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See their sites and super pics ..
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Or just bring a picnic…any season style… (chocolates for winter picnics?)
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Saturday 9th February and Sunday 10th February will see the return of the spectacular Chinese New Year Gala, with a host of fascinating performances by professional artists including Chinese Erhu, Guzheng and Bamboo Flute music, and spectacular group-coordinated Kung Fu routines. All that and more is a perfect way to greet the new year, so get your tickets now to avoid disappointment.
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It was created when the beautiful Enjoy the East Midlands website was archived.
The lovely 3Mobile co have now organised a means of a sim only contract which allows All you can Eat Data with 35Gb of tethering (use your phone like a mifi-wifi) for a reasonable price!! Awesome – so in the next few weeks the blog can have a spring clean and evolve a little!!
Love youtube music- would like a linked profile and links … with a widget maybe to bring in new likes… spotify or myspace or tunehog or vimeo? sadly we had to pay, but in 2017 this may have changed!! …..
All the pages and everything is made with the Smartphone that's every post and page (the theme had to be sorted with the pc) to prove that anyone with an Android could make a blog – everything made on the phone but the headers and widgets from 2011 to 2017! Now we can choose themes and add widgets with the wordpress app. Now all we need is a the ability to add a few affiliates, not actually advertising but maybe tickets or books and music!! Currently wordpress.com isn't into money making!!
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THERE'S LOTS OF INFO on the FACEBOOK and TWITTER links of local events and interesting snippets of info around the UK that is UP to DATE! Check Regularly for WHATs ON and then use the PAGES to check or for opening times, directions etc !!
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The aim is to make this blog using an Android Smartphone, so some edits and info may be a little less than perfect … but it proves an android smartphone can make lots of pages and lots of posts and artwork!
The objective is:- have a go a making a blog yourself on any topic but try to take your own pics and make your own artwork!!
see the Making Blogs (with wordpress) page
The blog really really is made with an android phone.
There are thousands of blogs on wordpress.com and blogger – you may need an account with either system to start blogging (i.e. you need an email address and the ability to verify it) then you can make blogs and also use the wordpress 'read blogs' option – a super world of ordinary people information.
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NB: There aren't any people in the pics on the posts as their permission would be needed to be uploaded and online ..Maybe a gallery soon…
Lots of people do visit the park and other Nottm/Notts Attractions – 80K at Sherwood Festival Aug 11th 2013 – with a little help from the Tweeters!
Years ago I studied Astrology – before the EU banned it for predictive purposes so now it is for Entertainment only (was it ever anything else??).
I belonged to the Nottm Astrology Society and did talks for groups all around the UK. I was even on TV with the Time and the Place programme once!! My focus was always that the majority of people don't understand that Astronomy ie the Planets can be seen in the sky (Starry Skies, Astronomy groups) and that sky picture is the one in your Astrology chart from the day you were born so its quite special but its not going to control your life.
Many years ago people used the stars to navigate and determine when to plant and harvest so it was important but became 'occult' or hidden in the Victorian times, and now with the Internet (and lots of countries still have a really big interest) its evolved more. People know some information is for fun and entertainment and is not too serious.
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Talk in Democratic political circles for weeks has been about how state Rep. Joe Miklosi, D-Denver, could face a primary challenge in his bid for the 6th Congressional District, now occupied by U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican from Aurora.
Those rumors grew more intense after last week's decision by Judge Robert Hyatt to use a Democratic map for congressional redistricting that took Coffman from being in a safe Republican district to a tossup district.
But Miklosi has quickly sought to dispel those rumors, saying he believed he would have no primary challenger.
Since then, his campaign has put out a long list of endorsements from fellow Democrats. That list has included state Sen. Morgan Carroll of Aurora (who had already publicly said she wasn't interested in the job), but more importantly, state Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, an African-American lawmaker who would bring a riveting life story to a campaign.
In fact, Miklosi's campaign said he had been endorsed by every Aurora-area lawmaker in the legislature, including, in addition to Carroll and Fields, state Sen. Mary Hodge of Brighton; state Rep. Nancy Todd of Aurora; state Rep. Su Ryden of Aurora. The campaign said Miklosi also had been endorsed by Arapahoe County Commissioners Frank Weddig and Nancy Jackson.
Miklosi today listed 31 total Democratic lawmakers who support his congressional bid, effectively marking his territory as the uncontested Democratic contender for the 6th CD.
One name swirling around, however, is not on his list: Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of the Colorado House and unsuccessful challenger to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in 2010.
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Miscellaneous of my AGU meeting
Don't remember exactly how many times I have been to bay area, especially for summer interns. The foggy and windy San Francisco is nothing new to me, but the AGU meeting is like an adventure that I could never imagine what I will come across. I knew from lab-mates that AGU is a huge events, over 20,000 attendants from numerous of domains, it is nevertheless until the time I register at the moscone center west that I realize its overwhelming diversity. To be honest, as I talk to some students in the student breakfast, I literally "know" what are their background, such as biological chemistry, but essentially the problem and the approaches are never friendly to me. Initially, I try to show appreciation, as a sign of politeness however I never feel really any spontaneous reflection from the conversation. I told myself I need to get out of something from this 7 days conversation, something useful for both parties of the conversation.
Therefore, I decided to take charge of the conversation, asking questions like: I am working on A, which tries to solve general problems such as B and C, does that benefit what you are working on? Basically, I regard most of the conversation to be a good survey if something I did will make their lives much easier. One reason is from my observation that domain scientist, which category most attendant falls into, are using some information technologies, such as matlab or R or excel but they are not satisfied. For most of the scientists, as general users, might not know exactly what they want since otherwise they will just build the tool! In most cases, they are looking for some magical tools that can do things better, just like the first time automobile is invented where most people think they need faster horses. From this observation, I had several great conversations with a couple of scientist on problem I am working on and it turns out that these conversations really help me a lot!
Data integration:
One topic people are talking about is data integration. Essentially, this is the problem of ontology and vocabulary matching, where many efforts haven been made on aligning heterogenous of schemas and the corresponding keywords in the schema. Just as the project I am working on with Cyndy Chandler and Adam Shepherd form WHOI, domain data scientists from US, EU and Australia try to align part of their research data with a commonly accepted vocabulary entry, which is called the NERC that is something looks like http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L06/current/. Most of the work by now is through manual aligning, therefore I am here to apply some natural language processing trick to align the terms based on their metadata such as description and definitions. Some folks are working on this already, but not a completely automatic process,where they try to provide a guideline tool for the scientist when they are not sure which terms to use when devising their dataset. They learn the "recommended" terms by putting a large set of vocabularies that let them cluster using the LDA tricks. However, I really doubt whether it would work as LDA is simply for unsupervised learning which means we can't specify what data to put into the same category. Then it means we disregard an important aspect of the dataset, which is not a good approach to an appropriate model. Besides I have more concern regarding the applicability of this work, as most scientist are familiar with what vocabularies to use and those who didn't might not be the domain scientists. Usually, computer scientist will be under supervision of those domain scientist while creating these dataset, so it is still not necessary for them to use this vocabulary guideline service. Anyways, bringing some AI techniques to this domain is always a good trial.
Data exploration and data portals:
Another trend is that many people are concerning about building data portal. A lot of them are featured with facet search, map based search and filtering. As I see a number of posters from George Mason, I just realized that they are doing the same thing as S2S however the generation of those facets and user-interface are generated by hard-query and xml file. They are not concerning using the ontology as the guideline for the hierarchy of the user interface. But as I briefed something on our work of S2S, they become very interested and eager to try out if there is source code and enough documents available for the S2S framework. I showed them our work on DCO, not a perfect one but already articulate the idea. They even suggest to create a user community for the s2s framework such that whenever there is a question or they would like to contribute a widget, there is a place they can discuss and commit the code. Besides George Mason, there are also other schools that raise the same suggestion.
Big data analysis:
Lots of people are talking about big data analysis, ranging from NASA to small institutes. What I really expect from the talk is the technical aspect of what's the scale of their dataset and how they solve the problem using parallelism, redundancy etc. However, most of the talk are discussing the hierarchy of their system, key components without much detail on what's the data looks like, any problems they come across and how are those problem solved. It might be because the audiences for this meeting are more with domain backgrounds that doesn't really know or even concern those technical details.
Service Computing:
The best thing I found about this meeting is that there are several people that working towards the same goal as I do but with slightly different approach. It's good because it shows what I are interested is meaningful and there is still room for me as we are not doing exactly the same thing. One professor I talked with is Prof. Jia Zhang from Carnegie Mellon. What she is working on is to facilitate the scientist to reuse data, practices and algorithms such that preventing reinventing the wheels and more importantly accelerating the process of adopting someone else work to save time and effort. Moreover, she also developed an service recommendation system for scientists. The system will be able to suggest specific algorithms based on input metadata and goal. The algorithm workflow is figured out based on path-finding algorithms. However, something they haven't done yet is providing a web-based platform to execute the workflow and they are not using reasoning engine to find the path. I talked some of my work, idea and thoughts and how I will approach the problem using some semantic web technologies. We are both happy after the conversion because although the goal is the same but the approach is slightly different, so there is a good source of reference and collaborations.
Looking forward:
After the meeting, I have a clearer picture of the significance of my work, possible directions, and potential collaborators etc. One regret is that I didn't give any presentation on any of my work so this is a really good catalyst for me to get down to my work and contribute some of my work to this community in the future year.


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I recently went to visit one of my sisters who lives in Ohio. While there we went down to visit with her son who lives in Amelia, Ohio. This was my first visit to his home so I got the grand tour. When we walked into what they called the "Victorian Room" I noticed some really neat old pictures on the dressers. I asked if the people were related and was told that they were pictures he had purchased at an antique store. He loves antiques and collectibles. Out of curiosity I checked the backs of the pictures and sure enough, some of them had names on them. Unfortunately there were some that had no names as well. I proceeded to take photos of all the pictures so I could see if I could find out more about the people in them and see if I could find any living relatives who might be interested in the photos I took. When I got to my other sister's house (she lives in Ohio as well) I started doing some research on the identified photos.
Let me introduce you to Albert George and Nellie Esther (Roberts) Patridge.
bank, Grant, South Dakota. The above photo is of them on their wedding trip. In the 1900 census, Albert was living with his parents in Vernon, Grant, South Dakota. In the 1910 census, he is living with Nellie in Vernon, Grant, South Dakota. By the 1920 census, Albert and Nellie had moved to Milbank, Grant, South Dakota and that's also where they were living in the 1930 census. When Albert filled out his World War I Draft Registration Card on 12 Sep 1918 he indicated that he was a salesman of automobiles and tractors for the Milbank Auto & Supply Co. He had two brothers, Arthur and Irving Theodore and two sisters, Esther and Mary E. Albert died 20 Apr 1964 in Big Stone Co., Minnesota.
Nellie Esther Roberts was born Nov 1888 in Blue Earth Co., Minnesota, the daughter of William H. and Ida E. (Dyer) Roberts. In the 1895 census, she was living with her parents in Little Rock, Morrison, Minnesota. In the 1900 census, she was living with her parents in Latah, Spokane, Washington. That is pretty much all I was able to find out about Nellie.
Albert and Nellie had three children: Alice E., born about 1911 in South Dakota; Dorothy I., born about 1917 in South Dakota; and Glenn William, b. 10 Jul 1923 in South Dakota and died 11 Mar 1999 in Milbank, Grant, South Dakota. Alice married Arthur W. Nelson, 18 Jun 1939 in Milbank, Grant, South Dakota. Glenn William married Dorothy Jane Matt, Aug 1946 in Grant Co., South Dakota. Dorothy was born 8 Mar 1919 and died 16 May 2000 in Milbank, Grant, South Dakota.
Once I found this information on Albert and Nellie I decided to post a message on the Message Boards for the surname Patridge. It wasn't long after I posted my message that I got a message from someone who knew a granddaughter of Albert and Nellie and the person who contacted me was even a first cousin twice removed of Albert's. I have since e-mailed him copies of these photos so that he can share them with Albert and Nellie's granddaughter.
Now if there was just a way to identify the people in the unidentified photos I took!


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The Alien race known as the Tor literally melted Earth's surface and turned it into a big marble. All human refugees that had fled to the underground cities and stockholds effectively starved and asphyxiated themselves over the hundreds of years they were trapped there. When the Tor came back and cracked the world open years later, they found millions upon millions of dead humans. It was this genetic stock which was, for all intents and purposes, all-encompassing of most of the races on Earth, used to recreate humans at a much later date.
Which is precisely why there is a rough mimicry of why things on New Terra seem to mirror old world cultures and ethnicity. While I believe we are each our own person, born tabula rasa so to speak, some primal biological mechanism helps shape our societies in certain ways, as well as the obvious influence of the resources that we have or do not have.
As to the Kandolari, they are simply not magically inclined. The world is a dichotomy of nature and technology, with the so called "Magic" on the side of nature. The Kandolari spent eons and eons honing their adeptness in technological pursuits that they simply forgot how to tap into their more natural abilities to evoke "Ether." A similar thing happened to the humans of Earth, but upon their "Renaissance" (being reborn) they managed to tap into that ability and start to experiment with what is now called "Magic."
Quote from: hylandpad on May 15, 2011, 01:24:10 PMWhich is precisely why there is a rough mimicry of why things on New Terra seem to mirror old world cultures and ethnicity. While I believe we are each our own person, born tabula rasa so to speak, some primal biological mechanism helps shape our societies in certain ways, as well as the obvious influence of the resources that we have or do not have.Does humanity have access to pre-reHuman history? That could also help explain it. A race suddenly born anew might look to its ancient past for guidance.
reHumanity has very little knowledge of their forefathers. I used mimicry of cultures past to indicate that something within us shapes our cultures. And because it will be easy to identify the various nations of New Terra with historical counterparts. Granted, there are many nuances, and unique taboos and quirks that differentiate New Terrans from Old Terrans, but there should be enough similarities to connected Tuetonians to Medieval Germans, Caspernians to Medieval Frenchmen, and the various Alut tribes to assorted medieval Islamic Cultures.
Equiux"Big, this one is. Strong, fast and smart to boot. It may start telling YOU how to plow properly instead of the other way around."-Anonymousnot at all dissimilar to the horses of Old Terra, the Equiux is the primary mode of transportation for the majority of people on New Terra. The Equiux stands slightly taller than the average Old Terra horse, perhaps by an entire head. They have cloven hoofs, and larger eyes, with a fur that is notably more shaggy and thick, almost resembling that of a mountain goat. They are fairly easy to domesticate, even tempered animals, with a friendly disposition to humans who rewards them and treat them well. That being said, they are also trainable to make for war animals. Certain breeds of the Equiux are more suited to this than others, war equiux standing even taller and even more muscular than the average Equiux. While the Equiux no longer serves as a mount for Knights on Greatland (Knights have not ridden on horseback since the advent of Powered Armor – they are simply too heavy) the warrior castes of Alutremur and the Orient still use the beasts excessively and to deadly effect. While the Equiux no longer are used exclusively by knights (cavalry contingents are still widely used, just not by the nobility) they still carry the air of nobility, and represent the military elite. The symbol for "Knight" in New Terran literature still is the mounted Knight on the back of a fearsome Equiux steed.Sand Lion"Aghamemnon is more than a mount - he is my guard, my companion and above all, my friend."-Adonis ex Allejandria, of the Sultan's Immortal OrderSand lions, not truly mammals at all, are actually lizards. They have a furry hide and a feline snout curiously lacking a big wet nose. They sport a thick mane and slitted eyes, as well as a gaping wide maw of razor sharp teeth, some of which are the size of short swords. They weight about the same as a true adult lion might, but the fact remains that they are hatched from eggs and they need several hours of basking time every day to keep their blood warm. Sand lions are incredibly intelligent, so much so that they are widely believed to be able to understand human thoughts by a rudimentary form of psionics. As such, they are valuable allies, and if caught early on in life, fantastically domesticated animals. They begin life as an egg which hatches into a small, fur-less creature of vibrantly bright color, ranging from bright fuchsia to a deep sapphire blue or forest green. Eventually, after a few weeks, Gold, brown, or white hair emerges from beneath the tender scales, and grows rapidly. The growth cycle from then on is highly accelerated, reaching full adult size in a little over a year. They are believed to be hermaphroditic, with no visible reproductive organs and laying eggs every couple years without the coupling of a mate. These creatures, equipped with knife like claws and a crushing jaw make a fearsome mount, and the Immortals of Alutremur ride them into battle exclusively.Landshark"I'd wrestle an entire pack of sharks under a hundred feet of water before I would even contemplate getting in the way of a lone landshark with an army at my back."-AnonymousFound mostly around the coast, Landsharks are amphibious creatures which have the bullet shaped body of a shark, and four stubby appendages that end in clawed webbed feet. They are highly unintelligent, aggressive and have zero regard for their own well being. Commonly thought that the brain of the creature is located somewhere within it's bowels, stopping one in the middle of it's rampage can be a tiring event, and a potentially deadly one. One the land, it's speed is substantial and, if one has never experienced an encounter with one, outright shocking. Though it may look like an unwieldy walker, it can speed along at running speeds like that of a bear. When in a bloodlust, it will charge the nearest alone target, or the smallest group. Multiple arbalest wounds, gunshot wounds and melee wounds later, the creature might die, or turn tail and flee when it realizes itself having no chance of getting a meal. The animal seems highly damage resistant, if not impervious to pain. It's legs are the only bony structures in it's body, the rest of the skeletal system being made of flexible cartilage – making it even more resistant to blunt force trauma. This is exaggerated by how fast it's wounds seal, and only a wound of the most critical damage will fell the beast (Such as cutting off it's head. No easy feat.) The regenerative properties of landsharks are an interest of most natural scientists, and those regenerative properties are multiplied when it submerges itself in salt water. There have been accounts of landshark corpses being carried off by the tide days after death, and then magically, then reanimating when it is far out to sea. Leviathan"Quiet boy! Never utter that name on a ship... we don't want one of the bloody things to hear you."-Zuudi SailorA leviathan is a twisted abomination of nature, a cross somewhere between a massive sperm whale and a kraken. It's body is a long cylinder, ending in a squarish head and a maw that's nearly as wide as a battleship is long. The beast has a gunmetal coloration, four eyes (two on each side of it's block-shaped head) and two massive, muscular fines on the sides of it's body and a powerful caudal fin capable of smashing all but the hardiest ships into splinters. What makes the beast truly fearsome is it's four to eight massive tentacles that protrude from the middle and lower parts of it's spine. They are prehensile, and lined with writhing muscle. Two, dubbed the "arms" are spotted with suction-cup-like apparatus which it can use to grasp onto sheer surfaces, such as the sides of a boat. The other fins are very good at manipulation, picking up objects as small as a dog with striking dexterity and ease, despite their massive size. They are highly aggressive, hyper territorial and all around bad tempered. They aren't too bright though, and often times manage to beach or impale themselves on rocky crags or beaches stalking after passenger ships. Leviathans may follow potential prey for hours or even days to catch it unawares, but it's strikes are vicious and long lasting, since they have a curious way of "playing" with their food. They throw them around, smash them into the water, bite tiny limbs off and so on. When they aren't stalking ships, they go after the Giant Sea turtle schools that ride the warm ocean currents, which are their primary prey.Stirge"Ugh. Stirges. As if my day couldn't get any worse."-Maximil Gold, former Captain of the Gold CompanyA Stirge is little more than an irritant for most people. They are small birds, about the size of an average sparrow, with a fuzzy body and no discernible eyes. It has a long syringe-like beak tipped in a slight barb, slightly curved and two fleshy, bat-like wings which it can flap at phenomenal speeds. Using it's rapidly beating wings, it can seemingly hover in one place as might a bee or fly. It's beak is tipped with a mild irritant which causes blurred vision, or in heavy doses, paralysis, though a lone stirge rarely is able to inflict enough damage to paralyze an enemy. The issue however is when a swarm of Stirges happens upon a person or persons. Two or three hundred stirges make a swarm, and swarms are highly territorial. Usually found in bogs or marshlands, a Stirge territory can be several acres large, and traveling across any part of it is liable to upset the swarm. Stirges communicate with high-pitched squeals, which is presumably also some sort of echo-location. Their method of attack is fairly simple, and brutally effective; they fling themselves like darts at their targets, their beaks sticking into their prey and lodging there, hoping to poison their aggressor enough to send him into paralytic shock. Once their target falls, the tip of the beak breaks off, and the stirge is free, at which time the swarm continues patrolling around their territory. The beak regrows in several days. The victim is now hapless and helpless to defend itself, and waits the unfortunate coup. The stirges, however, do not do the killing. After their targets have succumbed to paralysis, they usually meet an untimely end by drowning in bog-moss, swamp waters, or at the jaws of some creature. If the paralysis is severe, it might halt the lungs from functioning leading to death by asphyxiation.
I have got the Flora coming =]Thanks for reading again, I appreciate it.And no, stirges are like honeybees or hummingbirds. They own large amber hives, alot like a bees nest. They collect pollen from plants and make it into a hive in the hollow of a tree. Symbiotic bacteria turn it into a thick nectar, which they eat. They simply attack anyone unfortunate enough to cross into their territory. Usually the victim regains his/her ability to function after a couple hours, but often times they get eaten or drown during their paralysis.
Hemoflora (Bloodpetal or Vampire Flower)"Ugh...They call them Vampire flowers... Gives me the creeps."-Eryk Jgarlson, of the Gold CompanyHemoflora, belonging to a species of plants known as Necroherba, is both curiously beautiful but terribly disgusting at the same time. Hemoflora, sprouts over the beaten, destroyed landscapes of massive field engagements, where hundreds have died, usually a week or so after the battle. Since Greatlanders in particular have no true concept of funeral rights, and leave their dead on the field to rot, this plant is particularly common across Greatland. It has a thick, thorny stalk, and a lush white or red flower, and stands just a little shorter than the average sunflower. Like a sunflower, it's head turns to face the suns as they pass overhead. However, the flower, after it's luscious red coloring has few redeemable attributes. Firstly, it stinks of decay. Instead of covering up the pungent odor of hundreds of dead bodies, the fields of hemoflora seem to amplify it. The reason for this is what gives Necroherba it's name; they prey off of the decaying flesh of fallen animals. Hemoflora in particular, thrives on blood - old blood or new blood matters little. The plant seed starts it's life once the progenitor plant runs out of blood - usually this results in droves and droves of these flowers systematically dying. The seeds are shot into the air, and with luck, landing in the feathers of crows, vultures or other scavengers lingering nearby. The seed lies dormant until it senses blood, usually when the scavenger birds touch down to feast on corpses. The flowers take root somewhere near the bodies, growing rapidly, inserting roots into open wounds or slowly wedging into soft tissue. The flower sprouts nearly clear, and as it matures it becomes and opaque white. However, as the flower begins to leech the remaining blood into it's system, the millions of tiny capillaries on the petals of the flowers fill with blood and are exposed to the warmth of the sun, turning the flower a brilliant red. Once the hosts are drained, the seeds are ejected and the process starts over again. Needless to say, the cycle is rapid and as vile smelling as a field of Hemoflora is, it's still a sight to behold.Frenzyflower"There's nothing like it. Everything becomes clearer, sounds become more distinct. The fear... it just melts away. Once you dose, you can't fight without it."- Sir Eddin Brune, of the StormguardFrenzyflower has sapphire blue petals, a bright green stalk and smells sweeter than honey. It grows only in warm, tropical climates and only in the most perfect soil. Needless to say, those who grow Frenzyflower guard it with the utmost vigilance - and not just because they will win any awards for being beautiful horticulture. The true redeeming quality of Frenzyflower is it's potency as a combat stimulant. When the petals are crushed, heated and distilled into a liquid syrup, it can be absorbed into the blood, usually by an adhesive patch placed over a muscular region, or in some cases where it needs to be especially potent, a spinal injection. Once "Dosed" the user experiences what can only be defined as a combat high - complete mastery and awareness of the immediate battlefield. Fear seems to disappear, only to be replaced with an amazing cognizance. While it does manage to help clear the mind so that one can focus just on the battle, it does have some adverse long and short term effects. Short term effects are usually a crash after the combat is over, which can range from incessant screaming for no reason, to depression, to exhaustion, and/or a physical crash (the drug allows a person to operate under circumstances that would normally incapacitate a person, such as heat stroke, or dehydration.) Long term effects are numerous, number one being impotence, as many long term users are well aware (sometimes called "Frenzy Eunuchs".) Other long term effects are epilepsy, and even brain damage, should one ignore physiological problems that occur while under the influence of the drug.Death Willow"The old maids talk of a tree that grabs you while you walk the forest at night, strings you up like a spiders prey, and drains away your very soul."-Eryk Jgarlson, of the Gold CompanyDeath Willows resemble very old, barren weeping willow trees, perfect for sitting down next to, reading a book, and taking a nice,long nap. They belong to the family of plants know as Necroherba, and are a carnivorous plant. They do not, as the myths might suggest, eat live prey, but rather, they prefer aged corpses which they slowly drain of all their nutrients. They are still however, quite murderous. It's roots produce an earthy fungus that looks very similar to an apple in shape, size and consistency, tied to the root by several sticky sinews that break easily when picked up. The apple-like-fungus that the root produces is highly toxic, and is usually strong enough to kill a full grown man or woman, and easily venomous enough to kill a child. It does do one kindness, of lulling the victim to a final sleep filled with happy dreams before the heart stops beating. Once the body has sat for either a few days or a few weeks, the prehensile vines of the tree lift up the corpse, wrap around it so that it looks like some over-sized human cocoon, and sprout needle-like thorns that act as pumps. These thorns suck the nutrients from the corpse until there is nothing left but a dried out husk. The husk is dropped, the tree uproots itself slightly, and brushes the husk beneath it, where it will presumably never be found. Rumor has it, that these trees have the ability to slowly relocate should food become scarce in one area. It is also known that the tree will use it's dendrites to either defend itself from woodsmen, or attempt to strangle prey that seems to be small enough. The dendrites are strong enough to snap a small child's neck, though not strong enough to resist a sharp knife or strong arm from tearing it asunder.
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Marc Emery is a Canadian businessman and political activist who owned and operated Cannabis Culture Magazine, Pot-TV, the BC Marijuana Party, and Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters (previously the BCMP Bookstore, and HEMP BC before that.)
He was also the world's most famous marijuana seed retailer and the biggest financial supporter of the marijuana movement world-wide until the US Drug Enforcement Administration and Canadian law enforcement arrested him in Canada and shut down Marc Emery Direct Seeds in July 2005.
Marc is currently imprisoned in Yazoo City medium-security prison in Yazoo City, Mississippi after being extradited on May 20th, 2010 by the Canadian government. He was sentenced on September 10th in Seattle federal court to 5 years in prison for "distribution of marijuana" seeds, though the US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted it was actually for his political activism and financing the marijuana movement (see below for that DEA document).
• Marc Emery is a Canadian citizen who never went to the USA as a seed seller.
• Marc Emery operated his seed business in Canada at all times, with no American branches or employees.
• Marc Emery declared his income from marijuana seed sales on his income tax, and paid over $580,000 to the Federal and Provincial governments from 1999 to 2005.
• Marc Emery is the leader of the British Columbia Marijuana Party, a registered political party that has regularly participated in elections.
• Marc Emery has never been arrested or convicted of manufacturing or distributing marijuana in Canada, as he only sold seeds.
• Marc Emery gave away all of the profits from his seed business to drug law reform lobbyists, political parties, global protests and rallies, court litigation, medical marijuana initiatives, drug rehabilitation clinics, and other legitimate legal activities and organizations.
• Marc Emery helped found the United States Marijuana Party, state-level political parties, and international political parties in countries such as Israel and New Zealand.
• Marc Emery has been known as a book seller and activist in Canada for 30 years, fighting against censorship laws and other social issues long before he became a drug law reform activist.
• Marc Emery has been a media figure for 20 years with regards to marijuana and drug law reform. He is very well-known to Canadian, American and international news media organizations.
• Marc Emery operated his business in full transparency and honesty since its inception in 1994, even sending his marijuana seed catalogue inside his magazine "Cannabis Culture" to each Member of Parliament in Canada every two months for years.
Here is the original text of DEA Administrator Karen Tandy's statement released on July 29th, 2005 (also available in its original letterhead form by clicking here):
"Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group — is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement.
His marijuana trade and propagandist marijuana magazine have generated nearly $5 million a year in profits that bolstered his trafficking efforts, but those have gone up in smoke today.
Emery and his organization had been designated as one of the Attorney General's most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets — one of only 46 in the world and the only one from Canada.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."
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The Football (or Soccer, if you prefer) World Cup is almost upon us.
England have absolutely no chance so even the false hope that traditionally accompanies major tournaments won't be around to spoil the enjoyment.
What makes this World Cup extra special is the fact that it's taking place in Brazil – the spiritual home of the Beautiful Game.
The only previous occasion that Brazil hosted the tournament was in 1950, and it's worth a brief look at what went on then, if only to provide the basis of the examples that follow.
Back in 1950, as now, money was a bit scarce.
Brazil agreed to host the tournament on condition that the format would be designed to maiximize the number of games played and therefore the gate revenue generated.
It is for this reason that the 1950 tournament is unique in World Cup history as the only tournament to be decided, not by a final, but by a round-robin "Final Pool".
Then, as now, England travelled to Brazil. Unlike now there was a fair degree of confidence, not to say arrogance, about the prospects of the national team showing these foreigners how the game should really be played.
The Empire may have been slipping away, but it was still a widely held belief – in England at least – that God was an Englishman.
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Here is why I think this project's implementation is very important
On various blogs when this topic would come up, some cyclist would inevitably chime in and say that they prefer to use Page and Hayes to Fell and Oak. Some debate would get stirred up as to the fact that Fell and Oak are flatter than Page/Hayes, Page and Hayes would be great if we could bollard them up and make them local traffic only, but that won't happen, etc...
An interesting artifact of this discussion is that some community members who are virulently anti-cyclist and have probably not ridden a bike in decades, have suddenly become experts in the field and would posit that Page/Hayes are a better route for cyclists and thus the Fell/Oak project should be scrapped. This isn't because they actually know that it's better, they've just translated some comment from someone who prefers Page/Hayes for some reason and decided that this person is clearly an expert. Not based on the merits, but because it fits their narrative of keeping Fell/Oak the way it is.
Here's the problem with that. Cyclists DO in fact take Fell/Oak, already. Killing the Fell/Oak project is not going to chase them away from Fell/Oak. Some comment on a blog is not going to move them to Page. Should we remove the bike lane on Fell completely, and widen the primary travel lanes? Cyclists would still use Fell but without a bike lane and amongst even faster traffic - at speeds that do not belong on what is still a residential street.
Consider this. Foothill Road is a road that runs from Pleasanton California to Sunol California, parallel to the 680 Freeway. It goes through a relatively undeveloped section of the foothills on the East side of the mountains between Contra Costa Valley and the Bay. I rode this road on my bike 12 years ago and found it to be a very peaceful road along horse farms and not much else.
At some point over the last decade, Dublin and Pleasanton had some nominal development at the North end of Foothill. Traffic on the 680 in that corridor gets backed up a commute hours. From those subdivisions there is a direct connector to 580/680 to get onto 680 South. But the residents of this area discovered that they could take Foothill south and then cut over to 680, bypassing a chunk of traffic.
Those cars are *supposed* to take the freeway, not the rural road parallel to the freeway. But they started using Foothill anyway. So what did Contra Costa County do? Did they start a campaign to stop people from driving on Foothill? Make the road narrower and put in speed bumps to slow traffic? No - they repaved and widened the road to make for wider, quicker travel lanes, put in guardrails, installed a bike lane that has sections that go away because they could not fit the bike lane *and* a wider travel lane.
Similarly on 680 North there is a sign that says "SACRAMENTO USE 680N" to discourage people from using 84E as a shortcut around traffic on 680 and cut directly through Livermore onto 580. This sign was summarily ignored by motorists who figured out that they could shave a few miles and bypass traffic jams on 680 by using 84E, a narrow winding road to Livermore. What did the county do? Improved 84E to deal with the traffic they think should not be going that way.
Why is it that it that we will upend a country road to carry volumes of traffic that we already installed a freeway to carry, but when cyclists vote with their pedals to take a specific road, it is considered a reasonable argument to try to get the cyclists to not use that route? This project must happen or we are setting a bad precedent that cyclists should be pushed around only to certain roads we deem they are worthy to ride upon.


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A Monday morning BART strike threatening the commute for 400,000 San Francisco Bay Area riders was averted late Sunday as union members decided to give management one more day to come up with a contract that is agreeable to its members.
The new deadline for a possible strike is Monday at midnight.
The contract negotiation between BART management and two of its unions went down to the wire Sunday with a potential commute-crippling strike on the line.
Without a deal by midnight, BART union members warned they would stop trains in their tracks Monday morning - leaving riders looking for another way to travel. Now that threat has moved to Tuesday.
There were encouraging words of hope early Sunday from both sides, but as the day turned to night, things began to turn bleak.
Just after 10 p.m., state lawmakers who had been taking part in the negotiations this weekend held an impromptu news conference outside the negotiations.
The politicians called on the unions not to strike, saying that the two sides had seen significant movement in the last few days. They also seemed to call out BART management for putting a "final offer" on the table Sunday afternoon and calling off talks. They asked BART to return to the table and continue negotiations and not to make the offer made Sunday a "final" offer.
"We have asked labor to hold off on any strike action, and it's our understanding that they are willing to take more time, and that's what we're encouraging," Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) said.
At 10:30 union leaders came out and announced union members would be going to work Monday.
"We are not going on strike because the public deserves to have a riding system that works," union spokeswoman Antoinette Bryant said. "We will give the district one more day. One more day to get it together."
Things appear to have fallen apart when BART negotiators left the negotiation location at 5 p.m. telling reporters that the agency put what they thought was a fair deal on the table and were waiting to hear back form the federal mediator. They were summoned back to the table at 7:15 p.m. presumably to hear from that mediator.
When reporters asked BART's chief negotiator Tom Hock about the chances of reaching a deal Sunday night, he said, "I couldn't tell you. That's up to them. I think we put out a good proposal. They have to decide if that meets their needs."
Prior to putting that deal on the table, Hock said, "We're making some progress" as he entered the CalTrans building to meet with mediator.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom joined the talks Sunday. Newsom also had positive words saying that a deal appeared close.
At a noon press briefing Bryant, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said she was cautiously optimistic that today's negotiations would end in a deal.
She said her union's members were still prepared to strike at midnight should BART fail to meet its workers on key issues, including salaries and health benefit contributions. "We are hopeful that we will get a deal today," Bryant said. "But we have not spent this much time at the table to take something that is not going to benefit our members and the riding public. That is not acceptable."
Both sides of the BART contract negotiations left the bargaining table Saturday just before 10 p.m. Non one gave many details on the state of the negotiations other than to say they were ready for a "long day tomorrow."
The contract deadline was at 12:01 a.m. Monday. The deadline has now been pushed one more day.
If a deal isn't reached by Tuesday morning, trains may not roll, leaving 400,000 commuters looking for another way to work.
As of Sunday night, BART management has not yet said whether they are willing to return to the negotiating table.
Hock said late Saturday from his standpoint, they are "a lot more than halfway there."
BART train operator Chris Finn said the union is currently waiting for a response to some ideas the union presented. Finn said plenty of details have been agreed on, but the heavy issues like health care and salary are still to be discussed.
"They seem to be fixed on some certain points and it seems to be more political than economic or financial," Finn said.
Contracts talks were delayed for hours from their original 9:30 a.m. start time as smaller groups on each side met separately. A face to face meeting with all the key players did resume by the afternoon.
Saturday's bargaining session followed a marathon 12 hour session on Friday.
The unions want a raise of nearly 12 percent over three years while BART has proposed a 10 percent increase over four years. BART said workers from the two unions now average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually.
There are new people at the negotiating table this weekend, including BART's general manager Grace Crunican.
Crunican spent the Friday hearing concerns from union officials and said she is "trying to get some feedback on what it's going to take to get to a deal," BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost.
The union also announced BART board members and Bay Area legislative leaders are now involved and engaged in negotiations.
It was not clear Saturday if BART had presented its newest contract offer.
Trost said Friday a new contract offer that BART officials had previously planned to present Friday -- the details of which have been withheld at the request of a federal mediator -- would now be presented on Saturday at the soonest.
A union spokesperson said talks seem productive and involved an informal exchange of ideas.
Both sides agreed to extend their contract negotiations through the weekend, which averted a chaotic commute Friday.
Unlike earlier this week, union leaders issued a 72-hour strike notice, clearing the way for a possible Monday morning strike.
"We believe that these developments can only help bring a resolution to these drawn-out negotiations and for this reason, we will continue bargaining through the weekend," the union said in a statement.
Service Employees International Union Local 1021 represents 1,430 mechanics, custodians and clerical workers, and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, represents 945 station agents, train operators and clerical workers.
MORE: BART Strike Resource Guide
BART workers held a strike for four-and-a-half days at the beginning of July before they agreed to Brown's request that they return to the bargaining table for another 30 days. The governor then asked for the 60-day cooling off period after that round of talks failed.
JULY 2013 PHOTOS: BART Workers Strike, Commuting Headaches
Bay City News and NBC Bay Area's Chase Cain and Christie Smith contributed to this report.


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Have you tried guided meditation?
There are also some great Abe ones lately.
I also know that Abraham Hicks has some lovely quotes on autism that may be uplifting for you and helpful.
Keep coming here when you can, you will find it uplifting and the other blog too, I'm sure. And I'm wondering, during your commute, is there something you could listen to that might uplift you or you could play in the mornings as you rush around madly! even if it is in the background, I think some of it will go in. You need your sleep, but could you get up a bit earlier or go to bed slightly later and spend that time doing something uplifting when your son is sleeping?
I do my visualizations mostly just for a few minutes as I am trying to go to sleep.
There is a lot here about that on the Secret of Secrets group.
Know that - I am a teacher, you see - many of us teachers DO feel a lot of love and appreciation towards autistic children. We know how challenging it can be for you but we also think you cope very well, even though it can be very difficult at times. And we can see the good things in your child. I find there is something very beautiful about autistic children, even though I can't quite put my finger on it and often about the people who work with special needs children too. Something very gentle. We know you have extra challenges that other parents may not have, we get that. Oh, YOU are one of these special people who works with autistic children. Wow! So you are one of these gentle, loving people, hmm?
And having a son with autism will give you a great understanding of them.
You are probably in the states, and I am in the UK but you MIGHT find some helpful resources on www.tes.co.uk
you need to sign up, it's free, it's a teachers' resource site, all the stuff is free.
Even if you are feeling neutral, it's still higher on the vibrational scale than negative so well done, even for these days. And as I think you know, out of the contrasty days, great stuff has been added to your vortex for you!
I usually arise happy to soundscapes playing in my background but if I've been awaken from an emotional rollercoaster then by the time I hit the shower, my sponge is affirmiring my balance of health & happiness. My pivot can take as less as seconds and or up to 30 minutes to shake off which by then I'm in traffic listening to LOA audios or high-energy music.
Most folks I know have natural distractions in their lives and really have to be creative and deliberate on seeking time to think or not think. It'll eventually become as important as breathing the surrounding air and it should feel as natural in doing so.
"the rest of the days I am neither positive or negative. I don know whether this apply to any of u or not, but would like to know your opinion on this" Idle thinking is ok at the start and you will begin noticing a change in your idling thinking as you put in what I like to call mental work. Some folks seem to be a naturalists at LOA and how they utilize their techniques but for me it has mostly been like training a muscle (the mind) as one would any other muscle and with time, exercise and positive effort you'll expand it.
You just being here with us on this thread is evidence that you are getting closer in manifesting the strength you'll need to get to your desired goal.
(Lots of good feedback on this thread.)
Here you are Feelinggreatnow
I wanted to put the video in and it wouldn't let me!
so you'll need to copy and paste that link it's a video of Abe speaking to someone on this
Samantha - lovely idea!
Stephanie_Knight, I had a quick search myself on Theta on youtube and found a video on something I want to enhance. Yay!
I know I've read more on Abe on special needs children but can't find it right now.
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|Donato Tramuto of Health eVillages (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
Digital lifeline for developing nations
Donato Tramuto, Health eVillages
IN THE UNITED STATES, physicians are as likely to tote a smartphone as a stethoscope, for communication and to help diagnosis. For veteran health care entrepreneur Donato Tramuto, it was clear that mobile devices could be a valuable tool for caregivers in developing countries.
"This is the new frontier in improving patient care in remote regions of the globe that ironically, may have few hospital beds, but plenty of cellphones,'' said Tramuto, chief executive of Physicians Interactive in Marlborough.
Tramuto, 55, began in Haiti after an earthquake two years ago. A dozen mobile devices were brought there. Physicians who previously guessed about drug dosing had an automated guide.
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bada wrote:RobDIKUM wrote:Quetzalcoatl wrote:Cant wait till they trade him before the deadline for 5 more prospects. Now thats a bright future right there billy beane is a miracle worker.
I doubt beane would trade holliday this season. I've never seen him do that. Maybe next year though.
He is a free agent at the end of the year. I dont think Holliday sees one day in a A's uni. I think he gets traded within the month. If he does not get what he is looking for, then I could see it going to the deadline but no way did he trade some prospects for a one year rental when they are nowhere close to competing this year. Does not make sense.
The A's and Rangers have the most stocked farm system of arms. Rangers have young bats to go along with it but A's do not. The A's will get the wave of young pitchers ready for the bigs in about 2 years. I am assuming Beane will trade Holliday for a few top hitting prospects that will be ready about that same time.
Why wouldn't the A's resign Holliday? They literally have no money commited to the next 6 years, and no arbitration players hitting free agency until about that time. We are talking about 6 years of paying 20 guys on the roster under a million. The A's have the money to spend if they want to.
Billy knows that every championship caliber team needs an MVP type bat. He knows that player doesn't currently exist in the A's system. Holliday is that player. They got him for essentially nothing. CarGo is a great defensive player, but he has no plate discipline. He is not Carlos Beltran. Smith was expendable and so was Street. Billy is going to build the offense around Holliday, Cust and Chris Carter.
The only other explanation is if he wants to gear up for a one season run, in which case you would see the likes of Giambi, Furcal, Unit or Penny signed


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