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Reading e-books easier than printed versions for older people
Older people may find e-books much faster and easier to read than their paper editions, a new study has claimed.
Twenty-one people. And their preferences were dismissed as "cultural bias." And, lessee, books were better than ereaders but tablets were better than books. Among twenty-one people. And based not on the people's own reactions but on external measurement.
External measurement = objectivity
So if we wanted to gauge how much faster certain shoes make people run, we should just ask them which ones feel faster, and not time them?
Regarding sampling, the older adults reading faster on tablets still has p-value of . What number would be sufficient to outweigh one's a priori incredulity?
Objectivity is a tricky thing
I may be objecting more to the post's headline than to the study itself. I regard "easier" as a combination of subjective and objective, so, yes, I'd place considerable weight on actual responses from people being asked that question.
Telling people "Oh, you don't really like reading print books or ereaders as much as you like reading tablets; that's just cultural preconditioning" is a bit Orwellian.
I am fully aware that, in fact, I read the San Francisco Chronicle more rapidly (that is, I move through the text faster) on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 than I did in its broadsheet form. But if you ask me which I prefer, and remove the $530/year reason we switched (the difference between the Kindle subscription price and the print delivery price), I'd say "the broadsheet, any day." Is that cultural preconditioning? Maybe. But it's also the truth for me.
This matters because some agencies--schools, some libraries--seem bent on insisting that everybody move to ebooks (which, by the way, would have meant eInk readers when this started) regardless of preference. Telling me "but you'll read faster" doesn't cut it. Telling me "you'll enjoy reading more"--well, you know, that's not an objective measure.
If I wanted to determine whether people prefer certain shoes and, indeed, whether they found running in them more pleasant/easier, I'd ask them. And I'd pay attention to the answers.
Heck with studies
Heck with the studies. I don't need a study to tell me the sky is blue or that a jet is faster than a prop plane.
Question is whether an ebook reader would be easier for older people to use.
For most of the e-ink devices I think the answer would be yes. You do not have to hold them open. A light push or a button or touch of the screen turns the page. They are lighter than a hardcover book. You don't have to work to hold them open like a regular book.
Biggest point you can set the font to a comfortably large size. With my glasses on I can comfortably read a 10pt font but when I use my ereader I set the font to 18pt or higher. Makes it very easy to read the page.
All the advantages just mentioned would be in play when anyone including a senior used an ebook. I find iPads heavy and not comfortable to read. But I notice when I am not reading on my Kindle. When I read a paper book I now notice that I have to hold the book open and the font is not the size I want. I never noticed this very much before I used an e-ink book reader but now that I have been spoiled by the better reading experience it is hard to go back.
So people can run a bunch of studies on whether large fonts on ebook readers will help the elderly but I can save you some time by saying that they will.
Link to article
since it isn't in the ibnlive article, here is the full study in PLoS One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0056178
And of course
All old people are exactly the same aren't they from the arthritis riddled person who can't get out of their front room to the parachuting speed freak, they are all the same.
Not all the same
Older people are not all the same but compared to the general population are older people going to be stronger or weaker than the total population? Compared to the general population are older people going to have better eyesight or worse eyesight than the total population?
Answer: In general the are weaker, slower, and have worse eyesight.
Lighter devices that are easy to hold and have large fonts are going to be useful.
How about this study- Study finds that seniors need heavier books will smaller fonts. Do you think that is true?
What about people with
What about people with disabilities, don't they need lighter equipment as well?
If you physically can't hold a device or can't see clearly, that's not just an age related issue.
It's ageism gone wild! :P


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Space, the final frontier... or is it?
The pets in The Hub's Littlest Pet Shop find themselves in an homage to the original Star Trek series on Saturday's episode when Russell enters Aunt Christine's new sweets catering truck.
My Little Pony Exclusive Video: Hark! Twilight Sparkle's friends sing the "Cutie Mark Song"
The little hedgehog imagines himself as Captain Kirk on the starship Enterprise, with Zoe as his Vulcan officer Spock and Nyota as a very alluring Uhura. Check out this exclusive clip below to see what their real adventure will be!
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Chrissy Teigen takes the stage for the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tuesday to discuss about her daughter Luna, her new home and the upcoming presidential election.
Teigen and her husband musician John Legend have been vocal about the upcoming election, encouraging people to get registered to vote.
"I think it's important to vote for the person who is not a sociopath," Teigen tells DeGeneres.
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The "Lip Sync Battle" star also talks to DeGeneres about moving into what was once Rihanna's home and how she opens the singer's mail - which DeGeneres tells her (to Teigen's surprise) is illegal.
Kelly Clarkson also makes an appearance to talk about her children and to play a game of "Celebrity Confessions." DeGeneres will air a video of her filling in for Miley Cyrus on "The Voice," as Cyrus filled in for her when she was sick last week.
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Dancing With The Stars Val and Maks Chmerkovskiy Pictured With Miss Nevada Winners
Pictured above is Dancing With The Stars Pro Val Chmerkovskiy with Katie Eklund, the newly named Miss Nevada Teen USA. As you have read from our previous reportings, the 2012 Miss Nevada USA and Nevada Teen USA pageants were held at the Pearl in the Palms Resort on Sunday, Jan. 29th, 2012. Val judged Miss Nevada Teen USA while his brother Maks judged the Miss Nevada Pageant. You can read a great review of the whole event at the Las Vegas Sun. The link also includes a great photo of Maks with Jade Kelsall the newly crowned Miss Nevada USA.


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I'm looking for a mechanic in Pathfinder to provide a fate-point like system for the characters.
What mechanic could provide players a small boost here to belt the bad guy when needed or save them from death if it all goes wrong? I don't mind what system it's imported from as long as it can support Pathfinder/d20.


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Alcohol consumption is associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing several arthritic conditions including Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Osteoarthritis (OA), reactive arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and spondylarthropathy, according to results of a new study presented today at EULAR 2010, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Rome, Italy. Regardless of the type of arthritis, all patients reported drinking less alcohol than controls, leading to questions around the inflammatory pathways behind the effects seen.
In this Dutch study, alcohol consumption was associated with a significantly lower risk of developing RA (Odds Ratio (OR) 0.27 (0.22-0.34), Osteoarthritis (OR 0.31, (0.16-0.62), spondylarthropathy (OR 0.34, 0.17-0.67), psoriatic arthritis (OR 0.38, 0.23-0.62), and reactive arthritis (OR 0.27, 0.14-0.52). A particularly protective effect was shown in the RA population with the presence of Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibodies (ACPA, potentially important surrogate markers for diagnosis and prognosis in RA), (OR 0.59, 0.30-0.99).
Interestingly, researchers also found that the degree of systemic inflammation in patients was shown to increase as the amount of alcohol consumed decreased (p=0.001) and that there was no dose response relationship (low 0.12 (0.08-0.18), moderate 0.46 (0.36-0.59), high 0.17 (0.12-0.25)) between the amount of alcohol consumed and the risk of arthritis development. Researchers hypothesise that there could be two explanations for this inflammatory effect; either that patients with more severe disease activity consume less alcohol due to associated changes in their lifestyle, or that the presence of alcohol in the system could protect against the development of systemic inflammation.
"We know from previous research that alcohol consumption may confer a protective effect against developing RA, our data have shown that this effect may apply to other arthritic conditions too," said Dr Annekoos Leonoor Huidekoper, Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands and lead author of the study. "What intrigues us now is that the findings related to systemic inflammation, further research into the inflammatory pathways involved is needed to determine the exact nature of the association."
Patients with arthritic conditions (n=997; RA n=651, reactive arthritis, spondylaropathy or psoriatic arthritis n=273, osteoarthritis n=73) were enrolled from the Leiden Early Arthritis Cohort and healthy controls (n=6,874) recruited from the Multiple Environmental and Genetic Assessment of risk factors for venous thrombosis study. Alcohol consumption was recorded at baseline (units per week), and the effect of alcohol consumption on risk of disease development was analysed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression (statistical tests that predict the probability of an event occurring). Odds ratios and confidence intervals (95%) were adjusted for age, sex, Body Mass Index (BMI) and smoking.
Professor Paul Emery, President of EULAR and arc Professor of Rheumatology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, UK said: "These are very interesting findings but we should assert the need for caution in the interpretation of these data. Alcohol should be consumed in moderation, with consideration for local public health recommendations. A number of social and medical problems are associated with increased consumption of alcohol; therefore any positive implications of its use must be understood within the wider health context."


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Feds get earful over Wyandanch train project
Sen. Charles Schumer pushed federal officials Thursday to transfer funding so Babylon Town can build a new train station in Wyandanch.
Schumer asked the Federal Highway Administration to transfer $2 million earmarked for a Wyandanch road project to the Federal Transit Administration to help pay for the new Long Island Rail Road station. Town officials said they have other sources of funding for the road project and are in need of money for the train station. Both projects are part of the town's massive Wyandanch Rising redevelopment initiative.
"A new Wyandanch train station would be a powerful engine in our efforts to attract private development," Schumer said. "Instead of derailing the project, the feds should be pressing full speed ahead to direct these resources to the most effective possible route."
Doug Hecox, Federal Highway Administration spokesman, said they are "looking into" the issue.
Town officials estimate a new train station, overpass and site improvements will cost $4 million. The town has obtained $1 million from the state for the project.
Salvatore Arena, spokesman for the LIRR, which will assist in the design of the building, did not comment on the funding but said the LIRR supports the redevelopment and is working closely with local officials.
In the coming months, the town plans to begin the first phase of construction for Wyandanch Rising, a $500 million public-private endeavor that has been more than a decade in the making. The project includes building a transit plaza near the LIRR station, creating mixed-use buildings and installing a sewer line down Straight Path. The train station is due to be built within the next few years, officials said.
Schumer, a Democrat, made his plea Thursday from in front of the LIRR station, standing alongside Suffolk County Legis. DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville), town Deputy Mayor Tony Martinez and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, who spearheaded Wyandanch Rising when he was town supervisor.
In 2007, Schumer intervened in a standoff between the town and the U.S. Postal Service over its plans to build a post office with barbed-wire fencing near downtown Wyandanch. On Thursday, Schumer described the more customer-friendly post office as an "anchor" for the revitalization.
"If [the funding] goes unused, the feds will take it back and who knows what other state it will go to," Schumer warned. "Bottom line, the feds should not be throwing up administrative hurdles to this project."
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Hotel Slanica
Set in Námestovo, Hotel Slanica features free bikes, terrace and bar. With free WiFi, this 2-star hotel offers ski storage space. The property has a restaurant and Orava Dam is 2.4 km away.
Set in Námestovo, Slanický Dvor offers a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and free WiFi. The property is situated 4.1 km from Orava Dam. The property provides a children's playground.
At the guest house, all rooms have a wardrobe and a flat-screen TV. Every room includes a private bathroom, while some rooms also feature a terrace.
The daily breakfast offers continental and buffet options. Guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant, which specialises in European cuisine and also offers gluten-free and dairy-free options.
The water reservoir Orava is the result of artificial blocking of the river Orava in northern Slovakia as the remedy to frequent floods. It spreads as far as the Polish frontier. There is an island in the middle of the reservoir called Slanický ostrov – the favourite destinations of trippers.
Rafting – once it was severe and dangerous way, by which construction wood, hay, wheat, pottery, leathers, wooden shingles, cuboids, planks, or even dismounted cottages were delivered. Goods from Poland as copper, lead and salt were delivered by rafts too.
Brestovská Cave is the first accessible cave in Orava and the Western Tatras. It is an underground part of an extensive hydrological system. At its bottom is a river with an active watercourse with seven siphons. The cave is characterized by a remarkable morphology of the premises and rare cave fauna.
Roháče are often and justly praised as the most beautiful part of the West Tatras. A crown of wonderful peaks dominated by the majestic Baníkov Mt. surrounds the extensive Roháčska dolina valley. In turn, the Ostrý Roháč and Volovec Mts. are the princes of the Roháče Mts. They form an indivisible couple of slender rock mountains in the principal ridge and look like two devils horns, expressed by their names (Ostrý Roháč means a sharp horn and Volovec means an ox).
The villages Prosiek a Kvačany in region Liptov are generally known as starting points for the trips to the most beautiful and most visited of the Slovak valleys - Prosiecka dolina and Kvačianska dolina.
The mountain Veľký Choč towering above the dividing line between regions Liptov and Orava is one of the most beautiful in Slovakia. Prevailingly spruce woods cover the mountain and in the highest parts a continuous growth of dwarf pines (unique in this whole mountain range) can be seen. For well-conserved forest bioncenoses with rare flora which in places acquire the nature of virgin forest, it was designated the National Nature Reserve.
Túžba po vlastnom čapovanom pive v príjemnej reštaurácií pod majestátnym bralom Oravského hradu nás viedla k založeniu minipivovaru Kastelán.
Offering a seasonal outdoor pool and ski-to-door access, Koliba u Kuba a rekreačné domy is set in Hruštín in the Žilinský kraj Region. Wisła is 48 km away. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property.
Penzion Villa Helia is situated in the quiet suburban area of Medzihradné, only 1,200 m from the historic city centre of Dolny Kubin. It offers modern-style accommodation with free Wi-Fi and an on-site hot tub.
Located only 200 m from the historic square of P.O. Hviezdoslava in Dolný Kubín, Penzión Koliba is set in a traditional-style wooden house, typical for the Orava Region. It offers an on-site restaurant and rooms with a TV and free Wi-Fi.
Set in Námestovo, Hotel Slanica features free bikes, terrace and bar. With free WiFi, this 2-star hotel offers ski storage space. The property has a restaurant and Orava Dam is 2.4 km away.
Featuring a horse ranch and a private port, the family-friendly Hotel Ranč u Edyho is only 100 m from the Orava Reservoir. You can find a rustic-style restaurant with a terrace serving Slovak cuisine on site. The facilities include an outdoor pool, tennis courts and a children's playground.
Located directly on the beach of Orava Reservoir in Namestovo, Penzion Modul provides an equipped accommodation with a terrace, a garden, a children's playground and barbecue facilities. Free WiFi is available.
Situated by the Orava Water Dam and only a 5-minute walk from the Námestovo town centre, Penzión Oravia offers accommodation with a restaurant, a bar, a terrace and views to the dam. Free WiFi is available in all areas and free private parking is available on site.
Located in Námestovo, 10 m from Oravska Priehrada Dam Lake, Penzion Jollien houses a restaurant with an outdoor terrace and a beach view and a cocktail bar. It also offers free WiFi in all areas and free private parking.
Hostel Magura offers decent and affordable accommodation in the centre of Namestovo.
Connected to an ice hockey stadium and shooting range, Hotel Altis is 1 km from the Orava Reservoir and offers a restaurant and a spa with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gym, sauna, hot tub, sun bed and massages. Free Wi-Fi is provided in the entire building and there is free private parking. Breakfast can be served every morning to the guests. The restaurant has a terrace and offers Slovak and international cuisine. There is a garden with barbecue facilities on site.
Offering a seasonal outdoor pool and ski-to-door access, Koliba u Kuba a rekreačné domy is set in Hruštín in the Žilinský kraj Region. Wisła is 48 km away. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property.
Penzion Villa Helia is situated in the quiet suburban area of Medzihradné, only 1,200 m from the historic city centre of Dolny Kubin. It offers modern-style accommodation with free Wi-Fi and an on-site hot tub.
Located only 200 m from the historic square of P.O. Hviezdoslava in Dolný Kubín, Penzión Koliba is set in a traditional-style wooden house, typical for the Orava Region. It offers an on-site restaurant and rooms with a TV and free Wi-Fi.
The modern thermal park is built in the wonderful surrounding of Orava, close to the border with Poland. The highly mineralized thermal water, which springs in the depth of more than 1 kilometre, works curing/healing on psychic and stress and is used/utilised in balneotherapy.
AquaRelax is a modern aqua park in Dolný Kubín, outstanding for its unique pyramid architecture. It uses only crystal-clear water in stainless steel pools.
The birthplace of the first man to codify the literary Slovak - Anton Bernolák -disappeared under the level of the Oravská priehrada dam. A church was the only building to remain of the village. It stands on the Slanický ostrov island. A memorial was built there to commemorate its famous native.
Permanent expositions of the traditional folk art from the collections of the Orava Gallery (Oravská galéria) have been located in the beautiful natural scenery of Slanica Island of Art, in the centre of the Oravská priehrada dam.
The pride of Tvrdošín and its oldest preserved building is the Gothic wooden Roman-Catholic All Saints church (Kostol Všetkých svätých) situated in the local cemetery. In 2008, along with seven wooden churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area, it was included on the UNESCO Word Heritage List.
PODBIEL is a typical village lying in the region of Orava (north of Slovakia) with interesting compound of original log houses called Bobrova rala built in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In the vicinity of the distinctive village of Podbiel, with its unique complex of folk-architecture buildings, located in the region surrounding the Orava dam, we can find the precious technical monument Františkova huta (Francis's Smelting Plant).
Three kilometres away from Zuberec, at Brestová, a unique open-air Museum of the Orava Village (Múzeum oravskej dediny) can be visited. Over an area of about 20 hectares, and on both sides of the crystal clean Studený potok brook, is a village containing the typical folk buildings moved here from various regions of Orava.
The Late Gothic wooden church of St Elizabeth is the dominant structure in the Museum of the Orava village - open air museum situated only 3 kilometres away of Zuberec near Brestová. It stands in cemetery in the middle of wonderful mountain scenery. The church was originally built in the 19th century and moved here in the 20th century from village Zábrež.
The most attractive tourist locality of the northern Slovakia is the Orava Castle lying on the river Orava near the village Oravský Podzámok, below impressive cliffs. In 1370, it became a county castle and the seat of the Orava Castle estate, which included almost the whole region of Orava.
Experts classify water mills in the valley Kvačianska dolina among the mountain type of mills. They stand in what is often referred to as a most beautiful Slovak valleys, in the mountain range Chočské vrchy. This is one of the last surviving monuments of its kind and in its natural environment.
The Orava Museum established the exposition of the Orava Logging Railway and the Orava Co-ownership Association in the reconstructed premises of the service building and it will be pleased to welcome anybody coming to this beautiful part of Slovakia to spend their time in a pleasant manner and to have some new experience.


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Tag Google Docs, Spreadsheets, or Presentations as tasks
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It would be really useful if, as with email and the Gmail plugin, you can tag a Google Doc, Spreadsheet, or Presentation as a task.
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sweet idea! Count me in on this!
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nice idea!
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What a great idea! I support this.
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Will be a great idea. I use google docs extensively and would definitely be helpful to tag my docs to my tasks and projects.
nabbp says:
I like this Idea...I was exactly looking for that
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y not create a task with the name of the doc, speadsheet or presentation, and include it's url in rtm? woudln't that serve the same funciton?
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@mehardin, yes the url thing works, but the process is kind of clunky: open the document, copy the url, then make a task for it. I guess something slick like the way we can make a task of an email would be nice.
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Excuse this brief post re something pertaining to football (I'm very much enjoying the movie discussion!). As many of you know Favre has "retired" again. We'll see if it sticks – sounding like it will. But I was reading a Peter King article Monday (Peter King may be one of Favre's best friends) and came across an interesting sentence. Here is the article in its entirety. Below is the snippet I found curious (Peter King is the first person here):
Tannenbaum wanted Favre badly. I said to Favre he should at least talk to Tannenbaum; why wonder sometime down the road if it might have been a smart way to spend one or two final years in the NFL? A few nights later, Tannenbaum and Favre finally spoke and Tannenbaum began the sales job on Favre.
Uh, isn't Peter King a journalist? He admits in the article to having grown close to Favre over the years, but, um, isn't he a journalist? Can't help but wonder if in the process of encouraging a meeting with the Jets, King also stoked Favre's fire toward TT and the Pack?
To be honest (an expression that begs the question: do I usually lie all the time?), I will admit that I am suffering from Favre fatigue. I will always respect him and as time heals things, I'm sure I'll be fine letting him back into my Packer world. But for now, I'll just say it's been a sad ending to what really has been a great career. And his final season, in a way, was somewhat representative of his career: incredible start, breaking records, leading a 4-12 team to an 8-3 record, highest completion percentage in his career, only to be nagged by interceptions and erratic play down the stretch that contributed significantly to the downfall of his team – but like he did almost every year of his career, he still finished with a winning season.


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IT'S not that David Chang doesn't like vegetables. In fact, Mr. Chang, the chef and owner of the Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village, loves them. He just thinks a little meat makes them better.
Even an innocent-looking bowl of sugar snap peas with horseradish begins with a reduction of stock, usually made with pork.
"We've got all this great pork coming in here every day," Mr. Chang said, "and it'd be crazy not to use it."
Momofuku's pro-meat attitude goes even deeper than that. The menu warns off vegetarians, and Mr. Chang, 28, said: "It's hard to order anything here that doesn't have meat in some form or other; we just try not to make anything vegetarian. We're just doing the food we like, and we like meat. We don't make a vegetarian broth, because we don't want to, and we don't make vegetarian versions of things because they just don't taste as good as the versions we do make."
Some of the results of this meat-o-philia make Momofuku's one of the most interesting menus in town if you're an omnivore: the spicy, crisp-fried pig tail is the best version I've had of that underappreciated cut; the deep red tripe stew is also exemplary.
Others are more subtle: the sugar snap peas, the brussels sprouts, even the roasted corn feature meat in some form or another. And fish dishes are not exempt; when Mr. Chang began to see razor clams in nearby Chinatown, he immediately ordered kielbasa from the neighborhood butcher, Kurowycky Meat Products, and figured out a way to combine them.
"I want to respect tradition, and even to some extent maintain it," he said. "But I'm playful, too, and creative. It's not that I'm big into fusion, but if something crosses over, and it makes sense to me to do it in a new way, that's a direction I'm going to take."
The three dishes showcased here are good examples of his thinking. I ate Mr. Chang's baby brussels sprouts nearly weekly this winter; it seemed impossible to become tired of them. And though the basic preparation is French, beginning with bacon and ending with butter, the twist that makes them so fascinating -- serving them on a bed of puréed kimchi -- comes from Mr. Chang's Korean-American background.
"At the beginning of the winter, I started seeing these beautiful baby brussels sprouts in the markets," Mr. Chang said. "But you really don't see brussels sprouts at all in Asian cuisine, so I couldn't quite figure out how to make them feel legitimate to me. Then I thought, well, they're a form of cabbage, and cabbage and pork kimchi is pretty classic, so why not combine bacon and the sprouts, then bring in the kimchi?"
The result may not be spectacular in appearance -- in fact it looks quite rustic -- but the flavor is irresistible. Though Mr. Chang uses his own kimchi (fiery pickled cabbage), I've since made this dish with good, fresh, fairly mild kimchi purchased in a Korean market, and it remains super.
The sugar snap peas' story is similar. "I was eating wasabi peas," he said, "and thinking how good they were, even though they're probably not traditional, and might even have been invented in America."
"You always see horseradish in Japanese food," he added. "They might call it wasabi, but unless you're in a super-high-end restaurant it's just horseradish dyed green. So I thought, why not just be honest about it and grate fresh horseradish over some cooked peas?"
With sugar snap peas (and snow peas, which are just as good here) and horseradish in season, this is a perfect spring dish. But, again, there are no vegetarian pretensions; though the peas would be good lightly cooked in oil, they're sensational prepared in Mr. Chang's style: cooked in reduced stock and finished with butter before being graced with the horseradish.
Even fish gets the meat treatment. When you look at Mr. Chang's razor clams with kielbasa, you see a dish that, with a couple of exceptions, like the addition of soy and ginger, could have originated in Portugal. Of course that country's cuisine has as much respect for the tradition of including meat in nearly everything as Mr. Chang's own.
Razor Clams with Kielbasa Adapted from David Chang Time: 30 minutes
4 tablespoons neutral oil, like grapeseed or corn 1 large onion, sliced Salt and pepper 24 razor clams, cleaned, or littleneck or Manila clams, scrubbed 1/4 pound kielbasa or other garlicky sausage, sliced 1/2 cup sake or not-too-dry white wine 2 tablespoons finely chopped scallions 1 tablespoon minced ginger 1/4 cup soy sauce 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar Chopped fresh jalapeños or other fresh chilies for garnish.
1. Put half the oil in large skillet over medium-high heat; add onions, salt and pepper and cook for a minute, stirring occasionally, until they soften and start to brown. 2. Add clams and raise heat to high; stir for another minute. Add sausage and stir for a minute. 3. Add sake or wine, cover, and cook until the clams are tender (or open, if you're using littlenecks), about 5 minutes. 4. Meanwhile, combine remaining oil with scallions, ginger, soy sauce and vinegar in a bowl. 5. Put clams, onions, sausage and their juices in a bowl and spoon sauce over them; garnish with chilies and serve.
Yield: 4 servings.
Brussels Sprouts with Kimchi Adapted from David Chang Time: 30 minutes
1 pound brussels sprouts 1/4 pound bacon, minced 1 cup cabbage kimchi, plus some of its juice, at room temperature 2 tablespoons butter Salt and freshly ground black pepper.
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. If sprouts are small, simply trim them; if larger, trim and cut in half top to bottom. Put bacon in ovenproof pan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until just about crisp, 5 minutes or so. Remove with slotted spoon and add sprouts, cut-side down. 2. Cook until they begin to sizzle, then transfer to oven. Roast until brown on one side, then shake pan to redistribute. Remove when bright green but browned and fairly tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, purée kimchi in food processor or blender until fairly smooth. 3. Return pan to stove over medium heat and stir in butter, salt and pepper, and bacon. Put kimchi in bottom of a bowl and top with sprouts. Spoon a little kimchi juice over all and serve.
Yield: 4 servings.
Sugar Snap Peas With Horseradish Adapted from David Chang Time: 20 minutes
1 1/2 cups good stock 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 pound sugar snap peas, trimmed 2 to 3 tablespoons butter Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup freshly grated horseradish, or to taste.
1. Combine stock and soy sauce in deep skillet over high heat and reduce to about 1/2 cup, 5 to 10 minutes. Add peas and stir frequently until they are bright green and tender and liquid is reduced to a glaze, about 5 minutes. 2. Turn heat to medium and stir in butter and salt (easy at first, because of soy sauce) and pepper to taste. Put in warmed bowl, top with horseradish, and serve.
Yield: 4 servings.


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Nearly 250 women from around the region gathered in the Sturgeon Lake area for the third annual Dirty Chicks ATV Ride.
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:15 pm
Post subject: About skeptics and paranormal phenomenon
I would like to share a few things about skeptics as it relates to things such as breatharianism for your consideration. Personally I guess I was in an sense kind of like a skeptical person in my childhood. I needed to see things to believe them. I was very scientific thinking, rational, intellectual, logical, and left-brained at that time. I believe I can understand very well where skeptics are coming from.
If you take a look at this map it is a scale of levels of consciousness, developed through spiritual research using applied kinesiology by David R. Hawkins which he first reported in his book 'Power vs. Force' of which you may have heard of:
This map illustrates a scale of power, starting at 200, and force, below 200 along which everything can be "calibrated" at a certain level. We may think of below 400 as 3rd dimension, 400's as 4th dimension, 500's as 5th dimension, 600's as 6th dimension, etc. Having experienced these levels myself I have a different perspective than most skeptics who operate only in the 400's in the skeptical work they do, such as the James Randi Educational Foundation. Skepticism itself calibrates at 160, below the level of truth (200) as it's a negative prejudgment, a presupposition if you will.
Skepticism can only deal in material physical things within the Newtonian linear scientific paradigm. Note that Einstein calibrates at 499, as well as Newton, and Freud. Many of the greatest thinkers stopped at level 499. The non-linear starts at 500 and all duality disappears at 600. These levels are important as we are talking about different paradigms here. Breatharianism is in a completely different paradigm than scientific rational thought. And that is what many fail to recognize.
You can't prove the existence of God any more than you can disprove it.
Just because one is unaware of the spiritual, or not understanding it, does not mean it does not exist. And it is not subject to "proofs" as a proof is an arbitrary mentalization and only exists in the mind, not in Reality. Problem is skeptics believe their highest faculty is the mind, without any real conscious connection to their spiritual self. The mind/ego just goes right along taking all the credit.
People that like to having things proven most definitely do not calibrate over 500. They are still living in the world of mentalizations and proofs of the intellect. They live in the linear. Once you get to the 500's you just know things, you don't need anything proven.
I don't have any problem with miracles or the things Jesus was said to have performed, because I have a scientific and spiritual understanding of how these things work, such as understanding superconduction for instance and how that applies to a human system that's undergone kundalini awakening as well as activating all the chakras fully. Our potentials are everything Jesus did and more, and even he said that! It's only a matter of understanding how. The higher you "calibrate" the more of this sort of stuff, including breatharianism, you just "get it".
I don't believe anyone who calibrates below the 500's can even begin to understand breatharianism. It's beyond what the left-brain can understand as it's more a spiritual non-linear process than a physical linear one. It then requires more of the right etheric brain development.
It's a mistake to assume everyone is capable of understanding spiritual things. It's also a mistake to assume everyone is capable of reason. These are serious mistakes that result from a 'paradigm blindness'. The skeptics also do not believe the spiritual, and see it as airy-fairy woo woo nonsensical babble your imagination has invented. They sincerely believe this. I think my dad is this way.
How we can prove breatharianism to the skeptic then? Well, you won't. Not unless you somehow influence them to have a major leap in their consciousness from the 400's to the 500's. It is possible, but most souls only move an average of 5 points per lifetime. Personally I believe I have moved hundreds of points, though perhaps I am just becoming aware of higher aspects of myself. Some serious spiritual seekers can move hundreds of points but that is not common. Everyone has the potential to reach enlightenment in this lifetime but what holds most back is doubt. Doubt retards spiritual growth more than anything.
I guess to understand spiritual things like breatharianism is more than just a strictly intellectual sense one has to move beyond themselves to some degree and beyond the mind. One has to experience themselves as light/consciousness and become aware of that basic energy of life as their Self, eventually even going beyond that to the void/nothingness, and then beyond that to Allness/Awareness. Some degree of self-realization is then necessary to be breatharian in my understanding, and without it, you won't really truly understand what breatharianism is, not until you've "been there" will you get what it is, and then you can truly say you know, until then it's a belief and knowing about a thing. But I think self-realization is a bit too much to ask of the skeptic or scientist, they are not ready for spiritual awakening yet. There are still working through coming to the point of reaching the limitations of the mind and linearity, and not yet there.
I had some exposure to skepticism in 2010 as I watched Anita try to prove to skeptics she could see who was missing kidneys with a sort of psychic faculty. I watched as she was just intellectually massacred on the JREF forums but all these skeptics, and from that I formed a very negative opinion of skeptics. They are extremely nasty mean people who really don't have s&^t for intelligence compared to me, so I look at them as kind of very limited, and they think they are doing the world a favor but exposing frauds. Anita is also very smart and she tried her best to explain but they just wouldn't accept anything she was saying it seems and were attacking not only her claims but her personally I saw. Here is what she had to say about dealing with the skeptics for several years and planning to go back to breatharianism on her Vff blog:
For those of us who are living from another dimension sharing the same physical space, we are seen as crazy. We are in a completely different paradigm, with different views, different values, different rules. I think failing to recognize this fact leads to a lot of unnecessary conflict among people at different 'levels' of consciousness, or social turbulence.
Trying to explain breatharianism to a skeptic would be like trying to explain science to a dog, they are just not going to get it, you it's a waste of your time effort and mental energy. Some realize this quicker than others. Like religious people, I have little to NO respect for skeptics, scientists, and atheists especially because they're extremely stupid people in my view. I have an IQ that puts me at genius, and yet I am smart enough to realize I don't really know anything but my own experience, and even that is up for questioning. As a kid I loved science and thought of being a scientist, but what kept me back was I don't like math and now that I have a more spiritual focus I have less interest in science as see it as pointless. Science is so far behind, so misguided. And it's sad how many people put more faith in science than in spirit. I guess they are just very limited. I'm not impressed with the mental the way I used to be. It's very limited. The spirit is more interesting to me. And that's just because of a paradigm shift, a shift in consciousness.
I choose not to get into arguments with skeptics. I state my views if necessary but I will not argue with them as it's just a waste of time. To me they are like naive little children. I am actually very turned off by "smart" people who like to rationalize and intellectualize everything. Such people will not be capable of breatharianism, or any real spiritual growth, until they drop the interest in mind. Problem is the more developed the mind gets the harder it is to transcend. A key that's helpful is to realize it's not you, and withdrawn and disassociate interest from it, and it naturally collapses once it has to reason left to be. One is quite capable of functioning without the mind (active) and simple being in the world with inner silence with aware mind. Only 2% of the mind is active and what we call our conscious mind. Once that drops, you have all 100% to work with, instead of 2%. It's far more effective, not to mention powerful. I recently became aware I seem to be able to mind control people or at least influence their actions and thoughts very precisely at will, and plan to experiment with this more. I've witnessed it happening hundreds of times recently and think there may be something to it. But I'd never prove that to the skeptics.
Anyway, just a few thoughts I wanted to share on skepticism and breatharianism, a lot more to say probably but have to cut this short,
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:13 am
Post subject: Re: About skeptics and paranormal phenomenon
jeffrey.sand wrote:
Personally I guess I was in an sense kind of like a skeptical person in my childhood. I needed to see things to believe them. I was very scientific thinking, rational, intellectual, logical, and left-brained at that time.
I'm a true objectivist. I believe only the best theory based on the evidence at hand.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that food has any use for the body. If one does any serious research into the process of eating, breatharianism is implied by the data.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that science is useless. It's really scientists which are useless, because they do not know how to properly collect and analyze evidence.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:00 pm
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Yes, I would agree pretty much, I guess I just choose to see science as VERY limited, and only I would use some of it to help explain breatharianism on an energetic level to those who are not quite there yet. Start talking about chakras and most Americans for example have no clue, unless they are into yoga, and maybe learned a little about chakras. But start talking about glands like Evelyn and Steve do and that's easier for most to understand I guess. So there are different approaches to explaining things. I prefer spiritual. The science is more of an intellectual exercise, but having it does not make one breatharian. One must get subjective and experience. Most would say breatharianism is unscientific, but that is for most (separatists) who still worship duality (the matrix) and are unaware of the universal energy (consciousness) which connects all commonly called God.
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 11:46 am
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jeffrey.sand wrote:
I guess I just choose to see science as VERY limited, and only I would use some of it to help explain breatharianism on an energetic level to those who are not quite there yet.
That is more mysticism than science. Energetic theories are not parsimonious. They are only good for people who are unscientific. Real scientists will (correctly) dismiss energetic theories as hogwash.
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:27 am
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Call it what you will, but it is REAL, more real than that bogus nonsense called science. Science is THEORIES. The more I learn about breatharianism the more I learn how nearly all scientific facts are complete nonsense. We live in an insane world with crazy people who don't even know they are crazy, and think those of us like myself are the crazy. Mysticism is the REAL at least for me and those who are realized. I adored science as a child. Now I despise it. I have nothing but contempt for those who called themselves scientists, but deny God. They know nothing of the REAL. Closing off the non-linear leaves you with only the linear to play with in the mind, and that is oh so boring to those who are more awaken to their spirit. The linear is not REAL. All that changes is by definition illusion for if it was not it would not be subject to change. All that exists within the material linear realm of form called duality is unreal, and that includes science and "real" scientists. I laugh at them heartily. They are but fools, idiots to me. Until moving beyond the ego/mind, one does not know a thing of what is real. All that science tries to comprehend is but a pathetic attempt [of the mind] at the Truth which the mystics throughout time have always known, subjectively within their Self. Truth can never be found "out there" and certainly not in science. To me, everything is energy. Breatharianism is just a "high energy" phenomenon, nothing special, perfectly natural. It seems spectacular to the ego because we do not know of these things very commonly in this world. From the spirits perspective, it's like duh, so obvious, we are light beings, not physical beings, of course we live on light, my God, we are Light! We have been taught only bullshit our whole lives pretty much, programmed with the nonsense only, it's no wonder so many people are skeptical when they hear of Truth. Everything that exists can be understood or explained by simply the word energy. Energy is everything and everything is energy. Energy is both form and formless. Energy takes different forms and different levels. Understanding what are different forms of energy that exist and how they may be manipulated and at what levels of intensity and it's pretty much that simple at least to me. When we talk of thoughts, emotions, feelings, chakras, kundalini, breatharianism, life, death, happy, sad, sick, healthy, we are talking about one thing only...ENERGY. Enlightenment is like an advanced understanding of this experientially within oneself. So forget the stupid scientists. They know of nothing but their ignorance of all things.
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:11 am
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jeffrey.sand wrote:
Call it what you will, but it is REAL, more real than that bogus nonsense called science.
I am not interested in debating the value of science. Either you understand science, or you don't. You either value logical observation, or you don't.
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:54 am
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Ha ha. You make me laugh. Oh, I think I understand science pretty well. It was the only class I consistently got straight A's in school in, cause I actually cared about it, and therefore applied myself. Science was the ONLY class I ever liked in school. I loved it actually. I lived for science when I was a kid. I did chemistry experiments. I had winning science fair projects. I did a lot of work with lasers and optics in my teens. Also a lot of electronics. I was intensely passionate about science. I watched Bill Nye the Science Guy on TV and Beakman's World which was another kids science show I guess you could call it. For may years I was considering going to college to become a scientist, starting out as a lab tech or something eventually working to microbiology and genetics. I was seriously considering this knowing full well with my IQ I could do whatever I wanted to. A lot of the quantum physicists theories such as super-string, Heisenberg Principle, and on and on are nothing new to the mystic who has known these things throughout time, science is young and still learning much whereas the mystic may be fully realizing all this without any thinking processes long before the Vedas were even written. I think science does have value, for those who are not yet spiritual, and identify only with the mind as the highest human achievement and faculty to work with and are unaware of and perhaps in denial of what lies beyond mind (which is spirit). Yeah, so I think I understand science just as well as any scientist, I am well aware of it's methods and procedures which I learned in school. Logical observation is a left-brain process whose limitation is perception, which is essentially subject to the consciousness of the observer, which may be more or less limitied, and which may also alter the outcome based on positionalities or hidden agendas perhaps.
A lot of what is presented as scientific fact is very seriously in error, such as Darwins theories, and fossilized records do not concur with his ideas of things at all, it is therefore very unscientific, yet the scientific community has gone along with it cause oh my god, we would not want to accept creation, then we'd have to acknowledge there may be a God! Which terrifies them of course. Actually creation and evolution are the same this, one and the same, so that resolved that issue. Creation has no starting or stopping points, that is actually an illusion, since time is unreal, and only of the mind, creation is an ongoing process, the Creator and creation are one and the same.
What about global warming. According to applied kinesiology it is false, as far as being attributed to humans. The ocean temps. are increasing FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR, now how that is possible? The Earth is warming, from the inside out. They don't wanna admit that. They also don't want you to know that NASA has data that all the planets in this solar system are having significant increases in surface temperature and and some for light emission as well. So not only Earth, all the planets. So, the cause for global warming is actually the Sun, not pollution or CO2 gas. The Sun is going through some changes, sun spots are increasing drastically and to peak around 2012, they are saying it could knock out all electronics it may be so intense at times. Why is the sun changing like this? Because we are passing through the galactic plane, and increased amounts of light and cosmic particles will be hitting out solar system, I guess, something like that. I may not have all the facts perfect but you get the idea.
Scientists are wrong about so many things, as Alenara pointed out in her lecture in 2002. She is also very fond of science, and is to this day going to school to get a PhD as a physicist and chemist. And putting breatharianism on the back burner for several years apparently. I told her all my feelings about science, and she was pretty much the way you are about it. But I still will be very quick to point out all the errors and so many misunderstandings and mistakes science has made. One of the unreckognized issues is the human minds lack of ability to determine truth from falsehood, or essence from appearance. This has resulted in humanity being at war most of history, and millions being slaughtered for a few demagogues passionate beliefs and ideas. Scientists also have this limitation. How do they know what is true or false? Really? Is it whatever they say it is? Are we are supposed to trust that? Come on!
Scientists say we need dairy or we can't get enough calcium. I haven't had dairy in 6 years. Or meat, we can't get enough proteins without meat. Also have not had that in 6 years. I bet if I was tested I would blow those theories out of the water. They are completely false, yet everyone believes them cause they have that special aura of "scientific" attached so everyone naively thinks it's true since really smart scientists came up with them. Nutritional science is a joke. Anyone really into breatharianism should understand that by now. Most deficiencies as Dr. David Jubb (also a breatharian) has pointed out are caused by what one is doing, not what one had not done. So basically by eating a lot of acid food, you force the body to steal more calcium to neutralize your pH, thereby resulting in a bone loss of calcium over time. Well, is that really caused by not eating enough calcium? It only appears as such, but that's not really the case at all. The pancreas uses chromium to produce insulin for example, and more people are deficient in that trace element, but not cause of not taking enough (cinnamon has a lot) but because of too much sugar. So the excess sugar led to the deficiency. So deficiency is caused by what you do, not what you don't do. If you were breatharian, you should not be deficient in anything. Fasting is one way for average people to correct deficiencies as proof of this.
I could go on and on, but I think I've made my point.
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:50 am
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jeffrey.sand wrote:
You make me laugh.
I'm glad this discussion has produced a usefull response, although it was not my intention to be humorous.
She is also very fond of science, and is to this day going to school to get a PhD as a physicist and chemist.
That is probably a mistake. Schools are very bad places to go to get real knowledge.
And putting breatharianism on the back burner for several years apparently.
I was unaware that Alenara was interested in physics. Interesting.
Scientists say we need dairy or we can't get enough calcium.
A theory which is very poorly investigated.
Nutritional science is a joke.
Nutrition was always a joke, because it was always based on a false assumption. It is based on the assumption that you need food to survive. If you start with false assumptions, you will get false conclusions. And since nobody is interested in testing the assumption, the history of nutrition research has been one bad theory after another.
There is good science, and there is bad science. Good science starts with observations, and then creates a theory to explain the data. Bad science starts with a theory, and then only observes the data that would support that theory.
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Hi Jeffery,
Love your posts. All that you say is Truth from Source and I feel/Know that you have experienced and probably live your day to day life in the 700 to 1000 level of Awareness, as do I.
Your attempt though to "reason" with Draginvry is totally a null-program because, as you previously said in your posts, unless a person has ascended up the scale to a more expanded level of Awareness, it is just not even remotely possible for that person to "get" what you are trying to point to.
"I" do not even like to refer to "myself" as the person who is the Doer in anything. There is just the IAM as Joachim often says. Or God, or Source, or whatever name we call IT. This personality structure is just an expression of IAM. You know of what I speak because you experience IT NOW. And I would like to say most emphatically, that this is no one-upmanship game we are playing. All is ONE, everyone and everything is contained in everyone and everything. Quantum Physics has demonstrated this in Quantum Entanglement.
The All is in all and everyone is an expression of the All. So no one is "above" anyone else, no matter what level of Awareness they are experiencing. No one is "better" or "superior" than anyone else. Draginvry is absolutely perfect just where he is, doing just what he is doing. And your communication with him about this subject of mysticism is also perfect. Perhaps you plant a seed that will grow in a perfect time. But real communication between one personality complex and another is all ego based at best. True communication is always done at the level of Spirit to Spirit. And only those above Level 600 can have an opening into this flow of interaction.
Inevitably the greatest communication of Truth comes from the Universal Guru, the Teaching Aspect of the One, in some manifest form of a physical Guru in the matrix. This communication is through the Darshan, the gaze of the Master who Is God into the eyes of the personality so that the illusions are all shattered and we Know our real Identity as IT. Then we can know things as they are. Then we can see Non-eating, Living in the matrix on just Light, or Spirit alone, as just so simple and natural that it is a no-brainer. And it literally is a no-brainer, or more accurately, a Non-brainer, as it is nothing that be comprehended at the level of the intellect.
But all of this comes as a Gift, no matter what efforts we may seem to exert toward this state of Awareness. The personality is Guided to this state or not, all in a perfect way that fits into the larger story of existence.
Again, so glad to make your acquaintance Jeffery. The world is Waking Up, and the matrix will eventually be known for what it is, just a super hologram. We all play our parts perfectly, no matter how imperfect it appears to be from the level of the ego.
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Thank you for your kind words Dennis. Reading these things I wrote some years ago kind of makes me laugh a little. I can see what I was thinking at that time in my life. Much can change in a few years. Not that I would not stand behind my statements, but people can change, and I don't know I would write the same things today.
I was kind of thinking to myself, why am I so argmentative? I guess it is just in my nature to be that way, perhaps it's from my upbringing, perhaps In get that from my father. I don't know. I guess it's something I might want to try to work on because I was thinking there is really nothing so wrong with anything Draginvry is writing to reply to my post.
All I can do is share my perspective, some will see it some will not. Some will get it some will not. And it really doesn't matter.
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Science is THEORIES.
Actually science is theories that are tested, and replicated, before they are considered facts. Very often personal experience can't be replicated. Many of us on the forum subscribe to personal experience, and rightly so. What works for one won't work for another.
Mysticism is the REAL at least for me and those who are realized.
It's real for me too... on a good day. I can rightly be described as having a good imagination, and making connections that other people may not make. What works for me doesn't hold up to scientific investigation. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Closing off the non-linear leaves you with only the linear to play with in the mind, and that is oh so boring to those who are more awaken to their spirit.
When it comes to spiritual understanding, some have it, some don't, and some (like me) have it intermittently, like bursts of bright light. Then it's like Something is trying to get through to me.
All that exists within the material linear realm of form called duality is unreal, and that includes science and "real" scientists. I laugh at them heartily.
Laugh at them if you like, but if not for their work you wouldn't have a keyboard to type on and access to other minds via the internet. It's okay that scientists deal only in the concrete and replicable. They limit their research to things
can use. We on this forum are not 'everyone'.
Truth can never be found "out there" and certainly not in science.
Where did you find your notion of God? Do you think you'd be so sure of God if no one had taught you religion?
Maybe we would. Maybe that Something would be trying to get through to me anyway, and would be more consistent in my life if It hadn't been perverted by all the things they told me in Sunday School. I have no way of knowing that.
Breatharianism is just a "high energy" phenomenon, nothing special, perfectly natural. It seems spectacular to the ego because we do not know of these things very commonly in this world. From the spirits perspective, it's like duh, so obvious, we are light beings, not physical beings, of course we live on light, my God, we are Light!
Does this mean you are a breatharian? If so, you're the only one I know of. There certainly aren't enough of them (you?) around for science to declare we no longer need to eat or drink. And yes,
in theory
I agree we'd all be better off if we didn't believe we need to eat and drink, or need medical intervention to clear up the effects of eating and drinking -- but so far I haven't been able to demonstrate anything, much less persuade other people to be guinea pigs. And then -- and this is a big one -- what would happen to farmers, supermarkets, restaurants, the medical establishment?
In the current paradigm, people can't simply be. We aren't yet humans being, we're humans doing. Anxiety produces endless busy-ness: having a career, over-eating, making medical appointments, getting together with friends in restaurants, rushing about...
Enlightenment is like an advanced understanding of this experientially within oneself. So forget the stupid scientists. They know of nothing but their ignorance of all things.
This isn't true, Jeffrey. You're confusing scientists' work with their own individual knowing. I've met plenty of scientists, and they aren't as dull as you make out. They have their own hunches, their own knowing. For some people, science is a job, and it has
If no one else gets the same result, you're wrong. If only some people get the same result, there's something missing. If everyone gets the same result, you can write a paper and advance human knowledge.
Sometimes a scientist's hunch can be tested, and passes the test, and one branch of science takes a leap forward. Yes, it's mostly a slow process. The important thing is, it builds on and adds to the tested 'facts' of previous work.
Other times a scientist's hunch is 'just' a knowing intended for the individual who stumbles across it. Plenty of scientists believe in God, they just don't try to put It in a test-tube.
I have my own 'knowing', you have yours. Maybe yours has changed since you started this thread, and you've re-emerged into the ether.
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I have a js plugin that makes a jsonp call to a jsp page. Everything is working perfectly but there is one more thing i want to do.
How I can get the IP address of the remote web site that this js plugin is placed? I don't want the client ip but the www.blablabla.com ip.
I've tried the referer header but it will not work with IE and i guess it is not the best way to go.
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UCGraphics necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Immortal Night
Immortal Night is a hot new Vampire and Lycan (Werewolf) themed online multiplayer game which has been hugely successful since opening in September 09. The players at this point definitely have an Us verse Them when concept when it comes to the Vampires and Lycans in the game. Site URL is http://www.immortalnight.com
Ages 17+ Who are a fan of Vampires and/or Lycans (Werewolfs). Fans of the movies like Twilight and Underworld, or TV shows like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries appreciate our game (although we cant use such images for legal reasons). We have also attracted players from goth websites and people interested in traditional vampire/werewolf lore. We dont target children so a more mature, yet exciting, design is what we are looking for. Campy is definitely not what we're looking for. This runner Advertisement will be used inside the magazine Fangoria.com. Fangoria's demographic is as follows:
Gender Breakdown: 79% Male / 21% Female
Age Breakdown: 16-25 17% : 26-35 38% : 36-45 32%
Geographic Breakdown: 87% USA / 13% REST OF WORLD
We need a 7 inch x 1.75 inch runner-style advertisement piece that will run in the Fangoria Magazine (print edition). Website is: http://www.fangoria.com
We need an advertisement that will inspire readers to come and visit our site, Immortalnight.com. The site logo is attached to this project. The advertisement should also promote a Promo Code to help us track these visitors. Somewhere in the Advertisement it should note Promo Code: FangoriaMay which entitles new users to receive 500 Free Souls at signup.
Any artwork used must be original works, or images which we can properly license from sites such as istockphoto.com or others. We will not accept entries that may have copyright issues.
Fangoria requirements are as follows:
All Deliverables are to be submitted as a Photoshop EPS, TIFF, or PDF file. Include all fonts and images.
• Files should be created and saved at 300dpi at 100%.
• Files are to be flattened, stuffed, and ready to print "as-is".
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Invasion 68
PraguePhotographs by Josef Koudelka
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In 1968, Josef Koudelka was an acclaimed thirty-year-old theater photographer who had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded Prague, ending Czechoslovakia's short-lived political liberalization, the Prague Spring. The day before, Koudelka had returned home from photographing gypsies in Romania. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, this series of photographs were miraculously smuggled out of the country and distributed in New York by Magnum Photos, anonymously to avoid reprisals. The significance of the images earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Award. Sixteen years would pass before Koudelka could safely acknowledge authorship.
Forty years after the invasion, this impressive monograph features nearly 250 of these images—many published here for the first time—personally selected by Koudelka. Though they document a specific historical event, their transformative quality still resonates. A compelling introduction and chronology by three Czech writers provides a nuanced examination of the invasion.
Invasion 68: Prague made possible, in part, by generous support from the E.T. Harmax Foundation.
Josef Koudelka (born in Moravia, Czech Republic, 1938) has received the Prix Nadar, Grand Prix National de la Photographie, Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson, and Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. A member of Magnum Photos, he is based in Paris.
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The second annual Cassette Store Day is coming this Saturday Sept. 27! We'll have just-released cassettes at the front sampler section at Amoeba Hollywood and in front at Berkeley and S.F. Plus, 15% off all used cassettes at Amoeba SF only. Here are some releases to look for …
1349 – Massive Cauldron of Chaos
An early release by black metal greats 1349! Personally, I think the lo-fi aesthetic of Black Metal sounds amazing on cassette. The LP and CD come out Sept. 30 on Seasons of Mist.
The Adolescents - The Complete Demos 1980-1986
Consisting mostly of tracks recorded in 1980, The Complete Demos is kind of like the punk band's unofficial first album.
Alvvays – Alvvays; Fear of Men – Loom
Fear of Men and Alvvays are great female-fronted indie-rock bands reminiscent of The Cranberries and The Sundays; two personal favorites from this year.


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A while back I scouted out a remote train recording location along a track that I knew to be under pretty regular use by the freight lines that run through downtown. Its amazing sonically, but not in the nicest part of town so I have to choose my times of day carefully since I don't want to be out there after dark.
The unique thing about this location is the fact that its right over the trinity river basin and has perfect access to the underside of the train bridge. This presented a golden opportunity to both record a train by from a unique perspective (underneath) and to plant some contact mics on the rails and see what those things would hear. I also wanted to do a very wide perspective since so many train bys that I hear and record lately are of the very closeup variety.
As I was still getting set up a train ran up over me and surprised me. I panicked a bit, rolled on the audio, fretted about my contact mics not being set up, grabbed my handheld recorder, and looked for the video button on my phone. The rest is in the vid below.
you'll notice that about halfway through I had to flip the video because I was holding my phone upside down, which made the train go in the wrong direction on the vid. good times.
Here's a more detailed look at the setup:
|Contact Mics
|Mics under rails
|Mics ORTF aimed up in the blimp
As a side note, I will be posting the high res files of both the close and wide perspectives on two train passes to The Sound Collector's Club for download. All you need to do is sign up and post a train recording of your own to get them.
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Wilmington Ten
On 6 Feb. 1971, after weeks of racial tension over integration of the public school system in Wilmington, a white-owned grocery store in a black neighborhood was firebombed. A year later Ben Chavis, a representative of the Commission for Racial Justice, eight black students, and one white woman were arrested, brought to trial, and convicted of the crime. Much national media coverage was given to the "Wilmington Ten," as they were subsequently called, whose sentences ranged from 23 to 24 years. CBS's 60 Minutes, the New York Times Magazine, the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, and Amnesty International all focused on the human rights issues involved in the convictions. Protests from around the country were loud, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals found nothing wrong in the way the trials had been conducted. Governor James B. Hunt Jr. refused to pardon the convicted bombers but did reduce their sentences. Nine of the ten were released in the fall of 1978, and Chavis was given his freedom in December 1979. In December 1980 the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions, concluding that the initial trial had been unfair and therefore had denied the accused their constitutional rights.
On December 31, 2012, Governor Beverly Perdue issued a full pardon to all of the "Wilmington Ten."
Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley, A History of African Americans in North Carolina (2002).
Additional Resources:
"Four decades later, Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten seek a declaration of innocence." News and Observer:
"Wilmington Ten Member Dies." WECT, Downtown Wilmington: http://downtownwilmington.wect.com/news/community-spirit/57890-wilmington-ten-member-dies
"The Wilmington Ten" This Month in North Carolina History (blog), The North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/feb2005/index.html
Transcript of the Case, The United States Department of Justice: http://www.justice.gov/crt/foia/readingroom/wilmington/
Almasy, Steve. "North Carolina governor pardons 'Wilmington 10'" CNN. January 1, 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/justice/north-carolina-wilmington-10/index.html (accessed January 30, 2013).
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Watering the Tulips
July 10, 2013
"Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him" – Proverbs 29:20
We all know the type – the man who constantly shoots off at the mouth without thinking. And certainly, we've all been guilty of just such actions. However, a child of God should be growing in maturity. And, one of the marks of maturity is to handle our words with wisdom.
Even in troublesome situations, there is a proper way to handle ourselves. What we may call "standing up for God", God may judge to be arrogant or self-serving. What we may call "contending for the faith", God may judge to be a gross misrepresentation of His character, as our Father. Don't misunderstand; we certainly must always be willing to stand up for the truth. However, there is a right and proper way to do this. We must stand in a way that is in accordance with God's holy character.
Paul was clearly a man that stood up for God and His Word. Yet, Paul's instruction to the church at Colosse was, "Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one" (Colossians 4:6). He lived this. A casual reading of the history of Paul's ministry in the Book of Acts will show forth speech full of grace. As he instructed the Ephesian saints, so Paul sought to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). We should do the same.
One of the marks of maturity in the faith is the ability to hold one's tongue. James said, "If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body" (James 3:2). In a society where being outspoken seems to be commended, this can certainly be difficult. Does that outspoken obnoxious person sometimes get their way? Sadly, the answer is yes. But, this doesn't give a child of God the right to violate God's Word and misrepresent His character.
In a generation of outspoken religionists, Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9). This is not a suggestion for the people of God. This is a description of the people of God. And, if we look back through history since Jesus first established His church, we see a meek, quiet people that sought to share the love of Jesus through the Gospel. We do not find a loud, arrogant group. These people were "called sons of God". Let us seek to be recognized in such a way.
One of the hardest things to do as a child of God is to fight the temptation to conform to society's standards. While our society may promote and even glorify outspokenness, let us do our best to properly represent our Heavenly Father by conforming to His character and His Word.
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Elemental Focus is a passive shaman ability learned at level 40 for those with the elemental specialization. It grants a Clearcasting state after any critical damage spell (fire, frost, or nature) hits a target. The Clearcasting state lasts 10 seconds, reducing the mana cost of the next two spells while increasing spell damage and single-target healing.
Patch changes
- Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Elemental Focus now increases the Shaman's spell damage by 15% (was 10%).
- Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Tooltip revised to indicate it does not work with critical strikes from periodic damage.
- / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Now also can proc off Lesser Healing Wave and Healing Wave, and can be used on all healing spells.
- Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): This buff will no longer be removed when Shamanistic Focus is triggered.
- Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Now reduces the mana cost of the next 2 damage spells by 40%. Previously reduced the mana cost of 1 damage spell by 60%.
- Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): This talent now reduces the cost of the next damage spell by 60%. It will also now trigger from bonus spells cast by Lightning Overload.
- Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06): The clearcasting effect from "Elemental Focus" now triggers on all spell critical strikes, rather than a chance on any spell hit.
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Grain-Free Crackers... Almond Thins. My fascination with crackers continues:)... If you've been following me for some time now, you would have probably noticed that I love making crackers... all sorts of crackers. I think the cracker "bug" bit me when I first made my very own Parmesan sesame crackers... years ago.
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A vital part of my system is my picture browser. I use it browse the images I put on the website, to review images I've created with GIMP, to scan wallpapers, and to look at pictures I've took. Originally I was going to call this "Review of Picture Browsers" but I realized on my system the more important feature I needed was lightweight. I looked at seven picture viewers and here is how they stacked up.
The contenders:
From top to bottom… Not pictured: feh, (out to lunch)
All the browsers I tried have stayed true to Linux form and are pretty lightweight. I did not review fspot here as it is a mono application and at least at the time I don't consider it a lightweight application. All these applications I have tested over the last several weeks to get a good idea about them.
To test each application I first purged the memory then opening numerous images with "
appliation *.jpg".
The test bed:
Startup times are calculated by the hardened method of, "one mississippi, two mississippi…", also I didn't drop the gnome caches too, sueme.
The criteria for the judging process is thus in matter of priority:
- Lightweight – by lightweight I mean startup and application responsiveness.
- Ability to scale images with both quality and speed
- SVG support – bonus
- Ability to organize files – bonus
- All had full-screen support.
Eye of Gnome
I doubt few people travel far from Gnome's default viewer. Eye of Gnome starts reasonably quick, and scales images well. EOG also browses quickly and is the best in the group creating a good browsing window for all images.
Gnome's Belt Holder
On this computer though, the EOG's lag is noticeable with the startup time for the sample 13 images being 15 seconds. Otherwise I can see why EOG is Gnome's default viewer. Bonus to Eye of Gnome for SVG support.
Score: 4.4/5
I thought about whether or not to add this one as Gthumb is more of an image organizer that an image browser but a lot of people like it (as do I). Gthumb opens as quickly as EOG and its image browsing is simple and does a good job. The organizing features of Gthumb are nice, though I don't think very intuitive.
- (+) Organization support
- (-) Couldn't get arrow keys to work
- (-) Thumbnails broke on my setup
- (-) No SVG support
Score: 3.9/5
Mirage is a python application for viewing images. As a python dependency I knew Mirage wouldn't be blazing on this computer – startup time was 30 seconds. Of all the browsers beside EOG I thought Mirage was the best designed. Mirage also has a few nice features adding in. Unfortunately Mirage scales poorly and slowly.
Score: 2/5
With GQview I didn't know what to expect I haven't seen anyone using it. GQview is an image browser and organizer, and starts in about eight seconds. GQview though is a bit of a mess as it seems torn between trying to do too much. GQview does runs well and I'm still using it on my system for it's excellent collections support.
- (+) customizable
- (+) svg support
- (-) poor scaling
- (-) mouse clicks only option to browse images
- (?) no more development?
Score: 3.9/5
XFCE's Ristretto trails the pack. Another python application and it needs lovin'. Startup time was 27 seconds. Not only that but flipping between images was slow and the scaling quality was poor. I didn't spend alot of time with this application.
Score: 1.5/5
Feh is a bare bones image viewer and probably not for everyone. Feh has a minimum of dependencies and above all is fast – almost instantaneous, two seconds to startup. Run from the command line, Feh can be used to browse and scale images but will require setting up to use on the desktop; I'll take more of this tomorrow. Feh is not for the regular user, but it is the best lightweight solution.
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And we'll discuss health care reform with it.
And who washes them down the "plug" anyway? Definite squish action.
Kill it. Kill it til it dies!
Useful Predators? Didn't they open for the RBRs?
So they suggest you save it's life and then release it outside so it can be eaten by a bird? Sounds fair.
I just let my cat get it.
This is wrong on so many levels.
1) Wash spider down drain.
2) Empty can of RAID down drain.
3) Exit and lock bathroom door.
4) Burn house down.
I recommend placing the hand, palm up, in front of the spider. Tap it on the hind legs and it will crawl up into your palm. Taking care that it doesn't fall off, the spider can be moved where you want it. Tap it on the legs again and it will crawl off.
Two caveats; know your spiders first and you need confidence to do this well.
Venomous spiders can be handled this way but that's where the confidence comes in.
There was an episode of "Alf" in which Alf sprayed a Melmackian cockroach with Raid, and it grew to about eight-feet long. So, the towel method of dealing with spiders is probably the safe way to go. You never know if it might be a space spider.
Ahem. Hell to the no, as the youngsters say.
This not-so-little arachnid is the identical twin of the vicious beast that got me in the shin last summer with its nasty little fangs. Itching, burning, swelling, and red marks for weeks afterwards. Granted, it was outside (one on the deck and one by the pool) and in the Tennessee Smokies, but I have turned to the dark side when it comes to spiders. They. Will. Die.
Guin-- you have it EXACTLY RIGHT!
Steve is a seriously disturbed individual.
I used to hold my first-born cat up to the wall where the spider was and he'd go CHOMP. No messing around. But cats these days, they just watch them, tap them, watch them some more..... I have to find something else to hold up to the wall.
If it's in my house and has more than 4 legs, it's dead. And that's that.
Tash, my dad used to squirt lighter fluid on spiders in the basement and flick his Zippo on them. It's a miracle the house never caught fire. Or that my mother never found out.
Whomp !! Whomp !! Whomp !! ( Checks to see if it's dead. Whomps it a few more times with a tire iron. )
While in most situations I'm happy to deal with the spider in an adult and professional manner (cursing while brushing wildly at hair and clothing), the bath is where I draw the line. Definitely a wash down the plug situation.
Seriously, 'the plug'? Don't they speak English over there?
CatR -- hee hee, there was a post here a while back about someone who DID set their house on fire doing just that.
I have one more thing to add:
Go tell it to the Pope.
@Guin: Excellent link! As is true with many, many things, His Holiness handled himself with more dignity than I could muster. Those white robes would kind of show up an arachnid, wouldn't they?
Anyway, thanks for that link. I'm sending it to a friend of mine at Yale Divinity School.
The leg factor comes into play here.
According to leg factor theory, anything with fewer than two legs (your worms and snakes) or more than six fails the ICK test. There's sort of a cloudy area, 4-6 legs, because you have the occasional ladybug or butterfly to consider-- 4 to 6 legs have to be taken on a case-by-case basis.
But more than six? ICK.
As for centipedes and millipedes, we won't even go there. Clearly excessive, to the point of depravity.
sckeppy, and if it bites me on the leg, it. will. die.
And rightly so, Cat R-- another aspect of leg factor theory. It may be only a theory, but it has practical applications!
Nursecindy, may be. But I can walk through the jungle and not be on edge. Also, I petted a very nice Boa today.
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The Adrian Dominican School of Education Department of Counseling has received a grant in the amount of $54,926.64 for 2015-2016 from the Florida Department of Education to continue its one-of-a-kind College Reach-Out Program (C.R.O.P.) for the 2015-2016.
C.R.O.P. is a statewide program aimed to motivate and prepare educationally disadvantaged, low-income students in grades 6 through 12 to pursue and successfully complete a college education. Since 1999, Barry University's ADSOE- Department of Counseling is the only program of its kind in the state of Florida to provide counseling services to C.R.O.P. students and their families along with tutoring, mentoring, college symposiums, and summer residential programs.
Barry University's ADSOE- Department of Counseling recognizes that the family is an integral part of a student's development, whether, academic, personal or career. As a result, Barry's CARE Center offers family counseling and support services to families of the C.R.O.P. students each year with a goal to eliminate barriers to school achievement and facilitate academic and personal success.
C.R.O.P. also serves an educational and training program for ADSOE Counseling and other mental health university students who will eventually enter areas of counseling and mental health practice. It is designed to develop and enhance the necessary counseling clinical skills (group, individual, family, and psycho-educational sessions) as well as address those areas of content and practice related to serving educationally disadvantaged, low-income at-risk youth and families.


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Investors hope markets can build on the respectable gains chalked up last week after getting reassurance about the Chinese and U.S. economies.
Traders will again focus on corporate earnings as big Canadian companies start to release quarterly reports.
North American markets racked up solid gains last week, with the TSX ahead 1.7 per cent while the Dow industrials ran ahead 2.4 per cent, partly because Chinese economic growth in the first quarter came in better than expected. Also, the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest regional survey showed that the American economy picked up over the past two months as bitter winter weather subsided.
It was a positive change from the previous week when U.S. indexes sustained sharp losses as traders rotated out of expensive biotechs and technology stocks.
The major Canadian reports this week will come from Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) and Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP).
Teck's share price has suffered over the last 52 weeks, coming down from a high of $31.25 to a close on Thursday of $24.31, near its 52-week low of $21.11. Copper prices have tumbled 11 per cent this year and coal prices have fared even worse, falling from US$300 a tonne in 2011 to about $120 a tonne.
"The base metals remain challenged by the fact that we're still dealing with a slower global growth environment than we were, which is not great news for base metals," said Andrew Pyle, senior wealth adviser, portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont.
"At the same time, Teck has a relation to coal and there have been indications that we're dealing with pretty substantial coal supplies around the world, depressing coal prices."
Meanwhile, shareholders in Canadian Pacific will be looking to see if the railway's results justify the 36 per cent run-up in the stock price over the last 52 weeks.
"The results have to be really amazing to validate the trajectory we have seen in these stocks," said Pyle.
"Even if the results are OK, we could still see these stock prices come down simply because of the valuations of this group. The group as a whole is vulnerable to a pullback."
Traders will look to see how severe winter weather impacted the railway in the quarter and how increased petroleum shipments have lifted the bottom line.
Other prominent earnings reports this week include telcom Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) on Monday and electronics manufacturer Celestica (TSX:CLS) on Wednesday.
It's a light week for economic data.
The primary economic news for the week comes out Wednesday when Statistics Canada is expected to report that retail sales in February rose 0.4 per cent from January, when sales posted a big 1.3 per cent bounce from the poor performance registered in December because of severe ice storms.
Economists expect a good chunk of the gain will be driven by higher gasoline prices.
The big news the U.S. is March durable goods data coming out Thursday. Economists looked for goods orders to have risen by 1.9 per cent following a 2.2 per cent gain in February. Excluding the volatile transportation segment, orders are expected to have risen by 0.5 per cent.


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Sporty's Guide Service is based off a 275 acre property with access to other properties to provide a wide variety of terraine, cover and agricultural crops to provide feeding areas for game. Sporty's provides guide service and dogs when needed. You can bring your own dogs to stay in the kennels at the property, which can be transported to and from your fields during your hunt. Dog training is also available. Disabled hunters are welcome here and encouraged to come hunt with us as Sporty's has handicapped accessable property. Bird hunting can be individual or as groups and corporate discounts are available.
For information on accomodations nearby, ask Manager Billy Bryant while making your hunting reservation.