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my Cici can be pretty picky about her cookies. especially healthy ones. a month or so ago, we were at a fair nearby Whole Foods and a local gal had a table. She baked her own dog biscuits and was giving out free samples. We chatted and i gave Cici a biscuit to try. She would not eat it. I tried again and still, she was not biting into those peanut butter and something cookies. I figured well, she just does not like peanut butter all that much. She's more of a meat eating gal. Kind of embarrassing though.
Yesterday, we were at Whole Foods and these kind people there took Cici for a walk and gave her some dog treats of the non-healthy kind. She loved the dog bone shaped cookies while I worried about her eating them. I am currently giving her a special kind of SPIRULINA to counteract all of the bumps, cysts and growths that have recently developed all over her body. A vet wanted to surgically remove them but I prefer a more holistic method, hence the BIOPREP. More about this in a later blog post. Suffice it to say here, Cici has some health issues that we are addressing and that the Bioprep worked a few years ago to eliminate a growth on her toe.
well, NO SUCH PROBLEM with Austin and Kat CBD infused Wellness Dog Biscuits Peanut Butter and Apple. Cici has scarfed up these cookies with all of the enthusiasm of a happy cookie monster doggie. She thinks they are very tasty and I love that they are good for her. shhhhhh, do not tell her that they are good for her.
HOW CLEVER to pack a wellness punch into a doggie bite-sized snack. With no eggs, dairy, gluten or preservatives, these cookies offer oatmeal, coconut oil (CICI LOVES COCONUT OIL) and turmeric, a great anti-inflammatory and digestive aid. The organic, cold-pressed CBD Hemp oil is also an anti-inflammatory plus it supplies all of the good Omega 3, 6, 9 oils that doggies need.
And then there is cinnamon, maple, molasses, flax seed, probiotics, along with the oatmeal, apples and peanut butter. What a blend of goodness. No wheat or corn flour either, oat and rice flour and almond meal to hold these yummy for the tummy goodies all together.
i have rarely, if ever, seen my dog eat up cookies that were labeled healthy in any way like she has eaten these. She just doesn't seem to enjoy the others but she is a big fan of Austin and Kat's cookies and wishes there were an unlimited supply for her to eat.
And here's the kicker, initially, Kat, the creator baker of these sweet things initially made these cookies for her senior doggie, Brady. And Cici is no spring chicken at the ripe old age of 10 herself. Kat also has a puppy named Austin who has enjoyed the health benefits of these snacks, too. Read all about their journey in Maine here.
And what are you waiting for, go get your doggies some treats. OK, Halloween is over but that's ok. Now, it is time for some goodies for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Make great paw stocking stuffers. Be sure to tell Austin and Kat we sent you.

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In the House of the Yellow Priest
When a mysterious man hires them to slay Baza, the Yellow Priest, will the heroes find more than they bargained for?
The heroes are approached by a mysterious man, cloaked and muffled and masked. Perhaps he nears them in a shadowy bar, or bribes the guard to release them from their prison cells. However it is that they encounter him, his proposal is thus:
"You may call me Posthumo. I have a proposal which I believe may interest you."
Posthumo tells the heroes that he has recently done business with the infamous Baza, the Yellow Priest, who, it is said, has the ear of the King and all his magistrates, and who lives in an opulent villa on the edge of the Polis. Baza, it is also said, is a sorceror, and a man of ill intent. Often are witnessed nighted comings and goings and strange noises and lights which surround the villa.
Posthumo coveted a certain item of ill intent rumoured to come from the sorcerous crypts of the Farther South. Posthumo had arranged for Baza, the Yellow Priest, to acquire this certain item for him.
Baza, the Yellow Priest hired for himself a certain priest of the god Ceremeus who dwelt in a temple on the edge of the Malecello, the poorest section of the Polis. This certain priest of Ceremeus was fat and well fed. He made a great windfall as a fence for unlawfully procured goods, but was also a spy for the Polis Municipal Authorities. The priest of Ceremeus was to watch for this certain item to come into his hands through his clandestine channels.
In due time, this item did indeed come to the priest of Ceremeus, and thusly, to Baza, the Yellow Priest. But as fickle Fortune would have it, Baza, the Yellow Priest, who also seeks items of ill intent such as this certain item, found that he, as well as Posthumo, coveted the item, and thus, he made a pact with the priest of Ceremeus to betray Posthumo and take the item for his own.
So, in a dank alleyway in the Malecello, where the transaction was to take place, the certain priest of Ceremeus attempted to stab Posthumo in the back and take the certain item to the Yellow Priest for his promised reward. However, the priest of Ceremeus was a thief, not a murderer, and bungled the job, as Baza had suspected he would. Posthumo survived and took himself to a healer, and, soon, was on the hunt to finally acquire his certain item, and also, to get bloody revenge on Baza and the priest of Ceremeus for their betrayal.
"That is the tale." says Posthumo, folding velvet-gloved hands. He explains to the heroes that he needs their assistance, and can pay them handsomely for it. What he needs is this:
1. Sneak into the Villa of Baza, the Yellow Priest and recover the certain item.
2. Find Baza, the Yellow Priest, and kill him.
But of course, there are certain problems which go along with the handsome reward that Posthumo offers the heroes.
Those who crossed Baza the Yellow Priest often met their ends in mysterious ways and mysterious circumstances. Often it is said that once, while Baza stood and whispered into the King's ear, one of the generals attempted to stage a coup, and all the guardsmen of the palace stormed the Throne Chamber. But Baza took this in stride, and, standing insolently before the King, he placed a magic curse on the general and is accomplices, turning them all into coals that burst into sorcerous blue flames. It is also said of Baza that he once did business with a Prince of the Black Lands in the Deepest South, but that the Prince cheated him, and so he turned the Prince into an insect which he crushed beneath his heel.
When Posthumo is sure that the heroes are up to the task, he tells them that this certain item is locked in a small amphora of iron, and locked thrice over with padlocks of pure silver, which repels certain evils. He also gives them a map of Baza the Yellow Priest's villa, as it is generally known, and warns them that the villa is not as it seems.
Finally, he dismisses them to their work, with warnings that Baza is well-versed in magics black and evil, and traffics with nameless beings of the supernatural.
The Yellow Priest's villa is somewhat outside the Polis in the verdant Latifundian Hills. It occupies a large hill amidst the surrounding fields and meadows. It is hemmed by a high wall. It appears that there are no guards within or outside the villa.
A gate of black iron is the only entrance into the inner villa. If the gate is rattled (A gesture equivalent to knocking the door), the Yellow Priest's single servant, Spendus, emerges from the house and walks quickly down the main garden path to tell the heroes, firmly, that "The Master is at his books, and will not be available until the morn." Spendus is a relatively short, black-skinned man with the shaven pate and white tunic of a slave. He speaks in low, slightly accented tones, nearly whispering. No amount of bribery or weaseling will convince Spendus to let the heroes in. Observant heroes will notice that Spendus seems ill at ease, and frequently makes quick glances over his shoulder. When the heroes quit the gate, Spendus will hurry back to the door of the villa.
There are other entrances, however. Properly-equipped heroes or heroes with a propensity for climbing could easily scale the wall, for it is low (roughly 10 feet) and grown heavily with vines. The back wall of the villa is lined with large trees, but branches which may have reached over the wall have been cut back.
Somewhat down the hillside from the northeast corner of the wall, there is a grove of shaggy bushes and large trees that hide a circular iron grate built into the side of the hill.
Over the Wall
If the heroes choose to go by way of wall-scaling, they find themselves in the inner villa gardens. These large gardens occupy most of the room within the wall, surrounding the rather modest house (Unbeknownst to the heroes, the bulk of the house is underground, within the hill.). The garden seems very overgrown. Small garden paths made from irregular river stones wind their way through the garden, overhung by flowery hedges, thorny shrubs, swarms of weeds, and mossy trees. All garden paths eventually lead back to the main path, which leads from the main gate of the villa to the front steps of the house.
There is something other than would-be thieves in the garden, however. Some heroes may notice a sort of presence over the garden. This foreboding presence becomes heavier as they near the main path, and more spiritual heroes (Clerics, priests, paladins, etc.) may sense the chill claw of evil floating in these overgrown lanes.
The heroes will slowly become lost and separated in the overgrown garden. Paths mysteriously change when the heroes try to retrace their steps, lanes are cut-off by hedges that appear when the heroes turn their backs. When all of our heroes are separated, the presence may begin to pick them off.
Heroes attacked by the presence will see it as a malevolently grinning face, forming in the leaves of the shrubbery, or hear mocking laughter in the sound of rustling bushes as the garden comes alive to destroy them. Attacking thorn vines lash like slaver's whips. Weeds drag down and entangle heroes. Shrubbery attempts to smother or strangle them. There is no stopping the Garden Keeper's attacks, short of burning the entire garden, which is, one would think, a rather drastic measure.
The Garden Keeper is not invincible to fear, however. It deeply fears fire, and the blades that the heroes carry worry it. If threatened with such vegetative deaths such as these, the Garden Keeper will manifest itself as the face in the bushes and attempt to reason with the heroes. But, of course, the spirit-thing is untrustworthy. It offers to give the heroes a clear way to the main garden path in return for sparing it from fire. But the paths it provides are deception, and lead the heroes into the waiting arms of a great briar-mass with razor-sharp thorns.
The heroes are safe if they can make it to the main garden path, where the Garden Keeper holds no sway. From there, they can go to the main steps of the house's pillared entrance and push open the great oak doors.
To Room 1.
Through the Grate
If the heroes choose to enter through the iron grate down the hill, they find themselves in a tunnel of damp, sweating stone. As they enter, undoubtedly having pushed the grate in, or pulled it out, a massive portcullis drops down to seal of the tunnel. It is pitch dark in the tunnels, which lie beneath the cellars of the house. The tunnels are mazy and labyrinthine, and if they succeed in finding a torch to light their way, quite empty.
Empty, that is, until they reach the center of the maze. The center is large circular room with a floor of fine gray sand, which, upon closer examination, contains fragments of bone. As the heroes go towards the other side of the center, where there is another tunnel, portcullises crash down to seal them inside the ashy room, and a trap door appears in the ceiling. Out of that issues a massive stream of blazing alchemist's fire, which begins to pool in the center of the room.
There seems to be no escape. However, the heroes can take refuge on the outer edges of the chamber, because it fills quite slowly. In addition, observant characters will note that the mortar of the wall above the exit grate is beginning to crumble, and can be knocked out with several blows of sufficient force.
If the heroes manage to bypass the chamber of alchemist's fire, they come to a second large circular room. This one contains a great vat filled with a bubbling green fluid. As the heroes watch, a chute in the wall opens and a bloodied corpse slides out and into the vat. The fluid is an acid which dissolves the body immediately.
Beyond the acid vats, there is a stairwell that leads upward into the wine cellar of the house. Baza has many fine vintages, and many barrels filled with finely prepared meats and other foods. Also of interest in the wine cellar is a waist-height amphora filled with bones.
A stairway out of the wine cellar leads into the pantry of the house, a long room lined with shelves of food delivered from the Polis and with meats and herbs hanging from the ceiling. Around a hanging curtain is Room 4.
From here, a change of format is required.
Room 1: This is the central courtyard of the house. The oak doors at the back lead out to the central garden path. The center of the courtyard is a small square pool. Other oak doors are set into the walls. Two doors are set into the east wall, one in the north, and two in the south.
North Door: To Room 2.
East Door 1: To Room 3.
East Door 2: To Room 4.
West Door 1: To Room 5.
West Door 2: To Room 6.
Room 2: This rather large room is Baza's dining chamber. There is a long table laid as if for a large feast. The walls are covered in sumptuous purple velvet hangings. At the opposite end of the table, Baza's own towering seat is empty. There is another door behind Baza's seat, which leads to Room 7.
Room 3: This chamber is Spendus' quarters. The room is small and spartan. The walls are of unpainted plaster, and the floors of tile. A small bed is set in the corner, and a chest is at its foot, containing Spendus' personal items and mementos. Another large clothes chest is set against the opposite wall. There is only one door out, leading back to Room 1.
Room 4: This chamber is the kitchen. Spendus prepares all of Baza's meals here. It is small, with meats and herbs hanging from the ceiling. At the back of the kitchen, behind a hanging curtain is the pantry. There is a stairway from the pantry that leads to the wine cellar. The only other door leads to Room 1. Spendus is here and is preparing a goblet of spiced wine for Baza.
Room 5: This chamber is Baza's study and library. It is a long room, almost as large as the dining hall, is lined with books. Two tables piled high with books are central in this room. A secret door in the northern wall leads to Room 6.
Books that can be found in Room 5 include copies of the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon, the Revelations of Glaaki, the Dialogues of Spathi, and the Black Book of the East. Also to be found are less sinister tomes, including Shosir's Almanac, The World As It Is, and The Chronicles of History.
Room 6: This is Baza's sleeping chamber. The windows are curtained heavily with velvet red drapes, and the tile floor is covered in a sumptuous carpet. A gigantic bed, canopied and covered in silk is at the end of the chamber. A separate closet, roughly half the size of Room 4, contains most of Baza's clothing. Locked chests throughout the room contain objects of ill intent, including amulets and rings of evil work, unfathomably ancient and mouldering scrolls in forgotten languages, skulls sealed with wax and marked with the names of various alchemical reagents. A secret door in the south wall leads to Room 5. A door in the eastern wall leads back to Room 1. A trap door in the southwest corner leads to a chute that Baza uses to send murdered bodies to the acid vats in the basement.
Room 7: This is a short T-shaped hallway. The door on the west leads to Room 8, and on the east leads to Room 9.
Room 8: This chamber is bare stone. There are no windows. In the center of the floor is a circle of white sand. A partial sorcerous circle is drawn in the sand, but has not been completed. On the wall above the sand, directly facing the door, there is a great sigil of some foul god. A great chain, appearing in mid-air above the sorcerous circle, is sunken into the sand. If the heroes dally too long in this chamber, a demon is hauled dripping from some filthy and fluid corner of the Inferno through the half-drawn sorcerous circle, a massive hook attached to the magic chain caught under it's chin. Since the circle is incomplete, the demon escapes and attacks the heroes, thinking that it was they, not Baza, who hauled it up.
Room 9: This is Baza's personal shrine to the foul god that he truly worships. The chest containing the certain object is set on the altar. It's chains have been removed. If the heroes open the chest, there is a flash of light, and a bronze amphora appears in the center of the room. The amphora is sealed with iron bands and is made from some mysterious metal. The inner shrine is curtained off from the rest of the room with a velvet curtain.
Spendus is nowhere to be found within the house, but when the heroes enter Room 7, Baza, the Yellow Priest, shambles around the corner from Room 9.
"T-th-the God...of the...A-Amphora! H-his re-reach is long!" Baza babbles, and then collapses onto the floor, blood bubbling from his mouth.
If the heroes are brave enough to enter Room 9, they find the iron amphora, silver locks thrown wide, dashed against the floor. The curtain surrounding the inner shrine is drawn shut, but a singular face stares out from between the curtains, revealing none of its body. None of the body is exposed.
This face is singular in it's androgynous beauty. It is perfect, but it is neither male nor female. It's eyes are jade green. It speaks a single word in some forgotten language that was dead before humans were born. But the heroes, somehow, understand this word:
"Come," it says.
This word is hypnotic, and draws in the heroes. However, should they break the spell of this word, they find the being speaking some slaying magic.
The thing is a monster, for behind the curtain there are monstrous serpent's coils. The being has no arms, merely the beautiful head and the shimmering coils of the snake. If its coils are revealed, the being attacks, spitting up black acid and summoning masses of snakes and demons.
If the heroes manage to defeat the being, the chamber rumbles, and there is a flash of light. The amphora is once again sealed, and the silver locks are once again locked.
The house is deserted now. Spendus has disappeared, Baza is dead. The serpent-god of the amphora is once again sealed. As the heroes walk from the villa, there is a great roar, and the villa disappears in a flash of light.
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Wow! Sorry! Didn't notice it till now! I like the specificity! It's a whole adventure there, ready for a GM to use. It's well-balanced with plenty of good description and NPCs. Very Lovecraftian ;) nice work!
Just in case anybody wanted to know, this plot is made for use in my Armorican Kingdoms setting(Which, for those out of loop, can be found in the forum.).
Oh, screw it, I have no excuse, I'm just drawing attention to it. :)
Hey, I think that's perfectly alright. I remember seeing this before, way back when I didn't have an account, and by the time I got one, I forgot about it. I always liked this adventure, and now that I'm better versed in certain lores, I find it to be quite good. A nice thriller, though it might be a bit short if a GM doesn't add in extra stuff; e.g. filler.
As to what that filler might be, I'm clueless.
4/5 - Great job!
I particularly appreciate the tone you set on this one! The names and language used work well together, with a "pulp" fantasy feel, vaguely reminiscent of Weird Tales authors like Robert Howard or Clark Ashton Smith.
I hope that someone cleans away the special characters! Adding space between the paragraphs would also help it scan better.
Yes, a very good adventure - nicely done!
Yes, it has that classical shine and good ole Captain feel. Might use those extra lines but who cares. It is fine.
This was one of the subs that made me go "wow" when I was considering joining the citadel. Wulf nailed it. CAS!!!!!!!!!
Cap, this would have made a sublime five room dungeon!
oh i love this so
Yet another one of those splendid submissions that I have read numerous times since 04 but somehow failed to comment and vote on. Its been a while since the CP has visited, lets hope he returns. I simply love everything about this post, from the name down to the last letter.
Another excellent, well-written plot.
Very good stuff. Straight out of the books of Sword and Sorcery (so much so that I was expecting a double-cross). Many of the small elements are beautiful, when you pick them up hold them to the light. (The face through the curtains is a very nice visual). It's lacking a certain something though. I feel like it could benefit from a bit more fleshing out, more magical defenses, or a few events that might occur. Maybe a guest visits? Maybe Baza takes a meal in the garden? How would Baza react to the PCs if they decided to ambush him as he left the house? And where was the bathroom? 4.5/5


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No doubt these air attacks played a substantial role in earning Qaddafi and his son ICC arrest warrants this week:
Today, 27 June 2011, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued three warrants of arrest respectively for Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi for crimes against humanity (murder and persecution) allegedly committed across Libya from 15 February 2011 until at least 28 February 2011, through the State apparatus and Security Forces.Almost from the being of the Arab uprising in Libya, Qaddafi met the peaceful protesters with maximum violence. By 21 February, he was already using war planes against demonstrations in Tripoli and Benghazi. It was specifically his use of jets and helicopters against the people, a step not yet taken in Bahrain, Yemen or Syria, that earned him a "No Fly Zone."
Death from above is hideous stuff so naturally Qaddafi apologists have had to refute the stubborn fact that Qaddafi used war planes on his own people. To the rescue came the Russian military with the following story:
Airstrikes in Libya did not take place Russian militaryAll those who supported Qaddafi took this as proof that the people who said they were bombed by Qaddafi's planes were just lying. Activists who wouldn't believe a word coming out of the Pentagon took this report from the pro-Qaddafi, Russian military as gold. This story has been cited all over the Internet as proof that the stories about planes and helicopters is just so much western demonization of the Libyan leader.
Published: 01 March, 2011, 18:24
The reports of Libya mobilizing its air force against its own people spread quickly around the world. However, Russia's military chiefs say they have been monitoring from space and the pictures tell a different story.
According to Al Jazeera and BBC, on February 22 Libyan government inflicted airstrikes on Benghazi the countrys largest city and on the capital Tripoli. However, the Russian military, monitoring the unrest via satellite from the very beginning, says nothing of the sort was going on on the ground.
At this point, the Russian military is saying that, as far as they are concerned, the attacks some media were reporting have never occurred.
For example Information Clearing House ran with Did Gaddaffi Bomb His Own People? NO! and this video:
So as long as you believe the Russian military and trust what they report, the Libyans didn't carry out any air strikes of any sort, so obviously they didn't bomb any protesters, right?
Problem is Saif Qaddafi, Mummar's son, had a different story. He said the war planes were only bombing ammo dumps so they wouldn't fall into the hands of protesters.
in Reuters Mon, Feb 21 18:51 PM EST:
Residents reported gunfire in parts of Tripoli and one political activist said warplanes had bombed the city. But state TV showed government supporters rallying and Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Qaddafi said warplanes had hit only ammunition dumps.YaLibnan had a little more detail:
There are also reports that warplanes have bombed parts of the city, and helicopters carrying armed African mercenaries have landed in the streets.You can hear Saif Qaddafi make the same claim in English and his own voice at ~01:18 of this YouTube video I made and uploaded on the last day of February.
But Qaddafi son, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, said warplanes had hit only ammunition dumps.
He did not say why jets had carried out the air strikes, but on Sunday he accused protesters of raiding ammunition depots in the eastern city of Benghazi.
So if the much touted Russian observers didn't see the ammo dumps being bombed, they wouldn't have seen the demonstrators being bombed either, so their report is worthless.
As for Saif Qaddafi, we already know his testimony is worthless.
This is the kind of 'stuff' that the pro-Qaddafi people use to sow confusion and attempt to deny the Libyan freedom movement the support it deserves.
In The Final Call, June 7, 2011, Bill Fletcher, Jr. asks "Why Isn't Bahrain Being Bombed?" We hear many rhetorical renderings of this concerning Bahrain & Yemen among anti-imperialists lately.
The problem with this question as agitation is that it speaks exclusively to the choir. It is convincing only to those who already know that Bahrain isn't being bombed because it is a NATO protectorate, because of the fleet and the Saudis, etc.
Otherwise, if one approaches his question as a neutral observer with a good grasp of the details, one might say that Bahrain isn't being bombed because Bahrain hasn't attacked protester from the air and so hasn't provided the excuse for imposing a 'non-fly' zone that would make bombing Bahrain 'legal.' If you are not wearing blinders, you could conclude that and leave it at that because that is the bottom-line.
It is absolutely true that with Saudi help Bahrain has imposed a very brutal crackdown on freedom fighters there. Many have been murdered while NATO has looked the other way. This is true. But I have not heard that Bahrain was using aircraft to attack demonstrators. They have yet to cross that line, and the same could be said about Yemen and Syria as far as I know.
So even if there were forces in the UN that wanted to bomb Bahrain and had the clout to push it through, what would be their rational?
We know the road that has led to bombing Libya. It was legalized by the "no fly zone." DefSec Gates had already put the UN on notice that a vote for the "no-fly zone" was a vote for bombing Libya and when they brought in Article 4, just about anything became 'legal.' NATO had all the excuse it needed to rummage around in the internal affairs of an oil rich country in North Africa.
What opened the door to all of this was Qaddafi's use of jets and helicopters on his own people. That allowed the demand for a non-fly zone to gain enough traction, even with the Arab League, to get through the Security Council and that was all the cover the NATO interventionists needed. Game on.
The anti-Qaddafi forces are often blamed for bringing NATO into this fight. IMHO the blame resides with Qaddafi. He elected to deal with what began as peaceful opposition by increasingly violent means. When he started using aircraft he crossed a line that gave NATO an opening. After that it's like calling the police. sometimes you have to call them. Problem is they always arrive with their own agenda.
Here are the links to my articles at WL Central:
2011-06-22 No Libyans allowed at ANSWER Libya Forum
2011-04-13 Doha summit supports Libyan rebels
Current Events in Libya
2011-03-11 Who's running Egypt?
Libyans are spilling their blood for us all!
2011-02-24 Arming Gaddfi
2011-02-14 Senior Egyptian army officers ordered massacre
2011-02-13 Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
2011-02-12 Algeria Protesters Defy Ban, Demand Change
The Mubarak Screw Up & the Suleiman Danger
2011-02-10 Mubarak is Defiant
2011-02-10 Mubarak Expected to Step Down!
2011-02-09 The Google Search for Wael Ghonim
2011-02-08 The New Egyptian Normal: Thousands Demonstrate in Cairo, Alexandria
2011-02-06 Tunisia's Revolution Continues
2011-02-04 Tunisian Anonymous activists take on Egyptian cause
2011-02-04 Protesters roar back with "Day of Departure" for Mubarak
2011-02-03 Algerians plan Feb 12 protest against 19- year-long state of emergency
2011-02-01 Jordan's King Sacks Government as Protests Grow
2011-02-01 Tunisian Islamic Leader Returns as EU Freezes Ousted President's Assets
2011-02-01 Army Vows Not to Shoot as Protesters make Million Man Marches in Cairo, Alexandria Today [UPDATE: 2]
2011-01-30 Million Egyptian Protest Planned as Resistance Continues
2011-01-29 No Internet? No Problem! Anonymous Faxes Egypt
2011-01-28 In Jordan Thousands Demand New Government
2011-01-28 Mubarak Refuses to Step Down!
2011-01-28 Egypt is on Fire!
2011-01-27 Libya is in Revolt as Gaddafi Worries
2011-01-27 Algerians Plan Big Protest Rally for February 9th
2011-01-27 Tunisia Protests Continues as a Warrant is Issued for Ben Ali
2011-01-27 Tens of Thousands Rally in Yemen, Demand Change
2011-01-27 Mubarak Blinks as Egyptian Protests Continue for 3rd Day
Here is a recap of my other DKos diaries on the Internet, North Africa and Anonymous:
'Brother' Qaddafi Indicted plus Libya & Syria: Dueling Rally Photofinishs
An Open Letter to ANSWER
ANSWER answers me
No Libyans allowed at ANSWER Libya Forum
Are they throwing babies out of incubators yet?
Continuing Discussion with a Gaddafi Supporter
Boston Globe oped supports Gaddafi with fraudulent journalism
Doha summit supports Libyan rebels
Current Events in Libya
Who's running Egypt?
Amonpour Plays Softball with Gaddafi
Californians Support North African Revolts
Google Supports Revolts | Anonymous does too!
Secret U.S. Intelligence Source on Middle East Revealed !
Arming Gaddfi
Are "mutinous officers" are being executed in Egypt now?
Algeria's 19 year long State of Emergency to end soon, President says
Senior Egyptian Army Officers Ordered Massacre!
Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
The Mubarak Screw Up & the Suleiman Danger
BREAKING: Mubarak is Defiant
The Google Search for Wael Ghonim
Tunisia's Revolution Continues
Google Goes Rebel, Supports Egyptian Protest
Tunisian Anonymous activists take on Egyptian cause
Protesters roar back with "Day of Departure" for Mubarak
Act Now to Stop Mubarak's Thugs From Killing More! w Petition
Act Now to Stop Mubarak's Thugs From Killing More!
They Should Have Helped That Street Vendor
Million Egyptian Protest Planned as Resistance Continues
Huffington Post Disses the Jasmine Revolution Redux
No Internet? No Problem! Anonymous Faxes Egypt
Egypt is on Fire!
North African Revolution Continues
Egypt Protests Continue, Tunisia Wants Ben Ali Back
BREAKING: Protesters Plan Massive "Day of Wrath" in Egypt Today
Tunisians Thank Anonymous as North Africa Explodes
Huffington Post Disses the Jasmine Revolution
Tunisia: A Single Tweet Can Start A Prairie Fire!
Anonymous plans Op Swift Assist in Tunisia
Arrested Pirate Party Member Becomes Tunisian Minister
Is Libya Next? Anonymous Debates New Operation
Tunis: This Photo was Taken 66 Minutes Ago
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by Paula M. Riley
Last April we said goodbye to lifelong resident Jean Dwyer. Even though she passed away, her presence in Chestnut Hill lives on. In many shops and restaurants along the Avenue, glass jars bearing the sign "St. Vincent's soup kitchen Thanksgiving Collection" are once again upon countertops. They welcome our spare change and remind us that not everyone will be seated at large banquets this Thanksgiving.
Jean Dwyer, with the help of Our Mother of Consolation's Society of St. Vincent de Paul, first organized a collection of cash and pies for the St. Vincent's Dining Room in Germantown in 1993.
The effort started quite innocently when the dining room's director told Dwyer that there were no desserts for Thanksgiving. Dwyer began baking and asking her friends to do the same. She told of how her block smelled like a bakery as friends feverishly followed her lead in helping the poor.
Seventeen years later, pies are still collected and the extra change that area shoppers leave in the jars helps to pay for the Thanksgiving meal at the kitchen. The dining room feeds approximately 300 hungry men, women and children on Thanksgiving and each weekend of the year.
Although the collection has always been an illustration of the community coming together to help those in need, this year the collection is a joint effort between Teenagers Inc. and OMC's Society of St Vincent de Paul. Eighth-grade students from OMC School distributed the jars and will be responsible for collecting donations throughout the month.
Chestnut Hill merchants graciously allow the collection jars to sit on their counters and Society of St. Vincent de Paul volunteers help by collecting and transporting pies. Janine's Salon and Chestnut Hill Cheese Shop store the donated pies.
Past collections have resulted in donations in excess of 200 pies and $1,700 for St. Vincent's Dining Room.
Each year, Dwyer's children and grandchildren play a large role in the collection, helping to prepare, distribute and collect the jars. They led the effort to continue the collection.
"We wanted to do it in her memory and see her collection continue," Marianne Dwyer said. "And it's not just us – even the business association, in their October meeting mentioned this collection. It is so wonderful that the Chestnut Hill community can come together to help those in need."
Cash collection jars are on display at merchants throughout Chestnut Hill. If you'd prefer to donate a pie, please deliver a fresh, baked pie to the Chestnut Hill Cheese Shop, 8509 Germantown Ave., or Janine Salon de Coiffure, 8432 Germantown Ave., or OMC Parish Center, 7 E. Chestnut Hill Ave. For more information call 215-242-4976.


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Do you want to try desktop virtualization at your home or office? Read this post to decide which desktop virtualization software is best. Small comparison about VirtualBox 3.1.6 vs VMware Player 3, according to my knowledge and experience.
This VirtualBox 3.1.6 vs VMware Player 3 comparison is not done by any benchmarking software and statistics. This is just a human recognizable comparison with few technical things. Because, if you are new to desktop virtualization and looking for information about these two products, then this basic comparison will be useful.
I'm using VMware workstation 7, VirtualBox 3.1.6 and VMware Player 3 in Windows 7 and Windows XP (earlier in Windows Vista) computers. This comparison is from my working experience with these products. VMware workstation is not included in this because it's not a free product.
VirtualBox 3.1.6 vs VMware Player, Basic Comparison
1) Speed of Guest Virtual machines
Guest is a virtual machine installed inside desktop virtualization software. Host is your physical computer having desktop virtualization software.
Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6 wins in this topic since it allows guest machine to work faster. It got high input and output disk access. Starting a virtual machine, working with it and shutting down speeds are considerably faster than VMware player in VirtualBox.
Winner – VirtualBox
2) Speed of Host Machine
When you run any desktop virtualization software, it should not disturb your host computer, correct? So, always it's better to go for software which consumes less memory, processor and hard disk activity from your host. VirtualBox is having big advantage on this because it consumes fewer resources from host. It's a light weight desktop virtualization software compare to others. I was able to run 3 Windows 2008 R2 servers, two Windows XPs and one Windows Vista virtual machines in my 3GB Windows XP host with Sun VirtualBox.
Winner – VirtualBox
3) Networking and Networking Options
Both have reasonable networking features. VirtualBox recently started to allow network changes while virtual machine is on, but still there are some problems exist. VMware had same option from very early and networking is very simple in VMware Player 3 than VirtualBox. Performance of network also better in VMware Player3 specially after install VMware tools.
Winner – VMware Player.
4) Snapshots
Snapshots help to save virtual machine's specific state and allow going back later. This feature is very useful to recover virtual machine if anything goes wrong. Sun VirtualBox got this feature and recently (with version 3.1) they introduced branched snapshots which is a nice feature. Read more here about branched snapshots. Unfortunately, snapshot feature is missing in VMware Player 3.
Winner – VirtualBox
5) USB Support and Transfer Speed.
USB device support for guest is available in both products. I feel, VMware Player got better feature to manage USB devices between host and guest. Also data transfer between guest and USB devices are slightly better than VirtualBox in VMware Player 3.
Winner – VMware Player
6) Other File Formats
If you want to open pre created virtual machines from different virtualization software, then the file format support will be an issue. VirtualBox Supports major virtualization software file formats such as VMware and Microsoft Virtual PC. VMware Player Supports Microsoft VirtualPC, Symantec backup files, Acronis true image files and some, except VirtualBox. Funny, isn't it? There are converting tools available to convert any file types to required format.
Winner- Both
7) Mouse Integration and Full view, Unity and Seamless mode.
Mouse integration between host and guest and full view of virtual machines work fair enough in both products. VMware Tools for VMware Player and VirtualBox Additions for VirtualBox should be installed on Virtual Machines for this feature. Unity mode and Seamless mode which allow working in guest from host's desktop is a good feature in both products.
Read more about converting VMDK to VDI
Read more about converting VDI to VMDK
Winner – Both
8) 64 Bit and Virtualization Support.
If you like to run any operating systems which require 64 Bit architecture or hardware virtualization support, then better go for VMware Player. VMware support these functions better than VirtualBox.
Winner – VMware Player
9) Windows Aero Support
VirtualBox is lacking in this feature. Windows Vista and Windows 7 Aero features nicely work in VMware Player. VirtualBox doesn't support aero feature.
Winner – VMware Player
10) Free Product
Yes, both products are completely free to use at home. For production environment, you have to purchase Sun VirtualBox license.
Here is the summary of above facts.
Though, both got same advantages and disadvantages but VirtualBox is the final winner. Sun VirtualBox wins in three major factors including, Guest Speed, Host Speed and Snapshots.
I might have missed some good or bad features on above products. Share your experience and correct me if I'm wrong on any points.
This comparison is completely upon my experience.


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King.com Takes Down Cloned Game
Yesterday, we reported about an independent developer's allegations that King.com had cloned his game. At that time, we reached out to King.com for comment, inquiring about the company's actions related to its recent assertion of its own intellectual property rights.
"King does not clone other peoples' games," a representative told us via email. "King believes that IP – both our own IP and that of others – is important and should be properly protected. Like any prudent company, we take all appropriate steps to protect our IP in a sensible and fair way. At the same time, we are respectful of the rights and IP of other developers."
In this case, developer Matthew Cox showed that King.com's Lars Jörnow was not only aware of Scamperghost, but was in negotiations to publish it. A conversation with former Epic Shadow developer Matt Porter detailed how Pac-Avoid, a Scamperghost clone, came to be. According to Porter, Jörnow commissioned developer Epic Shadow Entertainment to create the game following Scamperghost as a blueprint.
"Before we launch any game, we do a thorough search of other games in the marketplace, as well as a review of trademark filings, to ensure that we are not infringing anyone else's IP," the statement continues.
The evidence that Cox presented contradicts this statement. Scamperghost might not have come up in a traditional trademark search, but emails clearly indicate Jörnow was aware.
King.com tells us that it has removed Pac-Avoid from its online arcade. "For the avoidance of doubt, in this case, this game – which was coded by a third-party developer five years ago – has been taken down."
Our Take
This statement is carefully worded to shift the blame onto Epic Shadow, which was allegedly commissioned by King to create the clone. While it is true that King.com didn't make the game itself, the public evidence released yesterday suggests that King.com initiated Pac-Avoid's development.


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Thursday night at 8 and midnight, John Stossel debates the war on drugs with Sean Hannity. Check it out on the Fox Business Network.
John's other guests will include Jeffrey Miron of Harvard and Cato and Mary Anastasia O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal.
And for more Stossel, don't miss last week's classic episode on Milton Friedman and Free to Choose with Tom Palmer, Johan Norberg … and me.


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It's here, folks. After this Thursday's airing of "The Sun Also Rises", there's just one episode left for season two. In case you've been living in a cage for the last couple of weeks, you should know that it's has the rather ominous title "As I Lay Dying". Synopsis and stills can be found in the sidebar. And thaks to Vampire-Diaries.net for the heads up that the song used in the promo is called "Ship of Fools" by FirstCom Music. It's not available for download, but you can still listen to it at the company's site.
WARNING: There's a character back, which makes this trailer even more spoilery than usual. Steer clear unless you like spoilers.
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Last week, another part of Mystic Diaries series was released. In it, Nina Dobrev and Candice Accola take you behind the scenes of episode 18 and 20. Michael, Ian, John Cockman (Alaric's stunt coordinator) and Matt himself also appear. Check out more gabryssskaaa's videos on her channel and visit The Vampire Diaries Lair for previous parts.
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Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, continued its expansion efforts with today's announcement that it has acquired Atlanta-based Racquet Club of the South (RCS). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition expands Life Time's tennis operations to 158 courts and 211 certified tennis professionals nationwide. Tennis programming is offered at 16 Life Time locations in seven states. With this acquisition, Life Time says it is now the largest national operator of indoor tennis courts with 104.
RCS will be rebranded as Life Time Tennis Atlanta, and the RCS website has already been redirected to the Life Time website. RCS currently has eight indoor and 28 outdoor tennis courts, the RCS Tennis Academy, a United States Tennis Association regional training center, a 25-meter outdoor pool, and classroom and locker room facilities.
After this year's renovation, which the company says will not interrupt tennis court access, additional features and amenities will include a remodeled exterior, lobby and locker rooms, a fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment and massage facilities, a clubhouse with a restaurant, a pro shop and a stadium court that holds more than 4,000 spectators. Life Time Tennis Atlanta also will serve as the company's southeast hub for junior tennis champion training, coaching and development, tournaments, and recreational play and instruction.
"With its tradition of developing internationally ranked juniors as well as hosting national and international professional tournaments, exhibitions and amateur events, RCS is the perfect complement to our existing, national tennis programming portfolio," Jeff Zwiefel, Life Time executive vice president and chief of operations, said in a statement. "In addition to upholding RCS' rich tennis heritage, we look forward to completing our planned renovation and serving both existing and new members at what will be a world-class tennis destination."
Last year, Life Time acquired nine clubs from Lifestyle Family Fitness, St. Petersburg, FL. Life Time will release its fourth quarter 2011 and year 2011 financials on Feb. 16.


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When I worked as an intern on Ken Burns' Baseball documentary I had the occasion to drive to New Hampshire one day with him. Just the two of us. I played him a few songs I wanted him to hear–from the Pharcyde, I think it was–and then he said, "I want to play you something special."
He put a cassette in the tape deck and turned me on to Marvin Gaye's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner," performed thirty years ago at the NBA All-Star game.
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This story appears in the April 2000 issue of . Subscribe »
Gum chewing? Child's play. Blinking? Easy. Becoming a millionaire? Piece of cake. In your grandparents' grandparents' time, it was harder to make a million. The law of averages says most people worked on a farm. Others laid railroad track for 10 cents a day, while still others froze in the mountains because their wagon wheels broke. Some people's ancestors wated their lives in a saloon as the town drunk or local prostitute. Whatever they were, in all likelihood, they were not rich. Today, it's different. The American Dream is finally accessible to every-one. Being a millionaire has never been easier.
OK, maybe the process isn't as simple as blinking, but it rivals gum chewing. (You have to go to the store and wait in line to buy the darn stuff, and then there's all that unwrapping.) This roving reporter was recently dispatched to talk to a handful of "millionaire experts" and see what advice they had for making an easy million or two . . . or 20.
If these suggestions don't work for you, please don't return this magazine asking for your money back. Hey, I'd like to be a millionaire someday, too.
Geoff Williams (email@example.com), a frequent contributor to Business Start-Ups, says he's excited when he finds a quarter under his sofa cushions.
Start your own business: Steps 1-5
1. Start your own business. Before you glance at the cover of Business Start-Ups and say "Duh," consider the insight of author Robert Kiyosaki, a multimillionaire who penned Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not (Techpress, $15.95, 800-308-3585). Among other books with similar themes, he states: "The IRS has no interest in your business failing . . . the tax codes are set up for entrepreneurs, not their employees. The government rewards those who risk their own money."
After all, observes Kiyosaki, the government wants your business to become filthy rich. If your company brings in $500 million a year, the government's tax pot will be a lot sweeter than if you're bringing in a measley $50,000. So if you've already started your own business, you're well on your way to being a millionaire. If you haven't begun your business and are hesitating, then . . . well, I hear Gap is hiring.
2. Have a millionaire mind-set. Think goal-setting. If you want to be a millionaire, you have to decide it's your destiny. "I'd say one of the key components to becoming a millionaire is to have a laser-like focus on your goals," says Brian Koslow, who is a management/marketing consultant and a personal development coach to doctors and business owners in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He's also the author of 365 Ways to Become a Millionaire (Without Being Born One) (Penguin/Putnam, $10.95, 212-366-2000).
"Millionaires are not easily distracted," observed Koslow when we chatted over the phone a few months ago. "For instance, if a bomb went off during this interview, I doubt I would even notice."
Luckily, that didn't happen (either that, or we just didn't notice). He adds, however, "Having a millionaire mindset means [you're] always listening--always have your ear tuned for opportunities. For example, when I buy a company, I always look at how the company can be rather than what it's like now."
3. Surround yourself with experts. As attorney Ron Goldie says: "The sign of a successful entrepreneur is that he or she is the decision-maker, but I think it's imperative that entrepreneurs have at least one professional who knows everything there is to know--one who can give them an independent assessment of the obstacles ahead.
"Every highly successful person I know of has at least one person they can turn to who knows the difference between the hype and the reality of what's actually going on," finishes Goldie, a senior partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. Goldie would think that, of course. He gets paid to dispense financial legal advice to millionaires and vividly remembers one colleague who didn't listen to him--and lost $40 million on a business deal.
Several others interviewed also stressed the importance of having trusted colleagues to consult. "Hire a team of people who are smarter than you," stresses Kiyosaki, echoing the sentiments spoken by almost everyone interviewed here. Kiyosaki says that team would likely include an ace accountant, an attorney, brokers and public relations personnel.
Even if you can't initially afford all those people, you still have options. Bounce your ideas off a trusted friend or relative--someone who has your best interests at heart. And you can always offer a bit of ownership in your company to some of your employees, says Michele McGeoy, a Berkeley, California, entrepreneur who recently became a millionaire when she sold her second company for a little over $2 million. Her third and current company, R.H. Solutions (http://www.rhsolutions.com), develops database computer software and tools to help organizations manage business relationships.
"Get people who have the expertise--and give them a piece of the pie," says McGeoy. "There's ownership at stake: The bigger the pie [grows], the bigger each piece [gets]." It's a good deal for you and your key employees: After all, if you want to hire smart people, remember that smart people won't work for beans.
If your company is so strapped that a piece of your pie doesn't look appetizing to brilliant experts, solicit free advice from people you admire, suggests Larry Waschka, who wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Rich (Alpha Books, $18.95, 800-428-5331). "Find the people who are the best at what they do, call them, compliment them, and ask if you can pick their brain. Obviously, if they're the competition, that may not work. But if you compliment an expert and marvel at what they do, nine times out of 10, they'll invite you over."
4. "Have an unshaken belief in yourself," says Koslow, adding: "If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will." Ack, gag me with a Mary Poppins DVD.
Sure, we've all heard this sugary-sweet-saccharine pep talk before, and it seems awfully predictable at first: Oooh! Look, Ma, I feel good about myself. Presto. I'm a millionaire! But Koslow lays out an example of how feeling good can lead you to the good life: "[Self-confidence is] going to be reflected in the fees you're charging. For instance, if you're a consultant, it might be the difference between charging $75 an hour and asking the client to pay $200 or $300. Often, the only difference between the services is that the one who charges the higher fee has an enormous amount of self-esteem." And feeling like a loser can cause you to lose money in other ways, asserts Koslow. "If you don't believe in yourself, the person on the other side of the table will notice." Question yourself, and watch your million-dollar deals disappear faster than a David Copperfield trick.
5. Bargain-hunt. Yes, even millionaires save money. How do you think they got to be millionaires in the first place? As Rusty White says, "There are two steps to making money: First, you generate it, and more importantly, [inexpensively] buy the product that you're reselling, so you've got a large margin of profit." White would probably know what he's talking about. He's more than the founder and former publisher of The Robb Report; he's the publisher of Millionaire magazine, both being publications for the rich and affluent, which White is. Located in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he's worth $40 million. So while you're figuring out how to get White to adopt you, consider saving money wherever you can--and spending it wisely. Which brings us to Step 6.
Steps 6-10
6. Be a judicious risk-taker. This doesn't mean taking stupid chances, just daring ones, with potentially incredible outcomes. For example, several decades ago, before he started publishing The Robb Report, White was a college student with some extra money. Instead of investing it in stocks or having a beer bash, White, a Rolls-Royce enthusiast, bought two "junkers." He cleaned them up, sold them and bought more Rolls--and sold those. At one point, he traded his house for a Rolls "because the car was worth more than the house. And then I drove off into the sunset, without a place to sleep."
Although White took risks (he didn't know if he could sell his junkers, but he had ideas of how he would), he always had a plan. "You never fire a gun without a target," says White. And while we don't suggest you'll necessarily have the resources to do exactly what White did, there's still a lesson here: "Spend time on your plan. You have to make sure that plan is going to work."
7. Stay on the cutting edge of technology. This advice comes from Waschka, who is thinking beyond having a talking, singing and dancing Web page. He's referring to using technology to replace an extra employee, or simply to appear to the public like you know what you're doing.
White agrees, going a little further: "Don't only stay on it--but a step ahead of it." Most of you already know where he's coming from, but for the slow ones out there, we'll let White give an example. "So many high-tech, high-speed things are happening internationally, to me, the cutting edge is to be able to market in a split second to China or Japan or any place in the world," says White. "We're working on our site so it can be read in 47 different languages. And, of course, when you're selling something, you really don't care where the money's coming from. The truth is, we're probably expanding more rapidly overseas than we are in this country."
But McGeoy, ever the pragmatist, has a warning: "Be on the leading edge--not the bleeding edge." Cute, but what does it mean? "Sometimes, people are pushing so hard to become the latest and greatest, [the push] becomes more important than focusing on your core. There are hundreds and hundreds of failures to every success. How do you know that the leading edge you're attaching yourself to will succeed?"
Staying with the times is important, McGeoy agrees, "but you need to think carefully, ask yourself, `What is this tool, really, and how is this helping my business to get better?' "
8. Become a brand name. This suggestion comes from Jason Hartman, a 34-year-old millionaire from Southern California who has conveniently written Become the Brand of Choice: How to Earn Millions Through Relationship Marketing (Lifestyles Press, $16.95, http://www.brandofchoice.com).
"When you're a brand, it enables business to chase you, instead of you always having to chase after business," says Hartman. Keep in mind, becoming a brand name doesn't mean you have to have a company on the scale or popularity of a Pizza Hut or Home Depot.
Hartman, for instance, isn't known at all in Peoria or Pakistan, but homeowners in Orange County are likely familiar with the real estate tycoon. That's because Hartman built what he calls a "perceived relationship." In other words, customers like him and feel comfortable with him, like they know and understand him.
You, too, can build a perceived relationship. Offer to write business-related articles for your local paper, suggests Hartman, who himself appears in real estate columns in the Orange County Business Journal. Talk about your business with local Kiwanis, Jaycees, Lions and other service-oriented clubs. Give the public free seminars that relate to your business. That'll help you get your name out there. Try all that--or change your last name to Burger King and hope for the best.
9. Be passionate in what you do. "Since there's so much competition out there, you've got to set yourself up to be excellent at what you do. It's almost impossible to be excellent if you're not passionate about it," says Waschka. "Otherwise, you'll just get your butt kicked. There's always going to be somebody out there who's going to be passionate about what they do. Passion creates a level of tenacity, a stick-to-itiveness . . . it's almost like a magical force."
But there's another type of useful passion: hatred--that is, getting so frustrated with a certain kind of situation that you must solve the problem. Kiyosaki explores this concept in his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. For instance, you love your travel agency but hate how airports treat travelers. How can you change that?
10. Never give up. In case you don't get it, look to Ron Goldie. "Whether they know it or not, my clients, who are worth between $10 million and $1 billion each, follow Winston Churchill's advice: "Never give up, never give up, never give up." All my clients have, at one time or another, been separated from a major portion of their wealth, but they all had the tenacity and sheer strength of entrepreneurial will to make more at the end of the game than what they went in with."
Contact Sources
Brian Koslow, http2.com/millionaire.com
Millionaire.com Inc., (843) 757-6600, http://www.millionaire.com
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, (310) 312-2000, http://www.msk.com


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Bobby Beausoleil
San Francisco circa 1967
Erika Scientology Training
Erhardt Systems Therapy
"Socialism in One Person"
Esalen Institute
Conference center and hot springs resort in Big Sur, California. Since the early sixties, the Esalen Institute has held many seminars on various esoteric topics, and has been a nexus of many various individuals. Topics explored at the Institute include psychology, gesalt therapy, body work, psychic phenomena, mysticism, religion, psychedelics, human potentiality, and quantum physics.
The Institute was founded in 1964 by Mike Murphy and Dick Price out of Murphy's family resort. Murphy and Price had been running seminars at the resort beginning in 1962, with speakers gathered through an expanding network of contacts, beginning with Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, George Bateson, Gerald Heard, and others.
(see Anderson, Walter Truett, The Upstart Spring, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1983 for an expansive history of Esalen)
Joe K. Adams and Dell Carson led an early conference on psychic phenomena. (Anderson, pg 59). In their first seminar on Human Potentiality, led by Willis Harman, every program leader was involved with LSD research: Adams, Harman, Gregory Bateson, Gerald Heard, Paul Kurtz, and Myron Stolaroff. (Anderson, pg 72)
Other drug-culture luminaries, such as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, taught at Esalen, and various psychedlics were used by the staff and students, although drug-use was not officially endorsed. Strangely, the Institute was never raided by the authorities. (Anderson, pg 108)
Charles Manson and members of his family played an impromptu concert at Esalen three days before their massacre at the Sharon Tate house. (Anderson, 239)
In the late 1970's, Esalen became involved with an Englishwoman named Jenny O'Connor, who claimed to be in psychic contact with the Nine (probably the same Nine that Andriah Puharich claimed to be in contact with). Dick Price and other members of the Esalen staff became increasingly dependent on the Nine, to the point of listing them as program leaders and members of the Esalen Gesalt Staff in brochures. (Anderson, pg 302-4)
In the 1970's, Mike Murphy became interested in Russian parapsychology, and visited the country to meet experimenters in this field. This led to a close connection between Esalen and some Russian officials, who set up an exchange program. Lasting into the 1980's, this exchange was dubbed "hot-tub diplomacy". John Mack was reportedly involved in this exchange.
Esalen also held seminars in quantum physics, and was the birthplace of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group. Some results of these seminars are documented in Zukav, Gary, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Morrow Quill, 1979.
In May 1982, Elisabeth and Russell Targ held a workshop on psychic phenomena for twenty-five professionals. This was part of a program with Stanislav Grof, who was studying non-chemical alternatives for altered states of consciousness. The Targs goal was to show that psychic experiences did not require an altered state.
(Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith, Mind Race, Villard Books, 1984, pg 99)
Other individuals who have come to lead seminars at Esalen at one time or another include Carlos Castaneda, Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos, Ira Einhorn, Rollo May, Jack Sarfatti, John Lilly, Terrance McKenna, Ian Wickramasekera, and Charles Tart. Werner Erhard was also close with Michael Murphy and Esalen.


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Emory University Hospital transplant nurse Allison Batson has spent many years caring for patients in need of a life-saving organ transplant. She has seen many patients' lives saved because of the gift of organ donation … and many others lost because a matching organ simply could not be located in time.
Recently though, Allison was not only in the position to provide care and comfort at the bedside of a transplant patient in desperate need of a kidney transplant, she selflessly gave of herself – literally- by becoming an organ donor to 23 year-old Clay Taber of Columbus, Georgia.
Clay graduated from Auburn University in August and is soon to marry his college sweetheart in a few months. While he has been eagerly looking toward his future, over the last few months, he's also been battling the fight of his life.
After his graduation, Clay's family took a celebratory beach vacation at the Gulf of Mexico – not long after the unprecedented oil spill that occurred there. A few weeks later, Clay was not feeling well.
A doctor's visit and standard blood tests uncovered Clay had Goodpasture's Syndrome, a rare (approximately 1-in 1 million), life-threatening autoimmune disorder related to antibody formation in the body. Goodpasture's syndrome is characterized by renal (kidney) disease and lung hemorrhage.
There is no exact cause known for Goodpasture's disease, a disease in which the immune system fights the body's own normal tissues through creating antibodies that attack the lungs and kidneys. Sometimes the disorder is triggered by a viral infection, or by the inhalation of gasoline or other hydrocarbon solvents – such as those found in crude oil.
While Clay was lucky that the disorder was discovered before his lungs were affected, he was now suffering from complete kidney failure. He was transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where he would spend numerous weeks on the 7th floor – the transplant unit, where he would undergo weeks of dialysis and plasmapheresis (blood purification procedure used to treat several autoimmune diseases.)
And that's where the bond began.
"Immediately when Clay came onto our unit, he became a special patient that everyone just gravitated to," said Allison Batson. "Here was this young man with everything in his life ahead of him, and he was fighting for his life. He quickly became friends of many of the staff, and really was just a tremendous inspiration to us all."
Allison continued to visit with Clay during his weeks at the hospital, and a deeper connection began to form than the typical nurse-patient bond.
"I learned more about Clay, his family, his life, what he saw for his future. He wanted to get married to his sweetheart. He just graduated from college. The whole world was his, with the exception of this incredibly rare illness that hit him out of the blue. I have children his age, and I felt the same kind of pain his mother was feeling. Something inside me said I needed to do more."
Soon Clay was strong enough to return home, where he would continue to receive dialysis treatment for a few months while waiting for a donor organ. Because Clay's blood type is O-negative, finding a matching donor would prove to be challenging.
Clay's mother, Sandra, would be tested as a possible match. She, however, would not qualify to be Clay's organ donor. Then in late October, during a visit to Emory and the transplant unit where he regularly visited with friends and well-wishers, Clay, of course, also met with Allison.
"She said 'If you'll let me do this, I want to donate my kidney to you," Clay recalls. "Something at that point just hit me. There are so many people in need of an organ transplant and have been waiting like me – even longer than me in many cases. And here is Allison offering to do this amazing thing. When she said 'If you'll let me,' there was just something in those words. I couldn't say no."
Soon after, Allison would undergo the donor testing process that would eventually confirm her as a perfect match for Clay.
"People have asked me why I would do this for a stranger, or what if I had a family member in need one day, or why would I risk my own life or health for someone I barely know. My answer is because I can. Sure, I have children who might possibly be in need one day, but here was this young man right in front of me who needs help – today, and I am in a position to help him – today. If what I do for Clay causes more awareness among others that live organ donation is a possibility, then I can only hope that other lives will be saved because of my actions."
On Tuesday, January 10th, the families of both Allison and Clay gathered in the early morning hours at Emory University Hospital. Smiles, tears and hugs were abundant between people who had formed an unbreakable bond over the course of the last few months, and had, in effect become extended family to one another.
In Operating Room #9, Allison underwent surgery to remove her kidney, while Clay was prepped for surgery just 30-feet away in Operating Room #8. Hours later, both patients were resting comfortably on the 7th floor of Emory University Hospital, where they had met by chance just months before. Both ready to start the new year in incredible fashion – with a new lease on life for Clay, and as a hero for Allison.
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2 tbsp olive oil
900g lean minced beef
Sea salt and black pepper
1 medium onions, peeled and finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 tbsp tomato puree
330ml bottle of Guinness
5 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
300ml chicken stock
1kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and roughly cubed
50g butter
2 tbsp finely grated cheddar cheese, plus extra for grating
1 large egg yolk
Place a large frying pan over a high heat and add a thin layer of olive oil. Season the mince with salt and pepper and fry, stirring, in two or three batches, until nicely browned. Once cooked, tip the mince into a sieve or colander to drain off the fat.
Place another large pan over a medium-high heat and add a little olive oil. When hot, fry the onions, carrots, celery, garlic and thyme, for 8-10 minutes until soft and golden. Add the browned mince, and tomato puree. Stir constantly for 4-5 minutes.
Add the Guinness and Worcestershire sauce and boil until the liquid has reduced by half. Pour in the stock and return to the boil.
Turn the heat down and simmer for 20-25 minutes, by which time the mixture should be thick and glossy. Continue to simmer for another 5-10 minutes if it doesn't seem quite thick enough. Remove from the heat.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Meanwhile, add the potatoes to a pan of salted water, bring to the boil and cook until tender. Drain and return to the hot pan for 15 seconds or so, to dry out, then take off the heat. Pass the potatoes through a potato ricer back into the pan or mash smoothly. Mix through the butter, cheese and egg yolk. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Spoon the mince mixture into the bottom of a 2 litre pie dish. Spoon the mashed potato on top and rough up the surface with a fork. Grate over some extra cheese and bake in the oven for about 30 minutes until bubbling and golden brown.


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OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project Oct 18 2013 03:04PM
psiinon (psiinon gmail com)
The OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory (VWAD) Project is a
comprehensive and well maintained registry of all known vulnerable web
applications currently available. These vulnerable web applications
can be used by web developers, security auditors and penetration
testers to put in practice their knowledge and skills during training
sessions (and especially afterwards), as well as to test at any time
the multiple hacking tools and offensive techniques available, in
preparation for their next real-world engagement.
The main goal of VWAD is to provide a list of vulnerable web
applications available to security professionals for hacking and
offensive activities, so that they can attack realistic web
environments... without going to jail :)
The vulnerable web applications have been classified in three
categories: On-Line, Off-Line, and VMs/ISOs. Each list has been
ordered alphabetically.
An initial list that inspired this project was maintained till the end
on 2013 at: http://blog.taddong.com/2011/10/hacking-vulnerable-web-applications.html
Please let me know if there are any mistakes or omissions, or if you
have any suggestions for ways it could be improved.
OWASP ZAP Project leader
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