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Lachit Borphukan's bravery underlines the identity of Assam: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being presented a statue of freedom fighter Lachit Borphukan by the Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswas in New Delhi on November 25, 2022.
| Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy
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I bow to the hallowed land of Assam that gave us heroes like Lachit Borphukan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the closing ceremony of 400th birth anniversary celebrations of sixteenth-century Ahom army general Lachit Borphukan in New Delhi.
"Today, India is not only celebrating breaking away from the shackles of colonialism but also its cultural diversity. We have got this historic opportunity at a time when the country is celebrating Azadi ka Mahotsav," he said.
Borphukan was a commander in the erstwhile Ahom kingdom and is known for his leadership in the 1671 battle of Saraighat that thwarted an attempt by Mughals to capture Assam. The 'Battle of Saraighat' was fought on the banks of Brahmaputra in Guwahati.
Talking about the valour of Lachit Borphukan, Mr. Modi said, "Our ancestors stood up to the tribulations of foreign invaders, there was always someone who stood up to resist attempts at subjugation from foreign invaders. Lachit Borphukan is one such legend."
The Prime Minister further said, "If someone has sought to suppress us by the sword, to wipe out our existence and culture — we have known how to counter it. Our ancestors staked all they had to fight the Turks, the Mughals; the Mughals had taken over Guwahati but Aurangzeb could not withstand the heroism of Lachit Borphukan."
Assam government has organised a three-day event in the National capital to coincide with the Lachit Divas. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the event on November 23.
Speaking at the event, PM Modi said that Borphukan's bravery underlines the identity of Assam. "For centuries, attempts were made to tell us that we were only looted and plundered but that is not the case. India's history is of victory, battle and sacrifice," he said.
Mr. Modi said that the need to tell stories about India's history against foreign invaders has been long suppressed. "We all know that there are thousands of stories of resistance, of victory too in our history. India is now correcting these mistakes of the past. This celebration is a reflection of just that."
Borphukan's life inspires us to confront many issues facing the country today, the Prime Minister said. "Lachit Borphukan is an inspiration to believe that patriotism is bigger than political nepotism and that the nation is bigger than family."
Talking about educating the country about its 'real' and 'correct' history, Mr. Modi suggested a theatrical retelling of Borphukan's life and take it across the country. "We want to develop India and make the northeast a beacon of that development," he added.
A day ago, Home Minister Amit Shah had paid tributes to the Assam army general saying it wasn't enough to complain about the distortion of history, but the time had come to rewrite it.
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A: Yes you can.
First way - use discriminated unions.
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A: In the end of the day typescript is transpiled into js.
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What should message as ServerInformation; be transpiled into? Furthermore this doesn't check the type of message, this is forsecasting message to this type. If you want type checking you need:
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Daund (o Dhond) è una città dell'India di 41.907 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Pune, nello stato federato del Maharashtra. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe III (da 20.000 a 49.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 18° 28' 0 N e 74° 35' 60 E e ha un'altitudine di 513 .

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Daund assommava a 41.907 persone, delle quali 21.469 maschi e 20.438 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 5.539, dei quali 2.960 maschi e 2.579 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 31.063, dei quali 16.999 maschi e 14.064 femmine.

Note

Centri abitati del Maharashtra

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The pace of housing starts slowed in November, but per the now-usual trend, MBS trading is ignoring domestic data and eyes are on the headlines of Europe, including Russia's weak Ruble along with a mishmosh of other eurodrama concerning the ECB's QE initiatives. Mortgage bonds were stronger earlier but still ride in positive territory midday. Watch for falling mortgage interest rates.
For more potential mortgage rate movers, check back tomorrow for CPI (inflation measure) and the FOMC announcement, and Thursday for the Philly Fed business index and jobless claims.
Monday: Empire State manufacturing numbers came in at their lowest levels in two years: November's reading had been 10.16, and Monday's announcement revealed -3.58 for December. The last time the index read negative - an indicator of decline - was January 2013. Better news out of the housing sector: although NAHB numbers came in a tick lower for December at 57 than they had in November's 58, overall builder confidence is relatively optimistic.
That all happened domestically, but bond markets weren't paying much attention; overseas markets certainly stole the spotlight, and Russia in particular, whose Ruble currency tanked.
30 year (FRM) rates at 3.85 (0.00).
15 year (FRM) rates at 3.12 (+0.02).


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Option for Built in Satelec Ultrasonic. .
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A man claims he has received death threats forcing him to close his news website.
Andrew Hegarty has closed BB7 News, a website based in Clitheroe, after he says he received a note through his door which read "You're a dead man walking Hegarty."
Mr Hegarty believes the threat relates to an anonymous e-mail sent to him, which crticised a lollipop lady operating on Chatburn Road, calling her 'lazy' and blaming her for a crossing light that remains constantly on.
Mr Hegarty subsequently published the e-mail to his website.
Despite not being the author of the e-mail Mr Hegarty claims to have received three separate death threats and further online abuse.
He said: "Through my front door someone had pushed a note saying "You're a dead man walking" - that's when I realised that this is not worth the aggravation.
"They have found out who I am and where I live, and they've gone on to threaten and intimidate me."
The BB7 News founder says he is more concerned about losing his websites than the threats.
"Everything was going really well, I had about 3,000 visits to the site, which was just incredible," he said.
"I though that it would become a valuable asset to the community and provide a service so for it to fold in the way it has is really sad, really disappointing."
Mr Hegarty began BB7 News this year with the view to providing Clitheroe with an alternative news source to the Clitheroe Advertiser.
He had until recently worked as a radio presenter for Ribble FM but chose to pursue the creation of his own news website in the town where he had lived for more than a year.
After the e-mail was published it was shared to a Clitheroe community Facebook group by a teenager claiming to be the lollipop lady's son.
It called out BB7 News, saying that the post had made him ashamed to live in Clitheroe and, and defended his mother.
He said: "In one-and-a-half years of living in a Clitheroe, I have never felt more ashamed to live here.
"Having your own parent slandered by an online news reporter is beyond a joke, especially when there are other issues that could be dealt with."
He went on to say that his mother suffers from multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia, conditions which cause fatigue, increased sensitivity to pain, as well as muscle problems.
The son declined to comment further when contacted.


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#include "tensorflow/core/common_runtime/entry.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/common_runtime/graph_view.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/framework/tensor.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/logging.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/strcat.h"

namespace tensorflow {

// 1-D, 0 element tensor.
static const Tensor* const kEmptyTensor = new Tensor;

const Tensor* GetTensorValueForDump(const Entry& input) {
  switch (input.state) {
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}

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Bums on Seats
Bums on Seats : Phrases
The paying audience at a venue with seating, usually a theatre or cinema.
This rather derogatory term was coined in the UK in the late 1970s/early 1980s. It indicates a view of an audience of an event as merely numbers to be counted in order to assess the money they have paid for tickets. The earliest citation of it that I can find is from the Guardian Weekly, December 1982 (although I suspect it is somewhat earlier than that):
"E.T. thus comes to a beleaguered industry like a gift from the gods. Not only does it get bums on seats but it encourages the kind of shared enjoyment that suggests the cinema still has something unique to offer."
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Every year I spend a lot of time re-looking up all the holiday favorites when the temperatures dip to scarf level. And so, here, a roundup of holiday besties — heck, any time of year — presented to you. These are some of my faves. Keep these guys close, like thermal undies.
Since this year's Thanksgiving in NYC only required cooking for Rob and I, there was no need to create something the size of the traditional beast for the holiday. Not wanting to miss out, I made a mini-me (1/5 the size) from the original recipe posted on Hortomatic, which you can find here. I didn't stuff the little guy, just kept him pure and whole like my soul.
Then, there was cheesecloth and broth atop.
This recipe has been a go-to for me going on 20 years. The first version made its way to an Earthsave Potluck in Seattle, where it won the best dish prize. It's based on the version in the classic Moosewood Cookbook, and the recipe was published here in the Independent Weekly back in 2010, below the article about our annual Thanksgiving Record Party (RIP).
Pre-bake and pre-final topping. There's that fork again.
Big, fat, made-too-much-filling pot pie.
One update: I am so not making my own crusts anymore. I mean, look at all this food I have to cook! I recommend the crusts available in vegan versions at Whole Foods, and usually opt for the non-Whole Wheat version for extra naughtiness to add to Santa's list.
Cut up a bunch of potato/yam chunks, steam them for about 10 minutes. Smash them with some soy milk, pepper, olive oil, bragg's/salt, and any spices you like.
Purple yams & potatoes. Purdy!
In addition to these 'tates, Rob made his infamous and delicious gravy to top on all the dishes.
This year, I cubed my own (well, Rob's) bread, tossed it with salt, garlic granules, and olive oil, and baked it for about 10 minutes before adding to this stir-fry of celery, red bell pepper, onions, and portobellos.
Stuffing is pretty easy to experiment with, but I recommend trying a recipe first if you have not made it before. Here is a recipe that looks very simple and tasty from Namely Marly.
In hindsight, should have taken a shot of this after is was all stirred together and pretty. Just know: it was stirred together and pretty.
Blend/mix a tub of Toffuti cream cheese with 1/4 cup or so of Just Mayo or Veganaise, 2 garlic cloves, and 1/2 of an onion, and a bouillon cube like Not Chicken (or some Bragg's to taste). Transfer to bowl.
Chop up some spinach. Mix together into bowl.
Optional, but recommended: chopped water chestnuts.
Stuff into bread or on crackers, then take a walk the next day.
Even easier, some people use the French Onion soup mixes instead of fresh onion/garlic and bouillon.
I finally picked up more of that truffle oil that truly makes the umami of this dish pop (but not lock and drop). Don't make the mistake I did and buy a chemically flavored truffle oil — look for the "infused with truffles" variety instead. There are even truffle lawsuits around this topic.
I've also made this without cashews — using a more traditional flour-based thickener. There is a delicious recipe I've used before here that I just might try again for Christmas. The site is old but the recipe is solid.
I've made cashew cheeses and almond cheeses for years. In the beginning, I used this recipe for Cashew Goat Cheese (the best! I first used the adapted version by my friend at Rockin' the Stove). The last few years, I made this delicious but decadent almond cheese ball (Kick Ace Extra Sharp Raw Vegan Holiday Cheddar Cheese Ball … phew) but wanted to change it up this year.
Unfortunately, in a flurry of other cooking activity, or perhaps a lack of sleep, I messed up. I used only half the cashews required but failed to reduce the water to follow suit. If you follow the recipe by the Minimalist Baker here you should succeed — so never fear.
For comparison, how it is supposed to look (head on over there!).
Should make a nice cheese sauce for the mashed potatoes, though?
If you fear similar outcomes, you can go with the sure thing: Miyoko's.
The weight of this error requires sweets.
I have always disliked pumpkin pie immensely.This year, that all changed. I even suggested to Rob that we add it to our weekly food groups. After all, pumpkin has tremendous benefits, even when contaminated with sugars and fats, right? We'll start here, with these 50 ideas for the great pumpkin.
Kind of went rogue here combining a few recipes, but the main formula is a can o' pumpkin, 1/3 cup coconut milk/fat (from can), brown sugar, maple, corn starch, spices, bake. No eggs needed or missed.
Top with this delicious whip, which should also befriend your AM coffee. And THAT FORK AGAIN!
Looking at the photo composition above, I'm leaning toward saying I have a significant future in food photography. The broken pie … the aluminum foil … the plant that needs water … the crooked angle … the frame cutting out the whip can … the signature fork in the food (hey that might be my sister-in-law's fork) … need I say more?
If you want actual measurements, try this easy pumpkin pie recipe by It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken.
You can also make it into a cheesecake like I did here.
Dandies, Peppermint flavor. Who knew?
And it was only "rocky road" because I didn't melt the Dandies correctly. However, still delicious. In addition to dandies, I used the best chocolate chips (Enjoy Life brand), coconut milk/fat (instead of condensed milk), sugar, vanilla, and walnuts.
I found a similar recipe here (I'd skip the shredded coconut personally) but might try these beauts next time.
Will be posting my Mom's classic fudge recipe here shortly.
Some apples, walnuts, brown sugar, cornstarch, maple = yum. Mix it all together and put it in one of those ready-made crusts. Here is a classic you can try from vegan dad.
Shake in a jar, pour over a big ice cube.
Don't forget the peanut butter ballzzz and Russian Teacakes (use this recipe, but sub the cow sauce for Earth Balance).
What are your go-to plant-based holiday recipes? Anything you miss from pre-veg days but want to adapt? Share below.
Oh awesome Cristina! Let me know how any of the dishes turn out if you try them. And if you have any recommendations, I'm all ears!


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Musical addresses drugs, other social concerns
By Annette Jiménez/EMC | 04-17-2010
Section: Community
ROCHESTER — The drug dealer yells at a young teenager to stay away from his corner – not out of malice but to stop him from going down road he has traveled.
David Williams of Rochester portrays the drug dealer, called Misery, in the play "O Where Are You Lord: A Grandmother's Prayer," written and directed by Robert Ricks. During a rehearsal at East High School on March 15, Ricks played the teenager role and sought to bring out more emotion in Williams' performance. The gospel-style musical about a modern day Job will be presented by Rick's production company on May 1.
Williams, who also is a Christian rapper going by the name D-Will, said he lived the life of his character before accepting God's role in his future. After getting kicked out of several high schools, he began selling marijuana just a few years ago at a corner off Rochester's East Avenue.
"The role I got, it's really the old me," said Williams, who now is a youth pastor for a congregation on Lyell Avenue. In the past, he had refused his mother's requests to go to church. "I'd say, 'You go to church.' I don't need God."
He moved to Miami and returned in 2006. Finally relenting to his mother's pleas, Williams went to church one day and "cried like a baby," he said. Williams added that the drug-dealer role in Ricks' play was meant for him because he never planned to audition but did it on the advice of a mentor.
"The whole script is good news," he remarked. "Souls can be reached."
Through the story of Grandma Claudie, the play tackles such real-life issues as alcoholism, drug addiction, youth violence, absentee parents, and grandparents raising their grandchildren. She is the modern Job as she struggles to raise her daughter's two children while their mother goes through drug rehabilitation. Grandma's faith in God, who also is a character in the play, is never shaken by the trials and tribulations thrown at her.
"She goes through all these things, but she remains faithful," said Ricks. "It's a really powerful production."
Ricks is right on point on so many levels, said Jerry Capers, who saw the show in Buffalo last winter and said it made the hairs on his neck stand up. Part of its impact is its massive production, featuring 21 characters, a five-piece band, three spiritual demons and a $7,000 set, noted Ricks.
"Drug addiction, broken homes, (bad) relationships … it's all connected," Capers remarked. He said he joined the production as co-director because he believes it can make a difference in the community. "The hope is families will talk of the issues raised and which they face," he added.
A former cocaine addict who has been clean for the past 17 years, Ricks said he has written five plays, two books and developed a youth poetry project. Ricks said these accomplishments might not have happened without the help he received from the recovery program run by David Wedow, who is also an organist at Our Lady of the Americas Parish. A portion of the play's proceeds will be donated to 289 Recovery, the drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, which is housed at 289 Monroe Ave.
"The program was instrumental in the person I am today," said Ricks.
He said he based his play on the Old Testament story of Job because — while the issues are different — the struggles and the results are the same for those who lose their faith and thus lose their way: "Youth violence, overtaxed grandparents, parents out partying … and men growing up fatherless. "
Ricks has partnered with several churches, including Our Lady of the Americas, to help promote the play's message of faithfulness and salvation. Wedow said he hopes Ricks' musical will inspire more churches to tithe to the recovery program as a few city churches have done in the past. With the current economic challenges for churches and community organizations, Wedow said he hopes the entire community realizes that people who come to his program have nothing or are on the verge of losing everything they do have.
"If more churches would help, it would be a beautiful thing," he said.
Wedow said his mission is to offer the message Ricks received to other individuals seeking to turn their lives around through his recovery program, which is open to all. The program has helped thousands of people over the years not only with rehabilitation but also by providing clothing and furniture as needed, said Wedow, who became director of the all-volunteer, non-program organization in 1989.
"Our focus is to become a beacon of light and hope," said Wedow, who turned his own life around 22 years ago. "This is my way of giving back to the community."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Down in the Dirt Productions & Publications will present "O Where Are You Lord: A Grandmother's Prayer" at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. May 1 at the Main Street Armory at 900 E. Main Street. Tickets are $20, $15 and $10 for students and can be obtained at Our Lady of the Americas, 864 E. Main St. For more information, e-mail downinthedirtpp@yahoo.com.


Depression in children is not uncommon. Studies show that anywhere from 10 to 15% of children may have depression that is different from mere sadness. Almost 57% of children with learning difficulties have depression according to some studies.
Depression can impact a child's behavior so that either they are withdrawn or difficult and oppositional. It can affect their social skills and ability to make friends. They may be victims of bullying as they cannot stand up for themselves.
Depression can also dampen learning ability and academic performance as it affects attention, memory and even understanding language.
At Singhania Clinic we take all this seriously. Diagnosis is made after intense research into the child.
With an open mind, we gather information from the child, parents, and teachers.
Using structured interviews, standardized scales and tests we try to identify the child's emotional status.
We use the Achenbach Behaviour Rating Scales for the use by parents and teachers.
Beck's Youth Scales are used with children.
If they are too young or defensive we use Apperception tests like the CAT where a child projects their feelings on to animal characters in their stories.
To make a child talk about his feelings is no easy task. An environment of warmth, acceptance, and comfort is created by our staff. The professional will use toys, drawings and even sit under the table with a child to help them share their feelings.
After a thorough assessment leading to the diagnosis, the clinic offers therapy. Therapy must involve the child, the family, and school.
The aim of therapy is to help the child understand feelings and their importance to health and behavior. The focus is on giving the children an environment to feel comfortable enough so as to allow them to express their feelings. They also need to identify various feelings and be able to understand when they feel that particular emotion.
They are then taught the concept of self-esteem. They are shown how to avoid self-criticism and see the worthiness in themselves. To accept that mistakes are a part of living and are ways of learning.
Learning to relax is very important. Through breathing, body relaxation and other means the child is taught how to relax.
After that, the child is taught the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. They are then shown how thoughts can be helpful or unhelpful. Helpful thoughts are those which help you solve problems, feel better about yourself and behave in an appropriate way. The child is then taught how to help change their way of thinking to move from unhelpful to helpful.
Teaching social problem-solving includes recognizing and accepting their feelings when they are disturbed. This is followed by relaxation. Learning to calm down is essential to help oneself to be able to think clearly. At this point, they are taught the effect of actions and choosing the right option to solve problems. Finally, the step is to put the appropriate option into action and re-evaluate its results.
All these are taught through games, art, role-playing and fun activities. The parents are involved to continue the exercises at home and do practical assignments.
Parents are also helped to learn skills in how to help their child. The first aspect of the intervention program is to enhance the parent-child relationship. Importance of positive interactions, acceptance, and communication are essential. Compliance training, special time and active listening are some of the skills taught. Focus on reducing emotional upsets and increasing family harmony are essential.
School involvement though peripheral is an essential and integral part of the intervention program at the Singhania clinic. Helping academic problems with the help of remediation and teachers, identifying if the child is being bullied and rectifying that as well as helping the child make friends with peers through having playdates, teaching them social skills and conflict management.
Finally, medication is advocated when necessary. The smallest effective dose is given with appropriate medical supervision.
Lifestyle changes like adequate exercise, sleep and a healthy diet with vitamin and mineral supplements is strongly recommended.
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The Guitars Of More Human Than Human
|April 11, 2015 | Gear, Ibanez Iceman, White Zombie
I posted these on Instagram a couple of weeks ago, thought I'd park them here since everyone's talking about Astro-Creep today.
" This is the 1994 Ibanez IC500 Iceman that I used for the rhythm parts on the track, and also in the music video ( it used to be covered in stickers, including large ones that read, "RIGHT ON!" and "DROP DEAD" ). It's a rare Japanese factory model ( with a set-neck and binding ),and it's pretty much stock, except for a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers, with coil taps — these are screwed directly into the guitar's body, instead of being mounted in pickup rings. Want more info? Here. "
" Here's a guitar of mine you've never seen before, but you have definitely heard it. I needed to set up a guitar with higher action than normal to record the slide parts on the track; this one, a custom black Robin Machete with star fret inlays, had just arrived from Texas. We tuned it up, it sounded great in the song, and after a very long day ( I was quite hard on myself during the making of 'Astro-creep 2000', and I never signed off on a performance or sound I didn't think was perfect ), I put it back in its case and didn't look at it again for years. In fact, it still has the strings from that recording session on it. "
|April 8, 2015 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
|June 18, 2013 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
Greco guitar catalog, 1981.
Saw it here, came from here.
|March 28, 2013 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
Cut Pieces Out Of The Guitar : Make Your Own Shape
|February 23, 2012 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
Maaaaalfunction.
Waiting For The War
|January 25, 2012 | Ibanez Iceman, Video
|August 5, 2011 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
Redd Kross.
GPOYW
|May 11, 2011 | Ibanez Iceman, Photos Of J.Yuenger, White Zombie
That's right – I set a guitar on fire and smashed it. In fact, I've gotten to do that twice. Breaking a guitar is harder than it looks.
Stay Sick
|January 31, 2011 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
|January 4, 2011 | Ibanez Iceman, Photos Of J.Yuenger, White Zombie
Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington, UK * 1995. The good : we played a quality set, sold more merch than Slayer ( in your face!! ), got to watch Metallica from right under their shoes in the snake pit, and I spent the day shooting the shit with Kirk Hammet, Slash, and etc. and etc. — the notgood : I left my laminates at the hotel, my lanyard with every single one I'd gotten since 1992. This is very bad form ( ask a roadie or a tour manager ), and something I just don't do, but jet lag, ugh. Lisa Johnson dislikes this photo because I was heavily backlit and the light was all wrong when she shot it, necessitating much burning/ dodging by the printer, but, disregarding the technical, it's pretty goddamn good. JUMP.
|December 17, 2010 | Gear, Ibanez Iceman, Photos Of J.Yuenger, White Zombie
Here's a mid/ late-90s photo of my 1994 Ibanez IC500 Iceman ( referred to by fans as the Right On! guitar ), the Japanese factory-made set-neck guitar that I recorded all the " Drop C# " ( low to high, C#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D# ) tunes on Astro Creep : 2000 with ( Creature Of The Wheel, Real Solution #9, the rhythm parts for More Human Than Human, etc. ). I also played it in the More Human video.
There's an article here that features some photos of this model as it came from the factory, and you can see that the body and neck aren't modified in any way. The first thing I did was toss the pickguard, of course. The bridge and tailpiece are standard-issue, as are the tuners, although these guitars came with white plastic tuner knobs and there are chrome ones here — I can't say for sure, but the Ibanez custom shop had a stock of vintage parts that I raided from time to time, and these may be NOS knobs from the 70s. Anyway, I think the chrome looks a lot cooler.
The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan Custom, and the neck's a Duncan 59 – my standard setup at that time. I'd read an interview with Eddie Van Halen in a guitar mag where he explained his idea that anchoring pickups directly into a guitar's wood body ( as opposed to mounting them in a pickguard or plastic pickup rings ) results in more tone, or harmonic richness, or something — which sounded plausible to me, so I had the guys at Ibanez ( specifically this guy, who is a wizard with all things stringed ) do that. I don't really know if it makes much difference, but it gives a guitar a utilitarian, " chopped " look that I dig. I had all of my guitars wired with push/ pull coil-tap pots. Since I was 99.98% of the time playing loud, grinding heavy metal, such a thing might seem a little silly, but it's a high-performance/ all-the-options feature that I like to have if I can. All of the rhythm guitars on Astro-Creep were played with the bridge pickup, volume and tone knobs on 10, but the are some lead and textural parts that were done with various humbucking/ single-coil combinations.
The More Human Than Human video shoot. Note #1 : We rented an old Kustom tuck n' roll blue sparkle-vinyl amp as a prop, and I plugged it in and discovered that it was in full working order. I brought cables and pedals with me because I have a pathological dislike of videos where the band is pretending to play but don't have their instruments plugged in — don't ask, I don't know, that's just me. Anyway, video shoots are long, and they are boring, but at least I was able to play guitar to amuse myself. The two pedals you see here are a Roland AF-60 Bee Gee fuzz, and an original MXR script logo Blue Box – both were manufactured around 1975. Note #2 : Rob and I both showed up that day wearing old Sam Hain t-shirts. Weird, right? Also in the photo : my custom shop-made ICJ100WZ, and a selection of Ultraman toys given to me by kids in Japan.
Studio trick : in an effort to get a heavier tone, I took a D-string from a pack of Sean's bass strings ( we both used Dean Markley Blue Steels, and I still do : that " cryogenically frozen " deal seems like bullshit, but they do, in fact, sound a little better .. and they wear out faster. Choose your battle. ) and used it for a bottom string. I had to notch out the slot on the nut a little, but that fat bass string actually did give the guitar a slightly more substantial sound. Also, If I was trying to do a part where my sound wasn't working and something completely different was needed, I would patch my entire rig into one of her Ampeg SVTs – several lead parts on the album were recorded that way.
Back in the early 90s, you could still find vintage, unused stickers of the biker-skull-devil-blacklight-headshop type, and I covered everything I owned with them. I don't remember where I got the 1970s Right On! bumper sticker, probably at a flea market .. the DROP DEAD one, I think, came with a zine – I don't remember which, possibly Jim Goad's Answer Me! ( that sounds about right, right?) ? There's also one of these, which I got from this excellent store.
The Complete Guitar World Columns
|December 2, 2010 | Ibanez Iceman, Philosophy, Photos Of J.Yuenger, White Zombie
In the mid-90s, I was approached by Guitar World magazine to write a monthly column. I was taken by the idea insofar as I wondered if I could pull it off, but columns in guitar mags are about how to play stuff on the guitar ..which I am, evidence to the contrary, not very interested in. A crazy new sound? Awesome, you've got my attention. A dangerous band with matching guitars and a singer who's pacing like a caged animal? Okay, yeah. Music I'd be absolutely incapable of making? Sure, let's go. Learning to play other peoples' solos note-for-note or teaching people mine? Not so much. While I might admire the skill of a speed-shredding virtuoso player, it is in passing and in the same way that I'd admire someone with an aptitude for long-distance running, or mimicry, or speed-typing.
What I decided to do was write nothing about how to play guitar. Back then, you could take lessons or buy Mel Bay books ( or do what I did, which is to spend hours and hours listening to records and trying to keep up ) but there was no practical guide for what to do once you'd figured a few things out and were ready to go jam with other people. Unless there was someone to teach you how to be in a band, you learned everything the hard way – doing it, gaining experience, and making lots of mistakes. Those were very different times : I wrote most of the pieces out longhand on a tour bus and faxed them in from a truck stop or a gig or wherever, and I never really knew if anyone was reading the thing at all — but I've been hearing from people who got a lot out of the column, and many of them have been asking if there's any way to read it again ( to which I've been like, 'I don't know, eBay?' ) – and now there is. All 21 columns are transcribed here.
|November 20, 2010 | Found Images, Ibanez Iceman
Gear ( You Asked For It )
|November 16, 2010 | Gear, Ibanez Iceman, Philosophy, White Zombie
( click-click for full size-size ) It's been interesting that fully half of the email I've been getting is about the records I've been producing and my various curatorial pursuits, which is not really what I was expecting, but gratifying .. and, yes, the other half is all about that White Zombie guitar sound. The volume of this mail is becoming difficult to handle, so I'm going to try and spell most of it out here, and we'll leave it at that. Let's begin, shall we?
Above is a photo taken of my on-stage rig by my guitar tech ( the mighty Michael Kaye ) – this would be from around the middle of the Astro-Creep : 2000 slog, which I can tell by the guitar lineup here : left to right, we've got my custom shop black Iceman ( in the " straight C# " tuning, i.e., low to high, C#, F#, B, E, G#, C# – we started using this tuning for some of the between-album stuff, like Feed The Gods and our cover of Black Sabbath's Children Of The Grave, and then for a bunch of the Astro-Creep tracks ), then my black factory-made-in-Japan neck-through Iceman ( in the " Drop C# " tuning, low to high, C#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D# ), which is the guitar I used to record the rhythm tracks for More Human Than Human, Creature Of The Wheel, and etc. and my main guitar for playing those tunes live– next is a factory bolt-on Iceman in drop C# tuning, which was a spare. I honestly don't remember if I ever broke a string and actually played this one.
Next is my blue Robin Machete ( in the " half-step down " tuning, low to high, D#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D# ) – we recorded the La Sexorcisto LP in the standard EADGBE tuning ( entirely with the cheap but solid Charvel 6 [ often referred to by fans as the '666 guitar' ] that you see on the cover of that album ) – we were, as far as I can remember, dimly aware of tuning down at that point but hadn't messed with it yet – then, sometime during the long, long ( long ) tour for that album, we started tuning down half a step ( it's amazing what that relatively minor change does to expand the width and breadth of a band's sound ) and we recorded the " tuned-up " tracks on Astro-Creep ( Electric Head, Part 2, Etc. ) in that tuning as well, all of which were done with the same blue Machete. Next to that is the Astro-Surf guitar, custom made for me by Schecter — as per my instructions, a modern twin-humbucker copy of the iconic 1960s Teisco Spectrum 5 with a fantastic " holo-flake " finish .. you'll notice that in the following years Schecter followed my lead and made the Teisco headstock standard on most of their guitars. Finally, after that, we have the custom shop prototype of my signature model ( the ICJ100WZ, or " star " ) Ibanez Iceman in straight C# tuning. The guitars for the recording of tracks in this tuning on Astro-Creep were pretty much evenly split between the two custom shop Icemans on view here — later, when the first factory-made signature model showed up, I retired the black one. Ibanez really did do a fantastic job with the production version – there is virtually no difference with the prototype.
( click-click for full size-size ) On to the rig. On the left, there's the rack gear – this seems like a giant, complex stack of stuff, but if you look closely, you can see that it's actually not. Top-to-bottom, there's a Furman power supply, a couple of different wireless units ( you can never be too careful ), Whirlwind Multi Selector, Mesa signal splitter ( a quality device, although these days, when I have to send a guitar signal to a bunch of amps, I use a Radial JD7 ) .. next, there's a vintage MXR 31-band graphic EQ, then a drawer containing a couple of pedals, which I think at this point was just an Ibanez Tube Screamer and an old MXR Phase 90.
Okay, now I'm going to take a moment to answer a question I get asked constantly : how did I get that cool sound on Blur The Technicolor? Well, so, we know that in recording heavy, guitar-driven music, to create a truly big sound we generally want to double the guitar – that is, record two of the exact same rhythm guitar parts and pan them so that one's all the way in the left speaker, the other all the way in the right. This is not easy, as the technique only works if those 2 guitar tracks are as exactly identical as humanly possible — but the paradoxical thing is that you can't just take one guitar part and duplicate it on another track and try to shift it with a little delay or by a tiny increment of pitch. That sounds like what it is, which is one guitar with an effect on it. The key to doubling guitars is that they must be alike enough to fool the brain into perceiving the two parts as one big one, but with enough tiny, human differences to where the sound is perceived as stereo. That's retarded, right? Well, yes, but it works. It's very difficult. At one point during the recording of Astro-Creep, I was having a lot of trouble doubling a part and to encourage me, Terry Date – producer of Astro-Creep – told me about how recording the rhythm guitar parts for Pantera's Walk ( which he also produced ) took something like three days, with Darryl growing so frustrated that he nearly put a fist through the wall .. but the results are pretty stellar. If You listen to walk, it sounds like one very large guitar.
Anyway, so, I wanted to use my MXR Phase 90 ( block logo, therefore manufactured sometime between 1977 and 1984 – I bought it for ten bucks from a kid in the building WZ lived in when we first moved to L.A. ), which I managed to set so that the rate and tone of the phase-sweep ( yes, I know the Phase 90 has only one knob, but there is an internal control as well ) accented the guitar riff in a cool way .. the trouble was, one guitar track wasn't going to cut it, so the guitar needed to be doubled. There's no way that two guitar tracks are going to sound like one when the two have a modulating effect such as phase, unless that effect can be in sync, and how would you do that? Terry's assistant Ulrich Wild ( who is kind of a genius with things like this, which is one of the reasons he's been able to go on to become a big-shot producer himself ) figured out that, while hitting the footswitch on the pedal started the phase at any random point in its sweep, physically plugging the guitar cord into the pedal's input jack started the sweep from the exact same point every time — so what we had to do was, Terry operated the tape machine, ..
( oh, let me point something else out here : Astro-Creep is an analog album. There was no pro-tools yet, per se — a lot of the loops were running on a primitive DAW that was synced up to tape, but the album was recorded and mixed on three 24-track Studer machines chained together. People assume that the 'human' instruments were chopped, diced, fixed, edited in a computer, the way anyone can do today – this is not the case. The guitar, bass, and drums on the album are as they were played, by people, in real time, working very hard. An odd fact is that the previous LP, La Sexorcisto, is a actually a digital album – producer Andy Wallace had access to a Sony 48-track digital tape machine, which was a pretty big deal at that point [ 48 tracks! You'll notice that I got really overdub-happy on that album. Because I could. ] but fell out of favor soon afterward. )
.. and Ulrich sat on the floor with the Phase 90 in hand and plugged the guitar cord into the pedal right before the part started, at exactly the same time on both takes, so that the phase effect would be in time with itself. A team effort which took all day to get right, but it sure was worth it.
Okay, back to the rack. Next, there's the MXR Flanger/ Doubler. Notice that in the top photo, which is from later than the lower one, I've covered up both MXR rackmount units with black tape. I did this because people were always sniffing around, trying to figure out how I got my sound – and that's, of course, ironic, because I 100% stole the Flanger/ Doubler idea from Darryl from Pantera. And he didn't care at all, thought it was funny. Next, there's a bunch of Rocktron stuff : Intellifex, Guitar Silencer noise gates, Rocktron-Bradshaw switching system. You can also see the foot controller for the switching system on top of the rack in both photos. The only pedal I had out on stage was my Dunlop 535Q wah ( although later I replaced that with a Dunlop remote wah ), and my guitar tech actually operated the pedals in the drawer, and the big stereo delays from the Intellifex, and channel switching, by hand with the foot controller. If you look at live footage from the period, you'll see me stomping around a lot. Some of that was just stomping ( rarrrrrr !! ), but a lot of the time it was actually me signaling for a switch to be hit. Another backwards-ass thing I used to do is with the Tube Screamer – I did use it as my " a little bit more " boost pedal for solos, as is commonly done ( that's the great thing about that pedal, is that it doesn't actually sound like you've stepped on a pedal when you turn it on ), but I used a lot of controlled feedback in my playing, and I would set the Screamer to overpower the noise gates, which were necessary to make rhythm work sound tight through a massive-gain amp setup.
Let's move on to the amps in the middle. Two Mesa-Boogie Triple Rectifiers, and two Randall Century 200s, each head feeding two Mesa standard Rectifier cabs, so that's 4 stacks, two for each side of the stage, in stereo. Sean had an SVT 8X10 cab on each side of the drums as well — so we were, you know, loud, and we could hear everything wherever we were on stage. The idea behind this particular amp setup is that, yes, I was quite influenced by Darryl's setup, feeding the Flanger/ Doubler into the Randalls, and I wanted to use aspects of that sound ( it's a really weird sound, when you think about it ), but not have it sound exactly like Pantera — so I started running the Randalls through the Mesa cabs instead of the Randall Jaguar-loaded cabs ( which I liked a lot ), which resulted in a very different but cool sound, and I started running the more-normal-sounding Triple Recs alongside the Randalls, although set to 'silicone diode', not 'tube'.
The setup in the studio for Astro-Creep was a little different. I wasn't carrying a camera around at that point, and to my knowledge there aren't any photos of what was going on, which is too bad. The setup for the album was the rack of gear you see in the photos and four half-stacks : A Randall Century 200 head through a Randall Jaguar cabinet, a Randall Century 200 head through a Mesa cabinet, a Mesa Triple Rec through a Mesa cabinet, and a Marshall Valvestate ( I was in love with that crazy transistor-metal sound that Tommy from Prong had ) through .. I don't remember, either a Randall or a Mesa. These were all going at once, but each cab was miced with only a single Shure SM57, and then the four signals were summed in the console and sent to one track on tape. I was determined to achieve the sound I had in my head, and I was quite picky ( and a little bratty ) about the tones we were getting : there was quite a bit of moving the mics around, and I made Terry and Ulrich do quite a lot of radical EQing. I didn't understand much about recording at this point, so I didn't grasp that the general practice when recording most sound sources, especially electric guitars, is to use EQ as little as possible so as to leave room for EQing if it needs to be done during mixdown .. and that it's a point of pride with recording engineers to attain a desired sound by selecting the proper microphones and positioning them correctly, which is a big deal, because when a mic is jammed right up in an amp's speaker cone, moving it just half an inch can change the sound drastically.
Not that I would have given a fuck if I had understood any of that at the time. I was making a big-budget major label album, and I knew that this might be the one and only time in my life that a major corporation would pay for me to work at one of the best recording studios in the world, with the best engineers, and keep paying for it until it was done. My mantra was " There is no reason for this to not be PERFECT ".
Later, when I dropped in at mix sessions for the Deftones' Around The Fur album, Terry played me a track and said, " Hear that? That guitar has NO EQ on it! " .. and it did sound really good, and I just smiled and thought, " Well, who cares? My record's awesome! ". That's a very good feeling.
P.S. I did not become interested in the Iceman because of Kiss, as is widely assumed. It was because of this guy right here :
.. And this other guy, seen here on the back cover of the first record I ever bought, might have had something to do with it too.


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Published September, 2015.
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One in particular from May showed much of the increase occurred during the second quarter, when the cost of 16 grocery items -- including apples, pork chops and oat cereal -- was 46.67 US dollars, up about 3.5%, or 1.64, from the first quarter. "Prices of many food items continue to creep upward" said AFBF economist Jim Sartwelle who added that "those increases, however, pale in comparison to the huge increases in energy costs -- for fuel, natural gas, and electricity -- that US families have become accustomed to over the past two or three years". Food prices rose for 14 of the 16 items, with much of the increase fueled by tight supplies of grains and oilseeds worldwide. Cooking oil and bacon showed the largest retail price increases, with a 32-oz. bottle of corn oil up 47 cents at $3.48 and one pound of bacon increasing 22 cents to $3.57. The only items that posted a decrease were a dozen large eggs, down 34 cents at $1.82, and a pound of cheddar cheese, which declined 11 cents to $4.60. The Farm Bureau, which represents livestock and crop producers, said farmers received just under $8.90 of the total $46.67 cost of the basket of products. That was a decline from the first quarter, when farmers got about $10 of the $45 basket. A total of 87 volunteer shoppers in 36 states participated in the latest survey. Higher feed and energy costs are driving up beef and poultry prices at grocery stores across the country, the U.S. Agriculture Department said last month. Food prices will rise by 5% this year, according to USDA, marking the sharpest increase since 1990. AFBF also pointed out that a group of 35 corporate managers from the US agro-business industry delivered a letter to US President George Bush requesting he sponsor a drop in commodities prices during the G-8 meeting in Japan. Corporations such as Coca Cola, Tyson Foods and Pilgrims Pride have also asked for a lower tariff on imported ethanol thus alleviating price pressure on corn, essential for animal feed.


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The Munay Ki Rites...
I am a Paqo of the Inca tradition, it is a shaman for want of an easier word, a medicine man. I received the karpay rites, which are the rites of passage to become a shaman. They are initiations that have been passed down through the lineage of the shaman priests of the Q'ero people of Peru; the medicine men and women known as the Laika (translates as 'long hairs') who have until recent times, kept these initiations sacred.
Alberto Villoldo is the director of the 'Four Winds Society' in 2006 he was instrumental in bringing the Karpays to the western world, as the Munay Ki rites.
Villoldo is a Cuban born psychologist and anthropologist who studied the shamanic healing practises of the Amazon, Andes and the Laika medicine men and woman of the Inca tradition for over 25 years.
There is a prophecy in the Inca tradition that the medicine people of the future will come from the West, those who helped destroy the earth, the conquistadores, will be the ones to help repair the earth, bringing us back into Ayni - right relationship with the universe - and become the new healers and medicine people. Their prophecy also stated that one man from the conquistadores will be the one to share this wisdom to the west; they chose Villoldo to be this messenger.
There was and still is a controversy surrounding the Munay Ki rites. Villoldo was very much a participant in all of the rites and customs of the Amazon and the Andes, whereas most other 'Anthropologists' took the approach of non-participatory observational learning's, seeing the indigenous ways through a non-dogmatic and non-mythic place, Villoldo immersed himself in the life of a Q'ero Shaman, as a westerner, to the west this was considered as a misrepresentation of the tradition.
The Karpays (the shamanic rites) are the keys to our evolution to the next level of humanity, to that of homo -luminous. Bringing about a rainbow body, the Karpays are the initiations into the shamanic priesthood. The Munay Ki rites are an evolution of these indigenous Karpay rites, out of the pot of the whole Inca/Q'ero traditions with all its rattles, drums and feathers sprang forth a seed that is the Munay Ki. This seed has grown into a set of simplified rites, more accessible to the Western world, using a simple Pi stone, a torus shaped stone to transmit them.
A decision was made with the Q'ero and Andean medicine men and women, that the time to share these rites was now. But a question was posed, 'Can we give these rites to everyone, in a matter of a few days or weeks?' You see the Karpays were traditionally given to a student over a period of years, during which training was given to the student. The answer was, 'No, I don't think so...this hasn't been done before…so let's do it!'
Time is speeding up and so are our energy fields, so it makes sense. All things need to evolve, each one of us, each view, each thought, each action, each breath, otherwise we will always get what we have always got, which is no longer working. This is an evolution of shamanic practise.
The rites are stripped of some of their Q'ero traditions, these rites are still given in the traditional way, during the shamanic training, but the Munay Ki rites are much more effortless, pure, it is energy work for everyone. Today they are available to anyone who 'shows up' to receive them, honouring and accepting their guardianship of all of creation, becoming co-creators of the infinite.
'Munay' means 'Love' in Quechua, the language of the Q'ero, descendants of the Inca, 'Ki' means 'Power'. It is the power of love in its purest form, all healing is simply a form of love, any shaman or healer will tell you this, it's all love. A good healer doesn't actually do anything to anybody, a good healer knows how to heal themselves, to hold the client already healed and hold sacred space energetically so they can both embark on a healing journey together, hand in hand along the way.
At the core of these rites lay a foundation of five principles.
· Non-violence; rather than a principle of 'peace', non-violence allows us to act accordingly when faced with a difficult life situation, with non-violence we become the peacemakers rather than a passive participant of life.
· Moderation; we learn to not take more than we need, and also not to give more than we have.
· Integrity; with integrity we learn not to compromise our self in order to please others, we see what our values are, and as long as they serve us well, we live by them, to help us serve others.
· Truthfulness; to hold and live truth. Once you know that what you believe, think, speak will manifest, you develop a great responsibility to be truthful. What you speak contains the principles of non-violence, moderation and integrity.
· Generosity; giving without looking for what we can get back, taking your gifts out into the world to share, to be in service.
So, why did I show up? Good question, I have always known I wanted to be a part of the healer's lineage, ever since I was a kid, I wanted so much to take all the pain and suffering away from the world, I saw sadness everywhere, illness, famine, pain, it's a lot for a kid to deal with, I always wished I had magical powers to heal, see into the future, to fly. Growing up I went through vast challenges which knocked me down to the floor, power-less I became very interested in the occult and witchcraft, to regain my powers and control, but it doesn't quite work like that does it.
I was told about the Munay Ki rites from a shaman, Chris Waters, we spoke about becoming a shaman and receiving the rites, so my reason for showing up? I wanted to be the most beautiful vessel I could be, to contain the healer's knowledge, enabling the grace of Great Spirit to flow through a clean and clear channel, for the service of mankind and the earth.
I didn't know what to expect when receiving the rites, as far as I could tell the rites run contrary to scientific beliefs that say that who we are, our determined futures selves, comes from our past, by the gifts and illnesses of our ancestors, our DNA, bound by time and genetics. The Munay Ki teaches you that when you step outside of time, into the timeless, we can be influenced by who we are becoming, like a giant hand from the future pulling us forward into our destiny.
One thing I remember vividly when receiving and especially performing the rites on others was that they somehow felt very familiar, like I had always known how to do this. The tools of the Munay Ki are very simple, a small round stone with a hole in its centre, found all over the Americas and throughout many other lands and cultures. These 'Pi Stones' represent the luminous energy field (aura) which is torus shaped. It becomes the star gate in which these rites are channelled through, also the physical presence of this stone takes 'You' out of the equation, allowing you to become a vessel, rather than the great ego 'I'
One of the rites is called the 'Ayni Karpay Rite' here we received the archetypal spirits of the four direction into each of the lower chakras and three arch-angels of the Inca tradition into the higher chakras.
During the Munay rites, I laid down in sacred space while enveloped in the other persons energy field, a seed was then placed in each of my chakras for me to grow. A Serpent was sent to my base chakra, a Jaguar was sent to my second chakra, I then received a Hummingbird into my third chakra, then a great Condor into my heart. I received the three arch-angels, Huascar Inca came to my throat, Quetzelcoatl came to my brow and Pachacutti Inca was placed at my crown.
I felt a great and humbling honour to receive and to gift these rites.
During my south class training (medicine wheel to become a shaman) we received these rites again, but this time in the traditional way, the Karpays.
A shaman elder laid out her mesa, (healing bundle of sacred stones) seven kuya stones were set out, each to become the vessel in which the archetypes were to be transmitted. The archetypes were blown into each chakra and sacred words were spoken over them in Quechuan. Oils and sacred water were sprinkled over them. The dark room was hazzy with incense, I sensed a menagerie of animals all fluttering and pounding about the room, I could almost smell the heat and sweat of the animals, all waiting to join with their new beloved host. Two elder shamans sat at the back waiting to tie our mesas to all the other mesas in the world through time and space, above them I could see Grandmother Spider weaving out threads of silver and gold tying all our mesas with everything in the universe, all is one, she seemed to be saying. It was a truly remarkable and very different experience.
Both the Munay Ki rites and the traditional Karpay rites were equal in their grace, beauty and power. The Munay rites were simple, less fuss, it felt like a deep remembering, not just from our ancient past from our future. But if, like me, you like tradition, then the Karpays from the elder shamans are powerful and evocative, full bodied, so I guess you'd better start your medicine wheel training!
Amongst all the controversy and tradition, these rites are a true blessing, I hold them dear to my heart, they transformed me and helped me fall in love with life again. I have a deeper and greater connection to the world around me and with Spirit and Mother Earth, how can that be controversial? Now it's my turn to pass these seeds on.
There is a saying amongst the Q'ero;
We are here to grow Gods, the way we grow corn. This is exactly what we are doing.
For more information on the Munay Ki rites, please visit my Munay Ki page.
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This is one of those weird things that you see on the internet. No offense, but I just find it odd that you would write something about this. I know that I have no business judging you, but I am just merely telling you what I see. If you were truly offended by it, then I am sorry. I do hope that you find a better topic to talk about, because, honestly, you have a real great feel for writing.
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I'm not 100% sure what it is you are trying to say tbh? I'm not offended as I'm not sure what the problem is?
I'm a munay ki teacher, among other things, this is a personal and professional account of it. Please specify your offence taken?


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Former legislator sentenced to 14 years in jail
(Xinhua) Updated : 2020-07-16
Meng Wei, former vice chairman of the Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People's Congress, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on July 15 for taking bribes.
Meng, also former head of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, was fined 2 million yuan (around 285,800 U.S. dollars), according to the trial verdict of the Intermediate People's Court of Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The illicit gains he received in the form of bribes, and any interest arising from these, will be handed over to the state.
It was found out that during 2003 and 2017, Meng took advantage of his various posts, with the help of some state functionaries, to benefit others in business operations, participation in national scientific research, securing environmental rehabilitation projects, and other issues.
In return, he accepted money and assets worth over 20.46 million yuan from relevant units and individuals, according to the verdict.
Meng was given a lenient punishment since he had confessed to his crimes, pled guilty, showed repentance, and surrendered his illicit gains, the court said.