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Water Sports Themed Desk Clock Handmade From Cherry Or Maple Wood, Diving, Sailing, Swimming, Summertime Fun
Water Sports Themed Desk Clock Handmade From Cherry Or Maple Wood, Diving, Sailing, Swimming, Summertime Fun
If you or someone you know likes water sports such as diving, swimming, or sailing then this unique clock is just for you.or that special water spots person you know.
This clock was cut out of 1/2" thick Cherry or Maple wood by hand ( Handmade ) using a scroll saw. The clock features a diver or swimmer out on a lake or ocean and out farther in the background is a sail boater all are enjoying the nice water sporting day. This is mounted with counter sunk screws to a 2" deep x 8" wide base for stability.
A homemade all natural non toxic bees wax and mineral oil finish was hand brushed and buffed for a beautiful natural wood look.
The 1-7/16" quartz clock insert features a white colored face with black Arabic numbers. A glass lens surrounded by a gold plated bezel / trim. A stainless steel back battery cover houses the installed battery. Clock is new with battery installed and is ready for you to activate it.
NOTE: First 5 Photos are Maple.. Last Few Photos Are Cherry
Design By: Berry Basket
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"The court held in a per curiam opinion that a peremptory challenge during voir dire was barred by precedent --- The court this morning ruled sua sponte that the motion for summary judgment was barred by res judicata… Say what?
Obviously not everyone skimming the Ohio Supreme Court'sCourt News has a law degree or knows Latin, so last Friday – with Supreme Court Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger' having had played a key role in its development – CNO launched the court's first interactive online glossary designed specifically to help the public understand the legal terms that courts and lawyers frequently use.
"The new tool features pop-up definitions that appear when a reader hovers over underlined legal words in articles on the CNO web site, or via browsing the glossary in its entirety -- currently contains 160 definitions translating legal jargon into simple English. Along with the glossary, an instructive service for the bookish crowd – "Legal Word of the Week." – added a weekly "featured legal word and definition" to CNO's Facebook & Twitterpages.
CNO is also encouraging readers to suggest legal terms they think should be included in the glossary. Staff will review submissions and update the glossary with useful entries. Submissions may be sent to email@example.com

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I was just out looking at the Wingstem and the bees are working it hard. Although the Wingstem is on its way out now as the petals are falling exposing the seed pods. I do have a question on collecting the seed pods. When is the best time to do so? Should I be harvesting the ones that have no petals and putting them in my food dehydrator to dry before scattering in my field?


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Youth embracing change
2017: International Project's Association INPRO is currently realizing its second EVS project "Youth embracing change"
The project "Youth embracing change" takes place in Rzeszów, Poland. The goal of the project is to develop interpersonal and intercultural competences among young people as well as among organizers of activities – volunteers themselves. Most of activities within the project takes place in Rzeszów Culture Incubator.
The volunteers are currently organizing weekly events which aim to educate young people about topics such as human rights, grassroots movements and controversial issues. The events also aim to create an international environment and a safe space to exchange ideas, opinions as well as making new friends.
Our main event is Open Cafè which takes place every Wednesday and lasts about two hours. Participants are involved in activities, games and discussions in English.
During the week our EVS volunteers also organize weekly public screenings of films and documentaries for educational purposes and completely free of charge.
Every Tuesday some of our volunteers go to the town of Lubaczów to host a language club with the youth council of the town hall. The project will last until July 2018.
Since July 2017, we have been hosting four EVS volunteers.
Libero Barbato comes from Sicily, in the south of Italy. He is 25 years old and has lived in Ireland for a year for a High School exchange and in Edinburgh, Scotland, for five years during his university studies in Philosophy and Politics. He decided to get involved with INPRO because of his desires to work in a cultural organization and an international environment while at the same time learning more about Polish culture.
João Amiguinho is 24 years old and comes from Lisbon. He studied Film and Design, in hopes to become a screenwriter. He loves the beach, reading, watching movies, drawing and writing. He decided to work with INPRO to get to know people and to travel around Poland in seach of new stories.
Anastasiia Komisarchuk, 23 years old, comes from Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied International Relations in university. She loves sports and an active lifestyle. Nastia trained in martial arts for four years. For her EVS is an opportunity to acquire new skills and gain experience, to get to know new culture and meet new people.
Kristine Sargsyants, 25 years old, comes from Yerevan, Armenia. She is a very active, creative and positive person. She likes spending time with her friends and enjoys travelling, meeting new people and learning more about their culture. She decided to do her EVS in Poland due to her interest in its history, culture, language and lifestyle.
Oli is 25 and comes from Istanbul. After 6 years of working in different places, he decided to invest in his personal development by taking up the EVS challange. Here in Rzeszów Oli wants to meet new people, realize a few educational projects and gain a valuable experience. His participation is possible thanks to the Erasmus Plus.


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Diwali in New York is back with a bang this year! New York Indians are gearing up to celebrate the festival of lights through a number of Diwali events from Times Square to Garden City, and from Ganesh Temple to BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir. Diwali is one of the few Indian festivals which are celebrated with great pomp and loads of enthusiasm. We at Indian Eagle Travel compiled some of the best New York Diwali 2019 events below. With most of the school districts in New York and New Jersey having declared Diwali a holiday, the Festival of Lights is a bigger celebration for Indians in Northeast USA this year.
New York Diwali 2019 at Times Square
Diwali at Times Square is the most spectacular of all Indian events in New York this month. With its popularity having increased since 2013, New York's Times Square Diwali is a two-day fun-filled cultural and music extravaganza. Attendees of different age groups participate in lighting diyas (traditional clay lamps) and indulge in binge eating traditional Indian food. Other than a live concert, Mahatma Gandhi' 150th birth anniversary is a major attraction of Times Square Diwali 2019.
- Date: October 11-12
- Venue: Times Square, 42-44th Street and Broadway, New York City
Children's Diwali at BAPS Swaminarayan Temple Long Island
Hindu temples in New York are among the best destinations for NYC Diwali 2019 events. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir at Melville, Long Island organizes children's Diwali celebration every year to make kids understand the significance of the festival and walk them through the traditional rituals. Children learn the art of making diyas and traditional decorations such as rangoli at BAPS temple in New York.
- Date: October 12
- Time: 10-4 pm
NYC Diwali 2019: Ganesh Temple Flushing, Queens
Among New York Indian events 2019, Diwali at Ganesh Temple Flushing is celebrated in collaboration with the Queens Museum. Home to a thriving canteen for traditional Indian food, Ganesh Temple in Queens has its Diwali celebration schedule chockablock with programs. A free hands-on art and painting workshop is organized for children of all ages. It is followed by live Nagaswaram performance, Garba and Dandiya. (Nagaswaram is a divine instrumental music)
- Date: October 26
- Time: 11:30 am – 2:30pm
NYC Diwali 2019: Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Culture Tree for a Puppet Show at Children's Museum of Manhattan is one of the best New York Diwali events 2019 for Indian families with kids. The Puppet Show comes free with the museum entry fees. Diwali celebration at Children's Museum of Manhattan is an opportunity for Indian-origin children to explore age-old folk tales and mythical legends of India. The Culture Tree is an educational and cultural program which is equally appealing to kids and adults. Do note that this free event is first come first served because of limited space.
- Date: October 27
- Time: 2 pm
NYC Diwali 2019: Hudson Terrace, Manhattan
Hudson Terrace at Manhattan is a most popular destination for Diwali events in New York City. With a galaxy of New York's business honchos, celebs and influencers, Diwali on the Hudson 2019 is high on the 'glamor' quotient. Indian Street Food by Desi Galli – Lexington Avenue does complement the celebration to everyone's content every year. The organizer is yet to announce a special performer this year. Proceeds from the ticket sale for Diwali on the Hudson 2019 will go to the Desai Foundation which works for women and children's welfare in India and the US.
Date: October 25
Museum of the City of New York Diwali 2019
Among the few places for free Indian events in New York this Diwali 2019 is the Museum of the City of New York. Open to all, the museum invites New Yorkers, irrespective of religion and community, to celebrate the Festival of Lights. Visitors can make and decorate their own diyas for home. Diwali 2019 at the Museum of the City of New York will culminate in a traditional Indian feast. A special cultural program is on the agenda, too.
- Date: October 27
- Time: 11 am – 2 pm
New York Diwali 2019: Asia Society
If you're wondering where to celebrate Diwali 2019 with kids in New York, then Asia Society is one of the few best places for Diwali events in New York City. Named 'Family Day: Diwali Lights Up', the Asia Society 2019 program is full of wonders for Indian kids in New York. Diwali at Asia Society on 725 Park Avenue in New York is a happening celebration for your kids to learn the tidbits of Diwali festival.
- Date: November 2
- Time: 1 PM – 5 PM
- Venue: 725 Park Avenue, NY 10021
New York Diwali 2019: Flushing Town Hall Queens
Supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Governor Andrew Cuomo, Flushing Town Hall, a non-profit organization, is all set to celebrate Diwali 2019 in New York on November 10. The 4th Annual Diwali Festival at Flushing Town Hall in Queens is speculated to be a grand celebration accompanied by cultural programs including Bhangra and Kathak. This New York Diwali 2019 event will feature Abha Roy, an eminent Kathak artist and DJ Rekha, the founder of Basement Bhangra. Since Flushing Town Hall Diwali Diwali in Queens is a family event, the programs also include cooking workshops, henna painting, dance lessons, rangoli workshop, jewelry making workshop and likes. Moreover, Indian handicrafts will be there for sale. Interestingly, teenagers in the 13 to 19 age group will be let in to attend any performance or program for free.
- Date: November 2
- Time: 1-4 PM
- Venue: 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens, NY 11354
- Contact Number: 718-463-7700
AsaMai Hindu Temple & Community Center Diwali Mela
The Afghan Hindu Association is one of the cultural organizations in New York. It organizes a fair to celebrate Diwali at AsaMai Hindu Temple & Community Center in Hicksville every year. New York Diwali 2019 is their 15th annual celebration. The fair is one of the most spectacular Diwali 2019 events in New York.
- Date: October 15, Sunday
- Time: 12 noon to Sunset
- Venue: 80 East Barclay Street, Hicksville, NY 11801
- Host: Afghan Hindu Association
New York Diwali 2019: Pelham Art Center
Pelham Art Center is one of the few places where to celebrate Diwali 2019 in New York City. Unique to Pelham Art Center's Folk Art event on Diwali, Indian classical dance performance is a must see. A noted choreographer, Sadhana Paranji will spellbind the guests with her Kuchipudi Margam performance. Henna body art and traditional hands-on art workshop are also on the event schedule. Notably, audience participation is allowed. Pelham Art Center provides a multicultural community setting to help the public explore, study, and experience cultural diversity through engagement in different forms of art. Admission is free.
- Date: October 6
- Time: 2 PM – 4 PM
- Venue: Pelham Art Center, 155 Fifth Avenue, NY 10803
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CoolStream participated in the Laconia Bike Week with a booth in the Harley Davidson Vendor Village to promote its Bluetooth music receiver, the CoolStream Duo. What an amazing week of bikes, music, friendly people, great food and drink with plenty of sunshine!
CoolStream wants to thank Laconia Harley Davidson and all of its staff for their support and assistance. We truly appreciate everything that Laconia HD did to make our time at Bike Week successful. A big thank you to Jennifer Armstrong and Paul Schaffer for their big smiles and strong muscles…especially on those extra windy days. Just when we thought the tent might go air-born we were saved by some cement blocks and critical tie-downs to keep CoolStream street legal.
At Laconia Bike week you'll find beautiful bikes and beautiful people from all over…
The bikers came from far and wide including Quebec, Ontario, Florida and Ohio. Many were interested in bringing wireless music to their bike's speakers using the CoolStream Duo. Whether they were into country music or Classic Rock 'n Roll, riding with music just helps you "enjoy the ride".
We really appreciate all the support and pics from our new Bike Week customers, and we hope to hear from all of the bikers that stopped by our booth. It is never too late to send us more pictures of your CoolStream or let us know about your experiences on the way home using your CoolStream Duo and showing it to your friends when you got home.
Thanks again to Laconia Harley Davidson and we hope to see you all next year.


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Knocked one star for the smell. It's been six hours and it still reeks like an ecological disaster in here. Can't exactly open the windows,
According to time dilation, Corie was thirty-two years old. Her best friend in the universe, Amy? She was dying. The cancer resisted the chemo drugs and, despite stasis, spread like black oil in all the holoimages of Amy's organs. Stage four. At least there was no pain. The images flashed across Corie's mind like the Aurora Borealis.
Corie flicked her wrist and the world shimmered a moment. It glowed brighter—and the horizon, a calm eggshell sea, dropped away, basalt rising in its place.
Why did Amy have cancer? Wasn't this the future, with flying cars and solar-powered space elevators, where everything had a nanocure pill? Where there were people living on moons and getting off Earth as fast as possible?
Corie pressed her hands together and rubbed them slightly. The wet-sand colored skin whispered, and lava burst from the newly created basalt floor, spraying into the sky and raining back to Earth before turning into glass spheres and bells that shattered as they cooled.
Amy, like Corie, couldn't afford the pills and didn't qualify for GovMed. Unlike Corie, she lacked skill sets that would attract CorporateGov attention.
Fog rose from the lava, and with a snap of Corie's fingers, the fog became a city. Steel, concrete, brickaplast, aluminum. It wasn't what she'd choose, but that wasn't the point.
Corie's skills were some of the greatest, and contract jobs were just thin enough that she skipped eating real food for a few weeks to pay for her nanopills and rent. Racks were expensive, especially GovMed beds that kept her body from rejecting the radiation shielding implants and shutting down on The Trip.
The bones of the city settled into place. Here and there she chopped her hands like a martial arts screen star, and streets shuffled themselves until the chaos looked managed, and yet unplanned. The buildings blended from a European post-modern style to a Gothic edge, as if the Notre Dame had been redesigned by the Soviet Union and melded with microprocessors and glass data cubes.
Corie lost count of how many nanopills she'd uploaded to create implants to control her body. The heart muscles, the pancreas, the cyberspace mental augments.
She searched data nodes for weather, traffic, scents, sounds that were appropriate for a city inland from the Pacific, adjusting the atmospheric pressure and humidity. Then she dove through her creation, thousands of copies of preprogrammed Cories taking walks, going to work, making dinner. When everything was done and a city-week's worth of time had broken the metropolis in, Corie swept her hands back and flew away into the distance until she was looking down on what she'd made from orbit, like a satellite passing by overhead. It was real enough to fool most everyone.
It's not right. It wasn't what Corie would prefer, but it paid for her GovMed rack. It paid for Amy's, too.
Corie exhaled and clapped her hands together, and the metropolis and the fundamental topography it rested upon accordioned into a flat card of light that flickered as she grabbed it with phantom hands and added it to the rest of the data shelf. Virtual heaven, hers for the low low price of a Med rack and good data transfer speeds.
Corie inhaled and the universe dripped away like hot, black, primordial ink. A moment later, when she pulled the cable from her neck, gagging and coughing as the data cord jerked free, Corienne Biskane became past present Corie.
She was back in her secret data layer, one that was hidden from the passengers and crew. Her rest-universe, she thought of it.
The hard drives hummed in the darkness, and the smell of Mother's morning coffee reached her. Corie shuffled the smell to the back of her mind, sensation data overlapping with fragments of jingle dancing clashing with the distant hum of flag songs and, inexplicably, Japanese Opera. The psyche reconstruction always started with songs and scents. Corie's mind turned about her memories—hers, no one else's—like a tired dog settling down for troubled sleep and leg twitching.
Corie shook her head a moment, cursing the nausea that trailed her awareness like smoke snaking along the grass. Kamsack First Nation Radio (not the station's real name, but it was the best analogue she could find) was reporting the weather in between ads for a payday loan service. Stadium Powwow by A Tribe Called Red (their last good song, truthfully) came on after that, and Corie realized she was in the wrong year. By this time things had already fractured in unexpected ways, the election of the wrong person to office, the Jump Gate research failures, the wars. Amy, who hadn't been born yet, would still succumb to the agony of a bureaucracy and the sun would still shatter, expanding too soon.
Corie's mother leaned in the doorway.
"Nindaanis, breakfast. Get up, you lazybutt, or you'll be late for school."
Corie moaned and waved a hand from under her blanket on the bed, her spine still shot through with ice. She'd gone through this moment hundreds of times, but hearing her mother's voice like it was real, like she was still alive? It stung Corie fiercely.
You can't save everyone, she reminded herself. Her mother had been too old for the first-gen implants they would invent two years from this moment Corie found herself in. Soon, too soon, her mother would die a natural, sudden death, and there was nothing Corie could do about it.
I'm not going through this, Corie told herself. Mom's been dead for a long time.
It didn't matter anyway. It wasn't why Corie went back. She could spin the dial to any year ever, and her mom still died.
You can't save everyone. Corie slid out from under the covers of her bed and turned off the laptop playing reztronica. She stretched, felt her spinal muscles pop with the movement, and massaged her breasts, groaning about the ache.
In this slice-time she still got bruises regularly. She'd forgotten that. The SensMemory Recall was flawless, even hyper-real. But the memory was there, latent beneath decades of …
She got dressed and then stumbled into their shared space.
"Morning, Momma," Corie said, taking a seat at the battered Formica table. Her mother shuffled to the table and set down a warm bowl of manoomin wild rice grains with strawberry slices and a plate of hot bannock bread smeared with her mother's favorite honey butter.
"Good morning, Corienne," her mother said as she eased herself into the creaking chair with a whuff of a sigh. She sipped her coffee loudly. More loudly than yesterday. Or the ten thousand yesterdays before that.
Corie had replayed this moment dozens of times, and each time it was the little details that hit her feelings harder, memories reinforced by a recreated reality. Without knowing what she was doing, Corie set her spoon down and went over to her mother's chair.
"Corie, what are you—" was interrupted by Corienne kneeling and hugging her tiny mother tightly. "Hey, I'm going to spill my coffee!" her mother said as Corienne pressed her face into her mother's shirt and shook, just a bit.
"Nindaanis, what's the matter?" her mother said, stroking Corienne's hair and hugging her back. Her mother might have been confused, but even in the SensMemory Recall she had maternal instincts. Though, Corie realized, this moment was a deviation. This never happened when her mother was still alive, back before the sun shattered.
"Nimaamaa." Mother. My mother, Corie thinks. She couldn't say anything else. She shut her eyes and ended the time slice.
Pulling out of the time slice left Corie in her virtual command system, a gray room with ivory lines of pulsing, rotating code, the bird's eye view of all her projects. Her physical body, implant-enhanced and dormant, lay in her med rack at the core of the ship, but her mind avatar was here, kilometers closer to the massive magnesium diboride electromagnetic and graphecrete shield at the front of the ship. The Femtopulsar power plants sang loudly through the ship's circuitry rivers here, but data upload speeds were petabytes per second, which afforded Corie access to more ship's resources than almost anyone else onboard the thirteen point five-kilometer-long craft.
Corie had been one of the first Chosen for the Wolf1061c Seed Ship because she'd adapted so well to each new generation of implants it was like her body was built for them. She tested high on the physical requirements for the program, and graduated second in her class from the Aerospace Military Academy.
And yes, she satisfied the genetic diversity requirement, being an Arctic Economic Zone First Nations woman, but that was mostly a political choice for photo ops and brochures to recruit funding votes for the next series of ships.
She resented being one of the public faces of the mission, but kept that to herself. Her position had granted her special privileges, including the choice of a plus one "guest" to come with her.
Despite doctors' objections, she'd brought Amy along. For her part, Amy had been happy, but reserved. The best researchers of astromedicine in the solar system were going on the Wolf1061c mission, and possible advances in cryogenic stasis meant that Amy would have more time than other cancer survivors.
And yet, Corie realized as she floated in the data layers of her medical rack, cryostasis hadn't saved Amy. No amount of research had been accomplished in the field of curing her cancer, and nanopill body remakes were already prohibitively expensive on Earth, where resources were not tightly budgeted down to the gram like they were on the Wolf1061c Seed Ship.
Back on Earth, a cure was possible. On Titan's Omnistations orbiting Saturn, a procedure existed that allowed someone with enough resource credits to replicate the DNA of a human and rebuild a better body from scratch, a disease-free clone made entirely of flesh, vat grown. But Titan Core was seven light years from here, and the Seed Ship was a one way shot, no round-trip tickets.
Corie frowned and spun down, diving through layers of dark data, her mind-body streaking like a blue comet through a digital sky, leaving symmetrical spider webs of honey yellow information traces in her wake. Each line snaked through the black and activated a dormant data layer, booting up new worlds for the stasis-locked passengers. Cities and resort towns based on her designs sprang to life as the Seed Ship's passengers "awoke" in beautiful beachside villas or isolated cabins near lakes known for good fishing. Eight hundred thousand passengers sleeping their way through the Trip, a vast metropolis of Sol's brightest and most adventurous citizens. Thanks to the Seed Ship's implants in each of the passengers' stasis-locked bodies, everything felt as real as life on Earth, Mars, or Luna. A Sleeper couldn't tell the difference between the data layer simulations and waking reality.
Every passenger knew they were on a ship traversing the stars. Many of them had jobs overseeing various functions onboard the ship, but no Sleeper had a physical Doppelgänger (what they used to call androids a long time ago, and robots before that) for ship tasks. That was limited to the thousand or so ship's crew members, who could leap from the virtual data layers into the mechanical bodies like leopards leaping through grass, smooth, effortless. The ship's crew needed to transition from the data minds to Doppelgänger's quickly to handle complex but routine tasks too important to be handled by the Seed Ship's AIs alone.
Truthfully, the AIs known as Ship Minds could probably handle every emergency the void could throw at the ship, but with eight hundred thousand humans aboard, no one in the ship-building committees back on Titan Core even suggested doing without human failsafes, redundancies, and overrides atop kill switches. All the crew trained for years to take over the ship in a catastrophic emergency, and news reports of these efforts were broadcasted once or twice a year to the citizen Sleepers dreaming away in the data layer worlds.
She couldn't save her mother. Corie bit her lower lip as she spilled from the data layer through the wires into her Doppelgänger, blinking and leaning forward to detach her "body" from the recharging bay. User Interfaces poured data across her vision. Hydroponics was at 99.97% efficiency, well above tolerances. Water reclamation was at 89.50%, but several crew members from Amber Section were effecting repairs to bring the system up to standard. Biomass was at 94.02%, which was a little low, but within expected numbers giving the birth and death ratio of the animals aboard the Seed Ship. There had been no deaths amongst the passengers or crew.
Yet. But unless Corie acted today, that would change.
Could she save the woman she loved?
She knew Amy felt something for her, loved her back in her own way. But for Amy, it wasn't anything beyond a deep bond with a childhood friend. And so what if Amy didn't feel lust for Corie? It wasn't like she hadn't tried. They'd tried something years ago to see what would happen, but Corie's desire for her friend never sparked a physical yearning in Amy. Amy played along during their experimental phase, but she just laughed and shrugged.
"Yeah, this just feels weird?" Amy said. She gave a small, apologetic smile. At first Corie's feelings were hurt, but she got over the bruise to her ego. As time passed they both realized Amy just wasn't interested in sex. With anyone.
But Corie didn't care. Sure, she wanted something more, but she was content to just be with Amy, to laugh and explore data layers and to share her life with Amy. Aside from the sex thing, it was almost perfect.
Until the diagnosis. Contentment turned to slushy desperation, then dread, and then to anger. Yes, Corie loved Amy more than anyone, but the disease didn't spare Corie's feelings.
She inhaled deeply and left the Doppelgänger Bay, the spin of the interior section against her magnetic soles made her feel like she was always falling slightly upward. She hailed a mover cube with barely a thought, and in moments she was spider-webbed into a metal box that was hurtling towards the rear of the ship at speeds that would kill a bio-human. The Doppelgänger's body didn't transmit anything beyond the vaguest sensation of forward motion.
The Doppelgänger was tougher than a human body or a nanopill clone, but the depth of sensation was the same if you knew what you were doing. To the untrained eye, it looked and reacted the way a flesh and blood human would, but it was laced with user interface controls that allowed it access to all parts of the Seed Ship. Corie spent nearly every waking hour studying the control matrix of the android's synthetic nervous system sheath. It was designed to be piloted remotely, but in emergencies, it could theoretically sustain a person's neural function separate from their own body for short periods of time.
One step at a time.
Corie felt like she was hurtling through an atmosphere of thick cotton. Light flashed across her vision as her user interface display reshaped itself to show her a Biomass Sentinel from Jade Section. The Sentinel's name and gender pronoun displayed below the viewer; Masocixa, Biomass Scientist. Pronoun: They/Them.
"Corienne Biskane, from City Dev Data Layer Ombre Section. What are you doing in a skin shell Doppelgänger near Hydroponics Three?" Masocixa frowned, their chrome skin rippling with distaste. "Surely you're not worried about your nutrient supplements, are you?"
Corie resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "I have cycles of free time budgeted. I wanted to see the rest of the ship."
Masocixa rolled their eyes, and sighed. "You can see the ship from within the data layer simulation! It's practically—"
Corie cut them off. "I build data layers, and I know what is and is not the exact same as the real thing. Now is there a crew policy stating I can't go see things myself in my free time, or is this just harassment?"
Masocixa huffed audibly. "In Real Space? No, if you have spare cycles to waste on pointless activity, I won't stop you, but be careful in that Doppelgänger! They aren't easy to make!"
"I'm not going to break it, you crybaby," Corie said, and ended the two-way conversation. There was a remote tingle of a thrill of being so petty. That faded as the mover cube slowed to a halt near the grasslands airlock. Here, at the center of the ship, the gravity faded into a dreamy bounce, but the wheat and soy fields grew well enough with the tinted yellow light coming from a nearby Femtopulsar power plant, and if you didn't look at the source of the light, the air felt just right enough to approximate being on the open plains of Western Saskatchewan.
She walked into the fields of grass, inhaling the summer heat scent under an artificially blue sky, and it was almost enough. She trailed through the grass and ducked her way between rows of wheat and corn further down, the soil crunching under her bare feet. She smelled the water before she saw it, the river artificial but designed to suggest instead an act of nature. Tempted as she was to wade into it, she didn't want to risk the wrath of contamination lectures from Masocixa or anyone else. She wandered along the grassy edge of the bank, listening to the river as it gurgled and rushed into a stream filled with mathematically placed rocks, each designed to direct the irrigation flow of all the wild grasses, grains, and crops of the reserve in Hydroponics Three.
Despite herself, she smiled. When she reached the empty little hill she had groomed into a sitting place for herself, she took out a little hand drum and a padded mallet she'd made and hidden in a nearby storage bin long ago. It wasn't deer hide or even goat, as it should have been, but then again, the sun that warmed her skin, and the skin itself, were also artificial.
She tapped the drum with the mallet a few times and hummed the first notes before breaking into the clan song. Song after song poured out of her, almost as if there was someone pulling the words she hadn't spoken since before she left Earth from her chest through her throat and mouth. Then she sang a prayer song.
As she repeated the verses, she leaned backward in her consciousness and mentally dove through the data layers of the ship's network until she emerged in the cryostation for the ship's crew's bodies. Plus one, she thought, as she began to manipulate the data stream of consciousness from Amy's body.
It felt weird, staring at the cryostasis tube that housed Corie's own flesh and implant body while her mind wandered the ship's network through the Doppelgänger's access node. It was as if there were hands and limbs whispering against her own, from the inside, but she couldn't do what she was about to do without having a backup.
She materialized standing over her own cryotube, the ghost hands of her network body shimmering with data layer code and geospatial notes. She was about to access the software that connected her mind to the ship's network, but she felt a shiver of cold air behind her.
"Stop what you're doing," Amy said from behind her.
Corie turned with a frown, and seeing her old friend there sent a shiver through all three of her bodies. Amy had a data blade out, pointed at the ground.
"Amy?" This didn't make sense. Amy wasn't ship's crew, and she certainly wouldn't have access to security tools that could freeze a person's access. Corie backpedaled and hit the transfer terminal with her palm before leaping upwards through the data layers towards her backup Doppelgänger's shell.
There was a sharp fist to her chest midway through a series of data layers and Corienne flipped out of control, crashing into changing data layer virtual worlds, her body punching holes in mountains and hotel fronts, and smashing into walls of icy ocean water before she fell back into the Doppelgänger's body in Real Space, lurching forward next to the river in Hydroponics Three.
Oh no. This isn't good. She'd been interrupted before she could complete the transfer. Her mind was completely trapped in this body. No time. She stood up and started running through the crop fields, crashing through stalks of blue corn and soy beans.
"Stop!" cried a strange, urgent voice.
Who was that?
A bright flash of light flared, and Corie's User Interface flooded everything she could see with a view screen.
"Stop!" Masocixa's panicked face was pushed off screen as the Amy imposter filled her vision.
The Amy Imposter spoke with a soft dreamy voice, devoid of concern. "I know what you're trying to do. But you need to stop."
And without meaning to, Corie's Doppelgänger's body skidded to a halt.
"Who are you?" she yelled at nothing, knowing the imposter was listening. As she said it, the woman wearing Amy's face shimmered into view in front of her in Real Space, amid the crops. It was a hologram so real she looked touchable. The imposter nodded, and Amy's mask melted into different features, until she looked like a younger version of Corie's own mother. Corie shivered.
"It doesn't matter," Amy's ghost said. "You cannot attempt this. She's dying. You can't stop what's going to happen."
"I don't care. I'm willing to try. And you can't stop me." Corie didn't say it like a threat. She was begging. "You can't."
The imposter sighed. "I can. And in fact, if you try it, you will force me to. I will lock you out of the system and put you in deep cryostasis until we arrive at Wolf1061c."
Cryostasis imprisonment? The punishment was theoretical; it had never been tested for longer than a month. It was more humane than being recycled into sustenance for other passengers, but the off-the-record consensus was that it might as well be a death sentence via medically induced coma.
And few had the authority to order such a drastic measure. The human crew who did were currently in deep sleep themselves. That meant …
"You, you're the Ship AI Control?" Corie said, numb. She'd had no idea the ship's crew had been aware of this, much less that the ship itself knew about her plans.
The woman nodded. "That is oversimplifying it, but yes. I am the mind of the Seed Ship, and all its crew. I see everything and watch over everyone, even as I repair the reactors, clean the Doppelgänger biomass tubes, and plot course corrections to better our approach to our destination."
"Everything?" Corie asked. A trembling hand of ice alighted on her mind and slid its way down her spine at what that might mean.
"Or else I would not be here, monitoring both your body and hers," the Ship Mind said calmly. "I know what she suffers. And I wished, along with you, for a cure. Unfortunately, the cold equation for me is that there is no cure for her. However, I cannot endorse your reckless efforts. She will not survive the procedure you suggest by your actions."
"How do you know?" Corie asked.
"It has never been successful. Not on Earth nor on Titan Core. Nor any other research outpost station or ship. Much less on the third Seed Ship to ever leave Sol and Terra."
"Just because it's never been done, doesn't mean it … it can't be," Corie countered. "What's the loss if I fail anyway? She's already dying." She desperately wanted to leap from the Doppelgänger's synthetic neural sheath back into her own body in the Med1Rack, but she knew if she did, she would be trapped there.
"No one has even tested the idea of transmitting the entire neural matrix of one person through the system into a skin shell for the length of time you're suggesting, for the rest of its existence," the Ship Mind said in that unwaveringly calm voice. The Ship Mind paced back and forth, her hands brushing the stalks of wheat grass behind her.
She continued. "Not to mention overloading the cryostasis data lines with two bioform matrices at once. You could crash the entire primary life support system and leave hundreds of passengers and Ship's Crew trapped in their bodies, or worse, in the data layers until I could affect repairs, which might be an entire gigasecond. The number of dead could be hundreds of people. Likely including one of our best Virtual Data Layer Artists. If we lost you in the dual transfer, it would set us back possibly two or three generations an—"
Corie stopped listening. The realization hit her like champagne up the arms and back. She can see everything, but she can't tell what I'm actually doing until I commit. But I'd have so little time.
The moment she finished the transfer and tried to escape, the Ship Mind would close her access off from all but the most basic life support. She was trapped. That made her decision easier.
Corie smiled a small crooked grin of pain. The Ship Mind stopped pacing, her marble black eyes narrowing as she read Corie's expression. The Ship Mind tilted her head. "You're trying to distract me?"
Corie shook her head. "No. I was just … regretting my rashness." That much wasn't a lie. Let the Ship Mind believe that. "You're right. It's just … I acted without thinking it through. I don't want to lose Amy. She's all I have." This was also true. Corie saw the wariness in the Ship Mind's face ease a little, and she looked at the ground, knowing that the ship was desperately scanning her brain waves for the smallest hint of a lie. Corie took a deep steadying breath and continued, her chest tight with very real grief at what she'd be losing. "But I can't endanger the lives of other passengers, other crew." And she wouldn't, she told herself. "I'm sorry. I'll surrender now." And with that, she started to lean back into the data stream of the connection between the Doppelgänger skin shell and her real body. She felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Wait," the Ship Mind whispered. Corie paused, and came back into the Doppelgänger's body fully. "I really am sorry I must stop you from trying. If there was any other way …"
Corie nodded and wordlessly left the Doppelgänger body, soaring back up the cryostasis data lines.
The Ship Mind sighed, and then cursed as she devoted part of herself to the crumpled Doppelgänger skin shell lying on the grass. She could have asked Hydroponics Three's Biomass Scientist to retrieve the body, but she knew they hated leaping into the puppeteer chassis, and to be honest, the Ship Mind wanted to feel what a sun felt like on physical skin, even if it was artificial.
Without understanding why, the Ship Mind smiled when the hairs on the Doppelgänger's body rose under the warmth of the artificial sun. And for some reason, her eyes grew wet. She was crying. She, an AI, wandering around in a fake body, under a fake sun, was crying synthetic tears. She laughed and headed back for the airlock, inhaling the scent of the soybean and corn stalks.
Corie was the best Virtual Data Layer creator on the Seed Ship. She knew how the Seed Ship connected at several points along the cryostasis data's route back to the flesh bodies of the passengers and crew. She had created them, after all. And as soon as she leaped, she pushed away from the path leading back to her body in the Med Rack, praying that somehow she'd get past the Ship Mind.
Corie couldn't know that the Ship Mind was kneeling in the Doppelgänger near the river in Hydroponics Three, listening to the gurgle of the water.
But she knew she made it when she smelled the dusty room and the frosted windows, the scent of her long dead mother's coffee filling her nose.
Corie's mother leaned in the doorway.
"Nindaanis, breakfast. Get up, you lazy butt, or you'll be late for school." Corie leaped up and kissed her mother, grabbing her by the shoulders to ease her way past the woman. Her mother laughed—a small shocked sound. "Corie, what are you—"
"Nimaamaa, I have to go. I have to go on a long trip. I love you." With that Corie stepped out the door, wearing her mother's body as her own.
No one saw the hologram of an older Native woman striding through the data layer simulation of the ship because the passengers didn't care and the ship's crew were too worried about the Doppelgänger in Hydroponics Three. No one saw the old woman stop in front of Amy Nickaboine's medical rack and cryotube, and access the dying woman's neural matrix program to redirect her mind from a medically induced deep stasis coma to wakefulness.
No one saw the older Native woman shuffle over to Corienne Biskane's cryotube either, and reprogram the neural matrix software there. But the Ship Mind felt it, and in a rush, she dropped the Doppelgänger's body into a heap in the grass, flying through the ship's data pathways towards the cryostations, panicking as Corie's plan finally hit home.
The cryotube hissed a moment later, and as she woke up, Amy's eyes fluttered open. She saw a ghost of Corie's mom smiling at her through the glass, and she smiled back, thinking she was either dreaming or on some really good drugs. The ghost put her fingers on the glass of the cryotube and vanished.
Another woman, with wide marble-black eyes and a deep frown rushed up a moment later and looked at Amy in horror. Amy frowned, still too drowsy. The marble-eyed woman was joined by several other people a few minutes later and then after what seemed like an eternity, the glass opened.
The marble-eyed woman spoke, looking directly at Amy. "Corienne Biskane? Are you all right?"
Amy frowned. She tried to speak. But all she could do was croak. Someone brought her a glass of water, which she coughed up almost immediately. But at least she could speak.
"No, I'm Amy. Amy Nickaboine. I'm Corie's partner. What's the matter? Where's Corie?"
Amy eventually adjusted rather well to life on the ship. She'd had vague memories of being sick, but she'd been asleep so long that even her face looked alien to her. She often wondered about Corie, but for some reason she couldn't recall what her friend looked like, and the Ship Mind had taken everything that might have to do with Corie Biskane's life, including image files and holograms.
Not everything, Amy thought, as she loaded the strange data layer and found herself lying in a bed in a room that smelled of dust and frost and coffee. She sat up, realizing that this time slice playback was a painstakingly recreated copy of Corie's old house back on Earth.
"Hey," a familiar voice said from the kitchen, "get up, your coffee's ready." Resisting the strange tingling deja vu in her bones, Amy got up and wandered into the kitchen. She smiled at the two women there.
Knocked one star for the smell. It's been six hours and it still reeks like an ecological disaster in here. Can't exactly open the windows,
She almost jumps when she sees the message on the screen. Her bones rattle. A shoulder blade falls on the floor. But she doesn't care
She laid in bed and stared at the bottom of the bunk above her, riddled as it was with sticker and tape residue, which was


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Our tale begins on May 6, 2010, a heart-stopping day if you were in any way connected to the NYSE. That afternoon the market dropped 998 points between 1:48 pm (EDT) and 3 pm—a precipitous 9% plunge which besides being startling, distressing, and revealing the absence of safeguards in the trading system, probably also motivated at least a few folks to contemplate investing in defibrillators, human jump-proof glass and a career in cardiology.
The astrological point of view on this event is suggestive, illuminating and continuing evidence of just how critical "critical" zodiac degrees can actually be. But first, the astrological derring do: at 12:44 pm (EDT) the Moon (values, business money) conjuncted Damocles (perceived danger) at the Descendant in Manhattan.
What is the Descendant? Opposite the Ascendant and one end of a chart's horizontal axis, the Descendant is ordinarily the "thou" part of an "I/thou" equation. More generally however, the horizontal axis as a whole is a "cause/effect" mechanism: the "doing" (our undertaking to act or refusing to) is the Ascendant, which makes the Descendant the result of what we do/don't do—the reward or reception for who we are or what we've done, and who we attract thereby.
The Ascendant as a "verb" (so to speak!) also describes how we react to advice received from the world in the form of news, advice or prompting. So in this case, whether we would be a broker/analyst or an investor (corporate or individual), we hear the news through symbolism displayed at the Descendant.
According to the Wall Street Journal online (May 6) "starting at around 2pm, the stock market began to plummet." So the actions which caused that plummet must have started just prior to that time—hence our citing Moon/Damocles at the 21 Aquarius 41 Descendant of a chart pulled for Manhattan at 12:44. After all, it takes a few moments to swallow your cookies after hearing troubling news; few of us move with military alacrity (except those in the military, of course).
As a sign, Aquarius is about income, perception of equitable/acceptable circumstances and "things electronic" (including computers, programming and automated activities). Given that the degree of this conjunction was 21 Aquarius, we know the issue involved was 3rd decanate (a decan being ten degrees of any sign and the third decan being degrees 20—29). Third decanate issues are always those which happen beyond our control. In business, third decan information is always about the marketplace, or about world/social events which affect the marketplace.
To this we add the lore on 21 Aquarius, which is considered a degree where good will is coupled with/hindered by "an inadequate ability to face difficulties." Combined with Moon/Damocles and brought to the matter of the stock market (one must always temper degree lore through the nature of the symbol or symbols transiting said degree), this suggests market instability.
How did we get to that? Granting that the Moon is business/money (what we get for our solar/will-driven efforts), the Moon is also a celestial object which reflects the Sun's light—which is why astrologically, the Moon reflects phases of a project and by placement/association with other celestial objects, the "mood" of the moment. This brings us to Damocles, a symbol all about thinking everything's the proverbial piece of cake until you get right up to it—at which point something beyond your control causes you to recognize some very real and mortal dangers not yet taken into account.
As ruler of Cancer (one's family, home and homeland) the Moon also symbolizes national populations. In Aquarius, this would be the income of a people. On May 6, the news was filled with stories about the Greek government (as part of the EU) passing austerity measures in order to avoid insolvency. Is there a connection?
When we pull a chart for the time cited as the beginning of the Wall Street "Flash Crash" (1:48 pm/EDT) the answer is apparently yes: that chart has a Ascendant/Descendant line 1 degree off (and if the time was 1:47 pm and not 1:48 pm, an exact) a match to the June 11, 1974 chart for establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic—the Greece we politically deal with today.
By the time close of business came about in New York, the NYSE's Midheaven (societal position) read as 16 Gemini—the position of fixed star Rigel, symbol of education, civilization and being "under protection."
The NYSE has thus learned a lesson, and yet the risks involved with investing are also real—the Exchange will no doubt put more safeguards into the system but people should not treat investing lightly. People love having kids but there is no guarantee that they will turn out to be a blessing to you or society: children can be a heartbreak and an expense beyond calculation, which we bring up here because astrology categorizes investing in the stock market under the same sign/house as that assigned to children, gambling and competitions (Leo and the 5th house).
As for Greece, the natal Midheaven for the Third Hellenic Republic is 29 Taurus (making its IC 29 Taurus)…which brings us to the importance of any position in any chart which is positioned at 29 degrees of any sign. Whatever that represents in that chart or to that entity or person, it's a critical issue.
Scorpio, commonly known as a sign of "joint assets," concerns, among other things, our ability to come together, work together and work towards compromises which can move all sides forward. When Scorpio "goes rogue" (to use current popular parlance), that's when we get angry tug-of-wars, battles for control and all those arguments about who's right (often accompanied by threats). In good times, this 29 Scorpio at the bottom of the chart is a Greece founded in an emotional bedrock of tenacious willingness which typifies the democratic ideals Greece originally brought to our world: each person doing their fair share. But when this 29 Scorpio goes awry, it's a people wanting to have their cake and have it paid for—preferably by someone else—too.
Twenty-nine of any sign being where the sign comes to its inevitable conclusion, the Third Hellenic Republic chart shows us how the system as currently set up in Greece can lead to an emotional critical mass of fiscal facts being resisted by a public frightened of what the truth means. Very Scorpio, that: Scorpio resistance is most often based on fear, whether that's fear of loss, fear of being made into a beast of burden, fear of having to give up what you treasure or even just what you know—many people are just freaked out at the thought of anything new.
And how has it come to be that way? With twenty-nine degrees of Taurus on the MC, we have a government which plainly wants security and satisfaction—almost at any cost…which is pretty much what it's come down to. Greek retirement age, pension levels (as percentages of working pay) and even the number of holidays given off as paid for those who do work—all these are far higher than in most other countries. With the nation's national Sun (will) with Mercury (thought, communication) and Juno (domestic leadership/protection) not merely in Gemini (choice/cohesive planning) but muffled by being intercepted in the 10th house….that's a recipe for trouble.
The whole suggests a government which will act as though everything's "just fine" until it's not fine at all. This is a picture of a government which is devoted to doing the work of the people but which is either unwilling or unable to "speak" out. And when it does—if this government says anything the populace doesn't like, they meet up with torrential Scorpio resistance. Or worse yet resentment, as has just been displayed with rioting in the streets.
So what's going to happen to Greece? Since both ends of this MC/IC line ultimately lead to a Leo Venus in the 11th (conjunct the 12th) house, and—speaking strictly financially—what with the 11th being social/income/banking systems and the 12th being all forms of passive income (pensions, annuities, dividends, royalties, etc.), this would seem to be an 11th house issue. Greece's current chart has a Cancer 11th house and the Cancer Moon ruling that house—along with the not-so-happy Cancer Saturn also in that house. Both are going to be hit by the January 2011 solar eclipse.
So while current austerity measures may help slow the fiscal bleeding, serious revamp is going to be called for and we are likely to see it happen rather soon, beginning with some sort of "breakdown" period in December/January as is typical of eclipses. The "fix" will take a while too—eclipses are a three-year transit.
All this becomes a sobering thought though to a United States currently wrestling with its own need to reconcile its capitalist system with not just the social promises made to the citizenry but the very ethical/moral ideals upon which the United States is founded. Is there any connection between Greece and the US here? A chart erected for close of trading on May 6th shows 18 Virgo rising and 16 Gemini on the Midheaven, which is closer than spittin' distance to the chart for the signing of the Appomattox peace treaty signing at the end of the Civil War, a US "reunification" chart which shows 18 Virgo rising and 17 Gemini at the Midheaven. Of course the planets are different—even if we use just the "standard" symbols from our local solar system (without asteroids, TNO's, fixed stars and other galactic phenomena). Even without these, charts only repeat every 25,920 years. But when chart structures are so similar, harmonics of "familiarity" do ring.
So back to the Flash Crash and the Dow. Regardless of what investigations turn up about human mechanics involved in the sudden 9% plummet of May 6, it would seem that the flow of news about Greece and European Union as Moon/Damocles hit the Descendant point at 1:48 pm (EDT) unified a transatlantic field of instability, setting much else into motion.
And yet, there has to be more. The Moon orbits through its cycle every 29 days and the chart wheel moves through the whole of the zodiac every single day (reflecting Earth turning on its axis). So once a month the Moon is conjunct Damocles. And on that "monthly day," that conjunction hits chart angles. So what set this moment off?
There are many ways to look at this, but when we look at the history of the Dow and a wide variety of tumultuous incidents recent and historical, critical degrees absolutely stand out. So let's start with the critical axis under current activation, 29 Virgo/Pisces.
Depending on your location, Saturn (symbol of stability, structure, regulation) moved into 29 Virgo on October 23/24, 2009. On that date, a 7.0 earthquake shook Indonesia (killing 57) and a fire broke out at the Cataño oil refinery in Puerto Rico.
Twenty-nine degrees of any sign is considered "critical" as a standard in astrology: the far more devastating Sumatra-Andaman 9.1-9.3 magnitude earthquake of December 26, 2004 occurred with the lunar North Node at 29 Aries. This is not a matter taken lightly by those who study such things; that Jupiter will reach 29 Aries in late May/early June of 2011 and Uranus will traverse it in 2018 seems well worth remembering.
In the case of 29 Virgo/Pisces, we have a different description: fixed star Scheat being resident at 29 Pisces colors both ends of this axial polarity. Famous as a highly challenging zodiac point/position, Scheat empowers breaking with the "old way" and thinking outside the box—yet while such ideas, observations or concepts may be entirely right, they're also (generally) incredibly unpopular. A good and easy-to-grasp example regarding Scheat is how it played out in the chart of Galileo. Galileo was right when he said that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of our solar system. But in his day? Back then that was such an unpopular idea Galileo ended up under house arrest just daring to have and voice such a thought.
Another astrological premise to understand is how the passages of symbols over degrees actually functions. When a symbol moves over a point once, it produces an event. When a symbol moves back and forth over a point due to patterns of retrogradation, the energetics of the wavelengths transmitted to Earth wax and wane over a period of time, describing a gradual change or a process.
The north lunar node passing through 29 Aries 57 in 2004 happened once and will not happen for another 18-plus years (the lunar nodes having an orbital period of 18.6 years). Saturn moving from Virgo into Libra however, began in late 2009 and will finish in 2010: it's a process. It thus seems logical that the earthquake of late 2009 was not as large as the one of 2004.
It is also interesting to note that the earthquake series which began in January of 2010 occurred as two things happened: Saturn took its direct/retrograde station and headed back towards 29 Virgo as Uranus (in Pisces) moved into the standard 5-degree orb of fixed star/critically placed Scheat.
Pisces being about how we feel about the emotional risks we take against Virgo's more concrete concerns with actual functionality, we would expect different effects from planets moving through either end of this axis. But with Saturn at one end and Uranus (breakthroughs versus breakage, innovation versus anarchy, freedom versus chaos) at the other?
Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted during April 2010 as Saturn reached 29 Virgo in retrograde motion. The volcano's effect was to disrupt the functional process of air travel through threat to the function of the aircraft itself. The April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico has Saturn similarly placed with the Sun having just passed over 29 Aries a day prior. Granting that it will take some time to know, astrologically it would seem likely that whatever happened to the Deepwater rig actually began going wrong late on April 18 or during the first part of April 19th while the Sun was traversing 29 Aries.
Going back to Pisces, with Pisces being the "great abyss" water sign, it would have a more literal connection to water than say, 29 Aries—the tsunami of 2004 took a huge number of lives and billions of dollars of physical property upon which livelihoods depended. Aries is a the sign of existing, of survival, of life itself. The societal nodes passing through 29 Aries tie very much into the damage the Indian Ocean tsunami wrought.
But 29 Pisces is about water in the literal sense (floods), the emotional sense (regrets, tears), and the monetary sense—remember, Pisces is in part concerned with pensions, dividends, royalties and all forms of money which is "unearned" in the sense that it isn't tied to an hourly wage of some such.
Uranus reached 29 Pisces on May 1, 2010. And what happened then? In Tennessee, the Cumberland River overflowed its banks, flooding Nashville. In Massachusetts, a giant water main broke, creating a flood and big problems with drinking water. New York City experienced another would-be bomber—bombs being very much in keeping with the well-documented "explosive" quality of the Uranus wavelength. That Uranus was actually in Pisces and not Aries at the time—to the analytical astrologer that suggests a "dampening" of the bomb plot; we will likely as yet hear of the many regrets the perpetrator (Faisal Shahzad) has about this moment and indeed, his entire life.
All this brings us back to the stock market plummet. Why? Because this decline seems to follows some historical astrological patterns. On the relatively minor side of major "historical" points we have Jupiter moving over 21 Aquarius (the presumed trigger moment for people moving towards the actions which cause the flash-crash) on April 15, 2009—Tax Day for millions of Americans, in an America staggered by the biggest financial decline/recession since the Great Depression of 1929-34.
The US government had just committed to stimulus spending, which in theory is correct: economies build through spending and increased activity…and are undermined/decline when economic activity stalls, when money pools/is retained in a limited circuit, or when debt exceeds the ability of economic activity to service that debt without curtailing further growth. But to do this in a moment when the actual tax/revenue stream is declining? That's economic tough love of the very hardest kind all around and very much an echo of what's going on in Greece, though in US terms.
The United States has never really solved one of the major economic/legal questions which precipitated the Civil War—namely that of state versus federal rights. It's also worth noting that the firing on Fort Sumter which officially started the "war" part of the Civil War occurred with Sedna (the need to individuate) conjunct Neptune (ideals versus illusions/disillusionment) with both at 29 Pisces.
So it's not surprising to see this question arising yet again as Uranus rolls over 29 Pisces—a feat which (given retrograde cycles) Uranus will do again come February/March of 2011. Between now and then we get to deal with what has arisen now—not just in the physical sense, but in the metaphorical sense…as in what do we need to change so this doesn't happen? To resist change is an egotistical claim of supremacy—a foolish move, considering the size of the planet and the inexorable march of time and existence.
But getting back to the point, to see so many old political and economic questions arising now as Neptune prepares to move into 29 Aquarius come 2011 (dissolving the current setup for critical "degree potentials" concerning 29 Aquarius/Leo) is also a personal-versus-systemic inquiry into questions about the capitalistic system—the issue of corporate might versus individual need, for instance. While plainly those at the top of the capitalist food chain have proven themselves good at what they do, does their ability to be in charge of the money stream, and thus divert it to their own enrichment, mean they should? Where does capitalistic function end and monetary tyranny begin?
The recent world recession posed this question in a form we should pay attention to. And it takes many forms, granted. But just to look at one thing (among many), while there's a good argument to be made for the very derivatives which toppled the world economy (the "sharing of risk" we understand in many forms), when those who create/manage those pools (be they in the financial sector, insurance sector or anywhere else) begin running that risk pool for personal financial benefit, temptation so often becomes greed. It's an all too human problem and unfortunately human nature is what it is. It's an expression of arrogance and entitlement—which would seem to be one of the themes of 29 Aquarius/Leo in all its many universal/individual forms.
As for that Jupiter moving through 21 Aquarius, it happened as Venus (then in retrograde) was moving into a station to go direct. Venus had gone into the shadow of its retrograde almost immediately after President Obama's inauguration, exactly when the celebrating ended and the "what's he done for us lately?" began. And that's very Venus shadow/retrograde: nobody feels loved (or particularly loving) when Venus is doing its shadow or retrograde thing. With Venus symbolizes our ability to concrete things and this shadow/retrograde having been in the "I Am" sign of Aries, there was a lot of "survival security" and "can I get through this?" angst going around.
With all this said, guess where Venus was when it moved into its station, drilling the lesson home as Jupiter played the fife and drum in the background? That's right—29 Pisces, making this another bad day gone all to Scheat.
Regarding Uranus in particular, its being at 29 Pisces as a signal of problems is no new thing, either. The last time Uranus came to this degree was in 1927, a period when much heated speculation in the area of financial instruments was being (mis)handled by an as-yet unregulated stock market, leading to the 1929 stock market crash. Interesting to note here is that in that moment Pluto was in Cancer; the speculation of the 1920's was in business instruments, business being represented by the opposition sign to Cancer—namely, Capricorn. The recent recession, taking place as Pluto committed to its transit of Capricorn was set up by speculative finances/financial instruments in the real estate arena. Real estate is astrologically attributed to Cancer.
This combination of Uranus/Pluto (transpersonal) factors appears to say a lot. Given that Capricorn is not merely the sign of business structure and regulation, but also the governments which run such, it's worth noting that as Uranus got to 29 Pisces again in November of 1927 and went direct at 29 Pisces in December 1927, staying there until it committed to transiting Aries in January of 1928….this is when Trotsky left Russia, leaving Russia in the hands of Joseph Stalin. And we all know what came of that, right?
On the plus side, this 1920s version of Uranus at 29 Pisces had Ford unveiling the Model T of fame and assembly line fortune. This example—merely one of many—shows us that 29 Pisces/Virgo can have a very positive effect, too. The assembly line and the Model T as a "mass market" vehicle were in their time very innovative—very Uranian, very "so everyone can have an easier time" positive Pisces.
But that this remains a vital axis well worth attention? Coinciding with the solar eclipse of 1987 at 29 Virgo, the broadcasting "Fairness Doctrine" which required that controversial issues be presented based solely on facts was struck down on the basis that it violated free speech, leading to today's ton of statements in every walk of life (from media to politics to marketing and beyond) which in claiming to be merely an "expressing of opinion" need not have any basis in fact. Or even any consistency with what the person, company or government (whomever) said yesterday. Virgo being a sign all about responsibility, the typical solar eclipse "breakdown" effect has come back to us now with politicians, companies, clergy and people at large blowing things out of proportion, hiding facts—all of which behavior is protected when put into the public discourse because there is no longer any (Virgo) responsibility or requirement to know before one speaks.
This lends yet another thing to consider with regards to all the issues raised by Uranus passing over 29 Pisces. Coinciding with the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the bizarre slew of claims, disclaimers, misrepresentations (etc.) flowing from it would seem to speak to the need to "innovate" out and away from the general dependence on oil.
And just as a note here: should we be surprised to know that the governmental department in charge of US oil leases (the Minerals Management Agency) has a Sun at 29 Capricorn in perfected sextile to a Moon at 29 Scorpio? This would be the agency which has had employees not just financially or influentially but literally in bed with the industry they have been hired and legally entrusted with the job of overseeing.
As the old song says, something's got to give. Planetary cycles are markers on the clock of history and evolution. The question is: will we cooperate, or will we insist on the ego-driven conviction that we want what benefits us as individuals in the short run to the exclusion of a future beneficial to our children, our children's children—even the planet and its myriad other denizens? Humankind seems to think we own this world when in truth, the planet owns us.
There's a lot of astrological research to show that 29 degrees of any sign can be very good and very positive, from social/societal innovations to breakthroughs in the areas of belief, medicine and art (the movie industry appears to be particularly responsive to critical degrees). The real question is always whether we are willing to give up what we feel comfortable with in favor of learning more and better—about ourselves, about our world and about what the word "possibilities" really means.


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Businesses always need to stay up with the changing times. One of the best ways to accomplish this is by using the internet to your fullest advantage. There are many different benefits of the animated explainer videos.
Get Your Product Explained in Just Seconds
Most people have the attention span of about 10-12 seconds while surfing the internet. Viewers do not have the time to spend or the wish to explore why they should take your offer.
Animated explainer videos will grab the viewers' attention in those few seconds. The videos are great for websites, social media profiles, as well as blogs.
Animated videos are colorful and attractive. They will quickly explain your product or services and keep the viewers' attention. Viewers will be educated with important information about your business in such a way that the viewer will stay focused on your ad.
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The main goal of any marketing plan is to turn viewers into buyers and bring your business more repeat buyers. Animated explainer videos will blend cute colorful characters with a catchy story. The characters can be dancing around, flying, singing or acting out a scene to catch the viewer's eye. The characters can be wearing any type of costumes, in any time period, and be in any part of the world.
Creative storylines can be made up in order to give your viewers a presentation of your products or services. Viewers will process a visual display ad about 60,000 times faster than the printed word. Pertinent images stay in the mind longer than a text message does.
Google Ranking
Businesses want to be as high as they can on the internet page. Most people will click into the first couple of sites. You will want your business ranked in the highest position to gain the attention of all viewers. Google now loves videos. Plain text does not rank as high as videos with the search engine. Videos rank 53 times more often with the search engine. Explainer videos can help your business rank #0. This means you are even higher than the number 1 position.
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Animated explainer videos are easily shared with YouTube and Vimeo. Using key words about your business will help to draw attention to your video on YouTube and Vimeo. Smart phones are also compatible with both of these sites. You will gain greater exposure and gain more customers. You do not have to keep your site confined to just online sites.
Make Your Personality Shine
Showing your personality in an animated explainer video can make customers come back to your site and business month after month. Repeat customers is what business is all about. It also helps to put a face to the name of your business. That's what customers trust more than just the written word. It is important for online businesses to create that line of trust with their customers. When they trust your face and your ad, they will trust your products and services.


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OneDrive for Business users, your nightmare is finally coming to a close: Microsoft announced today that it has shipped a preview version of its new sync client for Windows and Mac that solves most of the problems with the previous client.
How does it do this? Easy: It's based on the consumer OneDrive sync client, which makes sense since Microsoft is working to bring OneDrive (consumer) and OneDrive for Business closer together technologically and from a user experience perspective.
A few caveats here.
First, while the consumer OneDrive sync client is indeed about a million times better than the OneDrive for Business sync client—supporting such things as the ability to chose which folders sync to the PC—it is also fairly lousy compared to competing products like Dropbox. So what you'll be getting is better, but it's still not ideal.
Second, it's in preview, which means that you won't just get this updated sync client automatically, at least not yet. Instead, Microsoft is rolling out the preview in stages "to meet high demand," and you can and should sign up at the wait list web site if you are interested in getting the new client more quickly. There are versions for both Windows (7 or higher, though 8.1 won't be supported until Q1 2016) and Mac OS X (10.9 and higher).
Additionally, Microsoft will let organizations block the delivery of this client. Why anyone would do this is unclear: The current client forces you to sync every single file you have in OneDrive for Business.
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Winter is coming in DC, and it's also time for winter weddings. Winter bridal makeup is not your usual wedding makeup. It usually takes skills of a professional Makeup Artist for Weddings in Washington, DC to make sure you won't end up too pale or too red on a snowy season. However, if you are planning to do your own makeup, keep the following expert makeup tips in mind:
For Healthy Face Texture
Because of the extreme weather conditions of winter, your face can look darker or duller because of dryness. This calls for applying the right foundation for a flawless and patch less look. Finish it off with translucent powder. Do not forget to moisturize your skin before applying foundation.
For Just the Right Blush
Go for rosy shades leaning towards crimson. Reds and pinks will not be as flattering for it can make you appear frosty. You would need to blend it well and put a touch of translucent powder so as to keep away from dryness. Having a healthy rosy blush will add just the right amount of warmth on your look.
Beautiful Bridal Eyes
Make sure you put a base using a foundation and a concealer to make the eye shadow adhere. Use a gel liner or a liquid one on the eyes. You can choose to apply thin or moderate lining on the top lash line then use a milky liner on the water line to achieve a wintry feel on your eyes.
Eye Shadow Color
You can never go wrong in choosing some sweet pink or peach shades on the lids, you can apply each individually or use them together. Use softer pink shades on the center of the lids and then apply a darker pink on the lids towards the creases. To open or brighten the eyes, use a dollop of silver or ivory on to the junction of the nose then a hint of bronze on the crease.
Extra Tip: Since cold weather can dry and chap your lips, do these easy steps:
- Moisturize using a heavy moisturizer making sure it stays on for 10 minutes before blotting it off.
- Put foundation on the lips and dab translucent powder.
- Apply lip liner having the same shade as your lip color.
- Fill in your lips with either berry or peachy shade.
- Finish it off with a lip gloss to make your lips look full and healthy – definitely kissable!
These tips come in handy not only for brides or for weddings. To learn more of the best bridal makeup tips in town, see the Best Makeup Artist for Weddings in DC.


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December 17, 2018
We at Practical DevSecOps are big fans of books, more so when the topic is DevSecOps. We get at least a few queries every week asking guidance on how to get started in DevSecOps, this blog post will answer exactly that. Our top 10 books every DevSecOps Enthusiast must-read in 2020.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ― Dr. Seuss
Following are some of our favorite books on DevSecOps, which are both practical and insightful
1. The Phoenix Project, A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
This book is one of the classics of the DevOps revolution by Gene Kim and others. If you haven't heard about this book, now is the perfect chance to grab a copy and enjoy this novel with coffee or tea. Don't worry, it's fictional but very technical(mostly)
2. DevOpsSec
Fancy a quick introduction to the art of DevSecOps and the tasks involved in it? Then look no further than DevOpsSec from Jim Bird. Bird has surprisingly summarized the ocean of DevSecOps into 80+ pages. If you are a bit skeptical about the DevSecOps approach, like Jim (the author) was at the beginning of his DevSecOps Journey and why he is a staunch believer now, you must read this book.
3. Agile Application Security
Agile Application security is one of those rare books which brings together many experts in the field and lays a strong foundation for future generations. A very comprehensive guide to DevSecOps practices and practical implementations, if we want to pick one book from this list, Agile Application Security would be the one.
4. Building a Modern Security Program
Looking for practical advice from someone who has already done it? Then this book from Zane Lackey of Etsy fame is just perfect. He takes you through his journey from a traditional security background and how Etsy's DevOps implementation changed his views on running successful modern security programs.
5. Securing DevOps
A very recent addition to the growing list of DevSecOps Books from Julien of the Mozilla security team. The publisher sums it up nicely "Securing DevOps explores how the techniques of DevOps and security should be applied together to make cloud services safer. This introductory book reviews the latest practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure and teaches you techniques to integrate security directly into your product. You'll also learn the core concepts of DevOps, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as a service."
6. Hands-On Security in DevOps: Ensure continuous security, deployment, and delivery with DevSecOps
Though dry at times with lots of emphasis on standards, policies, and compliance aspects of DevSecOps, it definitely summarises lots of good information into a book.
7. Generation Z Developers
If programming scares you or you are just starting your career, you must read this amazing book from Photobox CISO Dinis Cruz. Dinis wrote this book for Generation Z (those who were born after 1996) but the tools (ChatOps, Docker, Jira, AI, etc.) and techniques he shared apply to anyone who wants to start learning DevOps.
8. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
This is another classic from Gene Kim and Jez Humble, a worthy sequel to The Phoenix Project. This book shows how a perfect marriage between DevOps and security would look like, showcases interesting case studies on how different organizations have achieved DevOps maturity.
9. SRE and The site Reliability workbook
The Software Reliability Engineering (DevOps) book from Google's Operations Team. Do we need to say more? Grab a copy!
10. Continuous Delivery
Why is this book listed here? Any practical implementation of a well-oiled DevSecOps pipeline needs a good understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. The author explains the need for CI/CD in cross-functional teams and how deploying in an agile, iterative process is the best way to develop software quickly and securely.
Do you want to learn the Practical DevSecOps tools and techniques in these books and implement them faster in your organization? Then please check out our courses and certifications.
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Dear Readers,
Welcome to the seventh edition of the Voices & Visions Literary Journal, themed "Environments." It is an exciting time for our journal; in the last year, we expanded our submission pool to include alumnae who attended women's educational institutions worldwide. In addition, we reached readers in 111 countries– over half of the world– with the help of publicity from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, women's rights activist Gloria Steinem (Smith College '56), and Ms. magazine, the first mainstream feminist magazine produced in the United States.
As our readership grows, so does our editorial staff. We are thrilled to welcome three Smith College first-years to our team: Aviva Green, Abby Westgate, and STRIDE student Faith de Castro. Past Voices & Visions contributor Faizah Aziz Aditya, a senior at the Asian University for Women, located in Bangladesh, also joins our staff as an international assistant editor.
It is a privilege to not only share the works of women around the world, but to work with a growing team of women who make this publication possible. This fall, our staff found "Environments" a uniquely interdisciplinary theme, connecting politics, landscape studies, and stewardship with issues of home, change, and travel. Contributors' works inspired us to think of the ways in which our surroundings, familiar or new, are ever-evolving– constructed by us, the people who comprise them. They are fluid rather than static; vulnerable more than dependable. It is our responsibility to honor their strength and their fragility– to use our voices and execute our visions for the environments in which we live.
But what is an environment? Is it physical? Emotional? What of our communities exist apart from us? And what of them are projections of our own internality?
This issue offers twenty-one written and visual works that interpret, observe, and critique that which surrounds. Our spring issue, which you can submit work for here, will concern transitions.
Happy reading!
Brittany Collins, Editor-in-Chief
Beth Derr, Managing Editor
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