "Mary, we offer you the body and blood of Jesus Christ sacrificed for our sins and we ask you to wash us in his precious blood." It can if this is just honouring the God who is in Mary. They know fine well that their excuse that honouring the saints is honouring God doesn't work.
Why the lies? The Church herself wants to engage in necromancy and adores it so much that she wants to enjoy it without getting the condemnation she deserves.
The Church encourages you to address the saints as if they can see and hear you and are in the room with you. The Church says many people go to Purgatory for they are not fit to enter God's presence yet. And it calls them the holy souls and says you can pray to them too! If saint worship is not necromancy that certainly is!! The Church likes to say that those who are with God are through God in close contact with Catholics on earth for God is everywhere. But it cannot use that argument with praying to the holy souls. The holy souls cannot help themselves by praying for themselves so how can they help us? Christians hold that souls in Hell cannot pray for themselves or help themselves so you would understandably think that praying to the souls is just a cover for praying to those who have become demons in Hell.
The Catholic Church advises praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory to get them out of there. They can't help themselves so if we pray to God he reduces their sentence. He does this for he likes being prayed to. He rewards us for the praying by doing what we want. Strange "reward" for it is getting the souls out of Purgatory or closer to release. The Church says that the souls do good works and suffer in Purgatory. Purgatory is a purifying punishment. The only kind of purifying punishment is when people suffer and sacrifice a lot to do good as punishment for their sin. The only kind of good the spirits in Purgatory can do is communicate with people to give them guidance and comfort them psychically. Purgatory is a necromantic doctrine.
If you honour God when you honour the saints, why can you
be seen to be possibly honouring the saints when you pray to God? Protestants
don't honour the saints directly but they believe they honour those saints in
Heaven who love God by honouring the God these saints adore so much. The saints
love God so much that they are pleased and delighted and indirectly honoured
when others adore him too.
Protestantism. To honour the saints is to honour God but
not by praying to them. To honour God is to honour the saints.
Roman Catholicism. To honour the saints is to honour God
through praying to them. To honour God is to honour the saints.
Two alternatives. It makes more sense to honour God
without praying to the saints for that honours the saints anyway. He is closer
to them than even they could ever be to him. God loves the saints more than the
saints could ever love him. He is better than them. He is more honoured by going
to him directly than by going to him indirectly through the saints. If you
honour the mother you go to her directly and you don't honour her baby in the
guise of honouring her.
The Bible gives strong and serious condemnations against necromancy. In Deuteronomy 18 it condemns those who consult ghosts, it says nothing about the future, and who seek oracles as necromancers and says that these people are an abomination in the sight of the Lord. Most people who consult ghosts prefer to do it without trying to hear voices and see the ghost. They want the ghost to put the answer in their minds for that is all that is needed anyway. But they are still calling up the dead and doing necromancy. They want the ghost to hear them and they seek help from the ghost.
Leviticus 20:27 says that mediums and fortune-tellers are
to be put to death on God's orders by stoning and that they have nobody but
themselves to blame for their deaths. That is the way you would talk if somebody
attacked you to kill you and you killed them first. You would say they were to
blame for their death and nobody else because they forced you to defend yourself
by killing them. So psychics forced the Hebrews to kill them. We know they did
not for they don't do that much harm and the harm can be legally restricted but
God does not allow us to see this. If they force you to execute them and do it
cruelly by stoning it indicates that God must still regard it as a duty to
destroy them and not just destroy them but to give them a lingering death. Love
is the Law in both the Old and New Testaments which means it is not love to let
them live. They must be very dangerous indeed. The Catholic Church claims their
doctrines draw you into everlasting punishment in Hell so they would say that is
the reason for the severe condemnations and penalties.
In 1 Samuel 28, the Witch of Endor calls up the dead
prophet Samuel's ghost and she alone can see it and she gets a message from it
for King Saul. It is not said that she tried to force him to appear. It is not
said that he came against his will. She may just have asked him to appear and he
did. Mediums say they all do that. She didn't do anything different from a
Catholic who might call on a saint to show their presence by doing some good
work for them or perform some wonder.
So dealing with the dead is one of the most emphatically
and fanatically forbidden sins in the Bible. The sin is so hated by God that he
would not want us to do anything that might be necromantic such as praying to
the saints for we can live without praying to them.
The Bible at Romans 8:26 states that we are too weak to
know how to pray as we ought so the Holy Spirit intercedes for us to make up for
that. Praying to the saints undermines that idea totally. Its trying to ignore
the Spirit so as to get lesser beings to do the interceding. If you believe the
Spirit patches up what you do wrong in prayer, you will not invoke a saint. If
you pray to a saint, then is the Holy Spirit fixing the faults so that the
prayer will reach the saint perfected and persuasive? So the Holy Spirit then
virtually prays to saints too!
The Catholics deny that human nature is a sin nature or
that humans are sinful by nature which means the Bible teaching that they are
sinful by nature is being rejected and Catholicism cannot be considered a
genuine Christian Church. Those who do not see that they are sinners by nature
cannot be saved. They cannot be saved for they cannot bond with God for he is
pure goodness. This is the clear Bible teaching. It would mean that the Catholic
Church invoking the presence of the saints is invoking demons for the saints
seen sin in terms of actions and not in what it makes a person to be.
Praying to saints implies distrust in the Holy Spirit. It
is blasphemy. And the severe penalties for becoming chums with the dead show how
much God opposes it.
Why is God so severe in relation to necromancy? Why does he want the sin abhorred and its practitioners destroyed?
It is not because necromancy is trying to force the dead to do anything. Even the most devoted necromancer claims that the dead only help if they wish or allow themselves to be forced if they wish. No necromancer can risk being thought able to force the dead to appear for if he is a fraud he will soon be found out. It is better to take peoples' money and try to communicate with the dead and if nothing happens just say the dead didn't wish to speak or see the need to.
Necromancy is not about forcing in the proper sense. It is mad
to think that the necromancer is trying to make the dead appear whether they
want to or not. No necromancer says they can do that. They claim that the dead
speak if they want to. And if the dead don't want to they can still use psychic
power to tell the necromancer what he or she wants to know.
Catholics say the dead always want you to communicate
with them. The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the Church on earth, in
Purgatory and in Heaven so it is all one Church. It is not three parts of the
Church. The Church is one part only. This is the doctrine of the communion of
saints where all are united intimately. If the communion with Purgatory and
Heaven is necromantic then the Church is thoroughly necromantic.
God does not allow you to go to spirits rather than him for answers. But many necromancers claim that God has arranged things this way so it is not necessarily shutting him out. Catholics say that God likes us to use intermediaries. But maybe necromancy is condemned because God does not approve of what does not bring us straight to him without priests and without saints? God wants us to forget about intermediaries and to use them is to insult his will and is hidden idolatry for the messenger is more important than the message in a real sense. If God exists, he cannot be as important as the people you trust to relay his message and truth to them.
Religion and revelation transmitted second-hand are
idolatry by default.
It could be that only God can call up the dead not the
necromancer. But no necromancer believes that he calls the dead up without a
gift from God. Catholics also say that the saints cannot listen to you except by
the power of God. Necromancers who claim to use their own power still say that
God created that power and gave it to them. The problem cannot be that they are
trying to commune with the dead with their own power.
If necromancy involves trying to know the future there is
no harm in asking God to show you the future through a saint or whatever for it
is left up to him to decide if he should let you know.
It could be that only demons help the necromancers. There is no reason to think
this for necromancy need not be anti-God or cruel. And talking to demons need
only be a problem if you take them too seriously and do not check them out.
The only problem that God can have with necromancy is
that he wants people to go directly to him and it has God using intermediaries.
This means that praying to the saints or souls in Purgatory is necromancy.
We are horrified at the thought that God will send torment for all eternity on those who have died in serious sin. Many of the saints had a huge horror of sin that they grew ill if they saw somebody sinning and they regarded their own little flaws as huge dramatic evils. The Church argues that their example proves how horrible sin is and how it forces God to sent torment though he is infinite love. The theory is that it leaves God with no choice. Clearly the saints are really manifestations of evil and fanaticism and to engage with them is to deliberately consort with evil spirits. Nobody has the right to accuse somebody of being capable of forcing God to torment them forever. Do you want to become the image of a God or a saint who agrees with your friends and family possibly being salted with such torment forever? Love the sinner and hate the sin is useless if it cannot stop you agreeing that even your own mother should be tormented forever if she asks for it? Why bother when it makes you a tacit torturer?
The Devil then was behind the apparitions of the saints
and of Jesus and answers the prayers made to the saints. Roman Catholicism is an
occult religion steeped in black magic for those who believe in the Devil and
see that saint-worship is incompatible with respect for God. Believers just run
after saints for the miracles saints supposedly do – they don't care if they are
doing God's will or not. From a Christian point of view, Roman Catholicism has
no excuse for God says his Spirit will guide people out of such practices if
they want to listen to him. It is the successor to the sorcery system that was
once Babylon. God will reject it totally even though it prays to him because
this prayer is intended to get him to increase devotion to the faith including
the evil in it so the prayers are blasphemous.
The Roman Catholic Church says it adores Jesus as the Risen God and prays to saints because the Bible commands it and the Bible is the word of God. God and man wrote it together so it is fully human and fully divine. This doctrine actually demands that the authors become God and yet stay themselves to work which is magic and is totally contradictory. The Church won't admit this though. The authors need psychic powers to write what God wants for the inspiration theory says they could write what they wanted and were not like typewriters. So when a necromantic book that claims an inspiration that blasphemes God commands saint worship and says Jesus rose and communicated after his demise it cannot want us to disapprove of these necromantic activities. It is being hypocritical if it forbids them.
The Catholic Church is an occultic religion. The Bible says that speaking to the dead and looking for their help is necromancy for only God should be approached for help. The Catholic Church prays to the dead. It seeks visions from the dead and asks them to do miracles if they are in Heaven so that it can canonise them as saints. The Church is provoking God for he says he will punish such sins severely and with hellfire forever.
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As a high school graduate, I had my life all planned out. I just knew that after it was all said and done I would have my PhD, travel the world, and make some good money. Then POSSIBLY marriage AFTER I reached all my goals. My life didn't go as I planned. I met my husband during my undergraduate studies and we got married after graduation. We both went back to graduate school together but I got pregnant with our first child two years later and the children seemed to keep coming. Here I am with a husband and six children and my life is not what I thought it would be. Yep, God absolutely wrecked my plans and I am so glad He did! Say what? Yep, you read that right, I am glad He did.
For today's lesson I have learned to embrace God's will for my life because it is far better than mine.
While my plans are what I thought was best
His plans proved to BE the best
My plans were what I wanted
His plans were exactly what I needed
This is not to say that life has been a fairy tale, a far cry from it. As I have said and proven for myself, following God's will doesn't prevent trouble. However, I can say that because I have surrendered to God's plans for my life, I have had peace in the inevitable storms. I feel fulfilled because I am living on purpose. Yes, God absolutely wrecked my plans, but I am here for it!
How about you? Is God directing you in a different direction than you originally planned for. Have you embraced His will for your life or are you fighting to get your way? Leave me a comment, I would love to hear from you.
Be Blessed,
Psalm 32:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
The Lord says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.


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Ted's still unaccounted for. It's been over a day now, and absolutely no one knows where he is. I've gotten in touch with everyone I know he might stay with, and not a single friend has heard from him since yesterday morning when Simon watched him leave. While it's perfectly normal for Ted to wander off, it's normally to be with someone he knows and he tends to stay in contact with someone.
If I don't hear from him by tomorrow morning, I'm getting the police involved. This isn't like Ted. He's usually quite reliable, in an unreliable sort of way. I'm truly worried about this. Where I live... Let's just say our region isn't well known for its tolerance of people with Ted's orientation.
So, with all these events going on, I feel like should clear the air for just a moment on the whole stalker business.
It was fake.
It technically didn't start out that way, but that's what it ended up being. Ted decided to pull a very elaborate prank on me, getting Simon to both write up the "For when you face the faceless" note, and paint the ToTheArk mask. Not only that, but the pair were working on a Slender Man costume for the coup de grace.
However, when Ted saw my reaction to the phone call, he fessed up to it. To say I was relieved is an understatement. I still made sure to give him a few bruises for messing with me that much, but it was better than the alternative.
But, the thing is, the prank was getting me Slender Man fan traffic - far more than what Watch This City Burn has had so far. So we decided to roll with it, building the whole thing up as a sort of trailer and proof of concept for what I wanted to do over on WTCB. I figured if I could get fans interested here, show them I had resources and some level of ability at storytelling, I could then redirect them to Watch This City Burn to write the tale I wanted to and then return this blog to its "personal" format.
And now Ted's gone and disappeared on me, in the middle of Bigot Town, USA. I'm going to kill him when he gets home...
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I feel gullible now. I havent even read WTCB. I was rooting for you not to be hrt. I got suckered in. Im still rooting for you. I know im coming in late, but im hoping your still alive/sane out there.\
OH well. As Everyman proved, Slendy doesnt like being lied about.
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Movies like Contagion and headline-grabbing bacterias like MRSA don't help assuage fears of rampant germ proliferation, but if you tend to reach for the hand sanitizer every time you touch an elevator button, doorknob, or dumbbell, curb your enthusiasm.
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Virtual Issue: Locomotion unplugged: how movement in animals is influenced by the environment
Duncan J Irschick and Tim Higham
Locomotion is a vital activity for organisms to escape predators, reproduce, and feed, among other activities. In short, ecology and locomotion are intimately intertwined. For much of the past century, locomotion has been primarily studied under controlled laboratory conditions, with an emphasis on mechanistic studies of muscle anatomy and biomechanics. Over the past 20 years, however, the rise of novel field-portable technologies such as accelerometers, high-speed video cameras, satellite tags and movement sensors, has enabled researchers to literally take the "laboratory" into the "field". While laboratory studies of locomotion continue to play a vital role in the realm of biomechanics and functional morphology, a new and exciting paradigm for studying locomotion has arisen that complements this existing paradigm. This new perspective focuses on studying locomotion in natural settings, and aims to understand both locomotor performance (e.g., speed, acceleration) and general movement patterns in relation to both micro- and macro ecological factors. This contextualization of locomotion will facilitate a broader understanding of what underlies phenotypic diversity.
Movement ecology has emerged over the last decade as one of the fastest-growing areas in ecology. The growth of technologies designed to detect movement, such as satellite tags and accelerometers has enabled researchers to track animals over vast distances. This has enabled researchers to ask questions regarding which factors influence these movement patterns in increasing detail. One example comes from studies of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), which migrate long distances in the Atlantic ocean (>1000 km), and recent satellite tracking studies reveal that despite differences in human disturbance between Florida (where baited dives are illegal) and the Bahamas (where baited dives are widely practiced), there appear to be no differences in migration patterns between sharks that emanate from the two regions (Hammerschlag et al. 2012). These remote technologies enable researchers to not just understand broad scale-movement patterns, but also gain fine-scale data on how animals move. New developments in estimating movement speeds and accelerations now enable researchers to estimate energetic expenditure, such as in recent studies of turtles (Fossettee et al. 2012). By understanding more clearly the energetic limitations and costs of these extensive migrations, researchers can begin to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that may be regulating how far, and in which manner, animals move. The broad panorama of movement ecology exists not only for aquatic animals, but also for terrestrial animals. Large animals such as elephants can be ecosystem engineers because of their profound impact on habitat structure. However, until recently, researchers have not fully appreciated the amount of variation among individuals in how they move, or the factors that might explain these differences. However, recent work by Jachowski et al. (2013) show how physiological differences among individual African elephants can predict movement patterns. This suggests that a monomorphic view of these large animals may be misguided, and a greater attention to individual-based ecology may reveal how some individual animals can greatly impact habitats whereas other individuals have relatively little influence.
As highlighted above in the work by Jachowski et al. (2013), individual variation is a rich source for scientific discovery as it allows researchers to isolate the factors that drive differences in locomotion. With a focus on consistent individual differences, or personalities, Galliard et al. (2013) determined whether exploratory behavior of newborn lizards correlated with locomotor traits and metabolic rate. Surprisingly, they found no correlation between resting metabolic rate and exploratory behavior. However, there was a weak correlation between locomotor performance and exploratory behavior, which is likely related to a combined effect of developmental history and natural selection, rather than differences in motivation, physiology or morphology. In addition to exploratory behavior, individuals can vary in a number of other traits, such as the amount of exercise in which they engage. We know that exercise has a profound impact on morphology and physiology, but few attempts have been made to examine the consequences of ecologically relevant variation in exercise. Why would individuals vary in their level of exercise? As noted by Sinclair et al. (2013), a source of variation lies in the existence of behavioral phenotypes, or personalities. Ecological pressures might, in part, determine these personalities, and consequently the level of exercise. For example, living in fast flowing streams may result in increased levels of exercise in fishes relative to those living in slow moving streams. Sinclair et al. (2013) found that increased exercise in mosquitofish led to increased swimming performance, boldness, tendency to explore, and aggression. They conclude that personality is labile within individuals, such that differences in personality may stem from abiotic impacts from the environment (e.g. flow velocity in a stream). If these abiotic factors change, then personality may also change. This exciting area of research highlights the intimate link between ecology and locomotion, and suggests that ecology not only impacts locomotion, but also that locomotion impacts ecology.
Different aspects of habitat structure can impact locomotion both directly and indirectly, and how animals cope with these effects is often crucial for survival and effective reproduction. While animals of all sizes are impacted by structural features of the environment, this concept is most easily studied at a finer scale with smaller and more abundant animals that can be easily observed and manipulated. Unlike terrestrial animals, arboreal animals occur in a world which bends, weaves and bobs, yet the compliance of these substrates, and how they impact movement is beginning to be become more clearly understood. In arboreal green anoles (Anolis carolinensis), highly compliant branches impair locomotion by impacting both the angle that these lizards can jump from, and therefore the distances of their jumps (Gilman et al. 2013). These lizards therefore make choices about which substrates they choose to move, and the nature of their movement (e.g., jumping, running). As with anoles, Chameleons are known to move effectively in arboreal habitats due to their zygodactylous feet and prehensile tail, each of which is highly specialized for moving on narrow and complaint surfaces. Integrative research with chameleons reveals the complex nature by which the habitat influences locomotion in these species (Da Silva et al. 2013), and shows that these animals choose habitats which most obviously improves their ability to move in nature.
While field studies are critical for understanding the ecological context of locomotion, laboratory studies are a crucial complement for untangling the mechanistic bases of variation in locomotor ability. This statement is especially true for locomotion that is mechanically or energetically challenging. For example, flight is energetically expensive, especially for larger animals, and among flying animals, hummingbirds are renowned for their exceptional flying capacities. Anyone who has watched a hummingbird has likely wondered how they can obtain sufficient fuel to maintain flight. Can hummingbirds fuel their flight with food reserves, or can they fly "empty", and gain sufficient nectar during foraging to stay aloft? Recent research by Chen and Welch (2013) show that hummingbirds can fuel locomotion entirely with exogenous sources, which suggests little need to build up fuel reserves prior to foraging. This shows how fuel reserves may be less important to some animals than others, but it also suggests very strong selection on efficiency during foraging in these animals.
Another form of highly challenging movement is rapid bursts of movement, such as jumping. While not energetically expensive, such movements are nonetheless mechanically challenging. Many animals, especially insects, employ special "tricks" to enhance these dynamic movements, such as through spring-like mechanisms in which elastic energy is stored slowly, and then released quickly, much like a catapult. The advantage of this method is that the energetic cost of producing the movement is minimized as the energy put into storage is expressed slowly, yet the locomotor output can have dramatic and positive fitness consequences, such as in the cast of jumping in click beetles, which is accomplished through storage of elastic elements in the wings, that are then "clicked" and released, therefore enabling rapid movements that can aid in escaping predators (Ribak et al. 2012). Locomotion is controlled in large part by variation in body form and the scaling of morphology. Whereas most scaling studies have been conducted on smaller animals, it is in the largest animals in the world, whales, in which scaling effects seem most apparent. As in any hydrodynamic system, scaling of body parts used for feeding impacts greatly how smaller whales and larger whales can consume food items, and recent research by Goldbogen et al. (2012) underscores this point. Larger whales seem to sacrifice locomotion for feeding by scaling to extremely large head sizes, which enables them to likely obtain larger food inputs (because of their proportionally large head). This ontogenetic shift makes sense, given that the amount of food needed to fuel movement in large whales is significant. In most animals, locomotion is driven by muscles and this raises the question of how animals maximize neuromuscular effort. For humans, exercise is essential for maximizing muscular performance, but for many wild animals that live naturally on a dietary tightrope, the role of exercise is less obvious. Indeed, research on some lizard's reveals that strenuous exercise in a laboratory setting can result in either no change in aerobic capacity at all, or even in limb pathologies. However, in an interesting recent study, it was found that exercise changes behavior in fish. In a manner similar to humans, exercised fish were bolder and performed riskier behaviors. While the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood, it is possible that hormonal shifts as a result of exercise may play a role.
The assumption that morphology and performance are directly linked has persisted for a long time. In many cases morphological features enhance locomotion, such as increased leg length for increased sprint speed in terrestrial vertebrates. However, sexual selection often results in the exaggeration of morphological structures, potentially leading to trade-off with locomotor performance. A great example of this is the sword (elongated lower margin of the caudal fin) of some species of Xiphophorus fishes. The female preference for longer swords results in the elongated sword in males, but the degree of preference varies between species. Oufiero et al (in press) examined whether the presence of an enlarged sword depresses locomotor performance by using a species that naturally lacks a sword, two species with elongated swords, and one treatment with experimentally reduced sword length. Surprisingly, sword length did not impact locomotor performance, suggesting that some sexually selected locomotor traits may not be detrimental to locomotion. Ecologically relevant manipulation of morphology provides a valuable tool for examining the ecology of locomotion.
Chen, C. C. W., Welch, K. C., 2013.Hummingbirds can fuel expensive hovering flight completely with either exogenous glucose or fructose. Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12202
Da Silva, J. M., Herrel, A., Measey, J. G., Vanhooydonck, B., Tolley, K. A. 2014. Linking microhabitat structure, morphology and locomotor performance traits in a recent radiation of dwarf chameleons. Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12210
Fossette, S., Schofield, G., Lilley, K. S. M., Gleiss, A. C., Hays, G. C. 2012. Acceleration data reveal the energy management strategy of a marine ectotherm during reproduction. Functional Ecology 26:324-333.
Gilman, C., Irschick D. J. 2013. Foils of flexion: the effects of perch compliance on lizard locomotion and perch choice in the wild. Functional Ecology 27:374-381.
Goldbogen, J. A., Calambokidis, Croll, D. A., McKenna, M. F., Oleson, E., Potyin, J., Pyenson, D., Schorr, G., Shadwick, R. W., Tershy, B. 2011. Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity. Functional Ecology 26:216-226.
Hammerschlag, N., Gallagher, A. J., Wester, J., Luo, J., Ault, J. S. 2012. Don't bite the hand that feeds: assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator. Functional Ecology. 26:567-576.
Jachowski, D. S., Montgomery, R. A., Slotow, R., Millspaugh, J. J. 2013. Unravelling complex associations between physiological state and movement of African elephants. Functional Ecology 27:1166-1175.
Le Galliard, J. F. Paquet, M., Cisel, M., Montes-Poloni, L. 2013. Personality and the pace-of-life syndrome: variation and selection on exploration, metabolism and locomotor performances. Functional Ecology 27:136-144.
Oufiero, C., Jugo, K., Garland T. Jr. 2014. Swimming with a sword: tail beat kinematics in relation to sword length in Xiphophorus. Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12222
Sinclair, E. L. E., Noronha de Souza, C. R., Ward, A. J. W., Seebacher, F. 2013. Exercise changes behaviour. Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12198
Ribak, G., Reingold, S., Weihs, D. 2011. The effect of natural substrates on jump height in click-beetles. Functional Ecology 26:493-499.
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Don't get carried away with the avant-garde design yet because if we talk about usage, this one wouldn't disappoint. It's roomy and has plenty of pockets to let you pack all your stuff.
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I've had this particular series for the blog planned for a long time. Since I've set my novel(s) in the general area where I live and grew up, I reference a lot of the local flora and fauna in them in order to provide a better sense of place for the reader. I thought it might be fun to do a few blog posts on the plants and animals I've put in my novel since many of them are native to California and the chaparral ecosystem and may not be familiar to many. I'm calling it flora and fauna of the San Jacintos, since the San Jacintos are the mountain range where my novel is set, but the plants and animals I'll be talking about aren't limited to just the mountain ecosystems.
So it to begin the series, we'll start with California's most famous flower and the state flower: the golden poppy. They are found outside of California, but are really most closely identified with the golden state. I have to admit that these poppies are some of my most favorite flowers. I think it's the simplicity of them: several velvety orange petals are really all that make up the flower itself, but it's charming even so.
It's always a mood lifter to see a field of these when I'm out and about or even better, seeing them sprout along side the freeways. Since they only bloom in summer, it can be a rare pleasure to see them and it's always a sign that summer's in full swing when the first poppies bloom.
These particular poppies cannot be used to make illicit drugs. (Thank you to the golden poppy wikipedia article for telling me this and saving that particular search from being forever in my Google search history!) The plants sprout ferny green leaves, followed by the golden blooms themselves, and then, once the blooms drop, grow seed pods to leave the seeds to overwinter until the nest summer.
These particular poppies I'm showing were planted by my daughter all along the base of her playhouse. She found the seeds at the garden supply, and I couldn't say no to planting our state's most famous flower in our backyard. They've died off now, but I suspect that under our soil, the seeds are waiting, and we'll greet the poppies again next summer.


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Data collection and analysis related to energy usage
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Data collection and analysis related to energy usage.
The fields of interest for the fellowship will be behavioral issues associated with smart grids and data collection.
The operation involves information series and investigation related to energy usage.
The objective of the behavioral issues research and data collection is to study behavioral issues associated with smart grids.
Requirements of applicants are an outstanding academic record; strong communication and numeracy skills; and commitment to a sustainable energy future.
The University is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
We have grounds and training concentrates in several locations, and academic companions across our planet. We are known for as an globally determined key in business and technology.
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