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A blog committed to the evidence-based study of human energy potential, featuring books by authors who explore and practice energy cultivation techniques — the effect of their experiences on lifestyle, human relations, as well as individual and collective consciousness. How and why kundalini, neuroplasticity, distance healing, mindfulness, meditation, near-death and out-of-body experience, and other metaphysical phenomena occur and how they influence evolution, creativity, and biology (DNA).
Due Diligence Is The Watchword
Questions about living with the kundalini-life force are specific to each case. Why? Because a lot depends on what triggers kundalini. Applying the wrong method can produce erratic or even harmful results. Moreover, cases of spontaneous kundalini arousal — those induced without using any method at all — can leave the individual confused and wishing he/she never looked into it.
There are many books and webpages devoted to questions and answers in these types of cases. However, the very fact that so many books dealing with the aftermath of questionable practices exist points directly to the issue of having a safe, reliable, repeatable method in the first place. How does one know if a method is reliable? Was the experience voluntary or involuntary? Was it permanent or temporary? Was it painful? And if so, where was the pain located? Was sleep difficult? What about diet? Specifically, what happened? Did it produce the results listed Triggers & Effects? It's important to be able to describe the experience accurately.
Thankfully, by employing a safe, reliable, and repeatable method like GFM, I was able to land safely. Of course, in the direct aftermath of my experience, I had many questions. What were the sensations and phenomena I was observing inside my body? What caused them? What should I eat? Would I be able to sleep soundly? Would my dreams be different? Would I be able to come to terms with the force that had occupied my body? Would it hurt me? Would it force me to do something I didn't want to do? Could I make it go away? Could it run out of control? What were its capabilities? Would my sexual nature change? Would I be forced into abstinence?
"An ancient adept said: 'Formerly, every school knew this jewel, only fools did not know it wholly.' If we reflect on this we see that the ancients attained long life by the help of the seed energy present in their own bodies, and did not lengthen their years by swallowing this or that type of elixir. But the worldly people lost the roots and clung to the treetops."~ The Secret of the Golden Flower – Lu Yen - Richard Wilhelm, Translator
In my experience, the kundalini-life force as activated by GFM is benign. Moreover, GFM results are permanent. The kundalini-life force is with you for the rest of your life; day in, day out, until the day you die, after which, it will merge your essence seamlessly with the energy continuum.
And since practicing GFM is entirely voluntary, you will do so in the full knowledge that the results are permanent; you can't make them go away. The kundalini-life force is there to help, to restore.
Kundalini is like driving a super-powerful car with many marvelous new features. You're not obligated to drive it at 500 mph or try out the new features all at once; you probably shouldn't...but you can learn to do so gradually. Kundalini will not only teach you to use the additional resources it endows you with, but it will make sure you do so under control, without abusing your powers. Accept and learn from it. It will change your Being and prolong your life.
Is it scary? Can it make mistakes? There are involuntary cases — those awakened without guidance or a method — where the mechanism that controls the energy dosages releases too much or too little. Practitioners using GFM or similar methods don't usually face these situations, at least, I have not encountered any. In all cases dealing with powerful energy cultivation techniques, due diligence is the watchword.
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Logos Lux - Part III
A kundalini awakening affects a person's potential as a spiritual human being. The awakened one's consciousness encompasses the entirety of our Solar System and its power. Once consciousness is raised to the cosmic level, the newly developed Spiritual body becomes an antennae to the vibrations — spiritual and mundane — within our Solar System.
To understand how this works you have to think beyond Space and Time as well as the concept of Size. Sure, looking at yourself in the mirror you are tiny in comparison to the Solar System: The average person is only 5'10." But your consciousness is not limited by Size because consciousness is Spirit and is everywhere at the same time, hence it is not limited in any way. And awakening the kundalini means the awakening of consciousness to the Cosmic Level. When your consciousness expands to the size of the Solar System, you receive vibrations from other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy as well as contact with different inhabitants from different planets in the Galaxy.
So the totality of your potential then depends on awakening Kundalini energy. You become antennae for the vibrations around you. By awakening the Spiritual Body, you acquire the powers of the planets in the Solar System. You exist as the center of our Solar System with the Sun in your chest and the planets orbiting around it. The planets are your Higher powers which shape your character and enlarge your morals and ethics.
All polytheistic philosophies and religions give the names of Gods and Goddesses to the planets and "personify" the signs of the zodiac. All polytheistic religions are essentially Hermetic in essence since Hermeticism is the study of our Solar System — the elements, planets, and the zodiac. The Universe and its knowledge is at the core of all religions.
This coincides with the myth of Hermes Trismegistus as the World Teacher who incarnates every 2000 years to teach the world and bring it back in tune with the essence of Hermeticism. Hermeticism is the philosophy and spiritual practice of understanding the Milky Way Galaxy and the Solar System. It encompasses the whole of the Qabalah and the Tree of Life since these universal energies can all be mapped on the Tree of Life. Jesus Christ, although teaching about the monotheistic One God who is Love, also walked around with 12 disciples and called himself the "Son of Man," the offspring of the One God. Symbolically he was the Sun and his 12 disciples represented the 12 zodiac signs. He was said to have been the last incarnation of Hermes whose teachings have shaped the world for 2000 plus years through Christianity.
Hermes Trismegistus is said to have originated at the height of Egyptian prominence; sages and adepts from all over the world came to sit at his feet and learn from him. Then they returned to their respective cultures and countries and used his teachings to establish the religions that have Hermetic teachings and precepts at their core. Their Gods and Goddesses are attributed to the energies of the planets as well as the zodiac. Only after Christianity was established did the polytheistic veil drop and monotheistic religions arise, Islam being one of them.
Yes, there is a Source from which you came which is the number One, and the One God which is said to be Unconditional Love. In reality you cannot know the One God; you can only know Him/Her through the many Gods, hence the reason polytheistic religions were the first religions and offered a more elaborate understanding of the Creator through the different aspects of its Creation.
Monotheistic religions are confusing and teach ignorance to people since they took away focus from its Universal and natural component, the Solar System in which we live. Christianity has taken away the duality component and has proclaimed that God is Love and nothing more, giving rise to many meek and weak-willed people who let others do their thinking for them. This forgiveness without repercussions aspect has been used to dumb down the masses while those in power reign supreme.
Jesus taught love. However, metaphorically he brandished a sword and was severe when necessary. What did he do when he walked into the Holy Temple and saw it was being used by merchants? He threw their tables on the ground in a furious fit. Every action yields an equal and opposite reaction. If this Law is not respected, then the balance will not be struck and problems will ensue.
Jesus' teachings have been misinterpreted by the Christian masses: responsibility for one's life and the lives of others have been replaced by forgiveness and repentance. You have to stand up for what is right and be severe when needed. What does a mother do to protect her child if it's in danger? Anything and everything in her power to counteract the threat. Nevertheless, the true teachings are reemerging; the world is undergoing a revival of Hermetic philosophy. Qabalah has become more popular over time and the veil of secrecy over mystery schools has fallen away with the advent of the Internet and its widespread use.
Since it is the driver of human evolution, kundalini energy must be investigated and normalized. The origin of the word "kundalini" as well as the use of yoga to awaken it are part of the Hindu tradition. The traditions of every nation, country, and culture have evolved from their respective placement on Earth. Life in India and life in North America are vastly different.
Kundalini energy in North America needs to develop its own usages and practices, separate from its Hindu roots. This energy is the force behind human evolution. How it works and operates in a given country and culture needs to be understood. Only then can we adapt its use to our respective cultures and traditions. Although kundalini induces the same effects, irregardless of culture, language, social norms, or geography, it is necessarily associated with religion in Eastern countries. In the West, it may need to take on a more scientific identity, for the very reason that Westerners are more apt to "understand and appreciate" subjects like kundalini if they are tied to the scientific method.
The kundalini energy is best understood through the Caduceus symbol which is carried by Hermes himself and has been around for thousands of years. The Caduceus has two snakes entwined around a central staff terminating in a winged disk with each snake's head facing it. They intersect with each other at six points, which represent the six Chakras and terminate in the Crown, where the winged disk represents enlightenment.
The Caduceus and the Chakras
The two snakes are the Ida and Pingala nadis, the carriers of the cold and hot currents in the body. The central staff is Sushumna through which the Kundalini energy passes. The energy rises from the bottom upwards through the spinal column and is accompanied by a hissing vibratory sound heard in the head as this is happening. This is why the kundalini energy has been described as a snake and the snake symbolism in all cultures when referring to this energy.
How does the kundalini operate? What is the timeline for the various effects that occur over time after an awakening? How does one handle the pitfalls that accompany an awakening? These are questions which are best answered through description and proper analysis and through logic and reason, to which, Hermeticism offers many keys.
Logic and Reason
Attributes of the planet Mercury, otherwise known as Hermes in Greek. The same Hermes who was named after Hermes Trismegistus, the carrier of the Caduceus staff, and original guide to awakening kundalini — the Serpent Power energy. Logic and Reason are the building blocks of intuition and its corollaries. We intuitively know the Truth of ontology. And by accepting this Truth, we build our logic and reason.
And we use logic and reason to understand each other and to communicate with each other when talking about different Truths. You see, Hermeticism is at the core of existence because it exists as a result of logic and reason in humans. And the kundalini energy is best studied through Hermeticism because only through logic and reason can we deduce what it is and how it works.
Kundalini is a Fire, but after a long period of burning away the dross and negative energies stored in the Chakras, it becomes liquid Spirit, akin to the Element of Mercury in nature. This is why the Alchemists, the Hermeticists, termed Philosophical Mercury the highest of the Elements, the Spirit. This change occurs after many years of purging of the negative energy through the use of the Kundalini Fire.
We are at the forefront in discovering how to study and describe kundalini energy. There needs to be a turning away from the conventional wisdom on kundalini; minds must embrace new ideas and approaches in studying this evolutionary energy.
Hermeticism is the core of all religions; the caduceus of Hermes, the first visual example of the kundalini energy, symbolizes healing for medical professions worldwide. Open your mind to Hermeticism and its power. Learn more about it and its many aspects such as the Qabalah, Tarot, Astrology and other subjects termed "esoteric" by modern day society. In it, you will find the keys you have been looking for and an understanding that revolutionizes not only how we perceive kundalini energy but also how it works.
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I buy pineapples, I eat pineapples, I decorate with pineapples. I love pineapples!
A pineapple, according to my husband, is me. I wear a crown. (If he is King of his Castle, I am his Queen!) I am prickly on the outside but sweet on the inside (once the core has been removed). The darn core has been somewhat of a buggar to deal with as of late.
I see my core as holding all my preconceived notions. All 'etcetera' interests, and ideas, everything stored for examination at a later date. All to be processed as true or false, some preconceived notions of illness behaviors, some judgments… it's all there, in this core.
The meat of the pineapple, the sweetness, that's me. That is me and how I try to see the world! Without the tough exterior, I wouldn't last very long… and anyone could crush me, eat me up! No, I have a hard shell, protecting my sweetness. The shell must be removed to get to this part, the sweet part.
My crown stands tall and green. It is lovely, strong and can topple over and still maintain its proper place on top of my pineapple.
But alas, the core had to be removed. For all its protection, too many ideas confuse the pineapple, and the core will end up eating away the best parts of the pineapple. Turning the sweet to sour. The ill-fated preconceived notions turn random false facts into truths. No, No. This, we can not allow.
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Haha! I love the analogy, Kim. Hope you're doing better these days. I'm a little out of the loop, with the smoke obscuring my vision, but it's good to (try and) be back!
Thanks, Tom! Have been watching the fire coverage. Glad you are safe.
I like the metaphor. The lead pic was a nice touch too!
I aim to please! Thanks, Steve!
Sweet or sour, it's you and I wouln't want it any other way. Wonderful post.
Even when you are struggling, you are here making us smile!!! Love you, Lady!!!!


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Algebra I would like to learn
stringology
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Tensor regression
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Cycles in a random permuation
Large prime factors of a random number
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Long story. Group theory for languages and automata.
Properties of the free group. (because of the stringology thing)
Cayley Graphs. (because of the stringology thing)
Probabilistic methods in algebra (as opposed to algebraic methods in probability).
The number of cycles in a random permutation
Let \(n\) be a natural number, and let \(\sigma: \{1,\ldots,n\} \rightarrow \{1,\ldots,n\}\) be a permutation of \(\{1,\ldots,n\}\), drawn uniformly at random. Using the cycle decomposition, one can view \(\sigma\) as the disjoint union of cycles of varying lengths (from \(1\) to \(n\)). For each \(1 \leq k \leq n\), let \(C_k\) denote the number of cycles of \(\sigma\) of length \(k\); thus the \(C_k\) are natural number-valued random variables with the constraint \[\sum_{k=1}^n k C_k = n.\] We let \(C := \sum_{k=1}^n C_k\) be the number of cycles (of arbitrary length); this is another natural number-valued random variable, of size at most \(n\)… for fixed \(1 \leq k_1 < \ldots < k_r,\, C_{k_1},\ldots,C_{k_r}\) converge in joint distribution to \(r\) independent Poisson distributions of intensity \(\frac{1}{k_1},\ldots,\frac{1}{k_r}\) respectively…
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Define a partition of \(1\) to be a finite or infinite multiset \(\Sigma\) of real numbers in the interval \(I \in (0,1]\) (that is, an unordered set of real numbers in \(I\), possibly with multiplicity) whose total sum is \(1: \sum_{t \in \Sigma}t = 1\). For instance, \(\{1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16,\ldots\}\) is a partition of \(1\)… In the spirit of the universality phenomenon, one can ask what is the natural distribution for what a "typical" partition should look like; thus one seeks a natural probability distribution on the space of all partitions, analogous to (say) the Gaussian distributions on the real line, or GUE distributions on point processes on the line, and so forth. It turns out that there is one natural such distribution which is related to all three examples above, known as the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution.
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CLARKSVILLE,Tenn. – Two parts of the local singing group Driven met in class their freshman year in college over two common bonds.
That guy was Michael Richardson, 23, who is also a member of Driven.
"It was funny, and from there we just started kicking it and became really, really close," Lewis said.
Lewis introduced Richardson to his brother Josh Lewis, 25, and the three started making music together.
They describe their music as a perfect mixture between pop, R&B and acoustic. However, they said unlike most contemporary music, theirs has a positive message. A song on their previously released EP, "Point of View," features the song "Inspiration," which positively praises independent, successful women.
Driven wants to be a positive influence on the community and encourage others – particularly teenagers – to be a positive influence as well.
The group has been holding a canned food drive at middle schools the past two years, and at the end of the drive rewards the winning school with a free concert. Last year at Rossview Middle School, the group was able to collect 1,800 canned goods to be donated to Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen and the Salvation Army.
The group is currently hosting a canned food drive at West Creek Middle School. Sept. 5 will be the last day of the drive and the day of their free concert.
Driven is planning to continue to do canned food drives and concerts at schools around Clarksville, and possibly having one after hours that's open to the whole community.
The group said whether their songs are inspirational, about having fun or complimentary, they are always going to be fun and positive.


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Farmers have long used fire to cut through jungle too dense for machines. The law has encouraged them.
Written By: Washington Post | Sep 8th 2019 - 10am.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under international pressure to curb the fires now spiking across the Amazon, is trying to crack down on the farmers and loggers who clear land by burning the rainforest.
But he's up against long-standing traditions, practices, laws - and some of his own rhetoric.
Farmers in Brazil use fire to clear land. A decades-old law encourages them to invade the Amazon. And Bolsonaro, backed by Brazil's powerful agricultural lobby, campaigned on promises to open the rainforest to more farming, logging and mining - and against what he called "an industry of fines" at Ibama, the environmental protection agency.
"I won't allow Ibama to go around issuing fines left and right," the climate-change skeptic said shortly after his election last year. "The party is going to end."
And he delivered: Since he took office in January, the agency says it has issued 29.4% fewer fines for violations, including illegal burning and deforestation.
But now Bolsonaro is trying to apply the brakes. He has declared a 60-day ban on the fires. He has sent troops to northern Brazil to crack down on deforestation. And authorities are investigating reports of coordinated arsons last month in what farmers and loggers on social media called a "Day of Fire."
But there, again, is the conundrum for Bolsonaro: Rural leaders in the Amazon of state Pará allegedly organized the fires along a highway across the rainforest to show support for Bolsonaro's loosening of environmental restrictions, the newspaper Globo Rural reported.
Farmers have long used fire to cut through jungle too dense for machines. The burned vegetation makes the soil fertile and cuts down on pests. But fire also plays a key role in illegal deforestation.
"Fires mark one of the last stages in deforestation," said Raoni Rajão, a professor of environmental management at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. "First, the expensive wood is removed. Then, the bush is left to dry. Finally, fires are set to clear the land before grass can be planted for pasture."
Brazilian farmers say they're being blamed unfairly for the fires. Marcos da Rosa, a former president of Brazil's Soy Producers Association, said they're often caused by inexperienced settlers, who use fires to clear land without understanding the risks.
"The guy sparks a fire to clear one or two hectares outside his house and the wind comes and spreads it," said da Rosa, a soy and cattle farmer. "Suddenly, it takes over his whole pasture."
More experienced farmers stopped using fire to clear land decades ago because it can be so difficult to manage, he said.
Brazil has long provided incentives for farmers to move into, burn and develop the Amazon.
The government owns vast, uninhabited swaths of the rainforest. In an effort to settle that land in the 1970s, lawmakers approved legislation that allows squatters who can establish economic activity on a parcel for five years to buy the title at a discount.
Fire allows farmers to clear land for pasture quickly and cheaply.
"There is this Wild West logic to the law in the Amazon," Rajão said. "The idea was that Brazil must integrate the Amazon to maintain control over it."
In 2017, pressured by the country's agricultural lobby, lawmakers expanded the law to allow for the privatization of larger patches of land. Last year, the government issued 90,000 such land titles throughout the country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Speculation has also fueled deforestation. The risk of being fined by Ibama pales in comparison to the potential profits. Deforested land in the Amazon that has been converted to pasture can be sold at up to six times the price paid to the government, Rajão said.
"On the one hand, you give concrete incentives for deforestation, and even subsidize it," he said. "On the other, you fine people who get caught doing it. It creates a logic of outsmarting the system."
Farmers take advantage during periods of lax government oversight to grab and deforest more land. The activity has grown under Bolsonaro: Through July, deforestation was up 40 percent, compared to the same period last year, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research reported last month.
In an open letter to the government, more than 400 Ibama employees warned that the country's environmental protection system was on the brink of collapse - and blamed the fires on cuts in resources. They said the agency's budget was cut by 45 percent from 2010 to 2019.
"We cannot dissociate these factors from the clear increase in deforestation and fires," they wrote.
Now Brazilian police are investigating reports that more than 70 farmers and loggers used a WhatsApp group to organize the Day of Fire on Aug. 10.
More than 30,000 fires burned in the rainforest in August alone, a nine-year high, according to the space research institute.
The fires have prompted activists to call for boycotts of Brazilian goods. Fifteen fashion labels, including Vans, Kipling and Timberland, have said they will not import Brazilian leather. Finland has called for a ban on Brazilian beef imports to the European Union.
Now Bolsonaro is under pressure from the agricultural lobby that helped get him elected to ease tensions with the international community before boycotts impact their profits.
Bolsonaro has said farmers and loggers would no longer be allowed to use fires to clear land. But critics said the efforts would be hard to enforce without changes. Ibama is unable to effectively patrol a rainforest that covers 60 percent of Brazil's territory.
Governors of the Amazon states have warned that land ownership laws must be rewritten before they can clamp down on deforestation.
"Without land reform, we have great difficulty holding accountable the people who commit this crime," Wilson Lima, governor of Amazonas state, told Bolsonaro in a meeting last month. "We don't know exactly whose land it is."
This article was written by Marina Lopes, a reporter for The Washington Post.
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"Hi, I have an issue with a WD Elements external hard drive and I wanted to format it on Windows using the Diskpart. But after I entered the command [format fs=ntfs], this stage hangs there for already two hours, still, 12% completed! Can I just interrupt the format process and start it all over again? But it seems that Windows won't cancel the format in a safe way. Please help."
Hard disk formatting is recognized as a good choice when it comes to fixing some generic hard drive issues, such as hard drive becomes very slow suddenly, cannot open hard drive as usual or bad sectors were developed on the drive. Microsoft Windows allows for hard disk formatting in many ways, and users can format the internal drive as well as some external USB flash drives in File Explorer, Windows Disk Management program and Command Prompt.
The cost of time on formatting a storage drive depends on how much the storage is used, usually from seconds to hours. But sometimes, quite a lot of people got stuck in a formatting process for an incredibly long time, for example, over 24 hours, they badly need to interrupt the format midway. At such a moment that hard drive takes forever to format, they have two concerns. Will stop the format in progress do damage to the hard drive? What to do if Windows won't cancel the format even after you close the format window?
Try to locate the formatting process in Windows Task Manager and end the task completely.
Under the Processes tab, locate the disk formatting utility you closed just now, see if the percentage number is changing. Right-click on the process and select End task.
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Home News Channels Business & Finance CRC Industries, Inc. Celebrates 60 Years
CRC Industries, Inc. Celebrates 60 Years
HORSHAM, Pa., Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — This year, CRC Industries, Inc., the leading global supplier of specialty chemicals for maintenance, repair and operations professionals and do-it-yourselfers, celebrates its 60th anniversary. Born in October 1958 in a small Pennsylvania garage with a single product, today CRC has 700 employees worldwide and produces more than 2,000 products for a diverse range of applications and industries. The company operates 26 facilities and sells its products in more than 120 countries.
CRC products are sold through wholesale and retail distribution channels in the automotive, heavy truck, industrial, electrical, food and beverage, oil and gas, marine, hardware and aviation markets. Its product offering has grown to include multiple brands and categories, namely cleaners, degreasers, lubricants, penetrants, corrosion inhibitors, additives, grease, gear oil, sealants, paint and equipment. Many CRC products such as CRC Brakleen® Brake Parts Cleaner and CRC 3-36® Multi-Purpose Lubricant & Corrosion Inhibitor are established category leaders and recognized by industry professionals around the world.
"Celebrating 60 years of business is a tremendous milestone for our colleagues before us and all of our current employees across the globe," said Perry Cozzone, CEO for CRC. "We are proud of our history and the achievements that have led us to where we are today. The dedication and ownership mentality of our employees, our loyal and long-standing customer base, and our unwavering commitment to quality, service and innovation are responsible for our longevity and success."
The company has experienced unprecedented growth and expansion over the past decade. In 2016, CRC relocated its global headquarters to Horsham, Pennsylvania and added a new US west coast distribution center in Gardnerville, Nevada. Recent acquisitions include:
Q20® multi-purpose lubricants, Olifantsfontein, South Africa (2018)
Weld-Aid® welding maintenance and metal protection products (2017)
Centralised Pumping Systems Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand (2016)
Action Can industrial products, Somerset, England (2016)
Panvulk, Rykkinn, Norway (2015), and
ChemFree Corporation, Norcross, GA, and its proprietary SmartWasher® Bioremediation Parts Washing System (2015).
"We're extremely excited for our CRC future as we continue to make strategic investments around the world for continued growth and strive to deliver greater value to our customers, our employees, and our partners," stated Cozzone.
CRC Industries, Inc. (crcindustries.com) is the global leader in the production of specialty chemicals for the do-it-yourselfer and maintenance professional, serving the automotive, industrial, electrical, marine, heavy truck, hardware and aviation markets.
CRC global trademarked brands include CRC®, K&W®, MaryKate®, SmartWasher®, Weld-Aid®, Action Can®, Kontakt Chemie®, Ambersil®, KF®, Q20®, Ados®, Auto-Kolon®, Kitten® and So Easy®.
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Great Motoring Disasters: SEAT Toledo Mk3
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You could sort of see the logic, but not the beauty. True, the SEAT Toledo has never been automotive eye candy, but when version three arrived in 2004, it suddenly became a whole lot easier to appreciate the modestly inoffensive style of versions one and two.
The first Toledo, released in 1999, was a five-door hatchback that looked like a saloon. Designed by ItalDesign's Giorgetto Giugiaro, it was also distinctive for the arrow-like shape of its rear doors, and manners rather better than you would expect of a budget machine mainly aimed – very successfully – at Spanish taxi drivers.
They liked its spacious back seat, enormous boot, keen price, mechanical robustness and local build. The Toledo was based on the innards of the Mk2 Volkswagen Golf, and in GT form proved a surprisingly adept and very enjoyable drive with it. This despite its cabin's habit of exfoliating plastic trim under the duress of big bumps, high heat and hard cornering. Most early Toledos would end up with at least one piece of plastic trim surfing the carpet, and often a small shoal.
Toledo edition two was simply a Leon hatchback with a boot. The Leon was quite a handsome hatch and sired a reasonable-looking Toledo. It was more sophisticated and better made, its interior components tending to stay where they'd been screwed, clipped and glued.
But it was less distinctive, despite the option of a 2.3 litre Volkswagen V5 engine that made for a subtly swift machine. Keen prices and a tempting pile of equipment produced a good package, especially as it was reliable. And like the previous Toledo, its boot was enormous, once again endearing it to Spanish cabbies.
But in Britain this Toledo was completely overshadowed by its Leon sister, the handsome look and performance orientation of this hatch one of the high-points of Seat's short history.
Sportiness, and big boots then. SEAT was becoming known for both by the time this second-generation Toledo was in production, but the brand was also becoming known around the car industry as the Volkswagen Group's problem child. Lack of profit was the issue, and a shortage of ideas on how to make one.
Most of the brands in VW's ever-growing portfolio had long histories and a strong sense of the kind of cars they should be making. SEAT, by contrast, had started life as a licensed builder of Fiats during the early 1950s, and while it had occasionally gone its own way during this era, most impressively with the 1975 1200 Sport coupe – still a pretty thing today – it was more an assembler than a creator of cars.
The 1982 break-down of its relationship with Fiat produced one-and-a-half cars of its own making, the half being the SEAT Ronda that was an obvious evolution of then Fiat Strada that it had just finished making. The entire car was the 1984 Ibiza, this the first SEAT developed during its brief period of independence, albeit with substantial help from ItalDesign and Porsche, whose engineering consultancy helped developed the car's so-called 'System Porsche' engines. By this point the company was already making Volkswagens, the two companies rapidly edging closer until VW took a 51% share in 1986.
VW's investment saw SEAT continuing to develop new models using VW platforms, its Polo-based Mk 2 Ibiza proving a big hit, and not only in Spain. VW boss Ferdinand Piech's decision to place Seat under Audi's management roof in 2002 – together with Lamborghini – saw the Spanish brand attempt to provide Alfa Romeo-like cars at keener prices.
But having allegedly decided to head this way, the company then proceeded to produce a series of family-oriented models, starting with the Altea, a not unattractive cross between a hatchback and a higher-riding MPV. Then came the Mk2 Leon, and shortly after that, the third Toledo series.
All of which has several things in common beyond their Volkswagen Group platforms and powertrains. Which was that they were essentially the same car, but of different heights and lengths. The trio shared the same nose, all had flanks sporting an unmissable descending crease line vaguely suggestive of sportiness and all three were the work of a Walter da Silva-lead design team that included British designer Steve Lewis. Lewis had a major influence on the trio's design, and would later become SEAT's design boss.
Both the Leon and Altea were good-looking designs with some contemporary flair. The Toledo, by contrast, was less happy. Most of it was the same as the Altea for budget reasons, severely limiting the designers' scope, but in order to provide it with a reason to exist they had to add the Toledo's trademark big boot. And from the rear there was no mistaking that it had a very large booty indeed, its back-end protruding like J Lo's, if rather less arrestingly.
What it looked more like, in fact, was the back-end of another big miss from Europe's car industry during the early part of this century, in the unfortunate shape of the Renault Vel Satis, an executive car that has almost finished sinking without trace. And the 2005-08 Toledo looks like heading the same way.
Although the Altea robbed it of many customers, the effect of the third-generation Toledo' arrival was much the same as jabbing a balloon with a knife. Functionally it was great, providing a boot big enough for an ambitious camping holiday – or multiple balloons – but buyers weren't interested.
Toledo sales tanked, tumbling from 39,000 in 2004 to 21,000 the following year. And this was nothing to 2005's spectacular plunge below 9,000, or the less-than-5,000 the year after. Strangely, there were slightly more Toledo in 2008 but by then it was all over, the last few hundred selling the following year.
After the collapse came a hiatus, while SEAT wondered what to do next. The answer came with the opportunist 2012 Toledo, otherwise known the Skoda Rapid, the two near-identical. And both have big boots.
Now that SEAT is pursuing family SUVs, it's quite possible that the Toledo will fade out, and with it a once major piece of Spain's car-making history. But the Toledo's best year was its first, when the Mk 1 sold an impressive 106,000 copies – many more than the Mk 3 managed during its entire back-end blighted life.
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The dazzlingly brilliant Mary Wells Lawrence, easily the most famous woman in...
The dazzlingly brilliant Mary Wells Lawrence, easily the most famous woman in advertising — you haven't lived until you've heard and seen Mary make a presentation to prospective clients, as I have — was inducted into the prestigious Advertising Hall of Fame at a huge luncheon for friends, fans and big names in the advertising industry. It happened in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf with 750 guests there to pay homage. Friends, fans and advertising biggies were there too for Stanley Marcus, the merchant prince, and Bernard Flanagan, the famed flack of Dow Jones & Co. Inc., who also joined Mary, the founder of the Wells Rich Greene agency, as members of the Hall.
As Mary is one of the women I admire most in the world for her incredible talent, her imagination, her charm, her generosity, her caring and her kind and loving heart, here are some of the words describing her and her distinguished 30-year career, either spoken by Burt Manning, the chairman emeritus of J. Walter Thompson Company, when he introduced her — and he ought to know — or as accolades lauding her in the program.
"Her star quality rocked Madison Avenue, but more importantly, her intelligence and substance forever changed the advertising industry….She made Wells Rich Greene into a creative powerhouse….Her whimsical commercials for Braniff, Alka Seltzer, etc., and her famous advertising slogans, some of the most famous ever crafted, revolutionized the industry….She attracted a roster of blue-chip clients such as Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Co. and Ralston Purina, which had been the exclusive province of the male-dominated advertising industry….Her impact was so profound that she was selected by Vice President Rockefeller to be a member of his Commission on Critical Choices for America, and President Ford invited her to become a member of the President's Council on Inflation and to represent Business at the Economic Summit in Washington….She raised the standards of quality with blazing originality that changed the very nature of advertising — and instilled in Wells Rich Greene a commitment to public service which became rooted in the agency's culture and tradition."
Mary sold her agency in 1990, but her achievements are indelible. If you ask me, that's only the half of it. She is a wonderful wife and mother, a superb hostess in her magnificent houses all over the world — and she is writing a book for Knopf about her life in advertising to be published in 2001. She is merely the greatest and the fairest of them all.
On another note: At the ripe old age of 21 — well, ripe anyhow — is Mena Suvari getting set in her ways? Hot — and I mean hot — on the heels of her Lolita-like role in "American Beauty," Mena's up next this summer in Columbia's big one, "Loser." She plays a student who only has eyes for her much-older English lit professor, played by Greg Kinnear. Are the studios in a quasi-nymphet-meets-upper-middle-aged guy rut? At the moment the answer is yes. Even Mena herself is in one in real life. She has just secretly married cinematographer Robert Brinkman, who is 38 and not exactly tottering, but, nonetheless, when he's 100, she'll only be 83.
Kim Basinger is said to deliver a powerful performance in her upcoming movie, "I Dreamed of Africa," opening next month. This is Basinger's first role since her Oscar-winning performance in "L.A. Confidential," and she was thrilled to be on location in Africa filming the fierce, passionate, true love story of an indomitable woman, Kuki Gallman. All Kuki wanted to do was discover adventure, lose her inhibitions and meet the challenges of life in a land of beauty and mystery. That's all. Really, that's all. I promise you — that's all.
"Reading Kuki's book brought me closer to Africa than my previous visits ever had," says Kim. "It takes place in a magnificent setting and tells a very human story with which we can all identify. Like each of us, Kuki has experienced the good and bad, the ugly and the beautiful. As a wife and mother, she had intense fears and dreams, and her concerns for wildlife particularly attracted me." (PETA will never throw a pie in her pretty face.)
For Basinger, the filming of the picture was one of the most frightening and fulfilling journeys of her life. Supposedly she learned more about herself than she ever knew possible. Besides learning to cope with the harsh African experience, she had to learn to handle tractors, snakes and horses and spend hours in a dust storm working with dangerous animals. "Had you ever in my life told me I would wrestle a 13-foot python, I'd have said you were insane." Thus spake our heroine.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, who currently can't be pried apart — don't ask about tomorrow — are together in the flick "Bounce," due in the fall. And the word is they're looking for another movie to make together. Seems like old times. Bounce?
The backstairs buzz from Buckingham Palace — and aren't we all quite giddy with expectation? — is that Prince Andrew is being seen with a beautiful, blonde p.r. type called Emma Gibbs. Some of his chums have been unkind enough to allow that though she is undeniably attractive and bubbly, probably her main attraction for Andy is that she laughs and laughs at all his dreadful jokes. They said it, I didn't.
Buffy Cafritz, Washington's bipartisan hostess extraordinaire — that means everybody in town likes her — flew into New York for Kip Forbes's book party at the Russian Tea Room. Kip has written all about his family's magnificent collection of Faberge objects, but more of all this later.


I started to write this one up as the next "photography myths" post and had planned some demo shots, however Neil Van Niekerk explained it all brilliantly on his blog here: Tangents back in 2009. Go there now and read it! Neil's blog is full of great articles on using flash, and a whole boatload of other photographic technique. Here's my summary, but for more detail – read Neil's blog!
Which is nonsense. If you stop down your aperture, it affects all light in the scene – there's no special "back door" for the ambient light. The whole picture will get darker.
The flash power adjustment buttons on your light, control…. flash!
For TTL automatic flash exposure systems (camera on manual, flash on TTL ) the flash exposure is constant, as long as it is within the bounds of the flash gun to supply enough light, and the camera and subject remain reasonably still in relation to each other. Close down the aperture? The flash puts out more light so the flash exposure is the same. Raise the ISO? The flashgun reduces the power so the flash exposure remains the same. Move the light? The flashgun adjusts and the flash exposure remains constant. The ambient light doesn't react to these changes in shutter speed and aperture though, so ambient light exposure continues to change as before. Stop down the aperture? The ambient light exposure reduces – flash exposure stays the same.
Flash exposure compensation controls – flash.
Flash power controls – "flash".
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One of these days on fridge foraging I am going to present recipes that don't end up in such a close race! It was between French onion soup and eggplant rollatini and this French onion soup barely eeeked out. Which is good because that is what I wanted anyway!
Breakfast for dinner is always a good idea! This week on fridge foraging you all chose the breakfast tacos and it was a great decision. Tacos topped with black beans, bacon, pickled corn and most importantly a fried egg. One of my secret weapons in the kitchen is to always have a carton of eggs around. If you have an egg, you can fry it, poach it, hard boil it and even grate it. So if you have an egg are halfway to a healthy and delicious home cooked meal.
If you have been following along long enough, you know that I love cooking with what I already have. I really don't like the idea of going to the grocery store just for one recipe and think we all can make so much more than we know with just the simple ingredients in our pantry. This idea rings true when it comes to savory cooking because you can riff and experiment so much more easily with savory ingredients.
I have never been able to just eat chicken breasts on their own. To me, they are really hard to prepare and unless they are fried plain chicken breasts just don't have a lot of taste. I am always looking for toppings or pan sauces that will put the flavor into the chicken. Enter this week's choice in fridge foraging - chicken bruschetta.
When I first started teaching myself to cook (before cooking school) I basically cooked all of Ina's recipes. Her recipes are so well written and tested that it was a great way for me to learn the basics. One of the recipes that I kept on going back to during those days was her Lobster Baked Paella. It was just so easy. I don't think I ever used the lobster in there but the base recipe was delicious.
This week's fridge foraging was a competition between an asparagus tart and these zucchini and corn fritters. Obviously the fritters won out, creating a really simple and light summer dish.
I have been making a version of these fritters for many many years. When I first was learning how to cook, years before cooking school, i would go to the farmer's market, buy some vegetables and fruit and see what I could create with it. I came home with pounds and pounds of zucchini one morning and discovered all the ways to eat zucchini, including Ina Garten's amazing zucchini pancakes.
I don't eat a ton of red meat but when I do, I want to make it count. I recently discovered Porter Road Butcher here in Nashville and absolutely love their products and what they stand for. Since I had an extra skirt steak I thought I would throw that into Fridge Foraging and see what I could make of it.
I have gotten a couple requests for fridge foraging dessert style. I will admit fridge foraging for sweet dessert recipes is a lot harder than creating a savory recipe out of what is in your refrigerator. This past weekend though I realized I had a ton of leftover fruit, both fresh and frozen, and decided to make a fridge foraged dessert in the form of a summertime crisp.
The fridge foraging showdown this week was between gazpacho and orzo salad with grilled shrimp. To be honest, I actually thought the gazpacho was going to win out but am sure glad the orzo salad with grilled shrimp was the victor because it sure was tasty. Also my husband announced that he hates gazpacho so that is lucky for him we didn't have that for dinner.
I love a good cheese board - I mean who doesn't. They are the perfect appetizer for when you have company over, or sometimes in my case, just dinner!
What I don't love is the half eaten cheese after all of your guests have gone. Do you save it? Do you toss it? Are you really going to use up that quarter of goat cheese? The answer is to save it and make mac n cheese!
My fridge is filled with summer flavors these days. I pretty much only want to eat corn, zucchini and tomatoes for the next couple of months.
Shrimp are one of the things that I keep on hand in my freezer. Since they defrost so well they create so many different easy weeknight dinners.
In today's fridge foraging you all chose shrimp scampi. Shrimp scampi is one of those classic dishes that comes together really easily and taste like a millions dollars. It is pretty hard to beat the garlic, wine, and butter trifecta.
I swear that most of the food that I eat comes in bowl form. Who needs a plate when you can just pile everything into a huge bowl!
In this week's fridge foraging you all chose the smoked salmon bowl over the coconut curry stuffed sweet potatoes. The bowl is filled with brown rice, smoked salmon, pickled vegetables, avocado, and served with Sriracha mayo. Hearty and healthy and proves that food in bowl form just tastes better.
I took a couple weeks off from cooking after the baby came - we were surviving on the generosity of food from our friends. I am back now and it feels great to be cooking again and obviously fridge foraging again.
Tonight the options were either chicken noodle soup or naan with all the toppings and the naan won. Great choice since I can never turn down a fried egg.
Thankfully you all like Asian inspired dishes as much as I do because today you guys chose chicken lettuce cups in Fridge Foraging.
You can never go wrong with baked pasta! Between the cheesy goodness and the hearty gnocchi, this is one epic fridge foraging.
This week's fridge foraging was between tomato soup and these noodle bowls and I am so glad these noodle bowls won! A bowl full of chicken, noodles, and herbs is my ultimate healthy comfort food.


Connected World editor, Peggy Smedley claims the technology to eliminate accident and death due to distracted driving is literally at our fingertips.
Smedley contends that due to technology available, all it takes is the will to restrain ourselves from looking away from the road. She believes the conversation should be educational and steered towards solutions, not problems.
Solutions included not trying to make people stop texting but to use voice control instead. If people used the technology available appropriately, it could prevent problems.
Smedley recommends education and use of tech tools to improve driver behavior using OBD.
She advocates that all states should prohibit all handheld use of cellphones for texting on electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle, allowing only hands free devices, as well as banning all handheld cellphones while driving except for emergency use.
Limit distractions in the dashboard, such as social media: Facebook and Twitter feeds, gaming, videos, photos.
Create a governing body (comprised of independent individuals) to evaluate acceptable in-vehicle apps offered by OEMs, carriers, and developers to be incorporated in any and all vehicles.
Hands-free usage should be tested by licensing departments.
Our company has been working on Text and Drive software solutions since 2009. Last year, unfortunately, we saw Distracted Driving become the #1 killer of teens in the US – more lethal than drunk driving. One of the biggest concerns is how the new on-board experience will include distracted driving solutions.
I built our flagship product, OTTER, to be compatible with many of the apps already on-board these new vehicles. Take a look at Pandora Radio, for example. When OTTER's patent pending GPS Mode is active, all notifications are silenced, texts get an auto-reply and, unless Bluetooth is active, phone calls go quietly to voice mail. However, Pandora Radio plays on and there are no distractions or sound interruptions from incoming texts . I think the balance between the excitement behind the infotainment evolution and Distracted Driving needs to be reported. The safety side of this issue needs to come into balance with the infotainment side – without detracting from the excitement therein.


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labor Obama, de Blasio, Fast-Food Workers and the Challenge of Inequality
With our inequality coming close to that of Jamaica and Argentina, as Obama pointed out in his Dec. 4 speech on inequality and social mobility, we can no longer ignore the danger it poses to our democracy and living standards.
December 10, 2013 Gregory N. Heires thenewcrossroads.com
The day after President Obama described inequality as the "defining challenge of our times," fast-food workers walked off the job in 100 cities across the country, demanding to be paid $15 an hour and the right to unionize without employer interference.
That evening, ,about 1,000 workers gathered in Foley Square in New York City, where they expressed hope for a better life under the administration of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, whose progressive "tale of two cities" campaign focused on the sharp inequality in the world's financial capital. After the rally, the protestors marched to Zuccotti Park, birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Obama's speech, the electoral victory of de Blasio and the year-long protests of the fast-food workers are potent signs of the lasting impact of Occupy Wall Street's success in making the country's great economic divide—the 1 percent versus the 99 percent—part of our national discourse. After decades of economic malaise, we apparently are finally ready to start addressing the issue.
With our inequality coming close to that of Jamaica and Argentina, as Obama pointed out in his speech, we can no longer ignore the danger it poses to our democracy and living standards.
The Plight of Fast-Food Workers
De Blasio embraced the fast-food workers.
In a statement, he said, "I am proud to stand strong with the working men and women in the Fast Food Forward movement in New York City and across the country. We all know that while the fast food industry rakes in billions every year, it refuses to pay its workers enough to provide for themselves or their families. I stand fully behind the fast food workers in our city and across the nation who are on strike today in their effort to organize for a livable wage and fair benefits."
During his campaign, de Blasio's top policy concern was to tax residents with incomes over $500,000 to fund universal pre-kindergarten. He also will seek to have the city's living wage law cover more businesses and expand the city's sick pay law to cover 300,000 more workers.
The Foley Square rally was sponsored by the New Day New York Coalition, which includes community groups, low-wage worker organizers and unions. All of the more than 150 public employee unions are working under expired contracts, and their members, who have gone as long as four years without a raise under billionaire Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, hope for a fair labor policy under de Blasio.
Workers spoke movingly about the struggle to get by in New York City on low-wage salaries.
Shareeka Eliot, an airline worker at John F. Kennedy Airport, talked of the difficulty of supporting two young kids while earning $7.25 an hour.
"I am relying on public assistance," Eliot said. Low-wages and the lack of benefits at the 10 largest fast food companies in the United States cost taxpayers an estimated $3.8 billion a year in expenditures on safety net programs, according to the National Employment Law Project, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts research and advocates on issues affecting low-wage and unemployed workers.
"Bill de Blasio was just elected," Eliot said. "That gives us hope that things will turn around."
Another speaker was Iris Velasquez. She is involved in a campaign by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to organize workers at Dylan's Candy Bar. Dylan Lauren, the billionaire daughter of designer Ralph Lauren, owns the upscale store on the Upper East Side.
"My employer is the fifth richest heiress in the world," Velasquez said. "She is wealthier than Oprah. We, her hardworking employees, don't even get enough hours to live on. We have no paid sick days. No health insurance. No guaranteed hours."
She added, "I am fighting for a living wage, fair scheduling, and most importantly, dignity and respect for all working people."
"The time has come," said Hector Figueroa, president of Local 32BJ, which represents building service workers and is an affiliate of the national union supporting fast-food workers, Service Employees International Union. "We need to change the rules. We need a new rule that says no one who works in New York City should live in poverty."
While hope was the underlying theme of the rally, speakers also warned that change won't happen without persistent grassroots pressure.
New York City is approaching a "new day," said Santos Crespo Jr., president of Dept. of Education Employees Local 372. "We have to hold elected officials' feet to the fire to make it happen."
"The city is moving in a more progressive direction," said Letitia James, who was elected as public advocate. "The power lies in your hands. You got to recognize that power."
Economic Malaise
In his Dec. 4 speech on inequality and economic mobility, Obama laid out how the economy is failing to meet the needs of workers like fast-food employees, whose plight he mentioned. For instance, he noted that:
• productivity is up 90 percent since 1979, yet the income of the typical family has only increased 8 percent;
• the top 10 percent used to take in one third of the country's income but now earns one half;
• years ago, CEOs made 10 to 20 times what workers earn, but they now take in 273 times as much;
• social mobility is on the decline. A child born in the bottom 10 percent is 10 times as likely to stay in place as compared to someone in the top 20 percent;
• nearly half of full-time workers and 80 percent of part-time workers don't have an employer-provided pension plan or a retirement account, and
• half of households don't have any retirement savings.
The Challenge Ahead
Hopefully, Obama's new-found progressivism and the election of de Blasio will create the political climate for public policies that will address the needs of the millions of Americans a paycheck away from not being able to pay their bills.
Increasing the federal minimum wage is the first obvious step that could start to apply a brake to our plummeting living standards. Obama noted that the minimum wage is, in real terms, below what it was during the presidency of Harry Truman—more than a half century ago.
Today, the minimum wage of $15,080 isn't enough to keep a family of three above the poverty line of $18,776, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) have proposed a bill to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 and to link it to the cost of living—enough to lift minimum-wage workers out of poverty.
Meanwhile, states and localities are moving ahead with boosting the minimum wage. This year, California, Connecticut and Rhode Island raised their minimum wages. In November, New Jersey voters approved an increase in the minimum wage to $8.25 an hour, up from $7.25.
Is the $15 an hour goal of fast-food workers an exercise in irrational idealism?
Let's hope not. It's not in the city of SeaTac, Wash., which recently approved a minimum wage of $15 per hour.
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