The attitude towards pigs is ambiguous. They are considered unscrupulous animals, and even forbidden to eat for religious reasons. At the same time plump pigs symbolize wealth and hoarding. Understanding what pigs dream of, one also has to face two interpretations.
Dream Miller interprets the lean animal as a misunderstanding with domestic and misunderstanding in the work team. Fat piggy – good financial position. Hear grunting – to unpleasant news.
You will be able to persuade luck if you have dreamed of a pure pig – such an interpretation is contained in the dream book Vanga. Dirty sow – to various tests.
According to the 21st century dream book, a pig serves as a warning to a man. He can be groundlessly accused of committing an unseemly act. Also, the plot warns of the possibility of fraud or robbery.
If a pig attacks, it is a danger sign. It is necessary to gather all the strength to repel ill-wishers, and less to trust in strangers.
Enemies have gotten very close, and are preparing to strike – that's what the pig bit at the modern dream book. It is worth thinking about which side he can follow, and take precautions.
A family dream book dictates that to run away from a pig in a dream means in reality it is worth less to tell others about your secrets. Even the closest people out of simplicity can blame trusted secrets.
The dream interpretation of Dmitriy and Nadezhda Zima indicates that if a pig bites his hand, it is worthwhile to avoid quarrels in reality. Perhaps all attempts to bring the sleeper out of balance are intentional provocations.
Esoteric dream Eugene Tsvetkova advises to pay attention to the number of pigs. One sow means wealth.
But a herd of pigs warns of bad reputation.
According to Medea's dream book, pigs in a pen are interpreted as moral dreamer's faults. The dream warns of the need to engage in self-education.
The dream interpretation of Veles treats cute cheerful pigs as a successful course of affairs, a visit of guests.
If you dream of pigs in the house, you can not worry about health.
Russian dream book considers pigs a symbol of wealth, as well as swagger and carelessness. A dirty pig in a dream means unkind talk of sleep, a net income. If the sow undermines the roots of a tree – in reality some incompetent or lazy person will harm.
Dream Tarot gives the definition of pigs as life tests, through which is destined to pass.
When a pig dreamed of a married woman who is a mother, she should spend more time with children. Otherwise – listen to the words of those who are weaker.
A good sign is a pig unmarried girl. Soon there will be a tempting marriage proposal.
Pig pregnant woman promises the birth of a son. He will be healthy and not take much trouble.
The wild pig is a warning sign. Enemies will try to harm.
If a live pig in a dream behaves aggressively, the health and position of the sleeper in society is at stake. Someone is preparing revenge for the offense inflicted earlier.
The black pig calls for diligence in dealing with people. It is especially dangerous to be frank with unfamiliar personalities.
An unnaturally white pig can mean poor health. Pink sow is a wonderful symbol. Cherished dreams are close to fulfillment.
A well-fed net pig symbolizes change for the better. Projects will be very profitable.
It is especially good if a fat pig has caused positive emotions in a sleeper. There will be luck in everything.
If a fat pig is nasty, it is advisable to reconsider its attitude to life. Landmarks will benefit.
Dreams of pigs in the mud mean difficulties in the financial sphere. Someone is parasitic and abuses the kindness of the sleeper.
Peaceful huge pig means the rise. In affairs and at home everything is excellent.
If big pigs in a dream behave aggressively or try to stain the sleeper, businessmen should beware of the machinations of competitors. For the rest, the dream indicates short-sightedness.
The dreamed pregnant pig means it's time to actively increase revenues. Next time such a good moment may not come soon.
The birth pig is also related to the material sphere. The state of finances is improving.
When a pig farrowed, a dream means abundance. Also joyful efforts are coming.
Significant income in the near future, that's what dreams of a pig with small pigs. Happy family pigs – fortunately in reality.
Actively running pigs, contented and well-fed, foreshadow a favorable period. It will be possible to embody bold ideas in reality. One running pig also means having to work hard. But also it is necessary to remember rationality, and take rest breaks.
For promising businessmen can see a lot of pigs. However, it is required to make thorough inquiries about possible partners, among them may be optional merchants.
A sick pig in a dream symbolizes difficulties. First of all, they will touch the monetary sphere.
An unfavorable symbol is a dying pig. Nayavu followed by trouble.
Dead pigs for entrepreneurs can mean severe complications. Perhaps even bankruptcy. Dead pigs for working dreamers can mean a change of activity. Women should expect deception and difficult situations.
However, the unfavorable values of the dream are true only if the dead pig has become one without violent action. Or if it is numb for unknown reasons.
A slaughtered pig means danger warning. But for businessmen, on the contrary, is a positive omen.
A slaughtered pig in a dream by someone else can serve as a symbol of the loss due to its own rozoeystva. Only oneself is to blame for damages.
The dreamed pig in the blood means that it will take a lot of effort to protect its own financial interests, although at first the forces of ill-wishers seemed insignificant. This story has a neutral meaning – a visit from relatives.
An abundance foreshadows the pig carcass. There will be no problems with finances.
When dreaming of a pig without a head, it is a symbol of a favorable period. It can even be described as prosperous.
The head of a pig indicates the need to think out an action plan to improve life. After that, you can safely proceed to change.
But sliced raw pig meat is a bad sign. Najava sleeping is at risk of getting sick.
The plot to feed pigs is ambiguously deciphered. This is a meeting with enemies, and care to ensure a comfortable future.
Wash the pig – to easily overcome obstacles.
Catching a pig is a good sign. Soon to be met with an influential man. Later his support will be very important.
Running after the pig and successfully grabbing it is a plot that characterizes the sleeper as an enterprising person. This is a valuable ability to use all the chances provided.
Kill the pig, and feel satisfied, thankfully. If in a dream there is a repentance, in reality it is necessary to be sad.
Independently to cut a pig – to problems at work. They can lead to both demotion and profit, depending on the emotions experienced.
Without a shudder, butchering a pig is a tendency toward clear planning. It helps to achieve all your goals.
Dreamed cows and pigs are a wonderful sign. Wealth will only increase.
If a pig and a dog are dreaming, the plot is also positive. Even if difficulties arise, friends are ready to provide full support.
For farmers, chickens and pigs in a dream are not only part of everyday reality. This symbolizes a strong economy. Other dreamers plot predicts pleasant surprises and minor worries.
A pig and a rat that appeared at the same time have a negative effect. This is a sign that a dishonest person is preparing a deception.
It is seen that many dream books interpret quite ambiguously what pigs dream about. The main advice in interpreting the twofold plots is to rely on your own feelings. The less fear and aversion, the more favorable is what he sees. Pleasant dreams!


Ferrys are still plying most inland waterways, although not in the numbers they once were. Keep in mind that they are the "burdened vessel" and always have the right of way. Plan ahead to not be surprised. Most of these listings were taken from the USGS Geographical Names Information System, If the word "Ferry" was found in the name, it will be listed here. Click for a list of ALL ACTIVE COMMERCIAL FERRYS.
This site has created no web pages dedicated just to Ferrys, yet...but at some point it will. For much more information, use the GNIS Query Form in the link at the bottom of this page. If a "WIKI" web page can be found when using "Google" or a similiar search engine, it will have good information too.


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Personalization Moves To Video
Personalization is a hot trend in all of retailing, and particularly successful in cart and kiosk programs. Consumers like to have things that are made just for them.
Mediak, the company that pioneered personalized music CDs for children and offers highly successful turnkey programs for kiosks and carts, has raised the bar. A new title, "You Can Do Anything," the company's 28th album, debuts this month as a DVD, adding video to eight new and original songs in the album, all designed to help children dream and build self esteem.
This is a professionally produced 30 minute video starring Alana Etheridge and Jacob Hays, two lead stars of the hit show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader." They and six more kids react to the lyrics in each original song and bring the songs' stories to life.
In one song, "If They Put You in Charge of the Zoo," the cast visits a real zoo and integrates animated cartoon animals with real ones filmed on location at the zoo. In another song, "Junk Food Flavored Healthy Veggie Treats," they visit a grocery store and amusingly point out the healthy distinctions between junk food and nutritional snacks.
As with all 28 Mediak albums, songs in, "You Can Do Anything," are original and exclusive to Mediak; written, produced and sung by professionals. In CD form, the album runs nearly 23 minutes. In the new DVD format, it runs for 30 minutes and includes introductions and a little more engaging kid talk. In both versions, the name of the child for whom the DVD or CD is selected and purchased occurs a total of 106 times in the lyrics.
"This type of thing has never been done before, and there's nothing out there like the DVD," says Junnie Sublett, who with her husband, Charles, heads Mediak. Junnie had been working on the idea of adding video to audio for some time. "It's a natural. Everything is video now, and we see this as moving to the next level," she adds.
Junnie met Alana and Jacob during a fundraiser, and a mutually beneficial alliance began to take shape that caused the Subletts to move ahead with Junnie's wish to add video. "Alana and Jacob loved the music and fell in love with the songs," says Sublett. The children are also devoted to encouraging kids to use their imagination, be healthy and dream big. Thus, a natural alliance was formed: a perfect fit.
Because the DVD is a new concept, Mediak introduced it on its newest CD album, You Can Do Anything. The intention is to add the DVD option to all 28 existing CD albums, and new ones as they are added.
Vendors that are already utilizing the Mediak CD program can download the personalized You Can Do Anything in DVD form, using the same system they now use for CDs.
"It can be reproduced on site, at the kiosk, in the same way the CDs are reproduced," Charles Sublett explains. Vendors that utilize the Mediak program select the album they want and the name to be inserted in the lyrics from their exclusive access to the Mediak website.
Then both are immediately reproduced onto a blank disc on site at the kiosk, along with a personalized label that also includes the child's name and a short message from the person who is buying the CD or DVD. While production of a CD takes approximately a minute and a half, reproduction of the personalized DVD takes just a little longer, "about three minutes," Sublett says.
In addition, the vendor can also have his or her own identity and phone number added to the package. This is just one of the marketing and merchandising strategies included in the Mediak program. Invariably, when someone plays the personalized CD for others, they want to know how to obtain one or more, Sublett says.
He anticipates the same will be true for the DVD. Inclusion of the vendor's identity ensures significant referral and repeat business. Consumers return for additional, different albums, and friends and family also become new kiosk customers.
The Mediak merchandising package also includes video loops, touting these personalized albums. A new one has been created to show the DVD. In addition, kiosk vendors can access the Mediak site via their own computer to give customers a preview of albums and songs.
It's not hard for children, parents, grandparents and anyone who loves kids to fall in love with the Mediak albums. Of the 28, seven are secular, seven are Christian, six are related to sports, four are Spanish language translations, and four are holiday oriented.
All CDs can select from the same list of names to be inserted into an album. That list now contains a whopping 2,126 names, making it unlikely that vendors will be unable to fulfill a customer's request for personalization.
The suggested retail price for secular, Christian and Spanish units is $19.95. It is $15.95 for the sports albums, and the holiday units have a suggested retail of $9.95.
The cost of reproducing a $19.95 personalized CD using the Mediak system is $5, and the cost of materials, including a jewel case, runs no more than 60 cents each. This gives the vendor a profit of $14.35 on each sale, which translates to a 73 percent profit margin. The reproduction cost of reproducing the new DVD has not yet been finalized, but the Subletts assure that it will provide a significant margin of profit. They are also still determining the suggested retail price.
The reproduction cost of the holiday album is just $2.50. "This makes it very easy for a vendor to obtain an add-on to the sale, raising the total ticket on the sale of a feature CD or the new DVD," he explains. The vendor can use the holiday unit as a gift with purchase on multiple sales of feature albums to a single customer, or promote it at $5, for example, with a single CD or DVD purchase.
The program's success is proven. Mediak first introduced personalized CDs in 2002. "Within two months of introducing the program, we had 88 carts up and running," he reports. The company's first CD, "You Are My Friend," remains a top seller. It is designed for children up to seven years old, and their name occurs 98 times within the album's eight original songs.
Another top seller, "You're An Angel," consists of original lullabies for babies. The baby's name occurs 35 times within the eight songs. The recurrence of the name diminishes, so the baby will be easily lulled to sleep.
The only inventory required to operate a Mediak program is blank CDs, DVDs for the new product, jewel cases and labels. Not surprisingly, Sublett says the Mediak albums sell best in kiosks during the fourth quarter of the year. "In the right environment, there are some kiosks that perform well year round," he adds.
He also says that it can do well when combined with other products, and Mediak vendors are not required to devote their entire kiosk and cart to Mediak album reproduction and sales. "Personalized books do well in some kiosk and cart programs, and so do other personalized products. I'm sure that takes away from Mediak, because success with the albums takes a lot of attention. But if a dealer feels more comfortable including other related products, it's all right with us."
Mediak provides tiered programs that allow a vendor to start small, with access to a limited number of CD albums, then upgrade in modules as sales build. Mediak personnel, including Junnie and Charles Sublett, take great pride in giving vendors personal service.
In addition to the support materials that are an integral part of the program, they are always ready to help a dealer resolve a problem. This same attitude extends to purchasers of a Mediak album. If a consumer has a complaint of any kind with an album, Mediak replaces it, no questions asked. They are not asked to return the original, and this offer applies regardless of where the unit was purchased.
Mediak
2704 Paoli Pike
New Albany, IN 47150
Website: www.mediak.com
Topic: Kiosk Korner
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Vienna In Vitro Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fertility Calendar
Natural cycle and Mild stimulation
Ovulation tracking and TI
Insemination (IUI)
Preparation phase
High dose stimulation for IVF
The ovum pick-up
The sperm sample
The fertilization - IVF or ICSI
The Embryculture and Blastocyst culture
The Embryo-Transfer
Chances of success
Freezing of cells & frozen transfer
Additional methods
Vienna In Vitro Center, Sofia, Bulgaria > We can help > Freezing of cells & frozen transfer
In some treatment cycles where a high amount of embryos are obtained, there are still some left in the culture medium which indeed may lead to a pregnancy. In such cases it is possible to freeze these embryos in order to thaw them at a later stage (not longer than 5 years according to bulgarian laws) for another attempt.
The method used to freeze the embryos is called vitrification, also known as 'fast freezing'. The embryos are first cultivated in special cryoprotective cell media and then moved to liquid nitrogen tanks at minus 196 celsius where they remain for storage.
The advantage of this method is that due to the speed of the temperature fall there is no time for water crystals to be formed- otherwise these would destroy the embryo. The same method is used also for egg cell freezing, however, egg cells are much more sensitive to the freezing process and therefore even more special consumables have to be used.
Sometimes it might be even necessary to freeze all embryos or oocytes for example if hyperstimulation occurs, not well prepared endometrial layer, bleeding, no sperm cells available etc.
the embryos can be frozen on any stage of their development but the best chance of survival have the blastocysts.
Sperm cells and tissues can also be frozen - in these case different protocols are used.
Sperm cells have very good chances of survivat due to their much smaller size and their high numbers compared to egg cells and embryos.
Is it possible to freeze embryos in each treatment cycle?
In order to ensure further successful attempts with cryopreserved embryos:
at least two additional embryos should be available for cryopreservation, both
providing a proper embryonic development.
There is no point in freezing just one or two embryos or those that did not develop in a regular and timely manner. We therefore request your general decision to freeze embryos. Should there be a sufficient amount of suitable embryos we will gladly do so. We beg your pardon that we cannot freeze all remaining embryos from each attempt. On the day of the transfer or at the latest two days after the transfer - in some cases we have to wait and see how the embryo develops - you will usually be informed about whether a cryopreservation is possible or not.
How do the embryos develop after defrosting?
Not all frozen embryos develop properly after thawing. Hence, it occurs that we freeze and thaw embryos, however, a transfer is still not possible due to the fact that none of the embryos develop further. The embryos are stored in thin tubes (in pairs or in a threesome). That means two or three embryos are defrosted at the same time. Therefore, if we freeze eight embryos there is a good chance of carrying out one or two transfers, but not eight of them!
Cryo embryotransfer
the cryotransfer is a seperate treatment cycle following another iVF cycle where embryos have been frozen for later use. The uterus has to be prepared with hormonal medications before the transfer and if it reaches the required thickness and pattern a few of the previously frozen and stored embryos can be defrosted and transfered like during the classic transfer.
2-3 ultrasound examinations need to be made before the transfer to make sure the uterus has responded to the hormones meets the necessary requirements.
However not all embryos survive the freezing and the defrosting procedures and in rare cases it could even happen that no embryos are viable and available for transfer. how many embryos can be used after the storage depends on their number and quality before the freezing. For example low quality early embryos have much lower chances than well developed blastocysts.
The embryos that have survived the cryostorage and can be transfered have approximately the same chance to achieve pregnancy as non-frozen embryos. It is a big advantage to this method that no hormonal stimulation of the ovaries and no pick-up procedure need to be made.
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Dr. Bradley has teaching experience in the traditional classroom and online environment in a wide-range of marketing topics. In addition, he has vast experience in the electronics and telecommunications industries and has held a wide-range of marketing and sales management positions. Further, he is experienced in the development and implementation of marketing and management strategies in the business to business and business to consumer environments. Much of his industrial marketing experience has taken place in the Fortune 500 environment.
Contributed to the text Strategies in Sports Management with a chapter titled "Corporate Social Responsibility and Sporting Events". The chapter covers the importance from a consumer behavior perspective of integrating socially responsible corporate behavior in the marketing of professional sports leagues and major sporting events.
Presented a paper at the Spring 2014 conference of the Academy of Business Research in New Orleans. The presentation was titled "Integrating Service Learning into a Marketing Curriculum".
"Perceived Corporate Social Responsibly and Low Pricing in Discount Retailing." Presentation to the Fall 2012 Academy of Business Research International Conference.
"New Product Development in Textiles." Coauthored 2 chapters on product design and innovation. 2011.
"Instructor's Manual for International Marketing, 9th Edition." NorthCoast Publishers, 2006.


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Motorsports News
2014 F1 Indian GP in doubt
Bernie Ecclestone states that political issues are hampering the Indian GP's 2014 chances.
Published On Jul 29, 2013 07:29:00 PM
The Indian Grand Prix is unlikely to be included in the 2014 Formula 1 calendar, according to Bernie Ecclestone.
The event made its debut in 2011, but teams have been constantly concerned about taxation issues when entering the country.
India's government has not granted a custom exemption to the teams as it does not consider F1 to be a sport.
"Is India going to happen next year? Probably not," Ecclestone told Reuters in Hungary. "[It's] very political."
Russia and Austria will be joining what is set to be a 20-race calendar next year.
India will host its third grand prix in October this year.
Organisers have already denied "baseless and malicious" rumours about the event being in doubt.
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We tend to grab coffee first thing in the morning to give us the jolt that we need to function. But this jolt is actually a short-term, borrowed energy and may make you feel drained after a while. I'm a coffee drinker myself and can finish off my drink in a few gulps. It sometimes gives me unwelcomed jitters and makes me feel spent, and complain later for drinking in the first place (I honestly cannot resist the aroma and kick!). If you're a coffee drinker too, but feel a little fatigued after drinking it, try to take it easy by sipping it slowly to avoid jitters and make sure not to drink it in the afternoon so you will still have time to drain the caffeine. Water and fruit juices might be a better alternative to coffee. These may also help you feel energized and hydrated as well.
While it's tempting to grab and munch on some leftover snacks of the kids, be sure to load up with energy boosting food. Opt for some nuts, fruits, eggs, bread, yogurt which are rich in protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates. Eat a healthy breakfast to be fuelled for the whole day.
Like how timeouts work for kids, do the same thing with your brain. Shut out the gazillion things that go through your mind for a few minutes. Meditate, take a power nap or just be mindful of your breathing for a short while. This will help refresh your body and mind and be more ready to take on the next task.
Spend as much time as possible with people who support you and rub in some positivity in you. This will help you release any negativity, replace it with good ones and get you more inspired and equipped to do what you gotta do.
This instant trick will quickly change your mood and give you the positive energy that you need. Find a song that will motivate you whenever you're feeling low. Make a pick-me-up playlist and immerse yourself in the music for a quick boost of energy.
Walk around, stretch, get out of the workplace or house. This will tell your body that it needs to get working and produce the energy that you need. Take advantage of using the stairs instead of the elevators, walk instead of driving, to go to nearby places. Attend that yoga class or gym membership you signed up for.
With so many to do tasks on the list, we sometimes do "OTs", which in turn, sacrifices our much needed sleep. Make sure to have balanced sleeping habits by not working too late and getting up too early to accomplish more work. Choose whether you are going to do some work when the kids are asleep or check-in early in bed and do some stuff before the sun rises. Whatever works for you, make sure that your body and mind get enough sleep so you won't feel tired and spent early on in your day.
Trying out these ideas to boost your energy may be a challenge but it's worth the try especially when you don't want to spread yourself thinly on your tasks. Give it a shot and share with us any changes in your energy. Let us know any of your hacks to keep yourself energized!


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Forth Rail Bridge
Address: United Kingdom Construction started: 1882 Bridge type: Cantilever bridge Architects: Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, Benjamin Baker Engineers: Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, Benjamin Baker, Maurice Fitzmaurice, Patrick Meik
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Address: 1 National Stadium S Rd, Chaoyang, China Capacity: 80,000 Architectural style: Deconstructivism Architects: Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, Li Xinggang Architecture firms: Herzog and de Meuron, ArupSport, China Architecture Design & Research Group
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Address: 2 W Chang'an Ave, Xicheng District, China, 100031 Architectural style: Modern architecture Architect: Paul Andreu
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"You can make them laugh, cry, drink and burp!"
Magic Bottle Pets were produced by Tyco in 1991- 95 and were part of the Magic Bottle range, which included newborn babies and older baby dolls.
Images on this page thanks to Knot a Toy, Miss Leonie and eBay sellers endoftherainbow & vintage_toys_and_treasures !
There were three original Magic Bottle Pets produced in 1991; a purple bear, a pink kitten and a blue puppy. Later on a black & white dalmation puppy was added (also dated 1991).
They were about 12 inches high and came with a stitched on bib, removable nappy and a 6 inch bottle with "Bear", "Kitty" or "Puppy" on it.
The bottles they came with had three coloured buttons which when pressed made three noises, different for each pet.
The dalmation was presumably added after the original three as it doesn't feature on the original back packaging.
I've also found two pets dated 1995 (a lamb and a puppy), which have a different look.


Drs. Molina and Schneider answer questions on stroke.
Q: Does practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique decrease the risk factors of stroke?
Dr. Molina: The Transcendental Meditation has been shown to DECREASE CAROTID ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS , the thickening of the carotid artery. Carotid artery atherosclerosis, after hypertension, is one of the top three risk factors for stroke. (The three top risk factors are high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and carotid atherosclerosis.) The Transcendental Meditation program has also been shown to DECREASE HYPERTENSION.
Q: Do you recommend the Transcendental Meditation technique to help reduce the risk factors for heart attack and stroke?
Dr. Molina: Actually, I recommend the Transcendental Meditation technique to anyone, because you don't have to be sick to meditate.
There have been studies showing that Transcendental Meditation technique increases longevity and decreases cardiovascular death, as compared to control groups that did nothing, received regular medical care and practiced other relaxation techniques. Also, the TM technique does reduce the risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
Q: I recently suffered from a stroke. Will practicing the TM technique reduce my chances of having another stroke?
Dr. Molina: Having a stroke is an important risk factor for having subsequent strokes. Practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique, along with the recommendations of your physician (such as anti-platelet medications, statins and anti-hypertensives), may reduce the chances of having another stroke.
Dr. Schneider: Research shows that practicing the TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM REDUCES RISK FACTORS for recurrent stroke, such as high blood pressure. TM practice might aid stroke recovery due to its effects on enhancing brain integration and mental functioning. For example, Professor Lubimov, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, found that the Transcendental Meditation technique enlivens brain reserve capacity, resulting in improved speed and efficiency of brain-body coordination.
Q: Besides lowering blood pressure, how does practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique reduce the risk of stroke?
Dr. Schneider: The Transcendental Meditation technique reduces the risk of stroke by reducing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk factors. The risk factors for stroke are basically the same as the risk factors for coronary artery disease, including atherosclerosis, high cholesterol and metabolic syndrome.


There seems to exist a world where those who praise second-year quarterback Tom Brady aren't able to do it without taking cheap shots at current back up Drew Bledsoe. It's happened throughout the season on talk radio with fans comparing Bledsoe with Brady and the number of "what-if's" should circumstances have worked out differently. They'll talk about Brady's strong points and point out deficiencies in Bledsoe that would make you wonder how in the world he ever lasted as long as he did as the starter for this team and organization.
It needs to come to an end.
Why? Because it was taken too far in a column written in the Boston Herald by Metrowest Daily News columnist Tom Curran who felt it was time to rip apart a man who during his tenure as the quarterback of this football team has been the consummate professional. If his team lost he blamed himself and took responsibility, if they won it was because his teammates made it happen.
He said later that evening in a radio appearance on WEEI that his column was loaded with facts and numbers to back it up. The article pointed to playoff stats in which he showed Bledsoe's career numbers in the postseason. He was 119-for-231, 1,233 yards, five touchdowns and 12 interceptions. His career completion percentage in the playoffs is 51.5. His quarterback rating is 52.8.
I wouldn't exactly call a .7 differential in yards-per attempt and a 10% difference in completion percentage over the span of five fewer games (Brady's played in only one game) a staggering differential. Brady finished without a touchdown pass and threw an interception, but did run the ball in from six yards out to score a touchdown Saturday evening. It was an impressive feat, and those who watched the game were ecstatic that this young kid came in and made a play to help his team win their first postseason game. However to use it to rip another player and take away from past achievements is something that simply is leaving many people shaking their heads.
Very true. Leading your team to the Superbowl, including two come-from behind victories during the season that year of more than two touchdowns certainly doesn't count. The last rally that season came at the Meadowlands against the New York Giants that clinched the first round bye for his team. Hardly very deserving of being called a lug.
"But wait, we've got some more ugly for you," Curran continued. "Bledsoe's career record against winning teams (those that finished the year .500 or better) was 32-55. From 1997 on it was 14-27. This season, Brady was 2-3.
2-3. Very impressive. Fear not young Brady, that will likely be used against you eight years from now.
But the one that he took too far was when he took away from the accomplishments that anyone who has followed his career and know anything about football will ever forget.
That may be, but the point is they did. To take it one step further, had Bledsoe not won those two key division games, they wouldn't have been able to sustain Scott Zolak's loss to the Jets and still made it to the postseason. Last I checked Division games were extremely important, but apparently Mr. Curran doesn't seem to think so.
The only problem for Bledsoe was he played two week's later against St. Louis, and in that game took a hit that caused the pins to come through the skin and further injure his finger. Thanks to his bravery he now has a permanent slight crook to that finger.
That apparently is forgotten, and so was the fact that he has been a class individual throughout this season after losing his job to Brady. It could have turned into a major distraction for his team, yet Bledsoe swore that he would do everything in his power to keep that from happening. It showed what a true professional he is, and it also showed how important it is to him to do what he can to help his team win.
The problem is those who are given a microphone or a newspaper column apparently can't show that same professional courtesy. It's easy to sit behind a microphone or write a newspaper column and attack a person who doesn't have the opportunity to defend himself. It's a luxury that sometimes causes those people to say or write things that they could end up regretting, and this is one that certainly should fall under that category.
Here's one simple fact Mr. Curran. Bledsoe's a quarterback who does know how to win. History has shown it. He's had only three losing seasons in his eight years as the starting quarterback, leading his team to the postseason four times including a Superbowl.
You can bet Bledsoe has seen this article by now, and if he hasn't read it, he's heard about it. Yet you'll never hear a word from him, he'll dismiss it as yet another mis-informed reporter taking a cheap shot at him, which is exactly the way it should be acknowledged.
Even his fellow friends in the media weren't impressed with his column. After receiving criticism from WEEI's mid day host Dale Arnold, Curran sent Arnold an e-mail during the show as a "rebuttal", claiming that he had "three children and didn't have time for a vendetta" against the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback.
Here's a thought: Bledsoe has a family of his own that probably doesn't have time for cheap shots either.
The column didn't prove anything other than the fact that it's time for the nonsense to end. It's time to start enjoying the team's success without tearing down the man that last got them to where they are now.
He deserves better. It's time for people to finally realize that. There are those who have accepted the fact that he probably won't be back next year, and that's fine. But send him off the way he deserves, and that's with respect and dignity.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2002 by Ian Logue.


The first 365 debuted in the Silver Lake area Los Angeles in May 2016. The stores focused on Whole Foods' less expensive private label "365 Everyday Value" brand, designed to appeal to a younger demographic as well as to price-conscious shoppers who avoided Whole Foods, which consumer sometimes referred to as "Whole Paycheck." The 365 stores are smaller (about 25,000-30,00 square feet) than conventional WFM units (about 38,000 square feet on average, but as large as 80,000 square feet). The smaller format carries far fewer SKUs (7,000 vs. 20,000) and does not feature full service departments like bakery and deli.
As recently as May 2017 (one month before the company was acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion), Mackey told investors that the company had plans for 22 additional 365 stores in development and that he expected that number to increase.
Currently, there are two dozen 365 locations, in California (5 units), Georgia (2), Texas (2), Ohio, Oregon and New York (Brooklyn). All are currently expected to remain open and operate under the 365 banner.
The first 365 location in our region opened in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn in January 2018. The last two 365 stores opened in December 2018 – in the Buckhead section of Atlanta and in Decatur, GA.
Per the Whole Foods website, as of last month there were 11 planned 365 stores, including two in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. A long-planned location in Fairfax, VA is still on the books and ground has been broken on a new 365 location in Weehawken, NJ, both new urban-type developments.
Other planned new locations are in more advanced construction development. At presstime, the company revealed that it would instead open some of the planned 365 units as conventional Whole Foods stores, but did not provide any details on plans for specific locations.
Oversight of the current 365 stores will be rolled into the retailer's current regional structure and Jeff Turnas, who has served as president of 365 since 2015, will move to another role at Whole Foods. The company said it would absorb 365 employees into existing Whole Foods divisions.
While there will be no new plans for 365 locations, recent speculation has focused on Whole Foods' potential interest in now shuttered Sears and Macy's locations as it seeks to bulk up its bricks-and-mortar presence. According to industry insiders who spoke with Yahoo Finance, Amazon is interested in opening new Whole Foods stores and expanding the chain beyond its current 475 U.S. locations.
Additional bricks-and-mortar locations could also greatly increase the company's ability to offer in-store pick-up of online orders, as well as provide additional space for Amazon to store more products, a key synergy that could be realized by the combined Amazon-WFM entity.


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Author: Steven Hager
Documented hip hop's birth, founded the Cannabis Cup and unveiled the JFK and Lincoln assassinations.
Strange how High Times kept bringing me back. The final go-round was the most excruciating of all, but I always had a sense the powers-that-be were playing defense against me when they should have been on my team.
While I'd been away this time for two years, video operations entirely ceased, and this happened during the same time frame that Youtube took off and minted a generation of video stars outside the establishment pipelines. The magazine had bizarrely gone no-pot for a disastrous year followed by a nothing-but-pot policy.
I knew nobody was really on my team, but I dove into rebuilding my video operations, but this time on a professional scale. I turned my office into a video studio and shot and edited video every day. Making this foray into film and television was my biggest priority, although I also brought back real investigative journalism, something the magazine was in dire need of, and penned two of my greatest features, one on the CIA's LSD attack on a French town after WWII, and the other was on an unknown Canadian named Rick Simpson. Both articles attracted attention, something High Times hadn't seen much of since I'd departed.
But my pride and joy was my High Times Reality TV pilot that I was working up for Comedy Central. I'd already had a couple meetings with the head of the network and they were watching the show's progress with great interest. I was working on creating the cannabis alternative to Sasha Baron Cohen. Unfortunately, much of the staff were somewhat devastated upon my return as no doubt they'd been expecting the promotion themselves, and some had zero intention of working with me on anything. It certainly helped this attitude along that the owners were ringleaders of the vibes against me.
The first half of the show got screened at the free Woodstock Film Festival. The second half was shot but the footage was hijacked and used to make a generic "welcome to the Cup promo" film that ignored the Borat-style film I'd shot, and replaced it with an endless parade of bud shots.
Hopefully, some day, I will finish the project. But in the meantime, you can check out part one here:
When CBS announced a former British commando had moved to Hollywood and was launching a survival elimination game show called "Survivor," I instantly knew the concept was going to be a big hit, mostly because it was mining tribal traditions, something I'd been doing for over a decade through my events and organizations.
Of course, I didn't want some cutthroat competition, just a group of cinematic stoners checking out all the strains of the annual Cannabis Cup. Maybe that sounds easy, but it's actually quite a daunting task unless you're an experienced bud-tender or distributor who knows his strains.
We had a talented young comedian, a hip hop music producer (and grower), an aspiring performance artist, a medical user, a noted activist, and a super hottie from England. They were all thrown into a one bedroom houseboat in Amsterdam and told they had to stay onboard until they had tried all the strains, which were released slowly in increments of a half dozen or so at a time.
After 36 hours or so, the young comedian requested to get off the boat and soon announced he was off pot for good. He had entered the contest not really being very experienced with cannabis, but only wanting to win the contest and get some notoriety for his comedy. As a joke, he rolled a dozen strains into a giant joint and began toking on it. Within a few minutes, you could see a pronounced change in his body language.
The Castaways picked the Cannabis Cup winner that year, and I was planning on another season, and keeping some of the Castaways as characters in my tv universe I was building, but when they returned to the States, the hip hop producer's estranged wife initiated a custody battle to bar access to their daughter based on his participation in the show. When he called me hysterically after the judgment, I asked for a copy of the transcript.
I'd just won a similar custody battle based on my being editor of High Times initiated by a bipolar member of my wife's family, so I had experience with the terror this dude was going through, and you don't know real mental terror until someone swoops in and seizes your only child.
But, at the same time, I had to admit the transcript read like a Cheech and Chong script. The producer had denied being involved in the show from the get-go and the lawyer led him down a garden path until he produced a copy of High Times with him on the cover, holding his distinctive cane, a cane he now held firmly in his grasp in the witness stand. The producer went down in flames.
I contacted the comedian because I wondered if he wanted to work on an animated film about our project. A lot of the comedy we'd worked on together during the event had been successful. We'd produced a sitcom every night for four nights running and showed the results to open the shows at the Melkweg. This mini series was treated with waves of applause and belly laughter and was obviously the most entertaining thing we'd produced content-wise from all my improvisational explorations.
But the comedian freaked again, and sent a letter to all the Castaways saying I was planing on mining their personal tragedies for profit and advised them all never to speak with me again. He certainly never did.
But we did get a live web show so popular it kept crashing our website while it was on, and the highlights were immortalized in a DVD you can watch here:
It's unfortunate how little video footage got captured during the first Whee! festival outside Eugene, Oregon. The entire adventure had begun as my plot to establish a Weed Woodstock. (Although, in truth, the original was funded almost entirely by weed money, and the event helped cement Woodstock as a weed distribution center.)
I remember taking the trustees to lunch at some five-star restaurant and saying, "You have to be committed to a new event for five years, because that's how long it may take to break even." But I assured them after five years, my Whee! fest would be as big if not bigger than Woodstock. And I believed this because the event was promoted as a prayer for world peace, a serious non-denominational ceremony recognizing cannabis as the sacrament of peace culture.
Of course, Whee! exploded immediately, drawing 20,000 to the event, most of whom got in for free and were fed free by a non-stop crew kitchen, and anyone could volunteer to be crew.
After the OM circle, someone handed a bottle of whiskey to Felipe and said he was done with this. Felipe and I did a bunch of powerful ceremonies together, and that was certainly one of the best.
But the day after the event ended, we invited the Pranksters to our motel room to celebrate and eat pizza. Only Ken Babbs showed up, and this is what transpired. The next day, we went to see Kesey, and he introduced me to non-linear video editing, just going prosumer. I had been a devoted follower of improvisational ritual theater as practiced by the Pranksters, and took this direction very seriously, devoting the rest of my life to capturing video of the ceremonies I was staging. Sure glad I kept these memories, and if you want to know what Hager ceremonies look and feel like, this will clue you in.
As soon as I got back to New York, the trustees informed me that Whee! had been a financial failure. Although I knew that was a lie. Through immense efforts I manage to resurrect one more Whee! at the same site the next year before my precious Whee! ceremony was cast to the winds, and thus ended my longstanding campaign for the recognition of spiritual rights for cannabis users.
Tom Forcade had multiple film projects in the works when he committed suicide. He'd recently bought controlling interest of a smuggling project, and went to show a rough cut to Robert Evans in Hollywood. Forcade had just paid an editor to whip the chaotic footage into a story. He put a lot of effort into trying to make sense of that footage, some of which involved footage of a real smuggling operation, but Evans sadly told him the edit still wasn't working.
Apparently, Forcade's moves into Hollywood contributed to two things: cocaine and guns. According to Gabrielle Schang, Forcade didn't carry a pistol until after being introduced around Hollywood. He'd been a dealer and distributor and magazine publisher, but was also branching into smuggling and film at the same time. His most precious documentary project involved filming the Sex Pistols historic tour of America. Forcade bought a plane and sent Jack Combs on a mission. He never recovered from Jack's fatal crash at the end of that ill-fated mission. And that also ended any High Times forays into the film world until I arrived.
Before coming to High Times, I'd launched a moderately successful film project called Beat Street, and never lost sight of expanding my efforts into the world of film and video. When prosumer equipment finally reached the realms of the masses, I began documenting everything, quickly evolving into the most video-centric magazine editor on the national stage. I shot thousands of hours of footage, and often assembled 7-person crews to do four-camera edits with live switching of my major events. All this was working towards the creation of a counterculture television network.
The first project I pitched to the trustees was a Chef Ra travel guide to Jamaica. I was creating an entire galaxy of High Times stars and Ra was intended to be one of the brightest.
Imagine my surprise when the trustees tell me they are putting up thousands of dollars to make the Chef Ra film. That was the good news. The bad news was the project was being given to the aspiring filmmaker son of the head trustee. I didn't get to play any role in the film until the end. They spent a week in Jamaica and shot a lot of random footage and needed Ra to help work it into a story.
That's not the best way to make a great documentary and it showed in the final product. But it remains the best portrait of Jim Wilson we have, and since Jim co-wrote the script used to stitch the scenes together, it carries his creativity and compassion.
Modern life is evolving so fast it's hard to imagine the vibes going down 30 years ago. Which is why it's so entertaining to check out a documentary I produced early in the 1990s titled Let Freedom Ring: the Origins of the Hemp Movement. It came out just after my discovery of 420, but three years after I'd created the Freedom Fighters with the help of Rodger Belknap of West Virginia, who quickly became our organization's chief funder and spiritual advisor.
The Freedom Fighters went from a handful of High Times staffers to the biggest cannabis legalization group in the world in two years, while the Ann Arbor Hash Bash went from a dozen hardcore devotees to many thousands cramming the diag at the University of Michigan. Marching into rallies in our Freedom Fighter outfits was the ritual that helped galvanize a national movement.
Shortly after the film was released, however, Rodger was railroaded into jail, while High Times forced me to disband the group, allegedly because NORML was unhappy about the competition, which seemed weird since our newsletter had been recognizing and supporting NORML chapters from inception, and many Freedom Fighter state groups were also affiliated with NORML, including the chapter in Boston that created the Boston Freedom Rally.
Our big campaign was bringing activists together for major rallies. We organized free campgrounds with free food and a free bus ride to the rally. When Rodger asked me what was needed for the organization, I told him we needed a school bus and council tipi. Within a few weeks we had both and took off for the Rainbow Gathering in Ocala, Florida, where I flew a High Times flag and nobody cared.
The Hager Awards in Journalism
The Steven Hager Foundation is proud to announce the creation of four annual scholarships, to be known as the Hager Awards.
The Casolaro Prize for excellence in reporting on secret services is named for Danny Casolaro, who was murdered while investigating the theft of a software called Promis.
The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour was published by Trine Day and is the most detailed account of his murder.
The Sutton Prize for excellence in commentary on history, is named for Antony Sutton, an economist who detailed how Communism was secretly aided by shadowy forces in the West.
Sutton's book America's Secret Establishment was the first serious attempt to penetrate the secret society network running through the American oligarchy.
The Webb Prize for excellence in reporting on drugs, is named for Gary Webb, who lost his career after exposing CIA connections to the cocaine trade. Webb's definitive book Dark Alliance was branded a fraud, yet everything he asserted was true. Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou and Charles Bowden is an excellent summary of the case.
The Kangas Prize for excellence in reporting on the Vatican (or any other religion, including Scientology), is named for Steve Kangas, a former CIA intelligence officer who revealed the associations between the Knights of Malta and numerous intelligence agencies. Kangas left no books behind, but you can read his groundbreaking Origins of the Overclass here: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
All college students are eligible and can compete by sending a link to an online story at a college website, or by sending text with a photo proving it was published in a college periodical. Any stories published after January 1, 2019 are eligible, and the contest ends on December 31, 2019. A website will be set-up to handle submissions, in the meantime, interested students can get more information by posting comments here. It's expected the initial prizes will be $500 for the first year.
The Irish Republican Army formed in 1917 as a militant independence movement and went through a few transformations over the decades, emerging in 1969 as a Marxist organization advocating extreme violence. What's interesting about Marxism in the United States is it was secretly dominated by spooks working for military intelligence, and it certainly seems possible something similar might have been happening in Ireland. Over 3,500 killed and up to 50,000 injured over a 30-year period of tit-for-tat terror, what came to be known in Ireland as "the troubles."
The Miami Showband in 1975.
Originally formed as the Downbeats Quartet, in 1962 the name changed to the Miami Showband, led by Dickie Rock. The band went through a number of changes throughout the 1960s, earning numerous number one Irish hits along the way, despite the defections of a series of lead singers, starting with Dickie Rock. The Irish showbands, of which around 700 existed at peak, were different from American garage bands of the same era as they typically included horn sections and played covers of well-known pop and soul tunes, unlike those gritty four-piece guitar bands that proliferated in the USA. Think "Get Ready" by Rare Earth as an appropriate comparison.
By 1975, the Miami Showband had not scored a number one hit in years, but they remained the best-known band, often called The Beatles of Ireland. And the young new lead singer was a powerful teenybopper sex symbol. At the time, the band was composed of four Catholics and two Protestants, and although they had no overt political content in their lyrics, the fact they represented a successful mix of both cultures made the group a potential lightning rod for peace simply by drawing audiences from both sides into the same venue.
Paul Ashford was the bass player and lead singer in 1972, but was asked to leave the band after complaining playing gigs in Northern Ireland was putting his life at risk. Ashford was replaced by Stephen Travers on bass and the dynamic Fran O'Toole on vocals and keyboards. Even Ashford has to admit the change was an upgrade, as he described O'Toole as "the greatest soul singer in Ireland."
An intense panic began smoldering in the north in the late sixties because Protestants feared the country would soon be unified, meaning Catholics would gain control of the north. Two warring militias supporting the Protestant cause had formed to fight against the IRA, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defense Association (UDA). In May 1974, the UVF instigated a series of car bombings in the south designed to disrupt talk of unification, bombings that killed 33 civilians. The IRA retaliated by bombing two pubs in England, killing 21 civilians. Tit for tat.
In Christmas 1974, the IRA declared a cease fire and peace council, which only served to make the two loyalist militias in the north concerned they would soon be sold out during secret negotiations. Something big and transforming was required to keep hostile fires burning, and deep inside the bowels of MI5, a plan was formulated on how to reinvigorate the war.
Suddenly, the leader of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, Billy Hanna was assassinated by his own organization. In hindsight it appears Hanna had refused to go along with the plan and swiftly replaced by Robin Jackson, known as "the jackal." Many suspect Jackson murdered Hanna to prevent him from exposing the plot.
Robin Jackson.
Billy Hanna.
The plan was to intercept the band on July 31, as they traveled back to Dublin from a gig in the north, and surreptitiously place a bomb inside the van. They planned to announce to the press that the band had been carrying a bomb for the IRA which had gone off by accident. Everything went according to plan until that bomb unexpectedly went off while being placed under the driver's seat. At the time, five members of the band were standing by the side of the road, and the UVF brigade was instructed by a British officer on the scene to kill all witnesses. Two of the band survived by playing dead.
Over the decades, many attempts to find justice have been initiated and although two UVF members were found guilty of the murders (out of a dozen on the scene), the links into England and identity of the British officer in command at the scene has never been officially investigated.
All these details are explained in the Netflix documentary, The Miami Showband Massacre. A couple of the killers were from the Ulster Defence Regiment — a government militia. "This would be the equivalent of uniformed National Guardsmen working with Klansmen and Neo-Nazis," says researcher Michael Marinacci.
William Morgan's Murder
In 1826, William Morgan applied to join the Freemason lodge in Batavia, New York, but the application was strangely rejected, possibly because of some recent financial difficulties. As an accepted mason from a distant lodge, Morgan took great umbrage against the Batavia lodge and decided to publish an expose of the society and reveal its secrets. In order to become a mason, Morgan had taken an oath never to reveal the secrets of the order (upon penalty of death). After quickly writing a manuscript, Morgan found a nearby publisher willing to take on the project.
William Morgan.
It's no secret Masonry played a leading role in our revolution. George Washington was the most influential mason in North America, as well as the wealthiest landowner. Masonry was spread largely through the British military and through the world's second largest corporation, the British East India Company, whose stock was closely held by the ruling oligarchy of the empire. In the late 1700s, however, the empire was on shaky ground. The East India Company, modeled after (and designed to compete with) the Dutch East India Company, was losing the trade war against the Dutch, who were jousting on the high seas with the British Navy. The British devised a scheme to capture a monopoly in tea away from the Dutch, but that plan backfired and created a huge glut of tea, most of which seemed destined to rot in warehouses. In response, the company got a special exemption from Parliament to ship tea straight to the Colonies for distribution. Even with a small tax, the tea was priced to undersell the smuggled Dutch tea that had greatly undercut the British prices.
There was a masonic lodge in Boston that organized a tea dump that sparked our revolution. What seems odd in hindsight is how this insignificant tax was deployed as a springboard to incite intense hostility against the crown. Wouldn't it have made more sense just to boycott the English tea rather than destroying it? Strangely, that dumping saved the East India Company a fortune because the insurance company covered the losses. England had the power to crush the Colonial rebellion, but chose not to and soon capitulated after some misguided and poorly planned expeditions. Clearly, England's attention was on Europe and the East. After the French and Dutch were defeated, the Russians and English engaged in a "great game" to outflank each other through the spread of spies and secret societies, and Masonry played a key role in this game.
The American Revolution was planned and instigated by some of the richest merchants conspiring with the biggest bond holders (bankers), and the purpose was removing English oversight while preserving the economic status quo. Most masonic lodges stayed loyal to the Crown, despite masonry's celebration of liberty and equality, but the revolt was organized through a handful of rebel lodges. Since there were prominent masons on both sides of the conflict, on Tuesday nights all sides were welcome to gather, even if it was the eve of battle.
But after Morgan announced his book's imminent publication, the publisher's printshop mysteriously burned to the ground, and Morgan was railroaded into jail on imaginary charges. The police, judge and jury assembled were all Masons, which created controversy that soon spread like wildfire. Suddenly, some Masons showed up at the jail and bailed Morgan out and he was never seen again.
The outcry over Morgan's murder created the first third party, the Anti-masonic Party. Meanwhile, citizen investigators began looking into Masonry and discovered another secret society was embedded deeper inside. George Washington had been well aware of the recently-established Illuminati infesting masonry in 1776 and warned of its arrival on our shores in his correspondence. But Washington probably wasn't aware the Illuminati had been created by Jesuits during a time when a international outcry against Jesuits was sweeping across Europe.
Around this same time, less than 60 miles from where Morgan was murdered, Freemason Joseph Smith announced the discovery of two golden tablets that proved Jesus had visited North America. Upstate New York was undergoing a wave of folk spiritualism, and many fake mediums were claiming magic powers, so Smith didn't really stick out initially. But having funds and a powerful backer at his disposal helped Smith immensely in building a flock of followers willing to support his vision of an American Zion. Not so strangely, the rituals of Mormonism look a lot like the rituals of Masonry. In a strange twist, Morgan's widow married Joseph Smith and moved with him to Illinois, where he was murdered by a mob while flashing the masonic sign of distress.
Two other masonic-style lodges soon appeared to quickly exert great national influence, one in New Haven (1832) and the other New York (1843). Both could be suspected as possible Illuminati operations. The New Haven lodge was created by William Russell, heir to the North American opium cartel. Russell visited Germany during the summer of his junior year at Yale, and when he returned and discovered Phi Beta Kappa had gone public, created the Order of Skull & Bones, which was soon running Yale. The Boners then moved into strategic positions in finance, education and government.
The New York lodge became known as B'nai B'rith, and was established on the Lower East Side by 12 recently-arrived German Jews. Strangely, these two secret societies would play key roles in the coming Civil War, just as a couple Masonic lodges had played key roles in fomenting the revolution. During the war, the center of American finance moved from Philadelphia to Boston and Wall Street. The war created the Robber Barons, who captured a stranglehold on the economy. A handful of men suddenly owned just about everything and it's been that way ever since.
The award-winning 1966 film Battle of Algiers documented the explosion of terror and violence that paved the road for Algerian independence. As Africa's largest country…and rich in natural gas…Algeria was a choice plum for European imperialism. In 1830, under the shakiest of pretenses, the French invaded and within a few years 825,000 Algerians (one third the population) were dead.
The French confiscated choice lands and awarded real estate to European immigrants who arrived in droves, eventually becoming the majority in the capital city of Algeria. Citizenship was granted to Europeans, Christians and Jews, but Muslims were denied. The Jews became the go-between Muslims and French, and both sides initially tried to recruit them, although most sided with France, something they may have regretted after Vichy France began persecuting Jews. The Nazis built an ideological bridge between fascism and Arab nationalism fueled by mutual hatred. When the British and Americans landed in Africa, the Vichy forces initially tried to repel the Allies, but were eventually allowed to switch sides, greatly angering the free French forces led by Charles de Gaulle.
On May 8, 1945, the same day Nazi Germany surrendered, Muslim activists held victory marches that provoked violent responses from French occupiers. The ensuing street massacres put a lid on the simmering independence movement for almost a decade, but in 1954, the movement resurfaced in force through the appearance of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a merger of Communist and Islamic ideologies. The FLN began a savage campaign of assassinating Harkies and their dependents. Harkies were Muslims serving in the French army who acted as police. As many as 150,000 may have been murdered. Harkies and their families weren't the only casualties as the French launched a counter attack on Muslims. As many as 700,000 perished and two million displaced during the eight years of unrelenting violence.
Shot in black & white, Battle of Algiers had the look and feel of a behind-the-scenes newsreel. Rather than take sides or mine the subject for emotional response, it coolly revealed turpitude and affinity for violence shared by both sides. Within a few months, the FLN became the template upon which the savage Weather Underground was created. Strangely, the leaders of that movement (which effectively destroyed the non-violent Students for a Democratic Society), were sons and daughters of the super wealthy, although they rounded up a handful of acolytes by preaching a twisted form of self-hatred for the American middle class, an indoctrination accompanied with drug-fueled orgies designed to break down individuality and moral codes. It had all the makings of a intelligence mind-control operation.
After the Weather Underground declared war on America and went into hiding, they divided into cells exactly like the FLN and began releasing communiqués exactly like the FLN, and informed their ranks millions would soon die in the coming war. Many of their parents would be forced into concentration camps once the revolution succeeded. The war was quietly launched with some small pipe bombs planted in police parking lots in the Bay Area, set to go-off during lunch hour. Although they never took credit for these two bombings, rest assured they were most likely the initial attempts to spark war between police and the emerging counterculture. Like all Communist revolutions, the Weather Underground cell structure was designed to protect the organization's leaders from exposure once the killing began. In truth, the Weather Underground cells had been penetrated on inception, although the many FBI informants planted in the lower ranks, had no idea the key lawyer running and funding the organization had his own mysterious connections to counterintelligence.
The springboard used to catapult the organization into the national spotlight was the murder of Fred Hampton by Chicago police connected to counterintelligence. Not so coincidentally, Bernadine Dohrn was immediately on the scene leading the press on tours of the murder site (strangely left wide open by Chicago police) while giving lectures on the need for reprisals, despite Hampton's total dedication to non-violence. Hampton had recently been put in charge of the Black Panthers, the most respected black rights organization, and immediately began leading the membership away from armed insurrection and toward what Hampton dubbed "the rainbow coalition." Hampton was the biggest detractor of the Weather Underground inside the counterculture and dubbed the group as insanely "Custeristic." So you can see how killing Hampton served the interest of the Weather Underground while also allowing them to exploit his death as a fulcrum for convincing clueless teenagers to support violence as the only logical response.
The blood bath they plotted was severely hampered, however, when their first major bomb blew up while being constructed in New York City and killed three of their own. The mega-bomb had been planned for a cadet dance at Fort Dix but instead destroyed a million-dollar townhouse in Greenwich Village. The deaths sent shivers through the organization, and the leaders rapidly dialed back on future murder plots, although the "kill-cop" rhetoric continued unabated and infected many others. Eventually the Weather Underground would be responsible for four police murders, but played a role instigating at least fifteen others fomented by the United Freedom Front (1), Symbionese Liberation Army (1), and Black Liberation Army (13). But that's just the tip-of-the-iceberg, because our interventions in Indochina resulted in 3.5 million deaths, and many of those could have been avoided had the senseless war ended sooner. Had a vast majority of Americans rejected the war early on, President Nixon would have been forced to dial back. But by presenting the counterculture in such an intensively negative light, the Weather Underground made sure middle America sided with the President's reasonable requests for the rule of law and order to prevail.
Even stranger is the fact that after Timothy Leary was renditioned back to a high security cell and held in isolation while enduring the most savage interrogations of his life, he caved and told everything he knew about the Weather Underground that had broken him out of jail, provided him with a fake passport and whisked him off to Algeria to join forces with Eldridge Cleaver in fomenting a wave of violence. They even had put out a press release claiming Leary was now "armed and dangerous" and ready to join the ranks of the immortal cop killers, unrepentant murderers the Weather Underground lionized. Strange that upon his caving, the word immediately went out that Leary was a stool pigeon. Predictably, the head of the National Lawyers' Guild called for someone to assassinate Leary, a feat designed to send a message to future traitors to the Communist cause. Unpredictably, Leary was taken out of prison and driven around the country so he could point out the safe houses he'd stayed at while describing the occupants in great detail. During this escapade, a revolver placed on the floor of the vehicle by the FBI agent in the passenger's seat slid back into Leary's view, and he realized he could easily pick it up and assassinate both cops. Fortunately, he declined to touch the weapon, and that likely saved his life, for I feel sure had he picked up that gun, he would have been instantly killed on the spot. Strangely, although Leary spilled all the beans he could, his confession never amounted to an arrest or interrogation of anyone. Soon the principle leaders of the terrorist Weather Underground would emerge from hiding, but only after all the FBI files on them mysteriously disappeared, which allowed them to accept high-paying gigs at major universities. Now retired, they continue to collect pensions.
Meanwhile, there's an attempt to whitewash the Weather Underground as being led by earnest radicals, instead of exposing the organization as the state-sponsored counterterrorism psyop it really was. The purpose of the organization was not to foment a revolution as that concept never had a prayer of success due to their tactics. The real purpose was to frighten middle America away from supporting the peace movement sweeping the country, something they were easily able to accomplish with some random bombings and advocation of Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan as counterculture heroes. But there's a karmic load that accompanies violence and a day of reckoning is coming. You only have to turn this log over to see the vermin hiding underneath.
The proletariat must organize lawyers in various countries who sympathize with the liberation struggle. Together with the legal bureau of the International Red Aid (IRA), organize in every country, in particular England, the USA and Japan, and strive to enlarge the number of new cadres.
IRA directive issued in at the Second International Conference, Moscow, 1927.
Admission to the bar is not just about training, but moral character and a sacred oath to uphold the Constitution. Participation in conspiracies involving subversion, violence and terror is a gross violation of this oath. The National Lawyers Guild was founded by Communist Party members to spread a Communist agenda. Of course, propaganda was designed to make the Guild appear as a do-gooder champion of the little guy. Behind the scenes a different story was unfolding.
It would be naive not to realize the Communist Party has been dotted with spooks of all persuasions since inception. They did not provoke the revolution in Russia, they subverted a democratic/socialist government that had emerged. The first act of the revolution had been to abolish the death penalty, as the Czars secret police had murdered so many. The first act of the Communists (Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin) was to reassert the death penalty and use it on the Czar and his family, including the children. This is all you need to know about the origins of Communism.
My thesis is that a group of secret agents were sent into this orbit for the purpose of managing counterintelligence operations. These lawyers were pretending to submit to Communist dogmas, but were really spooks reporting to the highest levels of the national security state.
In the 1960s, the primary mission of this operation was to outflank the emerging peace and freedom movement by fomenting acts of terror that would drive the population toward the political right.
The spearhead of this infiltration was Louis Boudin (working with John Reed and Jay Gladstone), and later passed to Boudin's nephew, Leonard, whose daughter Kathy would join the Weather Underground, assist the assassination of three police in a failed bank robbery, and wind up a tenured professor at Colombia University. Go figure.
In 2008, Boudin was Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at New York University's School of Law, lecturing on "the politics of parole and re-entry."
The takeover of the Russian revolution by a small cadre funded by Wall Street was mirrored by the Weather Underground takeover of the SDS funded by the National Lawyers Guild.
The Real James Bond
William Stephenson was England's greatest spook, although his life has been, for the most part, strangely ignored. Ian Fleming was one of his thousands of secret agents, although Fleming's James Bond was a pale, romanticized version of the real story. Perhaps Stephenson has yet to be mined by the media because his story illustrates how our own domestic counterintelligence operations have their origins in SIS and MI6 operations.
After the death of his father, Stephenson was raised by a working class family in Winnipeg, Canada. Never rising more than 5 foot two, he had two passions early in life: books and boxing. As a featherweight, he was rarely, if ever, defeated.
In January 1916, Stephenson volunteered to fight in Europe and was incapacitated by a gas attack within a week of arrival. In April 1917 he joined the Royal Flying Corp, shot down either 12 or 18 enemy aircraft, and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross the following year.
Shot down behind enemy lines, Stephenson ended up in a German prisoner-of-war camp, where he escaped with a stolen can opener. Before escaping, he told a fellow prisoner he planned to patent the can opener in every country outside German influence. His Canadian company went bankrupt, however, and he decamped to England to start over, leaving unpaid debts in his wake. He teamed with an inventor working on wireless photography and got rich in the process, elevating into the orbit of the British oligarchy. Obviously, transmitting photos via radio waves was also a subject of intense interest to the secret services. In 1924, Stephenson married an American tobacco heiress.
Stephenson and his photo-radio machine.
Stephenson seems to have been operating as a private intelligence operative for Winston Churchill in the 1930s, long before Churchill was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. These two powerful characters would become forever entwined in covert ops on a massive scale. Although Stephenson was now in charge of factories building cars and radios, as well as running the largest film studio in England, he was spending most of his time in Germany gathering intelligence on the secret Nazi rearmament, while Churchill was using that information to make anti-Nazi speeches in Parliament as a way to advance his career. Before long, Churchill was Prime Minister, and among his first acts was secretly moving Stephenson to New York City, where he was tasked with the mission of getting America into the war. Very soon, Stephenson was running 3,000 operatives out of an entire floor of Rockefeller Center, provided rent-free. Among his thousands of spooks were William Donovan and the young Allen Dulles, and, of course, FDR. Stephenson was a frequent visitor to the White House and also forged a close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover. His operations included running the five types of spies as well as assassinating Nazi agents and neutralizing influential isolationists and peaceniks by-any means-necessary. Stephenson was not beyond carrying out wet work, and didn't require a Smith & Wesson since he could dispatch targets with a single karate chop to the neck.
Of course, Stevenson had highly-placed operatives in the press to push his propaganda, and the highest among these were Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson. Pearson had a young intern named Jack Anderson who would soon play an influential role in beltway gossip. It should be noted that during the war, Pearson singlehandedly torpedoed George Patton's career. Patton was famous for visiting his wounded warriors and became enraged when he found a soldier without visible wounds taking up precious hospital space. The Nazis were astonished when Patton lost his command. They could not believe the Allies would sideline their best general for something they considered so inconsequential as a general striking an enlisted man. But sidelining Patton could have been in the interest of British intelligence since he was upstaging Montgomery, their designated knight-in-shining-armor. Montgomery would soon be leading a tragic bridge-too-far fiasco, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths, while Patton might have easily captured Berlin earlier in the war, long before the carpet-bombing on civilian cities like Dresden or the bloody Battle of the Bulge. One wonders if all that last minute carpet bombing on civilians was actually necessary, or deployed to rack up profits for the bomb builders back home. It's also interesting that Patton had retired himself and was on the eve of returning to America (where he would have immediately begun a political career to threaten Eisenhower's) when he was killed by a freak auto accident. There was no autopsy and the driver of the vehicle was disappeared so as not to be available to the press.
Mark Wortman writes on the Daily Beast: Thanks to the British sympathies of Nelson Rockefeller and his family, Stephenson opened an office in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, on the 36th floor of the International Building North, at 636 Fifth Avenue. The sign over Room 3603 read "British Passport Control Office."
Room 3603 housed two operational arms under Stephenson's control. The British Information Service (BIS) ran a so-called "white," or soft, propaganda operation that published magazines and pamphlets, paid for radio broadcasts, including over a New Jersey radio station it controlled, and broadcasted multilingual shortwave programming around the Western Hemisphere aimed at boosting support for the British cause.
Decades before the terms "viral media" and "fake news" were on anybody's tongue, the BIS began subsidizing Overseas News Agency (ONA), a branch of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, to feed manufactured stories, often couched within factual material, about German atrocities, British pluck under the German bomber onslaught, and Hitler's threats against the Americas, to its New Jersey Radio Station, which tagged them with the news agency label.
During the war, Stephenson's network worked closely with the FBI to monitor domestic and international communications, including reading the mail to and from targets before it passed through the system. Immediately after the war, Stephenson's operations were gradually incorporated into the OSS, which morphed into the CIA, both run by Stephenson operatives. And, of course, Allen Dulles organized a secret Nazi surrender and the movement of war criminals to the west with new identities so they could deploy their talents for a new master.
In 1946, Donovan presented Stephenson with the Medal of Merit, the highest US civilian honor. He was the first foreigner to receive the award. So basically, Stephenson ran an anti-German spy and propaganda operation in violation of US law while we were still a neutral nation. This included neutralizing political targets and interfering in our internal affairs by manufacturing and spreading disinfo. At the same time, Bonesman Prescott Bush was running Union Bank and funneling money to the Nazi cause, while Allen's big brother John Foster was setting up IG Farbin as Germany's mirror of Standard Oil with loans floated from his Sullivan and Cromwell clients on Wall Street. Surely, there is more here than what they've been telling us so far. But even from my lowly perch it sure looks like wars are orchestrated and mined for profit and social control.


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Rebuilding Trust + Community / The Violence Interrupters Street Team
In 2021, Ernestine and Leslie moved into Klondyke Apartments - just a few doors, and a few weeks apart. For Leslie, 67, Klondyke is her first home in Asheville, after relocating from a lifetime in Raleigh, NC. This is also the first time she's lived in a subsidized housing community. Ernestine, 53, has been in Asheville since 2013. Living in public housing developments has been a common occurrence in her life, including her childhood in Mobile, Alabama.
"I'll admit, I was nervous moving in," Leslie says. After a few weeks in her new place, she'd only met one person. Leslie's sister came to visit, and she shared with her how isolating the new arrangement was beginning to feel. A retired Home Health Nurse, Leslie knew the toll isolation could take on a person. She also knew she wasn't immune. Leslie explains, "When you suffer from poverty, your mental health issues -which everybody has- really come out, and when you're isolated, they are not going to improve. That's true for anyone." It was a chance meeting on the sidewalk outside of her apartment that began to brighten Leslie's outlook a bit. She recalls, "I was heading out the door with my sister and Ernestine came up and said, 'Hi! I'm your new neighbor!' My sister looked at me and said, 'She's perfect for you!'"
Ernestine remembers that first meeting too. She says she's not quick to trust people anymore but still tries to make connections. "It's nice to be able to have a neighbor you can borrow an egg from or help them with something. I feel that's how we are supposed to be as a community. But I'm usually afraid, I don't take in a lot of visitors", she says. Some of Ernestine's fears come from years of experiences in what she describes as "wild" environments. Others come from periods of depression and staggering grief. "I'm still trying to become attached to relationships here, but it's been hard," she reveals. During the 8 years she's lived in Asheville, Ernestine has lost her mother, a sister and her 27 year old son.
Each longing for community and friendship, Ernestine and Leslie decided to go together to a bingo game they heard was happening in the Klondyke Community Center this summer. "That's when we met Terrell," Leslie says with a smile. Terrell Bailey works as a Community Engagement Partner within a unique, local program called the Violence Interrupters Street Team (VIST). With an eye on reducing violent crime, gun crimes in particular, Terrell and a team of specialized community professionals are providing a platform for people in long-troubled and under-cared-for neighborhoods to rebuild trust, experience healing and reclaim their communities. "I am so thankful for this opportunity," says Terrell. "Tensions were pretty high earlier this year when I first came around Klondyke and Hillcrest trying to get people together. At first, either no one showed up or people were on edge because trust had gotten so low and people were extra isolated because of Covid. It's been beautiful, and not surprising to me actually, how quickly the elders in these communities have embraced our outreach and each other," he says.
Along with VIST member, Patricia Waters, Terrell is at Klondyke at least twice a week. As the relationships deepen and grow, so do the activities and the community brainstorming and engagement. Leslie says, "Ernestine and I have gotten a few other neighbors from our block to come to bingo and the activities but still there are some – especially younger moms – who are still kind of scared to come out of the house." It's a troubling fact that Ernestine and Leslie say they are feeling more empowered to help change. The more they've engaged with the VIST team and their neighbors, the stronger their determination. Ernestine says, "I think I deserve to have peace in my house, everyone does! It's scary when there are people raging in the street. I have to turn up my TV real loud to drown out the sounds and when that happens, it just keeps trust low in the neighborhood, and no one comes outside." She continues, "This is a beautiful place, and it could be a better community for the kids. We could build up our parks and make more gathering spaces. It's beautiful here, look at the view!" Leslie adds, "We can't work on trust and community building and bringing up kids in safety if we don't know each other and if there's no place to gather."
The VIST team recently took a dozen residents of Klondyke and Hillcrest out for dinner at Vinnie's Neighborhood Italian Restaurant. "That was the most fun I have had in years!", Leslie says. Ernestine interjects, "Me too! We laughed so much. The food was very good, and Leslie ate more than I've EVER seen her eat. It was so fun!" Terrell says one of the ladies in the group told him it was her first time ever sitting down to eat in a restaurant, and another shared that she'd not been in a nice place like Vinnie's since she was a child and she and her father were told to leave a restaurant because they didn't serve Blacks. It's clear the outings are "bringing up" a lot and also are providing a safe space for sharing and healing. The new friends from Hillcrest and Klondyke are now keeping up with each other and have begun trading ideas for ways to strengthen their neighborhoods. Ernestine says, "I wouldn't be afraid of outings now. I wish we had more with men and women from the neighborhood. We could get out of here and see what is going on around town, so we feel like we are part of Asheville."
Leslie has specific hopes for her new community, and with a growing circle of friends and cross-town relationships, she's feeling empowered to make a difference. Leslie says, "We, as the older generation, want to find ways here to get to know the young parents and their kids. That way, if they need to go out for something and don't want to get the baby out of the bed, they can come knock on my door and I could come sit at your house for 30 minutes while you go out, that kind of thing. But that neighborly thing only works if they know me and I know them. That trust has been broken and it's hurting every generation. Terrell and Patricia are helping to build that back up in our neighborhood."


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Space City Pinball League Season 5 Playoffs: A fitting finish?
How do I even begin this one?
The night began with high hopes. I got in a couple of decent games on Game of Thrones during warmups. My confidence was pretty low from weeks prior and needed a boost.
Since this is the playoffs, the grouping is completely different. Groups of four based on seeding, with three games in each round, top two out of each group advance to the next round until there are four left. Those four are the finalists and play one more round to determine the finishing order.
And so we began. I would be grouped with Billy Joyner, Nina Ruiz, and Ken Holmes. We would be playing on Star Trek, Spiderman, and Aerosmith.
Last week, I referred to my game on Star Trek as more like Star Wreck, and I was really looking to redeem myself. I usually do fairly well on this title but for some reason, this week I managed to post a really stinky score yet again: 3.9M+ when Nina's 12.2M+ would be good enough for third place. Billy took first with 47.3M+. Another Star Wreck, it would appear to be.
Spiderman is another game I feel reasonably confident on. And I do a bit better: third place with 6.4M+, behind 10.8M+ from Nina and 11.0M+ from Ken. However, this is still a disaster, as it meant I would need to finish first place on Aerosmith to have any hope of advancing, and even then it was doubtful unless the other players finished in the "right" order.
My first two balls on Aerosmith were rather lacking. By the time my third ball comes up, Billy had posted a score in the 60M+ range (his final score was 64.9M+ but only because he plunged his final ball in the interest of time, having already won the game). Quite a bit goes right on the third ball: I get an incredibly lucky break when a ball passes the flippers but bounces off the area behind the left flipper back into play. I get multiball started (taking the sure thing of a three-ball multiball instead of going for more). I make a few shots. And then the bottom falls out; I lost two balls putting me back in single ball play, and then not too long after I lose the third ball. Final score: 15.7M+, nowhere near enough to take first place. As it turns out, first place would not even have helped me to advance (Ken had clinched third by the time my third ball came up).
I played in the consolation tournament, which went by very quickly given the format, a two-strikes elimination format (strike to any players not finishing in first). The first game was Ghostbusters against Craig Squires, Brian Foytik, and Frankie Griffin. I was the third player, putting up 21.6M+ which was only good for second to Craig's 27.2M+ for strike one. Second game was The Walking Dead against Matt Quantz and Brian Foytik. I put up 16.1M+ which wasn't enough to top Brian's 24.1M+. I did get a reasonably good start during the second game and felt like I was in a position to possibly win going into ball 3, but it just didn't happen. But, that was still strike two, so at that point, I was done.
So, there you have it. That's the rather disappointing end of my season 5. The good news is there are at least a couple of weeks before the start of the next season for me to reflect on things.
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