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Q: What language for starting on Linux? I am about to begin a 4-year information security degree at Purdue. The degree does not call for any programming courses. So the only time I will be able to take one is the occasional elective. So most of my learning will be on my own. At the start of my senior year of high school I decided to completely switch to Linux. So far I have been learning some Linux and security stuff. However, I also believe it will be important for me to also learn a few programming languages.
Basically I am planning on learning to program side-by-side with learning how to use Vim. So it most likely will be a slow process. In the end I think it will be worth it, though. As I said, I am going into the security, so I will mostly be creating security related applications, most of which will be networking related. I would also like to begin developing Android applications, but that will be later down the road.
With that said I have a few ideas. I was thinking of starting with JavaScript, because it is cross-platform, and I have seen it suggested before. I have also been hearing a lot about Ruby or could go the natural Linux route with C. What direction should I go?

A: Three languages will hold you in good stead.  In decreasing order of importance (i.e., the first is the most important):

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*Pseudocode.  Oftentimes, the implementation with which you're working will be an amalgam of a half-dozen languages and tools, only some of which you'll know directly.  If you know what pattern is being implemented, however, you can figure out what input is being handed to a piece and what output it should give, test it in exclusion, and figure out whether it's the piece that's breaking.

*C.  For better or for worse, it's what runs the (Linux) universe, and it gives you a close-enough-to-the-ground view of things that you can understand what any of the higher-level languages are actually doing (e.g. PHP's pass-by-reference, or Java's thread model).

*Just About Anything Else except C++.  A functional language like SQL or, better yet, Haskell, or something not quite as C-ey—if all else fails, Java can work for this, but it's still very procedural—get high marks here; the idea is to wrap your brain around something sufficiently completely different from what you've done before that you can't help but realize the limitations of what you've done before.  In terms of sheer utility, bash probably also belongs in this list, but if you don't have a basis in something else, you'll just end up writing C with bash syntax instead of really exploring its power.

A: First and foremost: bash, along with the common command line utilities. Bash is the default user interface to the operating system, and a lot of programs on a Linux system will be wrapped in a shell script at some level. It can be quirky, has some idiosyncrasies, and often seems downright dumb, but it's something you will have to deal with, so get comfortable with it. The standard tools like grep, diff, head, tail, sort, uniq, and so on, will be very helpful not only with shell scripting, but with your productivity on the command-line.
Learn at least some c. It's what the lowest levels of the system are written in, and it will give you a better understanding of the system as a whole.
Pick any higher level language you like. Python, ruby, perl, java, whatever - as long as you enjoy it. This is where you really start to learn how to "program", and from here on out it will be easier to pick up more languages, and keep learning.

A: You should learn several languages. I would suggest starting with Python. It's widely recommended for being easy to learn and for being very useful, lots of excellent self-study materials are available for free, and I gather it's widely used by IT security professionals. Almost every time I see security pros post demonstration code, it's Python.

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I am about to begin a 4 year information security degree at Purdue. The degree does not call for any programming courses.

Am I the only one one to think OMG!!!! at this point?

I also believe it will be important for me to also learn a few programming languages

I would say so. Although you're not really expecting to become a proficient programmer, you probably need the skills required to simulate / recreate attacks and understand how the programming process works. You will also need the skills to analyse data, and extract information from bulk sources (like logs). JimB has mentioned bash - and while you'll no doubt be using this - it only takes around a couple of hours to learn the essential bits. Actualy the only place you're ever likely to see bash is on Linux systems - but the other shells are very similar.
I'd recommend learning awk and/or Perl for data crunching. Don't bother about any requirement to tick an object-oriented box - but I would recommend looking at non-procedural langauges too.
Learning C will also expose you to alot of information about how code turns into an executable program (compiling is just one step in a very complex process).
The obvious choice for someone interested in Android/mobile development would be java - but java tries very hard to insulate the developer from having to deal with the realities of the operating and protocols - its my experience that this is where you get security problems with Java apps. i.e. it might help you achieve your ultimate objective, and it will look nice on your CV but don't expect learning Java to supplement your security knowledge much.

A: My advice:

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*bash (and its ilk) are not general purpose programming languages.  While it is possible to accomplish some sophisticated scripting in bash it's not the best way to learn programming in general.  It is the most natural way to accomplish systems administration tasks which primarily revolve around executing other programs, handling their data files and directories and marshaling input and output into and from them.  If bash is a hammer, reserve it for problems that really do look like nails. Learning to do anything non-trivial in bash will be considerably easier if you learn some very small subsets of sed and awk (since the string manipulation in bash is largely inspired by the syntax of similar operations in these "little" languages).

*For general purpose programming under Linux you'll hear many impassioned arguments.  The two best contenders are Perl and Python.  These are both very high level scripting languages which are general purpose, which expose enough low level functionality to do perform almost any operation that's accessible to any user space process on your system, and with huge collections of pre-written modules and libraries available.

I do recommend that you read an introductory text on C and spend some time running the strace and ltrace commands on some simple utility commands like ls and mkdir and /bin/echo etc. (Actually these days I'd suggest ltrace -S in lieu of strace but forays into the output from both commands and into the ltrace output as augmented by the -S option will be extremely educational).
C is the primary programming language in which the Linux kernel and the GNU libc are written.  (Small parts are in assembly).  Almost all programs on a Linux (or other UNIX-like) system are linked against the C libraries (libc). The primary Perl and Python interpreters (and most other scripting languages) are also written in C. These programs (the kernel, the common system libraries and the various scripting language interpreters) are all written by C programmers are their design and features are strongly influenced by their underlying implementations. Thus a deeper understanding of any of these eventually entails understanding C.  You don't need to know anything about C++ nor Java to understand programming at this level.  (Those may each be interesting and necessary in their own right depending on your career patch, but the differences between C and C++ and Java are largely orthogonal to the use of C for most of your system's programs and utilities.
So, if you agree with my premises so far, we've boiled it down to a choice between Perl and Python.
Here's where real flame wars begin.
My advice is to focus on Python (2.x) first.  Python has a relatively simple and consistent syntax.  You can learn the basics of Python syntax in a few hours and that's the vast majority of the syntax you'll ever encounter.  There are only a few features (list comprehensions, generator expressions, decorators) which are wrinkles to the basic syntax.  So most of your effort in learning Python will be devoted to learning the extensive standard libraries and trying to find the "best" way to use them (and figuring out which are the specific sets of exceptions that are worth handling to make your programs robust) and, most importantly, in learning the underlying concepts.
I think that Python's extensive libraries and relatively simple syntax does have two distinct disadvantages.
First, as you learn how do to thing in a very high level in Python you might find the thought of having to work at a lower level to be tedious.  Where I work Perl is the standard.  I prototype my work in Python, where I know I can get it working far more quickly and reliably then in Perl; then I dread having to go through and port it to Perl for my colleagues.  (I was reasonably good at Perl years before I ever used Python --- so it's not a matter of simple familiarity).
The other disadvantage is that it's sometimes difficult to find the highest level way to accomplish a given task in Python.  For example to fetch a web page you might initially try doing it with low level sockets ... which will work.  However, you'd be duplicating quite a bit of code that you can already find including in the urllib and/or urllib2 modules.  The very fact that the standard libraries, as of 2.7.1, includes both of these makes my point.  Where possible the maintainers of Python have extended older modules and APIs transparently; however there are dozens of cases where Python retains two or three modules where transparent extension was not possible for some reason.  (For another example you could look at the options for parsing command line options: argparse, optparse, and getopt.  There's little harm to writing your programs using getopt (the oldest of these).  For very simple utilities with few options and a rigid calling convention (used only by a small group of people, for example) then there's nothing inherently wrong with walking over sys.argv yourself.  However, it's usually worth reading the docs carefully and following the links at the bottoms of older or lower level modules which describe the newer or higher level features available.
My advice is based on my opinion that you want to focus on deeper concepts and not have to spend much of your time and effort on syntactic and language specific issues.  Understanding when to use a subprocess, versus a thread, or the multi-processing features that are included with Python has relatively little to do with the language and everything to do with programming proficiency regardless of language.  (At the point where you can understand arguments about Twisted's event driven model by comparison to threading and multiprocessing then you'll probably have mastered Python and be ready to program in any language).
The counter argument, for Perl, is simple and practical.  There are quite a few more jobs out there which will call, specifically, for skills with Perl.  Perl is a powerful language and has extremely extensive libraries.  (The core of Perl that's distributed with most Linux system is covers a smaller range of functionality than the standard Python libraries; it's assumed that you'll installed a significant number of additional packages from your distribution or through CPAN --- the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network).  (By contrast there are fewer Python modules and packages that I have to fetch separately ... those are available from PyPI --- the Python Package Index).
So, if you learn Perl you'll have a leg up for finding jobs, particularly sysadmin jobs, in the short term.  However, Perl's syntax is ... well ... in the words of some of it's own enthusiasts ... "pathologically eclectic!"  Perl can be extremely terse and its code is filled with quite a bit of punctuation.  Those who love it will argue endlessly that it's "easy" and makes perfect sense --- and will have endless opportunities to do so in forums which are filled with confusion about exactly how a given snippet of code was interpreted.  The syntax and the language used in the documentation and by those who support it in public forums are nuanced to the point where you can spend considerable effort to learn them.
Now, please realize that this preceding commentary is subjective and biased.  It's possible that you'll try Perl and find it's syntax to be intuitive and pleasant.  If so, more power to you.  However, I personally find that my grasp of Perl's idiosyncrasies decays very rapidly.  The fundamentals I retain but I find it to be a struggle whenever I have to switch back to it for more than a few lines of code.
There are lots of other languages you would study, Java, Lisp and Scheme, TCL, Scala, and so on.  However, I'd suggest starting with one that offers the best balance between utility and simplicity.

A: You will find that everyone will pretty much just recommend their favorite language.  My favorite language is Perl so that's what I recommend. :)  However, beyond my personal preference, there are some great reasons why you should consider using perl:
First, perl is a wonderful general-purpose language.  It's easy to get started in perl by writing simple scripts to do the same sorts of things you do in shell scripts, like manipulate files and make decisions based on user input.  This provides a very easy and gradual introduction to the general ideas of programming.  Perl has been around for quite a while so there are lots of resources (books and websites) for getting started.
Second, perl is an incredibly powerful and expressive language that supports all modern programming features.  I've been using it for over fifteen years and I'm still learning new ways to do things more efficiently.  For example, if you want to explore object oriented programming, perl has that (particularly through Moose).
Third, perl comes with the almost infinite power and flexibility of it's official add-on repository, CPAN.  For example, to follow the idea of writing security software, say you want to develop some sort of custom network security scanner.  Instead of writing all that yourself, you could start by using NMAP::Scanner as a scanning engine, and then write your own tweaks and improvements on top of that.
Finally, if you want to explore web programming, Perl has that too.  One popular modern way to write web software in Perl is Catalyst, which provides a modern MVC web framework for quickly developing any sort of web app.
Putting all that together, the advantage of perl is that it allows you to start small writing little  command line scripts and programs, and gradually grow into writing full-featured modern applications.  Of course, the price of this flexibility is complexity.  It's up to you to study and learn how to do things the right way, perl doesn't enforce good practices the way other languages do.  I personally like this freedom, especially coupled with all the great resources out on the web for learning how to use perl.

A: In Linux world, you should know two basic things:

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*Regular Expression. This is a must. RegEx is a universal "language", once you know how to use regular expression, your life will be much easier :-)

*"quick & dirty" is very common in Linux world. If you can have your job done, no matter how ugly your solution is, you have your job done.

So, if you want to learn a language on Linux, you SHOULD choose a script language, like python, PHP, or even bash scripting.
And, my recommend is PHP. It's simple and ugly. It has a detailed online manual. It has good RegEx support. That's all.

A: You can do almost any task in almost any language, so the right choice is largely dictated by the problem you're solving.
It's definitely worth knowing languages from the following categories:

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*Compiled languages (like C/C++/Java). C/C++ is a good place to explore security issues with buffer overflows, stack corruption, etc.

*Interpreted languages (like PHP). A good place to explore the problems with loosely-typed variables, and not detecting undefined functions until you call them

*Scripting languages (sh/bash/csh/ksh). Really useful for gluing the many useful shell utilities (see /bin & /usr/bin) together

I'd make an effort to learn C/C++, as this allows stack corruption and direct memory access. This is important if you want to experiment with security issues. Many languages have C-like syntax (including JavaScript), so it's a good springboard.
If you're working in a shell much, which I guess you are as you're learning vim, you'll end up learning shell basic scripts as a side effect. UNIX Power Tools was a good book to learn more advanced stuff; I don't know if it's still published.
PHP can also be a good language to learn; the main advantage it offers new programmers is that a lot of functionality is built in, rather than in a library you'd need to link to (which isn't a complex task). Because of this, browsing the main docs will teach you about many things.

A: First, some negative advice:

Basically what I am planning on doing is learning to program side-by-side with learning how to use Vim.

Do not do that. Find an editor that is really comfortable. Learning both the language and the editor is thrice as hard as learning them in order (obviously the editor should go first :-) )

As I said I am going into the security so I will be creating mostly security related apps. Most of which will be networking related.

Networking related security apps? C is a no brainer choice here. You will need to access the network at the system API level, which means C is the way to go. Of course this does not mean that everything needs to be in C - a C library + a $favorite-high-level-language wrapper might save you the C-related hassles in parts that do not need C.

With that said I have a few ideas. I was thinking of starting with JavaScript, because it is cross-platform, and I have seen it suggested before.

I bet it was suggested in a context different from yours. JavaScript has its strengths but it is not a good general purpose language, not yet. JS has no standard libraries comparable to those available to C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java & company.
Speaking of $favorite-high-level-language - my advice is to go with Python. It interfaces nicely with C, it ships with a lot of useful libraries and has much more libraries available as add ons.

A: Nothing at all wrong with learning Javascript but it only runs under a browser, so your programming will be limited to web page related apps.
There are probably as many answers to the 'what is a good programming language to start on' as there are languages. My tuppence worth is that you could do worse than starting with basic shell scripting, just seeing what you can do to automate tasks without using anything beyond the shell, then extend that using Perl, or a similar language which grew out of the need to do tasks more complex than the shell is capable of, after that, and if you are really interested it will only take a few weeks, start using C or a derivative.

A: My recommendations? Hmmm.  Well, you may have to decide as you go.  For the wholesome, well-rounded range, you can go the usual CS degree route, maybe not in this order.
(1) C/C++  - You can get the Object Oriented stuff down, and at least you will have tried. C++ is the 'professional' standard.
(2) Assembly (just for a little bit - it'll help you understand the real workings of the processor, memory, etc. - you don't have to marry it.)
(3) Python/Perl/Bash - Get these scripting languages down, they'll be most useful for your level of Linux
(4) PHP/Ruby, MySQL and HTML - Just get your Web programming on!  You'll understand the whole server-client interaction process, another level of computing.
Need helpful concepts?  AI, neural networks.  These should round you out.
You can choose one of these to do or touch on all of them.  My language?  All of them, as needed, but I'v been programming since 1984, and have a CS degree, written games, and all kinds of embedded systems apps.  It's what I do.  You need to find out who you are and what YOU do.  Just make sure you're having fun.
Enjoy!

A: oops, misread info-security for info-systems... oh well most of this still applies
Java

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*There must be an entry level programming course that's java-based that'll count toward your degree.  Always nice to get credits for the stuff you're learning.

*It'll give you some career growth if you get sick of being strictly a systems-guy... or if the company you work later decides that systems are like toasters and so are the people who run them.

*Object Oriented

*You said you wanted to do some Android development.  That's going to mean Java.

Honestly, if you're working in Linux and take a beginning programming course in Java, and then maybe follow up with a couple more programming courses, the other tools like Bash sed/awk, etc... should sort of fall into place.  If you really get into systems,  you might pickup some C later, but I wouldn't say it's in great demand and I wouldn't even say it's a requirement of being a systems guy -- unless you're really into internals.
YMMV


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Subjective expectations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Adeline Delavande, Hans Peter Kohler
NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)
In this paper we present a newly developed interactive elicitation methodology for collecting probalistic in expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success of this method for a wide range of outcomes in rural Malawi. We find that respondents' answers about their subjective expectations take into account basic properties of probabilities, and vary meaningfully with observable characteristics and past experience. From a substantive point of view, the elicited expectation's indicate that individuals are generally aware of differential risks. For example, individuals with lower incomes and less land rightly feel at greater risk of financial distress than people with higher socioeconomic status (SES), and people who are divorced or widowed rightly feel at greater risk of being infected with HIV than currently married individuals. Meanwhile many expectations - including the probability of being currently infected with HIV - are well-calibrated compared to actual probabilities, but mortality expectations are substantially overestimated compared to life table estimates. This overestimation maylead individuals to underestimate the benefits of adopting HIV risk-reduction strategies. The skewed distribution, of expectations about condom use also suggests that a small group of innovators are the forerunners in the adoption of condoms within marriage for HIV prevention.
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AU - Kohler, Hans Peter
N1 - Funding: NIA NIH HHS (grant nr. P30 AG012836) and NICHD NIH HHS (grant nr. R01 HD053781-03, R21 HD050653, R24 HD050906, R21 HD050653-02, R24 HD044964, R01 HD044228, R01 HD044228-04 and R01 HD053781)
N2 - In this paper we present a newly developed interactive elicitation methodology for collecting probalistic in expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success of this method for a wide range of outcomes in rural Malawi. We find that respondents' answers about their subjective expectations take into account basic properties of probabilities, and vary meaningfully with observable characteristics and past experience. From a substantive point of view, the elicited expectation's indicate that individuals are generally aware of differential risks. For example, individuals with lower incomes and less land rightly feel at greater risk of financial distress than people with higher socioeconomic status (SES), and people who are divorced or widowed rightly feel at greater risk of being infected with HIV than currently married individuals. Meanwhile many expectations - including the probability of being currently infected with HIV - are well-calibrated compared to actual probabilities, but mortality expectations are substantially overestimated compared to life table estimates. This overestimation maylead individuals to underestimate the benefits of adopting HIV risk-reduction strategies. The skewed distribution, of expectations about condom use also suggests that a small group of innovators are the forerunners in the adoption of condoms within marriage for HIV prevention.
AB - In this paper we present a newly developed interactive elicitation methodology for collecting probalistic in expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success of this method for a wide range of outcomes in rural Malawi. We find that respondents' answers about their subjective expectations take into account basic properties of probabilities, and vary meaningfully with observable characteristics and past experience. From a substantive point of view, the elicited expectation's indicate that individuals are generally aware of differential risks. For example, individuals with lower incomes and less land rightly feel at greater risk of financial distress than people with higher socioeconomic status (SES), and people who are divorced or widowed rightly feel at greater risk of being infected with HIV than currently married individuals. Meanwhile many expectations - including the probability of being currently infected with HIV - are well-calibrated compared to actual probabilities, but mortality expectations are substantially overestimated compared to life table estimates. This overestimation maylead individuals to underestimate the benefits of adopting HIV risk-reduction strategies. The skewed distribution, of expectations about condom use also suggests that a small group of innovators are the forerunners in the adoption of condoms within marriage for HIV prevention.
U2 - 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.31
DO - 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.31
JO - Demographic Research
JF - Demographic Research
Delavande A, Kohler HP. Subjective expectations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Demographic Research. 2009 Jun 23;20:817-867. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.31


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Q: R Setting legends and colours iteratively in a function TL;DR: Adding lines stepwise to a plot and getting the legend right in ggplot
I have a set of dataframes with identical column names but different values (see example dataframe in the bottom).
Often I need to plot these dataframes on one graph with the standard deviation plotted as a ribbon like so:
a = ggplot() + geom_ribbon(data = na.omit(m), aes(x = Time, ymin=SDmin, ymax=SDplus), alpha = 0.5, fill ="grey") +geom_line(data = na.omit(m), aes(x = Time, y = OD_scaled, color = "Growth")) + xlab("Time (H)") + ylab("OD Scaled")
a + geom_ribbon(data = na.omit(p), aes(x = Time, ymin=SDmin, ymax=SDplus), alpha = 0.5, fill ="grey") +geom_line(data = na.omit(p), aes(x = Time, y = OD_scaled, color = "photo")) + xlab("Time (H)") + ylab("OD Scaled")

I need to do this a lot with different combinations of data (always the same dataframe format) so I was writing a function which can add dataframes to the plot in an additive manner:
plot.OD = function(df, Growth, graph_name) {
  if(missing(graph_name)) {
    graph_name = ggplot()
  }

  graph_name = graph_name + geom_ribbon(data = na.omit(df), aes(x = Time, ymin=SDmin, ymax=SDplus), alpha = 0.5, fill ="grey") +geom_line(data = na.omit(df), aes(x = Time, y = OD_scaled, color = Growth)) + xlab("Time (H)") + ylab("OD Scaled")
  return(graph_name)
}
}

I then call the function using:
a = plot.OD(df1,"Mix")
a
#Adding a plot is done like this:
a +  plot.OD(df2,"Photo",a)

This is the result:

As you can see the legend and the colours are not assigned automatically.
So my question: how can I improve this function so the legend will be updated automatically?
Please find two example dataframes at this link (used the save function to save them)
Time R B W T Tprof    Tmeas    Tcool pH OD_scaled SD SDmin SDplus
0.002777778 0 0 0 0    21 21.13767 3.524333  0         2  0     2      2
0.005555556 0 0 0 0    21 21.12400 3.461333  0        NA NA    NA     NA
0.008333333 0 0 0 0    21 21.11833 3.396333  0        NA NA    NA     NA
0.011111111 0 0 0 0    21 21.11800 3.359333  0        NA NA    NA     NA
0.013888889 0 0 0 0    21 21.12767 3.269333  0        NA NA    NA     NA
0.016666667 0 0 0 0    21 21.12933 3.225667  0        NA NA    NA     NA

A: dplyr bind rows did the trick in the end

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You haven't been able to pump own gas in New Jersey since 1949. That might change
By Laura Benshoff
Anyone who's ever driven through New Jersey knows when it's time to fill the car, you can keep your seatbelt on. Pumping your own gas is forbidden. That's been the law for decades. Now New Jersey lawmakers are debating whether to end it. Gas station owners say it would help ease a labor shortage and bring prices down, but some drivers and politicians are skeptical. NPR's Laura Benshoff reports.
LAURA BENSHOFF, BYLINE: At a small gas station in South Jersey, Chafen Pourier (ph) is sitting in her car. She says, sure, she knows how to pump her own gas.
CHAFEN POURIER: I do. Do I want to? No.
BENSHOFF: From the driver's seat, Pourier waves her hand at the cold drizzle outside.
POURIER: I'm not getting out of my car, especially when it's raining. No, I like it just the way it is.
BENSHOFF: New Jersey is one of two states where drivers are not allowed to pump their own gas. Oregon is the other one, although that state's ban is relaxed in rural areas. Now a bill in the New Jersey legislature would allow gas stations to offer self-service. Bigger ones would still be required to have a full service option between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sal Risalvato with the New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience Store and Automotive Association says it would help fix the current labor shortage.
SAL RISALVATO: I have members on busy highways that they have to close sometimes during the day for a couple of hours because a shift ends, they don't have anybody to cover.
BENSHOFF: But Risalvato knows his group faces opposition. For decades, New Jersey didn't raise its gas tax. Combined with a ban on pumping your own gas, and a culture emerged.
RISALVATO: We have cheap gas, and we don't have to pump it.
BENSHOFF: That's changed. New Jersey now has some of the highest gas taxes in the country, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Drivers here now pay around the national average for gas. But the culture remains, says Risalvato.
RISALVATO: And the bumper sticker and the T-shirts - Jersey Girls Don't Pump Gas. And it became a source of pride.
BENSHOFF: He claims if the self-serve law passes, gas stations could afford to lower prices at the pump up to $0.23 a gallon. But so far, the Garden State's top politicians haven't embraced the bill, though they haven't completely ruled it out, either. Here's Democratic Governor Phil Murphy at a press briefing after it was introduced.
PHIL MURPHY: Listen; on self-service gas, that's been sort of a political third rail in New Jersey, which I have historically not crossed.
BENSHOFF: But he says he's open to anything that makes the Garden State more affordable. Senate President Nicholas Scutari said in a statement that he also doesn't support the bill, but he would reconsider if there's data to show the public is behind it and residents would save money.
Outside a convenience store in Camden County, Kay Robinson (ph) is waiting for her husband after filling up. She says she doesn't support the bill because a lot of her friends worked at gas stations when they were younger.
KAY ROBINSON: It was a good job to have. Like, I don't know how much they get paid now, but it was a good job to have back then to actually, you know, have a good amount of money in their pocket. So what are they - you know, what are they going to do now?
BENSHOFF: But she's noticed many stations are down workers and, like most New Jerseyans in a recent poll, would support adding self-serve, but only if full service is still available. So she doesn't support this bill.
ROBINSON: Yeah, I don't like it. That's my quote (laughter).
BENSHOFF: And, Robinson says, getting rid of full-service stations would change how she feels about living in the Garden State. Laura Benshoff, NPR News.
Laura Benshoff
Laura Benshoff is a reporter covering energy and climate on a temporary basis for NPR's National desk. Prior to this assignment, she spent eight years at WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR Member station. There, she most recently focused on the economy and immigration. She has reported on the causes of the Great Resignation, Afghans left behind after the U.S. troop withdrawal and how a government-backed rent-to-own housing program failed its tenants. Other highlights from her time at WHYY include exploring the dynamics of the 2020 presidential election cycle through changing communities in central Pennsylvania and covering comedian Bill Cosby's criminal trials.


When my husband and I purchased our first house I pondered the colors I thought I would like to decorate with. Keep in mind when I tell you what colors I decided on that we were in the midst of the seventies…earth tones were very popular. The sofa we purchased was a block print that included chocolate brown, rust and navy blue. That sofa was very comfortable and I'm sorry I don't have a picture to show you.
Time flew by and because I've always had a love of interior design (that sounds fancier than I am but I hope you know what I mean), we decided when we moved into our current house to go a different direction (color palate wise). I could have chosen blue and white and it did cross my mind, but I had seen a room in a 'to the trade' furniture showroom that featured hunter green carpet with hunter green walls. I know, it sounds oppressive, but with white French doors, white over mantle/fireplace and a custom-built white entertainment unit it was actually very cozy. Was being the operative word here. We lived with it for nearly 20 years!
Another view of Miss Mustard Seed's dining room, don't you love it?
I have loved the English country style of decorating for some time (Mario Buatta was someone I followed in design publications). My accessories are pretty much the same as they were in my hunter green days—barley twist candle holders, antique mantle clock, Staffordshire figures, antlers and hunt prints or paintings.
I love this shade of blue but my dining room is pretty dark to handle this dark blue.
When we changed out the hunter green carpet for wood floors in all but the bedrooms I switched to red, khaki and black as the colors I used for upholstered pieces and accents.
This looks so fresh and inviting.
I'm not sure hubby would go for this but I love it.
The thing is, through it all I have longed for a blue and white house. I have pulled nearly every blue and white room featured in any and all magazines. One of my favorite design books to study is "A Passion for Blue and White" by Carolyne Roehm.
Passion for Blue and White says it all.
This is one of the pictures in Carolyne Roehm's book. I hope to duplicate the look for an upcoming dinner in September.
I also love this dining room by the incredibly talented Miss Mustard Seed (of Mustard Seed Creations) Visit her site and be amazed.
I would love to collect blue and white transfer ware dishes. This picture is of Carol Glasser's (a Houston designer) former home.
There is a wonderful tool on Better Homes and Gardens site called Color-a-Room. Check it out, you can see what a room will look like with a variety of paint colors to choose from using this tool.
So, "why" you ask, "don't you have a blue and white room?"…I don't know but a girl can dream, right?


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Najib: Stop the drama and state if the ECRL has been cancelled
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak says that Pakatan Harapan ministers should stop the "drama" and come clean over the status of the East Coast Rail Link project (ECRL).
Bursa, Asian and European markets fall ahead of Brexit vote
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia joined the key Asian markets to end Monday in the red ahead of the crucial Brexit vote and another round of the US-China trade talks while weaker oil prices weighed on oil stocks.
Schroders highlights four black swans for 2019
KUALA LUMPUR: Another eurozone crisis, No Brexit, military action and US President Donald Trump does not run for re-election in 2020 are the four black swans which Schroder Investment Management has highlighted in its outlook for this year.
Growing Asean-China trade provides opportunities for Malaysia exporters
KUALA LUMPUR: The growing ASEAN-China trade is providing Malaysian exporters with more opportunities to tap the business potential offered by the world's second largest economy.
US Treasury set to borrow US$1 trillion for a second year to finance deficit
NEW YORK: The U.S. Treasury Department is set to maintain elevated sales of long-term debt to finance the government's widening budget deficit, with new issuance projected to top $1 trillion for a second-straight year.
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AirAsia Group records 14% increase in passengers in 2018
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KLCI struggles to make headway, Suiwah rallies 22%
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Chinese rights lawyer jailed for 'subversion'
Beijing (AFP) - Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown.
Aramco's US$1.6b Hyundai stake deepens refiner ties in Asia
SINGAPORE: Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is buying up to 19.9 percent of South Korean oil refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. for 1.8 trillion won (US$1.6 billion), tightening the OPEC behemoth's grip in the world's biggest crude consuming region.


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Discussion in 'Promo Codes and Contests' started by Gnarcade, Sep 23, 2016.
Our new game Don't Flush Me is about to come out on iOS! We'd love to share some promo codes and hear your feedback on it before launch.
In Don't Flush Me , you're a goldfish who's been dumped in the toilet and you have to avoid being flushed away.
Before grabbing a promo code, you can watch the trailer below to first see what you're getting yourself into (hint: it's a toilet).
I got KF439NN6WFL9 thank you!
I had the chance to play on my break today and I really like the game play. It's easy to move your character around and I love the idea of dodging the dead fish being flushed.
I only got to 27 on my first try but I can see this being a fun way to spend a few minuets while waiting in line or on a break.
Thanks Bethor! Really glad you enjoyed it and 27 on your first go is awesome. I can't even get that most the time.


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Injury Report: Wentz's Ribs Still Not Healed
Head coach Doug Pederson said on Monday that a CT scan revealed that one of Carson Wentz's ribs is still only 60 percent healed from the hit that the quarterback took back in Week 1 of the preseason.
Will Wentz play against the Jets on Thursday night in the preseason finale?
"If he's 60 percent with that rib, probably not," Pederson said.
In the locker room, Wentz went a step further and told reporters that he will not play.
"It's frustrating as all injuries are. I was obviously hoping to get out there one more time in the preseason, but it kind of is what it is," Wentz said. "I'm going to still try to learn as much as I can and get ready for Cleveland."
There is good news, however, on the injury front.
Wide receiver Jordan Matthews will take part in practice for the first time since suffering a knee sprain on August 5. Pederson said that Matthews is expected to do work in individual drills, group installation and may even take some reps in 7-on-7 action. Matthews remains on track for the season opener on September 11.
"Coach Pederson, he's played. He understands that you don't want a guy to come back and be kind of 80, 70 (percent) unless you just need him that day," Matthews said. "Basically, the situation was the risks far outweighed the reward to rush me back and get some reps in preseason. He saw that. The other coaches saw that. Howie (Roseman) was extremely supportive of me being able to get my rest and make sure my knee was back 100 percent. It feels great. I'm ready to go."
Guard Isaac Seumalo is day to day with the pec strain that sidelined him for Saturday's game against Indianapolis.
Defensive end Vinny Curry (knee) and defensive tackle Taylor Hart (knee/ankle) will be back in time for Week 1.
Running back Wendell Smallwood is in the NFL's concussion protocol. The Eagles re-signed running back Cedric O'Neal, who was with the team earlier in the preseason, to take reps on Thursday night.


Harris County–Election results for this county are a stunning reminder of the power of the public and that the will of the people is beyond the predictability of pollsters.
Hillary Clinton took 54.01% of Harris County votes over Donald Trump 41.97%. Libertarian Gary Johnson had 3.01% and Jill Stein with assistance of Ajamu Baraka in the Green Party mustered 0.89%. But national returns are another matter. Hillary Clinton conceded with seven states too close to call and Donald Trump modestly accepted.
U.S. Rep. District 29 Julio Garza took 24.05% of the vote while incumbent Democrat Gene Green had 72.43%.
Rep. Devon Anderson District Attorney for Harris County has lost to Democrat Kim Ogg 45.9% to 54.1%.
The long fought battle for Precinct 3 Constable was won by Crosby native, Sherman Eagleton 59,456 votes 61.78% over Republican Dan Webb with 38.82% and 37,732 votes.
Democrat Joe Stephens won Precinct 3 Position I Justice of the Peace with 59.69% of the vote over Rep. Tom Zakes 40.31%.
Republican Sheriff Ron Hickman lost his post to Democrat Ed Gonzales, 47.31% to 52.69%. That is 595,820 to 663,590 votes.
Rep. Tax-Assessor-Collector Mike Sullivan lost to Dem. Ann Harris-Bennett 49.81 to 50.19%.
Huffman ISD Position 1 was won by Robin Colbert with 2,537 votes over Vernon Reed 1,803.
MUD 50 Position2 was won by Alice Faye Dangerfield with 448 votes over Jalissa Johnson with 250 votes.
In state representatives races it was all Republican. Again a redistricted away Dan Huberty in District 127 had 49,252 votes to Libertarian Scott Ford 7,275 and Joseph McEllipott of the Green Party had 3,381. Locally, in District 128, trial lawyer, Briscoe Cain who unseated Republican Committee Chairman Wayne Smith had 41,610 over Libertarian Ken Lowder 6,492 votes.
County Attorney was no surprise, Democrat Vince Ryan had 53.59% of the vote and Republican Jim Leitner took 46.41%.
CROSBY – Residents living along Cedar Bayou on the easternmost side of Harris County were flooded repetedly over the last 18 months.
Recently, Harris County Flood Control District launched the Cedar Bayou Flood Risk Reduction Study to analyze flooding and drainage issues in the Cedar Bayou watershed.
Ultimately, the purpose is to develop shot and long term solutions to reduce flooding risks.
Over the last 18 months, rainfall totals have set records. Recounting those floods include: MidMay 2015, the Memorial Day Flood in which 6,333 Harris County Homes were flooded,the October 24 through 25 flood, the Halloween flood, then this year; the April 17 though 18 floods caused at least seven fatalities. Locally, the Cedar Bayou watershed near FM 1942 has been among the hardest hit.
Funding for the study is made possible by a $250,000 flood protection planning grant awarded to the Flood Control District by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), which recently authorized $3.5 million in grants from the Disaster Contingency Fund for 17 projects around the state. The Flood Control District has already committed an additional $400,000 towards the work effort.
• Identify flood risks and estimate potential damages due to flooding.
• Identify and evaluate potential flood risk reduction projects, such as channel improvements and regional stormwater detention basins.
• Estimate the costs and benefits of the proposed projects.
• Develop an implementation plan that prioritizes the recommended solutions.
To ask questions about the study, or to sign up for email updates, contact the Harris County Flood Control District's Project and Study Information Line at 713-684-4040.
HIGHLANDS – Authorities were called to the fresh water canal at S. Main Street, near 4 Corners, on Friday morning about 9:45 a.m. after a report of a body floating in the canal.
With the help of a dive team, and the Highlands EMS, a body was recovered that had washed up against the grating that keeps objects from going further down into the canal system.
The recovery team was not able to immediately identify the body as a woman or man, due to the fact that it appeared to have been in the water for some time, and had decomposed. The EMS team estimated that it might have been there for 4 to seven days. The body was transported to the Medical Examiners office in Houston for an autopsy.
As of Tuesday, the body had been identified, but the family had not been notified. This information will be released later, the ME said.
Deputy Thomas Gilliland of the Harris County Sheriff's office said this is an active investigation, and urged anyone with information to get in touch with the Homicide division, 713-274-9100.


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Are You Mansome Enough?
By Alexandra Owens
Men these days have almost as many beauty options as women. There are men's skin-care lines and nail-polish collections; guys are ubiquitous in nail salons and facialists' waiting rooms; and there are Williamsburg apothecaries devoted to the every whiskered need of beared hipsters. So director Morgan Spurlock's newest documentary about masculinity and men's grooming, Mansome, is perfectly timed. The film explores the habits of a diverse group of modern men, including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, a hair-replacement specialist, a "champion beardsman" (yes, that's a thing), and even Zach Galifianakis, who winningly rates his attractiveness at a one or a two. I spoke with Spurlock about Mansome, the difference between men's and women's beauty, and his own personal routine.
Why do you think men are paying more attention to their appearance? "There are multiple factors at work. One thing is that men don't have to do the manly things that men once had to do. Men don't chop down trees. They don't have to go hunting and get a pelt. They're not working in a factory. There were these very manly jobs and professions that have now gone by the wayside. So then, what does it mean to be a man? How do you define your identity? Part of what society and the media say defines you as a man is what you look like. Now men are finally dealing with the same type of insecurities that we thrust upon women."
Do you think it's a little ironic?"I think it's fantastically ironic. Suddenly women across the country are going, 'Ha ha ha ha!'"
What's the difference between men and women when it comes to grooming?__ "Women talk about it. That's the biggest thing, I think. There's a great line in the movie where one of our experts says, 'Men should walk out of the house looking fantastic, but look like it didn't take them any time to look that way.' It's a misconception that men magically look spectacular or look a certain way without having to put any work into it. I think the idea that you can have this conversation about what it takes to not have your skin break out or to keep your hair on your head—those are real conversations that men need to have."
How far do you think is too far for personal grooming?__ "For me, it's neck down. That's too far for me. But for other guys, who knows? I mean, Ricky [a man featured in Mansome] takes two hours to get ready every day."
I don't know many women who take that long.__ "I know! From the minute I get up to when I walk out of the door, it takes me 20 minutes. And that's taking the time to trim my mustache. In the future I predict that every guy in the world will grow a beard like Wes Bentley in The Hunger Games. Like that will be your design feature, is how you cut and groom that beard. I would love to cut and groom a beard like that, but God it looks like a lot of work."
Is there any service you want to try? "I got a pedicure as we were making this film, and it was probably one of the greatest things I've ever experienced in my life. They were shaving all this dead skin off the bottom of my feet and my foot was so soft. It was literally like a baby's bottom for a week. I would just sit on the couch and touch my foot and be like, 'Feel how soft that is! Touch that!' At some point I will probably end up getting another one of those."
Men have something women don't have: competitive facial-hair events. "Aren't those amazing? They're all over. The U.S. beard championships are happening this November in Las Vegas, so I see a road trip in your future. I think you will have to be there to cover that. If anybody can turn that into a bigger sport, it's Jack Passion, who we feature in the movie. [ED: That's him pictured above!] He so cares about this competition. To find him, I think we looked up something ridiculous like, 'Who is the most famous beard competitor in the world?' And Jack Passion's name came up."
KeywordsJason BatemanMansomeWill ArnettZach Galifianakis


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Chants For Health
Musical chant in health care
Music for stress and anxiety reduction in coronary heart disease patients
BACKGROUND: The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent organization that performs systematic reviews in order to assess the scientific validity of research findings. Music interventions have been theorized to help patients with heart disease, but no clear consensus exists.
METHODS: This systematic review looked at the effect of music interventions in patients with coronary artery disease. There were 23 trials with 1461 patients included in the evaluation. In most studies, the main intervention was simply listening to music. A trained music therapist was not utilized in the intervention group in 21 of the 23 trials.
RESULTS: Although the results were inconsistent, overall, listening to music appeared to have a moderate and positive effect on anxiety in patients with coronary heart disease. There wasn't any clear evidence for an overall reduction of psychological stress by listening to music. Listening to music, however, did appear to lower the heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. In addition, there was evidence that two or more therapeutic music sessions led to a small but consistent reduction in pain.
CONCLUSION: listening to music appears to have a beneficial effect upon blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, anxiety, and pain in persons with coronary heart disease. It should be noted that the scientific evidence is not strong and the clinical impact of these findings unclear. More research is needed looking at the possible impact of using trained music therapists.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Apr 15;(2):CD006577.
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You can also freely tailor the design of the car to your wishes: clean or dirty, round or arched roof, red or black skirt. An interactive help system explains every option in the game to you on request. Everything is covered from a technical viewpoint too. The car has independent sound, its own braking characteristics, automatic car numbering, functioning brake indicators and an adjustable magnetic brake.
Two sessions for the "Niddertalbahn" track complete the package.


The 6th Mass Extinction was seeded by greed. It wasn't math and science per se but the glorification of science and math twisted by lies and logical substantiation of the story that power and greed wanted to portray. The gorgeous and elegant left brain, processing in its binary sequential logical fashion seven to nine bits of information at a time had become revered over the balance that is added when using both the right and left brain functions. The right brain's intuitive, artistic, deeper functions had been denied and shamed. Balance had been lost at great cost.
Yet it made a certain sense as the left brain could produce tangible results and argue the value of those results. The right brain was often mute in her expression of what she knew to be true.
By the time the 20th and 21st century rolled around the humans had gotten stuck. The Maya of comfort and lies together with the daily existence that distanced humans from the burden that greed placed upon the back of Gaia had become entwined in the myth of success and ease.
Of course this wasn't the case for many in the world, mostly the western Europeans, Japanese and Americans enjoyed wealth and ease while the planet and the rest of the world suffered in poverty. Even in these countries there was declining quality of life and increasing poverty as the scale of balance tipped.
The beauty of what Gaia once been had become scratched and marred, monotonously stuck in an ever repeating pattern, like the vinyl platters that played recorded music. Humans, like the scratched record were stuck in a groove. Deep in the groove it became more like a valley without a horizon. Most were not aware of their captivity.
Repeating their successes with less and less joy the humans did not know how and when to move on when. They felt heavily laden with their success but did not know how to jump out of the groove they found themselves stuck in.
At first the novelty of their left brains' creations was enchanting and led to advancements and improved quality of life. But now the collective somehow knew, watched and sensed a sticky, sickly captivity.
The humans had evolved over time. In earlier centuries, since the Renaissance only the disguised star beings like Leonardo Da Vinci escaped the ridicule and punishment of conformist society, a society whose values were dictated by religions that shamed humans into believing they were flawed and powerless. The monied profited from the scratched record, the perseveration, and sold solutions to the pain that became ever more endured by the weary world of worker bees. In fact most humans didn't even know this infinity loop existed. But the dawn of a new era was at hand. If enough humans woke up and shouted the truth.
The tipping point was on the knife's edge. The government and corporations buried the many solutions and inventions now being received by the star beings and awakened ones, or they discredited the inventors and inventions. Free power and cell phones that did not emit EMF's- electromagnetic frequencies, dangerous to humans was available through the inventors. Many of the earth's dilemmas and health issues would be solved by the use of these inventions.
However the Maya was confounding. Humans were afraid to endure the discomfort of economic upheaval and the uncertainty that these changes would bring. Most humans were becoming sick with unexplained illnesses caused by food that was being sold to them that was genetically modified and not recognized by the body as food. Budgets stretched thin people wanted these cheaper foods and many denied the maladies came from these sources. The same corporations that sold this food had pre-empted the rule of law and had insured that they could not be taken to court for their actions. They also invested in and owned cancer and health care clinics.
Things were changing though. Ted Ex, a popular channel of information presented new ideas and ways of being and living. More and more executives were entering dreamtime with pen and paper and emerging with new and mind blowing solutions. Scientists, engineers, researchers and mathematicians used their right brain to enter dreamtime and connect to the Collective Knower, downloading the knowledge of new devices and technologies which held the promise of solutions to humanity's challenges.
In the past even dreamers like Einstein accessed formulas that they knew were incomplete when applied in the third dimension as they had obviously come from a higher dimension and didn't sync in the three D world. These dimensional surfers remembered how to access the Collective Knowing. They brought through great leaps forward in math, science, imagination and "civilization." Admirers often stroked and flattered these ones and some of them came to believe their genius came from within.
But mostly, the Right Brain, the Collective Knower stood idle, unaware. The exception was the artists, the dreamers, the musicians who offered entertainment. These ones did not often live in wealth and ease but they were aware. There were others that were aware, the elite who profited from selling illness and its cures AND the Star Beings.
The star beings mastered through practice access to their right brains and the processing of billions of bits of information at a time, in all dimensions. Using their brain's naturally occurring DMT they were able to voyage. What the human's called daydreaming was purposeful journeying for the star beings. They accessed creative solutions and began to live more and more in other dimensions as well as the Earthly dimensions. They were outside the groove of the scratched record.
The humans had deeply embedded in them the same star seed. Each could with enough intention, sound and light, awaken, remember and jump out of the groove into the new dimension. Many were curious sensing the change and occasionally some woke up from the dream like a bursting bubble.
Among the humans the star beings lived having come from dimensions beyond. They struggled through the miasma of the density of the third dimension going through re-birth after re-birth of their memory which had become so obliterated by the density of the air that they breathed and the bodies that they lived in that they found it easy to commiserate with the humans complaining about being stuck in the record's groove.
Among these star beings lived Alasandra in relative and purposeful obscurity so as not to draw attention to herself. Dreams of her past incarnations had taught her to fear the wrath that came down upon her if she stepped outside the lines.
Yet this time, this life was different somehow. Before the mass extinctions it seemed the star beings awakened. Some awakened quickly. Some more slowly. But the more awakened the more their vibration accelerated the awakening of their Brothers and Sisters, including the humans.
Alasandra had been quietly engaged in studying and experimenting with increasing the biophotonic light in her cellular bodies, both subtle and that of the human suit. She found her way to the loving supportive embrace of her kind. And the spiral of ascension opened before her more and more rapidly.
Mentorship abounded in this time of the awakening star lights. Some of Alasandra's sisters and brothers drank this light whenever they were able. Some were able to drink in the starlight through their eyes.
Many selectively chose their mentors. Alasandra was fond of many paths but especially sound healing. She was brought more and more to life by a particular singer, dreamer, psychologist, and student of ancient spiritual frameworks. This man brought sound through his being. The sound came from other dimensions and seeped into the right brain as it transformed the listener. With him she was able to travel into new dimensions within and beyond they veils of the Maya.
On one of these journeys she accessed a dimensional pathway of pale white silver gray. It was a wide stream having the sensation and look of a silk scarf. It filled her entire inner view when she looked at it. Having practice with dimensions she was not surprised to find herself in this stream.
She had entered various types of slipstreams before and quickly inquired how to navigate. Immediately she saw to her left a series of pods or openings in an endless row, a bit like a string of pearls. After a bit of time they began to look like a spinal cord and ventricles.
With her thought she intended and entered Shamballa. She remembered that the oversight of her soul was guided from this place. Crossing the entryway through the great plaza she glided to the top of the temple and to her light tube where her greater self resided. Surrounding her tube the master guides were in conference and she easily joined as one of them.
She was instructed to don a gown of white and sparkly diamond light when traveling in the Slipstream. She was advised that as she intended while in the slipstream a beam would appear as if from the folds of the scarf and she would be delivered to the appropriate entryway. Her white diamond gown would change to an appropriate color as she entered each dimension through the pod opening. This process she was shown could be enhancedby touching her right hand to the indent below her left shoulder. They also advised intending the use of appropriate head ware as it was key to navigation. They showed her that her gown would turn a deep orange red as she entered the hall of the Akashic records and that she would need a more scholarly looking hat.
They suggested that each voyage to the slip stream would require a first stop in Shamballa to greet and confer about the day and the intended voyages.
"Ask your team for your requirements to be met. Express your heart's desires as requirements and gratefully acknowledge your team's assistance."
Then you voyage on, intending to exit Shamballa and re-enter the slip stream towards your next destination.
Alasandra remembered that she had often in the past traveled through a great white gossamer Great Hall to the temple of a Galactic Council. There she had spent time communing and learning as well as taking in the council's healing vibration. But this was not her first intention.
Instead she set her intent to travel to Pleiades, the place of her recent ancestors. A beam of light appeared and she was there. This was a quick affair as the Pleidians immediately surrounded her and one of them simply placed their hand on her heart giving the gift of heart awakening and gnosis. She knew for now the lesson or healing had been received.
Attheir first meeting she had shown Alasandra the degradation, horror and pain that her society had endured on their way to their enlightened way of living. She demonstrated their form of communal visioning which consisted of a shared dream time. The result of the vision was woven into energy threads that were then projected or stabilized into a device which looked like a very large sculpture like polished stone. It sat at the middle of a plaza. She placed in Alasandra's mind the vision of the stone being moved to plaza after plaza in their communities transmitting the vibration of the vision until the entire collective had received the shared thought intention.
This made Alasandra think. In her human work life she guided individuals and groups towards shared visions and consequent advancements. This innovation in communal visioning was exciting and interesting. She noted that it could be a next step in evolution and that many star beings are well suited to inquiry voyages. Perhaps that is exactly what was happening these days with a form of urban shamanism that was becoming popular. Shaman's becoming coaches who guide people from vision to solution.
Given the precipice Alasandra's current Earth Home was teetering on she also noted an intent to return to the slipstream and the Shamballa advisors to later inquire of the knowers of planet health and healing to learn of new devices, processes or ways of being to enable Earth's recovery. She knew that even in the eleventh hour the mass extinction could be reversed if we could but master the shared vision of stewardship and care. Yet she also knew time was running out and that the humans lacked reverence for the source of beauty, nurturance and bounty that their beautiful mother had so generously given.
Earth had deep knowledge of how to shudder and shake, boil and bubble, flood and storm her way to health by removing the human virus from her blood, bones, skin and organs. She had already begun. The signs had been appearing for decades yet the humans were still mesmerized and imprisoned. And many of the star beings were still afraid of their voice, their power and didn't yet have the intent to bring forward acogent form of collective knowing.
Alasandra realized her next step. She could bring her starlight friends to the slipstream. Together they could intend and journey to the Collective Knowing and bring back useful information. She noted that once that step was taken she would have to ask Ursula for advice on how to weave the threads into a useful form.
Alasandra still lived in an earth suit. Her disguise in the world of human had mesmerized her at times as well. Her feet were in the world of business and she liked helping the humans transcend challenges of the heart, mind and business collective. She was good at it and it made her a living. This is how people "got by" on the Earth at this time. This is what she had been taught to be proud of and she was.
Yet everything was moving like a serpent uncoiling in the depth of her being slowly like a child moving in the womb and simultaneously at the speed of light within her cells, 182,000 miles per minute. She knew she couldn't contain the serpent's light and she no longer wanted to do so. She needed another trip to the slipstream.
This time her guides in Shamballa, the advisors and over seers of her path suggested she change her gown to the color electric blue, with a hat with two fins on top that would act as antennae. The suit gratefully changed to a pale blue white, the color of new knowledge as she left the Shamballa gateway.
Her next voyage was to the hall of writing and muses. Here she required assistance with telling a tale that would instruct, guide and illustrate the power of the slipstream and the process of creating collective vision from Collective Knowing.


Everyday Fashion and Finance: Spring Forward!
Usually the weekend that we "spring forward" is a big bummer - we lose an hour of sleep and for some reason it affects us for days. This year, though, I didn't hate it. Sunday was so beautiful that I forgot that I lost an hour (until Monday morning, that is). It was sunny and a high of 65. It felt like spring. I was more than happy to break out my chambray shirt dress for the occasion. I didn't even need a coat.
Since we had our home inspection on the lake house the day before, we thought it would be fun to go to Home Goods and check out some potential decor for the house! With the money we will be spending on renovations, I will have a limited budget for decorating, so there will be a lot of Home Goods, Target (loving the Threshold line), Etsy and thrift store shopping in my near future - which I love! Luckily, we basically have all the furniture and kitchen items we need, so we don't need to worry about that. I also had to run some errands for my Ireland and Scotland trip with Stacey (I cannot believe we are leaving on WEDNESDAY! So excited!) And of course, I hit up The Limited to take advantage of the buy one, get one free blazers, pants and skirts promo that they have going on. I bought four pairs of much needed pants for work and two blazers in a red/coral color and mint (obsessed). I must say, I am pretty proud of my spring purchases. I have managed to get great deals and buy items that can be mixed and matched in a variety of different ways. Sunday's weather was a sign that I will soon be able to wear all of these new things!
Although I was excited to wear my chambray shirt dress, I was the most excited about finally getting to wear my Tory Burch Shelby Ballet flats! Justin bought me these for Christmas, and I am in love with them! He picked them out himself, and I was so impressed with how well he knew my style. I shouldn't have been surprised though - Justin has always been good at knowing what I like. I cannot believe I was able to wait until March to wear these shoes, but I did not want to wear them in the snow at all. Sunday was the first day where I felt it was nice enough to wear them - still love them!
I accessorized my chambray shirt dress with pops of pink and a polka belt that I recently got for 40% off at Loft. How cute is that Forever 21 necklace? Yes, Forever 21! I am loving their super affordable jewelry options right now! I also threw in my Target zebra bangle for some fun (please don't mind my naked nails). There are numerous ways you can style the chambray shirt dress, though. It basically goes with everything. It is a staple item in my spring and summer wardrobe. Switch the belt and the jewelry (or add a scarf), and you have a whole new look - totally worth it! It also makes for a great bathing suit cover up (I clearly have lake house on the brain).
Of course, after such a gorgeous Sunday, it is going to get cold again this week. I remain optimistic though! When I get back from my trip with Stacey, it WILL be spring. It. Will. Be. If you will it, it will come - right? Speaking of my trip, the packing is ongoing, but I think I am in pretty good shape. I am far ahead of my typical packing schedule. I am usually that last minute, stressed out person who then completely overpacks. This time I feel somewhat prepared. Most of my things are already in my suitcase, and I don't think I will overpack - shocker! Who AM I?! I am sure there will be a little stress tomorrow night and Wednesday morning, regardless, but none of that will matter once I get on that plane. If I need anything, I can always buy it over there. I am going to Ireland and Scotland with my best friend. And that is all that matters.
How are you adjusting to "spring forward?" What are you most looking forward to wearing once spring is officially here?
Cute outfit! The weather has been perfect here too... I am looking forward to wearing all of my new Spring clothes!!
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You look so cute! I got this dress too. Love it! Sand the hubs definitely has good taste.
Hey Elvy! Thanks so much! The dress is definitely a staple item! I will be wearing it a lot this spring!
Thanks, Kelly!! I think I got too excited about the weather, because it snowed last night. Luckily, it's just a dusting, but it's cold again - boo :( So. over. snow.
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Hi Sammie! Thanks for stopping by! I am hopping over to your blog now!
I def. need to add a chambray dress to my closet!
Yes, you do! It's a staple! I love that you did a Gigglosophy giveaway! My spike bracelet is from her too, and I love it! One of my fave Etsy shops!
Cute shirt dress! You styled it really well. =) Your necklace is really epic. =) You're so gorgeous!!
Thanks so much, Callie! You are too sweet!
very cute!! Love the flats and the pop of pink.
A well made evening dress should always fit any body type nicely and make any woman feel beautiful..


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