text:
| This article has been evaluated to be at quality level 6.
Bolo finds this pleasing, but she would like more.
|Falco Maxime: Centcom
A Rebellion Urga Postolka near the base. Note the warning sign, meaning the helicopter is within the base influence, but not considered a threat yet.
|Settlement in Medici
|Regional central command
|Insula Striate
|Missions that take place here
|The Shatterer of Worlds
Falco Maxime: Centcom is a regional central command base in Just Cause 3.
According to the in-game map: "Perched high in the mountains and guarded by powerful Bavarium warheads, Falco Maxime is Di Ravello's grandest fortress. The CentCom Tower's computer network houses the largest and most comprehensive repository of Bavarium knowledge in the world."
This base is protected by a Bavarium FOW missile system which, according to Dimah, are "miniature Bavarium nukes", making this place very difficult to attack, but the FOW can be disabled by doing the mission Bavarium Blackout.
The base has 4 runways and some large concrete buildings. As with the other two regional central command bases, its highest point is a big tower.
This could be the primary headquarters for the military in Insula Striate, as Di Ravello's palace in Citate Di Ravello might also be a HQ for the military in Insula Striate.
In the Falco province, in the middle of Insula Striate. This is one of the highest mountaintops in Medici. At night the base lights are visible to great distances in western Insula Striate.
A military road, guarded by a military base outpost, connects the base to a public road east of the base. The public road has civilian traffic on it. That civilian road is famous for having Mario drive his The Rocket on it.
This base is claimed by some players to be the hardest base to liberate.
- 2 Antenna Towers.
- 2 Circuit Breakers.
- 1 Core Electrical Unit.
- 2 Doppler Radars.
- 12 Fuel Tanks.
- 2 Long Range Radars.
- 1 SATCOM Dish.
- 1 Sphere Tank.
- 2 Substation Controls.
- 6 Transformers.
- U41 Ptakojester unlocks at Rebel drop.
- Wingsuit Course: Maxime Tour.
- Land Race: Strip Mine Sprint.
- Destruction Frenzy: FOW Frenzy.
Completion without doing Bavarium BlackoutEdit
The base FOW is disabled in the mission Bavarium Blackout. The mission is an essential part of the main storyline.
One way to complete this base without the mission is to sneak on top of the main tower from the cliff-side and get on top of it. Then, shoot destructibles until an Urga Mstitel shows up. Hijack it. Hover above the main tower, then activate the Bavarium shield for short bursts of attacking chaos objects. As long as you are directly above the launcher at the top of the tower, you can safely regenerate your shields until you liberate the base and unlock the U41 Ptakojester. It is also possible to destroy many destructibles by just staying at the top of the tower near the launcher, as the missile cannot reach there.
You can move along the rear perimeter of the base by grappling the Bavarium nuke to one of its two supporting poles, resulting in it shooting itself. This provides more moving ground to destroy chaos objects. The Bavarium nuke's head can be broken temporarily until it fixes automatically.
You can also do the same thing: sneak up, but use your Grappling hook on the missile launcher and hook it to the ground so it cannot fire. This is not reccomended since it may break free and start firing again.
During the takeover the base gets support from an Imperator Bavarium Tank and two to three Urga Mstitel helicopters.
- U-7 Dravec.
- Some frequently land and take off.
- Some are parked in the hangar.
- CS7 Thunderhawk.
- Some frequently land and take off.
- Some are parked in the hangar.
- Imperator Bavarium Tank.
- 2 to 3 show up during the takeover to stop you. There is even one patrolling the base before the takeover.
- 1 in military colors will always patrol the base after the takeover.
- Urga Mstitel - 2 to 3 show up during the takeover to stop you. There is even one patrolling the base before the takeover.
- Medici Military vehicles such as the Weimaraner W3, Urga Ogar 7 V8, Stria Obrero, and others also show up driven by Medici Military personnel.
- A CS Navajo is parked next to the tower.
- Urga Fura 570 next to a Fuel Tank.
- Urga Bkolos 2100 next to the Core Electrical Unit.
- The Rebellion won't send any vehicles to assist you during the base liberation, but upon base liberation, every vehicle here becomes Rebellion property (even the Medici Military-marked IBT)
Bugs and glitchesEdit
Main article: Just Cause 3 Bugs and glitches.
All Platforms
- There is a Medici Military-marked Imperator Bavarium Tank patrolling the base after this base is liberated that is hostile to the Medici Military. This vehicle should probably be in Rebellion colors, however no one can be sure that this is a glitch. The other bavarium shielded vehicle, the Urga Mstitel, cannot be obtained at all after 100% map liberation, as all spawn locations are replaced with an Urga Hrom D. The only way to obtain it in Rebellion colours is through rebel drop.
- At night, the lights on the centcom tower are still visible after it has been destroyed. You can even see the individual light models when up close at day and night. This happens with all of the central command bases.
- The Urga Mstitel and the ones that are called for backup spawn as the golden variant of the Urga Mstitel. The golden variant is not supposed to exist in the game until you find all Di Ravello tapes. Wrecks can still be found after you do the last storyline mission, or find the wreck north of this base. This is probably the result of a development error.
- The U41 Ptakojester will sometimes not be unlocked in the Rebel drop list and will instead be grayed over and have the text "Military Base Locked" on the far right of the bar, even when liberating Falco Maxime: Centcom.
- Falco Maxime is stated by many people to be one of the hardest military bases to liberate in this region, as this base is the military headquarters for the most important and largest region in Medici. "Centcom" is short for "Central Command".
- There are two more locations like this: Cima Leon: Centcom and Corda Dracon: Centcom.
- This is the only Centcom that does not start with C.
- This is the only Centcom without old fortress parts.
- The base can be easily seen at night due to its bright lights perched on top of the highest mountain.
- The tower is in ruins after the events of the mission that takes place here.
- Out of all the FOW missile launchers, only the single one at the top of the tower is functional during normal gameplay, while the four surrounding the tower is only seen to be activated during the cutscene of "The Shatterer of Worlds" as they launched missiles to destroy the tower. The two launchers further away from the tower is never seen to be activated at any time throughout the gameplay.
- The seven FOW missile launchers which fire the Bavarium nukes bear some resemblance to the Rolling Airframe Missile system.
- When Rico reaches the top of the tower while the FOW missile launcher is activated, it will not aim at Rico but rather shoot upwards without aiming at anything, and the missile will continue to fly upwards until disappear. If Rico jumps onto the rotating platform of the launcher, the launcher will start spinning around, and the closer Rico is to the center, the faster it will spin.
- It is possible to have the Bavarium Launchers attack you after having disabled them. If one enters the fighter jets parked inside the base (not the ones taxiing down the runway) and leaves, the launchers will reactivate, attacking Rico as before "Bavarium Blackout" took place. This bug will cease to work upon completing "The Shatterer of Worlds" as the only functional launcher is physically destroyed along with the tower.
- After the tower is destroyed, an outline of the tower can be seen where it was, especially at long distance. This can easily be seen when visiting the base at night.
- On rare occasions, you might be able to a Urga Szturm 63A at this base with some Rebellion soldiers carrying some unique weapons. These include a sniper carrying a CS110 Archangel, another soldier with a Prizrak U4 and another soldier with a Urga Vdova 89. These three weapons are not found or used commonly with the Rebellion. They can enter vehicles when they feel like it.
- This is the only military base starting with "F".
- This is the only place where Urga Mstitels will attack you minus the base commanders at Vulture (Maestrale) and Griphon (Costa Sud).
- This is the only airport in Medici with more than 3 runways.
- In the ruins of the CentCom tower there are two screens that survived the collapse. One is just displaying static but the other appears to be a security camera feed with unidentifiable items visible in the room.


text:
Pictures of Scotland
Thought a picture of Scotland along with a Scottish name which is VERY hard to pronounce would be nice. I copuldn't decide between Culzean castle (pronounced Cul - ane)
Or Bridge of Orchy (pronunced Orky)
Commentaires2Jeudi 2 Mars 2017 à 04:28I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but good
topic. I needs to spend some time learning more or understanding more.
Thanks for wonderful info I was looking for this information for my mission.3Vendredi 3 Mars 2017 à 11:29Hello there, I discovered your blog by means of Google whilst searching for a similar subject, your website got here
up, it appears great. I've bookmarked it in my google bookmarks.
Hello there, just become alert to your weblog via Google, and located that it's really informative.
I am going to be careful for brussels. I will be grateful for those who continue this in future.
Many other folks can be benefited out of your writing.
Cheers!4Lundi 13 Mars 2017 à 20:31Please let me know if you're looking for a author for your
site. You have some really good posts and I feel I would be a good
asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I'd really like to write some content
for your blog in exchange for a link back to mine.
Please shoot me an email if interested. Kudos!5Vendredi 23 Février 2018 à 11:41Wonderful post however , I was wondering if you could write
a litte more on this topic? I'd be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit more.
Appreciate it!6Lundi 8 Juillet 2019 à 01:48I've been browsing online more than three hours today, yet I never found
any interesting article like yours. It is pretty worth enough
for me. Personally, if all site owners and bloggers made good content as
you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.|
I couldn't refrain from commenting. Exceptionally well written!|
I will right away grasp your rss feed as I can't find your e-mail subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service.
Do you have any? Kindly let me realize in order that I
may just subscribe. Thanks.|
It is the best time to make some plans for the future and it's time to be happy.
I have read this post and if I could I want to suggest you few
interesting things or tips. Perhaps you could write next articles referring to this article.
I wish to read even more things about it!|
It is the best time to make a few plans for the long run and it's time to be happy.
I have learn this post and if I may I wish to counsel you some fascinating things or
suggestions. Maybe you could write subsequent articles regarding this article.
I want to learn even more issues approximately it!|
I have been surfing on-line greater than three hours lately, yet I never found any attention-grabbing
article like yours. It is beautiful value enough for me.
Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made excellent content material as you did, the net might be a lot
more helpful than ever before.|
Ahaa, its nice discussion about this piece of writing at this place at this
website, I have read all that, so now me also commenting at this place.|
I am sure this post has touched all the internet
people, its really really fastidious paragraph on building up new weblog.|
Wow, this paragraph is pleasant, my sister is
analyzing these kinds of things, thus I am going to inform her.|
bookmarked!!, I really like your website!|
Way cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you writing this write-up and the rest of the site is also really good.|
Hi, I do believe this is an excellent web site. I stumbledupon it
;) I am going to come back yet again since i have bookmarked it.
Money and freedom is the best way to change, may
you be rich and continue to guide other people.|
Woah! I'm really digging the template/theme of this blog.
It's simple, yet effective. A lot of times it's tough to get
that "perfect balance" between superb usability and visual appeal.
I must say that you've done a amazing job with
this. Additionally, the blog loads super quick for me on Opera.
Superb Blog!|
These are truly wonderful ideas in regarding blogging.
You have touched some nice things here. Any way keep up wrinting.|
I like what you guys are usually up too. Such clever work
and reporting! Keep up the excellent works guys I've incorporated you
guys to blogroll.|
Hey there! Someone in my Myspace group shared this site with
us so I came to check it out. I'm definitely loving the information. I'm bookmarking and will be tweeting this to
my followers! Great blog and amazing style and design.|
I love what you guys tend to be up too. This
sort of clever work and coverage! Keep up
the wonderful works guys I've included you guys to my own blogroll.|
Howdy would you mind sharing which blog platform you're working with?
I'm planning to start my own blog in the near future but I'm having a hard time choosing between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal.
The reason I ask is because your design and style seems different then most blogs and I'm looking
for something completely unique.
P.S Apologies for being off-topic but I had
to ask!|
Hi would you mind letting me know which webhost you're working with?
I've loaded your blog in 3 different web browsers and I must say this blog loads a
lot quicker then most. Can you recommend a good internet hosting provider at
a honest price? Thanks, I appreciate it!|
Everyone loves it when people get together and share thoughts.
Great blog, stick with it!|
Thank you for the auspicious writeup. It in fact
was a amusement account it. Look advanced to more added agreeable from you!
By the way, how can we communicate?|
Hello just wanted to give you a quick heads up.
The words in your article seem to be running off the screen in Chrome.
I'm not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do
with internet browser compatibility but I thought I'd post to let you know.
The design and style look great though! Hope you get the problem
solved soon. Cheers|
This is a topic which is close to my heart...
Thank you! Where are your contact details though?|
It's very simple to find out any matter on web as compared to
books, as I found this piece of writing at this site.|
Does your blog have a contact page? I'm having trouble locating it but,
I'd like to send you an e-mail. I've got some ideas for your blog you might be interested in hearing.
Either way, great site and I look forward to seeing it develop over time.|
Greetings! I've been following your blog for some time now and
finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Tx!
Just wanted to mention keep up the excellent work!|
Greetings from California! I'm bored to tears at work so
I decided to browse your website on my iphone during lunch break.
I really like the info you present here and can't wait to take a look when I get home.
I'm amazed at how quick your blog loaded on my phone .. I'm not even using WIFI, just 3G ..
Anyhow, fantastic site!|
Its such as you read my mind! You appear to understand
so much about this, such as you wrote the guide in it or
something. I believe that you could do with some % to pressure the message house a bit, however instead
of that, this is wonderful blog. A great read. I will definitely
be back.|
I visited several websites however the audio feature for audio songs existing at this web page is in fact
Hi, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just
curious if you get a lot of spam responses? If so how do you stop it, any plugin or anything you can advise?
I get so much lately it's driving me mad so any help is very much appreciated.|
Greetings! Very useful advice within this post! It is the
little changes that make the greatest changes. Many thanks for sharing!|
I really love your blog.. Excellent colors & theme.
Did you make this web site yourself? Please reply back as I'm planning to create my own personal blog and would
like to find out where you got this from or just what the theme
is named. Many thanks!|
Hi there! This blog post could not be written any better!
Reading through this post reminds me of my previous roommate!
He constantly kept preaching about this. I will send this post to him.
Fairly certain he'll have a very good read. I appreciate you
for sharing!|
Amazing! This blog looks just like my old one!
It's on a totally different subject but it has pretty much the same page layout and design.
Outstanding choice of colors!|
There's certainly a great deal to know about this subject.
I really like all the points you've made.|
You have made some really good points there. I checked on the net for more
information about the issue and found most individuals will go along
with your views on this website.|
Hello, I check your blogs regularly. Your writing style is awesome,
keep it up!|
I simply couldn't leave your website prior to suggesting that
I really enjoyed the standard information a person provide for your
visitors? Is going to be again ceaselessly to investigate cross-check new posts|
I need to to thank you for this excellent read!! I certainly
loved every little bit of it. I have got you book-marked to check out
new things you post…|
Hi there, just wanted to say, I enjoyed this blog post.
It was helpful. Keep on posting!|
Hi there, I enjoy reading through your article.
I like to write a little comment to support you.|
I constantly spent my half an hour to read this web
site's articles or reviews everyday along with a mug of coffee.|
I for all time emailed this blog post page to all my contacts, since if like to read it next my links
will too.|
My developer is trying to persuade me to move to .net from PHP.
I have always disliked the idea because of the expenses.
But he's tryiong none the less. I've been using Movable-type on a
variety of websites for about a year and am concerned about switching to another platform.
I have heard fantastic things about blogengine.net.
Is there a way I can import all my wordpress content into it?
Any kind of help would be really appreciated!|
Good day! I could have sworn I've been to this site before but after looking
at some of the posts I realized it's new to me. Regardless, I'm definitely pleased I found it and
I'll be bookmarking it and checking back regularly!|
Terrific article! This is the kind of information that are meant
to be shared across the web. Shame on the seek engines
for now not positioning this post higher! Come on over and seek advice from my web site .
Thank you =)|
Heya i'm for the first time here. I came across this board and I find It really useful & it helped me
out much. I hope to give something back and aid others like you helped me.|
Hi there, I think your website may be having web browser compatibility issues.
Whenever I look at your blog in Safari, it looks fine however
when opening in IE, it's got some overlapping issues. I merely
wanted to give you a quick heads up! Besides that, excellent
Someone necessarily help to make severely articles I'd state.
This is the first time I frequented your website page and
thus far? I amazed with the research you made to make this particular
post extraordinary. Excellent job!|
Heya i am for the primary time here. I came across this board and I in finding It really useful &
it helped me out a lot. I hope to provide something back and aid others such as you aided me.|
Hello! I simply would like to offer you a huge thumbs up for the
excellent info you've got here on this post.
I am returning to your website for more soon.|
I always used to read post in news papers but now as I
am a user of internet thus from now I am using net for articles or reviews, thanks to web.|
Your method of telling everything in this paragraph is in fact fastidious, every one
be capable of effortlessly know it, Thanks a lot.|
Hi there, I discovered your site via Google while searching for a comparable matter, your website came up, it
appears great. I have bookmarked it in my google bookmarks.
Hi there, just become alert to your blog thru Google, and located that it's really informative.
I am gonna be careful for brussels. I'll be grateful in the event
you continue this in future. Many folks shall be benefited from your writing.
I'm curious to find out what blog platform you're working with?
I'm experiencing some minor security issues with my latest website and I would like to find something more risk-free.
Do you have any recommendations?|
I'm really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your weblog.
Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself?
Either way keep up the excellent quality writing, it is
rare to see a nice blog like this one today.|
I am really inspired with your writing skills and also with the layout to your
weblog. Is this a paid subject or did you customize it yourself?
Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing, it's rare to see a nice blog like this one nowadays..|
Hi, Neat post. There's an issue together with your website in internet explorer,
may test this? IE nonetheless is the market leader and a good element of other folks will omit your fantastic writing due to this problem.|
I'm not sure where you're getting your info, but great topic.
I needs to spend some time learning much more or understanding more.
Thanks for wonderful info I was looking for this information for my mission.|
Hello, i think that i saw you visited my web site so i
came to "return the favor".I'm trying to find things to improve my website!I suppose
its ok to use a few of \
Ajouter un commentaire

subset: commoncrawl


text:
9 Old Wives' Tales About Baby Care You Should Definitely Ignore
When I announced my first pregnancy, my Godmother gifted me with a stack of baby books she'd read while raising her three children. Although the newest book was at least 15 years old, I figured that not a lot could have possibly changed, and read them anyway. I couldn't have been more wrong. Much of the information in those old books was outdated and even dangerous. The same can be said about some of the parenting advice I was given by older relatives. I learned that there are definitely some old wives' tales about baby care you should definitely ignore.
Parents who have managed to raise healthy kids by following dangerous old wives' tales or outdated advice probably don't realize that they actually got quite lucky. Practices that are now proven to increase a baby's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) were commonplace as recently as 30 years ago. Because of this, your Nana may cluck when you tell her she can't put your baby to nap on the tummy, or that massaging alcohol onto a baby's gums is not an appropriate treatment for teething.
Here are some more old wives' tales about baby care you should skip for your baby's safety.
Old Wives' Tale 1: Rubbing Alcohol Lowers A Baby's Fever
Not only is this wrong, but it is dangerous. According to Baby Center, using rubbing alcohol on a baby's skin is counterproductive. It does cool a baby's skin quickly, but it also causes the baby to shiver, which makes their body temperature go up again. Also, alcohol is absorbed through your baby's skin when applied and into their lungs when inhaled. This can cause alcohol poisoning and lead to a coma or other serious medical complications.
Old Wives' Tale 2: Babies Should Start Solids At 2 Months
Don't be surprised if your grandma insists that your little one is ready for rice cereal by 8 weeks. According to Slate, in 1962, a Miami pediatrician named Walter W. Sackett, Jr., author of the book Bringing Up Babies, wrote that breast milk and formula were "deficient," and therefore babies should start cereal at 2 days of age. For some older adults, this advice has stuck. The American Academy of Pediatrics, in fact, recommends breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition for your baby for about 6 months, with the earliest introduction to solids no sooner than at 4 months of age.
Old Wives' Tale 3: You Need To Sterilize Bottles After Every Use
According to The Bump, you only need to sterilize your baby bottles and nipples before the first use. After that point, you can wash them with hot soapy water, or put them in the dishwasher. Over-boiling the bottle's nipples can cause them to break down quickly, as well. Broken or compromised nipples and pacifiers are a choking hazard for babies.
Old Wives' Tale 4: Back Sleeping Will Cause A Baby To Choke
Most parents who've had children in the last 20 years were educated on the the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health Human Development's (NIHCD) Safe to Sleep campaign (formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign). Prior to that, parents regularly put their babies to sleep on their stomachs out of fear of them choking on their spit up. According to the NICHD, babies have a reflex to automatically cough up or swallow fluid that they spit up or vomit and keep their airways clear.
Old Wives' Tale 5: Your Infant Needs To Drink Water Daily
It used to be common to see infants drinking water from their baby bottles. However, pediatrician Stephen R. Daniels, M.D., Ph.D. wrote on Baby Center that your baby shouldn't drink water until he's about 6 months old. Until then, babies get all the hydration they need from breast milk or formula, even on hot days.
Old Wives' Tale 6: Blowing Cigarette Smoke In A Baby's Ear Will Cure An Ear Infection
In the past, people believed that ear aches were caused by cold air getting into a baby's ear. Blowing cigarette smoke into a baby's ear was thought to warm up the ear canal and cure the ear ache. According to the website for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, blowing smoke into a child's ear will do nothing to cure an ear infection or ear ache.
Old Wives' Tale 7: Bathe Your Baby In Guinness Stout For Beautiful Skin
If you are of Asian descent, you may have been told by your aunts that a bath in Guinness (yes, the beer) is healthy for a newborn baby's skin. According to the website Hello Grandbaby, this was a practice that was popular in the 1950s by Chinese moms in Singapore and Malaysia. The website The Asian Parent noted that although Cantonese moms once believed that the baby's skin absorbed the stout and became strong, you should actually keep your beer where it belongs, in your pint glass.
Old Wives' Tale 8: You Should Rub Brandy Or Whiskey On A Baby's Sore Gums
The day your little one starts teething, don't be surprised if you hear someone recommend rubbing brandy or whiskey on your baby's sore gums. Past generations have believed that this kind of alcohol alleviates teething pain. However, pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu has warned against this practice, noting on CNN.com that no amount of alcohol is safe for infants.
Old Wives' Tale 9: Spitting Up Is A Sign Of Weight Gain
This is a Latino old wives' tale that many abuelitas (grandmas) believe to this day. My son had a little bit of reflux as an infant, and every time he would spit up, his great-grandma would tell me that it was a sign that he was healthy and gaining weight. I'm not sure what the root of this belief is, but I surmise that it probably had to do with kids who drink more than enough milk and then spit up. Kelly Mom noted that although spitting up isn't always a medical problem, babies who have discomfort when spitting up should be taken to the doctor to be evaluated for conditions such as food sensitivities or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD).


text:
Causes And Treatment For Dizziness & Imbalance
The body is made up of an amazing set of systems working together to interpret and interact with the world. There are many seemingly simple everyday processes that are the result of millions of interlocking reactions in the body and brain. When one of these is interrupted, such as our balance, you can experience immediate and sudden debilitation.
How does balance work?
Balance involves sensory inputs transmitted to your brain. Some of these come from your eyes and muscular system but a large portion come from your ears.
We each have a pool of fluid inside one of the parts of our hearing system called the cochlea. Movement of this liquid is detected by sensory hairs inside the cochlea and this information is passed to the brain.
Imagine you have liquid in a glass. If that liquid is level, you know that glass is still and steady. If anything shakes it about, you can see disruption on the surface of the water and you know that the glass is moving. These are the kinds of readings that your ears take based on the fluid within the cochlea. Using this information, your brain can tell what is happening to your body and where it is in space i.e. how balanced you are.
What causes dizziness?
There are many different causes for dizziness. It is a symptom of various health issues, most of which are not serious. It disrupts the senses in some way and typically affects the eyes and ears.
If anything, such as an infection, blockage, or pressure problem, is affecting the fluid in the inner ear, it can manifest as dizziness.
Putting it all together
When you put imbalance and dizziness together, it can cause moments of strong disorientation and concern. If it happens regularly and is accompanied by other symptoms, such as blurred vision, nausea, fainting, or tinnitus, you need to seek medical advice as soon as possible. A doctor can help you to rule out any serious causes and may be able to reassure you that it is down to a hearing issue.
Once you have had confirmation that any dizziness and imbalance is related to your ears, that's when you can come and see us at Life Long Hearing. All you need to do is click here to book an appointment with us and we will see you as soon as possible for a full hearing assessment.
We understand how disruptive something like dizziness can be and will talk you through the various effects that it has on your lifestyle. We can identify any problems with the hearing system, localize them, and recommend treatments to improve your symptoms.


text:
The Perry Main Street Advisory Board offers a façade grant program to assist current and active businesses in Perry's downtown development district.
The facade grant program provides incentives to business and property owners to make improvements to historic properties and to renovate and/or rehabilitate buildings.
Perry Main Street seeks to promote the historic character and sense of place that is unique to downtown by providing opportunities for business and property owners to honor buildings' heritage, unique architectural features, historic appearance and significance, current condition, contribution to the district and overall impact. The program was recently amended to make certain improvements on the rear of a building facing a downtown alley eligible for the grant.
All applications and proposed improvement projects will be reviewed by Perry Main Street's Design Committee. The Design Committee may approve or disapprove a proposed improvement at the committee's discretion in accordance with the grant program guidelines.
The committee may also make recommendations to the business or property owner for future consideration and review.
If a property is leased, the property owner must consent in writing to the proposed project and improvements. This consent may be provided in the form of a legally sufficient letter of support, or the property owner may also serve as a co-applicant.
The Design Committee reserves the right to award grant funding to a proposed improvement based on the significance of the project and level of work to be completed, such as returning a building or structure to its historical integrity; the more significant the level of work proposed, the grant applicant could potentially receive a higher amount of grant funding.
To view eligibility criteria and a breakdown of the grant award structure, click here.
For more information, please, contact Main Street Coordinator Catherine Edgemon at (478) 987-1729 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Oregon Deer Population and Management News Archive
Blacktail hunters looking to rebound September 23, 2011 Oregon, Mail Tribune, By Mark Freeman
...Cool and wet weather through May caused near failure of low-elevation acorns ... a ratio of 19 bucks per 100 does in the Rogue Unit.... down from last year's ratio of 33 bucks per 100 does... the lowest ratio since 2006, when a meager 12 bucks per 100 does were recorded in the Rogue Unit....Applegate Unit has 36 bucks per 100 does ... up from 31 bucks per 100 does last year.... Eastern Oregon's trophy units are managed for 25 bucks per 100 does. The Rogue Unit is managed for 15 bucks per 100 does, and statewide anything over 35 bucks per 100 does is considered a good buck ratio.
These articles have been reviewed for relevance and content. Some links to the original article may no longer be active.
Related News and Information
More Deer Management and Population News by State


text:
Chocolate Oreo Balls
There is something amazing about chocolate Oreos and cream cheese. The smooth insides of these chocolate Oreo balls is dangerously good. I dare you to try stop at just one.
As with all of the other dessert ball recipes on our website, these Oreo balls are perfect for sharing. They are the perfect bite sized dessert that makes them great for entertaining. Make a batch for your next get together and I promise you will be popular with your friends and family.
If you like these chocolate Oreo balls, you might also like to try our easy Milo balls, Tim Tam balls and 3 ingredient apricot balls.
To make these chocolate Oreo balls, first add the Oreo cookies to a food processor and process until the cookies are crushed. Next, add the room temperature cream cheese to the crushed Oreos and process again until the Oreos and cream cheese are smooth and combined.
Take tablespoons full of the Oreo mixture and roll in your hands to form a ball. Add the Oreo balls to a plate as you go.
Once all of the mixture is formed into balls, it's time to melt the chocolate and coat the Oreo balls. I coated half of my Oreo balls in white chocolate and half in dark chocolate, but you can coat all of yours in white chocolate or dark chocolate if you prefer. I also drizzled a little dark chocolate on the white chocolate balls, and white chocolate on the dark chocolate balls, but that's completely optional.
Once all of the Oreo balls are coated in the melted chocolate, place them in the fridge to set. Store the chocolate Oreo balls in the fridge, until they are ready to be served.
Chocolate Oreo Balls
- 36 Oreo cookies
- 250g cream cheese, softened
- 200g white chocolate
- 200g dark chocolate
- Add the Oreo cookies to a food processor and process until finely crushed.
- Add the softened cream cheese to the crushed Oreos and process again until smooth and well combined.
- Take tablespoons full of the Oreo mixture and roll into balls.
- Melt the chocolate. Coat the Oreo balls in the melted chocolate.
- Place the Oreo balls in the fridge to set. Store in the fridge until ready to serve.
Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.


text:
After many a time administration recreation already targeted on promoting pets for profit, Pet Show Craze proves that there is much to earn from simply easy pet care too. Pet shops are additionally required to offer purchasers with a health assure and care information for their new pet. These necessities have been introduced in response to community concern about pet shops promoting animals bred in unlawful and cruelly operated puppy farms. There are some online pet stores that offer first time clients an important deal and sale worth on sure merchandise. Finding a pet shop online that sells the products you need is barely half the battle on the subject of choosing the one for you. Some pet stores also provide tips on training and behaviour, as well as advice on pet diet.
It was a extremely large disappointment especially after buying many gems and the time invested taking part in other games to earn gems and degree up. This must be fixed or upgraded for more people to play this recreation and extra importantly, KEEP taking part in the sport.
Shipping costs could be the one a part of buying online that you may end up paying extra money for, so be sure to do your research and store around on the totally different sites to seek out ones that provide special reductions. The variety of merchandise accessible on-line at pet shops is probably one of many greatest reasons to choose to buy over the Internet.
You might want to discover out about insurance coverage choices or different protecting measures that you can take to ensure your pet supplies will arrive safely if you end up anticipating them. In Pet Show Craze, you play as Maria after you realized from your Aunt Agatha that Petsville is about to be demolished to make means for a manufacturing unit selling plastic toys. Pet Shop Boys, however, proceed to reinvent themselves album after album, together with their newest collaboration. Some pet outlets on the internet take as much as ten days to deliver orders which might make life tough you probably have multiple pets to order for on completely different days of the month. Includes four minifigures with equipment: pet shop owner, girl on bicycle, painter with paint curler and lady! For birds, your chosen pet store should stock all the things it's good to preserve a bird throughout the house. Andy's Pet Shop helps you by offering quality recommendation and products for your pets.
In the USA and Canada, pet shops typically provide both hygienic care (comparable to pet cleaning) and esthetic companies (reminiscent of cat and canine grooming ). Grooming is the method by which a canine or cats's physical appearance is enhanced and stored based on breed standards for competitive breed exhibiting, for different sorts of competition, like artistic grooming or pet tuning contests, or simply to their house owners taste.


text:
What Are Foreclosure Listings?
I was taking a look at some different choices for my shopper. HUD foreclosures are sold utilizing a bidding course of, and you will need to rent a licensed real property agent to assist you with process. U.S. Division of Housing and Urban Improvement (HUD) residential foreclosures can be found on the market all through the United States. A house that has gone into mortgage default with a mortgage that's insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is known as a HUD Home.
HUD can't take possession unless there's a foreclosure auction or the proprietor signs over the home as a deed in lieu. HUD foreclosures are offered utilizing a bidding process. There may be also a chance that HUD will settle for an investor's low bid if HUD modifications the price on their houses, and that low bid is now in an appropriate vary to HUD. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a part of HUD – the part that provides federal mortgage insurance coverage.
When the loans go bad and lenders foreclose on the properties, the company pays the lenders off and takes over the houses. Depending on such components as time on the market, and the present …


text:
Dołącz do nas, możesz się cieszyć :
Nowy klient? Zacznij tutaj.Moje konto Moje zamówienia Moja lista życzeń Moje kupony Moje punkty Moi poleceni BGpay
2019-08-01 05:32:49
Produto chegou e apresenta boa qualidade!
2020-06-02 20:29:47
Relógios são lindos, mas as pulseiras não parecem ser tão boas!
2020-05-15 05:18:48
Good looking, elegant, comfortable watch. Accuracy is very good, less than 0.1 second after a month! Seiko movement inside is worths its price. TPU leader band is usable in daily usage. 45 mm dial size is not too small, but good for an adult man. Good and nice watch, I recommend it. Thanks Banggood and Naviforce.
2019-08-04 05:06:28
Really nice. Hands in great contrast to the face and a very comfortable leather strap. Love it!
2020-03-13 10:56:22
Bonne qualité, arrivée dans les temps.
2020-02-16 23:44:35
I didt get
2019-07-04 06:14:01
good looking watch, good price,good service, fast delivery, thanks
2019-05-02 13:05:47
velmi hezké
|Nasza firma
|Skontaktuj się z nami
|Płatność i wysyłka
|Programy partnerskie
We sincerely invite you to subscribe to the Invite Answer email!
If you subscribe, we will invite you via email to answer questions people have about products. By subscribing you'll also earn the "Helpful Badge"! You can unsubscribe at any time on the privacy settings page.
Help others and be happier!
Thank you for subscribing! You have also earned a badge!
Thank you! Your answer will help ###name### and ###num### other people!
Check awaiting answers to see more people who need help.
Thank you! Your answer will help ###name### and ###num### other people!
Subscribe to "Invite Answer" emails and use your knowledge to help more people with product questions. By subscribing you'll also earn the "Helpful Badge"!


text:
Motorola announces stylish MOTOLUXE and rugged DEFY MINI
Motorola made its first two announcements for 2012, unveiling the stylish MOTOLUXE and the rugged DEFY MINI smartphones. The two mid-range handsets run Android Gingerbread aim to deliver solid smartphone experience without breaking the bank.
Actually, we've already met the Motorola MOTOLUXE, which has been available in China for some time now, under the name XT615. Coming with a 4″ LCD of FWVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels) and an 800 MHz Scorpion CPU, this one will hardly top any benchmark leaderboards, but its Snapdragon chipset should allow it to run all productive applications easily.
Connectivity is nicely covered here with 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB and a 3.5mm audio jack. For the multimedia fans, the Motoroal MOTOLUXE offers an 8 megapixel camera and DivX support. The onboard storage is just 512MB, but we assume there's a microSD card slot for expanding it (though Motorola hasn't mentioned it explicitly).
Motorola XT615 MOTOLUXE is expected to come to Europe and Latin America starting in February, but there's no information about its pricing just yet.
The other new Motorola smartphone is called Motorola DEFY MINI and, as the name suggest is a more compact version of the popular Motorola DEFY. It comes with a 3.2″ HVGA display, sitting under a sheet of Gorilla Glass and offers water and dust resistance.
The Motorola DEFY MINI is powered by a 600 MHz CPU and has 512MB of RAM. It offers a decently geared connectivity suite – dual-band 3G with HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and a 3.5mm audio jack. Camera enthusiasts probably won't have much to love about the DEFY MINI as it offers a modest 3 megapixel main snapper and an unimpressive VGA front-facing camera.
Motorola DEFY MINI is expected to be available in China under the name Motorola XT320 and in select countries in Europe and Latin America starting in February. Once again there's no information about pricing.


text:
#Google Home devices have a few open doors ;)
"I was surprised to see so many ports open so I started to do some research and found that these devices have an undocumented (and amazingly unsecured) API"
@jwildeboer is any of this news? You can do all of this from the app without authenticating...
@finn it's not news. But it's also not fixed since years. You can factory reset devices, disable all notifications (that includes alarms, AFAICS) this way. Without any authentication. Combine that with hotels deploying these devices in all rooms and I think it becomes a bit more of a problem. http://www.zafiro.tv/blog/2017/11/16/chromecast-technology-in-your-hotel/
@jwildeboer How is that a problem? Presumably a hotel deployment like the one you linked would have proper client isolation, if not that's a larger problem.
@finn I think you just answered yourself ;) In a lot of real world hotel setups client isolation is not a given. Try an nmap next time, it'll be fun! Max I see is that they use 192.168.x.0/24s per floor where x is the floor number :)
@jwildeboer okay, I'm still not sure why this is a Google Home problem.
@jwildeboer brb, going to protect people from themselves by stopping their google devices connecting to the internet ;)
@UnclearFuture @jwildeboer
Is this basically https://xkcd.com/1807/ but better?
@jwildeboer oh fuck.
@jwildeboer yeah, I found this out last month when I opened chrome developer tools and it prompted me to connect to the google home devices on my work network.
@jwildeboer Umm, no one on my network would do such a thin g except me. actually, no one who shares my network could.
Mastodon instance for people with Wildeboer as their last name


text:
I'm a biological oceanographer from rural Nebraska who loves crochet, nature, and Africa. I am currently a researcher in estuary ecology at the University of Georgia and recently served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in rural South Africa training biology teachers. I have three sisters, three brothers-in-law, three nieces, and a nephew.
4 Responses to "About"
zeddy Says:
October 13, 2015 at 6:01 pm
Hey Annette, nice work you are doing, keep up and God bless. my email is , regards from Kenya
Andrew Says:
November 16, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Hey Annette!
*Please pardon the random comment! I tried unsuccessfully to find a way to privately message you, so I hope this gets to you*
Emily (my wife) and I are currently PCVs in Nicaragua in the TEFL Teaching Training sector, and have been keeping a blog during our last 15 months in country (www.maywesuggest.org). We first saw your blog during the PCV Blog it Home Contest, and have been keeping tabs on it since. Yay for technology giving us a platform to share about, reflect on, and connect with others about our PC service 🙂
I'm writing because I'd love you to contribute something for our blog. I've been keeping a Dicho Doce series (Sayings on the Twelfth – maywesuggest.org/peace-corps/dicho-doce-page/), cataloguing and sharing some of my favorite Nicaraguan expressions. For the 12th of December I'd like to collect twelve different sayings from 12 different PC posts around the world. The format I'm thinking of is a having each person submit the phrase in the native language, provide a direct American English translation (if possible), and then a short summary of its meaning and the context in which to use it (~100 words). If you have a photo to go with it, that's even better 🙂
I know that may not be enough space to do the expression justice, so if you select a phrase you've already mentioned on your blog there I'd love to link directly to the full post. We'd love for our family and friends to get a sense of the larger PC community and PCV experience by checking out the featured blogs.
What do you think? If you're interested, would you be able to send me something by the end of this month?
Muchas gracias!
annettehynes Says:
November 16, 2015 at 11:41 pm
Hello, Andrew!
As a PC Response volunteer, I didn't get isiZulu training and my skills are still very poor. But I will consult my friends about Zulu sayings.
I do have a post on Kiswahili sayings. My first Peace Corps service was in Kenya, 1999 – 2002. I should note that my take on the "Eyes of the frog" saying is incorrect. It is typically used to say that regardless of the words and warnings of small people, big people will do whatever they please.
Andrew Says:
November 19, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Awesome! Thanks Annette! I'll let you know if I have any questions for ya.


text:
Happy New Year and all the best for 2016.
Céad míle beannachta.
One hundred thousand blessings.
A huge thank you to all supporters of the Schools' International Peace Quilt Project, without you all it would not be possible! Following are the 2015 stats which show that the children's lovely art work has reached people in 196 countries of the world.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 21,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.


text:
Sad news to hear of his death at 67 from complications of cancer.
I met him once over 20 years ago when at NSW Health and we were deciding on new lab systems for NSW Health. Cerner then was a tiny company compared to today.
It seemed clear Cerner was going places even then.
Here is a link:
This blog is totally independent, unpaid and has only three major objectives.
The first is to inform readers of news and happenings in the e-Health domain, both here in Australia and world-wide.
The second is to provide commentary on e-Health in Australia and to foster improvement where I can.
The third is to encourage discussion of the matters raised in the blog so hopefully readers can get a balanced view of what is really happening and what successes are being achieved.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Vale Niel Patterson - Co-Founder Of Cerner
Posted by Dr David G More MB PhD at Monday, July 10, 2017
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
In an important health-based study carried out by Tribunebyte.com, it is found that people are opting for homemade Adderall recipes as natural Adderall alternatives. The study has underscored that people have reduced the use of Adderall supplements and shifted to homemade Adderall recipes in order to improve their focus and other cognitive brain functions. The reason for this is that Adderall supplements are not effective in bringing the results as they say while advertising.
While selecting the homemade Adderall recipes, people are intaking sugar and fat-laden breakfast foods as these foods provide the required nutrition to the brain. Another homemade Adderall recipe which is in high use as an alternative to natural Adderall supplements is scramble spinach or eggs. Eggs provide the necessary protein and Vitamins B, D and E which help to improve the brain memory significantly.
People have replaced junk food with leafy greens, whole grains, and legumes as such foods help to prevent memory loss and offer many other health benefits. It has been seen that different types of fish are used by people as a healthy brain option. The omega-3 oils present in fish offer several benefits to the brain. The availability of such foods is also one of the reasons for the high popularity of homemade Adderall recipes.
As vegetables provide antioxidants and other phytonutrients, these are used on a large scale to boost the functioning of the brain. Fruits such as Avocado and Blueberries are also eaten by people as a replacement for Adderall supplements to improve brain functions. Salads are preferred by people as a snack to get the proper nutrition for their brain.


text:
Sunderland hold Newcastle 1-1 in EPL
Newcastle's Demba Ba's late own-goal cost his team victory
Sunderland rescued a 1-1 draw against 10-man Newcastle yesterday as Demba Ba's late own-goal cost his team a victory over their bitter rivals in the Tyne-Wear derby. Newcastle had taken the lead through Yohan Cabaye's early strike.
Elsewhere, Everton held on for a 1-1 draw against QPR. David Moyes' side recovered from Junior Hoilett's early strike to equalise when a Sylvain Distin header deflected in off QPR 'keeper Julio Cesar's back for an own-goal.
Sign up for all the latest news, top galleries and trending videos from Mid-day.comSubscribe


text:
I love how excited everyone gets when they know spring is coming soon! The cold weather is fun for a bit but come March, we're definitely ready for warmer weather. Here's an easy and fun tutorial on how to make a spring egg centerpiece DIY Easter decoration. Perfect for welcoming the Easter Bunny!
Egg Centerpiece DIY Easter Decoration Supplies:
- Darice Wood Picket Fence Container
- 4 x 2 Inch Styrofoam Discs – (9)
- Darice Floral Prong Pins
- Darice Green Spanish Moss
- Darice 1/4 Inch Wood Dowel Rod
- Darice Paper Mache Eggs
- Wood Half Circles
- Strong Glue
- Chalk Paint
Step 1. Squeeze all the foam discs into the picket fence container. Wrap with moss and secure with floral pins. I added a slight white wash to the front of the container but you're welcome to leave it as it is or paint it darker.
Step 2. Push the dowel rods through the bottom of the eggs (it's pretty easy!) and use as handle as you paint. Once eggs have dried completely, flip and paint the dowels green.
Step 3. Paint half circles green and allow to dry completely before applying strong glue to the bottom and pushing into the base of the dowel. I applied a good amount of force so that the base would be below the moss, into the foam.
Step 4. I wanted to keep this DIY Easter decoration minimal and modern but there are tons of different ways you could customize this idea to match your decor! You could use the same colors and add a small "Hello Spring" pennant flag for an added dash of cuteness. Or stain the picket fence a darker wood and use a white wash to paint the eggs for a completely different Farmhouse Industrial look. So many options to have fun with!
Hope you enjoy making and customizing this spring centerpiece DIY Easter decoration! It would look beautiful in the center of your Easter brunch table. Happy Spring!
If you love the look of this DIY Easter decoration but want to use it after the Easter holiday, check out how to transform the picket fence container into a spring table decor planter centerpiece.
You may also like -
Meet Vanessa Brady…a self proclaimed sleep deprived mother of two adorable boys and when she has a little time to spare, she makes things and posts about them on her craft blog, Tried & True. If she's not cooking, sewing, gluing or making, she would probably go crazy.
Join Vanessa on her crafty adventure over at TriedandTrueBlog.com!


text:
The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide evidence on how teaching practices might contribute to student learning in different ways for different groups of students or in different kinds of schools.
Related Content
Related Publications for EL Education Schools and Teacher Professional Development
What Matters for Student Achievement? Exploring Teacher Instructional Practices and the Role of School-Level and Student-Level CharacteristicsAug 27, 2019
Evaluation of the Teacher Potential ProjectJun 28, 2019
Mathematica's report on the Teacher Potential Project, an initiative of EL Education, finds that the program—which includes an English language arts standards-aligned curriculum and embedded professional development for teachers—can improve teacher instructional practices and student achievement.
Sustaining Effective Teacher Practice: The Impact of the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Development on Teachers' InstructionNov 01, 2018
Teachers who engaged with EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and professional development more often demonstrated Common Core State Standards-aligned instructional practices compared to teachers receiving the curriculum and professional development provided by their districts.
Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher PracticesOct 30, 2017
The widespread adoption of more rigorous state guidelines for student learning, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), has led to tremendous interest in how best to prepare and develop teachers to foster the skills that students need to meet the new standards and succeed in college and careers.
Evaluation of Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools (In Focus Brief)Sep 30, 2013
EL middle school students perform better in reading and math than their public school counterparts.
Impacts of Five Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools on Academic AchievementJul 08, 2013
In the first rigorous study of the impacts of Expeditionary Learning (EL) model schools, Mathematica found that EL middle school students perform better in reading and math than their counterparts in other public schools.


text:
Posts Tagged With: News
Open House!
Posted on August 22, 2016 by Elena
Categories: Events | Tags: KC Robotics Team, meeting, News, open house | Leave a comment
How to Maximize your Midlands Gives Donation
Posted on April 12, 2016 by Elena
There are less than 3 weeks left for the crowd fundraiser Midlands Gives on May 3rd. This exciting event will accept donations for 24 hours to support over 375 nonprofits in 11 counties of the Midlands, including this team!
With only 24 hours during the day to give, how can you maximize your donation without minimizing your account balance?
Midlands Gives Prizes
You can learn about the prizes that several corporations have pledged to donate during specific times or for specific categories. Some of the prizes include
- matching donations of $100 during specific times
- $500 awared radomly during specific times
- $1,000 awarded to the first five organizations that get 100 gifts
- $1,000 added to one small budget and one large budget nonprofit that has the most unique donors during different times of the day
- $5,000 will be added to the 5,000th donation
And many others! To learn all the details on how to maximize your donation, go to https://midlandsgives.org/prizes and jot down the times when your donation is more likely to go further. Please spread the news on social media by using the hashtag #midlandsgives on Instagram and Twitter.
Happy giving!
Categories: Events, Fundraisers, social media | Tags: FIRST, Fundraisers, instagram, KC Robotics Team, Kershaw County, News, Robotics, social media, twitter | Leave a comment
Midlands Gives
Posted on April 4, 2016 by Elena
I have some exciting news to share with you! Our robotics team is one of the chosen non-profit organizations to benefit from Midlands Gives this year! This is a community foundation project in which generous individuals, families, and corporations can donate money to non profit organizations that server their own community. Start saving your lose change and anything else you can afford to give to this worthy cause. For more information, visit their website: https://midlandsgives.org/
Categories: Events, Fundraisers | Tags: Fundraisers, KC Robotics Team, Kershaw County, News, social media | Leave a comment


text:
Something interesting happened when I was playing with my niece some time ago. We were downstairs making up tunes and songs. I was swinging in a swing we have suspended from the rafters, going as high as I could go, touching my toes to the ceiling. While doing this a feeling came over me. I felt it often as a child playing and could be almost like a religious experience. When I felt it as a child I found that play had great depth and intensity and there was an incredible sense of profoundness. It is associated with a great sense of 'living' and 'being' in the world. As a result, it has had great impact on me and is a sense I continue to 'seek' even today.
It is primarily a particular sense of an awareness of existence. It is an awareness of being-within-existence, an awareness of that-which-is-about-us. This sense of that-which-is-about-us I often call the 'presence'. Because of this, it is really the 'awareness of the presence'. This 'presence' surrounds us and is in us. This makes it a generalized sense of awareness. It does not refer to an awareness of something specific, such as an object. It also is not describing an awareness of something within me, such as an emotion or thought.
It has unique qualities and characteristics. This awareness I speak of as 'Mass' awareness (sometimes I call this the 'confined presence' and I have written another article in this blog site called "Thoughts on the 'confined presence'" which talks about it from another angle). Some of the unique qualities of 'mass' awareness include:
- There is a sense that existence has a 'substance', a 'mass' to it. I've often described it as having a 'thick' quality.
- There's a sense of being within a 'fluid'. This 'fluid' is all about me, surrounding me, as if I am suspended in a fluid. This would mean that the sense of 'mass' I feel is not of 'matter' and objects, as we'd normally think, but of open space . . . air . . . the space between me and 'matter'.
- This sense of 'mass' makes the world seem three-dimensional.
- Things seem like they are 'felt' more so than 'seen' or perceived through the senses. Sometimes, I have this weird sense that I 'feel' objects and their shapes.
- Because of this, it seems like the 'mass' awareness is sensed more by 'intuition'. It is not perceived through the senses, or by thinking, philosophizing, or knowing. It has a quality of being 'sensed'.
- There seems to be a demarcation of "what-I-am-aware-of" and "what-I'm-not-aware-of". This often gives a sense of 'confinement', of being 'contained' in "what-I-am-aware-of". This does not lead to a claustrophobic sense, though. In fact, it comforting. I've often compared it to a blanket.
- Because of the sense of "what-I'm-not-aware-of", there is a sense of the fact that things go 'beyond' ones awareness. It's an awareness that there is more beyond what I am aware of. This gives a sense of 'beyondness'.
- Because I cannot sense the 'beyondness', there is a sense of mystery, that I do not know things.
- Everything else in the whole world seems to disappear and only anything in the "world of what-I-am-aware-of" seems to exist . . . or matter.
- The sense of self seems to disappear. I seem to 'blend' or dissolve into this 'mass' awareness.
- In the "what-I'm-not-aware-of" there is a sense that there is 'someone there', beyond where my perception is and which I cannot see. There is often a sense as if it is watching over me. This has always been a comforting feeling to me.
- If I focus my mind on the "what-I'm-not-aware-of" I often see images of things in my mind. In other words, there is a 'deamworld-like' quality in the "what-I'm-not-aware-of". These images appear much like a dream, as if coming from nowhere.
- There is often a sense of 'life' or 'livingness'.
- There is often a sense of 'primalness', as if the world has just begun and this is the first day. I have always loved this feeling. It is a feeling I still prize.
- Sometimes, things like thoughts, passions, and emotions can have a quality of a 'mass' of their own. They have such a 'mass' that it seems like I can reach out and touch them.
It's interesting how I describe 'mass' awareness as having a 'mass' or as being 'thick' or as having a 'substance' and that it has the quality of a 'fluid'. This shows a unique quality with this awareness. It shows that existence – the presence – is not simply an awareness based on sensations, such as light, heat, sound, etc. that originates in our senses nor does it originate from our mind, such as thought. It shows that it is based in a deeper, almost intuitive, sense-of existence.
This shows, to me, that there is a deep inner sense of existence that transcends our sensation of existence coming from our senses and mind. Normally, we speak of existence as something-to-be-perceived which hints that we need to sense it before we are aware of it. 'Mass' awareness, on the other hand, seems to show that we have an innate "awareness" of existence before we sense it or formulate ideas about it in our minds. In fact, it seems to me that this innate "awareness" of existence is what all the sensations of awareness rest upon and which give all these sensations order and place. On its foundation we build our ideas of existence. Without this innate "awareness" of existence our sensations would be a 'garbled mess' of senses, so to speak, having no order or meaning. As a result, the innate awareness of existence can be compared to something like a 'mould' of the awareness of existence. As we live and experience existence this 'mould' is refined and modified to fit our situation. As we modify this original 'mould,' based on experience, we create an "image" of existence which is what we generally describe as 'reality' and becomes our perception of life, existence, and reality. And so it follows this path:
The 'mould': the innate awareness of existence.
The modifications to the 'mould': the sensations and experience of existence.
The modified 'mould': the creation of an "image" of existence
The "image" of existence creates what I call 'Flat' awareness. Because it is the "image" created, based on experience, it is this awareness that we actively use in life. As such, it can be described as a 'standard awareness'. That is to say, it is what we normally experience in daily life.
'Flat' awareness is remarkably different than 'mass' awareness. Because it is an "image" created through experience it looses much of the 'mass' and 'substance' of 'mass' awareness and, in so doing, it becomes 'flat' . . . or, perhaps, "watered down" is a better description? Not only that, it becomes very much associated with things associated with 'active living' which are:
- Becoming sensation dependent.
- Becoming rooted in conceptions and thoughts.
- Becoming rooted in emotions and feelings.
- Becoming rooted in a sense of self.
It's interesting to note that the development and creation of the self shows that the sense of self originates from the experience and "idea" of existence. That is to say, 'active living' creates the self. In fact, it seems to me that, in 'mass' awareness, the sense of self is 'blended' into the sense of existence. It seems 'gone'. In other words, in the 'mass' awareness the sense of existence is the "self". It seems that, as we 'actively live' and an "image" of existence and reality is created, the self begins to separate off from the awareness of existence. So it goes like:
- The "one self": our self and existence are one.
- The "shattering of the one self": 'Active life' and experience shatters the "one self".
- The "shattered self": The self shatters into separate pieces.
This "shattered self" splits into 3 pieces:
- The "personal self": this is a sense of us, as a person-in-the-world. As a result, we now sense our "personal self" as distinct from existence-as-not-a-part-of-us.
- The "spiritual self": This is the 'remnant', so to speak, of the "one self" that remains within us. It has a quality, really, of a fog that surrounds us, someone indistinct and vague in its manifestations. This is because it is the 'remnant' of a former self, our "'one self". It is the "spiritual self", really, that senses the 'mass' awareness. This is because this self is in between the "personal self" and the innate awareness of existence (the 'mould'). Because of this, its qualities are a 'mixture' of the two qualities.
- The "existence self". This is the awareness of existence and how we accept existence as a 'part of us'. This is that part of us that accepts existence as if it is an extension of us, as if it were our hand. In other words, existence is not just something 'there' but something we 'feel' and that 'becomes a part of us', an extension of who we are. This 'self' places us in the world and in our situation, making it more than just 'events' or 'happenings'. It makes our situation 'us', so to speak. It is not to be confused with awareness-as-not-a-part-of-us, when existence is perceived as being distinctly separate from us.
I should emphasize that I stated that the self that perceives the 'mass' awareness is the spiritual aspect of us. This means that 'mass' awareness is a spiritual-like awareness.
The 'mass' awareness is an awareness that seems to come at certain moments or times, reflecting a change in a state of mind. Often, it can last for only a few moments but its effects are felt long afterwords, greatly affecting ones overall self. Some of the things that cause the sense of 'mass' awareness' include:
- Contemplation.
- Moments of calm.
- In playing, as when one is a child or playing like a child.
- In times of great directness. For example, in doing some activity that seems to absorb oneself.
- Some religious-like experiences.
The 'mass' awareness seems to have a number of important associations. It's interesting that many of these are 'spiritual' in quality. They include:
- 'Mass' awareness is associated with a sense of god or 'spirits'. As I said above, there's a sense of a 'somebody' in the "what-I'm-am-not-aware-of". This is a quality I have always loved and sought. To be frank, the 'mass' awareness, really, is the 'sense of god' or 'presence of god'. It even goes beyond that, and there is often sense of 'other things' which could be called like 'spirits' or similar things.
- The 'mass' awareness often has this comforting and secure quality about it.
- 'Mass' awareness seems associated with a great sense of 'living' and 'life'. Life seems more real and more experienced.
- It also creates a sense of 'profoundness', of 'beyond human'.
These all describe its 'spiritual' quality.
As I mentioned above, 'mass' awareness has two forms of awareness:
"What-I'm-aware of". This is the world of what is immediately perceived. As a result, it becomes the 'world of humanity' because it is here that we live.
"What-I'm-not-aware-of". This is the world not immediately perceived. As a result, it is the 'beyond human' sense, which gives a sense of 'god and spirits'.
These, in a way, create a sense of 'two worlds' which are:
The 'human world' of the immediately perceivable.
The world of 'god and spirits', which is not immediately perceived but 'sensed'.
These two worlds create what can also be described as a sense of a 'common space' and a 'sacred space' in life, respectively. This 'sacred space' creates a sense of an 'other world' that is co-existing with this 'human world'.
But, since the 'mass' awareness is a change in a state of mind it shows that the sense of 'sacred', or the 'sacred space', or the 'other world', is a state of mind. It is not,really, a 'physical place' or being. The 'sacred' is found only in a change in one's state of mind, reflecting perceptions and awareness of that state of mind. This need for a change in a state of mind shows how many things associated with the 'sacred' requires something to help our state of mind change in order for the sense of the 'sacred' to appear Some of these include:
Any physical place assigned as 'sacred', such as a church, temple, a grove of tree's, etc.
A concentrated awareness of a belief system, such as by recitation, reflection, reading, etc.
A formal ceremony and ritual.
Some forms of music.
Some forms of dance.
Practicing being 'aware' of the sacred.
Usually, the 'sacred' is something one must 'initiate' to happen. A person may sporadically experience the 'sacred' in their life but any real "involvement" must always be 'initiated' by the person. This means, basically, that we must do something. Many people in the modern world will never know the 'sacred', or what it is, because of this absence of initiating. They often think it's just supposed to materialize in front of them.
Everyone, I've found, has this sense of 'someone else' within them. It is part of the human character and reality. There seems to be a number of ways people react to it though:
They ignore it.
They do not admit to it (which is usually a denial, showing that they are aware of it).
They accept it but they don't do anything with it.
They believe it (usually, when this happens, it's founded on a belief system of some sort).
Even though someone may say they don't believe in the 'someone else' they will reveal this sense at certain times of their life. In a crisis or during hard times, for example, they may say that they feel like "someone is creating problems for them" or something similar. In a happy time they may feel that "someone is watching over them" or similar things. This sense of 'someone else' is an innate human tendency. I don't know of anyone that doesn't display this quality.
But the whole question surrounding the 'someone else' is if you accept it or not. Basically, if you accept the sense of 'someone else' you accept the existence of 'god and spirits' in some form or another. In the modern world such things are hard for people to accept. My experience is that a lot of people 'refuse' to accept. This is done for a variety of reasons. Probably the most prevalent is that it is associated with religion which, as we know, has caused a lot of problems in Western history. It also goes against scientific mentality which is so prevalent nowadays.
Once it is accepted, it's a question of what form it takes, of how you interpret this 'someone else'. It's interesting to note that when things are accepted they are usually based on a belief system of some sort. In other words, in dealing with the perceptions of the 'mass' awareness we tend to need a world conception, a belief system, to give it place and meaning. This means that there is a correlation between a belief system and accepting the 'someone else'. Without a belief system it is hard for people to accept these different forms of awareness. In fact, the belief systems is critical because it makes it so that the 'someone else' is within 'grasp', so to speak. Otherwise, it has an 'unreachable' quality about it. This makes sense as the sense of 'someone else' is in the "what-I'm-not-aware-of", an area of mystery and unknowingness . . . an area hard to grasp.
It shows that there is an association between belief systems and awareness in life. When we do not have a belief system we become impaired in our perception and awareness of the world. This is probably why that, from my experience, the people who have a viable healthy belief system see much farther in life than people who don't.
Almost always, this sense of 'someone else' becomes a sense of god, usually, or spirits of some sort. This, in turn, creates a belief system in these things. The fact is that the sense of 'someone else' almost always leads to religious belief.
Within the sense of 'mass' awareness there is a sense of 'life', of a 'livingness'. In many ways, 'life' is felt there most. In fact, it seems that the sense of 'life' is found in the 'mass' awareness more so than in the 'flat' awareness. In comparison, 'flat' awareness is 'dead', or 'mechanical'. It seems to be just 'there', almost lifeless.
There is a spectrum to the sense of 'life'. It ranges from the 'worldly awareness' to the 'non- worldly awareness' and has gradations like:
A sense of "livingness-as-I-in-the-world". This is the sense of "I am in the world" or "the world is about me". This is the sense of "I-in-the-world".
A sense of a "livingness-as-I". This can be a sense of being 'awake', or 'there', a sense that one 'is'. This is the sense of "I".
- A sense of "livingness-as-I-in-the-mystery". This is often a sense of mysterious profoundness. Here, it is religious-like. This is like the sense of the 'life' of god. This is the sense of "god".
When one looks at these, one can see that these reflect the three different self's: the existence self, personal self, and the spiritual self. This is no mistake for it shows that one lives through the self, through the "I". It shows that 'livingness' is felt through the "I".
I should point out that the "I" is a reference to the awareness that 'I exist'. It is not the 'me', which refers to a self-concern or a 'looking after me'. The 'me' is more worldly, concerned about the affairs and issues that revolve around 'me'. As a result, it tends to be more of a mundane awareness. The "I" is more of a generalized feeling of oneself above all the mundaness and issues of the world.
The "I" is felt most dominantly in the "livingness-as-I". Here, the sense of "I" is strongest. Here, the 'personal self' is reflected. When one goes to the "livingness-as-I-in-the-world" the sense of "I" fades and the sense of 'existence' becomes prevalent. Here, existence, and what happens in it, becomes a part of our "I". When one goes to the "livingness-as-I-in-the-mystery" the sense of "I" fades and the sense of mystery becomes prevalent. This can be so extensive that the "I" may even seem to 'die' or 'disappear'. In reality, it does not. Here, the "I" merges with the 'one self'. The self and existence become one. This is generally described as a religious-like experience and is associated with the awareness of god.
This is important as it shows that the awareness of god is one part of a greater whole, one end of a spectrum. It is not something removed and separate from other phenomena of life but bound up with it. In effect, the awareness of god is NOT the 'ultimate' or 'everything' but PART OF a greater phenomena. It shows that, in seeking god, one must seek the whole, not just one part of the whole. This is why any real 'pursuit' of god entails the whole person, ones whole being, and not just a part of it . . . God requires the whole person.
The importance of the 'livingness' is very critical. When one is aware of the 'livingness' one is more than aware. Awareness is just like an 'observing', as if we are on the side lines watching. 'Livingness' is a participation, a movement of oneself. In 'livingness' one is 'moved' to live. This quality is because it originates from the "I" and not the "me". With the "me" one chooses to do something, to live, to become something. Being more mundane it is motivated by mundane reasons, which tend to be more selfish and limited in their scope. With the "I" the self is 'inspired' to live. It's as if one see's life and is 'compelled', as if by instinct, to do something. In many ways, we do not choose life . . . life chooses us! We follow it, listen to its call. This requires an attitude of following, of submission, and of a willingness to listen to the call. In many ways, livingness is the next step after awareness . . it turns awareness into action and reality.
Contemplation is the deliberate attempt at reaching 'mass' awareness. It requires, to some extent, the breakdown of the qualities that make 'flat' awareness. Because of this, it is like an 'undoing'. It's this very fact of 'undoing' that makes it so difficult. In many ways, its like a 'retreating backwards'. Some of the things that must be 'undone' are:
- The effects of sensation.
- The reliance on thought.
- The control of emotion.
- The reliance on conceptions.
- The sense of self.
With these we see the familiar traits seen in contemplation:
- Developing an 'unknowing': emptying the mind, having no thoughts or conceptions.
- Losing a sense of self, forgetting that one is there.
- The absence of sensations.
These show that contemplation, really, is nothing but an attempt at "retrieving" the 'mass' awareness because it is there that the 'sense of god' is felt most purely. In so doing, we as if 'regress' to a more primitive state of our mind, in a sense.
I've always felt, though, that there is more to contemplation that "retrieving" this sense. We are not just trying to 're-experience'. In many ways, we are trying to "start over". By this I mean that, in contemplation, we do "retrieve" the innate 'mass' awareness but we do this as an expression of life. In other words, we express our life through the "retrieved" sense of 'mass' awareness. It shows that contemplation is an avenue for the expression of life. But we don't seek any life, we seek the 'livingness' of life. This is because, in contemplation, we experience the 'livingness' more purely.
This seeking of the 'livingness' becomes, in many ways, an act of love, of the love toward life, existence, god, the world, etc. As a result, it becomes a display of ones life and being. Because of this, it becomes "one's life", so to speak. This shows that contemplation is more than just an act but something that encompasses ones whole life. This shows that contemplation is actually a way of life, a 'contemplative life'.
As I said above, the "what-I'm-not-aware-of" often creates a sense that there is 'someone else' there beyond our perception. This sense has a range with these extremes:
A vague 'hint' of 'someone'. This is often almost imperceptible. For many people it's so imperceptible that they are completely unaware of it. Often, the only way they will be aware of it is if they are somehow are directed to look for it. It may be so vague, even, that it may not be a sense of a 'someone' but more of a 'something'.
A defined person or thing. Here it has names, a shape, stories surrounding it, qualities, etc. I should point out that when I speak of a 'defined person or thing' I do not necessarily mean the image created by tradition or a belief system, which generally has, ready-made, a perception of what this 'someone' is. I speak more of that which naturally appears in life, the perceptions we develop for ourselves, and which is a product of our own experience.
When the sense goes to the latter extreme it often creates a 'dream-like' quality, which can have many interesting effects. By 'dream-like' I mean that they create images in one's mind that seem to have a 'life', much like a dream. These images aren't just any odd image one creates in one's head, such as seeing a car you like. When images are like this I call it a 'dead image'. Generally, these are of things existing but they can be things you imagine, as well, which is usually motivated by mundane wants and wishes. I speak of the 'living image' when it has this 'dream-like' quality. Here, they seem to have a 'life' that motivates them, that is independent of us. This is because it originates from 'beyond us', in the "what-I'm-not-aware-of".
The 'living image' creates many things in our life, such as:
An active imagination.
Great passion.
- Inspiration to do things.
The 'living image', in a way, "injects" our life with 'life', and it injects it with a 'life' from 'beyond awareness'. This gives it a 'magical quality', of something 'from beyond', in the land of who-knows-where. This reveals an interesting fact: that, to truly feel 'life', we need to feel an 'unwordly life', of a life that does not originate from 'this world' and that does not have origin in 'this world'. It means that 'life' is not really found in the "here", in reality, but in the "not-here". This, really, is referring to what can be described as a 'mysticism', that we need the 'mystery element' in our life to truly live.
The 'dead image' and 'living image' create different world conceptions. By this I mean conceptions of how the world works. The 'dead image' is, typically, a ready-made image. It's already there so we just follow it. It also tends to be lifeless. Much of education and learning, in actuality, is nothing but learning 'dead image'. The 'living image' generally comes from living and experience. It is that part of us reacting to the world, establishing a framework of how it works. As a result, it is a conception created from within us. Because of this, these tend to be 'personal' and are often never expressed to other people.
One aspect of the 'living image' is that it must come out naturally. In other words, the 'living image' is a product of inspiration. It just 'appears', often as if from nowhere. I've found that the most creative of people work from an inspiration. It's not ability or skill, usually, but the ability to be inspired that makes them creative. In addition, I've found that the happiest of people often work the same way, they live a life of inspiration.
This shows the importance of the 'living image' in life and the importance of being inspired and how it can affect ones life. It shows that there is a correlation between 'living image' and inspiration.
Inspiration is often something we must "allow" to happen. As a result, inspiration is often an issue of not what one does but what one doesn't do. In many ways, inspiration requires us to 'move over' in order to let it happen. Our self tends to hinder and stop inspiration. This shows that there is a need to develop a 'selfless' attitude in inspiration. It's interesting that this 'selflessness' is a quality that reflects the "one self". This is no mistake. It shows that the "one self", our 'primal self', so to speak, is where life is felt most pure. This means that there is great life in the "what-I'm-not-aware-of". It shows the power of mystery.
Inspiration, though, has many forms and qualities. It has a range that can be one of the most productive things in life to bordering on madness. The latter shows how it tends to take us 'out of ourselves', often making us lose hold of who we are.
The madness of inspiration can be seen in some forms of creativity, being seen in poets, artists, musicians, and such. It is also seen in contemplation. In many ways, contemplation is a form of madness, of halting thought and ones mind, seeking to be removed from oneself. This, in many ways, is a madness. But it is 'mad' only in the sense that it is a 'loss of self'. One does not go 'clinically mad' and lose control. It's a madness that, really, leads to oneself and to life. It's for this reason that I speak of these as a 'wonderful madness'.
But there is something that seems even more 'mad': shamanistic journeying.
Very early, I found that I began to have certain types of experiences when I went out into the woods and silenced myself. They were, as I'd later find out, experiences similar to what the shamans or medicine men did in many primitive tribes. In these experiences I was 'awake' but I would close my eyes and as if separate from myself. It's like my self changed when doing this and I would go into the blackness. This blackness seemed to turn into another 'world', and images would appear. They were more than images, as they were often very real. In this world, which I called the "interior land", I would have what can only be described as 'waking dreams'. In these I could have some control over what I did. It was not like a night dream where I had no control over what I did. What I was experiencing, really, was a form of shamanistic journeying.
In these situations the 'living image' seemed to become almost 'real', encompassing a 'world' and 'real beings': the 'dream' became 'reality'.
But, in this 'dream', the 'reality' is a manifestation of inspiration. The 'dream' is inspiration, coming naturally from within, demonstrated with great intensity through a specific aspect of ones self. In so doing, the 'dream world' becomes 'alive'. This makes shamanistic journeying a unique phenomena, probably achievable only by a minority of people.
Looking back on it now, it seems that what I would do, in shamanistic journeying, is to go into the 'presence' of the "what-I'm-not-aware-of" which is found in 'mass' awareness. There, the sense of the 'someone' turned into a shape, a place or, that is to say, a dream. This is the 'living image' it created. To me, it's a variation of, say, writing a story or painting a picture, but done more deeply with a specific aspect of ones self. This means that I consider shamanistic journeying similar to the creation of something from inspiration, be it a story, a painting, or what have you. But it is done by a form of 'deep active imagination' that lies deep within the self. The 'creation' of this inspiration became the experience of the 'dream'. Afterwords, I would write them down and I often found myself doing nothing but writing down a story, one that I experienced in shamanistic journeying. In some respects, shamanistic journeying is a form of 'story writing' or, rather, 'story revealing', that hits on issues deep within ones self.
It seems that shamanistic journeying is taking the 'dream-like' qualities of 'mass' awareness to the extreme by the creation of a realistic 'waking dream'.
An interesting point to note is that I often stated that I could tell I was in the "interior land" when I felt as if I was in a 'fluid'. This, I think, shows definite parallels between the "interior land" of shaminizing and 'mass' awareness.
'MASS' AWARENESS, AWARENESS-IN-THE-WOMB, AND OVERSENSITIVITY: some speculation
I have often speculated that 'mass' awareness is a sensation that originates from when we are in the womb. This would make it, probably, our 'first' sensation as a person. It also would explain some of its qualities, which are somewhat 'womb-like': a sense of a 'fluid' with 'mass', wordless, a sense of someone else 'beyond' our awareness, the sense of 'primalness', etc.
If this were the case it would seem that some of us are predisposed to this sensation and are more likely to experience it. I tend to think a big factor in the awareness-in-the-womb is oversensitivity and that it takes an oversensitive person to 'remember' it in life. Most people, I think, forget it. If there is a slight remembrance it is just a 'hint' of it, a sense in 'something'. But, I think to practice it and use it for growth takes an oversensitive person. This oversensitivity makes these experiences more 'real' and noticeable which helps them to be remembered. Not only that, being so predisposed to them makes them 'linger', so to speak, in life.
I also have often felt that, being oversensitive, our 'minds' tend to begin to 'work' while still in the womb. Because of this, we begin to experience and formulate a perception of life and what it is. In short, we begin to create an 'image' of life. As a result, it creates a sense of not only an awareness of existence but of a 'living'. After we are born and wake up to life we are confronted with a whole other 'reality' which we must be aware of and so we develop a new 'image' to fit this situation. This 'womb-life' then creates something like an 'inner life' for the oversensitive, that is removed from 'actual reality'. In a way, it creates 'two lives':
The life begun in the womb. This becomes dormant during childhood but tends to resurface later, usually in late childhood. If we follow it we will as if begin where we 'left off', developing an 'inner life'.
The life after birth. The realities of life create and formulate and image of life and what it is. This is 'life in the world'.
Those of us who develop the first life become 'spiritual'. Those who do not develop the first life become more 'wordly', with their focus on the outer world, which is the only one they know.
'Mass' and 'flat' awareness show how we have a multitudes of awareness in our life. It shows that life is not lived in only "one" form of awareness alone but on many different levels and in many forms. It shows that, truly, the awareness of life is very varied and, like our fingerprint, each persons awareness is unique to ourselves.
But, despite what some people may think, we all use the great breadth and length of awareness . . . they are, after all, part of the human 'reportoire' of experience. In the past some odd centuries, one of these forms of awareness – of things associated with god – have been greatly hampered and hindered by certain beliefs and attitudes. But, we must remember, that this 'sense of god' is a part of human experience. It is natural. It has been here, the world over, since the beginning of time. By neglecting the sense of god, we neglect our humanity, we neglect our natural inclinations, we neglect our awareness, we neglect our life. The awareness of god is a wonderful thing, giving our lives a depth and life it could not otherwise have. Watching its neglect is like watching a death. Only by regaining the sense of god can we fully be aware and experience life as human beings.


text:
Tuesday, 12th December – Developer, Visionary, has opened Silkwood by Silkari's first complete townhouse on Saturday 1 December 2018.
The complete townhouse displays the prototype of Silkari designs for the first time. The interior and furniture suites are purposefully designed for the Silkwood by Silkari development only. All future developments by Visionary will have their own Silkari Collections.
Only 12 townhouses remain in the development. Each of the three-bedroom houses feature internal space of c.126sqm with some featuring outdoor terraces ranging up to 19sqm and courtyards
ranging up to 27sqm. The homes have their own entrance, which is elevated from street-level.
The first-floor bedroom is coupled with a shower room and has easy access from the two-car garage.The second-level features the kitchen and living areas, boasting 2.7-metre ceilings. The top floor's generously sized bedrooms share a bathroom complete with a freestanding tub.
Each townhouse includes a video intercom, Miele and Fisher & Paykel kitchen appliances, stone-top kitchen benches and splashbacks, and wooden floors throughout the second level. All bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and cabinetry.
The Silkwood by Silkari complete townhouse, located along Page Street in Pagewood, is open between 1:00pm – 6:00pm on Thursday to Friday, 11:00am – 4:00pm from Saturday to Sunday.


text:
openSUSE 11.2 RC 2Naviga SWZ: Home Page » News
News del 02 Novembre 09 Autore: Gianplugged
Note di rilascio:
This is it folks! Were almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This release includes an updated kernel, Samba, Firefox, and more.
This release should be almost ready for the gold master stamp, but theres still time to shake out remaining bugs. This release should not be deployed on production systems, but should be ready for early adopters and contributors who want to help with testing and development of 11.2.
Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 RC 1
Release Candidate 2 includes a few new packages, and several of the most annoying bugs in RC 1 have been fixed for this release. New packages include:
- Linux kernel 184.108.40.206
- SeaMonkey 2.0
- Firefox 3.5.4
- Samba 3.4.2
- xorg-x11-server 1.6.5
Commenta la News sul Forum
Categoria: Linux
Licenza: Open source
OS: Linux
Categoria: Linux
Licenza: Open source
OS: Linux


text:
Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in this post may be "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase an item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Disclosure in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CF.
Hey North Texas!
Thank you so much for being here. ❤
As work and clients and life keep me busy, I sometimes fall short on going back to the beginning days of this site to update and fix old articles. Thanks for being so patient with me! As my traffic to this site continues to grow and grow, updating and keeping on top of things is my first priority right now. As a one-woman show, most of the time (unless the husband jumps in), it can be a bit of juggling.
Anyway, many of you think that I live in McKinney since we talk about it so much here and on social, when in fact, I live in Plano with my husband and 2 giant dogs, Miss Bowden and Dutch.
McKinney is a place we adore for nature, festivals, antiquing, breweries and grabbing a delicious bite to eat. We can never go wrong with this special town.
In running this website and online community, this is one of the top cities that my inbox gets flooded with questions about what to do, where to stay, best places to eat, drink coffee and tour. So I am trying to keep this page updated (finally) to direct folks over here to help with their questions. Or tell them why they need to jump on a plane, land at DFW or DAL and take that ride share right up to McKinney.
Things to Do McKinney Texas
You can read more about it here
in this article:
21 Reasons I'm Totally Obsessed with McKinney Texas
and you can also read this:
The Down & Dirty Guide to Downtown McKinney
With as much growth as we've all been seeing in McKinney, I know I'm probably missing so much more.
OK y'all, I definitely want to hear from you on this one! PLEASE, flood the comments with what you ❤ about McKinney.
And if I missed something, kindly email: [email protected] with the subject McKinney and I will add it to my list of things to do. 🙋
You might also like:
And here's what's going on in podcast land:


text:
Dog shot twice at close range, leg amputated
A Dallas County man was forced to have his dog's leg amputated after the animal was shot twice.
The dog's owner, Daniel Benshoof, let Lopso, a 7-year-old Lhasa Apso, outside last week and grew concerned when he never came back.
Benshoof found Lopso limping about 200 feet from his rural home in Perry.
"I could tell his front leg was broken," Benshoof said. "I thought maybe a car (hit him), but he was just covered in blood. And we couldn't figure out where all the blood was coming from."
A veterinarian determined that Lopso was shot twice at close range in his neck and leg.
The bullets, estimated to be from a .22-caliber gun, shattered Lopso's jaw, which required about 25 staples.
Lopso's leg couldn't be saved. The dog is still getting used to walking on three legs.
"These are the bullet fragments that they took out," Benshoof said. "This was where his shoulder and his leg was attached, so they took his shoulder bone and all that out."
Medical bills topped $3,500, but Benshoof never considered not getting the surgery.
"Whatever we could do to keep him alive, we never thought about the money situation," he said. "You know, it was like this is something -- he's part of the family."
Benshoof said Lopso has always provided him with emotional support, and it's time to return the favor.
Benshoof believes that he knows who shot Lopso, but said there is not enough evidence to press charges.